process to limit how american tax dollars are spent at the department of justice. i yield back. general lady from texas is recognized. good morning. you have value the independence of a special counsel. i do. you asked garland to allow you to continue the investigation saying we want to thank you and your office for permitting our inquiry to proceed with will without interfere answer as you assured the members of the judiciary committee would be the case during the confirmation hearings to become attorney general of the united states. you value your special counsel status. it a being a rat that garland let you proceed on your case as you wish. that s true. it was important you have to as special counsel your investigation was supposed to be independent because special counsels and attorneys are supposed to be independent, right? special counsel is. yes. they are supposed to be independent, is that correct? special counsel is independent of the attorney gener
control of products. they are making more money than they ve ever made. bill: opening arguments in the cop s trial are set to begin there. hello, bryan. bill, good morning. luna is mexico s highest ranking government official to be criminally charged and tried in the u.s. in the early 2000s he let mexico s federal agency akin to the f.b.i. before becoming the top law enforcement official in mexico controlling the federal police force as the secretary of public security until 2012. prosecutors say the man who led mexico s war against the drug cartels was instead accepting briefcases stuffed with tens of millions of bribes from the sinaloa cartel. in exchange luna provided second ratty intel protection and helped with smuggling at least 50,000 kilos of cocaine into the u.s. over the course of the eight-week trial there is intrigue about embarrassing and damning revelations with high ranking u.s. and mexico officials who trusted him. he served as the right-hand of the mexica
a terrifying injurey prompting the nfl to call off a monday night football game with millions watching at home. between the buffalo bills and cincinnati bengals. this morning a young man s life is hanging in the balance where we begin a brand-new year. i m bill hemmer, good morning at home. hello, partner. dana: asme owe dana perino. this is america s newsroom. we hope you had a very happy new year and we re here ready to go to bring you the news for a great 2023. buffalo bills safety damar hamlin is in critical condition. he collapsed on the field and something was very wrong. bill: the play it happened in the first quarter monday night football. hamlin is on defense wearing a white number three jersey right there. higgins makes the catch. leads with his shoulder into the chest of hamlin. hamlin stands up briefly. he signedly collapses on the field. dana: medical staff rushed to his side and started cpr. the team announced he suffered a cardiac arrest. his heartbeat
in the faulkner focus. it had analysts the looks of an ordinary tackle. for all the fans that s what we saw. damar hamlin bringing down cincinnati s higgins in the first quarter of last night s highly anticipated last-season game. nobody was thinking of sports when hamlin collapsed on the turf. many players visibly shaken, tears. nine minutes of cpr. hamlin s mother, who was at the game, rushed onto the field. and then she was helped into the ambulance to be with him to go with him to the hospital as they fought for his life. today s back cover of the new york post tears on the field. doctors say the next 12 to 24 hours will be the most critical and crucial for damar hamlin. his recovery could depend on how long he spent in cardiac arrest. the direct blow to the chest. that stuns the heart at exactly the wrong time. we don t know where it s leading but clearly they got him to the hospital in critical condition with his vitals back to normal. good signs. i don t know whe
Coming up in moments. Three hours from now President Biden becomes the first u. S. President to join the workers on the picket line in michigan. He will appear alongside the striking auto workers outside of detroit. Their strike against the Big Three Automakers approaching week two. See what the president has to say about that. The head of the d. E. A. Is about to address families impacted by fentanyl. Devastating epidemic had direct ties to the chaos weve been watching at the u. S. Border. Im bill hemmer live in new york. Dana is in semi valley. A big welcome back to smitty. Good morning. Sandra well all be watching tomorrow night. Great to start the day. Im sandra smith and this is americas newsroom. Eagle pass, texas, the town recently saw more than 2,000 migrants in 24 hours. President bidens Border Patrol chief says the surge forced him to divert resources. Cartels are exploiting that to get more drugs over the border. Bill got a picture getting a lot of attention today. A group o