>> harris: so true. >> ivana was a new york icon, i've been here a long time and she will be dearly missed, and she's in all our prayers, the family as well. >> family, definitely. thank you for being with us today. >> thank you very much. >> everybody, get ready. here comes "america reports." >> john: harris, thank you, and here we go. fox news alert, los angeles district attorney george gascon not giving up and taking his battle against enforcing a three strikes law up to california supreme court. >> sandra: under the law, voint repeat offenders can face more prison sentences. charlie hurt will be here to weigh in on that. >> john: begin this friday afternoon, addition of "america reports" with the visit to saudi

arabia, john roberts in washington. >> sandra: happy friday to you. see what gets done as the president continues his trip abroad. i'm sandra smith here in new york. the president greeting the saudi crown prince with the fist bump that has now been seen around the world amid speculation whether the two leaders would shake hands. part of the high stakes meeting focusing on talks to boost energy output there, as gas prices soar in the united states. but the white house is tamping down any expectations of immediate release for american drivers as the president looks to reset relations with the country he once promised to make a pariah. >> john: u.s. energy producers are sounding off saying the president should be looking for solutions to the gas crisis here at home. arkansas senator tom cotton joins us in a moment. >> sandra: fox news team covering, lawrence is live in midland, texas on the biden administration battle with big

oil. >> john: peter doocy is live in jeta, saudi arabia, peter, president biden is going to give a press conference in saudi arabia as he did in israel, what do we expect him to stay instead? >> biden officials have been teasing a major presidential statement while here in saudi arabia about his vision for the middle east, but we are learning now something that is not going to be in that statement is any kind of an announcement about getting or talking the saudis into drilling more oil here to bring gas prices down in the u.s. >> so even if the ground is not rife at this moment to restart negotiations, united states and my administration will not give up on trying to bring the palestinian ance israelis and both sides closer together. >> peter: that was a sound bite

from this morning when the president visited the west bank and how he does not think right now is the proper time to pursue the peace talks between the israelis and the palestinians and get to the two-state solution. here we have a sound bite from aboard air force one where the national security advisor lowers expectations for the meeting happening right now. listen to jake sullivan here. >> so even if the ground is not rife at this moment to restart negotiations, united states and my administration will not give up on trying to bring the palestinians and israelis and both sides closer together. fros morning of the president in the west bank. if we have jake sullivan aboard air force one, talking about lowering expectations for this meeting, ok, we are going to move on. do no the have that.

we are, though, getting some late breaking information from the press pool that went in to take some pictures of the biden and m.b.s. meeting, a reporter shouted out jamal khashoggi, will you apologize to his family, that was while the president and the crown prince were sitting right there. this reporter says m.b.s. had a slight smirk before a saudi aide grabbed his arm tightly. we expect to see that tape soon. we know president biden and his officials had said that he was going to bring up human rights abuses generally, but president biden has been making it sound for days like he was not going to directly confront the crown prince of the murder of the washington post journalist. >> john: we just turned the sap and have it for you in seconds. now over to sandra for the tape. >> sandra: the pool spray, moments ago of the bilateral meeting of our president biden

with m.b.s., the saudi crown prince, the question is eventually shouted. we are going to watch it together. >> thank you. >> jamal khashoggi, will you apologize to his family, sir? >> president biden -- pariah -- president biden -- >> thank you, thank you. >> thank you, guys. >> thank you.

>> sandra: so as it was noted in the pool note when that came in to us that we just played out for the audience, it was noted m.b.s. had a slight smirk before the saudi aide grabbed the arm of the reporter tightly to leave the room. obviously the audio listening to the exchange there was very difficult, but the question from the reporter clearly heard. >> john: i've been to countless of these around the world. they are always a little bit chaotic, that one maybe less so. but you know, trying to hear the president is very difficult because a long table like that, you can't get a microphone in front of them. what is interesting about this, saudi tv released the same thing with no audio on it, so the question that was shouted there by our colleague, peter alexander from nbc was scrubbed from the version that the saudis put out there. i guess they did not want anyone

questioning the crown prince about anything, let alone jamal khashoggi. >> sandra: that was the pool spray -- >> john: apparently that's it, too. >> sandra: that we will see. see if any news comes from that, john. we'll keep watching for that. >> john: i think the exposure of the meeting will be fairly limited and then a whole other day there to meet with other leaders as well. plenty of opportunity to hear from the president, if not the crown prince. >> sandra: we will bring our viewers news from that. as the president gets set to ask the saudi crown prince to boost oil production if that is indeed the case, frustration is growing here at home for america's energy producers who are stuck with increased regulations from this administration. fox business is live from the oil-rich basin in west texas, hard hat and all. so, what exactly are they so frustrated with and upset about? >> well, the optics of that

meeting you were just showing us clips of, right, they are mad and they are insulted, sandra, because they want to be part of the solution. >> we need to quit being demonized by the politicians and what not. we need your support, not you at every turn trying to shut us down. >> why would you want hydro carbon produced in a place where they don't have any controls, any e.s.g. standards, instead of producing it here where we do it in a much more environmentally responsible way. >> we have all the resources, everything we need to be energy independent, but technically we are really not, and we are moving away from that. and that's the thing that's frustrating. it's hard for me to understand. >> the u.s., sandra, produces more oil than saudi arabia, 11.6 million barrels a day, and

we can be producing so much more than that. right now in west texas, i'm standing on 12 billion barrels of untapped oil. and the reason the c.e.o.s, the executives can't tap into this oil is because they can't always get the capital or the political commitment that they need to do so. the companies that i speak to say this transition to clean energy, they are all for it, but they think you should let the market dictate the price of it and the pace of it. so where i am today, i caught back up with the company i met with when i was down here four months ago, and the c.e.o. said in these four months, lauren, i'm increased my production by 14% at the same time, my costs have gone up 40%. and his headaches have gone up as well. so, there needs to be a way we can make the math make more sense to our american producers, sandra. >> sandra: great reporting there, lauren, and getting their

direct thoughts on how they can improve the situation here and do so cleaner than turning to, say, saudi arabia for their lauren, thank you very much. >> yeah. all right. john. >> john: arkansas republican senator tom cotton. the main event on president biden's schedule this evening in saudi arabia is the big meeting as we saw on the pool spray with salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia, a complete 180 what the president said was going to be the focus of the trip. listen to what he said in june. >> i'm not going to meet with m.b.s., i'm going to an international meeting, and it's part of it. >> john: i'm not going to meet with m.b.s., but an international meeting. he has a penchant to tell the nation what he's not going to do and doing the opposite and in doing so, it almost gives the idea that m.b.s. has the upper

hand here. >> well, john, also creates the worst of both worlds. joe biden should have never ostracized saudi arabia and mohammed bin salman. and back to roosevelt, the leaders have worked with safety and prosperity for the people. by going down the path and calling it a pariah state and saying he would not meet with the ruler of saudi arabia, only antagonizes the saudis more and turns around and meets with them when he is there. he should just say as a dozen presidents for 80 years have said saudi arabia is important partner of the united states, it's an important force for stability with our other friends to include israel in a region when iran is threatening us all and trying to work with them to defend the interest of the american people.

