tuesday. i m bill hemmer. welcome to the program. big two hours. it could be a tweet bird. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the big interview aired last night. before he bought twitter the company gave unfettered action cess to u.s. and foreign intelligence agencies and a way to encrypt messages to insure user privacy. bill: how he managed to slash staffing at twitter in effort to turn a profit which hasn t been easy. what he told tucker on that. how do you run the company with 20% of the staff? turns out you don t need all that many people to run twitter. 80% is a lot. yes. i mean if you are trying to run some sort of glorified activist organization, then you don t care about censorship you can let go a lot of people. the fact that the federal government and other governments had access to twitter user s private messages, their dms came as a shock to those who use the platform but also to elon musk himself. the degree to which various g
the senate will get its own briefing later this morning. bill: the u.s. revealing the spy flight was part of a larger espionage program going on for years. china maintains it with as a weather balloon that drifted off course and traveled over sensitive military sites in the u.s. the pentagon says no chance. i can assure you this was not for civilian purposes. we re 100% clear about that. we are very confident we ll be able to detect these kinds of capabilities as evidenced by the continuing body of knowledge that we ve been able to build up on this. obviously that s something our intelligence community will continue to work closely on for this and any other potential threats. dana: bryan llenas is in myrtle beach, south carolina where crews are still searching for debris. we begin the aishah hosni on capitol hill and more on today s briefings as we get thursday going. hi, aishah. this all-house briefing got underway an hour ago and already seen some of these members e
in the faulkner focus. well, many people are saying there is no way this could actually be a coincidence. lawmakers say it is an example of all-out intimidation by the federal government. republican congressman jim jordan is the chairman on the subcommittee of government weaponization. we still do not have the answers from the i.r.s. about that unlikely coincidence. it appears to be the latest example of the weaponization of the federal government against the american people. harris: matt taibbi testified to that committee on the government s censoring information on twitter. the white house with a game of dodge ball yesterday. i was wondering if you could respond to this taibbi visit by the i.r.s. and say whether it is part of a campaign to harass or intimidate related to the journalism. i have refer you to the i.r.s. harris: i.r.s. has not responded to a fox business request with an explanation. we ll have house oversight chairman comer questions as he comes up
higher taxes proposed for big companies and high earners. that revenue would fund a big federal pay raise and the largest peacetime military budget ever. republicans quick to say the proposal is a progressive pipe dream that is going nowhere fast. the president claims his plan will actually cut $3 trillion from the federal deficit. critics are saying that expiring covid-19 payments are probably to thank for that. mcconnell called it a wish list. thank goodness the house is republican. more reaction from senate republicans here. i think that what we ll be seeing is their aspirational budget if they were king of the world and could wave a magic wand, this is what they would want. they think you should give all your money and freedom in washington because they, the biden administration, knows better who you to spend it than you do. i don t agree with that. i don t suspect that we ll pay any attention to president biden s budget. julie: charles payne is here to break it dow
house of representatives is already grilling mayokas today. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. house republicans are taking their turn to hold homeland secretary mayokas accountable for the worst conditions at our border in our lifetime. this time yesterday senate republicans were tearing into him over his handling of the border crisis and repeatedly called for him just to resign. for hours they pressed him over his repeated claims of having we put this in quotes operational control of the border. he trow i had to tried to redefine the word and he did linguistic gymnastics why operational control means and why it works for him. a big focus on the raging fentanyl crisis and skyrocketing deaths from the drug. regain control of the border, go after the cartels, tell the mexican president get with it, work with us, or we re going to have to do things differently. secure the border now before we get attacked. it appears to me to be something that is