erin rockwell, congressman, thank you for being with us. >> thank you, john. >> gillian: last night's select committee on china hearing is really just the start of congress's probe into beijing's threats against the united states. second hearing is now slated for next week on the origins of covid as more and more government agencies now throw their weight behind that wuhan lab leak theory. congressman ro khanna serves on the committee. >> john: women's history month. anita vogel. >> admiral grace hopper to thank for computer bugs but not in the way you think. grace hopper received a ph.d. in mathematics from yale in 1934. when world war ii erupted, hopper took a leave of absence from her professorship at vasser college to join the navy women's reserve. 1944, commissioned as a lieutenant junior grade and assigned to a project at harvard university that built one of the world's first computers. hopper stayed at harvard after the war, building two more computers for the navy. and it was there that she popularized the terms bug and debugging to describe computer malfunctions. when she ret

. >> erin rockwell sobs next to a picture of her son logan killed when he took just one tiny pill thoughto be percocet but laced with deadly fentanyl. >> for all of us losing logan was like a bomb going off. >> rockwell is the second mother to share her devastating story on capitol hill this week as house republicans hold a series of hearings on the gruesome realities of the fentanyl crisis. >> people just stop breathing, it can be the same thing as a chemical execution. >> fentanyl is killing americans at unprecedented rate. more than 70,000 americans died from synthetic opioids like fentanyl in 2021. the majority much the drug smuggled across the southern border. >> combating this poisonous dozen and seeing it should be a bipartisan issue. >> aside from securing the border republicans want to make the sale and distribution of fentanyl a capital crime. >> if you start strapping a few of these ruthless bastards to a gurney and start figure them with the same drug they were selling to kill americans, it would bring me a great deal of satisfaction. >> but democrats oppose harsher mandatory

. >>> with me here tonight is erin rockwell. he was a college freshman, he die. she is hear with her son caden who joins us. also april and owen mardin are with us. in the audience is rick rockwell, logan's dad and jada martin, jordan's sister. thank you all. thank you for being with us. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >> will you just start by when you got the call about jordan, did you -- you're a police officer. you work at a small university. you had heard about fentanyl. but did you know it could be in pills? when you got that call, did you know what happened to your son? >> no. at the time we didn't know what happened to him exactly. there was -- he was with his girlfriend. and she did tell us that he took a pill. >> they went to a friend's house, who sold him a pill that -- >> yeah. >> he thought was a percocet. >> yeah. she said they took a percocet. and we went to the house. and he was there. and the medics were working on him. >> you went there immediately when she called you. >> yeah. she had called. the guy who was at the ho

erin rockwell, who tragically lost her son logan to fentanyl poisoning to on valentine's day, 2021. since then she and her family have founded the love logan foundation which seeks to raise awareness and educate on drug addiction and mental health. we appreciate you and your husband being here today. thank you for coming. we will then hear from dr. jeffrey singer, who is a senior fellow at the cato institute, president emeritus and founder of valley surgical clinics, the largest and oldest private surgical practice in arizona, who has been in private practice as a general surgeon for more than 35 years. and then he'll be followed by mr. derek, a former special agent in charge at the d.e.a., drug enforcement administration. he's a national security and public safety expert who retired from the d.e.a. after 28 years of service, including 10 years overseeing the department of justice special operations division. he also previously served as chief of the new york drug enforcement task force. we welcome all of our witnesses here today. we thank you for appearing. we'll begin now by swear

erin rockwell, who tragically lost her son logan to fentanyl poisoning to on valentine's day, 2021. since then she and her family have founded the love logan foundation which seeks to raise awareness and educate on drug addiction and mental health. we appreciate you and your husband being here today. thank you for coming. we will then hear from dr. jeffrey singer, who is a senior fellow at the cato institute, president emeritus and founder of valley surgical clinics, the largest and oldest private surgical practice in arizona, who has been in private practice as a general surgeon for more than 35 years. and then he'll be followed by mr. derek, a former special agent in charge at the d.e.a., drug enforcement administration. he's a national security and public safety expert who retired from the d.e.a. after 28 years of service, including 10 years overseeing the department of justice special operations division. he also previously served as chief of the new york drug enforcement task force. we welcome all of our witnesses here today. we thank you for appearing. we'll begin now by swear