>> john: the white house, when it comes to oil is playing down expectations, sullivan saying on the trip saying there would not be a joint announcement about saudi arabia increasing the production of oil, that announcement would be left for opec. i can imagine the american president does not want to come down there or dictate what opec nations do, it's a bit of a sensitive topic. but the idea of saudi arabia pumping more oil, and many on lifts believe they are unwilling or unable to do it, so him hat in hand to saudi arabia is probably not going to amount to a hill of beans. >> i would not anticipate a big break through, the industry experts suggest saudi arabia and united arab emirates don't have a lot of spare capacity, but the threat of iran, missiles and one way attack drones to hit the oil field and refineries is harder to produce more.

we should confront the threat that iran poses to us. if we are looking for spare capacity for oil, joe biden did not have to fly halfway around the world, he could have flown out to west texas or north dakota or arkansas or louisiana or any of the states in the united states that are blessed with those resources that we could be producing in much greater volumes if joe biden and the democrats were not waging war against the oil and gas industry here in america. >> john: as we saw in the report a minute ago from texas, 12 billion barrels of oil in that permean basin, and the wall street journal made the point the president would not have to go to saudi arabia if he had not pledged to strangle the u.s. oil and gas industry, wall street journal writing mr. biden wouldn't need to beg m.b.s. if he shed his climate obsessions and unleashed american oil production. mr. biden can meet face-to-face with m.b.s., why not do the same

with u.s. oil and gas executives and promise new leases on and offshore, faster permits and end to the regulatory war on pipelines and the supply of capital. we were making the point the other day, and i believe it was marsha blackburn who made it, if you are m.b.s., maduro, or from iran, you will probably get a phone call from the president or the white house about oil. but if you are in the oil and gas industry here in the united states, the president is going to call you out for bad behavior. >> yeah, i mean, it's one thing to deal with long standing partners like saudi arabia or the united arab emirates or neighbors like canada and mexico. it's appalling, though, the president earlier this year went hat in hand to sworn enemies like iran and venezuela to bail him out of a political problem of his own making, $5 a gallon gas and no small part for this war that the biden administration, the democrats

are waging against the oil and gas industry. i would say aiding and abetted by much of wall street. just this week i sent a letter to larry fink and blackrock, one of the leaders of the so-called climate cartel, to encourage people not to invest in the oil and gas industry, and target major manufacturing companies that use it, it's a pretty blatant violation of the antitrust statutes, and all it does is continue to drive up the gas, air-conditioner to heat your home or across the country, it deprives the industry of needed investments. an oil well or refinery or pipeline, you don't just set them up and use them and take them down. they are multi-billion dollar investments that take decades and if the government and wall street is threatening to strangle them, we shouldn't be surprised that not a lot of americans want to put their savings there, that's a direct contributor to $5 a gallon gas. >> john: you sent a letter to

larry fink on wednesday. have you heard back yet? >> not yet, but you know, they have been at this for a long time, and we are going to be at it for a long time. when we win congress this fall i'll make sure congress conducts oversight into the climate cartel waging war on the oil and gas industry. >> john: senator tom cotton from the great state of arkansas, good to talk to you. have a great weekend. >> thank you, john. >> john: will there be an announcement from opec increasing production or leave it where it is? >> sandra: bloomberg is reporting it's not going to happen this week, i don't know. they have been good on it. so, i don't know. all i know is more oil would help the situation. more supply when you've still got high demand, we'll see if there is a friendlier tone toward the energy companies here in the united states. that's what they are looking for. >> john: we'll be watching it

this weekend. >> sandra: joe manchin bucking his party on more spending for climate change. will other democrats follow suit ahead of what is expected to be a midterm for the party? >> john: record setting drug bust and largest fentanyl seizure. how the drugs got there, that's coming up next. >> we have larger amounts of drugs coming in, more people coming in, we have a lesser number of border patrol agents doing their work.

>> john: mo money, mo problems. president biden and the democrats trying to revive a wildly unpopular massive

spending plan as vulnerable democrats fear it could kill their chances to win in november. a look behind the democrat's disarray just ahead, but first. the fed seizing nearly a million fake pills containing fentanyl earlier this month in los angeles, biggest of its kind ever in california, ties leading to a brutal cartel south of the border in mexico. fox news embedded with the high profile delegation to survey conditions along the border. bill is live in hidalgo, texas. you were with the senators, what did you find out? >> seven republican senators are down here in the rio grande valley, we were with six of them last night. right to the video and show you. take a look, they included ted cruz, ron johnson, john barrasso, joni ernst, and two

more, they went to la joya, and saw two little 7-year-old girls, no parents, no guardians, no family. they had paperwork on them with contact info for family members already here in the u.s., and the border patrol union showed some of the senators the numerous human smuggling cartel wristbands lying on the ground. i asked senator ernst how does she respond to the administration claims the border is closed and secure. >> i don't see how you could be here and say the border is closed and that they have control of the border. our border patrol agents are overtaxed, they are overworked, they are disheartened by the attitude of the administration. >> to her point, look at this photo earlier in the day. border patrol coming across a group of 288 here in the rio grande valley.

star county, mixed into that was 109 unaccompanied children and the massive fentanyl bust off the top, pull up the remarkable photo right here. d.e.a. los angeles announcing yesterday one of the most record breaking fentanyl busts ever. 1 million fentanyl pills found in englewood, south of los angeles. the biggest bust in the state of california. they believe the bust is associated with the sinaloa drug cartel and say the pills were intended for distribution on the streets and back out here live, a similar situation in texas. greg abbott announcing yesterday in 2020 the state seized about 70 pounds of fentanyl. last year, that shot up to 964 pounds of fentanyl. more than 1,000% increase in a single year. >> john: incredible haul they got there in los angeles, and amazing pictures with so many people across the border in big

groups. thanks for joining us, appreciate it. >> sandra: some democrats are watching their words when talking about new spending ahead of the midterm election since most voters blame government spending for sky high inflation. at least one democrat, senator joe manchin, is throwing a wrench in his party's latest tax and spend plan. >> until we see the july inflation figures, until we see the july basically federal reserve rates, interest rates, then let's wait until that comes out so we know that we are going down the path that won't be inflammatory to add more to inflation. inflation is absolutely killing many, many people. >> sandra: let's bring in the wall street journal editor at large and host of the wall street journal at large on fox news. great to have you here. no other way to look at this, this is a huge problem and to fix it interest rates are going to have to go up, that's going to cause economic pain. mostly for the hard working

