time they arrived. todd: brooke singman joins us live with more. brooke? ashley: they were already dead by the time the authorities arrived on the same here at two victims eric james williams survived the horrifying kidnapping and are back in the united states. all four traveled south carolina to mexico so maggie could get a procedure. this update, she is doing okay but she was crying, watched two of them die in front of her peer of the held hostage in this small shack located in a rule part of mexico and got lost and mistaken members of drug cartel. the mexican police arrested a 24-year-old mexican national in connection with the violent kidnapping. the suspect identified as jose guadalupe jose guadalupe a accused of guarding for shack world victims were found. authorities didn t say whether involved with the cartel. the kidnapping was caught on surveillance video that some find disturbing and all four victims dragged into the back of a pickup truck. you can see the susp
afternoon, we got a whole bunch of receipts. this is the new document filing. if you follow the news you may have heard it s coming. and today you may have seen reports on it here in today s news coverage. well, we have it. the filing is big, billion dollar plus case against fox news. that s the defamation case against fox by one of the voting machine companies. why is this a stop story in the nation? because as partly expected, there are more new original bombshell revelations i m going to go through with you now before i bring in our experts, including rupert murdoch, admitting things under oath that he doesn t admit when he s not brought into a courtroom looking at a fine. he admits select fox hosts completely endorsed the lie about donald trump and the election. murdoch asked under oath whether some of the hosts endorsed the big lie that the election was stolen that he didn t actually lose, and murdoch replies yes, they endorsed. and that s not all. under oath we find a v
gain-of-function research, and that is where this thing most definitely came from. john: and explosive hearing taking place on capitol hill, the origins of the covid pandemic. confirms dr. anthony fauci tried to discredit the lab leak theory in the early stages of the pandemic and back to china s efforts to place the blame on a white market in wuhan. the virus that has killed millions of people worldwide. sandra: will congress use this testimony and newly uncovered emails to hold fauci on china accountable for not being transparent about how this pandemic began? house covid select committee chair brad wenstrup and senator tom cotton will weigh in coming up shortly. john: we begin, though, with growing calls to designate mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations following the killings of two americans in mexico. ali am john roberts in washingt, welcome center back. sandra: this is america reports. mexico s presence, it it s country has arrested a 24
protecting their turf and business, a big part of which is drugs. fentanyl prominent among the drugs and human trafficking. another huge cartel business. so look at this. in 2021, the dea made this map to show the places where they believed based on their work the cartels had influence here in the united states. look how shocking and widespread that map is of cartel influence all across the country here in the united states. bill barr says that mexico is close to being a failed narco state at this point. it must be dealt with like we dealt with isis. in other words, every effort to kill and dismantle these groups. before we get to that, ned price is speaking in the state department. let s watch. do you know if any of the four americans had any previous trips ordealings with mexico in? i couldn t say. that s not something that we d say from the podium. we want to respect the privacy of the americans that were brought to safety and now back in the united states. they re fre
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