at least july. nasa says engineers are taking their time to study these issues, which is also helpful for future astronauts and preventing problems. but in an emergency, the star liner would be cleared to return to earth. even with the issues, nasa says the spacecraft is overall doing well in orbit. one retired astronaut telling neil cavuto it is important to be extra cautious with space travel. >> trying not to be complacent. that's what got us in the challenger and columbia actions and the apollo one fire in 1967. try not to repeat the mistakes and being extra cautious is what we're seeing. >> the two astronauts are sunny williams and machine willmer. they don't mind staying at the i.s.s. at all and completed a lot. no exact date for return. when it happens they are expected to land at a space

harbor in southern new mexico. back to you. >> gillian: madison, thank you. mike. >> mike: court hearing getting underway in texas this hour for one of the two illegal migrants accused of killing a 12-year-old girl in houston and dumping her body in the water under a bridge. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm mike emanuel. gillian, great to be with you. >> gillian: i'm gillian turner. dana and bill have the day off. both suspects in the tragic murder are facing capital murder charges. this is according to ice. they entered the country illegally and later caught and released by border patrol near el paso weeks before 12-year-old girl was murdered. the duo lured her under a bridge, removed her clothes, tied her up strangled and murdered her. if the medical examiner determines she was sexually assaulted they could face the death penalty under texas law. >> mike: michael mccaul laid

part of the blame on president biden's open border policies. >> we're seeing this too often now. i think you will see this story repeat itself over and over and over again. a little 12-year-old girl who was raped and thrown off a bridge and killed just horrific. when you have 7.2 million that were caught and released and then you have 2 million gotaways, this is what you'll get. when secretary mayorkas changed the rules to his border patrol agents and said you don't have to detain aggravated felons as required under federal law. >> mike: former acting ice director tom homan of the deadly consequences of an open border. nate foye in houston where the hearing is set to begin. good morning, nate. >> the anger and grief still prevalent here in houston, texas as a half hour from now the hearing will begin for one of the two illegal venezuelan migrants charged with murdering

12-year-old girl. the judge in this case is josh hill who has received criticism for being soft on crime and setting low bonds. in this case prosecutors requested a $1 million bond for each capital murder suspect. 26-year-old ramos is the illegal migrant who will be in court shortly. border patrol agents arrested and released him in el paso my three weeks before joslin's murder. under texas law capital murder for a child between ten and 15 doesn't automatically fall under the death penalty. if it is found a sexual assault happened, it would. hundreds attended a vigil for joslin this weekend including the houston mayor saying he will be watching the criminal justice system very closely in this case. >> we are going to see that these criminals are held accountable. what we need to do is send word don't even think about it. if you are thinking about hurting one of our young babies.

>> mike, the mayor, this community and entire country will be watching judge hill today and tomorrow. he is criticized for letting violent offenders walk and the largest criminal case backlog in the county. some of his cases have taken years to go to trial. the second illegal venezuelan migrant charged in this murder will appear in court tomorrow. unclear if it will be in person or virtually. this comes ahead of joslin's funeral set for thursday afternoon. mike. >> mike: we'll follow it all. thank you very much. >> gillian: in the wake of these high-profile violent migrant crimes voter say border security is the top issue. biden and trump are expected to face tough questions about their policies at the cnn presidential debate thursday night and simulcast here on fox. bill melugin joins us live from

l.a. with a preview. >> good morning to you. thursday night is going to be the first time since 2020 that donald trump and joe biden come face-to-face with each other. they are expected to clash about the border and it will happen after a week of high profile migrant crimes you mentioned. look here last week alone illegal aliens were arrested and charged in the rape of murder of more kemron, the rape and kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl and the strangulation murder of 12-year-old in houston. trump blamed biden for the crimes on saturday. >> day after day, week after week, joe biden is releasing illegal criminals into our communities to rape, pillage, plunder and kill. on day one we'll begin the largest domestic deportation operation in american history. [cheers and applause] >> the biden administration has boasted about reversing almost all of trump's border policies immediately upon taking office.

the result has been tay yes at the southern border. we've all seen it. three years of the highest illegal crossings ever recorded with masses of single adult men from all around the planet being caught and released into the u.s. often with court dates years away. also internal cbp data 1.9 million known gotaways have snuck into the u.s. during the biden administration and also a record high. trump and biden visited the border on the exact same day in february when biden slammed trump for his part in killing the bipartisan border deal negotiated in the senate while trump criticized biden for allowing millions of illegal crossers to be released into the country. >> president biden: here is what i would say to mr. trump. instead of playing politics and telling members of congress to block this legislation join me and i will join you in telling the congress to pass that bipartisan border patrol bill.

