take to the stand given immunity to testify. they accused diddy dangling her over an apartment balcony. diddy pled not guilty. his attorneys admit there was domestic violence in the relationship but argue the case is nothing more than the government criminalizing a private sex life. some believe the evidence is strong and puts diddy at the center of a sex crime ring through violence and intimidation. yesterday jurors learned about diddy's sprawling business empire with the rapper at the ultimate head of it. bill, back to you. >> bill: see where it goes. thank you. >> just a lot of analysis around this bill that isn't accurately reflecting what will happen when all these policies are put in place. by the way, it will be the biggest spending reduction in history. there is just no question about that. it will have huge savings in it and we are hoping to enhance that in the senate.

the president is the closer and ultimately it will be up to him to help bring some of these votes home. we've been working closely with the white house. i can't comment on what people's personal motivations are. all i know is this, bill, at the end of the day we have a job to do. >> dana: senate majority leader john thune speaking with us after harsh comments by elon musk attacking the big, beautiful bill supported by president trump. lawmakers who voted for it. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: what do you think after the interview? think it will get done? >> dana: i do. >> bill: the white house making it clear that president trump knows where elon musk stands on that big, beautiful bill but it does not change the president's opinion as congressional republicans move still steam ahead to pass it. >> dana: all this president trump sent a request to congress seeking to claw back billions in spending. senior congressional

correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill with this. >> in elementary school they said there were no takebacks. there are in congress. the administration is asking congress to reclaim $9.4 billion in spending for foreign aid programs and public broadcasting. congress must approve the cuts. >> i can tell you right now we can't cut enough foreign aid. i think that's what americans want to see. if republicans can't find the political will to vote for a $9 billion package. i think republicans will be in trouble. >> doge could only recommend cuts to programs. congress controls the purse strings. that's why lawmakers must vote to rescind money which congress already approved. >> we have to remember the bottom line which is can we continue on the spending trajectory that we are on as a country? the answer is no. is this going to solve the

issue? no. it is a potential step in the right direction? i think the answer to that is probably yes. >> public broadcasting and smaller programs, $67,000 for insect powder nutrition in madagascar, 4 million for research on la gum systems and 833,000 for transgender people and sex workers in napall. it is unclear if the bill can pass. >> for example, some of the quote lgbt education programs in serbia is all right. e-bola, h.i.v. if 95 is all right and -- i have to weigh it. >> these spending cancellation bills are a test for the gop. republicans campaigned on cutting spending.

this is a chance for them to put their vote where their favorite program is. dana. >> dana: chad pergram. thank you. >> bill: kennedy host of kennedy saves the world and caroline downey. same question to caroline. what do you think? >> i sympathize with elon musk's objections to the big, beautiful bill. it doesn't address the deficit. i love doge and all but it doesn't make a dent. pay your mortgage by occasionally skipping starbucks. it is important to cut waste, fraud and abuse and codified into law by congress. as a journalist. i find it that pbs and npr are getting funds. challenged by technology it is asking us to subsidize our competitors and not only that they are bad ideological products. >> dana: they pretend they're fair. russ vogt is the omb director,

strong feelings about doge and lots of things on doge. here is what he said. >> i want to make sure that they take the first thing and see if it passes. the bigger the package, the harder to pass. if it doesn't pass, this is the real world and we'll lose flexibility we have to use executive tools to find other ways to make the doge cuts permanent. >> dana: ever since i've known you, strong on making sure that everyone is sticking to budget and how do you feel about this? >> government is too bloated and big. a lot of taxpayers look at what we are spending our money on and they ask themselves does this benefit me? we all have to ask ourselves the same question over and over again what is the role and function of government? it is tasked with doing too much and providing too much. so it is like my 600 pound life. you have a bloated patient here

and you need non-traditional means in order to save this patient's life, slim them down and give them a better quality of life. they are being destroyed under their own weight. they are imploding. elon musk comes in and has a non-traditional way of cutting funding and it's doge. looking at things that are redundant and unnecessary and fraudulent. he is essentially the ozempic. what are republicans doing? apply the ozempic and encouraging the patient to takes 10,000 steps a day and eat lean protein and greens. no, they are taking him to the golden corral. all you can eat buffet. that patient will not live very long or well. we have to things about things differently if we expect different outcomes. >> bill: caroline skips starbucks once a month and made no difference at all, right? >> that analogy is perfect.

