i'm dana perino. this is "america's newsroom." it was a great weekend but there was a lot of news and a lot of troubling news as well across the board. we'll have it all for you this hour. border patrol records show nearly two dozen known or suspected terrorists were caught at the sourn border last year. that's a small snapshot of the surge. >> bill: border agents encountered more than 221,000 migrants in the month of march alone. a 24% increase from last year. the most encounters in any month since february of 2000. >> dana: half of them were expelled under the title 42 border policy it allowed them to turn away over a million migrants during the pandemic but it is set to expire next month. they project up the 18,000 migrants will try to cross the border every day. >> bill: a grow list of of democrats. texas democrat henry cuellar. >> he can't say we have a public health issue here and say everything is is fine at t border and then lift the title 42, which is the health order. 221,000 people this last month and certainly right now the cartels are looking at title 42. the moment they lift that you will see a lot more people coming across. >> bill: this is where we start on the border. bill melugin live in eagle pass, texas who had the story first. good morning. >> good morning to you. according to a cbp record i obtained through a freedom of information act request there were at least 23 known or suspected terrorists caught here at our southern border in 2021. we'll dive into the numbers for you. this shows there were approximately 23 hits on the tsdb. the terrorist screening database. four in san diego sector, four in yuma, two to tucson. three in el paso, four in del rio and four in the rio grande valley center. they put together the database. these are only the ones they know about and caught. if you look at file video here we'll explain why it is such a concern. in the last six months alone here at the border there have been more than 300,000 known gotaways. border patrol can't be everywhere at once. people are getting through in major numbers. that's one of the reasons why former ice director tom homan says the terrorist numbers, the guys caught at the border last year are a major concern and he says dhs secretary mayorkas has to start considering the border crisis as a national security issue. take a listen. >> he knows 23 people have been arrested at the border. he knows that. he is the secretary of homeland security. at what point does this man have enough integrity to tell the white house i cannot keep this border open no matter what because we have created a national security issue. if he had any intig tee at all he would tell the white house no we need to secure the border. >> guys, if we can actually dip out of the photos now and take a live camera that we have here in eagle pass and go to it now we have a roving cameraman set up here. a mass release of migrants about to take place right here at a local ngo. something we've been reporting on for months now that the federal government, border patrol facilities in del rio sector completely over capacity and doing mass releases day in and out. we've shown them to you in brownsville and rio grande valley and now in the del rio sector as well in eagle pass. it's mostly single adults being released happening by the hundreds every day up here. back out here live those march numbers you guys were talking about show that the federal government released more than 80,000 illegal immigrants into the u.s. in the month of march alone. that is not counting the more than 60,000 gotaways during the month of march. you add those two numbers together it's 140,000 people who got into the country illegally and are still in the country right now. >> bill: there is no good news in that report. bill melugin back on the border on this monday morning. >> dana: one of president biden's closest senate allies is one of the democrats expressing concerns about ending title 42. >> i hope it will be reconsidered. we need to come together and show our values that we can secure our border and improve the inhumane immigration system. the immigration system that so many of us have worked to try to address for years. >> dana: let's bring in marc thiessen. fox news contributor. i want to show you there is many democrats who have basically tried to distance themselves from the biden administration and said to the white house we do not think this is a good idea. i think you and i agree an something. when senator kuhn who is very close to president biden says this. it was the white house saying go out and float this trial balloon and see how we'll do with trying to not end title 42. what do you think? >> i agree. no one closer to fellow delaware democrat. if he is saying this there may be a sign they'll reverse this. this is political kryptonite for democrat. the poll came out last week and showed 56% americans oppose lifting title 42. the most unpopular decision joe biden made as president. we're talking about afghanistan withdrawal, everything else. this will be the most unpopular decision he has made. you have the vulnerable democrats like mark kelly in arizona, one in nevada and hassan is concerned about it in new hampshire. it's because of fentanyl. not just a