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"america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. good morning, bret. >> bret: i'm 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 during a time of elevated threat crossed the southern border into the united states already? >> i coul...

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 doesn't have any information indicating any specific credible threats to schools but recommends communities remain alert. malcolm, what was wild...

Afterwards, he did pick him. so part of what you need to do, especially with somebody who hasn't been involved in government before is to put good choices in front of them so whatever choices they do make, they're going to wind up being in a range of talent -- >> there's so many in every department, d.h.s., the way they handled it. the head of d.h.s. doesn't 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 separation plan. it was jeff sessions. it was jeff sessions who spoke up at a cabinet meeting an...

Them, as danny talked about earlier, these legal proceedings including applications for asylum that our country has been built upon. >> right. there's 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 administration's response to the border's crisis, the president signing an executive order this week claiming it will end family separation. can you explain to us what that order actually does? >> it's not clear that the administration has agreed on w...

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 we're doing a very small bit. if we don't even look at their public stuff. that's what kills me. dhs doesn't even regularly require...