desperate for truth and authenticity and something real. nothing more real than god. and i believe that holy spirit is just up to something and he is looking for people that will say yes and that will create this art and worship and i just think left and right like jelly and so many other people i'm finding that are sick of fake and sick of something that is just getting them by. they want something that is going to make them alive and fully alive and that's jesus christ. >> brian: your guitar is right over your shoulder to the right hanging on the wall. >> i have 18 here. my wife hates it. >> ainsley: you go to his website brandon lake.com and download his new song coming out on february 7th. we'll watch on sunday. thank you. >> brian: join me on radio, everyone. >> bill: here we go live look

potomac river. welcome to friday in new york. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." the story continues and the weather is not going to make things any better. investigations are underway into why american airlines flight 5342 collided with the blackhawk helicopter killing 67 people. the faa is discovery the air traffic controller on duty was doing the work of two people. >> bill: meanwhile you have crews recovering two black boxes late last night. you have the cockpit voice recorder, the flight data recorder. there will be a lot of information on that. officials have delivered those to the ntsb for their evaluation. >> dana: crews have reportedly pulled at least 40 bodies from the cold water.

those efforts will continue today. officials are also trying to salvage the aircraft. >> bill: learning more about the victims as we go, too. more than a dozen coming home from a figure skating camp in wichita, kansas. people holding a vigil in their honor trying to cope with what is now the unthinkable. >> this tragedy is a reminder of how fragile life is on earth. in these times of uncertainty and difficulty, i focus on my faith. >> bill: team fox coverage. cb cotton has more on the victims. scott brenner has more on the investigation. let's begin with mark meredith in poe-pot -- they collided into each other on wednesday night.

the weather behind me is not a good day in d.c. heavy rain and high winds to further complicate a job tough for investigators trying to piece together what happened. the death toll at 67 people from this horrific crash. reports the helicopter flying may not have been at the appropriate altitude at the time. federal investigators stress it is too soon to know for sure. an internal report suggests staffing levels inside the towers at reagan airport may not have been at the right levels. investigators spoke to us and said they're looking at all possibilities. >> they are out in the field collecting data and started interviews. we have hundreds of people in this investigation. the most important thing now is to obtain and preserve any perishable evidence so when we come off scene we can start to analyze it. >> overnight they recovered the black box and cockpit voice

recorder and they're in a government lab for evaluation. transportation secretary sean duffy is expected to go to an faa command sets today and he began meeting with some of the victims families last night. on thursday president trump appointed a new acting head of the faa. signed an executive order having the government to renewal hiring and safety decision. he posted on truth social, the blackhawk helicopter was flying too high by a lot. far above the 200 foot limit that's not really too complicated to understand, is it? president trump weighing in at realtime to this investigation. lawmakers haven't been happy with the president speaking so much and holding hearings going forward because there are a lot of questions whether or not there is too much congestion in the skies over washington and an airport that is back open today but still experiencing cancellations. >> bill: nice to have you back there and in contact throughout the morning. thank you for that.

>> dana: parents and children, athletes and soldiers are just some of the victims leaving behind loved ones that are now trying to cope with this tragedy. cb cotton is here with a look at the heartbreaking details. >> we're learning more about the 67 people who were killed, as you said. some of them just children. some are members of the american airlines flight crew, others figure skaters and their family members who had just attended the national figure skating championship and development camp in wichita, kansas. others were returning for family, business or school trips. one here an army soldier who was piloting the blackhawk helicopter and a man writing his son was engaged to the married this fall. wendy schaefer leaves behind two children. she was the best wife, mother and friend anyone could ever hope for according to her

husband. a school posted about a woman's passing and friends sharing about her time in the miss kansas pageant. the skating club of boston remembering their young skaters and coaches who perished including spencer lane who posted this photo to his instagram showing the wing of the american airlines flight on the tarmac before the doomed flight took off. his two russian born coaches died. nancy kerrigan said she knew them and described through tears this impact on young skaters. >> it is always welcoming and happy to see one another and just to think to walk in here and not see that is i think would be very strange for everybody that comes here. >> we'll be bringing you more about the victims of this tragic crash throughout the day. >> dana: important assignment and you are a good one to do it. >> bill: take the viewers back