surge of illegal migrants but fentanyl. they reached record level of deaths in 2021 now exceeding up murders and homicides and gun shootings across the country as cause of death. the border disaster has an impact across the country and have an impact across the country at the polls. >> bill: what needs to be emphasized the democrats were calling for this as you rightly point out chris coons. he a brother in arms in the state of delaware. beto o'rourke is against in. henry cuellar. with that's as a back drop here is kevin mccarthy with perhaps a line of campaigning for republicans before the mid-terms. >> what americans want, need and deserve is a clear, common sense alternative. that's what is happening with the house republicans. we will secure our border to stop this immigration crisis but more importantly to stop the fentanyl coming into america. that's the difference of why the president's approval ratings are so oh low and why american will make a new course and republicans will take the majority. >> bill: border, drugs. how likely is it, marc, when republicans take control of the house, senate and white house someday they will make it a policy to finish the wall? >> i have think it's very likely. and also restore the remain in mexico policy. restore the safe third country agreements that president trump negotiated where people have to apply for asylum. this is the problem that we should not be depending on a public health measure to prevent us from having an open border. joe biden has been protected from the consequences of his decisions at the border by title 42, by the pandemic because he got rid of the remain in mexico policy where people had to apply for asylum and got rid of the safe third country agreements and stopped deportations. the only thing that has prevented an absolute deluge of people coming across the border has been title 42. if he lifts that, americans will finally -- if we think the border has been a disaster for the last year it will be a disaster they've never seen and they will pay a political price. >> the point is republicans will make you can't trust democrats if they control the house, senate and white house. thanks for coming back on a monday morning. >> dana: so the other thing the "wall street journal" wrote this morning something i think is a point we should emphasize. we made it a few times here and we do it on the five as well. biden's immigration damage. by rescinding title 42 he is doing more to help restrictionist. it may force mr. biden to continue title 42. if he won't do that he ought to drop his attempt to remain in mexico and -- the alternative is more border chaos and more fuel for what democrats are facing in november. it seems like the white house will back down on it. because they floated this in the last several weeks now, you've had caravans starting to form that are planning to arrive around may 23. now you will be -- let's say the biden administration pulls back but you have all the people on the border. what have you done? you add more problems. it hurts legal immigration and the process. >> bill: that it does. meanwhile this now. seven are dead and 11 injured in lviv after russia's military launched missiles into the city. considered a relatively safe haven for refugees fleeing other parts of the country. matt finn is on the ground near the train station and fire station that was hit. what did you see? >> we saw a lot today. this tire shop is one of four locations struck by a missile here in lviv today. there is still cleanup and investigation going on now. lviv's mayor says three out of the four missile strikes today were civilian locations, not military. seven people are dead so far. lviv mayor said the deaths are the first wartime deaths within the city since this war began. so far four deaths tallied within this tire repair shop. 11 other people injured. in a short while ago the owner of the shop allowed us to tour the damage. 15 to 20 people were on the property at the time of the missile strike and talked to one man says he is a live because he just arrived to work at the time of the strike of the blast. he said his younger co-workers died, some of them in their 30s. also right behind this tire shop is a hotel. the windows were blasted out. we went inside that hotel and talked to a young man, a refugee from kharkiv. he said his sister and baby were taken to the hospital. this tire shop is directly above a busy train track. there is a question of whether russians were targeting the tracks. ukrainians are using train tracks to transport military gear and migrants using trains to get in and out of lviv. it all began around 8:45 this morning. the crew saw large black plumes of smoke. 48 hours ago we were live on air when the air raid sirens went off. four russian cruise missiles were intercepted sadly. this town of lviv is made up of 800,000 people. it is on the far western side of this country close to the country of poland and there are a lot of refugees here. we went to the train station here on saturday and there were thousands of people cramming into trains. some were coming from as far east as kyiv and some were leaving this town headed to poland. some heartbreaking stories of mostly women and children some with young toddlers and newborns trying to escape the danger that is clearly present here in lviv. >> bill: what a sight that is it matt finn on the ground in lviv. back at home a weekend crime wave sweeping the country. shoppers running for their lives at a shopping mall. suspect already is released on bond. >> dana: unreal. a trail of blood in an upscale new york neighborhood leads police to this footage. the body of a mom in a duffel bag blocks from her home. >> bill: will elon musk buy twitter? 