to new york city prosecutor alvin bragg whose office said this past week they would not press charges against 31 of the 46 people who invaded hamilton hall during the anti-israel protests at a columbia university. said there wasn't enough video and they had their faces covered with masks. meanwhile, prosecutors in austin, texas, said they were dropping charges against 76 people pretty much for the same reason. it's sad to say we saw this non-prosecution coming, but this is the reason so many of these increasingly viability protesters -- violent protesters keep running into the streets. they know the legal system is going to set them scot-free. paul all right. thank you all. that's it for this weak's show. thanks to my panel -- this week's show. thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot, hope to see you right here next week. eric: president biden, well, he vows to keep fighting, defying calls from some to bow out of the presidential race after

thursday's debate. he told supporters at a north carolina rally that he still intends to win, but some words may not be enough to calm democrats' fears that he potentially could be the ron kennedy to run -- the wrong kennedy to run against president trump. hello, everyone, i'm eric shawn. arthel: i'm arthel neville president biden is attending fundraisers in new york and new jersey as he tries to shift the narrative away from the debate. looking at a live shot here. the president is about to leave new york, and we'll see if he takes questions. meanwhile, his campaign is in full damage control mode. the president faces a media onslaught after a debate performance some are calling disastrous. the biden camp says they are keeping their eyes on november 5th, election day. >> i think that what you will see as you often see after these debates are not huge changes. the president's going to

continue to be out there, and he's going to make his case for why donald trump is a threat to this country and why there is a better path ahead for america. and we're basically saying the president is the only person out there who's ever beaten donald trump, and he will do it again. you know? and we're all going to work together on this. eric for the latest let's go to mad lin revera -- madeleine rivera. >> reporter: good afternoon, eric. the president while trying to soothe the concerns of democratic doe donors oz on his way to his first fundraiser, the president passed people with signs that a read step down for dem crass -- democracy. it does speak to the fallout and the panic among his supporters after his performance if on or thursday. "the new york times" editorial board making an urgent plea for the president to leave the race. they say in part the president needed to convince the american public that he was equal to the

formidable demands of the office he is seeking to hold for another term. voters, however, could not be expected to ignore what was insteaded plain to see, mr. biden is not the man he was four years ago. four years ago the president also said this. >> look, i view myself as a bridge, not as anything else. there's an entire generation of leaders you saw stand behind me. they are the future of this country. >> reporter: currently, there are no indications the president is planning to drop out. instead, he's planning to pivot the try and focus on what the campaign says were the 50 lies former president trump made on the debate stage. president biden had to be fact checked too, he said the border patrol endorsed him before clarifying they endorsed his position, perhaps referring to the senate's immigration bill that he supported. the national border patrol council posting on, and, to be clear, we never have and never will endorse biden. this afternoon the democratic national committee reportedly

held a call trying to rally troops behind the president. we'll see how effective that is in tamping down the alarm among democrats. eric. eric: all right, madeleine, thank you. arthel: a string of high profile crimes alleged hi by illegal immigrants has shone an ugly spotlight on the crisis at our southern border. just this month an illegal venezuelan immigrant allegedly shot two nypd officers at point-blank range during a traffic stop. also in new york an illegal immigrant from ecuador was charged with raping a 13-year-old girl, and federal agents from l.a. to nyc recently arrested eight illegal immigrants from tajikistan with potential ties to the terror group isis. >> c. b. cotton live in new york city with all the details. c.b. >> reporter: hi, arthel. one of the latest cases we've been following is even now more grim. the 211-year-old woman who prosecutors say was killed in upstate new york last week had

reportedly come to this country fleeing domestic violence. ultimately, she perished here on u.s. soil. prosecutors say jocelyn was suffocated on her 21st birthday by an illegal migrant, a man she had known in ec what what door. the pair met up last week, and the suspect was captured on surveillance leaving with her limp body draped across his back. prosecutors also tell fox he buried his old classmate in a shallow grave. on thursday he a appeared in court where local reports say he claims to not remember anything because he was too drunk. and then about two hours away many albany, another illegal migrant appeared in court pleading not guilty to the raping a teen girl in albany. a police report says back on a may 14th he threatened the 15-year-old girl with a metal pole to get inside his car.

