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arrested and then released in a matter of hours. happens all the time. i'm bill hemmer live in new york city. dana has the day off. welcome back, j.b. >> julie: i'm julie banderas and this is "america's newsroom." the assault was caught on video. this happened over the weekend in harlem. police say the teen jumped a subway turnstile without paying when officers confronted him and things turned very violent very fast. >> bill: street fight. you can see the suspect hitting the cop. the teen puts the officer in a choke hold when a second officer steps in to try and help. >> julie: why did it get so out of control? former officer bill stanton has his thoughts. >> could you imagine if this cop felt so in fear of his life he had to use the weapons there would be riots in the street. a cop now has to worry about getting arrested.

losing his job and getting sued civilly. they may well lose their lives. >> julie: good morning, brian, from new york city. >> good morning. fox news can confirm the 16-year-old teen seen punching an officer was released on his own recognizance despite the fact he had a prior criminal record including possession of a loaded gun and robbery. let's take a look at the video once more again warning to our viewers, it is disturbing. the video begins showing a 16-year-old boy punching that nypd officer in the face while another 16-year-old girl starts to punch and attack a second officer. the male teen continues to resist arrest until he is taken down to the ground by two officers. he has a bloody face. the nypd says both officers were treated at a hospital with

the male officer suffering head as well as shoulder swelling. according to the police this all started when both 16-year-olds were caught jumping the turnstiles not paying for the subway fare. when the officers approached the male got verbally aggressive with the officers and began assaulting the police officers while they tried to arrest him. both teens were charged with assault and resisting arrest. but despite this, the teen boy was released and the status of that 16-year-old girl is still unclear. the video has gone viral. pat lynch, the head of the nypd police union released a statement saying this. if new yorkers want to know why the chaos in the transit system is not improving more quickly, this is why. akeerding to the latest crime stats, transit crime on the new york city subway is up 53% this year compared to the same time last year. overall crime in new york city is up 37% and that includes

double digit increases in robberies, felony assaults, and rape. just a day after this assault on the nypd officers at the harlem train station, a 25-year-old man was stabbed at the sterling street station while on board the number 2 train pulling into the station by an attacker. that man is free at this time. we expect julie and bill, to hear from mayor eric adams at 9:45 on a separate topic and listening to hear if he has anything else to say about crime, bail and this incident. >> bill: the nypd retired lieutenant. what bryan just said is alarming. crime is up 53% in the subways. the mayor is a former transit cop. that was his beat. >> even months in nothing happening.

i don't know what -- if this doesn't demonstrate how far things have gotten out of control, i don't know what will. this would never happen years ago, never happen. never. it would never happen like this. they would have the fear of being prosecuted. they would have the fear of repercussions from the police that they would force more stations like that. that's not the conditions today. today cops walk around by themselves. they want to put them by themselves. thank god he had some assistance over here. look what we've come to. pat lynch is right. they would prosecute the cop faster than this individual. definitely. if the cop would have used that choke hold that would have been front page. thank god for fox news. i'm not just saying because i'm here. this station is the only one that brings it to light. it's not covered on the other stations the way it is here. the people that watch this station will get the gist of

what's happening. there is not outrage. i don't understand. >> bill: joe, here is what pat lynch said from the union. the criminals on the ground know they can get in a brawl, choke a cop and be back out in hours. cops are putting ourselves on the line to make sure subways are safer but abandoned by a justice system that will not back us up. >> true story, 100% right. what did mayor adams do when he went to albany? did he run to protect the cops and put it that this is the issue or the fact that he wants to control the schools on the table first? that's what he came back with. no plan for these cops. they're out there by themselves fighting every day by themselves. thank god to have the union and each other. they don't have the support of this city council, mayor or governor. >> bill: the numbers. to date in new york now 2,119

officers have left the job. 1472 retiring. 647 resigning. that number of resignations is significant. when you resign, you leave without your pension. you are turning your back on your career. that's a big statement. >> a major statement. i said it before, this was the job people ran to. now it's the job they are running away from. going down to florida and other areas where cops are appreciated, where they know they can still be a cop and still get the appreciation from the public and the government and who they are serving. in new york it is a thankless job right now. thankless and pr*ety soon with the mayor's exodus it will be the blind leading the blind. you don't have the expertise from one cop to another and handle situations. we're in dire straits right now. >> bill: i was in chicago last weekend. they are leaving the police

department and working for smaller towns with greater protection on the job. >> how sad is that? you sign up for a career. if you went into journalism and they started getting bad and you said you're throwing in the towel after 20 or 30 years. the same thing for the cops. they don't want to leave their jobs. what alternative do they have when no matter which way you turn in the city they'll prosecute you faster than they will the people assaulting you in the subways? >> something has to change. thank you for coming back. >> julie: president biden says he believes, quote, we're not going to be in a recession. those are his words. the white house is pushing back on the traditional definition of the term ahead of a new report on second quarter gdp on thursday. griff jenkins is on the story and live from washington good morning. >> good morning. americans are bracing for what

