mexican cartels are responsible for the surge of deadly fentanyl. the opioid is killing americans by the tens of thousands and it is getting worse by the year. bill: as you can see on the map the gangs have a tight grip on the entire country and the mexican government is unable or unwilling to fight back. dana: a growing number of lawmakers wanting the cartels marked as terrorists opening to military strikes in mexico. here is one of them. senator joe manchin. this is a war. it has become a war. look at the people we lost. we haven t lost this many people in our wars. bill: we action from the former a.g. first news and reporting from the hill with aishah hosni there today. good morning. good morning to you both in new york. look, in just about an hour, members of the house intelligence committee will get to sit down and grill the nation s top intelligence chiefs and they will get to ask them directly about what they are doing with the cartels at the u.s./mexico bord
palestine, ohio. we re watching all that again today. dana: meantime president biden is heading to pennsylvania today going to roll out his election year budget plan pushing to connect with voters in what will be a must-win state for either of the candidates. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. president biden expected to lay the ground work for a possible second term using his budget proposal as part of a political push to launch attacks against republicans. you have heard a lot of them already actually. meanwhile his democratic coalition is showing signs of strain thanks to recent moves by his administration on immigration, also the d.c. crime bill. all this as the president sets his sights on new government spending and raises taxes on the wealthy. he is doing it by raising a massive amount of taxes. now, you either believe there are two types of economists now on capitol hill. there are people wh
obvious fears given the well-known brutality of the cartel in there well demonstrated lack of respect fo life. the video that appears to show the aftermath of the attack is disturbing showing a woman bein roughly pushed into the back of a truck, and then three other people dragged and simply throw onto the back of that truck see only badly wounded or possibly worse. get these sorts of texas are individual. we stand ready to provide all appropriate assistance. it seems that for americans who we re driving a minivan wit north carolina plates across th border at brownsville, texas headed into matamoros, texas. apparently for one of them to undergo a medical procedure, or as the mexican president put it today, to buy medicine. they somehow got caught up in some kind of confrontation and the area which is well known fo drug cartel violence and have seen a spike into doubts recently with various faction o the gulf cartels fighting each other. the area in the state and which is lo
little bit of sunshine hit me with those good vibes. steve: hello, tampa bay, this is your 7:00 a.m. eastern time wake-up call now as you step out the door on this monday, march 6th. there in tampa. you have got 70 degrees and later on today it s going to be warm. going for a daytime high of 86. hope they get it. oh, they will get it. people who live there they take their boats and go dinner at night. steve: what if you don t have a boat you go hungry? ainsley: can you drive. brian: fish off the shore. ainsley: wouldn t it be nice to have that option. steve: it would be indeed. thank you everybody for filling in for me last week. i know people were wondering where i was. i have a picture of where i was. our daughter sally. [awe] and her husband had a 9-pound 1 obvious baby boy who they have named arthur and that is him right there everything has changed since our kids were little. the bottles have changed. they now have bottle warmers, wipe warmers, they
bret: but, first, breaking tonight, increasing concern over aerial objects that were spotted and then shot down over the u.s. and saturday over canada. the total right now is for china blamed for at least one of these so far says the u.s. has sent multiple balloons over its territory in the past year. the biden administration denies this. more of the chinese spy craft has been recovered and is being analyzed from off the coast of south carolina. but, as for the other objects, there is still very little information about what they are, what they were doing and who is behind them. as the search for those remnants continues tonight. we have fox team coverage, brit hume has analysis of the whole affair. jacqui heinrich is at the white house with the increasing pressure for president biden to address the issue personally. but we begin with chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon with what the defense department is doing and saying tonight. good eve