>> before you leave. tomorrow and friday fox news special coverage of the queen's platinum jubilee. >> a great party across the pond. party on. >> bill: so long, everybody. good morning. president biden saying he is laser focused on fighting inflation. for the american people relief is nowhere in sight. the price of gas today. i'm bill hemmer. dana has the day off today. hello to our old friend -- to our young friend. but dear colleague. >> i'm happy to be with you this morning, bill. good morning. to kick things off here this is "america's newsroom." the price of gasoline surged to another all-time high, $4.67 a gallon. record after record at this point. driving the latest increase is

the e.u. cutting off 90% of russian oil imports. >> bill: check out the gas station in l.a. near hollywood. that's not a movie. that's $8.05 a gallon. >> julie: we need a new word for sticker shock. when you drive up and see that. making matters worse is the nationwide labor shortage. now we are anticipating brand-new numbers out this morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. the numbers are expected to show 11 1/2 million job openings in this country. that is nearly twice as many jobs as there are people looking for work. >> bill: the president repeatedly insisting inflation was transitory. during his administration it has continued to climb and climb higher surging to 8.3% under his watch, which is as we know now, a 40-year high. >> white house has tried to paint a rosie picture of all

this. you saw the president's piece published this week. one member of the president's team is now appearing to admit some fault in all of this. >> i was wrong then about the path of inflation would take. as i mentioned, there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that i am at the time didn't fully understand. >> bill: so jacqui heinrich begins our coverage from the north lawn to talk about the strategy and news around it now. >> good morning. the president's meeting with fed chair jerome powell highlights the push to bring down inflation. the president promised to let the fed do its job without interference which gives him some distance from the problem

and how quickly it is or is not resolved. a shift away all of this from the administration's current strategy clinging to projections that prices would come down soon and defending pandemic spending that some critics have blamed for exacerbating inflation. some white house officials said they should publicly accept blame the stimulus contributed to higher prices and argue the work was worthwhile. others are strongly opposed. publicly the white house isn't taking any blame yet for not acting faster. >> i just disagree with that and i could quote you 20, 30 other experts who had different projections who thought inflation was coming down. >> the white house is continuing to face questions about whether the country is headed into a recession. most recently biden said a recession at this point is not inevitable but larry summers, former treasury secretary under president obama is less

optimistic. >> inflation is above 4 and unemployment below 4, you are almost certain to have a recession within the next two years. >> how bad? >> we may somehow find a way of beating the odds at having a soft landing, but it would be historic counter example. >> adding to this effort to show that the white house is bringing an outside experts to address all these problems the president will meet with baby formula manufacturerers to get an update on production after an nbc report yesterday alleged he was frustrated he wasn't briefed about this problem sooner only getting his first briefing a month ago. >> bill: thank you, jacqui heinrich. gallup has a new survey out. the most important problem facing the country today. here is the answer, the government/poor leadership was at 19%. inflation a tick behind at 18%

along with the high cost of living, economy in general. they go together, 1b and c. you have to defend your ideas in a time like this. >> 100%. >> bill: you can judge for yourself whether or not they are doing a good job defending their ideas and defending their plans. >> you had brian deese on the show yesterday and deployed to do just that. another member of the president's team on with us yesterday and the question is, what are they forecasting with this economic plan to get things going again. i haven't seen quantitative analysis where they can get the economy in the next 4, 6 months. it's an outstanding question in my opinion. the justice department filing an appeal to reinstate masks on airplanes and trains. a federal judge ruled to lift

the mandate. jonathan serrie is live in atlanta home of the cdc. are the masks going back on? >> that remains up in the air literally. the justice department argues the cdc does have the authority to impose mandates when it is in the interest in public health. according to the filing the cdc properly established for the nation's transportation system presents unique risks. people from diverse parts of the country each part with different levels of covid activity share tight quarters for extended periods of time. health officials say wearing masks reduces the risk of covid transmission. the biden administration is keen to restore the federal government's ability to impose mask mandates in times and places of high transmission. cdc officials have yet to say whether they would actually reinstate the travel mask mandate immediately if the d.o.j. wins its appeal. the agency's website says cdc continues to recommend that

people wear masks in indoor public transportation settings at this time. now all this is unfolding as daily infections are rising in the u.s. 59% of active cases involve a new sub variant that early studies suggest can infect people if they have immunity against the original omicron variant. federal health officials say the shots and antiviral treatments for higher-risk patients significantly reduce the number of hospitalizations and deaths. but whether they take the added precaution of bringing masks back to planes, trains and other forms of public transportation is yet to be seen. sandra. >> we'll watch what happens. thank you. >> bill: meanwhile they're still counting votes in pennsylvania and could be more uncertainty in the race. the supreme court putting on hold the counting of mail-in ballots that do not have a date

on the envelope. this happening as dr. oz leaves mccormick by 900 votes. bryan llenas in new york with more. >> good morning. supreme court justice samuel alito issued a temporary stay putting a hold on the counting of undated ballots in pennsylvania as the supreme court weighs the issue in the coming days. the question is whether mail-in ballots that were received on time but are missing the required handwritten dates on the outer envelope should count. the circuit court of appeals said yes. it comes in automatic recounts in the republican senate primary in pennsylvania. dr. oz leads dave mccormick by just 900 votes. there are 800 or so gop undated ballots up for grabs in this race. yesterday both campaigns argued in commonwealth court over the fate of undated ballots.

the mccormick campaign says undated ballots should count because handwritten dates are immaterial since ballots are time stamped anyway. the republican national committee joined dr. oz in court ordering undated ballots should not count and courts should not usurp pennsylvania election law requiring voters to write dates. >> you need to follow the rules they've set. we aren't disenfranchising people by doing that. they can have the right in america to vote. they simply need to follow the rules. you can't change the rules as is what is happening here, you can't change the rules after an election. >> in court yesterday both campaigns said the primary was a free and fair election with no fraud, bill. but yet the mccormick campaign filed a petition yesterday calling on the courts to order hand recounts in 12 counties where they believe fraud or error led to a miscount of votes.

