eastern, independence say special. we are going to have fireworks from the nation's capital and emily greenwood among the musical guests. excited for the fourth? >> i'm so excited for the fourth. everyone will be watching it. it's going to be incredible. >> thanks, everyone. here is "america reports." happy 4th of july. >> americans are set to kick off july 4th celebrations very soon but flags, fireworks, food, fuel, all of it costing a whole lot more. could sky high inflation be at least part of the reason americans are largely feeling down on america this weekend? >> we'll break down brand-new fox new polls on the state of the country and get reaction from former u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley, just moments away. >> gillian: chaos at america's airports. flight cancellations, delays,

out of control ahead of the july 4th weekend. rich, great to be with you. >> wonderful to be with you, i'm in for john roberts, rich edson. millions are expected to travel for the holiday. aaa predicts 3.5 million will fly, but staffing shortage, pricey fares, and some pilots threatening to strike causing turbulence for the friendly skies. >> gillian: thousands are being canceled, delayed, experts are fearing an influx of new holiday travelers starting today is set to make matters even worse. listen. >> all of it is coming to a head, we are seeing the cancellations. we just need more people to work in the industry both as air traffic controllers, pilots, you know, flight attendants, all of that. all in short supply and they can only staff so many planes. >> gillian: casey stegall is tracking the travel nightmare from dallas-fort worth international. >> hi, good to see you.

a little turned around, i should be wearing my winter coat, usually when we are standing at the airport doing the holiday travel stories it's around thanksgiving, not really the 4th of july but aaa as you were saying predicts this 4th of july is expected to be the second busiest for travel since the year 2000, if you can believe that, with some 48 million americans expected to get out and about over the next several days. for air, it is three and a half million. the projection, a little higher versus last year. only time will tell whether those holiday passengers will further bog down the airports and airlines, already i can tell you that more than 900 flight delays and more than 240 cancellations are being reported in the u.s. from flight aware, so cue the long lines, waits and frustration. >> i do get stressed sometimes,

especially when the airport looks like this. it's actually pretty packed right now. >> if we could just get there, the flight on american was delayed because of crew, so we are going to miss our connection. >> now major unions representing airline workers say at least 15% of the flight carriers originally planned for june through august had to be dropped because there isn't enough staff to operate those planes. so, to recap, more passengers, fewer flights, fewer workers, there are bound to be some fireworks of a different kind at some of the airports this weekend. back to you. >> gillian: thanks so much. rich. >> president biden is meeting with seven democratic governors to discuss their response to the last week supreme court ruling overturning roe versus wade,

series of setbacks dealt to the democrat agenda. mark meredith is live at the white house. the president is likely to talk about scotus between now and november. >> seeing the issues decided by the court, whether about abortion, immigration or the environment, likely key to democrats as they try to rally the base, as you mentioned at this hour, we believe happening right now, the president meeting with a number of democratic governors, meeting happening virtually meeting with the governors in new york, north carolina, new mexico, colorado, expected to discuss ways the states can ensure women's access to abortion. also looking to see if the president has any new words to say when it comes to the supreme court after he said this on thursday. >> the one thing that has been destabilizing is the outrageous behavior of the supreme court of the united states on over ruling not only roe v. wade, but a right to privacy.

we have been a leader and it is a mistake in my view for the supreme court to do what it did. >> the president's new war of words with the supreme court has not gone unnoticed by republicans who are now criticizing president biden for this rhetoric against another branch of government. >> the fact that he would go while on foreign soil and attack the supreme court of the united states to undermine it and to delegitimize it. i've never seen anything like that. >> and change senate rules for congress to pass a national abortion rights bill, the democrats don't have the votes to basically rein in the filibuster, rich, we know the president will be heading to camp david for the holiday and hitting the road next week, not to talk about abortion but ohio to talk about the economy. rich. >> mark, thanks very much.

gillian, this is an issue democrats right now, it's a tough re-election, a tough midterm season for them. they are thinking maybe they can use roe versus wade, depends how they play it in congress. >> and if the administration aligns behind messaging, so far we are seeing different people on different pages. vice president harris and the press secretary, the most recent two cabinet officials to clash, or offer different guidance what the plan is for abortion on federal lands, they have to get their ducks in a row. we'll have byron york in a few minutes. millions of americans are set to celebrate america this independence day, but a new study finds this year in particular a lot of americans just are not feeling the holiday spirit. we have brand-new fox polling that shows just 39% of all americans are proud of where the country is today. that's down 12 points from 2017

and a whopping 30 points since 2011. the last series of polls. let's bring in nikki haley, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations for president trump. ambassador, it's the holiday weekend, normally a time for celebration, a lot of patriotism, a lot of pride, this breaks down some numbers by political affiliation. majority of republicans and independents, and nearly half the democrats are feeling dissatisfied with the country. what gives? >> well, i mean, you know, look at the fact when they go to the gas station they pay more and the grocery store, how they feed their families. the average american family is paying $6,000 more this year than last year and i can tell you when michael and i were raising our small kids, if we had to pay that, the place we got that from was a credit card. and interest rates are going up, so a lot of american families

are feeling that. but this national self-loathing happening across this country is extremely harmful and we've got to go back to remember who we are, what we are, and why this matters, and biden has stomped all over it, but that's the reason we are fighting to make sure we turn the tide, make sure we fix this. we want people to be proud of our country again. my husband is a combat veteran, he fought for this country, he sacrificed for this country with so many men and women because we have the best country in the world but we have to act like it and start winning again and we have to start immediately. >> are you surprised that less than half of the polled democrats said they were dissatisfied? given the eruption of sentiment on the left in the wake of supreme court rules that have not cut their way over the last couple months, i would guess that number would be even higher. >> i'll tell you, we are all

over the country supporting candidates and the number one issue we hear from families is definitely the inflation and the economy. the second is border, third is crime and the fourth is education and abortion and guns come after that. people don't have the luxury of politics right now. all they want is to see people fighting for them and see people getting to work for them. and when we talk about winning the majority of the house and the senate, 50% of our issue is making sure that we win the majority, so more important 50% is proving we deserve to be there when we win, getting the work right away, making sure we are showing solutions, results for american families. that's how you will improve the morale of america, strengthen the spine of america and start to win again. >> what's your message for those conservatives who are unhappy with the direction president

