bill was bill hall jr. trucking. >> but for bill, it wasn't all work and no play. >> he was a daredevil. he loved racing. in his later years, he loved hunting. he was a man's man. >> and also a bit of a ladies man according to bill's cousin hank. >> you know, beautiful women. you work hard, you play hard. and you do things, you know, that you're not supposed to be doing. he was great man, but he was not a perfect man. >> bill's imperfections became painfully clear nearly 32 years into their marriage when frances says she got a call from a mysterious woman. it was september 13, 2013. friday the 13th. >> she goes, you don't know me, but i'm having an affair with your husband. >> wow. >> i was in shock. >> heartbroken, furious. frances says she confronted bill and asked, was it true. >> by that time, he is crying and telling me that he's sorry, that it's true. i was devastated. >> this is three decades of marriage. >> i finally asked him how long has this been going on? he cried again and told me, three years.

bill: so he was murdered. >> mm-hmm. bill: six years old. wow. so here you are, a guy who's trying to become a man. and you got nobody to show you the way. let's talk about clifford. clifford is going back to be at a party to celebrate the release of his father from prison. for how many years? clifford: eight. bill: so eight years of his life has had no dad. his mother struggled to raise four children. are you excited to see your dad? clifford: yeah. bill: you probably miss him. clifford: yeah. bill: do you look like him? clifford: people say i do. bill: is it difficult? clifford: watching my mother tryi to raise us is, without a father. >> what time is it? y'all better hurry up. it stink in this room. when y'all gonna clean the room up? like, when? clean this stuff up. you're not going to clean this mess up. clifford: i didn't see a good neighborhood till i was, maybe, seventh grade, eighth grade. and it was just like a lot fighting, gun violence, robbery, drug trafficking. and you know you don't want to be there. but that's all you ever seen. m

bill. >> bill: the u.s. supreme court is now refuting this claim about an ongoing mass dispute between justices gorsuch and sotomayor. what is really happening behind closed doors? we'll check in on that coming up. >> dana: the suspected killer of a ucla grad student arrested less than 24 hours after police identified him. >> we've become so used to seeing people behave erratically in public it doesn't draw attention until someone gets killed. and that's just -- we've been desensitized to the fact that people need help. ♪♪ helping them discover their dreams is one of the best parts of being a parent. one of the most important is giving them ways to fulfill them. for over 150 years, generations have trusted the strength and stability of pacific life. because life insurance can help protect and provide for the financial futures of the ones we love. talk to a financial professional about pacific life. thanks for bringing me with you guys today, mr. and mrs. lopez. not a problem, josh. hey, you two. check out al

>> good morning, bill.e of suspected illegal migration by a boat coming into florida. the searching does continue this morning by the u.s. coast guard and navy and other assets on the sea as well as in the air looking for any potential survivors in the atlantic among the 36 migrants still missing. however, day five now, no freshwater or no food the chance of survival slim at best. it is the latest example of the illegal immigration heading for the florida coast. this one survivor on the boat smuggling migrants was rescued on tuesday morning between the bahamas and florida. the boat capsized in the dark two days before that in ocean swells of 7 to 9 feet with 40 migrants on board the boat. it triggered a large coast guard rescue effort covering an area about the size of new jersey. one body was recovered yesterday. a commercial tug boat intruder just happened to be in the area spotted the survivor and saving his life. the coast guard sector miami yesterday. >> the aircraft is reporting some debris fields whi

bill. the freedom to vote bill. we passed it twice in the house under different names, same thing with the jop lewis bill, -- john lewis bill, passed it twice in the house. now today we're sending it over with the prospect that it will have consideration in the senate. four things people should know about it. four reasons why members should be voting for it. and -- [indiscernible] -- gavel that down. but four things. it stops partisan redistricting. very popular with the american people. by making sure we honor the constitution, the voting rights act, and the community of interest. ends partisan redistricting. two, it stops voter suppression and the nullification of elections. you know the story. over 400 bills introduced across the country, 30 some of them already enacted into law. which not only suppress the vote, particularly among people of color, but also, but also nullify elections. people have voted, will decide how that turns out. nullifying elections. third, it insists on disclosur