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>> we have to deal with the facts. i don't like to speculate too much at this point. we have a dead mother and wife. so let's look at the facts that we have. sad fact is that well north of 90% of the time the victim knows her killer. so that begins to take us out of the random situation that could have occurred here which is much more difficult to solve. then we have a couple of these clues. text message that broke late last night. the text message came from the victim's phone to the husband. consider what must have happened there. the killer would have to know the husband's actual name, quite likely. because you are in your spouse's phone as husband. with the fact also that therefore the victim would likely have to have access to that phone means that we begin to come out of something random again and what i said at the top begin to get a little closer to something that is within the parameters of her life. that narrows things down. we have a pretty good idea of the where. it is the house. by now the police will know more than the house, they will know the room. you also have a good idea of the when, right? now what they need to do is in that relatively narrow time frame put somebody on the spot then in that location and it is going to be in my estimation we can begin to shrink the playing field to something that's relevant to some vector within her life. >> bill: the text message was sent to the father, the husband. and the text message said your whole family is next. >> dana: so do you think nypd know more than we do obviously and they're very good at what they do. how soon do you think they'll be able to actually have a person of interest or suspect or an arrest? >> they may now. again it is tough to predict in a case like this but i would think that they will solve this pretty soon. >> dana: we're looking at this picture here. the body bag being dragged in a duffel -- it's a duffel bag, a body inside being dragged down a street. is this something you would think is premeditated or possibly not? like something a crime of passion, anger? >> the latter. if you think about it the duffel bog, the hockey bag was probably at the scene and worked for the perpetrator to move the body. it was obviously not very well planned out if it was planned. the body was only moved to a half mile from the location, left on a well trodden path. i know there has been a lot of speculation online about a hit. this was something relatively spontaneous that arose out of a situation of passion. >> bill: maybe we'll get some answers today. >> dana: love having you. thank you. russia launches a deadly assault in lviv considered a safe hub for more refugees. what does it signal about putin's invasion strategy? 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more on this now with general keane and dana. first zelenskyy from sunday. >> it can be not real information but it can be true because when they begin to speak about one or another battle or involves enemies or nuclear weapons or some chemical. >> dana: zelenskyy warning the world should prepare for the possibility of russia unleashing a nuclear attack as putin gross desperate for victory in ukraine. retired general jack keane is a senior strategic analyst. i felt like friday we were in a different place than we are today, monday, in this war as you look at this and you evaluate what is going on and analyze the fact that now that we have the deadly bombs in lviv which had been a relatively safe place, what do you make of all that? >> well, first of all obviously as bill pointed out the main effort is the donbas region. ground warfare. high-end conventional on open, flat terrain which clearly favors the attacker and in this case the russians obviously are trying to come in the back door of where ukraine is defending against the russians in the donbas area. so our viewers know, this is the area where the russian separatists and russians have been since 2014. so they are very familiar with the area. supply lines are much shorter to russia. they have a commander there who has been in the area for six years and it's in the southern area here that he has been in charge of since february the 24th when the invasion began. he is the one commander who has had success. so this is about to take place within the next couple of weeks. i believe the fighting will be very fierce. it is critical that we get the weapons in the hands of the ukrainians that they've asked for. the administration is finally getting those kinds of weapons to them. certainly. we applaud that. other countries are doing it as well. they are also as you pointed out, they are continuing their air bombardment campaign. they want the ukrainians to feel vulnerable in the major