>> bill: nice to see you back in new york. >> the supreme court is taking action in texas. justice's temporarily belong a law to ban social media companies from removing content on their platforms. the vote was 5-4. unusual breakdown of conservative and liberal justices. it puts the texas law on hold while the case plays out in the lower courts. >> as i went in i saw a bunch of kids running off campus. jumping through the windows, cops breaking windows and complete >> bill: the moment this agent ran into the school in texas. a request for an interview with the police chief of the school has gone unanswered for a number of days. casey stiegel is live in uvalde with more from there today. casey, hello. >> good morning. according to texas dps the

police chief of the school district that you are talking about did do an interview immediately or right after the shooting but has not responded to the requests for follow-up interviews for going on three days now. he was, however, sworn in behind the scenes in a private ceremony yesterday in -- for his new city council seat he was elected to a few weeks before the shooting. federal investigation is now focused on how the law enforcement responds. he was in charge of reacted that day. meantime dps also released another version of events that morning. now saying that the door through which the shooter entered was not propped open as they initially said. the teacher closed it and it did not lock automatically as it should have. fox news sitting down late tuesday with a young survivor of the shooting who describes what she saw from her 10-year-old eyes.

>> and then he shot the girl next to me and she said i've been shot and i didn't want to say anything because i didn't want him to come over and shoot me. so i sat quiet and he came back and shot her again because she wouldn't be quiet. >> funerals and visitation services continue today. 10-year-old torres will be among those whose obituary reads she was a loving and compassionate person with a smile that could light up your soul. it will take about 2 1/2 weeks for all of the services to be held. there are only two mortuary in the town and they are very busy. >> bill: it doesn't get better. thank you, casey. >> there is not a single district court in this country other than washington, d.c. where this would have happened. >> bill: a clinton campaign lawyer found not guilty of

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>> sandra: a doomsday scenario getting closer to reality while the biden administration pushes to reenter the iran nuclear agreement the nuclear watchdog agency says iran is stockpiling enriched yu uranium to build an atomic bomb and raising suspicion it is geared toward making the ultimate weapon. >> bill: almost feels inevitable. a question of time. 19 past the hour now. this from yesterday if you were watching. former hillary clinton campaign attorney michael sussman found not guilty of lying to the f.b.i. but despite that acquittal the trial was revealing. jonathan turley, george washington university law professor with me now. watching a lot of what you were writing yesterday. a lot of what you were tweeting yesterday as well. did the jury get it right or not? >> you know, first of all i do

think there are good faith reasons why the jury might not have found that all the elements were satisfied but i don't believe that the jury got it right. i think that sussman clearly lied and i believe it was material to the investigation. many of us had raised concerns over the course of this trial about the judge's rulings. the judge narrowed the scope of potential evidence and arguments that could be raised by the prosecutors. they were also facing what i think no one could seriously argue was not a very favorable jury for the defense. you had three clinton donors, aoc donor, one juror whose daughter was serving on the same team as sussman's daughter. i think the judge did commit errors in allowing a couple of those jurors to be seated but this was a unanimous verdict. at the end of the day, i think that the jury got it wrong. i think the evidence was quite

compelling and clear but ultimately my view doesn't count in terms of that verdict. >> bill: let me go through a few things with you here. in 2016, voters in washington, d.c. chose hillary clinton 91% to 4% over donald trump. i read that and i say why don't you move the trial? did they press for moving the trial out of washington, d.c.? and then you have the "wall street journal" that comes up with this final conclusion on the sussman trial the verdict. we learned that hillary clinton personally approved leaking the false claim to a reporter and the campaign and mrs. clinton tweeted the press report approvingly. just on that point, how could that be significant down the road, if at all? >> well, that's why i called this a nightmare jury pool for the prosecutors. they can sometimes face the same problem obviously in

conservative juris dick shuns but at 91% this was just nine percentage points from picking a jury of the dnc headquarters. it doesn't mean these jurors cannot be impartial. but anyone would reasonably say this was one of the least favored juris dick shuns for the prosecutors. those concerns were magnified when one juror reportedly told their reporter from the times she didn't see why it should be a great concern. lying to the f.b.i. is not a big deal. that's like a juror coming out of an arson verdict saying that fire is not a big deal. that was the -- that's the focus of the trial. if she had said that in voir dire she would have likely generated a challenge by prosecutors. >> bill: on that point here it is the quote, guys. there are bigger things -- this

is what a juror told the washington times. there are bigger things that affect the nation than a possible lie to the f.b.i. five months from now danchenko is on trial for five counts of lying to the f.b.i. the one who helped contribute as the source of the steele dossier. what would be your expectation then after going through what we saw yesterday? >> well, that case is different in a number of respects. it is being tried across the river in northern virginia. but also there is a series of alleged false statements. and the case i think is going to be more of a challenge for the defense. so i think that we have a special counsel gearing up for that. the question is whether john durham has other potential indictments that might come down. one of the issues that many of have has raised is whether he will be allowed to produce a report like mueller did.

many democrats insisted that a report be made public after the end of the mueller investigation. the same should be true with john durham. what was clear from the sussman trial we're looking at an iceberg of evidence where a small percentage was allowed above the waterline. >> bill: we'll wait until then. we'll put you on stand by for the heard and johnny depp verdict. don't go far, sir, in washington, d.c. thank you for your time. jonathan turley, nice to see you. >> sandra: another potential damaging economic report is set to be released a bit later this morning a short time from now actually as our nation's labor shortage may be getting even worse. fox business anchor david asman here to crunch those numbers for us and as bill and jonathan just mentioned any moment now the verdict in the johnny depp mega million dollar defamation trial could be reached against ex wife amber heard. we're watching for it and bring