middle class, the very group of people this administration says it's out to help the most. 30-year fixed rate loan, i know you watch this religiously and the housing market as well, as a result of the interest rates going up, the 30-year fixed rate, 5.51%, up from a week ago and nearly doubling now from a year ago. >> yeah, once inflation is embedded into the system it's incredibly hard to get it out. and inflation affects everybody. unemployment is bad, it's a terrible thing. even in a bad recession, unemployment may go 7, 8%. everybody is affected by rising prices, and they are hit particularly hard right now. inflation 9%, 9.1%, wages are growing an average of 5%. that means real spending power, your spending capability is declining at a rate of 4% a year, which is the sharpest decline in what economists call real wages in a decade. >> i put it in the full screen for our viewers, think about it,

inflation is so high that if you've had a constant salary for the past year, it's like you have worked more than a month without pay. this is what washington democrats took from you. this is the pelosi pay cut. it's really important, right, that republicans are able to show how this is very specifically affecting every american in their pocket book because democrats still appear to be in denial, many of them, perhaps with the exception of joe manchin. >> exactly, interesting to hear him say look at the july inflation numbers and the federal reserve. the biden administration approach to inflation seems to be either it's not happening, this is the, you know, who are you going to believe me or your lying eyes, they are telling people something is not happening when they know it is happening, extraordinary political thing to do or their approach to blame everybody else. they blame the gas company, blame gas station owners. >> sandra: vladimir putin.

>> vladimir putin is always available, nobody believes it. nobody believes that stuff. they know, inflation started before, well before vladimir putin invaded ukraine, it was rising at the beginning of last year, the beginning of the biden administration, and they ignored it. kept saying no, no, no, it's transitory, remember that word, we heard it from janet yellen and joe biden and others, it was not transitory, it's embedded, higher than in 40 years and extraordinarily painful to get it out. the good news, sandra, is that the federal reserve can kill inflation, the bad news is it will have to do it by almost certainly inducing recession. >> it's going to hurt millions of americans, larry summers says they have to lose their jobs and the unemployment rate will have to be elevated to bring prices down. this is new sound, another democrat calling out the white house for not acknowledging how

bad it is. cnn from michigan. >> i think people can feel and see, i don't think they like it. sitting around the kitchen table, the kids have gone to bed and how much money is coming in and how much is going out, it's not looking great for the majority in my state. i want to be straight about that, and be transparent. people know it's a problem, we shouldn't try to pretend it's not. >> sandra: what she said there, people can feel and see the spin from the white house, and they don't like it. >> they don't, and people understand. everybody knows what's going on. you go to the gas station, the grocery store, it's not a data point, not obscure statistic, you can see it in your daily spending. whatever you spend your money on, it's going up 8, 9, 10% a year. to deny it the way the white house is trying to do, oh, it's going to pass, we are on top of it, is crazy politics but also

it really hurts, i think just shows how out of touch they are and the reason they doit, sandra, because they have not a clue. they know huge spending at the start of the biden administration is at least partly responsible for it. they won't own up to that and don't have a clue how to tackle it. >> sandra: the pitch to double down on it. >> raise more taxes, joe manchin stopped them again like lucy with the football. >> sandra: a lot will hinge on the federal reserve, we expect the market, you know, looking for 57 basis points or a full point would be a big deal. thank you very much, gerry baker, good to see you. >> john: united states successfully testing two hypersonic missiles this week. is it enough to keep up with china? why washington may be years from catching up to beijing. >> sandra: and new polling shows democrats want a new choice in 2024. who gets the call if president biden chooses not to run?

we will hear from voters on that. plus, federalist editor and chief molly hemingway will join us live. >> i don't really know anybody on the democratic side, so -- it's probably biden again.

>> sandra: pentagon successfully carrying out two hypersonic missile tests this week but the u.s. is still playing catch-up with china in the growing military capabilities. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon for us. how far ahead is beijing? >> well, it's really interesting, sandra. almost exactly a year ago the chinese test caught the pentagon by surprise, hypersonic test. since then the u.s. has been in a race to catch up after a series of failed hypersonic tests. >> the significance was, it scared the hell out of

everybody. chinese and the russians just plain got ahead of us. >> some in the pentagon described it as a sputnik moment. hypersonic weapons fly at speeds of at least mach 5 and can change course and evade billions of dollars of missile defense. in an exclusive interview, senator angus king of maine who chairs the senate armed services subcommittee on strategic forces said the u.s. is still behind. >> we are probably i think five years behind in terms of where the chinese are. they don't mind failing in tests. we have this idea that we got to get it exactly right and every test has to be a success. they have a series of failures, each one of which they have learned something. >> on tuesday, days after the defense department announced the first test of a full hypersonic system for a glide body had failed to detach and reach mach 5 speeds at a testing site in

hawaii, the pentagon said two recent hypersonic tests were successful. darpa showed the first flight test of the ground base hypersonic boost system from a truck, and then a hypersonic missile off the coast of southern california could be released from under the wing of a b-52 strategic jet bomber. the u.s. has resorted to using hot air balloons to protect the nation from hypersonic weapons from china or russia that can now evade defense systems. scientists mocked the failed test last week saying the u.s. can design model for hypersonic weapons is "too complex." >> sandra: jennifer griffin from the pentagon, thanks, jennifer. >> john: americans here in washington offering mixed preferences over who they would like to see win the democratic

nomination in 2024. as pressure mounts on president biden not to seek a second term. listen here. >> newsom, i think desantis would destroy him. >> somebody more towards the middle. >> i think michelle obama. >> joe biden. >> joe biden. >> i think biden and kamala are fine. no chance they would come close to winning again. >> john: mollie hemingway, whether or not joe biden runs in 2024 is a question, a cross tab here from a poll, people were asked if you are going to vote in the democratic primary, would you want to see joe biden run or somebody else run. this is democratic voters, specifically democratic voters. 29% of democratic voters say yes, like to see him run again. 61% say no they want to see a different candidate. i mean, the numbers are usually

the other way. >> it's not surprising to see these numbers. during the 2020 campaign we did not see a lot of joe biden. his campaign was run mostly by the media, he was allowed to stay in the basement, not have much interaction with people. you don't have that luxury now, he's clearly struggling. he was never a genius with rhetoric and he's having trouble with that. but the problem i think for democrats is again, the reason why they made him the nominee is because the party, the new modern democrat party needed someone with the appearance of moderation and someone who appeared to be a unifier. the problem is not really joe biden, he's actually kind of, he's probably better than gavin newsom in terms of appearing moderate, it's the policies they are putting for the and the policies are held not just by the president but basically every member in congress. >> john: and pointed out, too, with the economy such a problem, there are not many people in the white house, if any, who have a rich experience in running a business to draw from in terms