cities throughout ukraine. they know full well that lviv is a major refugee center for many people in ukraine who don't want to leave the country but want to leave the area of operations where their lives are being threatened. so that's the picture that's in front of us. putin certainly wants the whole southern coast is what he would like to have. he is going to start certainly by making certain he gets control of the donbas region. we cannot underestimate the determination and the skill and will of the ukrainians in this fight. >> bill: on the point about getting the weapons where they need to go, i thought the signal from biden last thursday about the $800 million additional aid puts us well over a billion dollar in the war against putin is significant. we're knee deep. if not all in, we are in in a substantial way. how do we know if the $800 million gets to those soldiers who are dug in in the donbas and southeastern ukraine? >> well, there has been some evidence presented on fox that some of the weapons in the past and some that are ongoing now have not reached everybody. the challenge we have here is very long supply lines and we're not in charge of that. the weapons come in, we load it to ukrainian trucks at the polish border and off they go to provide those weapons to their troops who are already being deployed some place. there are bottlenecks in their system. we can't guarantee of getting in the hands of the fighter. we can guarantee it getting in the hands of the transporter who is ukrainian and taking it to the fighter. the good news when you look at the shopping list of weapons. these are the weapons that zelenskyy has been asking for. they are on that list and the challenge we will have is sustaining it. we'll go to more nato weapons and former soviet union weapons because we're running out of those. there are countries who have a lot of it but not willing to help us, like india and vietnam. they have russian equipment. but yes, sustaining it is going to be absolutely crucial as we are going forward here. >> dana: it feels like a momentous week. thank you for kicking us off. we'll see you again before the end of the week. thank you. >> have a great week. >> bill: from the middle east israeli police clashing with palestinians at a holy site in jerusalem. the unrest after a weekend of violence in the old ci as passover and ramadan and easter sunday all overlap. dan springer is live in jerusalem with the late oeft on that today. dan. >> hi, bill. israel is on high alert as tensions are building over the last several weeks and months as it seems like every day there is some sort of a clash. the big concern is one of these clashes will lead to a wider conflict. early this morning israeli forces were conducting a raid in the west bank looking for weapons and suspects that have carried out deadly attacks in recent weeks. dozens of palestinians threw rocks and explosives at the soerlsd. troops responded with gunfire and critically injured two palestinians. they also made 11 arrests. these types of raids are more common this year. they've arrested more than 1100 palestinians. jerusalem has been the other hot spot centered on a couple of holy sites. during a time of key holy days. today there was a large gathering at the western wall but everything was peaceful. that was not the case on sunday or last friday when violence broke out between mainly young palestinians who were throwing rocks at israeli police and jews who they were escorting to the temple mount for a vits. more than a dozen people injured sunday and 150 friday. a year ago there was an 11-day war that rockets were fired into jerusalem. the hope is this won't happen this time and cooler heads will prevail. >> bill: we'll watch it. nice to have you in jirs lem. >> dana: democrats are starting to worry about a possible bloodbath in november as president biden's approval rating sinks as inflation rises. the long covid labor market. millions who stayed home because of the pandemic are not eager to return to work. dagan mcdowell is here next. >> tech: that's service on your time. schedule now. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! 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>> it will all come down to the federal reserve. they're hiking interest rates and soon start destroying money by reducing its $9 trillion balance shee. it is too little to late. if anything, we go from inflation to inflation and a recession. that's probably what is going to happen. in terms of fiscal policy coming out of the biden administration, what have they said all along? when they denied there was a problem and then they have tried to blame everybody else when in part the spending out of this white house has been contributing to the sky high inflation. they -- then remember they were saying that we need to spend more money to lower inflation. so again they've peddled pocky kak to the american people. >> bill: this argument lasted about a week. >> it kept coming up. like build back better will lower inflation. no it won't. problem is the month that biden was inaugurated in january of last year, inflation was running at 1.4%. it is now at 8 1/2%. i can't remember a time where you saw such a dramatic, rapid increase in