dana: dramatic moment as homeland security secretary mayokas is forced to face the family of a grandmother and 7-year-old girl killed in a texas car crashed with an alleged human struggler. he turned to face the family expressed condolences but refusing to offer an apology for his failure to secure the border. very emotional day on the hill yesterday. welcome to a new hour on america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. a heated hearing as republicans hold secretary mayokas accountable for the historic crisis on the border calling his leadership an abject failure. this grieving family of that little girl and grandmother later meeting in private urging him to send thousands of troops to secure the border saying he needs to do that first before any attempt at immigration reform. dana: lawmakers calling out the secretary for being complicit in fentanyl deaths of 100,000 americans. these are some of their faces. bill: bill melugin has spent
what was it like inside the room and what options give you hope or make you stay up at night? it was eye opening whether you were a democrat or republican in the room you realized that we have got to get our head on straight because there is a real a very real chance china will use aggression to try to unify taiwan and china. president xi has said that. when you go through the tabletop exercises it becomes very clear very quickly that if america just turns the other way or if we fail to prepare, things are going to get a lot less safe in this globe. we have some work to do. bill: one of the things you said is to properly deter china, you need allies. taiwan has very few allies around the world. you think about only 12 vatican city, be lease, these are the
tranquilizer. it wasn t tracked as other controlled substances are. this will be a big help to us. we find it mixed in with fentanyl and cocaine. and it is not responsive to narcan. that s the thing that your viewers should know. bill: that s important. it is very important to know that. it is important to know if you buy cocaine and you are aware there may be fentanyl and you arm yourself with narcan, great. but if it also has tranq in it, it won t help. you must be aware and call 911 right away if you feel someone has overdosed. bill: dana and i lived in the city for a number of years and we are seeing things in new york we ve never seen before. hopefully we get it cleaned up. better days ahead. dana: because it spreads across the country. it is a warning sign. great to always have you. thank you. a new twist in republican efforts to question the manhattan prosecutor who initially handled president
provinces that recognize taiwan s ability to exist. beyond that they have us, basically. well, you are right. taiwan doesn t have that many countries who formally recognize them. listen, america is one of those countries that doesn t formally recognize taiwan but a lot of that is just a legal fiction that people say to whisper sweet nothings to china. reality is taiwan has lots of allies. countries like the united states of america that will do some important things to defend taiwan s right to exist. america does need to have allies. let s say we decide we want to deter china and we ll step forward with economic sanctions saying if you invade another country we ll drop the boom on you. those things don t work if america goes it alone. you need to have the g7 countries and other allies step
from the state of south dakota. bill: i thought the leader of taiwan s visit a week ago put a lot of stuff in motion. we ll watch it here. meanwhile pete buttigieg defending his budget at a house hearing on the hill today. likely take heat from republicans over leadership and handling of recent crisis involving planes, trains and a lot of things that move. we re watching it from the newsroom in new york city. second time around good morning to you for the transportation secretary on this topic where he has had to go before lawmakers and defend the white house budget. this time house side of the capitol did the same thing on the senate side last month. drop in live to the hearing room you see the opening statements are getting underway at 11 past the hour. 10:00 start time for this hearing for secretary buttigieg who could certainly be pressed today on some of these recent mi mishaps in the transportation