were traveling in. bill: they pulled the u.s. citizens from the wreckage of the vehicle and toss them to a truck bed and haven t been seen since. dana: they were driving a white minivan with north carolina plates. you can see it is riddled with bullet holes. the group is said to be in mexico. one could have cosmetic surgery. they believe cartel members have mistaken them for drug smugglers. dana: the white house is working with mexico to bring them home. according to bill barr, it s the cartels that call the shots. mexican government is being held hostage by tens of thousands of parra military members of terrorist organizations that control mexico. it is close to a failed narco state at this stage. they are sitting next door producing mountains of poisonous drugs and killing over 100,000 americans a year. we are sustaining the same damage as we would in a major war from these groups operating right beyond our reach. bill: william la jeunesse from los angeles has t
proposal coming up. bill: we begin with the d.c. senate council reversing course on its controversial crime overhaul. after president biden signaled that he would join republicans in blocking the measure. i m john roberts in washington, good monday to you. gillian: good monday to you, john, is it monday, tuesday, i don t know anymore. there are so many days. and they just keep going. john: it feels like one day leads into the next. gillian: we are almost at that point around here. can you believe it. all right, i m gillian turner and first sandra smith today, this is america reports, that crime bill has become a source of some conflict, democrats in washington over the last few days quite a few house dams are upset with the white house were not given them a heads up that the president plans to veto the bill. john: senior correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill and he has the latest on this about-face. chad. john, good afternoon, the d.c. city council is tr
dons a hazmat suit, face mask before appearing out armed robberies, and now a chilling warning from law enforcement that face masks would be a telltale sign of imminent da danger. we are going to tell cabdrivers to do the same. don t allow anyone that you cannot see in your car. because once they are in there, they are going to rob you, they are going to kill you, they are going to take your life. john: what a difference crime makes to the way that we comport ourselves, america reports roles into a second hour, i am john roberts, good to be with you on this monday. gillian: i am gillian turner in for sandra today, we are coming up this hour, also keeping an eye on the press briefing, and the city of d.c. is pulling it s a controversial crime bill after it bucked its own party over, and does the writing on the wall supporting soft-on-crime policies, and we continue out west. john: the tale of two s dates, and political rivals come 2024, governor newsom and florida gove
your program yesterday. we say good morning. i m bill hemmer in new york. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we look forward to finding out about rust. a day of reckoning for alec baldwin. new mexico prosecutors will announce whether charges will be filed. bill: the announcement will come in a written statement. there will not be a press conference. it comes about 16 months after that incident. baldwin was pointing a gun at a cinematographer when it accidentally went off and killed her. dana: investigators released body cam video of the deadly shooting last year. baldwin said it was a tragic accident and his conscience is clear. i feel someone is responsible for what happened and i can t say who that is. i know it s not me. honest to god if i felt i was responsible i might have killed myself if i thought i was responsible. bill: matt finn kicks off the coverage leading it off in los angeles for the moment of truth for alec baldwin. matt, hello.
do over? you know, um,ible yes me no. i know there are going to be respond to that what does he think perfect? absolutely, i m the first to amendment i m far from perfect. but when you say do over? you know i really can t see something i would do completely over. katie: we ll respond to that mr. fauci may have been wrong about everything from lockdowns to triple masking to getting quadruple boosted but when the truth came out he never admitted he was wrong. he just told you that he was the science. they get up and really aim their bullets at tony fauci. well, people could recognize there s a person there so it s easy to criticize. but, they are really criticizing science. because i represent science. i m the bad guy to an entire subset of people because i represent something that is uncomfortable for them. it s called the truth. it s very dangerous, chuck, because a lot of what you are seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science. katie: they wer