to the area and give you a sense of not just the geography but maybe what the pilots on board that plane were thinking and considering at the time. come on over here a moment. here is the airport, the river we showed you yesterday. the white house is three miles north of the airport. capitol hill to the east and pentagon there. the helicopter, the route we believe it was taking and the airplane american airlines from the south to the north. this is the runway itself at dca, reagan national. we believe the pilots you will see in a moment were requesting a landing on runway one here which pretty much is -- if this is north and south that's south to north direction here and toward the final minutes of the flight, the air traffic controller moved them to runway 33 that takes you on a northwest angle and what we picked up from the correspondence in the plane

that you can see on the left side of the screen and the air traffic controller on the right. tower blue streak 5342 the flight from american airlines, right, requesting runway one. the tower then says gusts 17 to 25. can you take runway 33? to which the pilots on board say we can do 33 for blue streak 5342 and here we go runway 33 cleared to land. reminder here, this is south to north, this is southeast to northwest roughly speaking. scott brenner is here, former faa spokesperson. good morning to you. i don't know if any of that was a factor in what happened the other night. could it have been? >> you can argue that they don't make that change to 33, this crash doesn't happen. but that's not the way the world works. air traffic said we've got winds

coming in and need to manage this better, let's do 33 for the pilot he basically switches from this program approach to now he flies the aircraft by hand which a lot of pilots like doing that because it makes them super focus and they land the aircraft. my biggest question right now is obviously the blackhawk. the blackhawk was informed this flight was coming in from that direction using that runway almost a minute and a half before the crash. so there should have been some situational awareness this plane was coming in and yet we saw what happened. >> dana: pete hegseth the new secretary of defense was talking about that this morning. >> we're looking at altitude. the president was clear about that. someone was at the wrong altitude. investigation will help us understand that. was the blackhawk too high? on course? right now we don't quite know. what i want to tell your viewers

and the nation is we will get to the bottom of what happened here. it is completely unacceptable in our nation's capital or anywhere. >> dana: is that what you are thinking about when you talk about the blackhawk? >> 100%. we have a very congested airspace here especially with helicopters. we have over 30 federal agencies who have their own helicopters. state, local and so it's a busy airspace for helicopters. we have these corridors designed that helicopters are required to take. this corridor -- helicopters aren't supposed to be above 200 feet and that's exceptionally low. i have a son in the army, he sent me videos of him doing this flight recently and i almost had to pull back from the screen because that helicopter was so low. but they are required to stay low because you have so much traffic. and so you get above that, it will cause some issues. >> bill: let's show number four here and go to number one.

the reagan national tops the list of the busiest runways in america. l.a. 781, reagan 819. we fly in and out of laguardia, we thought that was a busy airport. that was 819 for dca and newark 607. "new york times." there are a lot of questions i want to read here. break it down for what you think is important. here you go. staffing was not normal at the airport tower. the controller who was handling helicopters in the airport's vicinity wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from these runways. those jobs typically assigned to two controllers rather than one. the reporting we're getting is that one of the air traffic controllers in the tower had departed before this incident. what do you make of that? is that normal during a shift? >> controller staffing is a problem. congress, faa have been working

on this for years. but controller -- they're bright folks. if they are getting into a situation where they are getting overwhelmed they'll start to slow traffic. from my understanding you had in the tower at the time of the crash you had three controllers, you had a supervisor and a supervisor in training. so they had adequate resources there to do the job. the decision by the supervisor to split the duties of one of the controllers, normally you have one controller focused on helicopters, and they usually cut that off around 9:30 in night because traffic starts to die down. everything that i have seen so far and heard the controllers did what they are supposed to do. i mean, you know, you can always speculate maybe the controllers when the alert started going off in the tower they could have done something quicker, but, you know, i don't want to speculate. i think they did the job they were supposed to do. >> dana: scott brenner, thank you. we appreciate your expertise and we'll call on you again.

