tense fight over the defendant's use of technology. sbf will be precluded from using all electronic devices except for a computer and phone with limited access and a guard to screen any visitors for electronic devices. a new hearing tomorrow on the newest indictment and he is expected to appear. >> martha: kelly o'grady, thank you very much. >> whether we got there, my mom approached me and she just looked at me and put her head down and shook her head. and i knew that he was gone. >> bill: all too familiar story. heartbroken families ripped apart and searching for answers as a staggering number of teenagers in america victims to fentanyl poisoning. it is everywhere. a new hour begins.

our friend martha is back today. >> martha: good morning. it is a deadly epidemic. we have covered it extensively. it reaches all states, all walks of life, all kinds of families. the powerful opioid known as fentanyl is an indiscriminate killer took the lives of all these people whose faces you see on the screen right now and teens at a record pace. in 2021 fentanyl was identified in 77% of as lessent drug deaths. cartels have an enormous business. they will stop at nothing turning the drug into a weapons of mass destruction. lindsey graham says it is time to fight back. >> here is what i would say. america is under attack of the our nation is being attacked by foreign powers called drug cartels in mexico. this is the largest attack on

american's homeland by a foreign power in the history of the nation. 70,000 americans were poisoned by fentanyl last year. we need to take the gloves off. they are at war with us. we need to be at war with them. >> bill: we go to texas, school districts are demanding more to be done to protect their kids from a silent killer. casey stiegel has that angle of the story. >> good morning. this deadly drug has no doubt infiltrated our nation's schools from big cities to little towns. outside of dallas here one school district alone has experienced ten overdoses, three were fatal. feds linked those drugs back to a fentanyl ring and made at least three arrests. five students deaths in a district south of austin have been traced to fentanyl since last year. state let tours are currently considering a variety of new laws in texas like training all teachers how to administer the

drug narcan that can reverse an overdose and approved this morning by the fda for over the counter use. that's a big news headline there. also a bill on the table in texas to enact tougher criminal penalties for those caught selling the drug. parents like janelle rodriguez welcome any and all changes. her 15-year-old son noah died from fentanyl poisoning last year after taking a counterfeit pill. >> it is just everywhere. it is everywhere and people just don't understand how powerful it is, even though i talk about it day in and day out they just think it is not going to happen to them. >> noah's family have now become advocates raising enough money to put up 15 billboards like this across texas with faces of children lost to fentanyl. a reminder for the community,

she says, of young lives taken too soon. noah's mom begs all parents watching to have honest and realistic conversations with their kids about the dangers of taking a medication not prescribed by a doctor and purchased at a pharmacy and hammering home that all-important message of one pill can kill. no mistakes. >> bill: thank you, casey stiegel on that from texas. four minutes past. the former new jersey governor chris christie is considering another run for the white house. taking a few verbal jabs at donald trump telling an audience in new hampshire he has what it takes to take on trump on the debate stage. give this a listen. >> to even think about who can do that, who has the guts to do it? because it is not going to end nicely no matter what. the end will not be a calm and

quiet conclusion. >> bill: chris sununu joining us now might be a candidate himself at some point. governor, thank you for coming back here. >> good morning. >> bill: watching that clip we've seen this show before and saw how it came out. >> is that a question? i don't know. look, i guess the question is what will happen if a lot of folks jump on the stage, right? i have always said i don't mind who gets into a race. the key for republicans and what everyone does understand the discipline in getting out. the discipline in saying i'm polling in single digits by the time this christmas comes we'll get out and narrow it down to 2 or 3 candidates. chris makes a great point. a lot of us would love to get on the debate stage and challenge folks making sure the conversation is where it needs to be, what republicans are about, that limited government, local control, low taxes type fundamentals that gets