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>> president biden: if we make these investments now with interest rates at historic lows we'll generate more growth, higher incomes, a stronger economy. >> i really do not expect that we'll be in a situation where inflation rises to troubling levels. >> is there a risk of inflation? i think there is a small risk and i think it's manageable. >> sandra: what a difference a year makes. americans are feeling the crush of historic inflation after the president and his team repeatedly insisted it would not be a problem and it certainly is. let's bring in fox business anchor david asman. great to see you this morning. even the "washington post" out with a lengthy piece attacking just that, how policymakers in this country misjudged the inflation threat and this massive inflation caught washington by surprise. date by date how it was done in

washington >> you talked to gene sperling yesterday. they don't have answers. they come out a year ago, we all remember those barbecues that were supposed to cost less than they did the year before to try to convince americans there was no inflation. we all found out that just wasn't true. and it wasn't passing the muster even with the "washington post". the "washington post", the editorials have become much more critical of joe biden. you compare them today with the way they were a year ago. there is a fundamental shift in the editorial pages of a lot of liberal newspapers like the "washington post" but leading with the "washington post" because again they focus on the problems that are facing americans and they find out that the white house is not focusing. they deflect. whose fault is it, the inflation we now have? biden put it all on the fed last week and now janet yellen is becoming the fall woman for the situation. the administration won't take responsibility for inflation.

its role in inflation. one in terms of spending money they don't have and they just are coming out with this new student loan stunt as the "washington post" calls it of spending about $300 billion for relatively well-off students and families who they will get this enormous gift, a $10,000 write-off on their loans. it will cost $300 billion. you add all the spending up and it causes inflation. it is the administration, not the fed. the fed has a role to play but the primary role is spending trillions and trillions of dollars that they don't have that the fed then has to monetize by printing money. >> bill: a strategy to give it all out. janet yellen agrees to go on cnn and says this with wolf blitzer. >> i was wrong then about the path inflation would take.

there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that boosted energy and food prices. and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that i at the time didn't fully understand. >> bill: she is right about a lot of what she is saying but you have the $2 trillion pumped in during the early part of the administration. there is a bunch of think cnn has one and "politico". if you think about what the strategy was in 2009 upon reflection the obama administration did not think they went big enough, right? and so joe biden thinks we got to really go big here and they went big. >> that leads to the question who is forming this policy? a lot of people say this is obama's third term what we're seeing right now. you focus with gene sperling on

this, who is formulating the policies? where did the figures come from? who is forecasting? gene sperling, an insider in the administration couldn't answer that question. he never did as far as i remember yesterday. but the point is that they come out time and again with stuff that just is not true. this article by joe biden yesterday in the "wall street journal." i used to be the op-ed editor of the "wall street journal." if this had been written by anybody other than the president i wound have accepted it. there were so many falsehoods. in january 2021 when i took office economy stalled. that wasn't true. it was growing at 4 1/2%. we just had a quarter this year, the first quarter of this year was down 1.5%. so the economy is falling. >> sandra: not to mention that's a blueprint for how they plan to fix the problem. we have economic numbers about to come out could show this is an even tighter market. >> they are delayed a day and coming out tomorrow.

the other number that's coming out today is the 11.5 million unfilled jobs. we do have a surplus of jobs. but if we get another negative growth quarter, that is if we have two quarters back-to-back with growth that's an oxymoron, a contraction of the economy. that's a recession. if that happens, those 11.5 million unfilled jobs will dry up in no time because the company is offering those jobs won't be around. >> bill: thank you, david. 25 minutes away we'll get another indicator of that. we're on verdict watch in the depp/heard trial. seven member jury resumming deliberations today after submitting a question to the court tuesday that dealt with a headline. mark meredith is watching that live in d.c. with me now. good morning. >> good morning.

we're on verdict watch. the 7 person jury in the closely watched case will deliberate whether depp or heard have a case against each other. the jury is made up of five men and two women. they didn't weefp a verdict tuesday. deliberations began 30 minutes ago. this trial has stretched on for more than a month. depp is suing his ex wife for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed in the "washington post" in which she discussed being a domestic abuse survivor and while she did not specifically name depp the actor insists it was clear who she was referencing and also denying abuse claims. heard is counter suing for $100 million claiming depp's legal team destroyed her reputation. yesterday the jury asked the judge to clarify some instructions whether they should consider the headline of the op-ed or the entirety of the material when determining one of the claims. >> i think they are confused whether it's the whole op-ed or the title is a statement and clear the title is the

statement. i was going to answer to say the title is the statement in question. >> depp was not in court yesterday. fans continue to set outside the fairfax, virginia courthouse awaiting any news. the big question how long will it take for the jury to deliberate? as they say in our business, stand by. >> bill: mark meredith is in washington, d.c. on stage last night can you make sense of this? >> sandra: i don't get that. >> bill: this is jeff beck, a world class guitarist and johnny depp. the royal albert hall in london. apparently this is the third night in a row they played. kate moss was in the audience last night. i get it but how do you fly from washington to london. i'm assuming he came back in case there was a verdict yesterday. how do you fly to london three times?

or did he? he is physically on stage or did he come back for the deliberations and expected to be in the washington, d.c. area? >> sandra: maybe it's a hologram version of johnny depp. i'm amazed at the viewership through the social media, streaming outlets watching this trial. people are really into it and there is a certain audience that's really into it. i've been following it pretty closely. >> bill: and? >> sandra: if one were to make a prediction it seems like it is leaning in johnny depp's favor. i don't know. we'll see. do you have -- >> bill: i have no hunch at all. not yet. i don't know how you go to london and back repeatedly. these guys wrote a song together two years ago. if you didn't know that jeff beck, world class guitarist and johnny depp had a long standsing relationship, now you do. >> sandra: palace intrigue at

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>> sandra: president biden acting on a request from a top ukraine official for vital military aid. he says the u.s. will send medium-range rocket systems. this as russia makes new gains in the eastern donbas region. trey yingst is following the war for us live in kyiv for us at this hour. hi, trey. >> behind me you can hear the church bells in the ukrainian capital of kyiv. it is largely bad news for the ukrainians in the eastern part of this country as russian forces continue to make territorial gains. there is one city mostly control by the russian army. 90% of that town is destroyed and 60% of the buildings are beyond restoration. that according to the ukrainians. this level of destruction is part of the russian playbook to flatten civilian areas and push

forward. international support is pouring into ukraine. german chancellor made an announcement indicating his country will spend ukraine anti-aircraft missiles and radar systems and u.s. president joe biden yesterday confirmed that american rocket systems are headed to the war torn country. these systems have a range of nearly 50 miles and delivered to ukraine in the coming weeks. the u.s. state department weighing in on american support saying this. >> no one has been under any illusions that the war, the course of the war, the trajectory of ukrainian success would be perfectly linear but what we are confident in is the fact that our ukrainian partners will continue to have what they need to mount an effective defense against russia's aggression. >> ukrainian forces aren't giving up the fight. they have made some progress around the city of kharkiv and in the southern kherson region they're launching a counter