it was a bipartisan bill in the senate. there was a lot in that bill. there are some things that the house agrees on and some things it doesn't. to that extent it is analogous to a lot of pieces of legislation that passed one house or the other, where the other house is not in lockstep. we are working on that. the speaker has made it clear this is a priority and i've indicated it is a priority. a lot of this is what i have been talking about in might make it in america agenda for the last 11 or 12 years. these are things that will make america more competitive and create more jobs and, very importantly, make america more self-sufficient. we saw in the pandemic that we were reliant on china and other countries for supplying things we need for health care, masks being one of those, ppe equipment for our hospitals. the fact of the matter is that we have legislation that has come over from this senate that we are working on and we want to make a priority in the near-term -- i don't want to put a specific date on it, but in the near-term, coming up with the

bill: dagen went with alice.o: not sure how to spell junior. [laughter] >> bill: elizabeth jr. jesse went with trixie. very good, dana. i went with elizabeth. which one was it? perino! winner. >> elizabeth is close enough. >> bill: how much money did the white house say americans would save on july 4th barbecues question mike that's a great question. a really good one! how much money did with the white house say americans would save? >> jesse: i missed it. >> bill: i will say $0.02, a gallon of gasoline, they said. dana says 16, jesse 13, geraldo says it $5 trade [laughter] the answer is $0.06. >> jesse: did anybody get that? speefour i said 16 >> geraldo: i want to challenge elizabeth. >> bill: can we do a quick google search customer >> geraldo: elizabeth qualifies. >> dagen: it doesn't. >> bill: i've got the braves. what's the score? >> dagen: i am losing. >> jesse: i think it is a tie. >> bill: right now, there is a three-way tie, and there is a tiebreaker question. how many episodes of "the five" has jesse s

got on the bill, fairly crafty way to get on the bill. fine with me to be on the bill. but our friends on the other side decided that there would be no amendment on this bill. i think republicans from the very start sensed that this would be a bill where we get a yes or no vote on a bill that would really dramatically change how we pursue elections. while it has a new name, nearly identical to the freedom to vote at, substantially the same as the two versions that could not get 50 on that side of the s1, very similar to senate bill hr one and, very similar, frankly, to the election bills that i've been watching for 20 years. there is always been a different reason to do this censored bill in the house and senate. two faulty and we've got to have more federal control of what happens. after 2016, a reason to have a massive election bill was because there just was not enough security and state elections in the federal government has to intervene in some major way. after 2020, even though the federal government did not intervene in a major way, suddenly the elections were t

they are bills that contains a large number of other bills. large numbers of other bills, but they are the vehicle that will take us forward under the title of competitiveness. what's it called in the senate? usica in the senate. we call it the competitiveness bill here. whatever the title. we hope to go to conference soon. there are other bills that is related to the postal service and the rest, again, about governance. we have always been about america's working families. so we still want to pass a legislation that expands our workforce by recognizing the responsibilities of people have at home. so i went over some in the near future. we have three task force -- select committee task force that are not legislative committees but will make recommendations. one of them is the -- the select committee on the climate crisis. and much of what they have recommended is in the current version of the b.b.b. we hope that most of that survives, but that isn't the end of it. there will be other opportunities, shall we say, that we will have to help other

nasa bill. the american people joined me and wonder why they must resort to procedural gimmicks to ram their so-called voting rights bill to the floor. democrats are out of touch with americans who repeatedly rejected the biden administration's far-left agenda, including the latest attempt to destroy the power of the states to run their own elections. unfortunately, we're hearing the same message today that we heard over and over again from the democrats, that minority americans are not smart enough, not educated enough, and are incapable of following basic rules in elections. i'm personally offended by this narrative. earlier this year, the democrats -- said democrats held a hearing titled jim crow 2021. the latest assault on the right to vote. compared to voting laws in georgia to the days of segregation. i grew up during the era of actual jim crow laws that suppressed voting. what does actual voting suppression look like? it looks like poll tax, property tax, literacy tax, violence and intimi