biden is steering the white house? why is there still a lot of reason for them to feel proud of and good about being american? >> well, look, when i was at the united nations i can tell you we had, you know, many countries that wanted to hate on america. but in the quiet rooms of those, of that building they would talk about how many they envied america, loved that we had freedom of speech, freedom of religion, do whatever we wanted to be without government getting in the way. my parents came here legally from india. they put in the time, they put in the price, they are just appalled by what's happening in our country and you find that most local immigrants are more patriotic these days than most americans and we've got to shift the tide on that. we have to understand when i was at the united nations, when we spoke the world listened. what we did, the world wanted. we have to get back to what that feeling is because we are the

best country in the world, and republican solutions focus on lifting up everybody, not just a section of people, everybody. and we put the power back into the hands of the people and not into unelected bureaucrats or justices. >> gillian: you are joining us, madam ambassador, from iowa today, so caucuses for a presidential candidate ahead of the rest of the country. before i wish you a happy 4th, make sure you don't have any announcement. >> i'll tell you, the announcement is we just recently finished an event for zach nunn, he's a father, a veteran, he's a pro freedom fighter and he's somebody that would make america proud on top of that, we endorsed marionet miller meeks, they grow them strong in iowa. in wisconsin before that for rebecca clayfish and ron johnson. a lot of great people out there. we just need the american people

to care, let's push them over the finish line and then hold them accountable to get to work for the american people. we have an amazing country, even on our worst day we are blessed to live in america. we have to remember that. >> gillian: amen to that. ambassador haley, thanks for joining us today. happy independence day to you and your family. new radio chatter from the discovery of abandoned migrant truck that left 53 people dead earlier this week. >> i have so many bodies here, another body in the trailer. >> border sources tell fox news 518 other migrants have also died this fiscal year alone, that number is expected to climb. >> the first half of 2022 is the worst on wall street since 1970. now a key federal reserve g.d.p. tracker signals we may already

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>> u.s. navy is forced to shut down a fuel storage center after thousands of residents in the hills above pearl harbor were poisoned. an investigation revealed poor management and human error caused fuel to leak into tap water last year. about 6,000 were poisoned, military families were forced to evacuate their homes for months while they waited for their water to be safe again. gillian. >> gillian: newly obtained police radio chatter is revealing the overwhelming horror that police encountered when they discovered that abandoned truck in san antonio in which dozens of people had been trapped by smugglers in 100

degree weather. 54 people have now died. fox news has learned 518 migrants have died along the southern border since october. that doesn't include the people found dead inside that truck earlier this week. claudia has more on the ruthless and deadly cartel activities along the southern border. talk to us about the new numbers we are learning today. >> well, gillian, administration has not officially released any death toll figures from the border since 2020 but fox news has learned the number of people who have died sneaking into the country is way up. sources with u.s. customs and border protection tell fox 518 migrant deaths along the southern border this fiscal year, and 566 last year. that's a huge jump from the last publicly reported number of 247 deaths in fiscal year 2020. and as you mentioned, this year's numbers don't include the 53 migrants who were found dead in the back of that sweltering

tractor-trailer on monday in san antonio. it's still unclear how long they had been in there. the smugglers had confiscated their cell phones so they could not call for help, heartbreaking to think about that. officers suggest a scene of total chaos and frantic search for the driver. >> all we have right now, hispanic male, maybe wearing a brown shirt, southbound from the location, either along the railroad tracks or towards the mechanic shop nearby. >> i have too many bodies here. >> turns out surveillance video captured the truck passing through an inland border patrol checkpoint in laredo, texas, and raising questions whether border patrol at checkpoints between mexico and canada, and more than 100 of them, are able to spot people in cars and trucks entering the united states illegally. border patrol officials say those checkpoints are an imperfect but important second

line of defense after the border but texas state troopers say it's not good enough. they will now operate their own inland checkpoints and take a more aggressive stance on inspections on the orders of greg abbott, a fierce and vocal critic of the biden administration border policies. >> thanks so much. rich. >> fox news alert from wall street, the stock market suffers its worse first half of the year since 1970. s & p has fallen 20% since january 1st and investors are worried a recession is on the horizon. and we have the ranking member on the select committee of economic disparity. let's get into the picture looking at stock values, if you have money in the stock market,

don't check it if you are long-term. dow down 15.3%, 20% for the nasdaq, s & p 500 down more than 20%. you are a member of congress, what can congress do to try to reverse this? >> the markets are a reflection to what's happening to american families, punched in the face of the economic policies of the biden administration. president biden made reckless campaign promises then the administration with one party democratic control implemented those policies, spending recklessly, $1.9 trillion in stimulus spending, spiking inflation, the biden administration put their head in the sand, democrats doubled down, inflation reared its ugly head and now the administration is making excuses rather than taking on inflation. we should unleash american energy so families are not paying twice what they were paying before biden came to

office, and two, stop reckless spending to get inflation under control. >> republicans, even if they take control of the house or the senate, don't have the white house, how can republicans work with democrats to try to find a bipartisan way forward to deal with this? >> two key things we can do, as i said. i think we need to dramatically change course on american emergency policy. hold the biden administration accountable, killed the keystone pipeline, then recently the biden administration made a decision not to lease new oil and well for oil in the gulf of mexico, and in alaska, we have to hold this administration accountable and release american energy. and two, if we fire nancy pelosi once and for all, we'll have control of the purse strings and we have an opportunity to truly curtail this reckless spending that we have seen under one party democratic control.