of where the economy is heading. some democratic strategist don't think he's up to the second term. an article on the hill, what a couple of strategists said. democrats are looking for a sense of urgency that does not seem to be coming from the white house. another one, proven time and time again, biden, he does not understand the moment we are in and a liability people can point to, being his age and his perceived lack of urgency and energy. when asked why people would like someone other than biden, called for number 3, 33% cited age. 32% said job performance. you know, if you can't satisfy people in those two fronts, how can you satisfy them? >> and 10% prefers someone more progressive, and yet the direction of the party seems to be moving more and more, the reason why you have, you know, more than a million people switching their party registration from democrat to

republican. not just the lack of urgency, the lack of being in touch at all. so the economy, everyone is feeling the effects of the economy, and yet all the messages from the white house are that the economy is fine, nothing to worry about. and not just again for biden, it's for the entire democrat party in the senate and the house who acknowledges the moment we are in, and how hard it is for normal americans. >> john: the question, if not biden, who else, some of the names, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar, pete buttigieg, gavin newsom, or ocasio-cortez, can any of them beat desantis or trump? >> it's always too early to say, but the numbers and because of the fundamentals would be hard to beat any republican. the republican party needs to be unified and they do well when

they are unified, so any attempt to disrupt the republican party or divide the republican party is something that would help the democrats. >> john: the one person who is acting more like the president than anybody is joe manchin right now. >> he's helping the party a lot. there are a lot of democrats who would like to pass another trillion dollar spending package, would make inflation worse and hurt democrats even worse. >> john: i don't think the squad likes him too much. >> sandra: mystery is growing in the case of a missing texas mother of two last seen leaving for work more than a week ago. police say they have no evidence of a crime. so where could she be? >> john: america's top health experts are quitting in droves, embarrassed by bad science out of washington? we will be joined coming up. ters across the country are going

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♪♪♪ >> sandra: very important rescue happening there, police coming to the rescue in maryland reaching into a storm drain to help a frantic mother save her babies. an officer in montgomery county retrieving eight ducklings that fell down the drain, lifting them to safety one by one and setting them free. there came another one. the fine feathered family reunited, their relieved mama counting heads and leading them all away. i was trying to think of duck puns and i fell short. have any? >> john: i don't have any duck puns, but just goes to show how our men and women in blue go above and beyond. >> sandra: absolutely. >> john: and those stories are just heart warming that they

will take the time and the effort to do something like that. >> sandra: and that mother counting their heads, that just quacked me up. [laughter] >> john: you've got it. all right. >> sandra: sorry. [laughter] >> john: questions remain in the disappearance of a texas mother who vanished after leaving for a week -- for work, rather, more than a week ago. the desperate family searching for answers, there is no evidence a crime has happened here. a senior correspondent casey stegall live in dallas. police say the woman was under a doctor's care at the time of her disappearance? >> that's right, john. undisclosed medical conditions, in fact, according to san antonio police. conditions that not only require care but also medication, which the 39-year-old is without. in addition to that, christina powell left her cell phone and her smartwatch at home. her mother says she ran out of the door in such a hurry on

july 5th she left everything behind, she overslept for work, something her employer said was not typical though she just started work at this law firm on june 27th. this video from a doo doorbell camera shows the paralegal racing out the front door 10:30 in the morning, getting in her black nissan rogue and leaving. she p her co-workers to say she was on the way but never made it. she lives at that house with her mother and oldest son. and her 3-year-old son went to live with his father a few years ago, and she told fox digital there had been recent tensions between that man and her daughter. but the relationship was on again/off again. however, san antonio police say he is not a person of interest and that he is fully cooperating with investigators. police have also said they are treating this as a missing person's case right now, and they are not currently investigating it as a crime, so

her friends and family currently hold on to hope that she will return safely. john. >> john: mystery. hopefully she will come back. thank you. >> the other victims have not been vindicated, right? everytime someone is let on the street again and again, they are doing disservice and pretty much saying the victims' traumas were in vain. >> sandra: that was former olympian kim glass this morning, slamming the los angeles district attorney after a man out and parole for a violent assault, multiple, attacked her with a metal pipe nearly blinding her. abide by the three strike law, adds harsher sentencing for repeat violent offenders. charlie hurt, everyone by now

knows her story and she was completely blind sided, i mean she actually said in the interview talking to bill and i this morning that she thought to herself after the attack, she was in the ambulance, facetiming with her mother and asking herself was there anything i could have done to have avoided this, or prevented this from happening. but that's a bigger picture question for what is happening there in los angeles county. >> john: almost willing to take responsibility for some, like what can i do. >> there's nothing political about any of this stuff. democrats, republicans, everybody wants their children, wants their families to be safe, but this is what you have when you have politicians who look for, you know, virtue signalling as opposed to just doing their job, or protecting -- in this case is actually saving people's lives and protecting them. and this effort by george gascon to get rid of the three strikes law, we are not talking about, you know, people who are smoking weed or, you know, we are

talking about violent felons who commit horrifying crimes, they are the worst of the worst, they are bullies, they do not care about, you know -- any issue that you care about, these people make worse. and you know, and i think it's kind of interesting at a time we are talking about things like red flag laws, you know the best red flag law there is, is convicting people who commit crimes of felonies and prohibiting them from getting firearms. that's the greatest most efficient, most effective and most constitutional red flag law there is. >> sandra: she's saying now she wants to be an advocate for change to help prevent attacks like this from happening to other people like what happened to her. she was very emotional in that interview, and she went on to say specifically the attacker's circumstances that allowed this to happen. listen. >> he was let out on probation and he attacked someone else and

that was a misdemeanor. right? but before that, he had already assault and batteried two other people and they were all women, right? and so what does it take, you know, like we just keep dropping the ball and keep dropping the ball. >> sandra: her picture after that attack, she was battered, bruised and bloodied, it was awful, someone had to hold the attacker down until police got there and she got into an ambulance. but she is making the case, she wants to advocate for change, she does not want it to happen to someone else. she said, in her own words, we just keep dropping the ball and dropping the ball and allowing this to happen. >> and again, this is not a political issue. this does not go along party lines. nobody wants to face this kind of thing on the streets, and i don't think anybody is voting for this stuff, or they don't -- this is not what they intend to be voting for. and for, you know, but obviously

this is pushed, this agenda is being pushed by democrats and you know, claim to want to stand up for women's right, the most important thing for women's rights or anybody else's rights is having safe streets. >> sandra: and feeling like you can walk down the street by yourself or with your children, your family, and do so safely. and by the way, he's fighting the recall effort, i don't know if you have any ideas on what's going to happen next with him. >> i do think -- i'm always a little wary now of california recalls, because no matter how much sense you think they make, californians often have different ideas about it. he should be. he's not doing -- this simple. he's not doing his job. homicide rate is up double digits under him, and there's a reason for that. when you don't enforce the law, more crime happens. >> sandra: not doing his job and making matters worse and the streets less safe. thank you very much. >> john: always good to see charlie. new at 2:00, families and

survivors of 9/11 are calling on president biden to confront saudi arabia over the kingdom's alleged role in the attacks. speak to the son of one victim who now says now that the president is there he has to hold the saudis accountable. and keith kellogg on fears u.s. is losing the arms race to china. and why the cdc doling out bad science is now a staff shortage, and more hours on the job. all of that is coming up on the next hour of "america reports." stay with us. ♪♪♪