>> bill: great job. this is talking about this how long it has been. top movie. which one was it? >> bill: i'll say home alone. >> dana: i'll say kindergarten cop. what is the answer? home alone. top christmas toy december 1990. >> bill: nintendo i'll say. >> dana: is it -- what was it? it was -- top song in january 1991. ooh, i will go with c. love will never do. that's a great song. congratulations to the bengals. thank you for joining us today. >> bill: tomorrow we'll show you where we were back in 1991. >> dana: here is harris. >> harris: fox news alert. america's law enforcement are being attacked, ambushed, killed, and after a violent weekend against our cops, we are now at critical mass. we cannot accept this for them or for ourselves. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". in new york city a rookie cop and two other officers were ambushed in a neighborhood in harlem. 22-year-old jason rivera was shot and killed when they were respon

is a companion bill to house bill 6126 which i introduced on december 2, 2021. i want to begin by thanking chairman scott and ranking member foxx and her representative this evening, mrd labor committee and the committee staff for accelerating consideration of this important measure which provides federal support to 11 million k-12 schoolchildren across america and whose passage is very time-sensitive. which i'll explain in a minute. mr. speaker, federal impact aid is our nation's oldest k-12 federal education program. impact aid has its origins in 1821 when congress first authorized support for schools to educate military-dependent children. in 1934, congress passed the johnson-o'malley act which extended help to school districts located at federally recognized tribal lands. congress recognized that like military school districts, kids residing on native american tribal lands, which were not subject to state or local taxation to fund schools, deserved assistance. in 1950, president harry truman signed into law statutory framework for impact aid which still stan

some of these surprise bills. we want to know what you are seeing out there and whether you think this new law will help you. here's what the post says. "under the no surprises act, providers are no longer allowed to send eye popping bills to insured patients who get care from an out-of-network provider, but if they do get such a bill, it is up to the patient to get it fixed. roughly 10 million surprise bills have been typically sent out a year according to the kaiser family foundation, meaning hundreds of thousands of problems could arise even if compliance with the new law is high. it requires the biden administration to set up a national consumer can meet system -- consumer complaint system where consumers can submit a complaint online or call a number to get help disputing the bill. it has received over 300 calls since january 1, mostly from consumers wanting to learn more about the new ban, according to an hhs spokesperson." this is under the no surprises act, which was designed to help american consumers fig

. >> bill: culminating in a heart stopping escape. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino. "america's newsroom." in fact, there were fewer hostages than there might have been because they were doing a lot of this on the livestream. >> bill: as we watched this, too, dana, we also saw an initial reaction to this as being rather what would you say stand offish when you look at the history of this person and the reason why he was there and how it's unfolded overseas in london. all that developing today again. >> dana: let's look at this video. you can see the hostages making a break for it. racing out of the synagogue as the f.b.i. looks on. the agency breached the building shortly after. the gunman is confirmed dead. >> bill: 44-year-old british citizen demanding the release of lady al qaeda serving time in a prison miles from that synagogue. >> dana: u.k. police are questioning two teenagers in con he can with the case. president biden is commending law enforcement for getting the hostages out safely. >> president biden: it was an act of terror. it was an act of terror. not o

hello, bill. >> bill: good morning. i'm bill hemmer. good morning, happy friday.authorities saying three of the four people suspected of shooting and killing 27-year-old officer allegedly belong to a violent street gang. the d.a. gascon previously pledged to stop seeking gang enhancements in prosecutions so the sheriff appealed to the higher ups. >> we have the freedom and the ability to apply and look for other sources of prosecution as the chief said that are applicable. we'll use any tool at our disposal that will bring justice to these individuals. >> dana: william la jeunesse is covering the store for us. >> the murder is tragic for two reasons. over two silver chains worn by off duty officer and secondly who he was. devout christian. he graduated from crenshaw high and went to cal berkeley and joined l.a.p.d. they were out house hunting and stopped to take pictures of a home when a woman and three gang members approached. they grabbed his chains, stole his wallet, then exchanged gunfire when gang members, two of them, took his girlfriend's walking stick. she