independents excited. we've disenfranchised too many young people. everyone saying we need to thin out the field. we won't see a repeat of 16. >> bill: we'll put you down for tumultuous and fun however it works out. nikki haley says donald trump has a hard 25%. the 3/4 of other republican voters are up for grabs. do you believe that to be the case? >> yes, absolutely. most voters won't make their decision until 2 or 3 weeks before their respective primary elections. plenty of time to get introduced to other candidates. a lot of opportunity there. you have trump and desantis they will run. one thing i told the governor desantis is don't just try to be on donald trump's issues, go after not just the issues. we need to separate ourselves

and show what we're about. not just what the other candidates are. what we bring to the table and get folks excited about it and make sure we can win in november. not cater to an extreme base. if we do that i think republicans will be successful. >> bill: when will you make your call? >> it is a little after 10:00 now. i'm thinking by lunchtime. i think everyone will have to get in the race by july or august. probably before the first debate. if things aren't going well for the other candidates versus donald trump, i think you could see 1 or 2 new names flash this fall. kind of have an exciting new name and energizes the party late in the fall. the 6 or 7 candidates typically discussed are likely what you'll see on that stage. >> bill: we talked two weeks ago on march 15th talking about the border, the northern border which did not get a lot of attention for a reason. call for three guys. until this happened. in 2022 you had 109,000

encounters on the northern border. when you compare that to the previous year it's up four times. you've got an issue in your own home state now. this is robert quinn, the new hampshire commissioner of safety talking about what they could do in your state with state troopers. >> from our perspective it is critical homeland security delegate its authority to our state police to apprehend those crossing the border illegally into the state. our troopers have presence on the border. >> bill: 51-mile border. when do you get an answer whether or not your state troopers can enforce the border itself? >> i personally spoke to mayokas. sent the letter a couple of weeks ago and tried to give it a couple of weeks. we'll give washington a call this week and said you were going to do something and committed to doing it. we put it in a letter. we need to see action. we don't want money.

we want our local state police and local officers and sheriffs to be able to enforce the laws and rules that they don't have the ability to do. >> bill: what did mayokas tell you in the phone call? >> i saw him in d.c. i said i'm sending you a letter. he said whatever we can do to help. i will take you at your word. i guess we'll find out in the next couple days if they can make ice delegation agreements and see if they'll come through. it has been done in the past. this administration put a pause on it. we do the job for them. we want to be empowered to enforce things over the border that we're now legally limited in doing. >> bill: we'll see whether or not that comes through in a couple of days. we'll check back. you talked to chris christie the other day. what did you think you learned from that conversation? >> martha: i think he is obviously considering getting in. you hear a lot of the same kind of sentiment from governor christie, governor sununu where there is a waryness to put too

many people on that stage and a call for some discipline for people to make choices based on reality. on the other hand, chris christie, i think, the governor sees a potential lane for himself because i think a lot of folks are watching what's going on between trump and desantis and wondering if they blow each other up. i don't know if that's a likely scenario but the only scenario where person 3 or 4 gets a shot. >> bill: a couple years ago we had 17. >> martha: i don't think that will happen again. >> bill: maybe half of that. we'll see. all right. >> martha: lawmakers on the house judiciary subcommittee grilling officials from the f.b.i. and education department today. republicans are pursuing multiple investigations into the biden administration including attorney general merrick garland's controversial 2021 memo about parents at school board meetings and how to rein

them in. aishah hosni has the latest. >> chairman ben cline of the subcommittee says this is really just stonewalling the gop and infuriating were his words yesterday. house republicans feel like they aren't getting any answers to a number of probes they are trying to investigate, including most recently the state department's afghanistan cables, hunter biden's business dealings, trump and biden classified documents and then the one that will get a lot of play later today is the a.g. garland school board memo and that probe. gop judiciary staff report alleged that the f.b.i. produced only 14 pages of documents and permitted an in camera review of 346 pages to date in response to the committee's subpoena. a flagrant disregard of the serious concerns about the bureau's misuse of authorities against parents. with so much distrust between the american people and these

agencies chairman klein says it is time for this administration to allow congress to conduct oversight. >> we deserve transparency from our government and when they play hide the football, whether it's our intelligence agencies, the f.b.i., or whether it's the education department, with regard to parents wanting to testify at school board hearings or the ftc with their investigation of twitter, all of these examples are frustrating and infuriating the american people and their representatives in congress. >> the hearing gets underway in a few hours at about 2:00. >> martha: we'll look for that coverage this afternoon. >> bill: growing tensions with our closest ally in the middle east president biden criticizing president netanyahu. the leader fired right back. >> martha: so much for an olive branch. xi said his military should be locked and loaded.