>> bill: thank you, scott, nice to see you. >> like on the schindler's list, working to see who is going to survive. it was nuts. and unfortunately we're speaking about my cousin and the two little kids. >> bill: they've been waiting a long time. the hostage ordeal at the hands of hamas shocking the world as families fight to get their loved one back. the process in return is getting down right ugly, we'll take you there. >> dana: high stakes hearings on the hill. two controversial nominees working to gain support from senators sitting on the fence. >> bill: the push to take back the panama canal. how the trump administration is planning to return the vital waterway to american hands. >> we retain the right to do what is necessary to make sure there is free navigation in the panama canal. president trump has said that will be the case. defense department is prepared.

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>> bill: republican lawmakers backing president trump's effort to try to take back the panama canal calling for congress to take aggressive action as the brand-new secretary of state marco rubio travels to panama in his first trip as trump's top diplomat. steve harrigan is there as well. he is live from panama city along the canal behind him. steve, what's the story? good to have you there and good morning. >> it is stunning to look at first of all. 51 mile strip of canal carved out by u.s. engineering and keep in mind through the rocks, mountains, through the jungle was carved out in 1903. it took ten years to do it. it is hard to overstate the importance of this canal to the

u.s. economy, more than 40% of u.s. shipping containers move through this canal and key strategically as well to get u.s. navy ships where they need to go in a hurry. this canal was given to panama under the carter administration? 1977. 20 years later, for the past 25 years not a lot of controversy over the canal. that certainly has changed in recent weeks. trump administration raising the alarm about possible chinese influence even chinese control over this canal. that is something the trump administration says they will not let stand. all options are on the table. now when you get a reaction here in panama from some of the elite they are shocked by what they are hearing come out of washington. >> so there is no conflict with the united states and it is not clear why this is happening for us. >> when you talk to pan manians

on the street a different reaction. this is a moneymaker for panama. $3 billion a year. a lot of ordinary people don't see that money. it is a corrupt government and not willing to fight and die for the panama canal. >> all the money from the canal goes to the politicians and the rich people. so if you ask me my opinion, will we fight to defend the canal? they will tell you the same answer i tell you, no. >> the importance of this issue for the u.s. is clear. new secretary of state marco rubio's first trip arrives tomorrow in panama. bill, back to you. >> bill: should be very interesting. great to have you there panama city. thank you. >> dana: three american hostages are set to be released in the next exchange between israel and hamas. the hand over was anything but smooth. watch. [crowd shouting]

>> dana: three israeli hostages were paraded through a screaming mob in gaza and the crowd pushing and shoving to get closer and yelling horrible things. join us now is israel's new ambassador to the u.s., thank you so much for being here. >> good to be with you, good morning. >> dana: i am excited to see more people released but this scene this week and the ones that happened before that was like retraumatizing the victims and the red cross is a part of this. could this lead to something where prime minister netanyahu pauses the cease-fire? >> well, we certainly hope the cease-fire continues and we're able to release all of our hostages but a picture is worth a thousand words. look at these mobs of would be terrorists and terrorists surrounding our hostages. they kept them in tunnels for

almost a year and a half now and in dungeons underground and i think it is indicative of who these people are. they took international funding and built 450 miles of terror tunnels underground. you had a piece on the panama canal 51 miles long. they built 450 miles underground. the width of the state of pennsylvania in order to keep hostages, in order to keep missiles and fire into our villages and towns. so we need to get those hostages out. this is very indicative of the brutality israel has been facing. >> dana: the idf has made incredible gains against hamas, hezbollah and others but when you look at these crowds it feels like the threat against israelis is still very real. >> it is real. with those pictures, they indicate they're ready to do it again. when they are surrounding our

hostages being released and screaming death to the jews, death to israel, what they intend is exactly what they say and we should not underestimate what they say openly. if they can do october 7th again, rape, pillar, slaughter, take hostages, they will do it again and why we have to be very vigilant about the future. >> dana: one of the things that all of us have been watching is the fate of the bevis family taken hostage. do you have indications as to what the condition is or the status of the baby here? you can see him. we believe the father will be released but there is not official word on the others, the mother and the two boys. >> dana, you are right. think of the utter barbarism of the whole thing. holding a baby underground without oxygen and not indicating what their status is,