better. >> bill: maybe.be, right? come on. 17 past now. this from new york. new york city mayor eric adams says the subways are safe and cases like the death of an asian woman over the weekend shoved under the tracks under times square aggravate the perception of fear. his campaign of being tough on crime. many businesses seem unsure about that and taking protection into their own hands. fox business live in new york city. what did you find out, madison? good morning. >> taking matters into their own hands saying the current policies aren't keeping them safe enough and hiring independent security to make sure they are able to operate. eric adams mentioned and ran as someone tough on crime. he has done little to change the tide of crime right now in new york. let's take a look at the current statistics. when you look at robberies for the first year in new york city compared to last year it is up over 25%. grand larceny crimes are up 76%. of course, it is still early in his term. the mayor's reaction to the br

the bill but remember this, this is a reconciliation bill.y don't understand the process. >> it's hard to alter the bill and still comport with strict senate budget guidelines. everyone is looking towards the mid-terms. republicans say democrats should scrap the whole thing. >> i don't think the american people are clamoring for any pieces of build back better. they want us to tackle the problems they're concerned about, inflation at the top of the list, a wide open border. >> mcconnell said the mid-terms serve as a referendum on congress as the white house. this morning pelosi told her members they'll continue the push on voting rights and to salvage build back better. democrats can't alienate sinema and manchin if they have a chance to pass other bills. the party in power has until spring before the election dye is cast. >> bill: vin mccarthy will be our guest later this hour. stay tuned for that. >> they're like surgeries, they're minor when they happen to someone else. now is the time to try to avoid this war in eastern europe. >> dana: s

>> dana: great. >> bill: >> bill: miss you.d the neighborhood entering several stores before go sboong the shop where brianna was working by herself at night. half an hour later the surveillance video showed him calmly buying a vape pennant a nearby store four miles from the crime scene. smith has a long and extensive rap sheet for dozens of crimes in three different states. what you are seeing are mug shots taken over a period of 10 years. so at the time of brianna's murder he was free on $1,000 bond. the reward for information leading to his arrest $250,000. her father blaming her death on the far left policies of soft on crime political leaders. >> i'm not blaming anybody by name. i blame what is endemic in our society now is that everybody seems to be oriented on giving back rights and bestowing favor on people that rob others of their rights. >> bill: that was the line, right? giving people rights who rob others of theirs. not supposed to work that way in a system that's effective. >> dana: when you look at somebody arrest

as far as billing.nded up going into the emergency room to be examined because i didn't know if i was having a stroke or a heart attack. what i didn't know was that when you go to the emergency room, you end up being parked as an outpatient as far as billing. the other thing i found was, so there are different charges that are associated with that and the way the insurance covers. because of my age, most people billing probably thought i was on medicare. i wasn't. i was on private insurance. but i spent the evening and i was told i had to stay overnight. again, not being told why i needed to stay overnight. but i was there. and again, it was as an outpatient status. then when i found out about the bill that came after that, there were charges that were associated with coding that claimed that i was experiencing pins and needles, which is a non-emergent code. and therefore, wasn't covered by my insurance company. and then when i went back to the billing office and they explained to me why they put the co

bill. the clerk: union calendar number 159. h.r. 1836, a bill educational assistance under the post-9/11 educational assistance program of the department of veterans affairs, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 1860 -- 860, in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the committee on veterans' affairs, printed in the bill, an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of rules committee print 117-25 is adopted and the bill, as amended, is considered as read. the bill, as amended, is debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and the ranking minority member of the committee on veterans' affairs or their respective designees. the gentleman from california, mr. takano, and the gentleman from illinois, mr. bost, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. takano: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five le

his name was bill. number. >> the man was very charismatic, drop dead gorgeous. >> years later, sabina was 49. and bill was 39, and very different than tom. tom, meanwhile, was sabina's business partner. things got dicey, they found tom -- they found sabina in the hotel room with bill. >> caught him having sex, he said it was not a jealousy thing, it was lack of respect. having sex with his wife in the hotel room. >> not jealous? maybe. still, the detectives knew that kind of thing, could drive some type of person, to do terrible things. tom and bill, did one of them harm sabina? they interviewed bill, the first time, back when sabina's stolen car was found. learned in 2008, they started dating. eventually, they moved into an apartment together. sabina told her friends, she hit the jackpot with bill. friends like joyce. >> she even had his picture, in her wallet. she was so proud that he was so handsome. i can see where she was head over heels. >> maybe this was going to be the love of her life, they we