these gdp numbers may show later this week that we are officially in a recession after two consecutive quarter drops. the president said he doesn't foresee that's the case. >> president biden: we aren't in a recession in my view. my hope is we go from this rapid growth to steady growth and so we'll see some coming down. but i don't think we are going to, god willing, i don't think we'll see recession. >> focusing on how well the economy is doing because of low unemployment and job creation. >> if you look at the economic indicators, as the president was laying out, if you look at the labor market and the average amount of jobs that have been created about 400 per month, those indicators do not show that we are in a recession or even a pre-recession. >> white house officials

challenging the technical definition of what a recession even is. >> two negative quarters means that the economy is in recession. do you believe that? is that what you ascribe to? >> that is not the actual definition of a recession. it is a significant contraction period over a few months where those who make that determination look at a lot of different factors. >> republicans are slamming the administration. brian mast said it doesn't matter what you call it, americans can't afford the basics and they need relief not a vocabulary rest on. we're watching a consumer confidence report. it will fall to the lowest level since february of 2021. >> julie: griff jenkins, thank you.

>> bill: this from taipei in taiwan. they are getting ready for the possibility of what they consider a possible chinese attack out of beijing. they issued a stark warning to the u.s. in return. we'll talk about that coming up. >> julie: after throwing shade at florida, gavin newsom is taking aim at texas. karl rove responds. >> bill: more than 70,000 americans died of a fentanyl overdose last year, 70,000. president biden looking to crack down on dealers. is that enough? we'll get analysis from a former dea special agent to find out. >> this is beyond anything that has ever hit our country before. it is a 747 crashing every day in the united states. o tried met more energy in just two weeks. (sighs) here, i'll take that. ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein, one gram of sugar. enter powered by protein challenge for a chance to win big. ♪♪

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>> julie: fox news alert from washington state why two men were arrested and charged with smuggling some 91,000 fentanyl pills last week. they hid them apparently inside plastic potato chip containers. investigators are saying they're connected to an international criminal organization which imports the potentially lethal drug in bulk into the u.s. >> bill: it doesn't end. a senate committee is holding its first hearing today on the federal government's response to the growing fentanyl crisis. aishah hosni covering that live from the hill with a preview. good morning. >> good morning. that's right. d.e.a. says that fentanyl killed more than 100,000 americans last year and i just caught up with senator mike braun, headed into the hearing right now. he said aishah, i don't want to hear any more lip service. i want to see action. so today he and other senators are going to be grilling

representatives from the cdc, health and human services and the white house and want to find out what the government's response has been to this major crisis. as you know, fentanyl is especially dangerous because of how strong it is but also because it can be laced onto counterfeit drugs sold as xanax. the vast majority of pills are produced by two major drug cartels in mexico and the biden d.e.a. administrator says mexico knows exactly what is happening. because the fentanyl crisis and border issues are so intertwined some local and state officials believe that the biden administration's border policies are really to blame here and worsening the crisis. >> fentanyl is the leading cause of death in southern arizona over and above car accidents. that is all happening because of our southern border. those root causes are in the oval office with joe biden and

secretary mayorkas should resign. he has been completely ineffective as leading homeland security. >> the hearing starts at 10:00 and we'll track it for you. >> bill: thank you, aishah hosni on the hill. julie. >> julie: all right. let's bring in a former d.e.a. special agent. we're awaiting former vice president mike pence to speak so we'll have to cut in when he does. i want to start with today's hearing. it comes days after the white house said president biden's safer american plan include tougher penalties for fentanyl trafficking. is that enough? >> thank you for having me. it is always important to hold these criminals accountable especially when they are putting poisonous fentanyl on the streets killing 9,000 americans a month. we talked about the seizure in california. the d.e.a. in los angeles seized a million fake pills the last couple of weeks early in the month of july. we have to have the politicians stop talking about the problem

and apply some action. get out to the street. the house oversight hearing congressman lynch from massachusetts told the drug czar you have to reassess your policies. they aren't working. i'm on the streets in massachusetts and they are shooting up, violence is skyrocketing and the problems are getting worse. we have to put money to mental illnesses and to the substance use disorders but we have to fund the aggressive efforts to destroy these chemical weapon processing labs in mexico. the mexican cartels are making billions of dollars working with the chinese trans national criminals. the enemy of our children and we need to put it to an end. >> julie: the white house has requested $22 billion as you know in its budget this year supposed to go toward drug prevention and control measures but the question is, is throwing money at the issue the best way to tackle it? what do you think the administration is doing at the border? that's where the problem is.

this fentanyl and the number of seizures at the border has skyrocketed since 2020. so throw money at it but yet don't go to the border and take care of it at the root? >> right. gross negligence at the border. secretary mayorkas is saying it's operational control. it is out of control and a disaster and a nightmare on the system. you have to put money to some of those key services, right now the ciels is is the death of the kids as young as 13 years old because it is poisoning. it is not just a drug crisis. we have a sad opioid crisis in america but we have a mass poisoning. spiking alerts all over the country. police departments, hospitals, medical examiners, it is out of control and we need action. we have to deal with the cartels aggressively and we have to deal with the chinese chemical brokers aggressively and shut down the money flow. that's where it starts. >> julie: we do.