when they will be released. we're negotiating with these barbarians that came through the gates. we have to call out the countries supporting these people. we have to say to qatar, for example, you can't continue to play this game of funding the firefighters and pyro maniacs at the same time. this has to stop and we need to get the hostages released. as you say, dana, make sure hamas never again reigns supreme in gaza or anywhere. because of the negotiations that steve witkoff is leading i don't think it would be wise to discuss the intel we have about the particular hostages. >> dana: fair enough. let me ask you one last question. prime minister netanyahu comes

to washington next week, the first foreign official to visit president trump in his second term. what does netanyahu hope to get out of that next week? >> it's a very significant visit, dana. the first foreign visitor to visit with president trump. we're very excited about the visit and we thank president trump for the invitation to the prime minister. i think front and center on the agenda, of course, will be the big menace in the middle east and really in the world, that's the mullahs of iran. we'll make the point that -- to allow tehran to maintain its nuclear capabilities in which they can race quickly toward nuclear weapons is unacceptable. it is a threat to israel and the jewish people and i think the president will welcome prime minister warmly and i think that he together with his team will understand israel's position and that we can find a way to

collaborate making sure that iran will never present a threat any longer. we have successive administrations have said iran will not reach the bomb. and now is the the time to insure that is indeed the case. they're the menace in the middle east. without iran we're going to erode the power of all the proxies, houthis, hezbollah, hamas and other bad actors working to destabilize western civilization. >> dana: don't be a stranger. we would love to have you back and thank you so much. >> thank you, dana. all the best. >> bill: this american tragedy 67 dead in this collision between a passenger plane and a military helicopter. it is a major story again today so the latest as we learn it here today on friday morning. high stakes hearings for trump cabinet picks. f.b.i. nominee kash patel making his case this week. the counsel to the president was inside that hearing and will

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>> president trump made clear he wants to use the f.b.i. to persecute political adversaries . >> there will be no politization at the f.b.i. on retribution should i be confirmed as the f.b.i. director. i told you that and ill oh he tell you that today. >> you said f.b.i. agents were responsible for the violence on january 6th beyond a reasonable doubt. is that what you said? >> that's completely incorrect and i appreciate the opportunity to address that. >> i will give you an opportunity in writing. this is my time now. >> have at it. >> if you consent i would love to have five hours of questions and i could read the whole transcript. >> you have two minutes. >> wow. >> bill: let's have at it, right. helena habba for the president. you were in the hearing with kash patel. it appears right now his nomination might be the easiest. here is an exchange with tulsi gabbard during her hearing on the same day.

>> so was edward snowden a traitor? >> senator, my heart is with my commitment to our constitution and our nation's security. >> ours, too. >> i have shown throughout my 22 years of service in the military as well as my time in congress how seriously i take the privilege of having access to classified information and our nation's secrets. that's why i'm committed, if confirmed as director of national intelligence, to join you in making sure there is no future snowden type leak. >> bill: we'll have at it now. if i'm right about this and patel is the easiest, gabbard seems to have maybe four or five republicans on the fence and rfk was having a tough time with senator cassidy the republican from louisiana. how do you see it? do all three get through or not? >> i think all three should get through. i think that the problem that

i've seen consistently sitting in that hearing was that a lot of the rhetoric is about left wing media spin and unfortunately those members in the senate that were doing so were helping promulgate this reviseiveness that people voted out when president trump won in an enormous fashion. these are the people he selected for a reason. tulsi, the narrative that they have with her is to pinpoint that she is somehow a puppet for assad and others and she said clearly that was false. that is not true. i did not do that. i didn't meet with these individuals and i was not in collusion with them. but again this is what we've seen time and time again. rfk, he was being asked tough questions about pharmaceuticals by people that were paid by pharmaceutical companies, some of them over $1.5 million and still on payroll and say you're against vaccines.