>> do you think there's a way forward here where in a compromised sense, does not seem to happen very often on capitol hill, much less than it used to, that democrats could get more funding for green energy, republicans can get more drilling for leases, and everyone is happy and goes home? >> i don't know we will have the moment you reference there, but i think we need an all the above energy approach here in the united states of america. that includes -- that includes solar, it's going to include nuclear as well, but the one thing that we can do to turn the spigot on quickly is domestic production of oil and natural gas, and if they suffer and vote in november, democrats are no longer going to be able to keep their head in the sand and finally have to look up and realize we have to lower energy prices so american families, if you are driving to the beach or the lake this 4th of july

weekend are no longer paying double the price before biden came to office. >> the feds job, two jobs. employment and inflation, and inflation is historically high, four decades high. was the fed -- are they culpable here? >> we had federal reserve chairman jay powell before us in the committee on financial services, he more or less admitted that. this is something that i've been raising the alarm on since 2020 with chairman powell. the fed ran reckless on pumping more money into the economy. it was really allowing the biden administration to take on all this reckless debt and those two issues combined is what led to the inflationary way we are under. now raising interest rates later than they should have, we are in a pickle, but the reckless spending got us here. >> congressman brian style, thank you for joining us this afternoon.

appreciate it. >> thank you. >> gillian: california drivers may want to buckle up. already the most expensive for gas and now slated to get even more pricey. we'll break down why coming up in a minute. plus, putin is continuing his brutal attacks on ukrainian civilians, a missile hitting a residential area near odesa. ukraine is not backing down. they may want ukraine to make a deal. victoria coates joining us us in a moment. >> the russians are lying that they voluntarily left the island, ukrainians drove them off because they were shelling and killing them. some like strategic diversification. some like a little comfort, to balance out the risk. others want immediate gratification... and long-term gratification,too.

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i'm going to start riding a bike. just as ridiculous. >> i will stay at home. show them better than going out and spending my money. >> the increase comes as president biden urges states to suspend the gas tax, but governor newsom refusing so suspend the tax as he does not expect big oil to pass savings on, instead a rebate likely in october. it's a nice optic win, curious timing before voters hit the polls. others argue another stimulus check could make it worse. >> one of the reasons why dollars are not strechting as far, injecting more money into the economy, a patch at best. >> that certainly will not help drivers this weekend who are hitting the roads with that gas tax increase. and rich, the gas tax is supposed to help repair the roads, something that e.v. drivers are able to avoid in many areas, even though they use

the road just like gas drivers. >> gillian: 19 people, including some people were killed after russian missiles hit a residential area near the port city of odesa, that happened as they pulled out of nearby snake island, and zelenskyy is calling the move a retreat. despite this, general jack keane says the russian military holds a major strategic advantage in the region. >> ukraine took back territories in the strategic place, russia will blockade the cargo ships trying to get the agriculture exports out of ukraine, and that's devastating ukraine's economy. >> gillian: we are joined now to have it broken down. victoria, talk about snake island being or captured, a

significant victory, at least a significant symbolic victory for the ukrainians, right? >> oh, i think so, gillian. i mean, we all remember from the very, very early days of the war when the brave ukrainians on snake island had some pretty colorful language for the russians that were trying to get them to surrender, and i think general keane is 100% absolutely correct, russians should be dominating the fight. but the fact they are still taking losses and we are in day 100 plus of a three-day war shows you the ukrainians actually can win. >> despite this, though, a lot of foreign policy analysts have been telling us this week and last week that putin appears to be, have somewhat of an attitude adjustment, they said he's appearing confident in his military performance, he's appearing confident he has regained the trust of the russian people. what do you read into that, if

anything? >> well, certainly the action has been spun in a way that is politically popular at home for him, so i think he's pleased by that development. the fact of the matter is, he's really had to reduce his goals quite significantly. i think the main problem we face, though, is that he is continuing to sell gas and oil, both in europe and to china, so he can keep funding this thing. that is something we have to take a very hard look at and figure out how we can cut that off. >> the key question, at least for lawmakers here at home in america right now, is how are we going to keep finding this. take a listen to the president overseas yesterday. >> we are going to support ukraine as long as it takes. look at the impact that the war on ukraine has had on russia. they have had to reneg on the national debt, lost 15 years of

the gains they made in terms of their economy. >> gillian: so keep supporting ukraine as long as it takes, he says. last week samantha power said ukraine is spending 5 to $6 billion financing this war a month, also said that all global international aid to the country is not keeping pace with that. is it realistic for the president to say we are going to continue support as long as it takes? >> i really appreciate you playing that clip. i think it gets to the heart of the problem of the administration's approach, which is they have no strategy. the president just says the american people have to accept pain from putin's war of aggression but has no plan to either end it or to mitigate it and one of the more shameful things out of the g7 meeting was this attempt to put a price hike on russian gas and oil so western countries continue to buy it but somehow create this

artificial gimmick so they don't have excessive profits to putin. and the dirtiest fossil fuel you can have up there with venezuela, and going back to what congressman style was saying in the previous segment, why aren't we pumping energy here at home and starving putin of resources. >> gillian: some of the dirtiest oil around before it was being used to finance the ground war in europe. victoria coates, happy july 4th this weekend. thank you for joining us. >> happy fourth to you, take care. >> rich: american basketball star britney griner led into a russian courtroom on her trial of possessing cannabis oil. american diplomat in moscow passing on a message from the two-time u.s. olympic gold medallist. >> doing as well as can be expected in these difficult circumstances and convey that

she is in good spirits and is keeping up the faith. the united states government at the very highest level is working very hard to bring miss griner, as well as all wrongfully detained u.s. citizens safely home. >> rich: arrest and trial coming as tensions are heightened between russia and the united states. initial session of the trial, featuring two russian witnesses, got adjourned until july 7th. >> gillian: protests outside a would be training facility turned violent with protestorers throwing molotov cocktails. >> and a great white is spotted closing down a popular beach. not the only one. >> it is safe to go in the