>> this is a joe biden invasion. >> the bottom line. thursday night instead of sniping at each other on tv and social media these two men will have to look each other in the eye and debate one of the most polarizing topics in america today. send it back to you. g>> gillian: bill melugin. >> mike: tom homan. u u.s. immigration and customs spokesperson said both of these people entered the u.s. what is your reaction to that revelation? >> which requires by law they be detained. law says they shall be detained. this administration is not detaining them. i will follow what congressman mccaul said. they are doing it on purpose. they signed over 90 executive orders within two weeks of coming to office and abolished

everything we did to create a secure border. i will say this. these young ladies would be alive today most likely if president trump was president because we ended catch and release. we had the remain in mexico program in place. third party country agreements. it was a game changer. illegal crossings dropped to a 45-year low. these people wouldn't have been released. i blame the biden administration for these deaths. they own this. >> gillian: senator warren was on abc over the weekend and replayed a familiar defense of the president on illegal immigration. listen to what she said and get your reaction. >> there have been more than 6.9 million apprehensions at the southern border thus far in biden's term there were just over 2 million in donald trump's entire term. what did the president do wrong? >> this isn't about what the president did wrong.

remember, on the very first day that he was sworn into office, president biden asked congress both for the resources and for come rehenceive immigration reform. the republicans blocked it, blocked it, blocked it. >> donald trump didn't have that, either, senator. he didn't have that, either. and there were 2 million during his entire term. >> she is wrong. it is disgusting what she is saying. president trump -- congress didn't trump president trump, either. he took executive action and thought out of the box and again, remain in mexico, third party country agreements and end catch and release. build a wall. walls work. this president could have done the same thing. the proposal he put on the table when he first became president was an amnesty package that wouldn't have solved the border crisis. now he is saying president trump stopped the bipartisan bill that came out of senate.

i've done this for 34 years. that plan was a nightmare. it wouldn't have fixed anything. why allow 5,000 people a day before you take action? why not one? what they fail to talk about, the house passed hr2. that would have worked to secure the border. why? because trumps policies. we proved it work. why would you negotiate against success. president trump knew there was a better plan. he is a smart guy and he gets it. >> mike: get your reaction to the foxnews.com headline. white house promotes biden official who compared police to slave patrols, wants to abolish ice. what message does that send? >> message i've been talking about for three years. this administration does not support law enforcement or the mission of ice. ice -- i always said when you hear abolish ice, i said they will never abolish ice. they will abolish the mission and they did. look at the removal in the last 3 1/2 years of historic illegal

immigration, ice has the lowest number of arrests and removals in the history of this nation. a quick note to the mayor of houston who sounded like he cared about this issue in houston. if you really care, end the sank temporary policy in houston. let your agents communicate with ice. ice has no access to the jail. police are not allowed to work with us. if he really cares, end the sanctuary policies. it is a sanctuary for criminals. >> thank you for joining us. >> gillian: this we're tracking. torrential rain turning the heartland into wetland. how folks are coping as the water rises. >> mike: day two in president trump's classified documents case. will it drag on during the heat of campaign season or can his lawyers get it tossed? >> there has been chaos on the