>> sandra: new at 2:00, the nation's top doctors say their bosses are not following the

science so the fed-up physicians are following their colleagues right out the door. >> john: doctors are quitting in droves from public health agencies like the cdc and the nih saying they are embarrassed by what their prestigious jobs have become. >> vaccines for young children and decisions some doctors say is not supported by the evidence. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two on this friday afternoon. i'm sandra smith in new york. >> john: john roberts in washington. good to be with you again, sandra. dr. marty mccarry is here with the alarming number of doctors quitting and says the public has no idea how bad the situation really is. he's ahead on "america reports." we kick off new at 2:00 with the fox news alert. >> president biden -- >> sandra: bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia smirking

and ignoring questions about the murder of a journalist who lived in america, and think the crown prince signed off on the murder, saudi arabia denies that. a plan to silence critics wherever they are. >> john: and president biden as a candidate said he would turn saudi arabia a pariah, making the meeting we saw today remarkable. leaders were expected to go over a wide range of topics, from oil production to human rights. >> sandra: speak with a former trum administration official who played a major role in the abraham accords they negotiated. >> john: and talk with bret eagleson who lost his father in the 9/11 attacks, and led the fight to find out how the saudis were involved in the terror attacks. and what he wants to see from president biden as he demands justice for the thousands of

american lives lost on that dark day. but first jacqui heinrich is travelling with the president, what's the word out of the meeting? >> jacqui: john, it's pretty incredible the president of the united states was seen on camera fist bumping with the man that u.s. intelligence believes ordered the killing of a u.s.-based journalist, jamal khashoggi, the man he fist bumped, bin salman. it's unclear whether the white house or the president knew m.b.s., as he's known, would greet president biden on arrival at the palace. it was not on the official schedule and biden went into the palace after that, he met with king salman. we did not have any view of that meeting, u.s. press, anyway, that was expected. the saudi government did release some video of it but it was scrubbed of audio, but the press pool that travels with the

president was allowed a glimpse into the meeting with the crown prince and ministers, something we were not initially promised and had been advocating for up until this morning. u.s. reporters in the small travel pool allowed inside shouted questions. nbc's peter alexander reports a saudi aide squeezed his arm tightly after peter shouted will you apologize to khashoggi's family and m.b.s. smirked. c.i.a. belief the crown prince ordered the death of the u.s. journalist. biden and the white house are trying to avoid optics of being too cozy, using covid to abstain from handshakes, ditched in israel, shaking hands and embracing people he met with there. and also depend on the white house to tell us whether or not president biden brings up khashoggi during the meeting with the crown prince.

he was asked in a press conference and he hedged, he says he always brings up human rights, the khashoggi ordeal, and if anybody does not know his view they have not been around very long. but khashoggi's widow says white house officials promised her the president would bring up her late husband's name, and now they have had to answer for the discrepancy. >> he knows that there are conversations that need to be had with foreign leaders and some of those conversations are not going to always be easy, but they are still important to have. the fact is he doesn't always want to preview those, and i think that makes sense, too. >> so on what can be accomplished here in saudi arabia, white house officials are setting low expectations for any announcements on more oil production and that's despite some reports that are starting to bubble up indicating there might be something in the works there, but the saudis lifting

restrictions to their air space was pretty significant, the announcement this morning, the president's flight from air force one and the u.s. press charter that both came directly from israel to saudi arabia, the first two flights of its kind and now commercial flights will also be allowed to fly directly from israel to saudi arabia, a major step in normalizing relations between the two countries and of course part of the abraham accord that the president and white house has embraced, which of course was a trump initiative. john. >> john: a lot more of the trip still to go. jacqui, thank you. >> sandra: bring in adam boller, a key role in negotiating the abraham accord, and also c.e.o. of the finance corporation under president trump, and joins us for his first post administration interview talking about the abraham accords. welcome to you, sir. obviously a huge day as you watch what's happening in saudi

arabia, saw the president with m.b.s. a short time ago, wait to see what comes from that meeting, but as jacqui just reported, the president has said he strongly supports the abraham accords, he's promoted the declarations as a way to integrate israel into the middle east. do you expect him to make any sort of formal announcement from there? >> i think you've already seen what's happened, which is israel coordinating with saudi to advance on the side, biden administration recognizes good policy where good policy there and continuing and trying to build on it, i think it's been so critical. >> john: adam, good to see you. it's been a while. thanks for coming on. >> good to see you, john. of course. >> john: i thought it was interesting what president biden said in jerusalem before he left to go down there to jeta, in terms of what his intentions were for his meetings with saudi officials. listen to what he said a couple

days ago. >> we made a mistake of walking away from our influence in the middle east. meeting with nine other heads of state. i want to make clear that we can continue to lead in the region and not create a vacuum, filled by china and/or russia, against the interest of israel and the united states. >> john: struck by the statement, we made a mistake walking away from our influence in the middle east. who walked away from u.s. influence in the middle east. strikes me it was not the trump administration, you were fully engaged. >> definitely wasn't the trump administration and i think it started out at the beginning with a bit of form over function. right? there was an idea of hey, saudi, the region, saudi is a pariah state, we are not going to engage at all, that's not the reality of politics. and i think the russia situation, the oil situation has made that very clear. now they moved to correct that and i will say what was nice is

seeing biden and israel, different than the obama administration, more of a colder, hands off approach to israel, it was positive seeing that the biden administration supports america's friendship with israel and now i think it will be really important to see what happens in saudi and whether there really can be an expansion of the trump administration efforts to normalize there. >> sandra: meanwhile this morning i had a conversation with the former israeli ambassador to the u.s. ron durmer, he said focus is energy and producing more oil and getting possibly oil from saudi arabia to bring down our gas prices, but he says this should be the priority, listen. >> i think the real opportunity in the middle east is what is happening in president biden's trip to saudi arabia. i know the american people are focussed on the price of gas, but in israel we would like to see a breakthrough in peace and that's where the breakthrough lies in riyadh, and i hope he