offensive. >> sandra: trey yingst from kyiv. thank you. >> bill: president biden meanwhile said to be looking for a clean slate at the white house. said to be eyeing a major shake-up of his leadership team as the agenda flounders and he continues to sink in the polls. jim messino former obama deputy white house chief of staff with me now. welcome back to our program here. we could quote a lot of different reports this morning. we chose nbc. here is one line from there, jim. beyond policy, biden is unhappy about a pattern that has developed inside the west wing. he makes a clear and succinct statement only to have aides rush to explain he actually meant something else. the white house pushed back on that. here is the line. as we have said before, no clarifications on the president's remarks are ever issued without his direct approval. so what is it? is it a, b, black, white? jim.

>> well look, i think what you are asking me is about white house staff shake-up and the truth is, bill, i worked in the white house for two years after 15 years on the hill and the 15 years on the hill combined weren't as tough as the two years i spent in the white house. you know this to be true. those jobs are the toughest jobs in world politics because every single day something is so broken that no one else in government can fix it and it lands on the white house. of course you are going to have day-to-day scrutiny on what you are doing and how you are doing it. my mom called me one day in tears saying i was watching tv and they said you suck. yeah, it's okay. they'll say that the whole time i'm there. it's not a big surprise. the question is what the president wants. i like en it to a baseball game. a pitcher you hope gets five or six innings and a middle reliever and a closer. so yeah, you will see some staff shake-up.

you've already seen jen psaki the very impressive press secretary decide she had enough and they are making a switch and you may see more but it is a reflection of the president. every white house is a reflection of the president and he will have to make some tough decisions. >> bill: back to the quote here. what they are saying is that anything that we did to clarify what he said, we did with his approval. that is what i take from this. now here is what i think the issue is going back to the chaos in kabul. when a president cannot defend his own decisions, that's when the american people lose confidence in you and your leadership and your judgment. and when president biden sat down with george stephanopolous five days after the kabul chaos, he failed to defend his ideas as to why we pulled out of that country the way we did. and you remember the comment guy is bouncing off a c-17 and

the president said come on, george, that was four or five days ago. well, it was clear on the minds of everybody who was watching that, no one could forget it. and when you cannot defend your own ideas, you lose the confidence of the american people. go ahead and think about that, jim. >> well look, what i think is true is the president is always going to be the guy that is the chief explainer. there is a line president obama used all the time. the president's job is to explain to the american people what he is doing and how he is doing it. that's true. there is no staff who is responsible for that. in the end it's a reflection of what the president has to say and i agree with white house statement. they aren't going to do anything about the president's statements without talking to the president of the united states. that is just not how it goes in the white house. that was true for trump, too, bill. it is just true these are a reflection of what the president wants to say and how he wants to say it. >> bill: i agree with you on

that. when it comes to the inflation and economy you have to defend your own ideas. a second piece out today about ukraine and inflation. he is trying to do that. we'll see whether or not the american people buy it. good to see you today, jim. we'll call on you again soon. thank you for coming back here. jim messina, thanks. >> the test is going to come over the next six months. the temptation is always to stop the anti-biotic as soon as you feel better and that can often be the wrong thing to do. >> sandra: dire warning there from president obama's treasury secretary as gas prices hit a new high up almost 50 cents in just one month. it is giving big problems for democrats come the november elections. confident's mayor catching heat for her multi-million dollar plan to end transgender homelessness.

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>> sandra: san francisco mayor london breed catching heat for proposing a $6.5 million program to end trans homelessness treating this. today i announce my five year plan to end transgender homelessness investing in programs that support and create real, long term change in the lives of transgender people. one of the challengers running against governor new some in the state of california primary joins us now. thank you, michael. thanks for joining us. many of the other homeless in that state have been quoted in all the articles covering it what about us if they're not transgender? >> this is outrageous.

i couldn't believe it when i saw it. i thought it was a babylon bee article. it is not only totally non-ethical to discriminate against who gets shelter or medical treatment since the vast majority of homeless people on the streets are suffering mental illness or suffering from drug addiction. the underlying problem is california is without leadership at every level of government. governor gavin newsom refuses to shut down the homeless encampments. 100% of the women we interview in them have been sexually assaulted multiple times. the idea you won't get the women the care they need and put trans women in front of them is offensive, it's immoral, probably illegal. we just need to get everybody indoors. that's the bottom line. new data shows that three times more homeless people died in los angeles than in new york between 2020 and 2021 even though there is 14,000 fewer

homeless people in l.a. the main reason for that is new york shelters 96% of its homeless people and california shelters less than a third. every single california city is dealing with the problems created by governor gavin newsom created this ridiculous idea that anyone who demands their own apartment unit should get one without any conditions required. that's the opposite of what works around the world. you need to get people into basic shelter and they can earn the small number can earn subsidized housing if they achieve absence from drugs and alcohol. >> sandra: one of the largest transgender populations in the country we must insure that all those living in san francisco have access to housing and essential resources through continued investments but can show the country that we continue to be a leader on supporting and protecting our trans communities. a moment ago you tweeted you believe something could be illegal about this.

i wonder what avenues you have explored to prove that? i will show you the breakdown of the homelessness problem in that city. 2021 survey showed that there are roughly 320 transgender homeless people living in san francisco compared to 2800 homeless women and nearly 8,000 total homeless people in that city. you are talking about a very small section of the population that they are choosing to focus on there. what avenues have you gone down to prove it is illegal and what is your plan to fix the problem? >> look at what she is saying. she is saying we'll get those that handful of transgender homeless people into shelter or housing by 2027. she is assuming that people will stay on the street for another five years. this is outrageous. we have people dying of murder, they are being run over by cars, they are killing each other and raping each other. when i'm elected governor in november of this year and go to

my website to see the details i will require that people sleep inside. people can't sleep outside. it is not safe to them, not safe for those around them. if you had 200,000 people sleeping on the streets because of an earthquake with almost all of them suffering from mental illness for drug addiction we would require they get into shelters and medical triage to get people the drug treatment or medical care they need. >> sandra: no doubt it is a huge and complex problem. it needs fixing and will take time. appreciate you sharing your thoughts on it. thank you very much, michael. >> thanks for having me. >> bill: 10:00 here in new york now. republicans are on the border today visiting the rio grande valley as ruthless cartels send thousands of migrants across every area even in the dangerous summer heat. i'm bill hemmer. welcome back. >> sandra: i get to spend the morning with you, bill hemmer.

