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
were already very and mangeing them more virulent. dana: we are digging into the new covid report. this is a 300-page report. senator marshall tells me it involved 20 months of pretty extensive research using classified and unclassified information with dozens of experts. the report s conclusion is an accidental chinese lab leak back in november of 2019 is likely what started the covid-19 pandemic weeks before china ever even acknowledged the virus was out there publicly circulating. here is part of that conclusion. it reads the an unintentional research-related incident that resulted from failures of bio safety containment during cars covid two related research. it suggests covid-19 may have leaked twice at the wuhan institute. once in september or october of 2019, which was contained. then again on a much bigger scale in november 2019 when chinese researchers were conducting highly risky gain-of-function research in an effort to develop a covid vaccine. senator marshall
living inside the u.s. more than 40 charged for, quote, creating and using fake social media accounts to harass and intimidate dissidents of china s regime living here and seeking to suppress their free speech. the defendants remain at large. the other case sur real. two men in court yesterday, federal agents arrested them for operating a secret chinese police station in new york city. the d.o.j. calling it a significant national security matter. despite that, the suspects were able to get out on bond with just a few hours. it is new york city. one hour, one house foreign affairs republican says this is just the beginning. i think this is a coordinated plan. i this i the chinese are embedding chinese nationals throughout our country. this police force here will be a big part of making sure they can coordinate and keep them on the same page for whatever their intended goal is here. not good. i think that they are a force that is intended to coerce and intimidate those here.
how alvin bragg s policies are empowering criminals. bill: democrats dismiss it. ] s indictment of donald trump is the reason they re here. the victims of crime tell a very different story. dana: one of the people we re hearing from today is jose alba. last year a repeat offender attacked him last year in the deli where he worked. he fatally stabbed the attacker in self-defense. bragg s office initially charged him with murder. bill: that prompted a massive public outcry. bragg dropped the case under great pressure. republicans say that this points to a larger problem with progressive prosecutors. it s driven by these left wing d.a.s who come in with a political agenda. instead of focusing on protecting people, families, communities an small business owners they are about politics and it s almost like every night you see some senseless act of violence on our screens that happen on the subway or city street and it is just wrong. dana: we have reaction from john levi
victims of violent crime in manhattan field hearing is still happening. it started about two hours ago and ongoing with many witnesses now stepping up and telling the horrifying stories of both the crime that they ve experienced in the city but also the shut-out that they ve experienced by alvin bragg s office. lawmakers there directly hearing from victims impacted. a bodega worker charged with murder for defending himself. a friend of his had to step in for him today because jose alba fears for retaliation if he speaks up. his mom, whose son was murdered, also on the list the next person is madeleine, her son, a military veteran, a victim s right advocate and more heart rending stories of pain and suffering across the board. those are a few of the people speaking today. the chairman of the judiciary, jim jordan. our waft necessarys today have felt the effects of crime up close and personal. they ve been victimized by a justice system that cares more about political corre