local teachers union. they had made her the poster child of a secret meeting on threats to public education. her offense? asking about the curriculum. sandra: welcome back. as america reports rolls into a second hour, i am sandra smith in new york and john, great to be back with you. john: good to have you, sandra, i am john roberts in washington. we will talk to that mom who says the union harassed her for asking basic questions. she is now fighting for air know my parents rights in education. we begin with this fox news alert. many of the breadcrumbs lead to the lab where very few actually lead to nature, if any. if we don t do it, no one will. sandra: that was the chairman of the house covid origin committee, he joined us last hour, right after the committee s first hearing wrap. he says it looks like all roads lead to a lab leak but some democrats, including the white house, are not buying it. they say the evidence remains inconclusive. john: that hearing come
down. it is now falling from the sky. bill: that was an incredible moment only seen live on this channel from over the weekend. american f22 shooting down the chinese spy craft off the carolina coast. the air ship dead in the water. political fallout has just begun. hope you had a great weekend. monday, bill hemmer. nice to see you. dana: a good catch-up already. we ll fill you in as we go along. i m dana perino and america s newsroom. remarkable over the weekend. president biden s decision to shoot down the spy flight drawing a heated response from china. beijing saying it is an overreaction and threatening to retaliation. they insist it was a machine used to track the wets. the pentagon says that s not true. the unmanned aircraft came from mainland china. first defected january 28th over alaska. made its way through canada crossing into northern idaho on the 31st when the white house says the president was first briefed on it and gave the order to shoot it down when
sandra: a great piece he wrote there, really important questions, and we have some important questions for him as well. i m sandra smith in new york. great to begin another week with you, john. jonathan turley says if the white house truly wants transparency, now is the time to open up about the files. here is he will join us this hour. plus, we are following the twists and turns in the alec murdaugh double murder case and today defense attorneys got one witness to admit on the stand there could have been a second shooter. john: nancy grace is in the courtroom in south carolina following the case in-person. we will get her reaction to that bombshell all new at 2:00. but we begin with a fox news alert. if the bell did not tell the tale, it is a fox news alert. border agents are busy cracking down on illegal crossers at our southern border, authorities are now seeing a spike up north. migrants now braving the freezing cold temperatures along the 49th parallel and risking
south carolina were kidnapped shortly after crossing into mexico. what authority is have called a case of mistaken identity. we want to warn you that the video we are about to show you is graphic and disturbing. you can see men and bulletproof vests brandishing long guns, shoving the americans into the back of the pickup. a woman shoved into the flat bud while the bodies of two others are limp and dragged him beside her. the minivan they were traveling in riddled with bullet holes, one of the windows shut out. family members have identified as batavia mcgee, her cousin seen here and their friend and eric james williams. we don t know which of the victims have been killed at this time. martha, again, we don t know who has been killed. we know reportedly to the sustained press it was an individual going for a tummy tuck and that individuals mother saying she got a call saying we are 15 minutes away from the procedure and then just never heard back. it is a terrifying story, i
will face some tough questioning over the murders of these two americans. john: our senior national correspondent william la jeunesse has been following the stories has latest breaking details from our los angeles newsroom, two deadwood foreign total what about the others? john, folks found live tv a mcgee alive in a small house outside of moaned a morose and eric williams who had a serious wound in his left leg. they are friends of zindel brown woodward were found dead in a field nearby. we found a convoy of mexican ambulances and suvs headed arriving in brownsville, texas, where the four friends will or reached brought to a hospital we are told, met mexican president says one suspect is in custody d they are expecting for others. on capitol hill some lawmakers want the u.s. military to get actively involved in hunting and dismantling the cartels with or without mexico s permission, moments ago attorney general merrick garland spoke without addressing eight military esca