border patrol agents arrested khan, a turkish citizen, in november 2023 at the u.s.-mexico border in california. khan's attorney tells us his client is seeking asylum i because of political instability and significant social issues in the country. the defense attorney also told us his client has no criminal history adding, quote, he denies that he committed any forcible sexual act against the complainant. we believe evidence in the case will shed light on what occurred that night, end quote. retired fbi special agent nicole parker says the numbers crossing the border means no one can be adequately vetted. listen. >> what you are seeing right now is just the tip of the iceberg. i feel like everyone in law enforcement and and now the military, members of the special operations association of america, they have spoken up, it is as if we are all bracing for impact. the damage has been done, frankly. you have allowed millions to of people to pour into the united states, and, you know, they claim that they've been vetted.

well, you've got millions of gotaways. they have not been vetted. >> reporter: i.c.e. now has an immigration hold on the man accused of raping the 15-year-old teen girl in albany. arthel. arthel: c.b. cotton, thank you. eric. eric: and as we've been reporting, the month of june has been a busy one for law enforcement on this issue. there's been a string of shocking crimes allegedly committed by illegal migrants who cross through our southern border. they include murder and rape. all these cases and prosecutions now shedding a spotlight on the border crisis. what can be done about all this? former arizona supreme court judge andrew gold served on the bench, in 20211 he ran for the republican mom meation for the state attorney general and is a former prosecutor and was on the state's high court. judge gould, welcome. thank you for being here today. >> good to be here, eric. eric: how would you suggest law enforcement and law and order be enforced? >> well, it's pretty simple.

i spent many years on the border as a judge and a prosecutor. if you tighten up security and you're tough on the cartels and the criminal elements and you are tough on immigration so that people follow the law and you know who's coming into the country, hen you're going to have more security on the border. when you have policies like the biden administration has enacted where they are lax on border security and they are lax on who's coming into the country, what you allow is cartels and criminal elements to go into that vacuum and control the border. you also just increase the numbers. we have a doctrine or a phrase in the law called but for causation, and what that means is but for something being done, an act will occur. here, if you let 50,000 people in and you don't screen theming you're going to increase the --

them, you're going to increase the chances doubly if you let 10900,000 people in that there are criminal elements -- 10 to 90,000. so that's what's causing the problem. eric: we saw the president blaming republicans and president trump for this. there was a border deal, the senate agreed. i mean, they had one, is and former president trump supposedly scuttled it. what would, is your response to that, to the democratic claim that congress, the republican congress, should have an answer and work on that? >> that omnibus crime bill created more asylum officials. it did not allow for the additional money and personnel to be used for border security. finish in other words, it was a way to process more people to come into the country faster and didn't provide for security. it expanded this asylum group or asylum patrol to the point where they had much greater power to stop deportations, to allow people in.

so it is a complete misnomer and disingenuous to say that that was a border security bill. if in terms of the most recent efforts by the president, his asylum limits, that's been in place for 2-3 weeks. but, look, let's be honest, the numbers are still at record highs, and we don't even know if that executive order is responsible. you know, eric, it gets pretty hot down here on the border. when it's 115 degrees, that starts to slow things up. i think the thing that is painfully obvious to the american people -- and setting a aside what people think in terms of the president p's cognitive abilities or lack thereof -- his addressing the issue of immigration is out of touch with reality. at bottom he stated at the debate that a there's no problem down here, and his policies are working. and, eric, that just doesn't fly with people in arizona, that doesn't fly with people in terms

of what's going on in this country. and it was disappointing to me to say the least that the next day the president, when this issue is so important to people, flew to north carolina. he should have been down here in arizona to make the people in this state believe that he wants to do something about this problem. eric: if you were to, finally, try and solve it, can it be solved? you've had them in your courtroom, you've dealt with the laws. what would you do right now to potentially try and get ahold of this situation? >> well, you have to focus on the issue. but the most important thing that i've found over the years is problems are always better dealt with when people closer to the problem have the authority and the money to do it. and i think this is a time where the assets, the authority needs to move from washington, d.c. down to the states and down to the local authorities. the federal government will always have its place, but