inflation. everybody feels it. and it chaff's everybody where the sun doesn't shine. >> dana: it was too much money too fast. >> bill: and the fiscal spending before that the federal reserve undertook of blowing its balance sheet out to $9 trillion. it was buying up -- it enabled the spend tlifts in washington, the democrats, buying up more than half of the debt issued last year. that's part of the problem. i will talk about expectations for inflation. so higher inflation begets higher inflation. americans start anticipating it and driving up price. you saw in a recent new york federal reserve survey public expectations for inflation in march of next year are running the record high of 6.6%. i use a down-home example of somebody i know has a fellow who cuts his yard, a big yard. he used to charge $50. he came in and said i'll charge you $20 more. he said why? $20, 50 to $70 for a mow is a 40% increase. that's a heck of a lot faster than inflation is growing. but that's how you get the upward spiral of skyrocketing prices. >> dana: people feel like even if you had an increase, because of inflation you have a pay cut. >> you do. real wages or wages adjusting for inflation have fallen 2.7%. people's paychecks and raises are not keeping up with inflation. >> bill: we have 30 seconds left. this is out of shanghai, a city of 26 million under lockdown, right? at the end of last week this is. it appears they are taking this guy away not listening to them. >> dana: he had a positive covid test and they are separating people. >> bill: women are on the sidewalk and screaming for mercy. what do you see going on here? >> communism. draconian measures. everything and anything dictated by the few where we don't live and what we won't tolerate. i will raise this issue and i follow kyle bass, a very famous investor. if you watch what's going on in china, it looks like these lockdowns, in part, and these restrictions placed on people in the country by the communist party, are meant to drive down commodity prices around the globe. there is something afoot in terms of what they are trying to get out of the lock downs. it is not stopping covid. china needs cheaper oil, natural gas, natural resources like nickel and the like. everything that goes into electric vehicle batteries. they are doing this in part starting to spread you need to lower your gross estimates for the globe. is it out of the realm of thinking? 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she spent $300,000. she spent $70,000 between january 1 and march 31 of this year. of which $50,000 went to peace security. not police security but peace security. august 4th she was asked about it and explained it this way. listen. >> i have private security because my body is worth being on this planet right now. if i end up spending $200,000 or $10 on it i get to be here to do the work. so suck it up and defunding the police has to happen. we need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets. we're trying to save lives. >> bill: jimmie, suck it up. >> insane. walk down the street and suck it up. the worst thing that's ever happened to our country. defund the police is the most stupid thing i ever heard. we need to treat them as the teammates they are. this is someone -- everyone in my family is a cop. i would have been a cop except for a background check. i support them on the radio and tv. >> dana: it is pretty stunning. >> bill: apple has a new software program. there will be a pregnant man emoji. will you be using this? >> no. >> dana: that's not a beer belly. >> not the beer belly. they make this in every ethnicity. people of every race can tell the world they failed biology. this is so dumb. if we are going to go here what emojis or the new york jets winning the super bowl. more men have gotten pregnant since 1969 than jets have won the super bowl. [laughter] >> dana: what about the bengals? >> these aren't exactly salad days. >> dana: i'm glad you are in a mood on easter candy. back to the news, here we go. >> this is about to take place within the next couple of weeks. i believe the fighting will be very fierce. it is critical that we get the weapons in the hands of the ukrainians that they've asked for. they want the ukrainians to feel vulnerable in the major cities throughout ukraine. they know full well that lviv is major refugee center for many people in ukraine who don't want to leave the country. >> dana: general jack keane earlier as russian forces intensify attacks across ukraine missiles hitting lviv today killing at least seven people. well dom a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning. the kremlin stepping up attacks on infrastructure and other key targets hoping to wear down the resistance as they get ready for the major ground offensive in the eastern part of the country. a series of explosions shattered the western town of lviv missiles hitting three military facilities and a tire shop and badly damaging a hotel that sheltered ukrainians who fled the fighting. seven dead including a child. griff jenkins live in lviv. the mayor is warning residents who fled not to come back. griff, hello. >> bill and dana, good morning. here in kyiv the mayor is urging the residents who fled before the war to not come here