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>> rich: shark patrol some beaches this holiday weekend. cape cod is one of the many popular summertime destinations on the east coast to issue a shark warning, this comes after police spotted one off the race point beach on the cape earlier this week. beaches on long island in new york are also increasing patrols after officials say a man was possibly bitten by a shark. >> didn't go in alone, go in with only a lifeguard, make sure that you know your surrounding circumstances. be aware. be aware of everything around you. it could be a rogue wave, a rip

tide, or animal. >> rich: it could be an animal. >> gillian: also could be a rip tide, or you could get bitten by a shark. you could also just -- stay on the sand or find a nice beach bar, that's where i'll be this july 4th weekend. >> rich: i like that, that's what we are going to do. head into the holiday weekend, keep it tuned to fox news channel, monday night. >> gillian: anti-police demonstrations taking a violent turn in georgia. atlanta police say protestors attacked police officers with molotov cocktails. what are the protestors upset about? >> hi there, gillian. they are protesting construction of a public safety training center just outside the city lip its of atlanta.

the protestors claim that the project jeopardizes the environment and that it will unnecessarily increase police activity in a low income minority neighborhood. now, police say the protests are becoming dangerous. they released video of a molotov cocktail exploding near a group of officers at the construction site. no one was injured in the attack which occurred in may but vandals have damaged property. one contractor believes protestors tracked him to an unrelated construction company more than 20 miles away where he was visiting a friend. construction equipment there was burned and spray painted with slogans opposing the training center, opponents have labelled cop city. >> it makes us worried whether it's going to start happening on other jobs, we know a lot of the guys that may do work down there, at a later point in time, and it's got everybody a little bit shaken. >> activists deny any

involvement with any of the violence or destruction but tweeted photos of small tree houses that protests have occupied at the construction site. police arrested at least sefrn protestorses, all from out of state, from obstruction or trespassing, and police point out there is a difference between legitimate protest and criminal activity. back to you. >> gillian: jonathan, thank you. rich. >> rich: infighting among democrat, trying to figure out how to respond to the fall of roe versus wade. provided wants it codified into law by changing a rule, but sinema and manchin say not so fast. others go farther, and some say it's time for a change. >> gillian: have you shopped for your july 4th barbecue?

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>> gillian: a very scary situation for some nature lovers at yellowstone national park. officials say for the second time this week a bison gored a park goer. the most recent attack happened wednesday when a 71-year-old woman, a quote from them, inadvertently approached the animal while returning to her car. fortunately she suffered non-life-threatening injuries. earlier in the week, though, a young man was also gored by a bison at the park after getting too close. third time it has happened at yellowstone so far just this year alone. now, rich, a word of advice, this is terrible, our hearts go out to these people, word of advice from someone who has done a lot of safaris in africa, stay away, stay in the car with the windows rolled up, any where, any time you are in the vicinity of any animals. >> yeah. >> you are on their turf and they will attack you. >> rich: i'm not a park ranger, but the last video, don't do

that. stay away. >> gillian: stay away, stay in the car, don't go in the ocean. listen to us, you'll never have any fun. safest thing. >> congress is gonna have to act to codify roe into federal law. we need two more votes. >> democrats appear to be stuck in their response hours after president biden first called for an exception to the filibuster. manchin and sinema squashed the idea. a.o.c. and others say even the carveout would not be enough. byron york is a chief political correspondent for the fox news examiner and fox news contributor. byron, assess the situation, the biden situation on this and what democrats can and should be doing with this as a way to go

into the midterms and perhaps response to something that was 50 years in the making. >> well, they cannot do a lot in terms of passing any law. the basic problem is, is that democrats do not control a majority of seats in the senate. it's 50/50, which means to pass anything they have to make sure they have all 50 of their democratic senators on board and then the vice president can come in to break a tie, but they have to have all 50 on board. now, if they had won a majority of, say, 53 or 54 seats in the senate, they could lose sinema, they could lose manchin and still have enough to pass something but they can't, and then there's a question of the filibuster. the it requires 60 votes right now to pass. >> rich: and we appear to have lost byron there, for a shot of 6th avenue, it looks like.

so -- >> gillian: we'll try to get him back for you. >> rich: in the meantime, and we have byron, we have him back. we'll get back to you. we just missed you for a second. you were talking just about the math in the senate and i'll let you pick up from there. democrats, they have 50 votes in the senate, which is the bare minimum to control the chamber, they can't do much unless they want to break the filibuster and not even their own party is letting them do that. >> right. and breaking the filibuster or eliminating the filibuster would require the nuclear option, a pretty controversial move. it's been done before in the senate but that would require that all democrats be on board and now we know that senators manchin and sinema aren't. everything really comes back to the fact that democrats came in, out of the trump years with enormous ambitions, but do not

control a majority of seats in the senate and it's hard to do things when you don't have a majority. >> because of the way that roe versus wade polls, the democrats could do something more towards the middle, put a bill up just to vote on it for political purposes, something that both sides do a lot of, take a look at the polls. fox news poll on what americans think about abortion, 31% say always legal, 20% say mostly legal, 38% say mostly illegal, and 9% say always illegal. could there be a way forward where democrats could put a bill up and say no state can allow abortion to happen in cases of rape or incest? start smaller than the larger bill some of the democrats are talking on the left and put a number of republicans in a difficult spot. >> there is such a possible path. we have seen polls for a long time that a majority of americans opposed, opposed

striking down roe v. wade but at the same time they supported serious restrictions on abortion nationwide. and we had a situation with a law passed in mississippi which would effectively ban abortion after 15 weeks and the biden administration said to the supreme court, if you allow the law to stand, it's just like striking down roe anyway. you must either strike roe down or allow it to stand and the supreme court struck it down. but that doesn't mean there isn't a middle way because many americans, majority of americans, want abortion to be legal in some circumstances. and remember, remember in all the states where it was blue states, which have passed laws, abortion is legal still. the law, the striking down roe did not affect that. >> rich: byron york, thanks very much for joining us, appreciate it. >> gillian: new at 2:00, as the

nation gets ready to celebrate independence day, new polling shows more than half of americans are not proud of the state of the nation. they say a lot of that is because of the mud slinging going on in washington. we will talk about how politics is poisoning patriotism. plus, the national security risk you may have just downloaded on the iphone. and southern border deaths and general keith kellogg on nato's dire warning. all of that coming up.