states, local sheriffs need to have more personnel, more authority in terms of memorandums of understanding, agreements and support. let the local sheriffs have authority to arrest illegal immigrants. let the local sheriffs and the states have authority to deal with the cartels and the problems and the people that live in their communities. having this flip-flop in washington, d.c. depending on whoever's in the white house doesn't help the people who are here close to the problem. so we need to follow the federal model that we have in our great constitution and move those issues and that authority to the states and local authorities. eric: you, your state dealing with it on the front line every single day. former arizona supreme court justice andrew would. judge, thank you for joining us and for your insight. >> my pleasure, eric. eric: of course. arthel? the. arthel: police have arrested the 64-year-old driver they say is responsible for a deadly crash at a long island nail salon. at least four people were killed

and nine hurt after the car slammed into the front of the building. the suspect was charged with dwi and has several other charges pending. among those killed was 30-year-old nypd officer amelia. she was reportedly getting her nails done for an upcoming wedding. she was an officer in the queens 10 2nd precinct where her husband is a do detective. eric: meanwhile, two former uvalde, texas, school police officers and officials have been indicted over their response to the 2022 massacre at the robb elementary school in uvalde. former chief and former officer are facing multiple felon nebraska charges of abandoning or endangering the welfare of children. officials say they did not recognize that there was an active shooter going on at that a school at the time, and it took 77 minutes for that situation to be resolved.

they are the first people criminally charged over the botched response to the shooting. ten children and two teachers were killed. it is unclear whether the grand jury's considering indictments against any of the many other officers who were standing by through those the horrendous 77 minutes. arthel: well, eric, the jury in the karen read murder trial outside of boston will be back on monday after they told the judge they're deadlocked, and the judge ordered them to keep deliberating. judge beverly canone sided with prosecutors who argued jurors had not deliberated long enough given the length of trial and the amount of evidence. earlier, i spoke with criminal defense attorney mercedes colwin about what this means for both sides. >> there's no question in my mind the prosecution will resume proceedings to try to prosecute her at a later time because a hung jury dun mean that it'll trigger double jeopardy. she could be prosecuted again.

she has not been found not guilty if, in fact, that's the ultimate resolution here where the jury says there's been an impasse and they can't come to a unanimous verdict. arthel: karen read is charged with second-degree murder. she is accused of hitting her police officer boyfriend with her suv and leaving him to die in freezing temperatures. read's defense team argues she was framed by police is and that investigators mishandled key pieces of evidence. [inaudible conversations] >> reporter: will you testify next week -- >> the government hasn't proven its case. eric: democratic senator bob me 9/11 if december after a prosecutors rested their case yesterday. defense attorneys begin calling their own witnesses next week. the trial expected to wrap up around mid july. menendez is accused of accepting bribes including cash, gold bars and a clubsly car in education

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>> hard to sugar coat it. no one can be happy with president biden's performance, and anyone who is saying that he did a good job is frigging delusional. this is going to be solely up to president biden because he owns the delegates, and he will decide whether he will or will not step down. eric: president biden back on the campaign trail in new york and emergency today showing no signs of stepping aside amid calls from some democrats and editorial pundits to do just that. who could potentially step in he steps out? christina coleman with a look at the potential replacements if it gets to that. hey, christina. [laughter] >> reporter: hi, eric. yeah, that's right. after president biden's rough

debate performance thursday night, many media outlets and political analysts said it is time for biden to step aside. and as for his possible replacement, there's several names that have been floated around a lot including california governor gavin newsom. even though republicans can ease wily slam him over the high taxes, chronic crime and homelessness in this state, this democratic governor does not shy away from the cameras or making national headlines. some political analysts believe he's been running a shadow campaign. he has been making presidential moves for months now; visiting israel shortly after hamas' october 7th attack and making a trip to china to discuss climate initiatives. he ran abortion right rights in republican-controlled states, is and he went head to head with former gop presidential contender florida governor ron desantis in a debate moderated by sean hannity right here on fox last year. newsom was at the presidential debate on thursday. after biden's rough performance, he was asked about replacing the

president. here was his response. [inaudible conversations] >> reporter: if you're asked, would you be willing to take -- >> i'm not -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> elle never turn my back on -- >> reporter: would you urge the president to reconsider finish. >> absolutely not. [inaudible] never turn my back -- that's a perm point of view. i do not know one democrat that would -- [inaudible] >> reporter: another democrat whose name keeps getting floated is michigan governor gretchen whitmer. she leads a swing state and helped flip both chambers of the state legislature blue with her fight for abortion rights, a key issue among democrats this election is season. and we cannot go without mentioning former first lady michelle obama and vice president kamala harris, both women are very popular among democrats. "the washington post" including them in a list of potential biden replacements in addition