there is a lot we need to do that's not being done. >> bill: former vice president mike pence is now on stage as the national conservative student conference young america foundation's 44th annual. let's drop in for a listen. >> i'm a christian, conservative and republican in that order and it is my honor to be at the 44th annual national conservative student conference for you. thank you all. [cheering and applause] >> for nearly 50 years this has been the preerm organization inspiring freedom loving young people across this country and i'm honored to be with you. it is particular joy as governor walker mentioned to be here with a marine corps mom. my wife of 37 years, christian school teacher and best second lady the united states of america has ever had.

would you join me in thanking my wife, karen pence, one more time? [applause] speaking of home, our lives have changed a lot since the last time we were together. we moved back to indiana, bought five acres and a pond. i got a riding mower. john deere. zero turn radios, 54 inch deck, 25 horsepower. the good part about no longer being vice president is you get to drive your own car. bad part is you get to pay for your own gas. [laughter] and karen and i can confirm now with personal experience a governor you can actually be a congressman from your home state for 12 years, you can be the governor of your home state for four and be vice president of the united states of america

but you are still going to wait 25 minutes for a table at olive garden on saturday night at 7:00. my daughter writes when i texted her on told her we waited 25 minutes she said that's america, dad and she is right. only in america, everybody. it's about we the people. but it is good to be with you all. i came today with the intention of speaking to you about a broad range of topics, but the weather had different plans for me yesterday so today i will take the opportunity to speak about an agenda for the future. it's all about freedom. you know, the uniquely american idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain rights of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness is the essence of

american freedom. and that idea of american freedom is created the most prosperous nation in the history of the world. we have astounded the world now for centuries with our innovation, creativity and generosity and it has all been driven, as people here know, by our commitment to freedom. but sadly, as we gather here today, american freedom is under attack. big tech, big media, big government, even big business have locked arms to advance a pernicious woke agenda designed to control the american people and destroy the american dream. the ruling elite here in washington and all across this

country, have never been more out of touch with the values of everyday americans. but never more intent on imposing their agenda on each and every one of us. i hardly need to tell those of you that have been standing up as conservatives on campus about the cancel culture in which we live today. and what i like to call the intolerance of tolerance in 2022. over many decades, liberal policies have created one disaster after another. as we gather today, our borders are under siege, our currency has been devalued, our energy independence has been squandered, and our great and booming economy is being brought to a screeching halt by big government socialism. make no mistake about it, there is a cure for what ails america

and that is leadership committed to american freedom. [cheering and applause] now more than ever we need to lead america with a freedom agenda focused on the future. and as i said, i had planned to unveil this agenda at the heritage foundation last night but my plane was diverted against that terrible storm you all witnessed and i just figured with karen at my side, that god must have had different plans for today. in fact, he must have decided that a talk about the future, a talk about an agenda for the future, should be given to the rising generation, a talk about the freedom agenda should be given to the freedom generation. and i'm honored to be here. [applause]

you know, the conservative movement has always been built on the notion that ideas have consequences. conservatism is bigger than any one moment, election or any one person. it has always been about ideas and you've been there every step of the way for half a century inspiring americans who cherish the ideals of freedom and i know you will continue to do just that. i'm proud to say under the trump/pence administration it was those ideas that drove our policies every single day. advancing american freedom we achieved the lowest unemployment, the highest household income, most energy production, the most pro-trade american and most secure border and the most powerful military that history has every known. we did it all. [applause] now, all those accomplishments were possible because of your

support and the support of conservatives of every age and background in this country. but as i said, i came today not to look backwards but to look forward. the truth of the matter is now more than ever conservatives need to be focused on the challenges americans are facing today and offer a bold and positive agenda of solutions for the future. the bible tells us where there is no vision, the people perish. and if the american people witness the consequences of the american left abandoning our most cherished ideals and values every day. those words ring more true. with the worst border crisis in history, inflation at a 40-year high, gasoline prices through the roof and our foreign adversaries like russia and

china emboldened by american weakness. future generations being saddled with trillions of dollars in debt. now more than ever we need leadership and vision. in 2022, the good news is we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to save america from decline and decay brought on by those progressive policies and to build a governing majority that will last for generations. [applause] but in order to win, conservatives need to do more than criticize and complain. we must unite our movement behind a bold, optimistic agenda that offers a clear and compelling choice to the american people. and that's exactly what the organization i founded called advancing american freedom set out to do with the help of more than 50 of the brightest stars of the conservative movement, including scott walker and newt

gingrich and betsy devos who you will hear from a little later today, i pose the question to that team describe for us the ideas that have animated the movement, the conservative movement all across this country from reagan to trump and put them all in one place. that was how our freedom agenda was born. there are solutions there designed to be implemented at all levels of government. but you know congress can't solve every problem facing our country and it shouldn't try. a careful study of congress shows that throughout our history, congress has done two things well, nothing and over react [laughter] so our freedom agenda is about equipping americans just like you to be able to make the case for freedom with your neighbors and friends and families and co-workers. you can follow along with the freedom agenda if you want to