because we are seeing an uptick in strikes or significant ones over the weekend. one hit an armored vehicle plant and another hitting a suburb. at least one dead reported from those strikes. dozens of others injured. that attack in lviv where i left four days ago was quite a surprise to us. take a look at that aftermath damage. the smoke rising into the sky after the four missile strikes. as you mentioned hitting three what appears to be military warehouses and the tire factory. people going to the garage on a monday morning. seven dead, 11 injured. a child among the injured. that number could possibly rise as they go through the rubble. lviv's mayor condemned those attacks, bill, saying there are no military targets in his city to hit. that city is a hub for refugees fleeing the war. now meanwhile we are also closely watching the situation in mariupol. a very dire situation there after yesterday midday the russian forces issuing a surrender or die ultimatum to 2,000 or so ukrainian forces who are dug in in the bunkered in a steel fact re in the center of town and ukraine's prime minister says those forces will not yield. listen. >> the city has not fallen. there is still our military forces, our soldiers. so they will fight to the end. >> should mariupol fall i don't have to remind you. it will be the first victory for putin because he would indeed get that land bridge that he sought between russia and the crimean peninsula. insight here. i was talking to one of the employees at the hotel we're staying at and i said how do you feel about this attack? it doesn't come as a surprise to me because the russians want to kill us for no other reason than the fact that we're ukrainians. really a snapshot of the terror that the ukrainian people are feeling here, bill. >> bill: griff jenkins in the ukrainian capital of kyiv. >> the decisions, of course, and about the safety situation depends. but i think he is -- the united states and he should come here toz. >> dana: zelenskyy says president biden must visit ukraine days after the white house says it has no plans to send him there. let's bring in jason chaffetz. fox news contributor. zelenskyy knows how to drive headlines and he picks his moments and in a way his targets, right? this week it's president biden. he wants president biden to have to answer the questions will you come here? if you won't come here will you at least give me what i say i need to fight? >> president zelenskyy is a fighter and he is smart and does know how to leverage the national and international media. i do not believe that president biden should go to ukraine at this point. if the president was going to go he should have gone before the fighting started but let's do things that win wars. the movement of lethal weapons to the ukrainians so they can engage in the fight. i don't think the president biden needs a photo op. i don't know that he gets through the easter egg roll let alone going into ukraine. let's get them the weapons they need in ukraine. >> bill: we were making that point with jack keane last hour. the $800 million that biden pledged last thursday is significant. the issue becomes can you move them across the country of ukraine and get them to the soldiers that will conduct the fighting, trench warfare in the southeast? >> the logistics side of war nobody does it better than the united states of america if they have the political imperative and you get the politicos out of the way. have the president definitively say we move these weapons. get them in there. you have seen the delay from moving the airplanes and making decisions there. it doesn't seem like a streamlined effort. it seems like it's 30 days too late quite frankly, if not more. but that's where the president should be spending his time and effort. >> dana: back here at home the special counsel michael durham has been looking at this -- john durham, he came out with a little bit of news himself saying that this c.i.a. has found that data alleging trump/russia connections is not technically plausible and was user-created. so will that be something that michael sussman will have to deal with at his trial coming up in less than a month? >> i find it very significant for a couple of different reasons. first of all, i know that the house and senate intel committees, house and senate investigators, inspector general for the department of justice have had very difficult time getting their hands on c.i.a. documents so the idea that the prosecutor has c.i.a. documents not only is it significant for the one he found but he is signaling to the other side if you don't think i'm going to trial, you have another think coming. i have documents you didn't think that maybe i had. we've all wondered why it's taken durham so long. i guarantee when you go back and look it will be the delays coming out of the c.i.a. to provide these types of documents. another significant piece of evidence for trial that begins on may 16th. >> bill: we'll be watching. nice to see you on a monday. jason chaffetz. thank you very much. they said it was user-created. then the question becomes can you prove who the user was that created it? 