and plug the leak. we take this very seriously and we will continue to work closely with our outstanding allies and partners and nothing will ever stop us from keeping america secure. we will continue to investigate and turn over every rock until we find the source of this and the extent of it. dana: this comes as top congressional leaders gain access to classified documents found at the homes of former vice president trump, pence and biden. bill: congressman jim hines joins us in a moment. first to chad pergram who leads our coverage live on the hill. good government is apparently no better at keeping secrets than a click of students in junior high. top house and senate leaders demand all member briefings about the latest batch of documents which were leaked. the pentagon and the intelligence community want answers. deeply unfortunate leak of classified documents is certainly as intense as anything in that now part of the in box as well. we need to learn lessons fr
new questions about the source of substantial loans congressman george santos campaign. the embattled republican caught in a web of lies as you know previously claimed he made personal loans to his campaign totaling more than $700,000. but a new filings with the federal election commission boxes indicate that loans of 500,000 dollars and $125,000 come from personal funds well, those were left unmarked. i want you to turn to cnn commentator joan goldberg and ashley, and i have a mcken, let s begin about these questions around the loans, what are you learning about the loans he allegedly gave to his own campaign. the broad outlines of this story that you mentioned, that is absolutely correct. he previously said that he personally loaned his campaign $5 hundred,000 that was in the filing, he also i iterated this, went on the podcast with congressman matt gates not too long ago and suggested that this academy from his personal wealth. in these amended filings, he s now changin
i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. for the second time in less than a week, u.s. fighter jets have shot down an object in u.s. airspace. on friday president biden gave the order to shoot down a, quote, high altitude object hovering ten miles off the coast of alaska. of course, last saturday fighter jets shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon in the atlantic ocean after flying across the entire country. joining me to discuss the retired air force lieutenant general, the air force s first chief of intelligence, surveillance and reconnoissance. he s a fighter pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours. he was the principal attack planner for the operation desert storm air campaign, commander of no fly operations over iraq and served on two congressional commissions focused on america s future defense strategy. these days he s the dean of aerospace studies. so what is norad s responsibility and what s the framework through which it determines a course of action? well, mich
i m bill hemmer. hello at home. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. mike pompeo has a new book out and did interview saying the next 9/11 could come from mexico. there are so many places not controlled by the government but from the cartels like the taliban was to the afghanistan government. house republicans are holding a news conference yesterday. they said there is a war on our southern border and the cartels are winning. bill: the men you see on the right side of the screen are part of a cartel. one of the leading importers of fentanyl into the u.s. dana: fentanyl overdoses responsible for tens of thousands of death every year and the crisis is getting worse and republicans say the white house is turning a blind eye to it. actually refuse to take any action to meaningfully secure our southern border to stop the surge of illegal immigration and to take on the cartels who are making billions and billions of dollars off of people and the fentanyl and
control of products. they are making more money than they ve ever made. bill: opening arguments in the cop s trial are set to begin there. hello, bryan. bill, good morning. luna is mexico s highest ranking government official to be criminally charged and tried in the u.s. in the early 2000s he let mexico s federal agency akin to the f.b.i. before becoming the top law enforcement official in mexico controlling the federal police force as the secretary of public security until 2012. prosecutors say the man who led mexico s war against the drug cartels was instead accepting briefcases stuffed with tens of millions of bribes from the sinaloa cartel. in exchange luna provided second ratty intel protection and helped with smuggling at least 50,000 kilos of cocaine into the u.s. over the course of the eight-week trial there is intrigue about embarrassing and damning revelations with high ranking u.s. and mexico officials who trusted him. he served as the right-hand of the mexica