>> sandra: fox news alert, the pentagon is set to brief as marines arrive in haiti to secure the u.s. embassy there. as violent gangs take over the nation. >> john: a gang leader nicknamed barbecue may be the most powerful man in haiti and americans are trapped there under his brutal watch and they are begging to get out. >> sandra: we are cruising. this is a big day indeed. a lot of news to get to. hour two, i'm sandra smith in new york. hi, john. >> john: john roberts in washington. good to be with you for another hour, it's going to be a busy one, sandra. watching the pentagon briefing for any updates on the situation in haiti, including the marines just arriving there. >> sandra: and now this. the tiktok ban moving through congress is zeroing in on national security concerns.

they are big ones, but there are still major questions about the dangers of the platform and social media in general, of course, and what they do pose to children. heart broken parents have been some of the biggest lobbyists for a social media crackdown. >> ultimate demise when she met someone on instagram who offered to sell her a prescription pill. >> this is my 16-year-old son david, and david died by suicide after months of relentless cyber bullying that he was threatened online. >> i let him get facebook because he wanted to buy a snowmobile on marketplace. and little did i know that a criminal from across the world could contact him. >> john: we are going to talk to brian kilmeade on the potential ban against tiktok in just moments. but first, to fox business's kelly o'grady on how social media is targeting children.

kelly, is tiktok just part of the problem? >> it is, john. and this point came up during that house debate yesterday. national security concerns are one aspect but user safety is also at risk with what content that algorithm is serving up. and tiktok is not alone. instagram, facebook, snap, facing lawsuits regarding responsibility for harm to the child users and further, facebook whistleblower blower shared meta's own research and described kids' instagram usage. and how it impacts mental health. >> start watching certain things and then turn dark and cannot get out of it. it keeps showing things that may pertain to self-harm or to suicide. >> tiktok ceo is also feeding those concerns saying potential ban could funnel users to other

platforms and could concentrate power further in big tech. but when it comes to the path forward, i want to underscore, this is not a ban yet, it's a forced sale and there is still a long way to go. right, next step to the senate, we may not see as much smooth sailing for the bill there, executive powers and impact on free speech. rand paul called the legislation a draconian measure, but it has bipartisan support, and if tiktok needs to find a buyer, what u.s. company do we feel comfortable tackling the algorithm challenges. back to you. >> john: appreciate it, sandra. >> sandra: brian kilmeade, any more, it will take up the whole segment to read your intro. good to see you. do we have the aishah hasnie

sound on the hill? turning a moment on the hill a few seconds ago, aishah was able to stop the tiktok ceo in the hallway and put a question to him. we'll have that for our viewers in just a second. but please do weigh in on this. where do you want to see it go? you want a full-on ban of tiktok? >> well, number one, we are eight years late. launched in 2016 and think about this. would we let russia buy nbc, cbs or fox? rupert murdoch had to become an american citizen for the post in the 1970s or 1980s. we allowed china to launch this app through their company, which china has total control over these companies, if they want something, they take them, just ask alibaba, he is now working in soup kitchens, he was one of the most powerful ceos of the

country, he was critical of the finance sector of china and they did not take to it. would we let north korea, china, russia, any of our enemies, let them control the conversation in the country and 170 million people. the answer is absolutely not. so, why we let this company get a foot hold is beyond me. they have found an algorithm method, maybe it's a.i., that has not been replicated, that will not be involved in this purchase if it's sold. it's -- and the analogy in the "new york times" was, if you sell tiktok without the algorithm that beijing owns and singapore, singapore locations is one in america, is like buying a ferrari and not putting the engine in. they know more about us, our likes and interest and control the news feed. how many pro taiwan stories do you think are on tiktok? how many palestinian stories are on tiktok? >> sandra: fair enough. and the questions we are

attempting to put to the ceo of tiktok, breaking news from the hill right now, speaking to the ceo moments ago, aishah hasnie. >> good afternoon to you. i just chased down the tiktok ceo out to his car before he left the senate here. he was meeting with john fetterman, senator from pennsylvania, about this house bill that just passed this week. and i got to ask him a few questions. he saw our camera outside the door and he came outside the hallway and talked to us and said there's a lot of misinformation out there right now, that this bill essentially is a ban, and he's not even sure right now what the app has done wrong. well, i pushed back on that, and i said sir, in fact lawmakers believe that you are spreading misinformation by saying this is a ban, it's not a ban, it's requiring that you basically divest and sell the company and he would not respond to that.