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>> martha: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu pushing back at president biden over his criticism of israel's proposed judicial overhaul. president biden told reporters yesterday he was very concerned about the planned overhaul. on monday netanyahu delayed those plans for this judicial

overhaul saying he wanted to avoid a civil war. >> bill: xi ramping up tough talk saying china is preparing for war and to be ready for combat. "wall street journal" op-ed sounding the alarm. the u.s. military is not prepared with a conflict with our nation's top rival. four star general jack keane with us in new york. good to see you in person, general. good morning. so he woave the theme of war in the past week. >> let's take xi seriously. he is in his 11th year. he has been talking about it for 11 years. putin did much the same. we are dismissive of putin and he showed up on ukraine's border and conducted a significant invasion and we're all horrified by. yes, he has prepared his nation for war.

more importantly he prepared his military for war, bill. >> martha: the take away from this editorial and our discussions with you is we're at a military disadvantage. >> yeah, very much so. listen. we're the number one military power in the world. we can project military power any place in the world and hundreds of bases as well. china has one base outside of its own country. cannot project power. but that really isn't the issue. the issue, martha, is the indough pacific region. taiwan and south china sea is in their backyard. from the west coast of the united states where we have to sail capacity is two weeks. give them that advantage. they also outgun us. so they have more ships, more airplanes and more missiles. the advantage we have is submarines. they are nuclear powered. even though they outnumber us we

have a qualitative in advantage in some of the capacity. at some point quaintty. we have world war ii bases volleyner able. we have to harden the bases and expand to other bases to make their job more difficult and put capability throughout that entire first island chain. then the last thing is taiwan. we have to upgun taiwan. we learned a major deal with ukraine. we don't know for sure if we had provided ukraine with increased capacity, would that have deterred putin. don't know an answer to that. we do know that taiwan doesn't have anywhere near what they should have. there is a $19 billion backlog in equipment that they've purchased and backloged for over three years. the commander said it's a very

dangerous situation and move with a sense of urgency. he deals with that every day. goes to sleep with it and wakes up with it. i take him at face value. >> bill: you mentioned ukraine. martha was talking about this earlier today. zelensky said in an interview if putin will feel some blood, smell that we are weak he will push, push, push. here is a little sound bite from that same interview. listen here. >> he will -- to china, to iran, to all. we have in war and we need money and we lost a lot of energy and lost a lot of money because i give all the diplomatic and public and not public to president of china, to leader of china. >> martha: the a.p. was on a train through the country with zelensky talked about the move and what it would mean to lose

it. a turning point for russia in gaining the leverage to force other countries like the united states to say it's time to negotiate. >> bakhmut has no strategic or military value but a lot of symbolic value is what you are discussing. putin, they are in the ninth month trying to take this one city. and they have suffered tens and tens of thousands of casualties. one of the reasons ukrainians have stayed there, they know it doesn't have strategic value to them. they've stayed there because they are making russia bleed on the battlefield. they will conduct a counter offensive in may and june likely. they don't have to fight these forces because they've been killing and wounding them in the counter offensive. i agree with president zelensky. he knows full well putin will milk this for all he can when and if they take that city and he doesn't -- zelensky's concern is he doesn't want the united states and the west taking a

knee over this that somehow the ukrainians have lost their momentum and russia has a major victory here. that's not the case. ukrainians have a counter offensive coming and they will take more territory away from russia as a result of that. we have to stay focused on that. >> bill: going to speak after the show today. looking forward to hearing your comments in greater depth on both topics. >> martha: diversity and free speech once again clashing on campus. why students at george mason university want to cancel the graduation speech by their own governor glenn youngkin. plus investigating ties between the cdc and teachers union. their roles in keeping schools shut during the pandemic and the enormous lasting education damage to a generation of children. >> it's upon us to fully investigate whether officials truly placed the best interests of our nation's children first

