special counsel s questions in january, 6th investigation, and the faa says enough is enough, telling airlines they must do more to prevent close calls as a spring travel spring break travel season heats up. this is what we re watching at this hour. i can t thank you for being here. i m amarillo walker in for kate baldwin. we begin in nashville, where we re learning new details about the shooter who killed six people inside a private christian school. police say they don t know exactly why 28 year old audrey hale opened fire on monday morning. but what we do know is that hale was able to legally purchase a total of seven different firearms and was under a doctor s care for an emotional disorder. in another troubling sign. we are hearing from the shooter s former art instructor that hale had a breakdown on the first day of college. we re also learning more about the three children and three adults who were killed in this attack tonight. the city of nashville will hold a victim
top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. and i am erica hill. right now several key hearings happening on capitol hill. a pretty busy day in washington. this hour lawmakers will grill active administrator billy nolan after multiple close calls on the runway and some of the aviation incidents sparking safety concerns. also federal reserve chairman jerome powell appearing before lawmakers for the second day defending his decisions to raise interest rates in an effort to tamp down inflation. we re also watching the top u.s. intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligence avril haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn s melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you re watching. yeah. a very busy day here on capitol hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk yo
bill: i have questions for you. dana: yesterday president biden took a cheat sheet to a new level. he was holding cue cards showing names of the cabinet officials and a pre-submitted question from the reporter. bill: the question reads as follows. how are you squaring your domestic priorities by reshoring here now is the question from that reporter l. a. times ? thank you, mr. president. your top economic priority has been to build up u.s. domestic manufacturing in competition with china. but your rules against expanding chip manufacturing in china is hurting south korean companies that rely heavily on beijing. are you damaging a key ally in the competition with china to help your domestic politics ahead of the election? bill: not the good look. the president is underwater on every key issue from national security to the economy. dana: team fox coverage. karl rove here to react. we begin with peter doocy at the white house. we ve seen this president do a two-
chinese spy balloon and when they realized they must tell the president about it. this comes as u.s. navy divers and other military personnel are scouring the ocean floor off the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. and we re getting new video in to cnn. a resident in south carolina shot this and said he believes it could be debris from the balloon. to be clear, cnn cannot independently verify whether or not this is, in fact, debris from that chinese spy balloon. we re reaching out to the navy for comment. in the meantime, republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. cnn s alex marquardt joins us now with more. alex, you re learning more about this timing, when it came down to the decision-making that was taking place inside the biden administration. we heard the president stating to reporters emphatically yesterday that he made this call on wednesday that the balloon be shot down as soon as it was safe to do so. but there s m
human smuggling into the country, one day after lawmakers held first site hearing at the actual border. fox news exclusively capturing this video of the group touring rio grand valley last night. you re watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. hoping to force administration to pay attention to what is upon haing. it is important we convene in texas to share light on brutal and unsustainable conditions this president s administration has caused at the border. my hope is for an honest conversation in america at the border tonight with each of you. the u.s.-mexico border is close to 2000 miles long, how many pounds of fentanyl are coming through the ports of entry? we need to secure the border. ashley: todd, who else better to lead this site tour than brandon judd. you can turn on fox news channel nearly any time of day and see brandon on there. he is fired up because what we re seeing at the border is a comp