to democrat josh shapiro who won a solid victory for governorship in 2022 in pennsylvania, a purple state which is critical for democrats' hopes of winning the white house this november. eric? eric: all right. we shall see. all right, christina, thank you. arthel? arthel: thanks, eric. are you one of many americans who were hopeful earlier this year that the federal reserve would cut interest rates in 2024? well, now we're half through the year and perhaps those hopes are fading as the federal reserve continues to fight inflation. rates currently stand a little over 5%. core cpi, the main indicator for inflation, is still slightly above the fed's 2% target. but there are ways americans can use the current financial climate to cash in on some tons. let's bring in cpa and president of the marx group, gene markets so, gene -- marx. gene, always good to have you. i know you sent in some notes, some suggestions.

let's go down those. >> sure. arthel: you said to maximize interest income. so how do you do that? >> yeah, arthel, first of all, interest expense is high, but there are opportunities by maximizing interest income. you just mentioned that inflation right now is around 3%, but most banks are offering cds that pay, certificates of toes if sit, that pay anywhere from 5-6% in interest. or if you don't want a cd, you want a treasury note or a treasury bill or talk to an insurance company about a multiyear annuity, all of these things are paying in excess of 5%. the fee you have to be careful though, when you put money into now these vehicles, you are locking them up for a period of time. it might be six months or a year or even longer. so you are if you've got excess cash that you don't think you're going to be using, put it away in a cd. you'll earn almost twice what inflation is now. it's a good way to take advantage of high interest rates. arthel: a okay. that's good, gene.

you said we should consider options for refinancing debt at lower rates. now, as you well know, people's credit scores are getting reduced because of their current financial status, so how can those consumers find those lower rates? >> credit cards, first of all, if you're maintaining a balance on your credit card, you want to make it priority number one to get rid of your credit card debt. i mean, we all know that credit cards charge so much. you know, anywhere from 20-30% in interest in some cases. so you have to remove your credit card debt. so what do you do, arthel? well, if you have equity in your home and, by the way, many home prices have been going up a lot over the past couple years, so you might have more equity than you think, try to get a home equity loan and move your credit card debt to that. you will fine yourself paying half the amount of interest, even more than half. even if you can't get a home equity loan or you've got other assets, you might be able to get a personal loan from your bank. whatever you can do to shift that debt away from credit cards

and into a loan either secured by your house or other assets, you will save significantly on those high interest costs. arthel: okay. so, gene, i want to right now take a look at the average a debt. average debt amount per consumer. we'll start with mortgage. this is average. $245,000. home equity line of credit, you just mentioned that, $42,000. auto loan, $24,000. credit card, $65500 -- 65000. this is average per if consumer -- 6500. you're looking at a total average of 104,000. so i'm going to ask you a question that might be controversial, but, you know, here goes. [laughter] can banks, can banks lower their interest rates, decrease their profit margins to help out those individual consumers? their clients through these tough times? >> the answer is absolutely, yes, arthel. and, by the way, i mean, i deal

with a lot of small business owners and individual clients. they are dealing with their banks as a well. banks are businesses like anything else. they make money off of interest, and interest is negotiable. different banks charge different rates. it fends on the deal that -- depends on the deal is and the type of relationship you have with your bank. but there's no reason whyyou feel like you are burdened with too much debt with your mortgage or with something else that you can't talk to your mortgage company or your bank about refinancing or renegotiating that debt to extend it a little bit more or even asking for a lower interest rate. you might be surprised, and you might get help. money of these institutions want to see you default on any of those loans, and if you feel you're overburdened, they will work along with you. i've seen it before with many of my climbs. arthel: they're if you're shopping for a better deal, they want to keep your business. we're talking about for businesses now, we were talking about individuals, you suggest leveraging financing options from the sba and state small