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>> nearly 7,000 signed a petition opposing governor glenn youngkin being the commencement speaker and protests on the george mason university campus upset that youngkin has passed anti-trans legislation and restricted some books in public schools. they suggest it is harmful and disrespectful to many students and argue the university is compromising its values. george mason has been heralded for its diversity and inclusion promoting it jumped five spots to seventh in the country. "u.s. news and world report" has named them the most diverse university in the state and embracing a multitude of people and ideas. they hosted numerous previous governors like mark warner, tim kaine and terry mccaul i have. some students say they don't want youngkin to speak or even attend commencement.

on the other side some students are pleased. >> republican governor come to mason for the first time in a long time is exciting. i was excited to hear that. >> a nonprofit free speech for the foundation for individual rights and expression is encouraging students to resist censorship and approach life to engage ideas that they may disagree. nice to see you in washington. >> long term closing of schools proved to be harmful to students, academic, mental, physical and social development and overall success. we need to make every effort to not let this happen again for the sake of our future. >> martha: lawmakers looked into learning loss during the pandemic and the long-term negative impact of school closures on children.

brad wenstrup is chairman of the subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. you honed in yesterday on this battle between the unions and their unlikely ability to influence policy at the cdc and the white house. here is a quick clip of that. >> it's so easy, after the fact, to assign blame and to talk about what should have, could have, or did not happen. but we run the risk of failing our jobs and we run the risk also of tainting history. all the evidence we have now we did not have at the time of covid. >> martha: that's the democrat from maryland but you talked about the uncommon access that aft has and then comment for us on the other representative from

maryland saying basically look, we didn't know what we know now. >> i think that's a fact. we always were knowing more as this went on. when the pandemic first started there were a lot of things we just didn't know. it was called novel for a reason. things weren't going very well. so there was a dark area there. but when we started to learn things, we needed to make sure that we made the correct changes. look, yesterday through this and from the testimony, from the witnesses it was all about schools should have been the last to close and the first to open. if we were going to have any kind of shutdown whatsoever. everyone said that kids being in school was essential. this was all part of it. the baseline is how to get kids in school and get them educated. so now you do see the mental health problems that are out there and the academic insufficient that is clear right

now and the physical changes for these kids. there are a lot of kids in speech therapy from wearing masks for so long. you talk about the influence. i think it's fine for the cdc to reach out to non-governmental organizations to get their opinions on things, especially on the medical side. but what we had yesterday is someone there from the school nurses association and she was talking about the need and the desire by the school nurses for the kids to be in school. that they wanted to have them in school. but yet you have the teachers union, which is non-medical, also having the ability to weigh in with the cdc, and the cdc actually took some of the very language from the teachers union for their guidelines. where is the data? and so is this a political motive or are you really trying to do what's best for the kids? that's the debate. i think it will be clear when we go through these hearings and eventually get all the way up to the head of the teachers union,

randi weingarten. >> here she is yesterday. >> people don't bring guns to school for show and tell. they bring guns to school to hurt our children and staff. >> martha: she said the urgent work of helping kids recover from learning loss and other effects of the pandemic. you guys are talking a lot about what happened. what i'm frustrated by is i hear about a generation of kids who everyone is accepting will never catch up. what are we doing for them? where is the after-school program, the all-summer catch-up program. the nationwide need to help these children and not to just leave them for dust? >> it seems to be to me amongst the agencies that there must be a desire to bury your head in the sand and act like there is no problem whatsoever. i said long ago if schools were continuing to be locked down, how do you expect a sixth grade teacher to go ahead and teach someone at a fourth grade level and teach them a sixth grade