this is a messaging bill from the democrats to get a bill quickly passed in the senate while they've got an agreement. we saw how their chaotic attempts to pass build back better, how difficult that became and how that bill eventually failed. it is ridiculous that such large changes to such -- such large changes to longstanding law would happen approaching the middle of the night, when the american people won't realize until after the fact what we've done. that would be no surprise. does anybody really think the american people voted for #% inflation -- 8% inflation, to for gas lines for gas at over $4 a gallon, for a chaotic foreign policy that has caused the death of many of our allies and many of our service men as the exit from afghanistan showed? no one, no one voted for that. and yet we're told there's no problem, we'll just push ahead and we're going to get this done. we have a lot of issues that we could face, that americans are facing right now. no oversight of the covid relief bills amid reporting of waste and abuse. grocery shelves are y and the crisis continues on our sou

first, their bill weakens voter i.d. i, along with the great majority of voters of all races, favor voter photo i.d. their bill makes it easier to cheat by accommodating unmonitored vote collection boxes. their bill opens the gates to a flood of lawsuits, pre and post an election. and it weakens the safe imardz of voter reg -- safeguards of voter renl stration. there are other things in the democrats' bill that i don't support. i'm not in favor of federal funding for campaigns. i also don't think states should be required to allow felons to vote. and most fundamentally, i think by reserving election procedures to the states, the founders made it more difficult for a would-be authoritarian to change the law for voting in just one place, here in washington, to keep himself in office. let me add that i think the democrats' bill is insufficiently focused on the real threat, and that is the corruption of the counting of the ballots, the certification of elections, and the congressional provisions for accepting and counting a

one of the bills that did get signed into law was a bill that created a photo id to vote. it was passed in 2003. it worked well in south dakota. people supported in south dakota and across the country. and after 2003, the 2004 election was the largest turnout in modern history at least for the years we have that kind of information available. 78.6% of people voted in the 2004 election after in 2003 the south dakota legislature passed a photo id law. there are some ideas out there that are pretty bad, and i'm not one who is here to say or to dispute the 2020 election. the 2022 election is over and it's been decided. it's the largest turnout since 1900, largest turnout in 120 years which is why you all are arguing the states are going in and changing things to prevent high turnout when most the states i've seen at least i can tell the legislation i've looked at that has been passed and and acted are things i think in most cases people would say that's probably in the purview of the state legislature. the state of georgia for example in terms of days in which you can early vo

bill. >> bill: thank you, david. leading our coverage, david spunt. we'll hear from a mom in virginia who says her kids were turned away from school for not wearing a mask. talk to her 25 minutes and get her perspective. >> dana: an op-ed by governor youngkin in the "washington post". virginia's parents have had enough with the government dictating how they should raise their children. on the campaign trail i listened to parents and as governor i will continue to listen. school boards throughout the commonwealth should do the same. interesting, bill, because virginia seems to be leading as a state in the nation. and other states are looking at this and it has an impact on the mid-term elections. a lot of republicans saying are you in a swing state or swing district is glenn youngkin the model you want your campaign. >> bill: you'll hear that leading up to mid-terms. elections have consequences. for youngkin to back down now would go against everything he campaigned on. >> dana: he has the backing of the parents in virginia. florida governor desantis b

but then you get an unexpected bill.xactly what happened to a woman who got a covid test in an emergency room and ended up with a $6000 bill because the test went to an outside lab not covered by her insurance. the journal of the american medical association found that one in five patients were hit with an out-of-network charge after having surgery. these bills can set you back hundreds or thousands of dollars. 50% of americans are carrying some medical debt right now which of course can make paying those bills and managing their regular expenses seem almost impossible. well, relief arrived on january 1 in the form of a new law. the "no surprises act" bans many of these surprise bills. katie keith is a researcher at the center on health insurance reforms at georgetown university. katie keith, so nice to have you. thank you for talking with me. so, we know that the "no surprises act" went into effect on january 1st. walk us through the basic features of this legislation and what exactly it does. katie: what the "no surpri

