i will just tell you, as tough as cruz was on mayokas, mayokas deserves it. i think he should be removed from office if he won't leave. what he has done, the result of his policies. these are his -- he is directing this. it has been hundreds of thousands of deaths, untold amount of criminal conduct. we have terrorists that have entered the country. harris, we don't control the border and he won't even bother to say it is a border crisis. it is just unbelievable. >> harris: i was already off the air, went back to my office and watched it on c span. i couldn't stop watching it. it was unbelieve ashley to see the man in charge of homeland security not be able to explain why the border is not secure and not even believe what he is seeing with his own eyes. >> i couldn't understand it. i just got back from the border a week ago or so and had interviews with a sheriff yesterday and talked to a former cbi today. it is unbelievable what is happening and this guy is supposed to be the homeland security secretary. he has no answers except for we talked about the cbp1 a

clay higgins laid out a list of charges that could be filed against mayokas. >> i know secretary mayokaswatching this. this committee will lay out the case against you, sir. about to arrest you for louisiana revised statutes i would. i'm see to it that you have plenty of time in the course of your remaining life to remember the names, the 200,000 americans who are dead because of fentanyl coming across the border that you have blown wide open. >> harris: power panel. lee zeldin former long island congressman and new york governor candidate. patel new york congressional candidate. congressman, i will come to you first. higgins said i would arrest him if i could. does he have grounds for that? can they really go after mayokas? >> no, not from the standpoint of powers of a prosecutor. congress does have important oversight roles. a clear legislative purpose for conducting hearings. congress has a role to play as it relates to appropriations bills and laws that should be passed to secure our border to improve interior enforcement and make sure customs and border patrol have the resources the

mayokas will be there. what is your first question?> well, i'm going to paint a picture before we ask questions. the case that america is in a war with drug cartels. our nation is under attack by drug cartels. the president of mexico denies that they operate in mexico freely in certain areas. some will make the case we're under attack and what will we do about it? i will make the case we lost operational control of the border. we went from the lowest illegal crossings to december of 2020 to the highest on record. and point out to the secretary the number of people on the terrorist watch list apprehended at the border is going up like a rocket ship. my first question is do you agree you are failing miserably and what will you do to change? >> bill: well, i think we already know how he will answer that. we know how republicans want him out of his job. that comes at a higher level, frankly. but just two days ago we got this tweet and this on instagram from the president. his official account said maga house republican proposals would slas

>> we got almost nowhere because secretary mayokas refused to own up what's happening. he refused to own up to the fact he is redefining term after term of federal law, the same federal law he is charged with administering and enforcing. he is reinterpreting in order to obfuscate and distract from the fact we have a humanitarian crisis on the southern border resulting in all sorts of horrible things including 110,000 fentanyl overdose deaths in the last year alone. these things are all connected to the fact he lacks control of the southern border. at the same time, he redefines even the term operational control which is defined by federal statute to involve creaseing all unlawful border crossings. he defines term after term differently than what the statute says in order to obscure the wrongness of what he is doing. >> bill: he was talking about fentanyl when asked about it. by the way, customs and border protection say fentanyl seizures at the border about 96% are accounted for in the ports of entry. he sort of made that point yesterday when he said we get about 90% of

>> i personally spoke to mayokas. sent the letter a couple of weeks ago and tried to give it a couple of weeks. we'll give washington a call this week and said you were going to do something and committed to doing it. we put it in a letter. we need to see action. we don't want money. we want our local state police and local officers and sheriffs to be able to enforce the laws and rules that they don't have the ability to do. >> bill: what did mayokas tell you in the phone call? >> i saw him in d.c. i said i'm sending you a letter. he said whatever we can do to help. i will take you at your word. i guess we'll find out in the next couple days if they can make ice delegation agreements and see if they'll come through. it has been done in the past. this administration put a pause on it. we do the job for them. we want to be empowered to enforce things over the border that we're now legally limited in doing. >> bill: we'll see whether or not that comes through in a couple of days. we'll check back. you talked to chris chr

an example in the port of entry where secretary mayokas was. on friday and saturday this past weekend there were 2 1/2 million fentanyl pills seized. 800,000 on friday, 1.7 million the next day. that is why they are standing up this operation blue lotus that began march 13th last week and surging. they made 18 seizures, 16 federal arrests. you can see in the full screen here it has 900 pounds of fentanyl, 700 pounds of meth, 100 pounds of cocaine. that's why the secretary says they've got to get this under control. listen here. >> in addition to more arrests, the ultimate goal is to dismantle the larger criminal networks. we have lost too many americans to fentanyl and other illegal drugs. >> meanwhile take a look at this brand-new video from texas dps. you can see the date march 14th. this chase began just a day after operation blue lotus started in this the smuggler was there dallas and five migrants that bailed out were recovered and apprehended. a daily occurrence. we've been out every day with texas dps. i asked my sources there about this