curriculum? where is the catch up and how do we do this? it needs to happen. we'll pay the price. the kids paid the price then and they will continue to pay the price. here is another thing, too, martha. teachers union had said we aren't going back until we're all vaccinated. this country made teachers a priority and got them vaccinated and then they still didn't go back. and then they -- >> martha: gave schools hundreds of millions of dollars to catch up kids and you hear almost nothing about it from anyone in terms of where these programs are. i would love to hear from the white house. this is a crisis of education in the country and it is like people don't care about these children. so thank you very much, congressman wenstrup, good to have you with us today. stay on it. >> bill: prince harry accusing one of the u.k.'s biggest newspaper publishers of criminality. we selected this for you, martha. the remark in court comes as

harry and other celebrities sue the daily mail for stealing personal information and a shot at the royal family saying they kept him in the dark on allegations of phone hacking. that case continues. we have the coronation coming up soon. >> martha: he showed up for the testimony in one of these privacy cases. he was with elton john back in the u.k. seemed to be glad people were taking pictures of him showing up there. so it's a little selective one might say. >> bill: one might indeed. all right. stay tuned for more on that. in the meantime we have this. >> martha: the subject of a popular true crime podcast has his murder conviction reinstated. what it means for his freedom and future. plus the man suing actress againeth paltrow takes the stand with new allegations against her

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>> martha: the sisters of accused idaho killer bryan kohberger are both out of a job. melissa was a school counselor and amanda was a working actress. no longer employed to the relationship with their father. citing an anonymous source. they have spoken with him on the phone. he is awaiting trial for the november 2022 murders of four students at an off-campus house. >> bill: we're watching this ag paltrow ski accident trial. jeff paul is in l.a.

not often you hear a story like this or case this court. >> today shaping up to be the last full day of witnesses being called to the stand. much of the most recent testimony revolved around the defense's animation of the collision. paltrow's lawyers calling a bio mechanical engineer to the stand and he pointed out in his opinion based on the laws of physics paltrow's version of the collision is likely more accurate. since proceedings are taking so long, other key testimony we were expecting like that from paltrow's kids is now being read in court to speed things up. here is a portion of what paltrow's now 18-year-old daughter apple had to say. >> when you discussed it with your mother and you said she was frantic, what do you mean by that? >> she was in a state of shock. she was very upset and she was in pain. >> since that collision have you seen your mother in that state of shock like this since then? >> no, not like that. >> the man suing paltrow for $3

hundred thousand blames her for the collision saying it left him with broken ribs and traumatic brain injury. it is possible past witnesses like paltrow could take the stand again the judge seems serious about this eight-day trial timeline meaning closing arguments will happen tomorrow. then it's in the jury's hands. >> bill: get it done. nice to see you in l.a. >> martha: a shocking refusal in the syed convicted of murder of his girlfriend and released 20 years later after the podcast poked holes in his case. >> how does a kid get convicted on evidence this shaky? in the years since our story aired robby and others pushed to find out more. here comes city prosecutors going further. the picture that emerged is this. his case contains every chronic problem our system can cough up.

>> martha: a hugely popular serial podcasts. the first one people got hooked on. yesterday a maryland court reinstated his previously overturned murder conviction arguing the rights of the victim's family were violated. we bring in criminal defense attorney jonna spilbor. i will put the timeline on the screen here. i won't read it all. she died in 1999. there was an appeal. they did dna testing in 2022 and uncovered two alternative suspects. then the charges were dropped against him and yesterday they reinstated his murder conviction. does he go back to prison now? >> this is really interesting. imagine if you ever think you are having a bad day, be this man who spent 23 years or close to 23 years in prison for a crime he said he didn't commit. got sprung. before he finished his victory

lap the court said oops, my bad, come on back. will he have to go back behind bars? the short answer is no. this is a formality that was not followed and the court is now going to try to correct that. basically doing a take two of the hearing that got him released in the first place. why is that? it's because maryland, new york basically every other state in the country has victim rights laws. in this case, the victim rights laws were not followed. specifically the victims' family had a right to be at this hearing where the judge was going to decide whether or not to spring syed and not given ample notice. they couldn't get there in time and they had a right to be there and be heard. that said, martha, even if they had been there, would it have changed the outcome? probably not. if they are given a second chance bite at the apple will it change the outcome? probably not. it is their right to be there