we have a very glut onous system. the entitlement programs. elon musk understand and he is digging through the accounting for the last few months. he knows that it is not just low hanging fruit, waste, fraud and abuse. it is medicaid. >> dana: not enough waste, fraud and abuse but not enough. michael moore has a new pledge of allegiance he thinks we all should take in his sub stack. i pledge allegiance to the people at usa and the democracy we all stand. one person, one vote, one nation. part of one world. everyone is slice of the pay. equality and kindness and the pursuit of happiness for all. will that stick? >> his platitude are as bloated as he is. it is not going to stick because he talks about freedoms but then in the next sentence he talks about taking your freedoms away. so it is all very contradictory.

and frankly this brand of progressivism is passe. >> he removes this republic. democrats say we're a democracy. my generation buys especially. we are not just a democracy. most of gen z couldn't tell you we are a constitutional republic. democrats don't preach it anyway. >> dana: they believe they are the majority, 50.1%. they think they want to get rid of the electoral college and things like that. >> what is to democratic installing kamala harris without a primary vote and handing her the nomination and biden being run by a shadow government. >> bill: he omitted under god in that version, too. caroline. see you at starbucks. kennedy, see you everywhere. >> dana: see you in the lobby. >> bill: the deadline for countries around the world to

submit their best offer on trade deals with the u.s. or face the potential of more tariffs next month. edward lawrence is tracking all of it on the north lawn, fox business now. stack it up. hello to you. >> within the last 30 minutes white house official telling me that the administration is having good faith and pro-active engagements with many of our major trading partners. many of those countries got the letter asking for that best offer. those offers are coming in. listen. >> our team who is deeply involved in this sees these deals moving in the right direction. ambassador greer is in paris right now meeting with many of our trading partners. >> she adds there are plans for announcements very, very soon. on x the e.u. trade negotiator, top guy he met with u.s. trade representative greer and post evidence this saying that quote we're advancing in the right direction at pace. and staying in close contact to maintain the momentum. the u.s. read-out of the meeting

the paris that occurred alongside technical teams by our teams in washington and a willingness with the e.u. to work us to find concrete way forward to receive reciprocal trade. president trump posted early this morning saying he likes president xi but is very tough and extremely hard to make a deal with. the chinese language towards the u.s. more pointed and accusing the u.s. of lying. >> are the chinese the victims in this trade back and forth? >> look, i don't think anyone is the victim. two strong countries. the president has a good relationship with china's president and leader and that discussion will take place later this week. >> we're waiting on when that phone call will be. the language here used around the white house is the call between the two world leaders will be very soon. >> bill: we'll wait. thank you, nice to see you on the north lawn. >> shouldn't be lax on this at all. the full force of law should come down and prevent anyone

associated with the ccp from being at any of our universities. >> dana: beijing and a biological pathogen. two chinese national accused of smuggling a fungus into the u.s. targeting the nation's food supply. >> bill: the f.b.i.'s targeting of catholics during the biden years far more extensive. >> dana: acting faa administrator testifying on capitol hill amid recent incidents in the skies. we talked to sean duffy about that and much more next. these days, supporting the right causes matters more than ever. that's why i chose patriot mobile. they're not just a great mobile service provider, they're all about giving back. every bill helps support causes we believe in: family, faith, and freedom. you get great nationwide coverage on all three main networks;

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>> bill: 16 past now. newly released documents from republican senator chuck grassley revealing that biden officials down played the f.b.i.'s targeting of radical

traditional catholics. that agency director wray telling congress the matter was limited to a single memo in the year 2023. griff jenkins is on that live in washington and griff, what have we learned so far? hello. >> good morning, bill. we're learning a lot after senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley alleged the f.b.i. hid the extent of that targeting during the biden administration under former f.b.i. director chris wray. grassley released new f.b.i. records that showed the so-called anti-catholic richmond m.o. was distributed to over 1,000 f.b.i. employees across multiple field offices before it was publicly disclosed by a whistleblower in 2023. recall wray claimed in testimony it was nearly a rogue operation by one field office. >> you are referring to the rich edmonton product, a single product by a single field office. as soon as i found out about it i was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from f.b.i. systems. >> grassley reveals there were