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>> gillian: welcome back. supreme court is set to take up a historic cast on transgender care for children. a challenge to a tennessee law that bans procedures. the first time the high court will consider restrictions on treatments like puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery. it will be argued in the october term. >> governor kim reynolds issuing

a disaster declaration in the wake of severe flooding and aid to help impacted families. max gordon is live in rock valley, iowa. a river levy broke prompted the evacuation of 1500 people. good morning, max. >> good morning. good news is the floodwaters are starting to go down after the levy broke but the damage behind me. this manufactured home being pushed onto the street there due to the force of this water. governor kim reynolds declaring states of emergency in 21 counties in iowa. again many evacuations, emotion people forced from their homes. this has been an immense amount of rainfall here in the upper midwest. some rain gauges and radar estimates showed parts of minnesota, iowa and south dakota picking up eight to 18 inches of rain in some spots over the weekend. the ground is saturated and nowhere for the water to go. rivers are swollen. several reaching all-time high

crests. river basins in iowa and south dakota as they sit downstream of the heavy rain. water rescues and evacuations. one person confirmed dead in south dakota due to this flooding. in iowa flooding is blamed for a train derailment. nine train cars were knocked off the tracks at 4:30 a.m. on friday. the sheriff's office said no hazardous materials were spilled or involved. volunteers will be checking on neighbors and people handing out donations and the governor touring scene of destruction in rock valley. >> mike: our best to the folks in the flood zone. >> gillian: another hearing just getting underway in former president trump's classified documents case. legal team is picking up where they left off friday arguing jack smith was unlawfully appointed by merrick garland in

2022. joining us is andy mccarthy, fox news contributor and former assistant attorney. is there anything to the arguments that the trump team is making to get this case tossed out? >> i think it is a very substantial argument, gillian. the appointments clause, which is the constitutional provision that controls appointments of this kind, provide that you have to have one of two things. either you have to have a position that is created by law where congress has prescribed a way for the person to qualify, often what they do is senate consent is required. not always how it goes. it has to be created by law. the other thing is with major offices in the united states, which they call principle offices, you have to have nomination by the president and confirmation by the senate. the problem with smith is he was

not appointed by a statute. he hasn't been nominated. he wasn't confirmed. he is basically appointed by a justice department regulation and the attorney general under the constitution does not have the power to create an office position like this. >> gillian: so the prosecution arguing back says that garland does unquestionably have the authority basically there is nothing but precedent to back that up and insist there is oversight of the special counsel in this case and that is the attorney general. what do you say to that? >> well, the problem with that is two-fold. one, most of the precedence that they're talking about don't apply to a special counsel who has been appointed under the regulation. so we've had special counsels that back in the day under the old independent counsel statute well appointed under this statute that congress enacted. then we have had special counsels even though they

weren't basically appointed for the investigation they were asked to take over like durham, fitzgerald, weiss in the hunter biden case, they were all u.s. attorneys already, which meant they had been nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate. the precedents they're talking about don't really help. the other thing is, attorney general garland has said from the beginning that he doesn't supervise jack smith. the whole point of appointing smith was to try to create some distance between president biden and the biden administration, including the biden justice department, and the prosecutions of trump. i've always thought it was a fiction. but the fact of the matter is the attorney general has said he is not doing the very thing that the special counsel says he is doing, overseeing smith. >> gillian: we'll see where it

goes. a lot of legal experts say this is among the stronger of the four criminal cases that trump is facing. we'll see what comes out of the court appearance today. thank you so much, andy. >> my pleasure. >> mike: illegal migrant accused of killing a 12-year-old girl will face capital murder charges when his hearing gets underway in any moment. >> as a congressman, you coming after me, you coming after my family, you coming after my children. >> mike: congressman jamal bowman throwing profanities and threats and gears his messaging even farther left. ♪ every day, more dog people are deciding

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>> gillian: one of the two illegal immigrants accused of strangling a 12-year-old girl in houston and leaving her body in a river is making a court

appearance right now. it is his first one. the other venezuelan man charged in the murder of joslin is set to appear for his first appearance in court tomorrow. we're learning her mother is at that courthouse right now and we're standing by for a read-out from our court reporters. [shouting] [crowd booing] >> mike: climate activists waving smoke bombs and wearing no golf on a dead planet t-shirts storming the 18th green and delayed a pga event on sunday. they were arrested and now facing multiple charges. let's bring in outkick founder clay travis, good morning. >> thanks for having me. i continue to see that the climate protestors are managing to make people not support their