good to be here. thanks for having me i'm sandra smith. the largest congressional delegation to visit the border in two years. the border patrol encountered 1.2 million illegal migrants since the start of the year and agents in the field who deal with the growing crisis on a daily basis blame the policies of the biden administration. >> it's all about the catch and release. if people will be rewarded by being released into the united states, which is what they want. they want to be here in the united states, then they will continue to come and the cartels will continue to generate billions of dollars of profit and they will be able to continue to pull our resources out of the field creating gaps in the coverage to pass their higher value products. this administration gave it completely back to the cartels and now we have stretches of the border completely controlled by criminal organizations. >> sandra: griff jenkins is live in la joya, texas at this hour. griff. >> good morning.

what those people will find in the last 24 hours since i was on the show last there was 1,693 apprehensions right here in the rgb. they will see firsthand the assembly line efficiency which the cartels are operating. these are color-coded numbered bracelets the migrants wear when they come across the border. if you look from the footage we shot last night, our team, it is one of many groups coming across this specific group had 84 individuals. one was a pregnant woman. 30 of those migrants were accompanied children but despite the soaring numbers it is not slowing things down. the message of these border patrol agents is don't forget about us. it is worse than it's ever been and they want the americans to see just how much it has gotten out of control and want more support from the administration and a change in some of those policies. now in terms of arrests just in the past few days we have a nicaragua man convicted of kidnapping in south carolina along with a couple of mexican

national convicted of rape and second degree murder. over in del rio to the west of me the acting deputy chief there in that sector said they had an overwhelming weekend over memorial day weekend. listen to the message he posted. >> we found ourselves at over capacity in detention cells this morning. a direct result of having a busy weekend where we made almost 4,000 apprehensions in the del rio sector. 47 rescues, individuals that would have potentially periled were it not for the quick actions of our men and women in green out there in the field. >> they posted the numbers. the full screen, 3,976 apprehensions. the second number underneath, 1,652 gotaways. that's that group that the border patrol agents harp so much about. so important. we don't know who they are or where they are going but they didn't want to submit themselves to agents and be caught and released. they wanted to get into the

u.s. undetected. that's a dangerous number in just one sector. it is being led by the house budget committee jason smith and they'll see things from the air, on the river and they want to see the unused panels of border wall that were federal panels that could be used to complete texas governor abbott's state wall although the feds not giving that up right now. sandra. >> sandra: griff jenkins reporting live from la joya, texas for us. thank you, griff. >> i think i was wrong then about the path that inflation would take. as i mentioned, there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy. >> bill: there is the statement getting a lot of attention. janet yellen admitting she was wrong about how bad inflation would be. james freeman assistant editor of the "wall street journal" with us on set. i listened. it is the comment a lot of

people are -- it's the comment heard round the world i should say. >> it is kind of unavoidable. you go back to those early months of 2021 when democrats from the obama administration warning saying we don't need a huge federal spending bill right now. it could be inflationary, not necessary. the pandemic is over. she prominently ignored them and you would hope this acknowledgement would come with a policy change as well but maybe this is the first step to recovery. >> sandra: it was almost -- was it ignoring the problem or getting it wrong? she said she got it wrong. we'll give her credit for that but also said this after in that interview. they played out the many times in a montage of her saying inflation would go away. that this would slow down. inflation won't be a big problem for the american people. she then went on to detail it was supply chain bottlenecks that worsened. the war in ukraine that led to

arise in energy prices. there were things out of her control that happened that she could not put into the equation. do you see that as an acceptable explanation? >> the more she talked, the less it sounded like an acknowledgement that she had gotten it wrong and of course we remember the president telling us last summer it would be transitory and then telling us in december that inflation had peaked. a lot of blown calls along the way. i think what we're hoping for now is a realization too much money, too many dollars chasing too few goods. the federal reserve now saying it will reduce those dollars. the other end of the equation is we're waiting for this administration to say here is the plan to encourage companies to supply more goods and services. a great massive disinflationary force is more oil drilling. that was really the story of the obama years. president obama didn't love fracking but it was largely

happening on private land. he couldn't do much about it. it is this huge powerful force sitting there waiting to lower prices across the economy if this administration wants to encourage it. >> bill: it's not going to happen not yet. a great point. you write today are the bidens talking too much? the headline from your piece. sub line nbc reports the president is unhappy. brother james chats with the "washington post". i would encourage the talk if you have something to say. what are you saying? >> i have been concerned about the president because he has made this series of gaffes about highly consequential things often involved foreign nuclear-armed powers. prepared text would be good. what was interesting about the nbc piece denied by the white house was this report claiming a number of anonymous sources saying that the president is getting angry that his staff is

walking back his remarks. and even saying that he had to remind them who the president was. this is just stunning if true. so again anonymous sources, white house denies it. the idea the president of the united states is not deciding what the policy is, what the message is, and that staff are angering him walking back his remarks, he should fire the staff if they're not executing his wishes. >> bill: a little bit about what we were talking with jim messina about 15 minutes ago. give us your observation about the past 48 hours. joe biden writes a piece in the "wall street journal." today he has a piece on ukraine in the "new york times." janet yellen agrees to an interview on cnn. lengthy pieces today in the "washington post" and "politico" about what is happening inside the west wing. james biden, the brother of the president does an interview with the "washington post" where he says i don't know why i'm talking to you. what is happening here? it almost sounds as if someone