at least 13 more documents and five attachments using anti-catholic terminology like radical traditional catholic. relied on information from the southern poverty law center and a second f.b.i. richmond memo repeating those extremist links but it was never sent. he is urging kash patel to probe the origins and the response. he writes this. i look forward to continuing to work with you to restore the f.b.i. to excellence and prove once again that justice can and must be fairly and evenly administered blind to whether we're democrats or republicans, believers or non-believers. bill, the f.b.i. isn't coming on this but worth noting patel retweeted grassley's post on these findings. >> bill: see where it goes. wow, griff jenkins in washington, d.c. >> dana: right now a key hearing is taking place on capitol hill. the acting faa administrator appearing before the senate

appropriations committee. this comes as the air travel industry has faced recent concerns over aging infrastructure and traffic control shortages and safety. joining us now the transportation secretary sean duffy. the air traffic controller john stewart according to internal safety report by the "wall street journal" said the situation is and has been and continues to be unsafe. the amount of stress we're under is unsur mountable. you heard that loud and clear. what has been done about it so far? can people feel reassured about air travel? >> yes, first off it is safe. we have multiple redundancy in the system. we have an old system not updated for decades. we're using old technology. it is a moment in time where we have to build a new air traffic control system. the biggest infrastructure project we have going on in the country and the most important one in 20 years we'll do in america. we're lucky we have a president who cares about this issue and

is willing to push this department and push the congress and also push the business sector that deals with aviation to make sure we get it done right and fast. so we need money to do that, dana. we're in need tens of billions of dollars from congress. you can't start until we get that -- those dollars in the door. americans fly, their families fly. they want to make sure when we see signs of issues in air traffic control system we actually take action and fix it and make it better for the flying public. by the way, we can make it more efficient, too. we have drones like ubers in the air. airspace will become more complicated and we can make it more efficient with the new system. >> dana: speaking on the money that d.o.t. needs. is it in the big, beautiful bill or separate? >> we have 12 billion in the big, beautiful bill. that is not enough. we'll need more. by the way i also need congress to clear the deck to build fast.

>> dana: worn re one of the things is building runways, newark one prob problems was that one of the runways was down for repair. it is back up sooner than expected. how did you do that? >> 13 days sooner than expected. the port authority worked 24 hours a day seven days a week to get it online faster an we anticipated. one of the issues we were having in newark. you reported this. we were short on controllers and philly controls the airspace. 22 controllers, six were out on leave. we have 22 controllers now in training so they will get certified on a rolling basis and as they are certified we can expand the capacity of newark as well. also we had a telecom issue that caused the communication issues. we had two of those, one in late april, one in early may. verizon did a fantastic job and

laid a brand-new fiber cable between philly and new york which was a problem line. we're testing that now and it should be set up probably the end of june, early july. we're working really fast. amazing when everyone cares and engages together and business ceos help us out how fast things can happen. >> dana: the ceo of united airlines said yes, some of our tickets went down in terms of sales but that was probably because of the press and everything. you are here to say that we can all get back to traveling and feel confident about it. before i let you go i want to ask you about this. a story i followed since i first lived in san diego years ago. i think the california high speed rail thing is so preposterous. you just came out with a report. what did you find? >> we have a 300 page report that came out that says the timelines and budget for the california high speed rail, they can't meet them.

so we have $4 billion that has been authorized to go to california to build this project. and we don't want to invest in boon doing else. they won't complete the project. we all knew. we will give them 30 days to respond to us if they think we're wrong we'll hear them out. if they don't make a good case we'll take the money back. i want to see high speed rail in america. europe has it everywhere and it works. why it can't be built in america and why it can't be built within time frames that work for the people that invest in the projects makes no sense to me. we'll look for good projects to invest in. this doesn't appear to be one of them. not one high speed track has been laid and we're $16.17 years in the project. it has all the makings of boondoggle. >> dana: could we get high speed

rail between washington, d.c. and new york? >> i've asked that question. it would be great. highly traveled. it has to be straight. that track meanders from newark to jersey. so again if we can figure out how all the players come together and get a straight line between the two cities, yes. but it's more complicated than just saying money. it will take time to do that. wonderful if we could make that happen. i'm with you. >> dana: i still have a dream. you didn't quash it completely. sean duffy, secretary of transportation, thank you for joining us today. >> thanks, dana. >> bill: we're told he is the ringleader and he is still on the run.