business credit. talk about that. >> so the small business administration has been a big resource for a lot of my clients this year. their interest rates that they charge on their loans are pretty much at a market rate, so it's not as if you're going to save that much on interest. however, two things with them, you can go if to them, you have more of a chance of getting a loan as a small business because those loans are guaranteed by the federal government. and, number two, the small business administration just introduced a working capital loan, and what they're trying to do is to encourage small businesses to take away are from their credit card debt like we talked about before and move it to a small business, sba, working capital loan because the interest rates there are significantly lower than what a you're paying for a credit card. and that's designed specifically for small businesses. so go to sba.gov, look for an sba a lender in your area and go out and talk to one of those lenders. they're banks, and they will be offer to those -- offer those

options. arthel: that's why i called you. thanks, gene marks. take care. >> have a great fourth. arthel: you too. eric: speaking of money, $6 billion in funds promised to the victims of the opioid epidemic are now in limbo. the supreme court blocked a settlement with purdue pharma, so how will the states provide closure? west virginia attorney general patrick morrisey on what the sacklers could do next. ♪ but when you get your tools from harbor freight something about the job feels different - your wallet. whatever you do, do it for less, at harbor freight. ♪

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supposed to be a week or so at the international space station. madison scarpino has the latest on this. hi, madison. >> reporter: hi, arthel. massa a is now aiming for the starliner to return to earth sometime late next month. there has been one delay after another with this test flight, and nasa is blaming issues with with the spacecraft's thrusters and small helium leaks. but nasa is stressing that the astronauts onboard, retired navy captains williams and wilmore, are are in no serious danger, and they are not stranded in space. nasa a says the astronauts are getting a lot done at the iss with extra time, and engineers are studying the spacecraft's issues. the goal really is to prevent these troubles from impacting future astronauts. jose hernandez spent 14 days at the iss in 2009 on the sts-328 mission. he says -- 128 mission. he says the days went by way too fast, and it's not surprising

that a new spacecraft does have some issues. >> the astronauts are not stranded. look, believe me, they are happy being up there and willing to stay longer. but i applaud boeing and nasa for trying to find the root cause of both the helium leaks and the thruster failures. it's a new vehicle. let's get the kinks out, let's understand it and then let's move if forward. if. >> reporter: nasa originally said the starliner can stay docked at the iss for 45 days which is just a few weeks away, but after testing nasa says that that time window can be extended. now if, if there is some type of emergency situation where astronauts would need to leave the iss, nasa says the starliner would be cleared to go back to earth. if so overall, nasa a says the space craft is doing well in orbit. here's what they said yesterday. >> we don't have any new problems working with starliner or the international space

station. the vehicle at the station is in good shape. >> reporter: and when the time finally comes for the starliner and its astronauts to head home, they're expected to land at the the wheat sands space harbor -- white sands space harbor in southern new mexico. arthel? arthel: and we'll be waiting. madison scarpino, thank you. eric? eric: the supreme court decided thursday to block bankruptcy deals that would have shielded the sackler family from future lawsuits, all, of course, related to their giant drug company, purdue pharma a, and its infamous drug, oxycontin. the case now heads back to the lower courts meaning more negotiations and more time before the vix of the opioid epidemic -- victims can receive financial compensation. justice kavanaugh writing in the dissent, quote: gutting this longstanding bankruptcy court practice is entirely counterproductive and simply if inflicts more injury on the opioid victims. opioid victims and other future victims of mass torts will suffer greatly in the wake of today's unfortunate and destabilize toking decision.

you know, opioid overdoses in our country, take a look at that, they've skyrocketed over 20 years. the cdc says over 20 -- in 2022 there were 80,000 deaths in our country. the state most affected, according to the cdc, is west virginia9 with the largest number of deaths per capita that. and that that state's attorney general, patrick morrisey, joins us now on this decision. mr. attorney general, welcome. what do you make of this decision? your state and you have been fighting and dealing with this for a long time. >> yeah, in this has been a very important issue for our state. we've seen so much death and many misery as a result of the addiction, and we have always said we want to make sure that we're going to hold those accountable for the role hay played -- they played in the drug epidemic that's killed so many thousands in our state. so, look, what this court decision means is that we're going to have to go back and we're going to have to negotiate something that's consistent with