i'm going to play that sound for you right now. an there's a lot of misinformation out there and i intend to clarify it. there's a lot of noise but i have not heard exactly what we have done that's wrong. as you know, it is very disappointing for us that the bill passed in the house of representatives. you know, we looked at it, this is a ban bill. if it's passed into law, it's a ban on the app in this country, going to impact 170 million americans who use the app, impact 7 million small businesses and i hope their voices are heard. >> lawmakers are saying this is not a ban, that you are spreading misinformation, sir. this is not a ban. >> so he actually came back out one more time, sandra, and i asked him why byte dance will not sell and he would not answer that question either. he was in fetterman's office for about 15 minutes when he came out, i chased him down in the hallway, and i asked him again about especially the data of americans, but also the algorithms here. what a lot of people are not

talking about enough is that the reason why lawmakers want byte dance to sell is not just because of the data, the privacy of americans, but the algorithms, the ccp controls the company and the algorithms and what information and data content is put out to our young people in this country, and he basically told me that there's nothing wrong with the algorithms, that the chinese don't have any control of the algorithms, and they basically don't have anything to say about what the company does or doesn't do. so, he continues to say that the app has done nothing wrong, but it's not spreading misinformation and continues to call it a ban even though again it's not a ban, it's requiring tiktok to sell. sandra. >> sandra: on that note, when he came out the second time, you asked him why he won't sell. but he didn't give an answer? >> he did not give an answer. he just smiled. he continuous says that this is basically banning tiktok.

he continuously pushes that but will not say why he won't sell. >> sandra: great reporting. thank you so much. brian, is the solution to sell it my first question. and two, for those of us, i've met with him off the record before, his big stance is this is, you know, an economic solution to a lot of americans' woes. they have started businesses on tiktok, they thrive on tiktok. connects people, he'll tell you all the positive, wonderful things about it. but if he's not willing to sell, how is that the solution? >> brian: sandra smith to brian kilmeade, we have different likes and algorithm will target us differently. so allowing china to kill us with fentanyl, kill, one time you are dead, and now allowing to find out more about americans. it's -- you allow it foot hold in america, number one app in the country, 170 million people, especially the next generation, and allow the algorithm to give

you what you want. you know about the emotional make-up, likes and wants. and then they will come in with the news feed, and example. on 100-1 basis, more pro-hamas and palestinian stories coming up on tiktok than there are pro israeli stories. does that have anything to do with this next generation of americans who are polluting college campuses, antisemitic behavior, what's happening in different places across the country. you wonder if the number one news source is flowing into kids' minds and allow china to decide what's important to americans. they are in control of this. >> sandra: can anybody buy it? speculation about who could buy it, wlo wants to buy it. steve has a group of guys to get together to buy it. i don't know. >> brian: the question is include the algorithm in it, that's the golden chalice. and if you don't include the algorithm, it's not as much value and i don't know if we will do that.