his children are vaccinated. false narrative. it is more of a broadway show than real news. in kash patel's hearing little questions about actual f.b.i. dealings or what he would do. he was the head of the d.o.d. and handled every question with grace. the questions were more focused on social media and the j6 choir. the most bizarre thing i've ever heard. no substance coming from the democrat members that were asking questions. i want the american people to be careful about that. >> bill: as a viewer fascinating to watch. they all have been. see how the votes go out of committee and before the full senate. in the meantime president trump went into the briefing room yesterday to talk about the disaster there at reagan national. pritzker, illinois governor, democrat, had a stinging statement. i will read it for you and get your response. donald trump is unfit to lead during moments of crisis like this. before victims have been identified trump is blaming people with disabilities,

blaming the u.s. service members in a blackhawk helicopter and blaming hiring programs he can't name or offer examples of. the buck stops with him failing to demonstrate his role as protector of the american people and head of our government. how would you respond in kind on that? >> we're doing strong and big things and very quickly. they're trying to get sea legs on the narrative against the trump administration first. we're seeing that. president trump said two things not to be conflated that i hear being conflated. one is d.e.i. is a major problem in this country. unqualified people hired through these programs not on merit but based on race or checking a box. that's unacceptable. that's one thing he said. now, what he said about this case was he was going to find out what happened with these planes. the tragedy is unacceptable and he has no tolerance for irresponsibility. intelligent people need to be put in these places. we cannot have sloppy, liesy and inappropriate hires.

american people will suffer and die. that is a result not of -- of the last administration. i have spoken out against left wing spin. they take one thing he says and what doge is doing and being responsible and take a crisis and make it look like he has no compassion. his first bill sitting as the 47th president was the laken riley act. it was so important to protect our people and all he is saying is we need the best of the best and america has the best of the best. >> bill: we're waiting for answers, maybe the ntsb gives us a review. sometime these investigations take a year or longer. education is on the move at the white house. when is the hearing for ms. mcmahon. >> these are moving quickly and president trump's mandate has been and very clear is we need these confirmation hearings

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>> back on the first 100 days. federal agents taking to the skies as they patrol the southern border. firsthand look now at all the hi-tech equipment used to detect smugglers and migrants and it is working. brooke taylor has the exclusive report in el paso, texas today. brooke, what did you find out?

>> hi, bill. we got this exclusive helicopter ride in the middle of the night during the peak hours where the most migrants are trying to cross over illegally. it was pitch black out there. what these migrants didn't realize we were five miles away and we could still see their every move. >> we just had three come through a breach right here. you can see their buddies on the south side were able to talk these to and it's right in there to make the apprehension. >> the agents with the air and marine operations have night vision goggles on monitoring a live camera feed and able to spot one group of migrants miles away because of the light on one of their cell phones. the feed overlaid with a mapping software. these agents also use lasers that are only visible through their goggles and point the laser at a target. locks onto coordinates to give the exact location to border patrol agents. with more manpower and help on the ground now they are able to

respond to more of these encounters. >> what we're watching now is one migrant crawled through the border wall. we're giving him lee way from now. if border patrol agents come now he will run to the mexican side and they want to catch him. >> we got video of where the migrants cut through the border wall before they were captured. a 19-year-old from mexico and another man from guatemala apprehended. not only are the encounters down here in the el paso sector but also the number of gotaways. these are the migrants who are successfully evading capture. the night before our ride along on wednesday border patrol agents told us they had zero gotaways. the first time in years, bill. >> bill: wow. brooke taylor, thank you, exclusive reporting in el paso and we'll follow it. cool assignment. >> dana: let's bring in harold ford junior and emily compagno.

this is from a media site. it says trump's immigration policy is already terrifying america's kids. fear in classrooms ratcheted up in a new level allowing immigration agents to arrest people at schools and other sensitive areas that they have avoided in the past. nuance missing there but this is type of thing you think. >> nuance. when you overlay that with the secret service arriving at a school last week on credible threats of violence to an unrelated to anything involving immig immigration. reality is americans welcome this. the footage is striking. it shows the volume. i'm from california. a federal attorney and licensed in california. sanctuary city policies that threatened americans on a daily basis, one county, the average amount of detainers requested that are refused average over 1,000 a year. the same county where bambi was