the bankruptcy code. i think we can do that. it might delay the delivery of some of the resources, but i think we should make sure we get it right. i also think that we should ensure that all of those responsible get to participate in this process, and i'm going to predict something here. this is going to result in even more resources that might flow to west virginia or to other states acrosses the country. eric: and what is your sense and your view of how the affects the sackler family? we've seen a lot about them through the years. >> right. eric: they reportedly took out $11 billion in profits before this all started. and they were immunized. explain that and how this could affect effect them, and they're immunized, but will they personally have to deal with any of this and be accountable? >> yeah, i think that the essence of the case really focused on the fact that the sacklers were not the ones that were part of the bankruptcy and so, therefore, the court felt

uncomfortable in providing them with the relief, you know, the discharges from further responsibility, from debts that might get owed by the sacklers. so i think that's -- a lot of people were very worried about that. they wanted to be able to pierce the corporate veil. they wanted to hold the sacklers even more responsible for the role they played and the fact that a lot of the monies were a taken out of the company which left less money available for relief from the oxycontin, from the if opioid epidemic claim. so i'm guessing what will happen now. we're going to probably be engaged in some mediation and negotiation in the upcoming weeks ahead. it's that we're going to have a situation where people will know that a we're going to have to think of this framework a little bit differently. they'll probably have to be the sacklers stepping up a little bit more to some of the affected claims so that if you're going to get a release from the sacklers, there's going to have

to be a sense that there'll be probably a little bit more that they'll have to step up and pay. eric: they've denied wrongdoing, but in your sense, what relief from the sacklers, what would that be? what do you think is appropriate? and what do you think people would want from this family that we've seen so much about? >> look, i think there's been a little bit of uncertainty in terms of the level of the relief because some of it's been subject to what the sacklers would be able to sell their assets for. so i think there'll probably be a little bit more certainty around that, but the key is you're going to have to get consent of the claimants, and that's the bottom line. there's still a lot of division over what that would look like. look, i'm a believer that there are allegations. they have to get proven in a court of law. we certainly thought that purdue and the people that were managing purdue, we had alleged that they were culpable, and we had sued purdue back in 2019. i think that the sacklers, we always had believed they played an important role in that.

that's why i individually named one of sacklers in the case that we filed. so i think that people want to bring the sacklers in more. i expect that they're going to be participating at a higher level. that would be my hope. if folks see this today, they're going to be stepping up a little bit more. everybody eric this caused such pain and there's been such devastation in families around our country if you have a family affected by that. is that still at the same level? has it been creased in any way in your state? -- addressed? >> well, it has. we have actually taken on, we actually had not only filed a lot of litigation, but most importantly we had reached agreements with a lot of the companies that we sue so that there was a settlement where we're actually creating a foundation that's charged with attacking the epidemic holistically from a supply, demand and educational perspective. and so for the first time ever you have a public-private partnership, a plan and some resources to attack the it. that a money is going to begin

to now i would say this summer, and that's going to be very positive. but the other piece of this is that now we're moving to a different stage of this drug end them cantic because you have a lot -- epidemic because you have a lot of people who were districted, and now you have a lot of the cheap products coming in. the fentanyl from china, the broad ingredients that get shipped to mexico, then they're a packaged together by the cartels, they make their way up to west virginia. so that's part of what we're dealing with, the aftermath of a lot of what started with oxycontin. and that's the reason why we have some challenges. eric: certainly seems you're fighting for the families and the victims of this horrendous situation. >> absolutely. eric: west virginia attorney general patrick morrisey, thanks for joining us. >> hey, thanks for having me on, appreciate it. eric: of course. arthel? arthel: families who have lost loved ones to fentanyl poisoning or overdoses gathered in new york this week for a summit on this crisis. the cdc says fentanyl killed

nearly 75,000 people last year. families say there's not enough action to curb this growing problem. bryan llenas has the story. >> it's not talked about enough. >> reporter: at the drug enforcement administration's third annual family summit on fentanyl in new york, victims' families are concerned the crisis is not getting the kind of attention on the campaign trail it deserves. >> if a plane was crashing every day and killing 300 people, we'd take all the planes out of the air until we figured it out. why are we not jumping up and down and kicking and if streaming about -- screaming about this fentanyl crisis? >> reporter: families say more needs to be done to stop china from shipping fentanyl ingredients and warn that poisonings and overdoses can happen to anyone. tom basel, a pastor who was 27 years clean of drugs, died of a fentanyl overdose just three months ago a. >> it's not just people that are coming across the border, it's fentanyl. >> it doesn't just affect lower