it's not about profits, it's not look for a fire sale. america control it and shut off beijing. that's what they have to agree to do. >> sandra: until they can show the data housed in the u.s. goes nowhere, including china, nobody will buy it. >> brian: if he's being honest, he will never say it does not go back to china. the back door is there. >> sandra: brian, great to see you. one nation this weekend. >> brian: pete hegseth is going to be on, a very handsome man. >> sandra: it's something everybody is talking about, john, for sure. tiktok is a part of absolutely everybody's life in some way today. >> john: and not to beat a dead horse, but comes back to the trojan horse analogy. it's like if the greeks made a bunch of trojan horses and one in a petting zoo and gave pony rides on the other ones, and run

horse races to bet on, oh, no, we can't get rid of them, part of everybody's lives, and the greek soldiers come out and sack troy. is this the same thing. that's what lawmakers are about. >> sandra: senator kennedy is saying good one, john. good one. >> brian: i can go now? >> just as we approached the first barrier, the first landing, out of nowhere. about 30 yards in front of us, big explosion. p>> john: our own benjamin hall recounting his harrowing experience after a russian bombing in ukraine nearly took his life two years ago. we will hear from benjamin as we remember our two colleagues who did die in that attack. plus. >> sandra: and now this. three illegal immigrants are now in jail charged with kidnapping and sexual assaulting a woman in

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its presented as a ceasefire in gaza, the israeli government says it represents a brutal killing. jonathan hunt is live in los angeles with the latest on this. what's the back story here? >> well, john, the pins featuring a hand and a heart at their center were worn by around a dozen celebrities at the oscars, billie eilish and mark ruffalo among them. and immediately seized upon by some supporters of israel as a show of support for the killing of jews. that narrative was then taken up by the israeli government which said on the state of israel "the image of red hands is associated with one horrific event imprinted on the minds of israelis and palestinians. the 2000 ram la lynching of israelis and this symbolism is not a coincidence." now, the incident the israeli government is referring to is the brutal murder of two idf

reservists in the west bank in october 2000, after which you see here, one of the palestinians involved in the killings was photographed holding up his blood-stained hands. now, the group that made the pins, artists for ceasefire, refutes the narrative and said in a statement recent allegations about the design and intent of the artist for ceasefire pin are completely false. the group says the red background conveys urgency. the heart in the model symbolizes love, and the of hand they say is orange rather than red, and the orange hand conveys the beautiful community of people from all backgrounds and faiths that have come together in support of centering our shared humanity. artists for ceasefire also said the aim of the pin is to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in gaza and the

release of all the hostages still being held by hamas. we reached out, john, to many of the celebrities who wore the pin about their design and the message, we have not heard back from any of them. >> john: let us know if you do. john, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: renewed push on capitol hill for a shorter work week. vermont senator bernie sanders is behind the proposal. hillary vaughan just caught up with him and asked him about that bill which led to this exchange. >> it seems like democrats want businesses to be taxed more, pay their workers -- >> really, is that what you think? excuse me, excuse me. >> i didn't get done with the question. >> hold it. ok. we held a hearing on a 32-hour work week because what we have seen is that over the last 50 years despite a huge increase in worker productivity, almost all of the wealth has gone to the

top 1% while 60% of the people living paycheck to paycheck. many of our people are exhausted. we work the longest hours of any people in the industrialized world. i think it's time for a shortened work week. >> ask you a question about that. seems like democrats want businesses to be taxed more, paid -- pay their -- >> that's not my assumption. i don't think so. >> pay their workers more, lower prices and pay people not to work. >> how are businesses going to survive that. how can businesses survive the proposal. >> when mr. bezos pays effective tax rate lower than the average worker, i think we have a problem in the tax system. billionaires have to start paying their fair share of taxes. thank you. >> sandra: great questioning of the senator by hillary vaughan. chad pergram is live on this story. chad, is this going to become a reality, 32-hour work week? >> chad: sandra, not right away. in fact, republicans said

democrats were talking about the 32-hour work week as an election year ploy. bill cassidy of louisiana said the plan would throw "napom on inflation. >> apologize if the hearing gives anyone false hope, but mandatory 32-hour work week is bad policy. we are work instead upon a bill which will never pass congress and detrimental for american workers. >> chad: supporters of the shorter work say employees are more energized after a three-day weekend. >> the notion that, i don't know, americans are lazy, some people seem to have i think is inaccurate. people want to work but in a way balanced with the rest of their lives. >> chad: senators questioned if more hours on the job explains why fewer people attend church. >> you don't have time to go to wednesday night bible study,