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they're banking, with bank of america. the groom's parents? they just found out they can redeem rewards for a second honeymoon. romance is in the air. like these two. he's realizing he's in love. and that his dating app just went up. must be fate. and phil. he forgot a gift, so he's sending the happy couple some money. digital tools so impressive, you just can't stop banking. what would you like the power to do? >> it's national self-loathing that is happening across this country is extremely harmful and we've got to go back to remember who we are, what we are, and why this matters, and biden has stomped all over it. >> rich: that's nikki haley knocking president biden, saying his lack of leadership and policies are why noft americans

are not feeling the 4th. i'm rich edson. >> gillian: good to be with you, john and sandra are out today. americans are kicking off the weekend, but instead of celebrating our nation's independence, people are not happy with the red, white and blue. >> rich: researchers say a big reason, the hyper partisanship stemming from washington. they say it seems politics has taken over for patriotism. >> gillian: and then there is the economy. a lot of americans frustrated having to shell out more for pretty much everything. >> rich: we have fox team coverage. the cost of the cookout, and wall street woes. >> gillian: hillary vaughn is at 1600 pennsylvania avenue this

afternoon. >> when it comes to the state of the economy, president biden has a story and he is sticking to it. he thinks the economy is strong, does not think things are as baed as they seem and does not believe anybody thinks the u.s. is going down the wrong track. >> they do not think that. you haven't found one person, one world leader say america is going backward. america's better positioned to lead the world than we ever have been. we have the strongest economy in the world, our inflation rates are lower than other nations in the world. >> recent polls suggest a lot of americans are not happy with how things are going. a recent a.p. found 60% are not happy with how he is handling finances, and some people are not proud of america today, of democrats, 48%, and republican, 60% are not proud, and

independents, 64% are not proud. and the inflation rate is not lower but higher than some major economies, including the u.k., canada, japan, the reason for high prices is not a mystery. >> we know why we have inflation, they drove up the cost of energy. it was not russia that did it, it was their crazy policies. so everything costs more because of joe biden. food costs more, gas costs more, a new home cost more. everything costs more and this idea that americans don't understand, they do. >> biden says there is one person to blame for high prices and it is not him. >> the bottom line is ultimately the reason why gas prices are up is because of russia, russia, russia, russia. the reason why the food crisis exists is because of russia.

>> the data does not back that up either. inflation started the up climb after president biden took office and well before the putin invasion of ukraine. and the federal reserve said putin is not the reason. >> gillian: happy 4th. >> happy 4th. rich. >> rich: a great day not to look at your 401(k). wall street is witnessing the worst first half since 1970. lauren has more on this. >> stop the presses, we saw the chart of the dow, it was down but it's actually higher right now, fingers crossed. you have seen how this year has been with the s & p 500 down 20%. nasdaq's worst start to a year ever with the near 30% decline. in all, before today, january through yesterday, u.s. stocks

shed more than $11 trillion. some 3 trillion wiped from retirement savings. worry is stocks will fall more as the federal reserve hikes rates to cool inflation and maybe send the economy into recession. there are also fears we are already in recession, and that is starting to show up in the data. this morning we got tom fresh manufacturing numbers and show the manufacturing sector slowed the most in two years, and new orders actually shrank in june. and micron chip maker, said consumer demand for smartphones and computers has weakened, and meta hiring 30% less engineers. and bitcoin has lost more than half its value, although it's getting a little reprieve today, around $19,000.

and there's one sector that is firmly in the green this year, it is energy, up 29% because gas prices are hovering near the all time highs. people are shelling out more for gas, spending less on other things, which means the consumer discretionary sector is the worst performing sector, down 33%. disney down almost 40% this year. let's leave on a positive, it's a midterm election year after all. cfra look at these things, they say stocks in midterm election historically bottom now, before they rally in the fourth and everyone is making the references to the 1970s when inflation was bad also. if you go back and look at the s & p in the first half of the year in 1970, down 21%, same as now. the back half reversed the losses, up more than 26% in the second half. so, let's try to be helpful.

>> rich: let's just time the market, lauren. good to see you. gillian. >> gillian: as they say, a lot of hope and no chance. forget your 401(k), you can tell how tough things were by the grocery bill. grady from naperville, illinois. >> remember last year the white house tweeted one year ago to the day that your 4th of july cookout was going to be $0.16 cheaper than 2020, thanks to the biden economic policies. well, the white house is remaining mum about the cost of your cookout this year, and that's probably because prices are way up. we have our producer phil grilling out with his custom phil on the grill shirt. the one day a year he lets us put him on television and item by item to show how much more you are paying. ground beef in the hamburgers, up more than 30% from a year ago, according to the american farm bureau federation. chicken breasts and pork and baked beans also up more than

30% from last year. table here with all of the sides and fixings to show you item by item as well how much you are paying. so lemonade will cost you 4.43, 22% increase from last year, my best bob barker impression. hamburger buns are up 16% from last year. potato salad, up 19%. and of course, you have to have dessert, chocolate chip cookies, we bought the ones with the red, white and blue m and ms. the a 13 pounce back, 4.31. 7% increase from last year. almost everything across the board will cost you more, including, by the way, the decorations. we went to dollar tree to get these patriotic paper plates. everything at dollar tree used to cost a dollar. this year, a buck 25. if you only want to serve your guests items that are cheaper than they were last year, it's going to be a pretty sad

cookout. these were the only items we could find. cheese slices, potato chips and strawberries. all told, the barbecue this 4th of july will be 17% more than a year ago. and i will send it back to you, gillian, because it is about to rain here. i guess we have a literal and figurative damper on our barbecue this year. >> gillian: i was going to say your reporting almost makes me happy i'm stuck here in the washington bureau working all day and not hosting anyone at my house this year. we'll check back in with you later. >> rich: we need phil on the grill. dagan, you heard the reports about the economic situation. is there a scenario where the businesses control the supply