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>> bill, every week your program shows the various cripples that are going on in democrat -- crimes in democratic cities. tucker carlson is talking about l.a. it is a pattern. democratic cities and mayors and prosecutors are soft on crime. we know this. for mayor adams or the commissioner to tell us what we already know, they aren't helping us. they are pretending to think that they are working on the problem. they're not. this is so obvious. >> bill: let me go back to keechant sewell said. i like what she is saying. she is impressive. we believe the system has to be fair and balanced. when we lose sight of the victims of crime we aren't doing what public safety is intended to do. she is spot on. >> nice words, bill. nice words. i can guarantee and make a prediction next week you and dana will cover crime in new york city over the weekend and chicago. beautiful words, but alvin bragg, george gascon, soft prosecutors. you don't hear her criticizing the prosecutor. until that happens forget it. we're going to expect a summer crime wave like the portland sheriff officer said. it will happen and going on for 2 1/2 years. when will it stop? 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>> so what i can see in the state of texas we're taking measures and we've continued to increase the number of personnel along the border, dps personnel and texas parks and wildlife. national guard. working with our intel partners and the government of mexico to see what they are able to do as far as addressing the threats they see in mexico. i can tell you now it will continue to escalate. also with the preparation of title 42 to be completely rescinded the message is out. cartels, criminal organizations are using that message to their advantage and continue to see a surge of illegal immigrants but not just families but single adults. unfortunately it will continue to escalate and get worse unless some type of action will be done by the federal government. what governor abbott did that i want to talk about is putting pressure on the mexican government by conducting enhanced safety inspections along the port of entries with dps troopers. because of that they put pressure on mexico. four governors came together to sign historic agreements to add more border security on the mexican side where we see these potential routes, these known routes for drug smuggling and human smuggling. we hope it will make an impact and slow down some of the mass migration taking place along the border. it will all be in preparation for title 42. >> dana: many single adult males this morning. bill melugin in eagle pass, texas, showed us there are many single adult males ready to be released. americans are curious. they go anywhere they want to in the united states? >> right. that's what we're seeing. the smaller border communities, del rio, eagle pass, smaller communities that don't have all the resources sustainable to deal with the mass release of illegal immigrants into the communities and we saw bill melugin reported that many times when buses are dropping off illegal immigrants in local neighborhoods. the processing facilities are over capacity and as a result of that by just doing mass release. we don't know where these individuals are going. many of these individuals and i believe chief rodney scott had mentioned at one point there is no way of knowing what crimes these individuals committed unless they commit a crime in the united states. there is no way to track them for an international database if they committed crimes in other countries. it's very concerning as well the immigrants being released don't know the entire backgrounds and criminal histories and what their intentions are to our country. >> dana: what a problem. it's so complex. we appreciate you coming on. thank you so much. >> bill: you have about a month before title 42 is pulled off the books, right? 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"the new york times." it could be a biden bloodbath for the mid-terms. poor messaging may contribute to the problem but i think the problem is more on ground level a gut level. how do people feel? stuck and angry, tired and overwhelmed and energy is directed at biden. so you have the columnist saying we're headed for the big major problem. in your mind is there anything the democrats can do between now and november? the polling might change a little bit. those types of feelings that people have. those are really hard to change. >> well, i don't always agree with charles lowe, my fellow atlantaian but he is dead right on this. what did president obama said when he was in the white house doing the aca anniversary recently? he said we just need to tell our story. guess what? biden is a terrible storyteller. it is not true that all politics is local. all politics today is national. you cannot separate yourself from the guy and the white house with 33%. for the most part you are at 33% if you are in any kind of district that is swinging. now, you look at georgia, a marquee u.s. senate race could determine the control of the u.s. senate. biden numbers are black voters are in the 70s. it's horrible. those folks won't turn out and vote for the republicans more than likely but they might stay home because they feel like democrats aren't addressing their concerns