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>> bill: the family of the boulder, colorado bombing -- firebombing suspect have been taken into federal custody. this while authorities investigate the suspect's motives and background. his wife and five kids are being processed for expedited removal. here is secretary noem, head of dhs. >> mohammed's actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law but also investigating to what extent his family knew about this horrific attack. if they had any knowledge or provided support to it justice will be served. >> bill: a warning, video about to show you, disturbing video. some of you may find this difficult to watch and we just want to put that out there.

fox obtaining the clip that appears to show the suspect hurling one of the cocktails. molotov cocktails at individuals into the crowd only to have some of that liquid spill out of the container and set himself on fire which helps you understand why he shed his shirt and was standing there shirtless when police arrived. so that from boulder as that case continues and now the family is being held for questioning. >> dana: new developments in the manhunt for two escapees from a new orleans jail. authorities raided the home seen in an instagram video. the clip appeared to show ant antoine massey claiming his innocence. >> i have was let out. all allegations against me in false. they say i broke out. i didn't break out. i was let out. >> dana: massey wasn't found

during the raid. he and one other fugitive remain on the run from last month's masses cape. he was not let out. he was running out at the orleans parish jail. democrats still searching for answers after a disappointing 2024. the party is getting some outside help. reporting new think-tank search light, democrats toward more popular positions. karl rove is a former white house deputy chief of staff and fox news contributor. i don't know if they can pull it off. "politico" says the guy helping them said he urged democrats to declare independence from liberal and progressive -- reject the -- he urged elected official eaves to not be afraid of powerful groups that dictated much of the 2020 presidential primary. i don't know how much he got paid but it is common sense.

>> it sure is but i love this. complete rejection of race and group race identity politics. the democratic party has been taken over by that and so it is shocking to me they can be that open about it. >> bill: so now they resort to a new tactic that deals with tacos, to which jd vance had a rather interesting retort. we have the lameest opposition in american history. a taco truck set up. ran it by rnc headquarters in washington, d.c. saying that trump always chickens out. the president was asked about it the other day and he said that's a nasty comment. don't go back there again. karl, which group that donald trump won over in 2024 can the democratic party win back?

>> well, there are three problems for them. one is latinos. one is young black men. and one is the lack of enthusiasm among young voters to the degree democrats need to have them. i suspect they will go after all three. we'll see how well it works out. they could return to search light for just a minute. a lot of common sense in there which means it won't be well received by a lot of democrats. and look, we have a sense of the kind of attitude that some of the leadership of the democratic party will have this past weekend in south carolina where they had a jim clyburn fish fry and prospective candidates showed up and the "washington post" did an interview with some of the democratic leaders, black democratic leaders and they said we're being taken for granted. they didn't deliver. we felt betrayed by latino

voters. and they sort of ignored -- they mentioned the black shift to trump but they didn't deal with why that happened. it sounded more like it was about power and money. one of the democratic leaders said you have to know where your bread is buttered. invest there. i didn't get a lot of new thinking out of there. they did have -- interesting figure in the form of the maryland governor, wes moore. but the democrats have got a long way back from where they were and that's to be expected. they lost a race they thought they should have won and this happens to parties when they lose elections, particularly if they've lost a couple in a row. it generally takes a pretty dramatic change. they lost in 80, 84, lost in 88. it took a democrat saying we need to end welfare as we know it and 100,000 police on the street. more police on the street and balance the budget and they won. and you have to change your act. it is hard to see that they are

very far along on it. they have plenty of time before the 2028 election. the 2026 election is what they ought to worry about more today. >> dana: it is actually the timing is what i wanted to ask you. we are almost seven, eight months from the election. they still don't have their footing. is that normal, karl? it feels to me like a really long time before they can land on anything. i don't think taco will be it necessarily. do they need a message, ideas first, what comes first the chicken or egg here? >> they need to understand what caused them to lose touch with their voters and lose touch with key elements of the electorate and work from there. where did they go wrong? i'm sure there is a lot of thought going on there. but i didn't get a good sense out of the south carolina meeting they have a good handle what it is. search light has it. stop talking about things in a way that alienate large elements of your existing party and make

it difficult for you to grow it. now, the candidates are going to matter a lot. my sense is that in 2026 it will be the democratic gubernatorial candidates who will do a better job of beginning to set the table for 2028. but the democrats can't just rely on that. they are close in the house, typically the party out of power gains seats in the house in a mid-term election. 25 on average since the end of world war ii but they have to get there and they are not there yet and not even close. we'll see how it all works out but -- they have to do something different and they don't seem to me like they are open to doing a lot of things different. >> bill: karl, thank you for coming on. enjoy lunch with your tacos, sir. thank you. see you soon. thank you, karl. ♪ >> bill: that song has reached a