chain problems, won't be this bad the second half the year? >> inflation might not be as bad but the economic outlook will be probably worse. we are in a recession right now. period. federal reserve bank of atlanta came out, they do a g.d.p. now forecast for what the second quarter will look like for the u.s. economy, and it revised its forecast lower yesterday to negative. so the economy contracted 1.6% the first quarter, the expectation from the atlanta fed right now is a contraction of negative 1%, that's the definition of a recession. we go through all the numbers, the american people know it's bad, that what's happening is inflation is so high and skyrocketed so quickly that it's putting a crunch on consumer spending and saving. people are spending down their savings, the savings rate is

near a decade low, and consumer spending fell last month to the lowest level of the year so far. so, inflation is really eating into people's savings. it's eating into people's wages. household incomes are lower because when you adjust for inflation so all of this is, you know, stagflation was a term coined in the 1970s but this is a great deal worse because this is 40-year high inflation coupled with an economic contraction. see if we can work biden into it somewhere, some phrase we might coin. but that's the reason that people, pride in america is down. nikki haley said self-loathing, no it's leader loathing. leader in the white house, the leaders in congress, here, there and everywhere. the leader of the federal reserve. they are all to blame for the skyrocketing inflation and i

don't mean to toot my own horn but on "the five" new year's day special i called this, i said the story last year was inflation and this is a complete collapse in prices, and stocks, and cryptocurrencies, they raise interest rates and destroying money. $9 trillion balance sheet. setting fire to money. >> gillian: just so we don't leave everybody feeling depressed ahead of the holiday weekend, you are a solutions oriented gal. what is the solution, what is the way forward for the biden administration to start climbing out of all of this? >> i would -- they need to do something to help fight inflation and they are not. they have done zip, zilch, zero, and the biden administration extended the moratorium on

making student loan payments. it's extended through august. when they extended it in april, inflation was running at 8.5% year over year and unemployment rate 3.6%, that's stimulus and it's stimulus for rich people who have law degrees and are doctors. so that makes no sense. jay powell is out on his own on a plank trying to fight this inflation. some will be naturally correcting because people pull back. we talk about so many driving over the holiday weekend because of the problems with air travel, but gas has been falling, demand is, it's tightening, and expecting gasoline prices to fall $0.17 a fall, another $0.17 a gallon and hit about 4.70 a

gallon in the next 14 days. now, i would note that that is still about $0.59 higher than the previous record set in 2008, but it's still lower than what we have been facing. so a slowdown in the economy and recession corrects a lot of the inflationary problems. but listen, i don't think americans are down on the country. we love each other and we hold dear the opportunities and freedom afforded us and we can talk to our neighbor without ever bringing up biden or trump. >> gillian: that would be something truly refreshing, if we could all cast politics aside for a minute. >> i have one piece of advice. if you are going to wear the stars and stripes, make sure the stripes are vertical because if they're horizontal, you'll look as wide as the side of a barn, not you, i mean -- >> gillian: i knew we booked you

for a reason. thank you so much for joining us. happy 4th, love seeing you. >> you as well. love seeing y'all. >> gillian: american fliers meanwhile are fed up with cancellations and delays as they pile up. we'll check in live with our teams at the major airports on this busy travel weekend. also, wait until you hear about the length one person went to get aboard his flight earlier today. it's wild. >> rich: new warnings over tiktok and the risk to national security. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensure, complete balanced nutrition with 27 vitamins and minerals. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. ♪ ♪

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what the company has to say about being labelled a national security risk. crime and safety remain top concerns over another holiday weekend. that's especially the case in chicago, police officer is now in the hospital after a shooting this morning. senior correspondent mike tobin is live in the windy city. mike. >> rich, holiday weekend is not quite underway but chicago is violent, a police officer fighting for his life shot this morning, and two people are dead following a mass shooting. the officer was a 15 year veteran of the police force. responding to a domestic call in the little italy neighborhood and he was ambushed as he got off an elevator. he was shot in the arm and abdomen, in serious condition. the gunman was a convicted felon. there is speculation he tried to slit his wrist, only confirmation is he is being

treated to injury by his wrist. >> unbelievable increase in domestic violence-related homicides and shootings. it is a huge public health and public safety issue, which we are working diligently to address, but we have a long way to go as a society in understanding the danger. >> that mass shooting was on the west side of chicago's loop, the business district. it's not an area known for gun violence. five guys walked out of a building, got into an argument with an unknown man who opened fire. one of the people leaving the building was shot in the head, another shot in the chest and died as well. three others were shot and wounded from that incident alone. but if you start counting at 8:00 p.m. last night, the record show 15 were shot, seven in chicago died of gunshot wounds. businesses complain of the up surge in violence as well as taxes and regulations, so a lot of them are leaving. dozens of small businesses have

left illinois, big ones as well. ken griffin announced last week he is moving his hedge fund citadel from chicago to miami. he has long complained about the up surge in violence as well as oppressive government tactics. back to you, rich. >> rich: mike tobin, thanks. gillian. >> gillian: back to the major concerns over tiktok. f.c.c. commissioner is urging apple and google to remove it from the platform, unacceptable security risk, vivik, thanks for being with us today. i want to read this to you, essentially called tiktok a wolf in sheep's clothing. says tiktok is not what it appears to be on the surface, it's not just an app for fun sharing, for sharing fun videos

or memes, at its core, a sophisticated surveillance tool that harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data. are ya shocked? >> i'm not shocked, and i think this is actually really interesting because it gets to the heart of a dilemma a lot of people have wondered about, gillian, how it was that the communist party of china went on to embrace such capitalistic principles and the answer is this. they realize they could weaponize capitalism as a trojan horse the other side could not resist as a way to accomplish geopolitical and mark my words, even military goals. >> i don't want to interrupt you, but so tiktok is owned by this company called bite dance, based in beijing, and critics are contending that they are basically beholden to the chinese communist party. sorry to interrupt you. >> it's not just critics, it's