might not have the ability to attend church services on a sunday. but it is just true that some of the leisure time activities, some of institutions americans found value and meaning in are less accessible. >> chad: the reduced work week saw mixed results overseas, better outcomes in scandinavia, but not as well in iceland and japan. >> sandra: chad, thank you. >> john: community in palm beach on edge after a woman was kidnapped and sexual assaulted after she was able to escape. three men are here illegally from guatemala. the county sheriff. >> don't think for a minute that what happens at the mexican border doesn't affect us here. here you have three illegals that should have never been in this country that have committed

a very serious crime. kidnapping and sexual battery of a lady. for them to be in the country, to be able to commit these type of crimes, is unconscionable. the federal government has put the american people in jeopardy. >> john: the sheriff of palm beach county rick bradshaw joins us now. you are very upset about this, understandably so. you said this was similar t what happened to poor laken riley at the university of georgia, so -- but thankfully through the grace of god had a different outcome. what happened to this young woman? >> well, she was abducted by these three individuals and they sexual assaulted her during the night. she was able to get away from them early in the morning and our road patrol did a fantastic job. she gave a description of the individuals and the car and they had them within 45 minutes. road patrol did a great job. the issue with me is they should have never been in this country. it's the same thing that

happened with laken riley and other instances. you've got people that shouldn't be here that we know commit crimes and yet they are here. it's a failure at the border and we got to have to deal with it. look, i'm in charge of regional domestic security for all of southeast florida. three counties. the biggest counties in this state. our border is the ocean. we are the fence out there. and we have to deal with bad guys trying to get into our country coming across in the water. right? but look, the reality of it is you've got 1.5 million got-aways. those are the people that have not come in control or contact with border patrol because they are cartel, they are gang members, they are wanted individuals, they could be terrorists, they are packing fentanyl, i mean, i saw a video of ten military-age guys dressed in camouflage, backpacks on, carpet on their feet so didn't

have footprints and they are in the country along the texas border down there. but they don't stay there. >> john: no, those are people, sheriff, we have shown many, many times here on the fox news channel. you also mention in the news conference the notorious violent venezuelan gang, which you said makes ms13 look like school kids. and said the federal government has put the american people in jeopardy, we saw you saying that. do you blame the biden administration for what's happening? >> i'm not a politician, i'm a law enforcement guy. this is a bipartisan issue. they need to do something to close the border. look, the analogy, a leak in the house, water going all over the place you don't get a bucket and stop mopping it up, you stop the leak and then clean up the mess. the leak has got to stop, you have shown it.

the border is porous but it's the got-aways. and yeah, venezuelan gangs we have identified along with the fbi they are working in miami, arrested a guy from a mexican cartel, sinaloa, in a drug raid. they are here and set up business and do bad things but they are here because they were not stopped at the border. now, our effort is, we stop people on the ocean. we don't let them hit land. once in a while someone will get through. the vast majority of the time, we stop them on the water, turn them back to the coast guard or the navy and they take them back where they came from. we are going our job here to stop them from getting into this country. they need to do their job down there, give border patrol the facilities and the people they need to do that job and close that border otherwise it's just going to keep on going. >> john: sheriff, a couple seconds left here. you also referenced in your news

conference what christopher wray of the fbi director said when he said that the terror threat is high, there are people related to isis we are finding involved with getting people across the border. something bad happening in the united states is not a matter of if, but when. what do you fear? >> well, that's why every 90 days i get the regional domestic security, 132 agencies in florida together to make sure we are operationally ready. we want to make sure the intelligence gathering is good, network with the federal agencies, but we have resources and people ready to go and protect the people down here in palm beach county and south florida. we do an excellent job protecting our border and the people here. and you saw a good example of that when we grabbed these three guys as fast as we got 'em. but, we shouldn't have had to deal with them. that's my biggest point. >> john: good to have you on the job, sheriff. appreciate it.