cause. i think this came on the heels of defacing stonehenge, right? i don't know that i've ever seen a group consistently protest and decrease the amount of support they get as a result of their protests. like these climate protestors have been doing for the past 15 or 20 years. but i guess maybe they could have also been screaming free scotty scheffler since he himself was arrested in louisville recently. maybe there could have been a little irony there. i think most people particularly sports fans and certainly golf fans shrugged it off and said it is ridiculous. the same people gluing themselves to basketball courts as well. i don't think any sports fans have had their minds changed based on the protests so far. >> mike: the final hole of the tournament. scheffler has a one lead. he wins the tournament. his supporters chant usa, usa,

usa. clearly they were more focused on the golf and not the political statement, clay. >> no doubt. scotty posted one of the most incredible rounds ever after he was arrested in louisville. he went out and i believe shot a minus five at the tour championship he was competing in there, which is -- speaks well for his mental dexterity and toughness and the same thing would be true here. i don't think he anticipated this would be happening as he tried to make sure he preserved his one-shot lead there. even after all that chaos, he stepped right up and made the shot. usually in golf decorum and creeping crowds silent are a big part of every aspect of the performance on the course. we haven't seen this for a long time and hopefully won't see it a lot anymore. >> mike: the olympics are in paris. they will provide air conditioners to athletes

undercutting the climate agenda. the average temperature in france is 79. the paris mayor saying i want the games to be exemplary from a climate point of view. >> how many of the people complaining about the united states olympic team having their own air conditioners are going to be flying to the olympics on their private jets? a lot of people, i would bet. which will use way more carbon than anything that could happen from the air conditioning units. if it helps the overall united states olympic team performance to have the temperature at 68 or 69 or 70, more power to them. money well spent. and i can't imagine that have many americans would disagree. if other countries aren't willing to do this to me, hey, that's the breaks, maybe you will perform better if your

athletes are sweltering late at night in their bunks. i would want an air conditioner. i would want climate regulated conditions if i were an olympic athlete. i think the ioc is doing a good job. i'm surprised joe biden let them do it. again i would wager that almost everyone complaining about this will at some point be traveling on a private jet that uses far more energy and sets far more of a global climate crisis in order that anything we'll do during the course of the olympics to keep our athletes as cool as possible. >> mike: thanks for your time and analysis today. >> appreciate you all. have a good day. >> gillian: look at this. israel is marking what could be a major shift in the gaza war effort. how the battle is shifting and the increasing risk of a regional war now. plus this. [shouting]

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[shouting] >> mike: violence breaks out after anti-israel activists surround a synagogue. video showed at least one protestor chanting a slogan that calls for the destruction of israel. the lack of urgency or concern over this incident posting on x, ask yourself whether the lapd or

local politicians would have protected the victims here or even allowed this to occur if the victims he ethnicity was a more politically-favored group. >> cease-fire now. cease-fire now. cease-fire now. we are not -- we are not going to stand silent while u.s. tax dollars kills babies and women and children. >> mike: jamal bowman reffing up supporters trying to fend off a primary challenge from westchester county executive george latimer who is about to hold an event in mount vernon. eric shawn is following the race from the new york newsroom. >> well, he riled up the crowd in a t-shirt defiantly cursing with his political career on the line. >> progressive jamal bowman

accuses israel of committing genocide and he called for defunding the police and defended up putting up a photo on the wall of honor at the middle school when he was the principal there. now he could lose tomorrow's primary to westchester county executive latimer. he said latimer is too irresponsible to be in congress. >> do you support lgbtq writes and climate change. he represents a radical element that goes beyond what most people want. >> you may remember when bowman pled guilty for falsely pulling the fire alarm during a congressional vote. the rally this weekend joined by squad member alexandria ocasio-cortez and senator bernie

sanders. at the rally bowman called himself a hip-hop congressman and shouted an expletive-monologue attacking apec that's backing his opponent. >> [bleep] apec. why do i have a foul mouth? what am i supposed to do? i'm not supposed to fight back? we are going to show them who the [bleep] we are. we are going to show them who the [bleep] we are. >> he dropped the f word half a dozen times and torres called it unbecoming of a member of congress. latimer is reeding in the polls and if he wins he will be the