is in the west wing saying do something. and somebody is saying what do we do? and you say i don't know what you do but just do something. this is the result of what you get. >> i think that's a sound theory because it's a lot of media activity signifying we're not sure what. james biden interview where he says i'm not a fixer or crook, i don't know -- >> sandra: the white house came out they were deploying these. there was some transparency. >> on the economics though we have yellen acknowledging a mistake. the president in our newspaper here saying here is my plan to fight inflation. is there a policy turn? you have acknowledged the mistake. what are you doing differently now? i don't think there was any news in that piece other than him saying get ready for slower job growth. >> sandra: i spoke to larry kudlow last night he was anxious to read the piece. upon reading it he learned nothing new about the white

house strategy to tackle the problem. sounds like you agree. >> he went back to the clean energy thing. you might believe we need a clean energy transition, that's not a way to reduce prices in this economy right now. so i think that had to leave a lot of people disappointed seeing that op-ed that there wasn't anything other than sort of the old message i care. he is telling us he is concerned about inflation, people are waiting for -- >> sandra: obsessed with it. >> then you would seek a solution. >> bill: it comes back to do something. what? >> yes. >> bill: well what? thank you, james, nice to see you. >> sandra: the supreme court's investigation into the leaked draft opinion on abortion is heating up. reports say court officials are requiring law clerks now to turn over their personal cell phone records and sign

affidavits. rich edson has the latest for us. >> an unprecedented request. source familiar tells fox news supreme court officials started this process in recent days having law clerks turn over their personal cell phone records and sign affidavits. cnn first reported that. marshal of the supreme court is leasing the investigation and unclear what specifics officials are requesting, what the court can do to compel the clerks to cooperate and whether some are hiring attorneys and resisting. >> you have no ability to stop looking at the phone. if there is personal phones there is a good chance they could fight it until there is sufficient evidence. >> the focus is largely on the three dozen or so law clerks who work in the chambers of the court's nine members. those law clerks up to four for each justice are on a one-year contract that expires when the

court recesses for the summer. that's typically early next month. sources indicated to fox the court may want more attention now on those clerks before they leave the building and move on to other jobs in coming weeks. the source indicated the court may eventually target permanent employees with access to the draft. still unclear who is responsible for the leak, a clerk, staffer, justice, liberal, conservative. the investigation is picking up as justices prepare to issue their final ruling over the future of roe v. wade in the coming weeks. >> bill: thank you, rich. we're learning the man accused of dousing a homeless man with gasoline and setting him on fire was out on bail despite a lengthy rap sheet. why this happens repeatedly. >> sandra: the biden administration pushing to reinstate the federal mask mandates on planes and buses now. do we still need the pandemic restrictions? we'll ask the man, dr. marc siegel.

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>> sandra: officials in china's largest city lifting covid lockdowns. shanghai's 25 million residents can now walk around freely after two months of restrictions. the lockdown sparked rare protests and disrupted the city's economy. starting today people no longer need passes to leave their homes. >> bill: unbelievable. >> sandra: can you imagine? >> bill: a city of 25 million? >> sandra: a big day for change for all of them. >> bill: they've been through a lot. 20 past. in our country. masks for trains and planes. d.o.j. argues the cdc was within its legal right to impose the mask rule. the cdc lost that argument in court, got it? is the mandate really necessary?

let's bring in the doctor, marc siegel on that. are we going backwards here? do you believe medically speaking we should wear the mask on the plane and bus, etc. >> let me start by saying i think their timing is off as usual. two left feet. dancing with two left feet. cdc may want to make a point they have a right to impose these things. how about they make that point when the imposition of mandates are needed? if there is a rampant virus that's killing surging through in the beginning of a pandemic and you don't have a vaccine. none of that is true right now. studies have shown that mandates actually aren't working for masks. they don't decrease the spread of the virus. they cause a lot of anxiety. they don't decrease the spread of the virus. no one is wearing them on planes. even if people were 30% according to a university of minnesota study, 30% are wearing them on their chin and take them off to eat and wearing the wrong kind of mask. i'm not against mask use on planes or trains or buses.

i wear them myself. but i wear a proper fitting mask and it is a matter of choice for me. people around me i encourage them to wear them. if they don't they don't. if they aren't wearing them properly they aren't stopping the spread of covid. the timing is atrocious. >> the day it came out the ceo of united air lanes said once the genie is out of the bottle we're not going back. are we going back to a mask on an airplane? >> no. the leaders fighting this are the same leaders that were maskless at the correspondents' dinner. no one is going to listen to this. it is legal theater. we aren't going back to mask mandates in the country. the science doesn't show they work. not only don't we work really or medically. >> bill: there was a study done with counselors in schools. this is -- i find this alarming.

you say we already knew it already. three of the headlines. in school with mental health survey they found 94% of students show more signs of anxiety and depression pre-pandemic versus now. these students right now 88% have more trouble regulating their emotions, 67% show more signs of low self-esteem. so what happened to those students over the past 2, 2 1/2 years, doctor? >> i think at the beginning of the pandemic there were studies that already showed problems with depression rates in schools. but note this. in 2020, a children's hospital in chicago did a survey of parents and found that 70% were worried their kids were getting depresd. a big national survey showed 30% were markedly depressed in the spring of 2020. we are talking two years ago at the beginning of pandemic, the

early part of the pandemic hit us hard. we were on tv saying then that kids were going to get depressed and anxious. "the new york times" is coming two years later when it is now politically correct to say this, two years of suffering, two years of kids being anxious, two years of us saying now we have to rely on the resilience of children to bring them back. they may not come all the way back. they lost a lot of in-person learning and socialization and time with friends. shut in at home with their parents supposed to be working. all of that is causing great damage. it is not news. it is only news to the "new york times" survey. it is not news to us. we were calling this out two years ago. >> bill: take that to the teachers union as well. dr. marc siegel, thank you for coming on today. appreciate it. nice to see you, doctor. >> sandra: america's crime crisis spiraling out of control in democratic-led cities as the bad guys act without impunity.