our democratic colleagues have also talked about so-called voting rights bill for this is a bill to determine the attorney general intuit national elections czar. the attorney general would no in court he could end up doing it and run the legal system and push states around without having to persuade a judge first. so i am sure our democratic colleagues would have reacted well if republicans tried to break senate rules so bill barker micromanage elections in blue states i am sure that would have gone swimmingly on their side of the aisle. but ultimately madam president it runs even deeper than the fake hysteria, even deeper than voting laws. breaking the senate itself and nuking the filibuster would cause a massive political power outage for many millions of american citizens or entire states. so the filibuster is not just about what bills are blocked but the sole feature that gives and millions of americans any voice at all in the legislation that does pass when ever there is one party control. and in appropriations, funding bills, rescue packages like the cares act, all could be done on a o

bill, back to you. >> bill: thanks, we'll watch it.you to meet a brave member of the georgia police force named raider. she is getting credit for a big assist. she ran for just under a mile through mud and bram bells and helped officers catch auto theft subjects in her first real track and apprehension. joining us is radar and her handler phil ritchey. what kind of a great dog is she? >> she is amazing. everybody has the best dog. >> dana: this is true. tell us about the other day what happened. >> we were working night shift and a neighboring agency had a crime occur where they had suspects flee the scene. and then you get a canine to do a track. we arrived. when raider showed up game over. you can run but not hide. they were actively running during the track as well and the agency did a great job setting up a perimeter and ran into the perimeter and came back and gave up and not have the dog go to them. >> bill: you posted how proud you are. a heroin bust, what dana was referring to was the auto theft bust from the other day. what ca

the shirt, you see -- i have a lot of bills shirts and hats and blankets. all sorts of bills cups. buffalo food during the game? buffalo chicken wings, for example, or pizza? >> you know i'm a huge fan of chicken wings and buffalo wings. i can't help but eat the fried foods. that's what part of the experience is all about when you're watching a football game. the thing i point out, john, though the bills have never won a super bowl, we did win two afl titles back in the mid-60s in '64 and '65, able to beat the san diego chargers, you lost to that team in 1963 afl championship. we have beaten a team in the championship game that you did not. we have that over you and i have a good feeling, you know, as long as that offense gets going tomorrow night, as long as josh alan can throw that ball, we're going to have a nice conversation on monday. perhaps even sunday i'll give you a call up on your number and drag your nose through it a little bit. >> how did you celebrate those two bills afl championships? >> being it was an altered life and i would like to think i'm a 75-year-old man, i

i do, bill.t's -- if president putin makes the decision, a bad decision to pull the trigger and invade ukraine, it will be very painful, very bloody for russian troops. it will of course be bloody and painful for ukraine civilians and military but it is a possibility that he is looking for something without that invasion. he would like to get something without that cost in russian soldiers coming back. he has a lot of different options but he also has the option of negotiating. there is still an opportunity to deter him from that bad decision. >> dana: hasn't mr. putin asked for things that are in some ways you can't -- he should not get to decide what nato does. there might be something to say of course the united states will not put nuclear missiles in ukraine. maybe that's something president biden could say that could provide some sort of off ramp here but other than that i don't know what other sort of negotiation the united states can give here. >> you're exactly right. there are areas of p

there are 20 new programs, new welfare programs in the bill but better bill. you know how many of those builders -- bills require work? zero. work should be a qualification. just ask any small businessman or woman at a hotel or restaurant or construction and they will tell you, they cannot get their workers back on the job because the government is paying them so much money not to work. host: let's hear from peter in new york. caller: a pleasure to speak with you again. you're absolutely right. problem is that most americans don't understand the relationship between the federal reserve, the money supply and spending. and i wish somebody would come on the show and actually show the american people how that works. because i listen to these people on tv when they call up and they have no clue how the system really works. he mentioned milton friedman. there was a documentary on prime tv called free to choose. i don't know if you've ever seen. guest: of course. caller: it's a 10 part series with milton friedman going over all the problems 40 years ago that we are s

