Julie well start with off with hundreds of thousands of people illegally crossing our borders each month. The crisis causing a Major Political divide draining city and federal resources and worst of all, putting americans at grave risk. This is the the faulkner focus. Im Julie Banderas in for harris today. Thank you for joining me. President bidens Border Failure on full display as the highprofile Migrant Crime Cases pile up. The brutal assault on two nypd officers in january. The murder of georgia Nursing Student laken railey late last month and last week alone massachusetts authorities charged a haitian immigrant with the rape of a 15yearold disabled girl. The white house admitting he entered the u. S. Under a controversial asylum program. The attack allegedly happening in a hotel where he was staying on, you guessed it, your taxpayer dime. A guatemalan was freed after ten months in custody accused of killing a veteran florida cop who died of a heart attack after a scuffle. A judge d
called section 702 and part of the foreign intelligence surveillance contact and the fbi is really only authorized to search the 702 data base when there s reason to believe it ll produce evidence on foreign actor crimes, usually the suspect has to be abroad. but in the year ending 2021, the filing shows the fbi used the warrant lesser much powers against u.s. citizens 278,000 times. the gorge floyd protests in the summer of 2020 and a batch of 19,000 donors and unnamed congressional campaign and one fbi searcher described in the filing the analyst said she ran the queries to determine whether individuals had foreign ties and indicated she had run thousands of names within the fbi systems in retaliation to the capitol break investigation and did not remember why she ran these 13 queries on raw visa information . fox news learning in the year ending 2022, the number of section 702 searches dropped by 92%. seen yore fbi official sayre senior fbi official shares as a judge i
president trump, partly out of concern it would give the appearance of pressure on the attorney general. politico argues that the first three hearings essentially did that for them, laying out stark evidence that trump and his allying now the election was not rig, but they pushed the big lie anyway. there s new evidence that the department of justice may be growing frustrated against the committee as well. we learned of a strongly worded letter by the doj, in which the department accuses committee members of complicating investigations by withholding transcripts of witness interviews, it says, quote, are not just potentially relevant to the overall communications, but likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commenced. however, committee chairman bennie thompson made it clear he is not rushing to help out. we ve interviewed over 1,000 witnesses, that would mean we have to stop what we re doing to then work with the department of justice. we will eventually
victims of gun violence from every u.s. state and territory. my fellow americans, enough. enough. it s time for each of us to do our part. it s time to act. for the children we ve lost, the children we can save, for the nation we love. let s hear the call and the cry. let s meet the moment. let us finally do something. the president laid down a marker to expected opposition from republican lawmakers. don t tell me raising the age won t make a difference. enough. my god, the fact that the majority of the senate republicans don t want any of these proposals, even to be gate debated or come up with a vote i find unconscionable. let s talk about the specifics of what the president laid out last night. tom foreman is here with that. again, some very specific plans put forth, tom. yeah, a lot of bullet points we can talk about here. i don t mean to make a pun there. the first one to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. this was they want to reinstate the 199
that saw the highest number of votes in u.s. history. we re also following the latest on the capitol riots. two men now facing charges of assault in connection with the death of capitol police officer brian sicknick. why did it take more than two months to arrest these guys? and why aren t they charged with murder? we ll have more on that in just a minute plus, the latest on the covid pandemic. numbers continue to go down in the u.s. but they re spiking over in europe, leading to tighter restrictions in several countries. to make matters worse, the vaccine rollout is on hold in several places in europe after officials stopped using one of the approved vaccines. we re going to dig into all of that. but we have to start with breaking news connected to one of the big of the trials in recent memory, the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. as we speak, the judge is gaveling in and he s got a big question on his plate, whether to even move forward or put t