milestone and that is today's hemmer celebrity news. i saw the title. i didn't remember it was a song. does that make me bad? >> dana: do you want to apologize to the audience. >> bill: i don't know what rick rolling means. >> dana: my god. >> bill: what does it mean? >> dana: everyone to rick roll hemmer. this song will get stuck in your head. you pretend to send somebody an attachment. you get the song in your head. we rick rolled everyone. got it? >> bill: that song wrapped up a billion streams on spotify. happened fewer than 1,000 songs. that's a lot. 1,000 songs. my gosh, you can't speak again until i say your name, dana. here is rick taking to instagram to thank the folks. >> who would have believed after all these years there were a

billion streams on spotify. how amazing. thank you for listening and lots of love and i'll see you all soon. >> bill: congratulations, rick. that song expands to new popularity during the dana, 2000 rick rolling. >> dana: something i did. you didn't know. i didn't know rick was british. >> bill: he has good hair back in the day. that was great. >> dana: let's switch gears and get you to this story. a devastating one out of washington state. a manhunt under way for a father after his three young daughters were found dead. ukraine escalating its attacks against russia. what that means for president trump's push for peace. >> vladimir putin is undoubtedly now wondering whether there was an inside job. it just shows that just with a little bit of help ukrainians can make vladimir putin pay for

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>> dana: a manhunt is now underway after three young girls are found dead in washington state. the focus of the search is their father. dan springer is live in seattle and has more on this very disturbing story. >> just a horrible story.

a manhunt in remote terrain involving local, state and federal law enforcement searching for 32-year-old travis decker charged with three counts of first degree murder for doing the unthinkable, killing his three girls. after a court ordered planned visitation over the weekend. the bodies of 9-year-old peyton, 8-year-old and 5-year-old were found at a campground 75 yards away from where police located decker's truck on monday. according to court documents the girls wrists were zip tied and each had a plastic bag over their head. the f.b.i. and border security and u.s. marshalls from joined the search in the cascade mountains west of leavenworth, washington. they spoke directly to him last night. >> if you are listening this is your opportunity to turn yourself in. do the right thing. do what you need to do. take accountability for your actions. we won't go away or rest and

we'll make sure we find you. you will be brought to justice. >> the girls' mother says travis has suffered from mental illness since leaving the military four years ago. she did not consider him a danger to his kids. still because he was homeless, the court parenting plan did not allow him overnight visitations. last night a vigil was held for a community that's grieving. >> we're all heartbroken. those little girls taken away from us way too soon. >> we're still just in shock and each one's own way grieving. those girls were very special to the community. >> decker is probably on foot. he left his wallet in the truck near the bodies. not known if he is armed. a large number of cops up there in the mountains looking for him right now and they hope to find him soon. dana. >> dana: dan springer, thank you. >> bill: there is perhaps another point of contention with beijing. the department of justice announced that two chinese nationals are now charged with

smuggling a dangerous fungus into the country. that is potentially a bioweapon. kash patel saying smuggling a known agroterrorism agent into the u.s. is not just a violation of law, it is a direct threat to national security. michael singh is manager director of the washington institute. nice to see you again and thank you for coming in today. call for two. here we go. if you develop this, this material, you can cause vomiting, liver damage, reproductive defects in humans and livestock. i don't know what your read is on this. it appears to me that customs and border patrol were on the lookout for this man and woman in michigan. what do you think? >> certainly sounds that way, bill. it is frankly an important catch. it sounds as though we have something which is almost like a needle in a hay stack trying to find a pathogen coming into the

united states. just the type of thing which i think would terrify americans in the wake of the covid pandemic. it sounds like what we're talking about here is a plant pathogen. something that would primarily affect crops and so forth. but it highlights this threat that we have seen, bill, that is a multi-faceted threat of u.s. adversaries really trying to figure out a way to in the event of a conflict go after the things that sustain us. whether it is water utilities, whether that's crops and livestock, whether that's the power sector and so forth. there is no evidence that i've seen that's what is happening here but just the use of that term agroterrorism highlights the risk that it entails. >> bill: i would also add the woman apparently had literature tying her to the ccp. hats off to customs and border patrol. they knew what they were looking for. if you look at this description you need to be an expert in this

stuff. round piece of filter paper with a series of circles drawn on it. four clear baggies with small clumps of plant material inside. they screened them twice and found it on the second pass, michael. >> thank goodness we have the experts working for us. when you see the customs and border protection folks you hope you pass by without getting bothered. agroterrorism and bio terrorism rare but requires constant vigilance to insure it stairs rare. >> bill: on ukraine and russia, condoleezza rice was on "fox & friends", something putin was brought of a bridge to reopen in the early days of the war. here is her response to the drone attack from several days ago. >> i read the word audacious, that's right. first the changing nature of

warfare that you can do this with relatively cheap drones. $2,000 against the russian strategic air flight that caused billions of dollars. secondly it shows that the ukrainians are very advanced in what they are doing in their defense industry with the building of these drones and an employment strategy for them. third it is an incredible intelligence coup. >> bill: did she nail it? >> she is right. this is leverage for president trump because vladimir putin when he sees these types of attacks, when he sees sanctions bills in the senate he has to worry things won't go so well for him going forward and increases his incentive to go for a deal. >> bill: thank you for coming on. important stuff. nice to see you michael singh, thank you, sir. dana. >> dana: health officials are launching a review of baby formula for the first time in more than 25 years. what the fda will be 0ing in on.

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>> bill: the army announced it surpassed its annual recruiting goal of 61,000 new soldiers. four months ahead of schedule. the fastest the service has reached its annual target in more than a decade. army officials crediting that success to recruiters and leadership, new strategies and that recruiting push is not over. but for those who sign up now, will now go into a delayed entry program. wow, they hit the numbers. >> dana: it is remarkable. >> bill: good deal. >> dana: right now on capitol hill the first batch of president trump's not sure we switched to another story. rfk junior. we're doing baby formula stuff. i'm not sure. okay. let's go ahead and talk a little bit about this. president's agenda is basically a ping-pong bill between tennis

match. executive branch and judicial branch and legislative branch aren't sure what they are doing. the president says he will do something, judicial branch says no. back in their court. meanwhile we have the congressional offices empty on recess but mark meredith is there. he is live on capitol hill saving me from this situation. hi, mark. >> all in a day's work. president trump says judges from the district court level to supreme court are standing in the way of his agenda and being critical of some of the conservative groups who helped him pick some of his judicial nominees. the president appears frustrated at some of the rulings impacting everything from the economy to immigration. judges blocking sweeping tariffs to efforts to repeal hormone therapy for federal inmates. republican senators say they share trump's concerns that some judges are acting beyond their authority. >> i think the criticism is with the activist judges who misinterpret their role and view themselves as super legislators.

the idea a district court judge would control deportations from the bench and trying to turn planes around is ridiculous. >> today the senate judiciary committee is picking judicial nominees. i spoke to some top democrats who say they were opposed before the hearing even began. >> if i had to compile a list of truly unqualified nominees for the federal bench, i couldn't do better. they are simply unable to provide the kind of justice americans deserve. >> we're already seeing marketing here. democrats calling them maga loyalists, the white house saying these are america first judges. >> dana: thank you, mark meredith alone on capitol hill. nobody there. >> bill: health and human services rfk junior ordering the fda to look at baby formula as part of the may -- maha.

lydia hu has more. >> this will be the first review of baby formula since 1998. since then our nation has got some questions. we've become skeptical of additives to our food like corn syrup and seed oils present in some formulas. >> we want more options for baby formula. they want options with no corn syrup or seed oils and options with no added sugar. we've seen no innovation in the baby formula space since 1998. >> another issue from this panel of experts is the review of competition. the baby formula shortage revealed in 2022 the fragility of this market and the ceo of a newer baby formula brand says the fda ought to look at how current regulations and the marketplace are influencinging the science. he writes lack of competition has encouraged speed to market

over innovation. some will say the current regulatory system works. anyone who navigated the formula aisle knows how quickly science gets buried under marketing. i can tell you that legacy baby formula makers would insist baby formula as it exists on the market today is safe and healthy for babies. experts say if you have questions talk to your doctor as we wait for the fda's review that will take a year to finish. >> bill: don't talk to the stork. but a true story. nice to see you. >> dana: great to be with you. "the faulkner focus" is next. bill melugin in for harris. >> bill: good morning. we begin with a fox news alert. authorities arresting a chinese researcher and her boyfriend in michigan charging them with smuggling dangerous biological pathogens into the united states. that fungus that the couple allegedly brought in is classified as a potentia