>> good morning, bill. you will start to see the blame game out of the white house here. dana said the fastest pace since 1982. that was the year we had the start of a severe recession. cpi numbers as you said 7% year-over-year. exactly what the market expected and the reason it is going to open on the up side, but not one number in this report went down. this will give ammunition for the federal reserve to raise interest rates in march. we can all see gas prices, all types of gas are up 49.6% year-over-year. a cold winter, very cold winter. heating oil up 41% over the past 12 months. when you look at food. we don't have to tell you at the grocery store, cereal and baking products up 4.8%. more than the increases in wages americans are season. meat, poultry, eggs up 12 1/2%. fruits and vegetables up 5%. try eating out. it's up 6.6%. jay powell says part of the issue is the supply chain issues that are still happening. he says they are not fixed. listen to this. >> the number of ships at anchor is still at a

welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer.nswers or clear anything up. dr. anthony fauci and dr. walensky are in the hot seat today and face tough questions where the covid money has gone. immense crisis in american schools and the testing shortage that's everywhere. chad pergram begins this hour live on the hill. hello, chad. >> good morning, bill. this is the first congressional hearing of the new year on the virus. lots of carping about the cdc regarding its guidance about isolation. the credibility of the cdc is on the line. the agency has absorbed hits since the start of the pandemic. cdc now faces some of the most harsh criticism yet. cdc director walensky defended her agency against the ever-mutating virus. >> this is hard. we have ever-evolving science with an ever-evolving variant. and my job is to provide updated guidance in the context of rapidly rising cases. i am committed to continuing to do so and continuing to improve. >> senate health committee chair murray says people are frustrated and worried how tough it c

in 1891, the bills here in the senate -- the bill's here in the senate. well, what happened in the senate? well, a group of senators said we don't want the senate to ever vote on this bill. so they spoke at length, refused to give unanimous consent to get to a final vote. now, why do we call that a filibuster? so, at our founding, the whole vision that our founders laid out was that you hear everyone speak, and then you vote and you take the path the majority favors over the minority. now, they really emphasized this is important and that you shouldn't have a super majority, because they wrote the constitution while they were under the confederation congress. the confederation congress had a super majority. and because of that super majority, they couldn't get anything done. they couldn't raise the money to take on shays' rebellion. the senate was paralyzed offense policy making. the senate said whatever you do, do not have a super majority because it paralyzes the body and the body ends up taking the path the minority prefer, who are obstructing the fina

and that really is the motivation behind my bill and every bill that i'm hearing that's on the agenda today. s. 1269 is the environmental justice and recreation permitting act. it was actually introduced by interior secretary holland in the last congress. and it requires the secretaries of the department of the interior and u.s. department of agricultural to produce an interagency report regarding the impacts and challenges that the current recreational permitting process posed on public access to lands for people in low income communities or for communities of color or for our tribal and indigenous communities. clearly we are all here today to make sure we open up our public lands with access to all. we want to make sure we're tearing down barriers to those who might not have an opportunity to enjoy our great outdoors. that's the purpose behind this bill as well. thank you, i look forward to the hearing today. >> thank you. senator king? >> i wanted to add my support to the comments of senator heinrich. it may surprise member of this committee because recreation, we often think of th

electrical bill. voting district. that would leave it up to the states, and control most of the voting access. maybe that is off-base from what -- that is how i feel. they could at least expand the voting access for everybody. that way, they would all have the right to vote. then, they can still keep the integrity of the elections. >> how you feel about expanding access to more early voting opportunities to mail-in ballot in, to drop boxes. for voters. what are your feelings on those efforts to expand access. >> john, i live in a county, and i mean the whole county, and it only has 58,000 people. i could see where these folks who live in cities with millions of people, we shouldn't have a long line. there has to be a way with all of those smart people out there, we can come off with -- come up with -- a lot of people, with voters for federal id. you have to put what state you are in, and a number that is a legal number to vote. put that on the ballot, so when they check it, they know there is a legal