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>> sandra: a connecticut teenager accusing of stabbing the prep school to death at a house party is reportedly out on bail. the man posted bond and will be monitored by gps. charged with murder and assault for allegedly killing 17-year-old jimmie mcgrath. >> bill: from chicago police say a man accused of setting a local homeless man on fire had a long rap sheet and was out on bail at the time of that attack

but was in violation of his bail conditions. got that? garrett tenney has more in chicago now. hello. >> straight prosecutors say they've never seen individual owe as horrific as this crime. that video has not been released but in court prosecutors laid out what took place early wednesday morning last week when 27-year-old walked up to a homeless man sleeping on the street, stood over him for 16 seconds just staring at him before pouring a cup of gasoline on the man's head and setting him on fire. the flames quickly engulfed 75-year-old's body. you can see the burn marks left on the wall from the three minutes he was nearly burned alive until a security guard rushed over with an extinguisher to put out the flames. when detectives took the man into custody he said he was an angry person and wanted to set something on fire but claimed he thought he was simply

burning some trash. in court the assistant state's attorney said this defendant did not target someone who had an argument with or someone who wronged him or someone he even knew. this defendant decided to target the most vulnerable person possible, a 75-year-old homeless man sleeping on the street. we now know that the man shouldn't have even been on the streets. over the past eight years he has been arrested more than a dozen times and charged with everything from burglary, theft, robbery, to battery. and in that time he has failed to show up to court at least seven times. despite that record in 2020, a judge allowed him out on bail a month after he had violated the terms of his bond for burglary charges by allegedly committing another burglary. almost a year later the man did not show up for his court date and the judge issued warrants for his arrest. the victim was known to locals at the walking man for walking across the city regardless of

what the weather was like. doctors say he has suffered severe burns to more than 50% of his body and is not expected to survive which is why prosecutors say murder charges are expected to be filed soon as well. >> bill: thanks garrett. >> sandra: america's crime crisis escalating in democratic-led cities. violent crime surging in many places so far this year compared to the same time last year exception chicago. even then the city saw 52 shootings over the memorial day weekend alone. let's bring in joe gamaldi national vice president of the national order of police. thank you for joining us. we hate to see this happening in our great american cities but seems to be a problem that is only getting worse. why? >> well you know, i think it is important to outline how bad the problem is. in 2021 that was the highest murder rate we've seen in this country in over 20 years.

16 american cities experienced their highest murder rate in recorded history. and it is showing no signs of slowing down in 2022. already alone in new york we're seeing violent crime up 40% this year. and the raw truth is we have a culture of lawlessness in this country and it is perpetuated by woke policies like bail reform for violent criminals. look no further than harris county. over 170 people have been murdered by defendants already out on multiple felony bonds. we're seeing exact same thing happen in california and the monster in chicago that you guys just outlined is lighting people on fire and never should have been free in the first place. to make matters worse, we have these rogue prosecutors. i hesitate to call them prosecutors. at this point they are felony advocates and embarrassment to the criminal justice system. continue to give sweetheart deals to violent criminals. to make matters worse we have a debate raging in this country

about gun laws and raging for quite some time and creating new laws. you know what the truth is from the troops on the ground? we're not even enforcing the laws we have on the books now. we give probation to people who are illegally selling guns. probation to felons in possession of firearms. probation to people who are shooting people in the face. can we not put the partisan bickering aside and just agree that monsters like this, dirt bags willing to shoot people we should be seeking the maximum on them and throw the book at them. >> bill: not happening in a lot of cities at the moment. liz peek's take today. she writes joe biden's big lies about crime and race hurt america. foxnews.com. a paragraph. the perception our country's streets are running red with the blood of defenseless black men killed by racist cops has led to laws on bail reform and efforts to hobble the police allowing crimes to spike and made our cities more dangerous.

it is intolerable. you would agree with the last line about it being intolerable. our leaders have not been honest is the point she is making, with the people. have you seen that in houston? >> we've seen it everywhere across this country. there has been a false narrative and harmful rhetoric pointed at police officers for too long in this country. black lives matter has been out there bashing cops for years and find out they build real estate empires in l.a. and friends and family plan going on giving six figure sal reels to the brothers and sisters. i wish i could get on that friends and family plans but it is based on a lie. police officers go out there every day and try to make a difference in our communities and willing to lay our lives down for communities. 80% of americans are worried about crime and they're right. all these politicians ignoring the violent crime in this country, the public has had it and i think it's what you are seeing with president biden

suggesting we should be funding the police and following up and providing funding because everyone sees the writing on the wall. the defund the police movement was a complete loser and everybody understands solutions to the crimes that we're seeing in our country is police officers and a robust criminal justice system that actually pros koouts criminals. >> sandra: they see the writing on the wall and you feel it walking down the big city streets and you can't not look over your shoulder. it is happening in broad daylight, this type of violent crime. thank you for joining us, joe. >> thank you. >> bill: joe gamaldi in houston. parents showing up in full force at a school board meeting in fairfax, virginia. many taking issue with a plan to make sex education classes co-ed. officials may increase penalties for misgender their peers and here is what parents had to say to that. >> too far, too much, too young is the easiest way to say it. back when i was going in school

elementary common sense classroom. i asked my son this morning what he was going to learn. he said math, science, language arts, writing. that's what we want to hear. >> bill: the board has delayed a vote on the proposal until mid june. it should happen on the 16th of june. stand by for more. >> sandra: shocking allegations against university of pennsylvania the way it responded to concerns about transgender swimmer lia thomas. one teammate says the controversy was brushed aside. plus hemmer, listen up. hungry sharks looking for their next meal. >> bill: i'm going nowhere. >> sandra: spotted near popular beaches along the east coast. how close they are getting to swimmers as beach season is underway.

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>> bill: the first of june and you know what that means. shark sightings along the east coast have folks on high alert.

this year a 10 foot shark spotted on a beach in long island, new york coming a day after a great white was seen devouring a seal near nantucket. which is what they do there. laura engel is live with more on that from long island. what's the forecast. what's happening, good morning. >> good morning to you. bill, we always hear about these shark sightings about mid june. definitely in july. it is a little unusual to hear about these sightings this early in the season. and we have just been talking with the nassau county marine bureau says it was unusual and the other thing unusual about this particular one on this shark sighting here is it was in so close to shore. we want to show you a little video captured by a fisherman here after speaking with a police officer who helped handle this 10 feet shark that was spotted lashing along point lookout on long island saturday.

it weighed roughly 400 pounds. while this type of shark is known to these waters certainly they aren't typically seen around these stretches of beaches. >> they do chase bait fish into the shore. a little odd to see them in the bay but he was just inside the inlet. >> the fisherman who spotted the shark tried to get the beast back into deep waters before it was secured by police. marine officials tried to get the shark revived. they could not save him telling us it appears the shark was most likely hit by a boat and was injured before making its way so close to shore. also there was a dramatic scene taking place in front of onlookers in massachusetts over the weekend as a great white shark was filmed eating a seal off the beach from the great point lighthouse by the nantucket current. they could see blood in the water. with all of this you know the question now. here it is. >> the question everybody wants to know, is it safe to be in the water? >> absolutely. absolutely.