will pursue the strategy the previous administration did at getting peace between israel and the broader arab world. >> sandra: so interesting to see what the balance is, a little of both, what sort of progress he's actually making over there, but where do you see the priority? >> i think the key here is, and i think some of the reason the biden administration is engaging is their initial attempts to enter into talks with iran have not been fruitful, more did i expect them to be. what they need to do here is unite the region and one of the best things about the abraham accords that people don't realize, it was simultaneously the most pro israel and the most pro muslim policies, uniting the region against a common enemy in iran, so i think where the biden administration should concentrate, saudi as an ally in the region to counter extremism. let's scrap what clearly is not working on the iran side and focus on uniting the region,

happening any way, we can throw some kerosene in a positive way and get it going even further. we want the discussion about oil, that's about building a relationship, the middle east works on relationships, not transactions, this is an opportunity to build a relationship and that's what president biden should do. >> john: we'll see if he can do it. adam, great to talk to you, thank you for coming on today, appreciate it. families and survivors of the 9/11 terror attacks have an urgent message, don't trade us away for oil or a peace deal. joining us us is bret eagleson who lost his father in the world trade center attack, and you want the president to confront saudi arabia over the 9/11 attacks. a, do you think that he'll do it, and b, if he does, what do you believe he should say? >> absolutely. and thank you for having me on to allow to talk about this.

the first thing is i don't think that the president should be getting the level of criticism that he is for going to saudi arabia. he is the head of our state, he should go there. there are a number of issues he has to solve on a world stage. we are for all those positive things. we could talk all day about the positives that can come out of a good relationship with saudi arabia, but he has to address and i think and we think topic number one, who president biden's own fbi has said per his executive order about the fbi documents that have concluded that there were 12, at least 12 saudi kingdom officials here in the united states prior to 9/11 supporting the 9/11 hijackers. >> sandra: you know, i know that you bring up that this president campaigned on the promise to bring closure and justice to the 9/11 community and you feel like a lot of the focus has been pushing the president to confront m.b.s. on jamal khashoggi's murder.

so, what exactly is it that you are looking for and are you optimistic that the president will move in this direction on this trip? >> thank you, yes, it is the most frustrating thing in the world to hear about khashoggi, khashoggi, khashoggi, and i have every sympathy for his family, so i don't want that to be taken out of context. but we also have nearly 3,000 dead americans who have been pursuing justice for 20 years. we now have fbi reports that say without a doubt the kingdom of saudi arabia was behind the 9/11 attacks. we want president biden to go there and honor his campaign promise. he's already done it, to a large extent, he's declassified the documents and i blame it on the mainstream media and blame it on the -- the lack of coverage that america and the world at large doesn't really know about these documents we have. we have a document that says omar el bayumi was working for saudi intelligence. he co-signed the leases for the

hijackers, opened up bank accounts for them. so we want the president to do one thing. before he tries to advance this relationship forward, before he tries to normalize relations, before he tries to do any of these other positive things that can result, we want him to address with m.b.s., with the kingdom at large these fbi reports that come from his own fbi, acknowledge the kingdom of saudi arabia, 21 years ago, bad apples in the government, bad people that led to the creation and environment, that led to the success of the 9/11 hijackers. if he does that and if m.b.s. acknowledges that, a huge win for the community and we can do positive things going forward. >> john: the national chair, sent a letter to president biden urging him to hold saudi arabia responsible. said he must do what past presidents have not, demand transparency from saudi arabia and accountability for those who

supported al-qaeda and the hijackers who murdered our loved ones. when you look at the sensitive issues on the table, from gas prices, to the war in yemen, to trying to get support from saudi arabia for a new iran nuclear deal, do you have any hope that the president is going to potentially jeopardize those issues by pushing the 9/11 issue? >> well, i don't think there's anything more sensitive than 3,000 dead americans. i don't think there is anything more sensitive than justice denied for 21 years. so if you want to tell me that khashoggi is a sensitive issue, i have 3,000 dead bodies also looking for justice. so that issue should be number one. oil, peace, we are for all of those, but none of those conversations should allowed to be happened, or should allow to happen without president biden and m.b.s. acknowledging there were bad actors in that government 21 years ago that contributed to the success of 9/11. these are not my words, these are the fbi own words.

>> sandra: i want to let you know, we have pictures of you and your dad we were showing while the conversation was happening, beautiful pictures and family. how old were you when you lost your dad? >> thank you. i was 15, and you are right, i can't see, but on one of those pictures i think i have a big fish and i won the derby that year with that fish. so -- those are very special pictures, and my dad was a hero, and you know, such an honor to do this in his name and honor on behalf of all the 9/11 families members and we really hope and are hopeful that president biden will finish what he started. >> sandra: our best to your family. >> john: you have some very special memories of your dad. >> thank you for having me. >> john: we'll keep following and see what the president does or does not do. >> it's going to get thick in another two weeks when the saudi golf tournament comes to the trump edminster course.

please stay on it. >> john: "new york times" reported on hang wringing in the white house with aides worried whether the president could handle the hectic schedule. those questions even appearing in the international press with the jerusalem post pointing out long breaks in his schedule and early ends to his days. >> sandra: with all the turmoil there and here at home, is president biden up to the task at hand? brian kilmeade will join us on that. hardest working man in television. >> john: he knows a thing or two about working long hours. >> sandra: and radio. >> john: and from the correspondent and anchor that never sleeps, the city that never sleeps, stinks between rodents scurrying on sidewalks, and trash and rodents, they are not holding back. >> nasty, like it smells horrible. >> it smells like garbage.

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♪♪♪ >> sandra: bad news and numbers and headlines plague the president, critics say perhaps the president should put in a little more work. let's bring in brian kilmeade, we are going to kindly ask not to work for. fox and friends co-host and all things fox news radio, pleasure of joining you earlier today. it was really, really fun, i like the segment we talk about the crazy stuff happening. "new york times" says he can put in a little more work, 5 or 5 and a half day president, although he is called in as

needed, stays out of public view at night and half as many news conferences or interviews as recent predecessors. it seems like almost, i mean, a lot of the days of the week there's a lid called in the afternoon with this white house. >> how could anyone be surprised by this, it's pretty amazing. people who cover him, if you talk to the reporters, he almost had no availability and the pandemic excuse may be legitimate at times but would not be available from a distance, and put the lid on right away. very little news, which he felt as if he made very little news, donald trump would make a lot of news and that would allow him the win, he was right. but i actually -- i laughed out loud at both saturday and sunday's "new york times" article, one talked about what's going on behind the scenes and one what his schedule is like. the thing is, if you are an older president or you are like the c.e.o. type, hands off, you want to be the king of england you better have a lot of prime ministers underneath you.