bludgeoned to death. 30,000 are for murder and why cities like huntington beach say we're suing gavin newsom so we can break free of the sanctuary policy. the people most at threat are not the kids in schools. they are the americans whose families are threatened with the safety these violent criminals. >> bill: rubber meet the road here? >> good to be with you. i don't necessarily disagree with anything that ice wants to do in schools or even sensitive places. i think what some are asking is that there be some collaboration. on the part of democrats who run these cities or even republicans who run these cities. those in the faith community who have concerns about icie going into schools and high schools. it was explained by jess watters what they are gang members at a high school? i think there are instances

where ice should absolutely have the right to go into a place that is sensitive as long as there is -- they can identify who they are going in for and collaborating with local officials. but i do hope at some point. i listened to a lot in the trump administration, none of us are in the administration, but they seem to be caught up in the fact they confuse rhetoric and mudslinging against biden with progress on issues. i'm -- i voted for kamala harris. i'm willing to work with him and support him but all the looking backwards. just go forward. if you can identify where there are threats as emily rightly pointed out no matter what county in the country i think the american people. if you can take high school gang members out of a high school, i don't know of any parent that would be opposed to that. >> dana: the democrats don't help themselves in california. this is from thefree beacon. they nix a vote on newsom plan

-- they basically -- they couldn't confirm no taxpayer money, maybe we shouldn't do that. >> as part of that push they wanted $25 million of california taxpayer dollars to protect felony con factoid illegal immigrants and another $25 million for nonprofits to represent them. my tithing to california my bar, i have to check the box that automatically mandates i donate to these type of things. i uncheck it every time. we are taxed double and triple for causes we don't want. the conversation that focuses on ice in schools. focus on oh my gosh, threats in the streets. i remember when a woman was punched in face outside of st. patrick's cathedral. i want her safe. let's start with the actual threats. >> bill: they say that california is backing off the threat and may not do this. they had a chance to vote yesterday and said we weren't going to.

>> the political system works. people like to paint california as a state that leans more left and democrat. if the legislature wanted to reassess and re-evaluate it, it is an example of politics and the political system working. people saying why would we provide funds for efforts that don't seem to be in pursuit of solving the problem? maybe when they look at it they'll fix it and curate it better. the system is working. >> dana: harold always has a way with words. >> thank you for coming on. >> bill: a moment ago the associated press is now reporting that crews have recovered 40 bodies from the waters of that d.c. plane crash. more work to be done. stormy weather is complicating the efforts today and we're live on the scene in a moment and tell you what we learn as we get it here on "america's newsroom."

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after president trump remains the gulf of america. douglas kennedy is live on his trip to the sunshine state. what did they tell you? >> naming something has always had a lot of significance. but renaming something may have even more. >> this is america and you believe what is america's should be called america. >> yes, america is first and we need to know it's first. >> in 2020 then republican state chair for sarasota, florida, successfully forced a local name change from republican party to the america first party. she is now one of many gulf state residents applauding another america first name change. >> we'll be changing the name of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america. >> one name existed for almost two centuries, the other for four centuries. why change them and why change

them now? >> we change it now because we have the support to do it. we have a president in the white house, president trump, who is leading us, who is supporting us to make america first. >> it is a move met with skepticism from the president of mexico and derision from late night comics. >> we have been so concerned about all the scary things that trump is going to do we forgot he will do some stupid things. >> this man sees history repeating itself. with nation after nation trying to declare gulf dominance. >> the spanish controlled this sand, the french were here, the english were here and then the americans controlled it. >> that's right. whoever controls the gulf got free access to the major trade route in the heart of north america, the mississippi river. >> jack davis wrote a gulf history saying control of gulf sand and water has also been at the heart of some of our country's most pivotal events

including thomas jefferson's louisiana purchase in 1803. colonel andrew jackson's victories during the war of 1812. ♪ >> maybe not so iranically nationalism has played in gulf politics. >> that's right. unfortunately nationalism has had some significant cost. we turned the gulf into a giant oil field. we've over developed this coast. >> he says history is history. what matters now is sending a message to the future. >> to our children and grandchildren who we are, who we were and always been and who we will continue to be, america first. we need to be first. >> a need many are interpreting in many different ways. back to you, dana and bill. >> bill: