During Fox News’s Special Report on Monday evening, national correspondent Bill Melugin broke the news to Fox viewers that once again, Democrat members of the House Homeland Security Committee planned to boycott a field hearing at the border which was scheduled for Wednesday. Sadly, but not surprisingly, all three evening news networks ignored the Democrats’ latest snub.
Instead of reporting on this shameful stunt by Congressional Democrats, the networks decided to instead dedicate airtime to Bruce Springsteen canceling one of his concerts (ABC), a study on a racial disparity in infant deaths (CBS), and a story about AI voice cloning (NBC).
Speaking to Special Report Bret Baier, Melugin reported that “the House Homeland Security Committee is set to have a field hearing about the border crisis right here in the Rio Grande Valley on Wednesday.”
According to Melugin, Homeland Security Committee chairman Mark Green was “notified that all Democrats on the committee are pulling out from attending that hearing this Wednesday.”
This was “despite the fact that several Democrats confirmed to him that they would attend and that they invited their own minority witness who’s confirmed to be a witness on the federal panel and will be speaking at the hearing,” Melugin added.
Reading from his phone, Melugin reported that Homeland Security Committee Democrats “never agreed that they were going to attend so they say it's not fair to say they are pulling out of it because they say they never agreed to go in the first place.”
This came as footage surfaced on Sunday showing what appeared to be hundreds of migrants storming towards a point of entry into the United States from Mexico, with migrants clashing with U.S. Border Patrol officers and Mexican police.
While Fox News reported this latest escalation of the Biden border crisis, CBS Evening News was the only one of the three networks to cover this.
Reporting for CBS, correspondent Omar Villafranca announced that “hundreds of migrants frustrated by the asylum process, rush towards a point of entry in El Paso. Mexican police and border patrol officers some in riot gear confronted the mostly Venezuelan migrants.”
“The rush was fueled by a false rumor that the U.S. Government was accepting asylum applications,” Villafranca revealed.
CBS can’t be given too much credit, since just like ABC & NBC, they ignored the report of Democrats reportedly planning on boycotting the field hearing on the Biden border crisis.
This bias by omission from the three networks was made possible by TD Ameritrade on ABC, Salonpas on CBS, and Ensure on NBC. Their information is linked.
The transcripts are below, click “expand” to read:
FNC’s Special Report
3/13/2023
6:21:19 p.m. EasternBILL MELUGIN: And, Bret, the House Homeland Security Committee is set to have a hearing—a field hearing about the border crisis right here in the Rio Grande Valley on Wednesday. The chief of U.S. Border Patrol set to testify at that hearing; however, Chairman of the committee Mark Green tells me he has just been notified that all Democrats on the committee are pulling out from attending that hearing this Wednesday.
He says that’s despite the fact that several Democrats confirmed to him that they would attend and that they invited their own minority witness who's confirmed to be a witness on the federal panel and will be speaking at the hearing. Chairman Green tells me he’s been given no reason for this abrupt pullout but he says it sends a message that Democrats are simply uninterested in having a conversation about the border crisis, and just moments ago you might have heard the beep on my phone there Democrats responding to Fox News saying they do confirm they are not going to be attending this border field hearing.
Homeland Security Committee Democrats saying, however, though that they never agreed that they were going to attend so they say it's not fair to say they are pulling out of it because they say they never agreed to go in the first place. So, that's the latest breaking news right there, Bret. We’ll send it back to you.
CBS Evening News
3/13/2023
6:39:48 p.m. EasternOMAR VILLAFRANCA: In Texas over the weekend, hundreds of migrants frustrated by the asylum process, rush towards a point of entry in El Paso. Mexican police and border patrol officers some in riot gear confronted the mostly Venezuelan migrants. Concrete barriers were set up to keep the group back. The rush was fueled by a false rumor that the U.S. Government was accepting asylum applications.
CAMILA CRUZ (VENEZUELAN MIGRANT VIA TRANSLATOR): I am alone, we are alone here. We have been robbed and extorted and we have no answer. We just want to get in to have a future and help our families. Nothing else.
VILLAFRANCA: The number of migrants being apprehended has dropped in recent months. CBP processed roughly 130,000 migrants in February down 40 percent from a peak in December.