go to advancing american freedom.com but let me describe it for you briefly. we begin our freedom agenda with a focus on american culture. why is that? the late man said politics is downstream from culture. if we allow the radical left to continue dumping toxic waste into our culture. the american people are proud of our culture and believe it is worth protecting for future generations. as americans we believe in those timeless ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness so where we begin with the freedom agenda is a very simple commitment, to secure the sanctity of life at the center of american law once again. [cheering and applause]

stand before you today with a grateful heart that after nearly 50 years of lives of inkalu able value lost to our nation, 50 years of heartbreak, 50 years of praying and fasting and working and volunteering and caring, last month at long last, with the support of three supreme court justices appointed during the trump/pence admission we sent roe v. wade where it belongs to the trash heap of history. [applause] but in a very real sense we've only come to the end of the

beginning. as my fellow conservatives now it falls to this generation to take the case for life to every state and state house in america. our freedom agenda calls for advancing pro-life protections in every state in the union, every single one. we call for expanding support for women in crisis pregnancies to support the unborn and to support the newborn with eke all-american generosity. we call for reforming adoption laws so more forever families can be formed because you can't be pro-life if you are not pro-adoption. [applause] and finally we call for ending all taxpayer funding of abortion and defunding planned parenthood once and for all. [cheering and applause]

let me say from my heart to each and every one of you in this rising generation, i believe the destin tee of our nation is linked to restoring the right to life for every american born and unborn. so we must not rest. we must not relent. we must not tire until we have restored the sanctity of life to the center of american law in every state in the nation. we save the babies, we'll save america. [applause] our culture agenda begins with the sanctity of life, but it also involves securing liberty. that means defending religious liberty and freedom of speech

from the censorship coercion of cancel culture. it means securing our border, supporting law enforcement. it means finishing the wall and giving the men and women of law enforcement the support they deserve eve single day. [applause] now critical race theory is nothing more than state-stanchioned racism and it should be rejected in every community and every school in the nation. [applause] we need to purge our schools of critical race theory and restore patriotic education in every classroom in america. [cheering and applause] and the time has come to allow every family to choose where their children go to school

regardless of their income or area code. school choice's time has come. [applause] and with president joe biden in his state of the union address pledging to protect the god-given right of men to compete in women's sports, we need to end the assault on women's sports by the radical gender left and defend the opportunities for women athletics for generations. [applause] and lastly, on culture, we need to defend the right of every law-abiding citizen to keep and bear arms under the second amendment of the united states. [applause] that includes our proposal to enact right to carry laws and

constitution carry just like we did in the state of indiana this summer. [cheering and applause] there is a lot of debate about that constitutional carry bill when we were moving it in indiana but things got a little quiet about a week ago when a young man took his girlfriend to the greenwood park mall and had a sidearm with him which he was able to carry because of that constitutional carry provision. and then a murderous gunman showed up with enough fire power to claim hundreds of lives. july 19th they are in the food court not far from where we raised our kids. a young man named dickens from just south of where i grew up drew his firearm, told people to take cover and fired and approached and took that gunman

down in minutes. [applause] firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens makes our communities more safe, not less safe. we need to stand for the second amendment. [cheering and applause] >> bill: former vice president mike pence speaking to a group of folks in washington, d.c. sounds like a campaign moment hitting the high points. border crisis, inflation, gas prices, america's competitors talking about russia and china taking advantage of weak leadership here at home. we sent roe v. wade back to the ash heap of history and we must protect women's sports. the high watermarks for vice president mike pence there, the former vice president as that speech continues. later today the former president, donald trump, will be at this same event and we'll bring you news on that throughout the day here. back to julie now with more. >> julie: air raid drills

across taiwan yesterday. watch this. [sirens and speaking] >> julie: they testing the missile warning system stepping up preparations for potential military action from china. president biden says he expects to speak with chinese president xi this week. it could include u.s. tariffs on china as well as whether speaker pelosi will travel to taiwan. mike emanuel is live at the white house this morning. good morning, mike. >> good morning. president biden teased late yesterday a conversation with the chinese leader is expected soon. >> will you speak with president xi this week? >> president biden: that's my expectation. i'll let you know when i sit up. >> among the expected topics whether president biden plans to roll back china tariffs and whether speaker pelosi will

travel to taiwan. china has serious concerns about the speaker's potential visit and warning china would take firm and strong measures. there is some bipartisan support for pelosi going to show strength. >> i think we need to be muscular when it comes to china and they can't tell us where we can and cannot travel. if there was a private conversation, now she has made the commitment. >> nebraska republican senator sasse says speaker pelosi should go to taiwan and president biden should make it clear to president xi there isn't a damn thing the chinese communist party can do about it. no more feebleness. on the issue of tariffs bipartisan support for keeping them. >> the reality is we probably need more tariffs, not less. >> we need to have an industrial policy both with incentive and stopping the chinese dumping to rebuild our productive capacity. >> it is not clear at this