no sign they have the worker bee, the steve hadley, and others, and you call in joe biden and the connections when you need them but no sense that also is important, the rest of white house is empty. not a lot of buzz there. there's not a lot of workers there. 26 african americans leave, now a lot of people going, not a sense there's a lot of intrigue and policy making. a rabbit hole, when they say joe biden is not in georgia, i think he is. these decisions, lack of decisions, the pondering, his approach to things and the other thing i'll talk about on saturday that is important is trust. when he left afghanistan the way he did when he promised it would not be saigon, and it was actually worse, he has not won over the american people. you know what made it almost as bad, inflation. it's going to be transitory, everyone said it and it was just the opposite. just like afghanistan, does

anyone think he didn't sell his, our soul to iran? with this deal that we don't see yet, we have not seen yet? does anyone think that israel would not potentially get stabbed in the back? i think this administration is capable of anything in our name. >> sandra: you've heard some democrats calling this president out, we talked about alissa slotkin, the democrat from michigan, says the white house cannot keep spinning it, people are not buying it. and recent snippets from the media. >> president of the united states four words you do not want said consecutively. worst inflation since 1981. >> many americans have literally never experienced anything like this. >> every month one of you nice people from the white house comes on the show to talk about inflation and you talk about these tools in the president's tool kit and you don't use them.

you don't use these tools. >> there is no way to make this look pretty. really bad news. really bad news on inflation. >> bad economy, pandemic that won't quit, a war overseas, major fault lines here over gun rights, abortion rights. how is he going to unite the country in the next two years? >> sandra: that's a fair question because this is the president who campaigned on uniting the country. >> brian: and i know you are the business expert, about you on what planet does it make sense to raise taxes and spend more, and if joe manchin did not stand up yesterday and say i just saw that number on inflation i'm walking away, not only did they not learn from the rescue plan, which people like larry summers and others say steve ratner say was a mistake, democratic treasury experts, economic experts, they are going to look to spend more than 1.9 trillion and trying to get joe manchin to

bring them there. the last minute he goes i can't do that. so he, joe manchin stopped, again, a democrat, the president from going off the cliff but yet you have democrats say joe manchin's destroying, ruining the world for not doing this. math is math. no one says raising taxes and spending is great to do when inflation is -- >> sandra: point to a time in history it brought down inflation, it doesn't work. one nation coming up this weekend. >> brian: among my guests, newt gingrinch, ari fleischer, and dr. dru, trying to make sense of the president's temper tantrums, he tends to fly off the handle a bit. he will break it down for us. >> sandra: all right, you can go home now. >> brian: right now? great spending quality time with you. >> sandra: have a wonderful weekend. >> john: and brian's work world, 12 hours is just a half day. california facing the highest gas prices in the nation despite

that, some cities there are banning new gasoline stations in the name of going green. critics say the push is only going to cost people more. kelly o'grady live in los angeles. and this is not just about gas. >> it's really not, john. i mean, this is about california's relentless push to fade out fossil fuels in general, but many say it does not do much to incentivize, if you can't build new stations and existing ones continue to close, that would nudge drivers toward e.v. but the policy spreads to more suburban areas it's going to get costly. farther out you get, the fewer the stations, and that's where they are building more affordable housing communities. it could be crippling and if you cannot afford an electric car, you are searching for gas, and policy is anti-consumer, critics

argue. >> you may have to go further to buy gas because there can't be a gas station on the right side of the street where you are. secondly, when you take away competition, inherently you are telling everybody else that's there you don't have to be as competitive. you don't have to work as hard as everyone else. >> this policy is part of a larger push in california for bans with little path to execution. state officials predict the climate plan would increase electricity consumption by 68% by 2045, put a strain on the power grid that can't yet handle struggling already in heat waves. and you talked about energy industry out here and they are very much for the green push. the sentiment is the change needs to happen more gradually, both from an infrastructure and financial standpoint so it's not harming businesses or consumers, john. >> john: fewer gas stations, i'm wondering if they are planning

to build more power plants to power electric vehicles. assume not. >> well, that was a question that we asked and what we are hearing is ok, well that's someone else's job to think about. so, we'll do the ban, but you know, someone else needs to think about building more infrastructure. does not make a lot of sense, john. >> john: how did i know that was going to be the answer. >> sandra: good question. the u.s. is running behind in the race to secure hypersonic weapons. general keith kellogg will join us on that to discuss what we must do to catch up with china. and -- >> john: later on we could know why those folks so strict with spelling and grammar can seem so mean and miserable. it turns out that flubbing the alphabet could be the ultimate.

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another adversary, china. general keith kellogg, good to see you. so, this is a hypersonic weapon made by lockheed tested twice, booster phase, air launch rapid response weapon. apparently the booster reached hypersonic speeds without a warhead attached to it but we are still way behind china and russia when it comes to the development of these weapons. >> we really are, and our own fault. part of a larger picture as well. russians have a system out there that's used in the ukraine, they say it goes to mach 10, i don't know how true that is, that's fast, and chinese have mach 6 or higher. 2 to 3 miles a second. there are no defenses against the system. we don't have anything, we don't have a defensive system to stop it and offensive system to match that as well, and either conventionally tipped or nuclear tipped missiles as well. why it's important, let's use china as example, with a range

of 1600 miles you cannot close your carrier battle groups anywhere close to that without having a hypersonic missile hitting the carrier battle group or anything like that. and i put the onous on the military. we did not realize it was happening, the russians and the chinese until around 2019, so we started putting money into it in 2019. even as recently as march, general milley made the comment, man, like a sputnik moment. it shouldn't have been and we should have been putting a lot more effort into it. we had the system during the obama administration, we walked away from it, did not put mean into it, we saw the trump administration, and started to put more money, but you don't make something like that happen overnight, it takes a while to develop it. >> john: lockheed missiles, darpa has its own ground launch weapon that it's working on, a few others out there as well. we are behind china in another

way, though. they are developing weapons at a greater speed and much lower cost than we are. major general cameron holt said this about china. >> in purchasing power, they spend $1 to our $20 to get to the same capability. we are going to lose if we cannot figure out how to drop the cost and increase the speed in our defense supply chains. >> john: china has way cheaper labor than we do. is there any way we can compete, can we get the cost down and the speed of production up. >> part of a larger problem. yeah, you are throwing money at it and a lot of money at it, and you have to do with some emphasis on getting the job done. sometimes i look at the defense department and again, i put the onous on the military, they said well, it's just another program, not that important. it is a very important program because it pushes your r and d levels. that's one of the reasons, when we talk about the space force.

the only way to defeat it is probably a space-based system, a laser system that can make the system by pure speed, but almost like on the back foot, and take it like it's not important. and why i'm concerned bit. look back to the biden administration, look at the national security strategy, they have not even put together a formal national security strategy to form the defense strategy as well, like emphasis, and what we found out in covid, you throw money at it they are going to make it happen fast. look, the american entrepreneur and the spirit we have and the development capabilities is incredible and we have not capitalized on that. >> john: china is building out the world's biggest navy, three new aircraft carriers, a chance soon they may prevent the u.s. pacific fleet from getting near the western pacific. >> that's right, it's a problem. >> sandra: thanks to the general.