first person to depose a member of the squad. >> we'll follow it. thanks very much. >> gillian: israel striking hezbollah targets in lebanon. netanyahu says the idf is winding down the current phase of its operations inside gaza. meanwhile tens of thousands of israelis were calling for an end to the fighting and the return of all hostages still held by hamas. netanyahu says he is not ready to completely pull his forces just yet. listen. >> i'm not prepared to end the war and leave hamas in place. i am prepared to do a partial deal. no secret. that would return some of the people to us. >> gillian: he won't pack up idf operations and withdraw from gaza. general keane, if you were the advising the israeli prime minister right now what would

you tell him his next immediate step is? >> he has to continue to clear operations in rafah. he has rendered two of the four battalions ineffective. he has a couple more that he is trying to degrade. some of the forces in rafah, like in other parts of gaza, they have moved out of the way of the israelis because they want to preserve a certain element of the force. so i think he has to complete the clearing operations and he knows full well that there are other organizations to the north of rafah and further north in gaza city that over a period of weeks he will have to continue to conduct not major clearing operations but mortar geted raids to deal with the remnants of hamas. he doesn't want to leave a force in place that can regroup, reorganize and at some point reattack. but meanwhile, as mentioned in the introduction, he knows full well that he has got a major

problem with hezbollah in lebanon because there are 80,000 people who have evacuated from the northern israel homes that they've lived in. i think you have a map we can show the audience what's going on here. what he is facing is the reality that he needs to return those 80,000 people to their homes and to do that, he has to move the forces that have moved into southern lebanon. those are military-like forces. they have close to 100,000 troops in the hezbollah military. that's not the right map for some reason. but anyway, let me just talk through it. there is a river that is north of the northern israeli border and called the latani river. below that river is where most of the military forces are.

and he has an operation to conduct there. that is what he will focus on next. he wants hezbollah to withdraw those forces diplomatically. the biden administration has been trying to work something like that for the last two weeks. it has not materialized. if that doesn't happen, i don't believe prime minister netanyahu has much choice. he cannot let hezbollah redefine the israeli border. that's just the facts of it. that's what they've done right now with 80,000 having moved away from it. he wants those people to be able to return and return sovereignty to his border. his choices are conduct an air campaign very comprehensively to push hezbollah back across the river, or do an air and ground campaign to accomplish much of the same. this is very challenging. these forces are much more formidable than hamas, tens of thousands of rockets and missiles and attempt to overwhelm the air defense system

of israel if this attack takes place. it will be a significant escalation in military activities if the israelis have to push the hezbollah military away from the border. >> gillian: general keane, very insightful analysis from you as always. thank you for taking time with us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> mike: we're now learning the illegal immigrant accused of murdering a 12-year-old girl has arrived at the courthouse where he faces capital murder charges. more as we get it. plus former president trump hitting the campaign trail in deep blue philadelphia. can he flip the crucial swing state? >> we're in the middle of a pretty rough area and it is a love fest. you see that. it is incredible. they want to have a future. rates lately? many are over 22%, near 30% if you pay late. why not do what thousands

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>> harris: president biden is at camp david. donald trump is hitting the campaign trail hard. trump with choice words for biden ahead of the presidential debate. critics tearing into far left congressman jamal bowman. his mouth is like a sewer. apparently bowman thinks he can beat his moderate primary challenger by dropping f bombs, playing rap music and bringing aoc along for the ride. "the faulkner focus" is top of the hour. >> gillian: welcome back. hawaiian surfer and lifeguard has been killed by a shark. 49-year-old perry was surfing off the coast of oahu yesterday. he was attacked by a shark. he was dead on the scene. what can you tell us, william? >> perry was taking a break from

his lifeguard shift on the north shore when attacked by a shark. perry is a surfing legend and actor. the second shark attack this month in hawaii and third this year. honolulu fire responded to the 911 call shortly after 1:30 on sunday. perry suffered multiple shark bites. the 49-year-old began working as a lifeguard eight years ago and while competing internationally in surf contests and picking up acting gigs. born and raised on ohio he leaves behind a wife and countless friends. >> he was a lifeguard loved by all. he is well-known on the north shore, professional surfer known worldwide around the world. >> it is a tragic loss. as kirk said he was a legendary waterman and highly respected