point when president biden and president xi will discuss these and other matters. julie. >> julie: all right, mike emanuel, thank you. >> bill: get some analysis. dan hoffman former c.i.a. station chief serving in moscow, iraq and pakistan. good morning. the last house speaker to go to taiwan was newt gingrich in 1997. china is warning us about serious consequences. how do you read that, dan? >> listen, the last thing we should be doing is allowing china to exercise any sort of command and control over which senior u.s. officials travel overseas including two taiwan. it is china that is militarizing the south china sea, conducting espionage operations, building out a nuclear arsenal. they are tlenting the region and beyond. right now we need to up our commitment to our regional allies in asia.

there is bipartisan consensus for doing that. >> bill: we had a group. there were a bunch of lawmakers taken to china in november. a lot of bluster but nothing came of it. should speaker pelosi go or not? >> yeah, i think she should go and take a page out of speaker newt gingrich's playbook there. he met with the president of taiwan at the time. i think she should go and she could be as forceful as she likes about the united states commitment to preserving taiwan's integrity. doesn't mean that we have to support an independent taiwan but really the larger question is whether the u.s. policy of strategic ambiguity is creating more threats to the region and to taiwan in particular and that's something that i think has come to a head because president biden has said we have a commitment to defend taiwan even though no such commitment exists.

his own administration officials have had to walk that back. i think we need to look at that closely. >> bill: you follow these stories about chinese companies buying land in america, haven't you? and florida, big tract of land in north dakota. here is governor ron desantis with laura last night on that. >> i think the problem is these companies have ties to the ccp and not always apparent on the face. it is a huge problem. >> bill: do you see it as a huge problem? >> i do. good on governor desantis for ringing the alarm bells about that. i looked into a case in texas where a chinese subsidiary was trying to purchase a wind farm with close proximity to laugh lynn air force base. that's a national security concern. any time you have a chinese company buying up land. we have to be holding hearings about this. we have to pass legislation and the committee on foreign

investment need to take action on these sorts of things. good to see the governor focused on this issue, highly critical for national security. >> bill: let's bring you back real soon. thank you for your time and analysis today. >> julie: activists staging a climate protest inside chuck schumer's office. how they got in, plus this. >> what is exactly the white house's definition of a recession? >> again, we don't -- i won't define it from here. i will leave it to the nber as we have stated how they define recession. >> julie: the white house bending over backwards to redefine the word recession. can the administration spin its way out of a slowing economy? we'll ask david asman straight ahead. be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that is scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar.

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>> how worried should americans be that we could be in a recession? >> we're not in a recession in my view. the employment rate is still one of the lowest in history. my hope is we go from this rapid growth to a steady growth. we'll see some coming down. i don't think we are going to see recession. >> there was a question by

peter doocy, president biden insisting recession is not on the horizon as we face record inflation as well as upcoming gdp report that could show a second quarter of negative growth. want to bring in david asman from the fox business network. we're getting lost in the semantics of economics which we should. we need to study it to understand where we are and where we might be going. so much of this comes back to how americans feel. >> that's the bottom line. americans know. ronald reagan used to say you know it in your gut if you are in a recession because you feel it before the economists calculate what exactly it is. just for the record, we've only had one period since we've been following this thing for the past 75 years when we had two back-to-back downward moves of the gdp and that did not lead to a recession. that was in 1947. the first year we began calculating these things. there may have been problems with the way they have been

calculated. only once before, 1947, back-to-back downward movements of the gdp not leading to a recession. that was the only time. we're probably in a recession right now is my feeling and the feeling from a lot of economists from democrats to republicans across the board. the point is this is an incredible week. we're about to see the fed raise rates probably by a lot in order to kill inflation. at a time when the economy is slowing down. we only did that one other time in my lifetime, that was during the early 1980s when we had a boom of inflation up to levels close to 20%. we had the fed come in and raise interest rates above 20%. that led to a recession but we got out of that recession by ronald reagan's tax and regulatory cuts. that led to one of the biggest booms we've ever had coming out of a recession. the average groepgt rate during

reagan was 3.6 pers percent. one of the biggest booms we've had coming out of a recession by any two-term president. then with obama another two-term president raised taxes and increased regulations and that led to the slowest recovery on record since 1949. the average growth rate was 1.6%. a lot of numbers. it just says if you make it more difficult by higher regulations and more expensive by higher taxes to do business, you will have less business. we don't want less business going into a recession. >> bill: gotcha. a few days ago there was a blog post that everybody paid a lot of attention to. it read the following. what is a recession? this came from the white house council of economic advisors. while some maintain the two consecutive quarters of falling real gdp constitute a recession that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state