income or people seen as a less than. my father was a pastor. it can affect anyone. >> reporter: kelly's 1919-year-old son prank key died in 2021 -- 19-year-old, poisoned by a fake percocet pill laced with fentanyl. she wants more done to empower law enforcement to go after low-level street sellers. she says her son's dealer fled to colombia and is now back in the u.s. free. >> he is back, and i'm hoping by reopening the case they'll be able to find him because he is in manhattan. and and i know his name, i know his sites and he's been dealing drugs. >> reporter: according to the cdc, fentanyl deaths have increased 29% since 2020 to 7 a 5,000 -- 75,000 last year. arthel is? arthel: bryan llenas, thank you very much. and, by the way, no one is less than. we'll be right back. like indulgent memory foam, and ultra-conforming inner-springs,

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eric: president biden and former president trump traded jabs over russia's invasion of ukraine during the debate thursday night. trump claimed that if he's elected, he would have the war settled even before he takes office. biden responded that trump would just let vladimir putin take over ukraine and then attack more countries. stephanie bennett has more. >> reporter: eric, four years ago during their last presidential debate, foreign policy didn't get a lot of air time. now this time around with two major wars, it's hard to avoid. and it got pretty heated. >> if we had a real president, a president that knew -- that was respected by putin, he would have never, he would have never invaded ukraine. >> go ahead, let putin go in and control ukraine and then move on to poland and other places. see what happens then. he has no idea what the hell he's talking about. >> reporter: under the biden administration, the united states has been a strong backer of ukraine's war effort supplying kyiv with $175 billion in emergency support. thursday night biden also a claimed he's gotten 50 other

nations including japan and south korea to support ukraine. while former president donald trump vowed thursday to settle the war between russia and ukraine before his inauguration, but he did not say how that would be accomplished. trump also declared that biden's current stance would push into another war. >> and president xi of china, kim jong un from north korea, all of these -- putin, they don't respect him, they don't fear him. they have nothing going with this gentleman, and he's going to drive us into world war iii. >> you want a world war iii, let him follow and win and let putin say do what you want in nato. >> reporter: on israel's war in gaza, biden touted his ceasefire plan and claimed no one has been a greater supporter of israel than the u.s.. >> we're providing israel with the weapons they need and when they need them. and, by the way, i'm the guy that organized the world against iran when they had a full-blown, intercontinental ballistic

missile attack against israel. >> reporter: while trump claims israel would never have been invaded a had he been president. >> just like israel would have never been invaded in a million years by hamas. you know why? because iran was broke with me. i wouldn't let anybody do business with them. >> reporter: for now, neither war has come any closer to a ceasefire agreement. eric? eric: stephanie, thanks so much. arthel? arthel: well, the first hurricane of the season has formed. where it's heading, we'll tell you coming up next. ♪ ♪

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forecasters say it's too soon, thankfully, to tell if beryl will impact the continental united states. arthel: shark warnings are in effect in hawaii after six reported sightings this week. a 12-foot tiger shark was spotted off the south shore of oahu, it was swimming 30 yards from a break wall. a 20-year-old tourist was likely bitten by a shark off the northern coast of hawaii's big island monday. it happened a day after a shark killed actor and lifeguard tomio perry. one expert with warning for swimmers. >> going in the water at dawn and dusk, typically that's when sharks do hunt, their hunting behavior sort of increases. so it's just really paying attention to this environment. arthel: there have been nine deadly shark attacks in hawaii waters since 1955. and -- 1995. and as americans gear up for the forty of july, high prices are back in the spotlight. eric and i will get into it

tomorrow on "fox news live" with at12 p.m. eastern with north dakota senator john hoeven and former restaurant chain ceo andy puzder. then at 2 p.m. eastern, shannon bream on "fox news sunday" with senator j.d. vance. eric: looking forward to that tomorrow. good to see you, arthel, as always, and thank you, folks. with the freestyle libre 3 system know your glucose levels. no fingersticks needed. all with the world's smallest and thinnest sensor. and lower your a1c. try it for free at freestylelibre.us with so many choices on booking.com there are so many tina feys i could be. so i hired body doubles to help me out. splurgy tina loves a hotel near rodeo drive.

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