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>> john: the most alive city in the word. why does it smell like death? that's what folks are asking about new york city stench that suggests the big apple could be rotten to the core. reaction from the stinky streets coming right up. but first, some of the nation's top doctors say their bosses are not following the facts. >> sandra: so they are quitting in droves from major agencies like the cdc saying they are embarrassed by what they are calling bad science that drives agency decisions. fox news contributor dr. marty makary wrote an article in-depth explaining it as dire. great to see you. among some of the most recent and latest concerns is approving and pushing for vaccines for young children, some even babies. >> that's right. and adults the vaccines were

clearly shown to downgrade the severity of illness and save lives. in children, however, there was no statistical association between the vaccine and infections. the study failed. pfizer trial, there was no statistical significance. in the moderna trial, babies had a 4% efficacy, and even that was not significant. so, why do a study if you are going to ignore the results? slap in the face of science that many officials at the fda and cdc have said look, we are violating our own principles. >> john: so what is the situation at the cdc and the nih and maybe other government health organizations in terms of staffing, in terms of morale and why are people leaving? >> a lot of them feel afraid to speak up. in talking to so many of them, they say it's the mccarthyism. if you say anything that could suggest the vaccines may have more risks than we are really suggesting, or they may not be as effective as people are

saying, if you don't have that same vigor by which the cdc director strongly urged every parent to get it for kids under five, they felt like you cannot say anything and there are record numbers of vacancies right now. the vaccine research center at the nih, under fauci's department has no leadership. three of the senior leaders have all left in the last year. >> sandra: and that's a big statement that they are making. what do you think is the future of the cdc, dr. makary? >> look, we have to rebuild credibility in the cdc, we need people to follow our recommendations on general childhood vaccinations, hepatitis protocols, hiv. cdc needs to demonstrate humility at the top, they need to apologize, a massive mistake closing schools, and some humility would go a long way instead of the absolutism. >> john: so years from now, and it may be five, may be ten, maybe even further from that,

when the real story is told about covid vaccines, covid boosters, masking, school closures, economic shutdown, what do you think that story is going to look like? >> the story i think should be that scientists in the agencies need to be able to talk to the public, they need to be able to talk to journalists like yourself. right now they are told no one is allowed to talk publicly, and if there's a print reporter that wants to interview somebody at one of these agencies, they ask the scientist at the nih what are you going to tell them and then decide whether or not to approve it. doctors always have to protect our sacred liberty to speak freely whenever we think there are health concerns. that has always been true in our ancient profession. right now it has been violated. i think that's the root of some of this problem. >> sandra: can we keep politics out of these decisions in the future? >> two of the top people at the fda left over political interference over booster shots, so if you look at what the

scientists were saying, they were putting forth proposals to prepare for the delta wave last fall, to get more tests, to do so many things and they heard over and over again that the white house is not going to allow this to move forward. there was even an attempt to say get away from mass testing and learn to live with covid. we can't chase down every case, don't do it with -- we can't chase down every case as if it's contained and we can isolate and quarantine people and so they put together a plan to do sampling of cases like we do with influenza, and get better data from hospitals to know who is in there for covid, not just with covid, that plan was shot down by the white house. >> john: the way the variants are morphing, it's already endemic, and one of these days we will have to. just another one of the diseases. marty, great to see you. >> sandra: thank you, doctor. looking for love online? don't spend too much time on your profile. we'll explain why. >> john: plus, wait until you

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>> sandra: so how do you spell love? apparently it doesn't matter. according to a new survey, men prevery dating profiles with poor grammar. women are more likely to message a man without any grammatical mistakes. interestingly enough, when asked, most of the men said grammar did matter to them. based on the results, it's not a top priority. so are you a good speller? i don't know where to go with this. >> john: i'd like to think of

myself as a good speller. i know a lot of people that are not. >> sandra: just doesn't matter. >> john: does it make them more or less attractive? >> sandra: news you need to know. >> john: i prefer somebody that challenges me. there you go. good spellers. >> sandra: you found her. >> john: i did. yes. i'm not looking for anybody. i appreciate good spellers. if you follow your kids on football, good luck going forward. the social media giant testing the ability for one person to have up to five different profiles. the idea is to let people show one side of their lives to friends and a different side to your family. so parents might see the great things that their kids are up to but grandma will miss out on the pictures of the 3:00 a.m. keg stands that they're showing their friends. >> sandra: yeah. five profiles? >> john: another reason to love social media when you're a parent. >> sandra: you can be anybody you want to be, i suppose. >> john: you could have fantasy

profiles, i guess, if you'd like. i'm the next tom brady or whatever. >> sandra: make sure that you spell things wrong or if you're a guy, spell it right. it's friday. all right. here in the big apple, this is the story you need to hear. residents are used to seeing an occasional scurry on the sidewalk and trash on the streets. occasional is an understatement. now we're in the peak of the summer season and it's hot outside. odor complaints are reaching an all-time high. so we deployed a team to the streets of new york city to see what this stink was all about. >> i tried to hold my breath. >> smells better than a dumpster. >> i'm smelling all kinds of smells whether it's just food or sewage. >> it's like an undertone of urine that it's been here so long that it is a natural odor sort of smell. >> some areas don't smell too good. some areas are okay. >> like a dark muggy smell.

yeah. >> some areas it might spell a little like trash. >> dirty diapers. >> urine. >> it's bad in the metro administration. >> no, i think it smells good all day, i think. yes, sir. >> we just got here from california. i almost vomited twice. >> tell me what you smell. >> body odor. nobody wears deodorant in new york. >> nasty. smells horrible. my first time in new york. i came here and i'm like oh, nice. trash everywhere. >> smells like garbage. >> the smell of weed around times square. >> love the smell of the hot dogs. >> i was going to say, at the end, marijuana. that's everywhere. you smell it everywhere. the dirty water dogs. you have the hot dog stands on all the street corners in this neck of the woods. but urine.

>> john: it's the perfume in the big apple. you have to love it. nothing smells like a subway station in the middle of july, nothing. >> sandra: the trash piled up on the sidewalks. you have to hold your nose. >> john: so much to love about new york city. >> sandra: sure. have a great weekend. >> john: you too. >> sandra: thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha who smells like a rose starts now. >> martha: everybody is grossed out by now, guys. thanks very much. good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. we get started today. newt gingrich is here, joe concha is here and jason joins us as well on "the story" this hour. president biden has a handshake for the king and a fist bump for the crown prince he called a pariah as the question is shouted at the prince as they sat together. watch. >> jamal khaishoggi, will you apologize to