took part in today s senate hearing on the derailment. john: we began america reports with president biden impaling his 2024 budget. his stop in pennsylvania but the biggest takeaway $2 trillion in tax hikes for some americans. john roberts in washington, let me be the first to say, sandra, happy early friday. sandra: sandra smith in new york and that live event coming up here the president said this plan is about to say will tax the wealthy to help the middle class and protect entire entitlement programs like medicare appeared republicans are calling him out slamming the proposal saying more spending, x hikes and higher inflation at the worst economic time for this country. john: sandra will speak to california congressman ro khanna and brian brenberg, host of the big money show coming up. but first, the correspondent peter doocy in philadelphia where the president is going to speak soon. a lot on the presidents plate, most of it taxes, peter. yes, john, presiden
flight as it crossed the country. we re monitoring both hearings and bring you news as it happens. first to another congressional hearing about to begin. chief border patrol agents will testify before the house oversight committee about the front lines of the border crisis. we re looking forward to hearing their testimony. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. a lot of the guests we ve talked to for the past two years on the border every day, right? administration tried to block top border officials from testifying today. now it s allowing this emotion to appear under the threat of subpoena. all this happening as agents have encountered more than 700,000 migrants at the border since the fiscal year first began since the first of october. dana: more 300,000 migrants in the last three months have gotten away from agents after crossing and agents have caught 38 terror watch list suspects. bill: border czar vice president kam
made available to the white house and congress, the department reaching the same conclusion as the fbi, that covid probably escaped from a lab. keep in mind, this was repeatedly dismissed as a conspiracy theory over and over again, both by scientists and members of the media. that is not the only thing that s giving folks whiplash in recent weeks. a major study finding masks made no difference in stopping the spread, concluding natural immunity provided as much protection as being double vaccinated. and the talking heads all too quick to dismiss it. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people. frankly we still don t know. there s no evidence really to say. it s very strongly leading to this could not have been artificially manipulated. just weeks ago, dr. jonathan fauci disputed the conspiracy that it was made in a lab in china. escaped from the lab, sounds like something from a marvel movie or a science book. this coronavirus
million fentanyl pills found in the border town of tijuana known to be used by cartels as a manufacturing ground for counterfeit tablets. also this week a texas grandmother and 7-year-old granddaughter were killed in a car crash that involved human smugglers. dana: terror watch listen counters are on track to outpace last year s record as democrats continue to turn a blind eye to the crisis. bill: all 15 democratic members of the house homeland security committee boycotting that field hearing at the border. democratic senator mark kelly questioning the wisdom of that move. what would you say to democrats who didn t go to that hearing? i think it is always beneficial to go and visit a place and do it with your republican colleagues. you will get a better result. get more relevant questions from both sides. it affects the entire country. this has an impact on all 50 states. dana: president biden now reenacting some of his predecessor s border policies. the left wing h
now turning the tables as we learn new leads on the biden family money trail. zero in on the remaining unknown biden who appears to have received $70,000 from the chinese electric company in a deal with the parent ties to the biden family enterprise. jonathan turley and joe concha standing by. first, we go to david spent who gist us the latest this afternoon on a friday from there on this case. hi, david. hi, martha. you mentioned aggressive. it s clear hunter biden s team has upped the ante. this counterclaim today it s a counter suit against this computer repair shop owner makes interesting observations and questions including questioning of who owned the laptop. i want to read this specific part. it s a foot note. it says this is not an admission by mr. biden that mack isaac, the shop owners or others possessed any real laptop containing data belonging to mr. biden. mr. biden says at some point matt isaac obtained electronically stored data some of which belongs to mr.