>> thank you very much. >> john: thanks. see you again. sandra. >> sandra: a quick live look as we fox news alert into the vice president kamala harris, she is on the ground in minneapolis at this hour. delivering comments to the press during the six stop of the nationwide fight for reproductive tour. we are monitoring it. and now this, push for technology is threatening america's power supply. >> pierre shouts quickly reverse, reverse, get backwards. ukrainians driving could not get in reverse and out of nowhere, the second one lands. >> john: sitting down with fox news correspondent benjamin hall two years after russian bombs changed his life forever. that's next.

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>> john: so have you ever wondered where the cloud is? where all that stuff you save on your laptop and your smartphone actually goes? well, people in one state don't have to wonder. it's in their back yard. and the enormous amount of electricity it takes to run all the state of the art new technology has folks worried there will not be enough left for them, particularly as the infrastructure gets older and older. griff jenkins is live in ashburn, virginia, home of "the cloud." griff. >> you are right, john. the cloud, and where things are stored here, it's in the data center behind me. everything we do from scrolling to streaming to texting, credit card purchases, all happens in there. let's take you up in the sky and show you these massive window less buildings housing the servers that run our lives. here in loudoun county,

virginia, 35% of the world's data centers are here. sudden rise of a.i. really adds pressure, just one a.i. data center could require equivalent of a single nuclear power plant to operate and with the slow construction and the push to convert green energy, places like this could be at risk of brown-outs down the road. >> as americans, we take for granted that when we flip the switch the light will come on. if we don't address this issue of base load power, firm power, and the closure of these generation facilities too quickly, then we will -- we will introduce reliability concerns. >> meanwhile, protestors rallied against the construction of a new data center voicing concerns over the growth. listen here. >> no one else is at the point of this sphere except for loudoun county, it's crucial we get a handle on this issue here.

>> and she's worried about concerns for other areas like georgia that might have that, ohio, meanwhile, the county board last night rejected a new construction, john. send it back to you. pt>> john: the great sucking sound used to be jobs going to mexico, now it's electricity going to the cloud. fascinating. griff, thank you. >> know where the second one lands. i went black at that point. i say black, it was like a death. i mean -- i wasn't just concussed, i was out. >> sandra: fox news correspondent benjamin hall remembering the moment when a russian bomb hit his car with two others in the car, killed pierre zakrzewski and sasha

kuvshynova. today's book, is out in paper book. and it is amazing and changes lives i'm sure. joining us now is benjamin hall. i'm so happy every time i get to see you, i could talk your ear off i'm sure. but you are doing amazing things by reaching out to people and you really are, you are changing their lives by sharing your experience, benjamin. >> i feel really honored in the sense so many people helped me get through the last two years which have been difficult and in return i feel if i can help anyone else, i'm paying it on, paying it forward. if you look around communities, you will find heros in every one of them, they are everywhere. and pull them together, we are reminded an incredible strong backbone and never forget. >> you are trying to help others and so many helped you, and one of the best stories i think is how you shared and recalled your daughter telling you to get out of that car and what it was like

in that moment. here is some of what you shared in your fox nation special. >> out of nowhere i just hear my daughter's voice, anna, and anna just says to me daddy, you've got to get out of the car. got to get out of the car. i come to and i'm all confused, but i open my eyes straight away, and i move to the door to get out of the car and just as i get outside the car the third one hits the car itself. >> sandra: it just moves me, i'm sure everyone who hears that story every single time, benjamin. >> yeah, no doubt i am alive because of my family and my daughter. and i have spoken to a number of people who have had near death experiences and they go to the place that gives them the most strength, they feel most comfortable and that's my family for me and gave me the strength to survive. i knew one thing i was going home, i was going to survive and get back to them. it gave me that strength and i