dhs secretary mayokas facing pointed questions about the raging border crisis. the senate banking committee looking into the recent collapse of two american banks. there is a house hearing digging into learning loss during the pandemic. all important topics. we watch all of it and we'll bring you headlines unfolding on the hill. to our top story this hour the response kicking into high gear across america's south. a weekend of violent storms and deadly tornadoes. officials saying a full recovery in places like mississippi could take years. volunteers and nonprofits, including the american red cross, salvation army and samaritan's purse flooding into the area offering assistance, food and shelter. they need a lot of all of it. welcome, brand-new hour starts now. i'm bill hemmer. dana has time off this week. a big welcome to aishah. >> aishah: i'm aishah hosni. search and rescue operations are officially over in mississippi. now comes the harder part. officials turning to longer-term issues. we are talking about housing, food, public services. a task made even har

we'll investigate whether or not mayokas lied to congress.e cabinet secretary if he really lied to congress. and then we've got to get down there and see one of the things he did also say in that hearing this week is that five of the nine sectors are unsecured so we're sending letters out today for transcribed interviews requesting to speak to all nine of the sector chiefs. get further to the bottom of this. we have to find out who exactly is in control of our southern border if we're not. i think i know the answer. i think most americans know the answer. it is the drug cartels in mexico. we have to get to the proof of that and demand this president do something different. >> bill: it might take a good long minute to get the answers. mark kelly was with bret bare last night. the democratic senator from arizona. part of his campaign for reelection in november was making the border more secure. here is part of it from last night. >> they want to lift title 42. they don't have a plan when it goes away. i still don't think they have a plan. this

would argue, julie, this is why the articles of impeachment filed by pat fallon on texas against mayokasis job in homeland security might have legs. you have the actual administration, biden is saying there isn't a problem at the southern border. he also adds or his people if there is, we inherited this problem. the very court case that you talk about, julie, said you didn't inherit the problem. you created the problem. and you need to do something about it. so this is the challenge that republicans have in the house and senate. the american public are smarter than the biden administration gives them credit for. this will be an ongoing issue for all of us until we get it resolved. >> julie: not a surprise to many people china is a very big and dangerous problem for the united states. national intelligence director telling a house committee last hour that we need to counter the threat and now. >> the ccp represents both the leading and its intelligence and capability is the most severe intelligence rival. >> julie: why haven't we done anything about china? >> amen. it started with the bid

. >> mayokas, president biden, they aren't taking this border security situation seriously. unfortunately, these are the things that happen every day. people are smuggled in the back of tractor trailers, being treated in harsh conditions and it shouldn't be happening. >> no surprise another busy weekend here. fox drone team captured a group of 50 migrants crossing into south texas, a few of the more than 40,000 migrants who crossed into the u.s. at the southern border in just one week. in florida two migrants flew from cuba to the u.s. on hang gliders. they landed at a florida airport to be taken into custody by border patrol. back live in mission, texas, migrants finding different ways to get smuggled into the united states given the cartels all the money they have. the cartels don't care if they show up to the u.s. alive or dead. one more thing to mention. the night these migrants died on friday night. the president of the united states was in canada talking about securing the northern border. people in texas say he should focus on the southern border first. >> sandra: a l

this is like secretary mayokas is a firefighter running away from a fire.lawlessness has to end. it is unbelievable they are putting the lives of our border patrol at risk by allowing this kind of thing to happen. >> harris: we need a first responder who wants to go toward the fire. bill melugin live in mission, texas, with great reporting. that video is unbelievable. our people are outnumbered. >> good morning to you. that video is wild and caused the port of entry to be shut down for several hours and didn't get involved until the m involved. look at that video exclusive to fox news showing the moment this first start evidence late yesterday afternoon. you will see the mass of hundreds of migrants pushing past mexican border guards and running onto the bridge, the main ports of entry in el paso. they start running on the bridge toward the united states in an effort to get into the u.s. it was families, single adults, little kids, all sorts of migrants. predominantly from venezuela. you will see they get to the middle of the bridge and met by cbp who had t

you have mayokas on the case and you have to ask yourself -- >> dana: i would be curious what the f.b.i. directors says what does he need in order to actually get some of those things done? if that is something the attorney general can help him get from capitol hill that might be productive. >> bill: we were sitting yesterday on the hill today again another hearing on the fentanyl crisis underway in the house. this happening after democrats boycotted last week's hearing on the hearing in yuma, arizona calling it political theater. aishah hosni is back on the story on the hill today. hello. >> good morning to you both. i can tell you that the democrats have shown up to this one after saying they were left out of the one in yuma calling it a political stunt. this one incredibly important right after the one we had yesterday with powerful emotional testimony. we're also expecting some emotional testimony today from the mother of a young man poisoned by fentanyl and also hear from a retired d.e.a. special operations division agent and an emergency doctor. expect the subcommittee, guys, led