his bill is a vote supporting -- supporting his bill would be a vote to compromise transatlantic unity. it is a vote that breaks the message of bipartisan support in the face of russian aggression. and furthermore, not just bipartisan support, but allied support with the united states and germany and western europe against the threat that russia poses to ukraine and really to eastern germany if they take this action. the dynamics on nord stream 2 have changed since senator cruz and i fought for the passage of legislation to prevent the completion of that pipeline. at the time we worked together to provide the trump administration with critical tools to sanction this pipeline -- and we did that because there were some members of the trump administration who came to us and said, we need this legislation because the administration has not acted. and the fact is, 95% of the construction of the nord stream 2 pipeline was completed during the trump years. unfortunately, the trump administration even after we passed that sanctions legislation sat on those sanctions. they waited until literall

so this bill, known commonly as the lodge bill, and also known as the federal elections bill, it passedthe house of representatives in 1890. and what did this bill do? it allowed citizens from any district to petition a federal circuit court to appoint federal supervisors for congressional elections in days of efforts to suppress the vote by local officials. it permitted the federal government to appoint supervisors to oversee all federal elections, including voter registration and certification of election results to make sure there were no shenanigans at the state level that would corrupt the core division of electionings, it is the foundation of division of legitimacy and the production of government of, by, and for the people. it enabled federal election supervisors to request deputy marshalls if necessary and it came mere to the senate -- here to the senate and it failed because they couldn't get i ask unanimous consent to close debate. at that time there was no cloture motion. senators in 1805 had gotten rid of the prior pressure rule because they had a social contract. that socia

fit the bill. so large this overnight cost of living catastrophe. that is hard to see how the government avoids stepping in top of the government's new year resolutions should be addressing a pulls energy bills hike, particularly for the poorest households who will be hardest hit by rising gas and electricity bills. if there isn't a u turn soon, 2022 will be a tough fear for many whose bouts of already been squeezed by the pandemic, empty, and people's pockets. so it's struggling families are likely to bear the brunt. they're not looking at the reality. the reality is that they can use energy places they comb with the warm home discharge. well, they've got to look at the individual people, me, individual families. they've got to look up the cost of living. the cost of living is way above the cost of income. now that's the price rises in the way derive is not coming through quick fall. if you put wage job equal the rise rate inflation, but stronger race interest rates, you've got to look up the only

an election takeover bill was the first bill they introduced. democrats are ignoring what the american people are demanding so that they can do what their radical fringe is demanding. democrats want elections to be run by washington, d.c. instead of the 50 states. the constitution is very clear. it says the states run our elections. why do they want to take over our elections? well, democrats want to do things like banning voter i.d. laws. 80% of americans believe people should have to show a photo i.d. in order to vote. senator schumer has already twice tried to cram an american takeover bill down the throats of the american public. this is the third time. so far he has failed. so why? why has this continued to fail? not simply because republicans oppose it. it's failed because the american people oppose it. the american people aren't looking for a federal government takeover of elections. a recent gallon lump poll asked people -- gallup poll asked people what they think is the most important issue facing our country. voting laws didn't crack t

in addition to these big bipartisan bills that i've mentioned, i was glad that a number of bills that i introduced became law last year. after years of fighting, we finally succeeded in making juneteenth a national holiday. juneteenth started in galveston, texas, when two years after the civil war was over the former slaves in galveston were told you are free. we'd been celebrating that for 40 years in texas, and i'm proud to say we've now made this a national holiday. hopefully, this will be a source of education and reconciliation, and so people will understand our history. because, as the old saying goes, those who don't remember their history are condemned to relive it. this would not have happened without the support and tenacity of advocates across texas, including my friend ms. opennal lee of -- opal lee of fort worth, known as the grandmother of juneteenth. "the dallas morning news" editorial board named her woman of the year for last year. quite an appropriate recognition. but this bill and this holiday will preserve the history of juneteenth for generations to come, and ensu