of the business cycle. as long as i've been in the business that's how we've defined it. >> that's right. >> bill: do they have a point coming out of a pandemic or is all of this a bunch of verbal gymnastics? >> it is verbal gymnastics. it is how americans feel what is happening to their jobs. if they lose jobs in addition to high inflation they will be in a bad place. the shorthand for decades has been two back-to-back down turns in the economy. we had a negative quarter in the first quarter, 1.6% down. and we're probably on thursday going to find out we had another negative quarter. back-to-back that does fit the short yand definition of a recession. other factors play into it, though. the administration is correct on that point but it clearly you don't want to be doing -- raising taxes, increasing regulations when you have a slowdown in the economy. that's going to lead to

stagflation the likes of which could exceed what we saw in the early 1980s. >> bill: when you heard the president just say with peter's question my hope is we go from this rapid growth to a steady growth. it would suggest a soft landing, would it not? >> it would suggest he doesn't understand that one way to both increase the growth rate of the united states and decrease inflation is by increasing production. it is supply and demand. inflation is too much money chasing too few goods. we have too few goods because production is coming down. it is not increasing as it should. if we increase the incentives for production we would both increase production, gdp and lower inflation. that's the perfect place to be. that's where we want to be and what would make americans finally feel comfortable about the direction which this country is going. >> bill: what's the line. if your neighbor loses a job it's a recession. if you lose your job it's a

depression. >> we don't want a depression. >> bill: thanks. >> the dna if it's viable how long would it take to catch her killer? >> only a matter of hours before that dna contributor is identified. >> julie: that dna expert saying she has access to cutting-edge technology that could actually potentially solve the jonbenet ramsey murder mystery. her brother tweeted this. let's get to work. cc moore, joins us now. this is incredible. this sort of technology is cracking years-old, decades old cold murder cases and it could only be a matter of hours before the killer could be identified of the dna found on jonbenet is viable. tell us how the technology works. >> instead of just looking at a small portion of the dna, which

is what historically has been done in these types of cases, we look at hundreds of thousands of genetic markers across the genome and it allows us to compare that profile to genetic genealogy databases and from that we can find cousins. we don't need an exact match. we can work with third and fourth cousins and beyond and reverse engineer the identity of that individual. >> julie: there is the problem then. how has this technology been used to crack other cold case murders where your typical dna technology is not enough if you're able to find the genealogy down a family line, you can actually track down the case like you just explained. >> yes, we've been able to do that in over 200 violent crimes across the country. we've worked in every state. we've been doing this is last four years and been able to help solve on average one crime per week using this technology.

>> julie: wow. what do you feel is most frustrating for you when you look at all these cold cases, murder cases all over the country, families especially who have never been able to get answers and that's the hardest part. what us from trace you most about the technology used in the past and could it have been any better? >> well technology has really advanced and there is no way people could have predicted what we would be able to do today. so we owe the original crime scene investigators a huge debt of gratitude for collecting that biological evidence that allows us to do this. to me -- go ahead. >> julie: i'm sorry, i thought you were finished. go on. >> i was just going to say what's frustrating to me is when family members or survivors of violent crime reach out to me and they really want to use investigative again et he can genealogy on the case and no dna remaining.

i don't have personal information on whether there is viable dna in the jonbenet case but it will determine whether we would be able to use this advanced technology or not. >> julie: that's the question. how do you get the dna? how do you collect dna from a murder that was decades old? is that dna held somewhere? do you ever exhume remains? how do you collect it? >> we do actually exhume remains if there was anything buried with that victim that might still have biological evidence that wasn't originally detected. as the equipment and the sensitivity has increased, that means that we can detect dna on things they never would have imagined. touch dna, saliva that wasn't found previously. so there are new technologies that are able to extract out that dna from clothing, from rope, from many different types of materials that just didn't

exist before. that is the reason we're being able now to find these individuals who have stayed under the radar for a long time. those are the types of criminals we're identifying now is people who didn't get caught because they didn't end up in the law enforcement database and were able to stay under the radar, fade back into society and nobody knows what they did. >> julie: incredible technology and much needed as well. there are so many unfortunately unsolved murder cases and families still grieving that want closure and hopefully the technology will give them that. cc moore. thank you for talking to us. fascinating. >> bill: new hour begins now. fox news alert on a new report showing the number of migrants who crossed the border without getting caught going back to 2021 is now approaching 1 million. they could be anywhere in america. the official number is 900,000 which is the population of

south dakota. brand-new hour begins now. dana has the day off. i'm bill hemmer live in new york. julie welcome back. >> julie: i'm julie banderas. good to be here. a crisis reaching a whole new level. we're at an estimated 900,000 gotaways since last year. there have been half a million gotaways, by the way, at the border since the start of fiscal year 2022. homeland security secretary mayorkas claims the border is safe but his predecessor says that couldn't be further from the truth. >> these are 55,000 to 60,000 individuals every single month that get away from border patrol that don't have interviews with law enforcement. these are the very worst of the worst individuals. these are public safety threats, national security threats. >> bill: steve harrigan is live at the border again today in eagle pass, texas. steve, good morning. >> the drama continues to unfold right behind us.

