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
$7500 off to buy it? it is not benefiting wage americans but communist china and rich, elite who have guilty conscience because of climate change and want to buy e.v. bill: she things permitting reform might be where you reach a compromise. see whether she is right in the end. you had strong words yesterday. thank you for coming on yesterday, daniel turner, thank you. dana: is he keeping her out of the loop? president biden rarely has lunch with vice president kamala harris according to his calendar. he had lunch with harris just twice last year. he promised after taking office to make his lunches with harris a weekly event. bill: who is buying? dana: maybe they have coffee in the hallway instead. no lunch. bill: he and obama had lunch once a week, i think. dana: bush and cheney had lunch. i think trump and pence had
in people how they re training out there nap is great news, part of the reason those hardest to employ people are staying out of the workforce right now is the white men with less than a college degree are taking care of a child maybe or allowing the spouse to go to school. that is a big change. retiring from the workforce or taking disability. they re changing, there is modest improvement out there that is important. i want to ask you about 3.4% annual wage growth gain. how does one process that number? is that good ? it is better than the inflation rate. middle class america has not enjoyed the same rate that middle class america has. and they re not enjoying the same benefit that s low wage americans have. many of the growth we have seen has been moving up in entry level wages. someone that has had a lot of
crimes that crush the lives of working americans wall street is tonight s swamp watch. the currency of the swamp is power and influence. by this measure wall street is welwealthier than most americans realize. one of the most important ways they get what they want from washington is the so-called revolving door. we just talked about it. jay clayton, chairman of the securities and exchange commission was priestly previoa lawyer who helped protect those being screwed by regulators. now he s regulating the same banks he used to defend against regulation. he s not the first to maim the move. keith worked at a former launch representing the banks and now he s return to the same firm. representative jim hinds, a democrat from. kat: th, 12-year veteran of
they were doing is hiring americans to build holes and then bill the hole and build another hole. it would be fantastic. but the country is falling apart. one fantastic infrastructure project is building a wall. one other point about this, i mean, donald trump said, not only all of the stuff about the infrastructure but he said to the african-american community, what do you have to lose. take a chance on me. a big issue on my favorite network, msnbc, is the ban the box. and that is not allowing employers to ask potential employees if they have a felony record. well that s actually kind of important for some jobs. you know what s not important? it s not important on a construction site. this would be a so great for african-americans and all kinds of construction workers. you know, the average wage for a construction worker in california is now lower than it was 20 years ago. it s just not americans doing the jobs anymore, it ll all his