grew up right over here and just great member of our ocean safety team. >> while the exact species is unknown locals suspect it was a tiger shark. they grow to 14 feet, 1,000 pounds and this is the -- they rank second only to the white shark in recorded attacks on humans. gillian. >> gillian: sad all the way around. >> we see that president biden is out at camp david and you are on the campaign trail. what is your strategy for the debate? >> the best strategy here. all the people screaming questions and i look forward to the debate. >> when you go to urban areas what's the game plan. philly, bronx, what's the plan? >> it is a lot of love, no game plan. they want hope. there is no hope with this guy biden. the worst president we've ever had. there is no hope. >> do you think he will be good on the stage? >> he will be prepared and fine

an forget it an hour after preparing. we'll see what happens. >> mike: the first ever rally in philadelphia over the weekend meeting up with hard working americans and president biden is hold up in camp david cramming for the presidential debate simulcast on fox. we have a talk radio host, rich, based in philadelphia. >> good morning, thank you for having me. >> what has been the buzz on local radio after former president trump rallied in philadelphia on saturday? >> mike, you have to realize, you know this. this neighborhood where he went is a rough neighborhood. the same night a cop was shot in the head and clinging to his life. trump goes into these neighborhoods. there is a lot of love for him. he is around working class people. goes into a cheese steak shop. ribeye for cheese steak. not a chopped steak. he gives a $5 hundred tip and no taxes on tips. this is a message to the black

population. working class people. democrat party has forgotten you and taking you for granted way too long. crime and inflation are out of control and i'm coming to you. biden is hanging out in new york and california with the elites i'm with you, the real everyday working people. a great message, mike, it really is. >> mike: a lot of folks believe how pennsylvania goes is how the election will go. what are you seeing and hearing in your city when it comes to this race? >> mike, i hear from con should be workers cops and everyday people and people who voted for biden in 2020 and say it with a as biggest mistake of their life. a guy from the natural gas industry calls me and says worst mistake i made was voting for biden. now he is coming for my job. they get it and see it. they call me, mike, 100%. whoever wins pennsylvania will be the next president of the united states, no question about it. trump gets that. he is coming to pennsylvania all the time. north philadelphia, look, this

is not down where the liberty bell is or not the tourist area. no republican president or candidate has ever gone to temple to campaign. he is up there in this neighborhood reaching a new group of people going right to the heart of it, mike. a great strategy. >> mike: the cnn presidential debate is thursday night. charlamagne predicts it will go badly for president biden. >> you are going to let trump go? and you can't jump in? and you 80 plus years old trying to keep up with every single lie he is going to lay out? are you serious? >> you have a point there. >> biden is not going to be able to keep up. it is going to be -- listen, i don't know, maybe it won't be bad. maybe they have some new super serum. >> it will be bad. >> mike: what do you make of that? >> biden will have an i.v. a little cocktail to keep him

up. they are lowering expectations, what they want to do. lower expectations to turn around and say wow, biden was going to do it. if he isn't comatose for 90 minutes that's a win. without a crowd will be good. trump thrives off the crowd's energy. this debate is advantage to joe biden. everybody is setting the barlow. the other question. are they doing this debate in june to keep him going or he goes in there and they know it will be a disaster and swap him out in august at the convention? that's the real question. why are we doing a presidential debate in june when everybody is on vacation and kids out of school? i had to get three kids to summer camp. not easy. here we are talking about a presidential debate. no one is paying attention. this is a question of can joe biden really get to november? they still have time to make a swap at the convention in late august.

this is what i think this debate is all about for the democrats. >> mike: plenty for you to talk about in philadelphia this week. thank you for your time and analysis and we'll follow all of it this week. thanks, rich. >> thank you. >> gillian: take a look at this. nasa canceling a space walk scheduled for this morning. one of the astronaut's space suits leaked and forced nasa to pull a plug. the second time it was canceled over a space shut issue. >> mike: as a space geek i love it. >> gillian: we don't have coolant in our suits here. >> mike: the planet looks pretty from up there. >> gillian: great to be with you today. "america's newsroom," and "the faulkner focus" is next with harris. >> harris: a fox news alert as american voters know the current pr