i'm not sure if you will see pictures like this anywhere else. this is the human drama of the rio grande. three women and a child looks like between age 1 and 2 trying to cross over from mexico into the u.s. fairly tough current against them. they panic halfway through and stop. we saw them screaming and waving their hands asking for assistance. border patrol agents are aware of their situation. boats are in the water and the short time we should see the rescue. we have lorenzo garcia and others on cameras and the fox drone team bringing these live pictures from different angles. i don't know if anyone else is covering the story like this as we are speaking now, the border patrol boat is on the way. these women have been in the water for about 40 minutes holding that toddler. we've been watching to make sure they don't go under and now border patrol is here to

save them. dhs has said they have seen more than 500,000 gotaways over the past 10 months alone, people who cross illegally into the u.s. and then disappear. they are seen on camera but never captured or detained. there have been a bunch of lawmakers down here, nine yesterday, republicans, really spewing fire angry at what they've been seeing on the ground here, the chaos is visible to anyone who spends a day or so here. you see people stuck in the river or you see bodies pulled out of the river, something we've seen for the past two days. pulled out on the mexican side and pulled out on the u.s. side. some lawmakers say it is the current policies of the biden administration that are inhumane. not only the people we're seeing now stuck in the water risking their life but also to the agents rescuing them. here is sound from one of those lawmakers. >> and they are having to recover dead bodies every single day. what does that do to you when

you are fishing children out of the river, when you are migrants dying very terrible deaths? >> sometimes it's the grim task of pulling a dead body from the river. this time it looks like it will be a much more positive experience. those customs and border patrol officers likely to pull these three women and toddler out of the water, bring them to the u.s. side for processing. they don't bring them back to mexico. we've seen several occasions where people have tried to cross the river and get stuck. sometimes small children and then they wait for the boats and hang on until the boats come. that's what we're seeing now live from the air and from the ground. bill, back to you. >> bill: remarkable stuff. thank you. steve harrigan. take this picture live of the three women and the small baby. when you see this on your hd television at home, think about how this is happening 24 hours

a day, 7 days a week going on a year and a half now where we just report close to a million have crossed the border and not been apprehended but have actually found their way into america without being encountered by border patrol or local police or reporters like steve harrigan and our photographers that have captured this shot in eagle pass, texas. wow, want to bring in someone dealing with the crisis every day on front lines. the mayor of mcallen, texas. thank you for your time and coming back here. can you get your head around this number, 900,000 in a year and a half? >> it's incredible. that's something that we expected but let me tell you something, we feel a little bit better here. not necessarily because of the situation but the immigrants for some reason have been going to different areas. we are talking eagle pass like

you showed now. we still have a lot of the issues but we don't have the issues like we had before. i don't wish anything on anybody. i feel for eagle pass. the numbers are incredible. these are also not the numbers we had before. it was asylum seekers trying to come in and now we have immigrants just coming regardless. the numbers are incredible and last month one of the biggest concerns i have. i used to say it is not necessarily border security or issues with border security or border crisis, i say it was a national crisis. look what is going on? we have issues in new york and washington, d.c. and that's exactly what we were talking about. the immigrants were not staying on the border. they were passing through here and that's exactly what's going on still right now. this time a little more difficult. we had 90 people that were caught on the terrorist watch list. how many people were not?

just like you were stating, it is something that concerns us very much. not only as a border city but as a country. >> bill: look at the headlines from "the new york times." the headline. smuggling migrants at the border now a billion dollar business with demand for smugglers on the rise organized crime moved in with cruel and violent results. you know who pays the price, sir? people pay the price and women we're seeing on the screen right here. >> and even though we've seen the smaller numbers here we're seeing increase in human trafficking and the drug trade. it is something that we didn't see a few years ago but incredible what we're looking at. it wasn't like this a couple of years ago and we are hoping something gets done. >> bill: here is the mayor of new york, who has made an issue

out of the homeless shelters in new york being overrun by migrants who have come from the border, sir. you are aware of this story. washington, d.c. mayor complaining about it as well. here is eric adams on thursday. >> can you believe this? the mere fact they sent people out of their state, people who were seeking refuge in our country, they sent them away. all of us came from somewhere, even from texas, they came from somewhere. and so they should not have sent people away that were seeking refuge. >> bill: what he is saying is how dare you? >> yeah, what goes on at the very end people going to those areas are people that vounl tearly wanted to go to those areas. they don't want to stay at the border. they are going north. it will be mostly to the northeast to washington, d.c., d.c. area and here in texas dallas and the houston area.