and the judge will make good on what he failed to make good originally. >> martha: this is one of those situations as i said this podcast became very popular that looked back into this case. would this have been overturned for him if it hadn't been for this podcast? >> it did spark an interest in not just him but others who may be wrongfully convicted and interesting because the d.a. in the case is the one who really got the ball rolling in vacating his conviction. the then d.a. said she no longer had confidence in the conviction and noted there were big mistakes that could have been made in the underlying conviction and trial where he had some brady violations, a big no no. so because of the podcast these things were brought to light, which is interesting. it shouldn't take a podcast to do that. the law should protect us anyway.

>> martha: what about the two alternative suspects that surfaced after doing the dna testing? >> that's part of the brady violation. whenever there is exculpatory evidence or information in a case, in other words, somebody else could have done it. some other information that comes to light, you have to turn that over to the defense. apparently that was held close to the vest and the d.a. at the time never did that. that's a game changer. that's almost automatically a reveresal of a conviction if that's accurate. >> martha: so much trauma on all sides in this case. the family of the woman murdered. the man who was her boyfriend who has lost 20 years of his life in prison as a result of the outcome of this case. it is an extraordinary story and shines the light on other people unjustly serving time. thank you so much, always good to see you. >> bill: in a moment this massive recovery operation continues in the state of

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conservatives on capitol hill for the school massacre in nashville, tennessee. and once again president biden choking, making an absurd joke at absolutely the worst time. congressman andy biggs of the great state of arizona, brian kilmeade, tammy bruce, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> bill: see you in a few moments. fresh round of dangerous weather moving across the nation's mid section less than a week after the deadly tornado outbreak across mississippi, georgia and alabama. massive widespread destruction. fox weather forecasting tornadoes and damaging wind and large hail stretching to arkansas and mississippi again into the ohio valley, kentucky and tennessee. fox corporation is proud to be a member of the red cross annual disaster relief program. the company donated $1 million to help on the ground in mississippi and other southern states. join us a well by donating now

at red cross.org/fox forward or scan the qr code on the left-hand side of your screen. >> martha: or tell alexa to do it for you. elon musk and other tech innovators, smart folks calling for a time-out on the experimentation going on with artificial intelligence. companies need to hit the pause on what has become a dangerous race with very unpredictable consequences for earth and society. we have more from the new york city newsroom. >> it's just time to take a deep breath, right? over 1,000 experts want to temporarily stop developing these systems that can compete with human intelligence. elon musk, apple co-founder signing onto this open letter. they want a six month moratorium in training systems more powerful than chatgpt four. that's the technology released

just this month by open a.i. they say recent months have seen an a.i. labs locked in an out of control race to develop and deploy more powerful digital minds that no one, even their creators can understand, predict or reliably control. powerful a.i. systems should be developed only once we're confident that their effects will be positive and their risks manageable. ironically musk is the co-founder of open a.i. as an early investor. it was a nonprofit at the time. now it's commercial. he has become a critic. he says this is scary, too. in the rush to be first companies are rolling out this technology, martha, before even they say it is ready for prime time. the consequences could be enormous. it's cybercrime, fraud, you name

it. >> martha: lauren, thank you very much. >> bill: that was interesting to hear. before we go on the topic of a.i. talk about this for hours. the artist used the technology to make images of characters from the symptoms. the results. marge, homer, ned and mo. you can decide at home what you think of how the old computer did. >> martha: these are created human beings and look pretty real. >> bill: check out the letter from elon musk. thank you for coming in today. >> martha: "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. the man in charge of keeping our nation safe was taken to task about the desperate situation at our southern border. homeland secretary alejandro mayokas faced a brutal four-hour session before the senate judiciary yesterday and at this very hour a committee in the