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"americas newsroom." im dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. good morning, bret. >> bret: im bret baier. elevated threats to the homeland coming as a record number of people on the terror watch list were caught at the southern border last year. more than the previous six years combined. the white house yesterday dodging a question about the risk of foreign terrorists taking advantage of weak border security. >> is it possible that somebody who wants to commit a terrorist attack durin...

The hoax was validated in part by a school district in florida that misunderstood what was happening. they sort of took this one video response where some students there had identified their school district as the flash point for this, and basically issued a warning about it, which then created local news reporting, which then led to copycats on tiktok and it just snowballed. >> even dhs issuing a tweet saying they are aware of threats to schools, dhs doesnt have any information indicating any s...

Afterwards, he did pick him. so part of what you need to do, especially with somebody who hasnt been involved in government before is to put good choices in front of them so whatever choices they do make, theyre going to wind up being in a range of talent -- >> theres so many in every department, d.h.s., the way they handled it. the head of d.h.s. doesnt seem qualified at all. >> how about e.p.a. >> i talk about that in the book. d.h.s. deserves some of the blame but you know who instituted the ...

Them, as danny talked about earlier, these legal proceedings including applications for asylum that our country has been built upon. >> right. theres so many questions we want to delve into and i want to bring in dara lin, and mimi rocah. great to have both of you join the conversation as well. dara, i know you have written extensively about the administrations response to the borders crisis, the president signing an executive order this week claiming it will end family separation. can you expla...

War. meaning there is a popular consensus for that. but i do want him to say something with more specificity rather than the same old same old. >> i want to listen to a little testimony on capitol hill, about isis attempting to enter the u.s. through refugee programs, last year nearly 120 syrian nationals overstayed and some are now subject to federal inquiries. take a listen. >> we got millions of people that are out there that want to come into this country. and were doing a very small bit. if...

a democratic source telling it differently, saying the president challenged mr. cantor for what the source called" talk out of both sides of his mouth". theyll be back at the table tomorrow. the stakes could not be higher. moodys today put americas credit rating on review hinting at a possible rating drop. ben bernanke says defaulting on the debt would be catastrophic. jessica yellin is at the white house with what her sources are telling her. what have you heard from these differing a...

sitting here? ive reached my limit. this may bring down my presidency but i will not yield on this. congressman cantor says he says dont call my bluff, im going to the american people on this. finally cantor says he pushed back from the table and left. a democratic source telling it differently, saying the president challenged mr. cantor for what the source called" talk out of both sides of his mouth". theyll be back at the table tomorrow. the stakes could not be higher. moodys today p...

jessica yellin is at the white house tonight with what her sources are telling her. jessica, what have you heard from these differing accounts? >> reporter: anderson, democratic sources say that bottom line is that the president was schooling the crowd in the room when eric cantor changed his position. all along eric cantor as you have said, the house majority leader, had endorsed doing a deal that did reduce the deficit. and that had some of these vary krause components we talked abou...

Confirmed. there has been some opposition, senator john cornyn saying that he is essentially a donor to president obama because of the 2008 campaign and also expressing criticism of him for not having a strong background in immigration for example. i asked the white house official about that, other former dhs officials have said, look, someone who heads the dhs doesnt necessarily need to be an expert in every single national security issue. its an important they are an expert in a lot of them an...