collapse domino effect grow on wall street and a lot of folks at home wondering what does this mean for me and the place that i bank. charlie gasparino joins us here. first the white house grilled on the border crisis and dodging questions around gop claims that the fbi is in possession of a document that describes an alleged criminal bribery scheme involving then vice president biden and a foreign national. where is this going? bret baier will join us with his take on this in just a moment. first, to peter doocy who is fresh off of this white house briefing. hi, peter. martha, for the first time, the white house is addressing this on camera with john kirby taking a question just a few minutes ago. seeking fbi document from 2020 that describes the alleged criminal scheme involving then vice president biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions. what is the white house s response to this serious corruption allegation? i have to
have been on it may have affected a presidential election. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. it was weeks before the 2020 presidential election. 51 intelligence officials signed that letter. the letter called the laptop by hunter biden russian disinformation. in an exclusive interview, the then campaign advisor says he had nothing to do with it. with regard to that letter, i didn t wasn t my idea, didn t ask for it or solicit it and i think the testimony that the former deputy director of the c.i.a. mike morrell put forward confirms that? do you except it is not russian disinformation? i am not engaging in politics. i have a lot of my agenda. things we just talked about. harris: mike morrell testified blinken was the impetus for the statement. house republicans demanding information on the original letter. who crafted it in total? the deadline for blinken and others thursday for that information. blinken s denial says more ties between him and
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
shawn. 1500 active duty troops to secure the southwest border as they prepare for an unprecedented migrant search in just eight days. biden s plan is now drawing comparisons to a 2018 order by his predecessor, similarly using our military to help prepare for a large influx of migrants. while the vice president and border czar kamala harris, here s what she had to say when trump did it. i believe it is inappropriate to acquire the limited resources of the united states military to be used in such a way. all because there needed to be some demonstration for the tv cameras based on a political agenda. kayleigh: harris, there are handful of democrats that might disagree with him but the play military personnel signaling that migrants are a threat, he s calling biden s planned out. to be expect to see a kamala harris statement like that one? harris: have we heard her recently on the border at all? kayleigh: i don t think so. the one that s one of her eight or nine jobs.
please. absolutely not, absolutely not. john: ah, absolutely not but the numbers tell a different story. have a look here. the president has held 23 news conferences since he took office and this time in his presidency, president trump had held 41, and obama had held 53. so, what gives with 23? sandra: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour on this monday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. and great to have you back. john: maybe channelling michael jordan with 23. joe concha has a theory. why hold a news conference when tiktok influencers can do the work for you. we ll talk to him how in the world the white house is spinning the press access as a good thing and the army of influencers pushing the president s lies. but first sandra: chaos on chicago streets after hundreds of rowdy teens flooded the downtown area over the weekend. police responding to reports of gunshots and scenes of juveniles smashing cars, blocking traffic and fighting i