or hearing their voices or keeping their promises. that is catastrophic for the incumbent democrat senator in georgia. >> bill: talking about the economy. the border issue is significant, too. really haven't seen a test of that issue yet. but border leads to crime and fentanyl and drug use across the country. second issue we've seen in the virginia race and new jersey race are schools. and how parents feel about what is being taught in the schools. how do you see that on that list of priorities that we just shared on nbc news? >> the school issue is one that is red hot. what i'm seeing in campaign polling is that for women voters, particularly female republican voerts, the save girl sports issue is way up in polling. it really is a hot issue. something that people are going to vote on. you look at what democrats are saying on that. this is a made-up issue and not real. they do the same thing with the florida law what they say don't say gay bill. that's not what it is. talking about sexual issues from kindergartners and third graders. democrats' only thing isn't to say you're right, it's dumb. their argument is this is made up. i tell you, parents for the last two years have been watching and hearing through virtual learning what is coming in through the speakers. they know better now. >> dana: brian robinson for us early on monday. he ate his wheaties today, bill. great to have you. >> bill: nice to sigh. >> good to see y'all. >> dana: big mystery at one new jersey high school. 100 staff and students across three decades all developing rare brain tumors, a live report on that coming up. you just can't stop. what would you like the power to do? 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i can proudfully say i did something. >> bill: we'll watch them. alissa reporting on that. >> dana: interesting. women have been getting into politics more and more. they the end to be reluctant. you have need five things to run for office guys will say i have three of those. women will go if i work really hard. covid changed things. this inflation push will make more of them want to run for office and i think we're in for big surprises. >> bill: things you can't see coming will happen. >> dana: major concern after more than 100 former students and staff at a particular high school developed rare brain tumors across nearly three decades. federal and state officials trying to find the root cause. alexis mcadams is live in new jersey. what do you know? >> people here in new jersey say they're on edge is an underat the same time and the mayor is having lots of questions coming into his office every day from people in the community. there is testing for radiation testing at this high school underway after an alumni from new jersey area said he came forward sounding the alarm after he and his wife had a rare brain tumor. then his sister was diagnosed with brain cancer. she didn't make it. the person who sounded the alarm is doing everything he could. >> we weren't just the unlucky few. there seems to be more and more. before she passed i told her that i'm not going to stop until i have answers. >> nouf this high school is at the center of the investigation after he came forward. more than 100 students and staff were diagnosed with brain tumors responded to him and came forward. he graduated from the school in 89 and diagnosed with a slow growing tumor an the nerve that leads from the inner ear to the brain. most of the people who say they developed these brain tumors graduated between 1975 and 2000. the town's mayor has called in a private environmental engineering firm to survey school grounds. >> canister in each room in the school and everywhere. they will be taking them out in two weeks and they will be probably taking close to four to six weeks to finish the study on the grounds. >> test results are expected in the next 4 to 6 weeks. students are on spring break but still have sports happening outside. we talked with a few who say their parents are very concerned. a lot of unanswered questions. we'll talk to the mayor later on this morning. >> dana: keep us posted on that. >> bill: before we go we have this from the white house, do we not? >> dana: monday after easter, they usually try to do the easter egg roll. it was off for covid with a couple of years and here we have the kids. a lovely tradition and the president and first lady kicking it off with the kids. sometimes members of the staff. >> bill: did you see that? they just kicked that egg right across the field. >> dana: i think it's pretty fun. >> bill: i thought it would be a cool event on a sunny day. >> dana: it's rainy. you cannot rain on the easter egg parade. people love that event. it's a nice tradition. good monday? >> bill: good monday. i'll be back later today working for john and you are working for -- >> dana: the five. sandra smith is next. here is the "the faulkner focus". >> fox news alert. vladimir putin unleashing dead lay missile strikes in eastern ukraine. lviv has served as a safe place for refugees. seven people were killed this morning. russia ramping up its ground offensive in the east. zelenskyy says his people are going to fight to the end in mariupol. president biden's plan to lift title 42 could unleash a maiv