>> last year we went on shark patrol here in nassau county. they haven't started that that. they usually start it up once more people are going to the beach. with the first sign of that fin and a shark in the water it could be happening sooner. >> bill: it's early. >> sandra: no sharks, don't come our way. a teammate of transgender lia thomas is speaking out anonymously in a new documentary lashing out at the university of pennsylvania claiming critics on the team have been silenced. >> the feeling of winning doesn't do good anymore. swimming might not be fair you were immediately shut down and being called transphobic. >> sandra: jimmy failla the host of fox across america is here to brighten your day. this is a story we've all been

following for quite some time but interesting as more and more teammates are speaking up. >> i've been up front i would be fine with lia thomas swimming in women's events if i could gamble on it. every you need to found about the story the teammate is pixeled for fear of a vicious backlash if you voice opposition to this. the one thing that's true is there has been no engagement on the substance when it comes to men competing in women's sports, okay? you are either all for it or you are a trans foeb. i don't think the university of pennsylvania wanted to win because it would be easier. they wanted to make sure they weren't on the wrong end of a vicious campus backlash for looking like they weren't woke enough. we all know the men have a huge advantage. michael phelps beat the women's winner by half the pool and he is not on hormone but a pot

head. they have been able to pistol whip people into compliance when it comes to men competing in women's sports. people are pushing back and good for them. >> the point is the school is winning. >> the school is concerned with a second level of win. not being branded as transphobic which is not being branded as not inclusive enough. the school has more to contend with and lose there than they do in a women's swimming event. they want to win but want to tamp down has become a tyranny of minority where there is a small fraction of woke people. you are not pixeled if we have an honest discussion about this and feel like people are bargaining in good faith. you are doing that because heaven forbid you defy the mob. >> bill: even her voice was disguised. >> sandra: one thing is for

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>> harris: the same day the white house denies a report the president is angie about his staff constantly cleaning up his gaffes and wrong facts another mop and bucket needed at the briefing room lectern. spinning talking points and panic coming out of the white house over inflation, gas prices just jumped 5 cents overnight. and a republican senator joins texas sheriff riding along the border. he has quite a story to tell. senator roger marshall, house majority leader kevin mccarthy and jason rantz, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> sandra: we'll be watching. new york joining the growing number of states suspending its gas tax. this as the price of gas hits another record high. it jumped 5 cents overnight. seven states are now paying more than $5 a gallon. that's hard to believe.

let's bring in the head of petroleum analysis for gas buddy.com. not coming as a shock to you. you suggest we could see prices go higher from here. what is your forecast? >> it's not a good one. i do continue to believe the national average will go up 4.75 a gallon later today. 4.80 by this weekend. americans now spending $623 million more on gasoline just every day compared to a year ago. that's an extremely high cost for the economy. >> sandra: say that again. the average american is spending how much more a day than they were a year ago just on gasoline? >> collectively, america, the u.s., is spending $623 million more every day on gasoline than we did just a year ago. so obviously a big bite out of the economy going to gasoline and things like diesel. that doesn't include the rise in grocery prices that you are

also paying on account of the rise in diesel fuel. things continue to spiral out of control. i expect we could see the national average hit the $5 a gallon park by mid june. >> sandra: there is not another time in history where we can look at prices getting this high and what happened as far as demand. but we have seen historic moments in this country where we have faced record high gas prices and eventually people curb their demand for it. they curb their activities, they don't go out as much, they stay home, they choose to do something else. and you start to see that demand destruction. are you anticipating that any time soon? >> we already are seeing some of that demand destruction. if we had gas prices were $2 a gallon lower we would have seen a memorial day weekend with much more consumption her day. it was close to or under 9

million barrels of consumption per day, 8.8. we're already seeing the high prices causing a low level of demand destruction. i think that demand destruction heats up when gas prices hit over the $5 mark. 2008 we hit $4.10 a gallon. the equivalent today is $5.40 a gallon. expect it the grow after the $5 a gallon mark. >> sandra: not good for u.s. consumers. you are predicting we could see prices go up just today and by the weekend. you are looking at the fact we're entering the summer driving season with gas prices at a record high. oil at $120 a barrel. i dig through the wall street analyst notes pretty frequently and it is pretty popular to see a $6 forecast in some places for the gallon of gasoline. do you predict the national average could get that high? >> it is not impossible.

but obviously to get to that $6 mark we would have to tack on another $1.20 a gallon. something that isn't yet necessarily guaranteed but obviously every day we go up, i think we have to see an exceptional event for us to get the $6 mark. a major hurricane in the gulf of mexico shutting down oil refineries in that area. that's the realm of possibility. we need an exceptional event to get us there. >> sandra: consideration diesel is at a record high. tough on the trucking industry. thank you for the update and thank you for joining us. >> bill: that doesn't sound good. >> sandra: sorry to leave you on that note. >> bill: i paid $5.40 over the weekend. this is your moment. here is a great dane trying to get comfortable in a bed made for a bunny. >> sandra: oh my gosh.

>> bill: that's just what happens. i am comfortable now. >> sandra: the look on his face when he turns around finally and settles in. that's pretty awesome. >> bill: we did not get the verdict. maybe you will this afternoon. >> sandra: we'll be told we'll have a verdict. i'll be back tomorrow. >> harris: suddenly president biden's advisors are out in full force defending their boss. why now? gas prices catastrophically jumped a full 5 cents overnight. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". the national average for a regular gallon of gas has hit a new record of $4.67. that's nearly 50 cents in the past month alone. and more than 60% higher than it was a year ago