feel it in a physical way i never felt before. families help you get through things. communities help you get through things. never forget that. together you are stronger. >> sandra: you inspire us every time you talk. you were on "america's newsroom" and how you want to make it your mission to find out and help those who, you know, who don't get back up when they go through something so life changing as this because you found that it actually propelled you to a better place in your life, and that is an incredible story. you are telling it in your fox nation special "sacrifice and survival, a story from the front line," and also your book. and what is happening right now with this war. the u.s. to send $300 million in weapons to ukraine under the makeshift plane. it's a stop-gap measure at best, ukraine is in dire need of air

defense systems. it would keep russian troops at bay for only a few weeks, according to one official. what do you want to see happen here? >> ukrainians are running out of air defenses at the moment, and russia is using it evermore. they are asking for defenses and fighter jets, and f-16s, some have been delivered, only 12 ukrainian pilots trained. so look, a drip drip of weapons to the ukrainians as there has been from the beginning and many say if we had the fighter jets at the beginning things would be different. but if the $60 billion passes congress and a vote on it, then things might change. but right now, russia is on the offense, russia is winning and the ukrainians do not have the weapons they need to push back. so, they are calling out for help, saying without support we may not be able to hold the lines. >> sandra: absolutely, we'll follow every minute of it and see what happens next. benjamin, by the way, probably the most favorite thing i saw was your girls gathered around you as the book was getting delivered. i believe it was in the

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>> john: now to an alarming story. the "wall street journal" reporting a new terror threat in

europe, all stoked by iran and the ongoing arrest in gaza. bring in dan hoffman. former cia station chief and fox news contributor. the hearing earlier this week where all the intelligence chiefs were there before congress, this came up, dan. the dni said this. listen here. >> the crisis has galvanized violence by a range of actors around the world, too early to tell, it's likely the gaza impact will have a generational impact on terrorism. >> john: said in the past you kill one terrorist and create five others in that part of the world. is that what we are seeing here? >> well, yeah, it's one of the consequences of the war in gaza, and frankly think that hamas actually welcomes this consequence. i think that's why they disse

disseminated all the videos hamas terrorists put themselves in a place they are indistinguishable from civilians, so they target places like hospitals and schools and the challenge we face in europe and also the united states, that the war has become a force multiplier for terrorists to recruit, to fund raise, and then to disseminate propaganda and the dni is absolutely right and we are at risk now more than ever before, not only because of the war in gaza, but because of the terrorist state in afghanistan, terrorists in syria and iran's use of proxy terrorists all over the world, that puts us squarely in the cross hairs of terrorists, arguably like never before. the lights are blinking red like now, just before september 11th. >> john: that's what i was about to say, and christopher wray on that point. >> i believe that the terrorist threat level that we are contending with right now is at

a whole other level from an already heightened terrorist threat level that we were seeing even before october 7th. and i say that for a variety of reasons. first you've seen a rogue gallery of terrorist organizations calling for attacks against us in a way we have not seen in a long, long time. >> john: the big problem with 9/11 as you referenced is the warning signs were there but either missed them or we ignored them. are we at risk of doing that again here, dan? because that border down in the south is as the sheriff from palm beach county was saying, allowed 1.5 million got-aways to come into the country and who knows what they are here for. >> well, we know some of the cases in the past that terrorist attack in paris, those terrorists infiltrated paris, posing as refugees. iranian terrorists have infiltrated sweden, also posing

in one case as a married couple, refugees. and it's a bad time for a porous border. i wish that our congressmen and women on capitol hill would do something about this. look, we are split in this country between democrats and republicans. i don't think either side should expect to get all of what they want. we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good here. we have to get something done on the southern border and failure to do so absolutely puts us in the most vulnerable place. >> john: maybe we should get you before congress, dan. you make the point very well. thank you, my friend. >> happy to do it if you join me, john. >> john: no thanks, sandra. >> sandra: all right, fox news alert here as we have been keeping our eye on the courthouse down there in florida, we are told it has just concluded, so perhaps we could hear something from there shortly on trump's case out of fort pierce, florida. we'll have this for you when we return.

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