being an excepted wisdom. anyone who has done business in china, either indirectly or directly beholden to the communist party. it's not just a chinese-own companied, bite dance is a china company, but also u.s. companies do multi-national business in china. wall street journal on airbnb, unbeknownst to many people, handing over information to the c.c.p. as a condition for doing business in china. what larry fink, the c.e.o. of blackrock does to lobby for chinese companies here in the united states in order to gain the ability to do business in china, this is the game the chinese have mastered. recognized that americans could not resist the gift of global capitalism, let's weaponize that, and i'm glad officials both in the democrat and the

republican party, now it can be a bipartisan issue are waking up to that fact when they have been asleep at the switch for the last 20 years as china played that game. >> gillian: so, better late than never. but it's still a head scratcher how we got to here and now, the f.c.c. commissioner is warning about the platform, hundreds of millions of americans, a third of the country here, a lot of them teenagers have already downloaded this and used it every day for years now. we have been warning about this, by we, concerned americans, we have covered this extensively on the network about the national security concerns. why are we only new in 2022 getting this kind of government warning? >> we are 20 years too late. starting about 20 years ago there was a bipartisan philosophy in favor of so-called democratic capitalism, we told ourselves a myth that we could export big macs and happy meals and spread governance to places

like china. china realized they could play the game in reverse and send back disguised companies as trojan horses to hand over information, without saying a peep about china, a false equivalent, however, better late than never. now is the time we wake up. however, mark my words, this is going to require sacrifices for companies that have grown addicted to the chinese market and it's going to require not companies to make voluntary decisions but the u.s. government to put the u.s. national interest first, that is the goal of the government to protect against geopolitical and military risks by putting constraints on what companies are able to do for the c.c.p. here at home. >> gillian: and congress may have to actually legislate.

happy 4th to you. we reached out to tiktok, they say the following, employees outside the u.s., including china based employees could have access to u.s. user data with robust cybersecurity controls overseen by the u.s. security team. we aim to remove any doubt about the security of u.s. user data. >> rich: we are learning how deadly the situation at the border is becoming. customs and border protection shares stunning new stats with fox. border patrol president reacts in moments. and another chaotic weekend of holiday travel. live from one of the busiest airports in the nation. that's coming up next.

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>> we did not plan ahead. i hope we make our flight today. >> i think they have to work through whatever they are going through. >> trusted them to get my stuff to the right place and get us to the right location, even with the delays. >> rich: frustrated fliers speaking to us as the 4th of july holiday has travelers and airlines bracing for a weekend of delays and cancellations. madison alworth is live from new york airport in new york. >> hey, ring, this weekend americans, 3.5 million, are set to take to the skies. unfortunately, many of them will face delays and even worse, some will face cancellation. taking a look at the five days leading up to this holiday travel weekend to give us a sense of what to expect, on average, 21% of flights were delayed. about that. almost one in four flights are delayed. part of the problem is staffing issues. airlines are struggling to get

pilots and they likely will for a while. >> we lost far more pilots than normal in 2020 and 2021, because a lot of airlines gave more senior pilots incentives to leave early in order to bring down their payroll. and even after they got money from the government for wage subsidies. >> and now caught in the cross hairs are the americans who are just trying to get to their friends and family. i believe we have some sound from some of those struggling this holiday weekend. >> we are here and we went through a lot of hassles, it was horrendous, really bad. >> crossing our fingers and hoping for the best. >> sent of transportation pete buttigieg promises the

administration will use the tools they have if there are exorbitant delays and cancellations this weekend. but two problems with that. one, it has not been outlined what they plan to do, and two, it's not going to do anything to help the americans travelling this weekend facing those delays and cancellations. so, like we heard at the top of this, the young waem who did not give herself enough time to get to the airport, definitely plan to have extra time. you are going to need it, whether it's the security or customer service. >> absolutely. madison alworth, thanks very much. >> gillian: russian president vladimir putin says he has no problem for sweden and finland to join nato, and general keith kellogg, general, what do you make of this from putin.

is it a lot of grandstanding or really maybe not his worst nightmare but worse case scenario. >> i think it's the general's worst case scenario as well. when you add finland and sweden, add their defense budgets, you are looking at the defense budgets, nato now, 25 times larger than russia has, and you look at two really high quality military nations in finland and sweden, and look, what putin does not seem to realize, what his agregious actions in ukraine, but now everybody is marching towards the 2% of g.d.p., they all agreed to in 2014 in the wales declaration. when president trump came in, only five nations at 2% g.d.p., and now everybody is marching towards that, including germany. and germany was the biggest lagger. so looking at 2 to 30% that

exceed russia and the other thing, people don't look at, it's geography. right now, ukraine, i'm sorry, not ukraine, but nato borders russia about 400 miles. you add finland, another 800 miles. and covered up and where his great northern fleet is, he has tremendous problems not only geographical and i think his generals are pulling their hair out. >> rich: general, a few months ago, putin had a strangle hold on the eastern part of ukraine, nato had questions what the mission was, how cohesive nato was, does he risk using control of eastern ukraine. is there a possibility the ukrainians can kick the russians out of their territory? >> they could have early on ment i think we made a big strategic error not giving the ukrainians what they needed early on.

and multiple launch rocket system, the russians truly fear. it was designed when we had a program called assault breaker to defeat the soviet union and the warsaw pact allies, we only gave them six, we should have given them 60. it could have allowed the ukrainians to push them back. russians are overextended. they have gone about as far as they can go right now, and putin, well, on a good will nature we are going to pull out of snake island. he's going to have problems in the future and the ukrainians can still fight this out. >> gillian: rich just mentioned nato university, a huge show overseas with president biden. is that unity going to last, and is it going to transfer over to

other issues, meaning once russia is not picking up the entire rearview mirror, will that extent to common threats like china or herding cats again. >> i don't trust nato to stand study for a long period of time. they go back to their own self-serving interests, but 5, 10 years down the road, economic interests will take over. and no way they are going to be able to resupply they have had with the russians on energy. so, right now i think it's what's happening to ukraine over the long-term, it's a wait and see. nato alliance has to pick up more in support. united states is giving much more support than the rest of the nato allies. there was an article in the wall street journal that said that. everybody has to step up. right now the american taxpayer, this is the european issue. >> and the war is taking place

on their territory. happy 4th to you. thanks for coming in this afternoon. >> rich: speaking of nato, a new general in town. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. >> hi, rich. one day after an historic two-day nato summit in madrid, the alliance swore in a new supreme commander. four star general, received command of an enlarging nato, soon have 300,000 active troops under his watch and command and two new member states, finland and sweden. he is a russia specialist who studied at princeton and yale,. >> chris knows europe better than any living officer in uniform today. >> in this hour of danger, i'm incredibly proud of the way this

command had stepped up. >> general covoli will oversee some of the biggest changes in europe since world war ii. the pentagon has deployed or extended deployment for over 20,000 u.s. troops in europe. u.s. now has more than 100,000 troops based in europe. >> first of all, he's the right officerer and the right job, the right time. you are upholding the rules for national order. you are keeping nato solid and together. you are protecting america's vital interests, and importantly, you are preventing great power war. >> at the nato summit in madrid, president biden announced the u.s. will build a permanent army headquarters in poland. rotational combat bri cade through romania, two squadrons

to the u.k., short range air defense battery to italy. another 625 military personnel will head to germany. >> looking for -- going to get the natoization of europe, that's what needs to be done to guarantee security in europe. >> president biden just announced another $820 million in aid for additional weaponry, including air defense weapons requested by the ukraine government. that announcement just came from the pentagon. in the next hour, the pentagon plans to outline what will be in the weapons package. rich. >> rich: thank you. >> gillian: coming up next, the supreme court handed down a major ruling on immigration policy yesterday. now critics are warning the crisis at the southern border is set to get a whole lot worse. stick with us. life... doesn't stop for diabetes. be ready for every moment, with glucerna.

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the policy does, explain to us what it is and what the effects of it have been. >> well, i mean, it's something that was put in place to help with the covid and all those issues that have been going on, so individuals that were getting apprehended at the same time it would not flood some of our holding cells and you could have them remain in mexico and wait for their asylum cases to be heard in future dates. where it helped at the same time, though, is it deterred individuals from making false claims. if you are going to come all the way up to the southern border, you better have a good claim to make in order to go and push forward with your asylum. the problem now is when you remove it all together, anyone will come across, ask for asylum like happening under this administration and other individuals from other countries and remain in the u.s. and the court dates will not be heard for 5 to 6 years from now.

what's going to happen now, the southern border will get even more flooded, more agents removed from tactical positions, having to do the processing, having to do hospital watches, having to do transport and who at the end is going to be coming out on top is the drug cartels smuggling drugs into the country seeing those gaps. and it's bothersome to hear people say this is a win for the president or say it's a win for the white house. in reality what it is, it's a humongous loss for the american public and loss felt for generations to come. >> rich: the administration and allies say they have a more humane policy, the reason remain and mexico and other policies deterred people because they would be stuck in the camps in mexico, the conditions were terrible, and this is a more humane policy. what are you seeing in regard to

that? >> you have seen it and heard it from both sides of the aisle. the percentage of individuals with a true asylum claim is very low, so it deterred individuals with false claims. and the cells are full, people are being released in the united states, and the drug cartels are bringing more drugs into america. so when you look at it that way, let's call it like it is. what it is, it has become a bonanza for the drug cartels, i don't see any win by the american public by doing this. >> rich: thanks very much from tucson. >> gillian: whoa, what is a holiday without sharks like that. next, we have a warning for folks headed to one of america's most popular get-aways. ♪♪♪

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>> watch out if you plan to venture in the water. that's the warning on cape cod where great whites are expected. david lee miller joins us with the scary details. hey, david. >> gillian, it's not only cape cod, beach goers are being warned to be on the look you'd for sharks. experts say shark attacks are extremely rare. when they happen, consequences can be serious and fatal. a girl was severely bitten in florida. the family says the shark attacked twice and she tried poking it in the eyes and released from its jaws when her brother helped fight it off. her injuries are massive. yesterday a 57-year-old man appears to have been bitten by a shark. he was treated and released in a

local hospital. it happened that nassau county. >> we've increased the patrols. you can see, we have a helicopter in the air right now. we're patrolling the area. we have drones that we're going to use as well. >> further north, researchers with the atlantic white shark conservancy warn that from now until fall sharks will be a concern in the massachusetts coast. the areas has a high number of seals which the sharks feed on. on tuesday, near the tip of the cape, a beach was closed for about an hour following the sighting of a great white. the florida museum of natural history, which tracks shark attacks, says worldwide last year, there were 73 incidents. nine of which were fatal. the researchers say chances of being killed by a shark are one in 3.7 million. you're more likely to be fatally struck by lightning. gillian? >> no sharks here in the studio,

thankfully. i'm going to stay here. thanks, david lee miller. >> turning to the west coast. it's cloudy with a chance of fish. folks in fran have been reporting anchovies raining down from the sky. residents say they're finding fish on rooftops, sidewalks and driveways. one person said they nearly got smacked by a fish waiting for a bus. local fishermen say it's because of a boom in the anchovy population. birds are grabbing more than they can eat and drop them when they fly over land. >> or it's the apocalypse. >> sounds like the apocalypse. we've had sharks. >> i don't know if i buy that bird drop, that story. i don't think so. >> there needs to be hearings on this. >> there's also this. tell us if it's cuddly or creepy. there's a new debate over a crab species. it washed up on a beach in western australia. there it is.

it's covered in hair to protect itself from predators like hermit crabs do with their shells. despite this guy's fuzzy appearance, the hair is more like felt or velvet. we'll have to leave you on that note. you can tweet at us and tell us what you think of that guy. >> i'm rich edson. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: thanks, gillian and rich. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. we are about to speak with the white house team just moments from now. it comes one day after the president tells americans that they can expect to pay high gasses for as long as it takes for ukraine to win. that as the markets hit a grim milestone not seen in over 50 years. it's a decent day today as we head into the weekend and the final hours here. as we head to the biggest american holiday of the year with 80% of americans feeling gloomy about the economy. senior adviser to