for some reason the haitians go to the west. we don't know the reason. but we know what's going on. maybe it took a couple years before the rest of the country realized what was going on. we have a financial impact. no question about it and why we kept on saying we need help. we need some action by our feds and this is exactly what we thought was going to go on, and it is. >> bill: thank you for your time the mayor in mcallen, texas. as we look from our fox flight team on the border, at eagle pass, remember the man in charge, department of homeland security mayorkas, says the border is secure. that is a direct quote from him from a week ago this tuesday. not quite sure what was thrown on the boat there. trying to cross the river at the moment at 9:00 local time you will probably be some sort of effort to help these

illegals out by those in the boat. keep in mind this number. talked about 900,000 gotaways in a year half. those who alluded some sort of encounter or escape. on top of that, the total number of encounters for fiscal year 2022 is 1,746,000. that's in eagle pass, as we watch the women trying to make it across. >> julie: what we just watched is incredible. if you notice there was two women. a baby sleeping on the shoulder of one of the women and a boat came up and appears to me they took the baby but they left the two women and it is interesting because a few months ago bryan llenas was on the border and i'll never forget his reporting the video he shared was so alarming. two men were crossing the river. border patrol agents aren't there to save people but to

protect our border. it is a humanitarian crisis and people die trying to cross to our border. two women left down in the river and the baby was saved but there are people that swim across that river every single day and drown before the eyes of these border patrol agents who can't save them. >> bill: we saw three women and a baby and now there are just two. it could have been the child and the younger woman who could have been a teenager, minor of some sort got on board that boat. keep you posted. steve harrigan, stay safe. thank you for bringing the story to us and the american people. we are there on the border. julie. >> julie: after the death of george floyd, many democrats joined in on calls to defund police. well now with mid-terms approaching, it looks like they are changing their tune. meanwhile, the senate judiciary committee is holding a hearing on protecting law enforcement officers. we've got chad pergram with more from capitol hill this morning. good morning, chad.

>> good morning. defund the police may have worked among some liberal groups two years ago but it was a non-starter among most voters. it is a problem as democrats approach the mid-terms. democrats are now trying to flip the narrative from their defund the policeman tra. president biden calling out gop members who voted no on a modest gun bill last month. >> president biden: the answer isn't to defund the police but to fund the police, fund the police. senators scott and rubio voted against the bipartisan gun safety law that i signed the first meaningful gun legislation in 30 years that you supported. to me it's simple. if you can't support banning weapons of war on american,you aren't on the side of police. >> the president says it is tougher now to be a police officer than ever before. republicans promise voters they will make things better when it comes to crime if they win the house this fall.

>> it's the democrat d.a.s and defund the police. the federal government can provide a lot of cop grants. if we're in the majority the cop grants we send would put one perspective. saying you can't have them unless your d.a. upholds the law. >> this comes as a deputy sheriff was just killed over the weekend in rural ohio. the entire kenley, north carolina police department quit over hostile working conditions. senate testimony by officers from chicago, and other big cities. >> bill: we've got a number in a moment ago on how americans are feeling about their economic matters now. another sign the economy might be on risky ground. consumer sentiment report released moments ago worse than expected dropping to its lowest level since february of 2021. you have these worries out there by the u.s. could be headed for recession, markets

trading lower today. not a ton but off now by 92 points for the dow 30. it is not just physical contact. a new study on monkeypox showing the disease can spread more easily than previously thought. what the scientists are finding out and what you can do to help protect yourself coming up here. >> julie: allegations of a double standard in the hunter biden investigation. why senator chuck grassley is pressing the feds hard for information. >> bill: gavin newsom stoking more speculation about a white house bid in 2024. would he simply be a clone of president biden we ask? we'll find out. >> the only difference really between joe biden and gavin newsom is that newsom can do a full 30 minutes on the peloton bike. you talk about shuffled border versus surf border but the policies are the same. eks. (sighs)

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>> bill: there is a new study showing the monkeypox virus can be spread in more ways than just physical contact. we at team fox coverage with dr. marc siegel to educate us more on this. charles watson has the latest on a virus found in more than 50 countries. charles, good morning. >> good morning to you, bill. in terms of surface spread, researchers came to that determination after examining the hospital rooms of two monkeypox patients in germany. the study found most surfaces were contaminated after direct contact with the patient particularly on frequently-used linen irs chairs and bathrooms where researchers found the largest viral loads. what's unclear is whether or not contact with infected surfaces would be enough to pass the virus on to people. we spoke to an infectious

disease expert much like smallpox it is rare but it is possible. >> in that regard those viruses behave similarly. you didn't pick up smallpox from inanimate surfaces either. just because the virus is there doesn't mean it is an infectious dose. >> the federal government is facing criticism for a slow response to contain nearly more than 3800 monkeypox cases in the u.s. today. according to a scathing report by "the new york times" the biden administration waited weeks to tap 400,000 vaccine doses at a facility in denmark that gave the virus plenty of time to spread particularly among gay and bisexual men who are most at risk. >> a lot of parallels with hiv/aids. slow government response. it is unfortunate to see.

>> in the defense of the biden administration, experts say there is only one company that produces the monkeypox vaccines. it will take time to get large shipments to the u.s. dr. fauci says the white house will name a monkeypox coordinator but they aren't there yet on declaring it as a national emergency. >> bill: thank you for that in atlanta today. julie has more. >> julie: we want to bring in fox news dr. marc siegel. let's talk about this. it is not a national emergency yet. how big is this new issue of surface transmission? >> listen, we don't know that it actually spreads on surfaces. that study in germany of two patients merely shows people in the hospital who had it spread the virus on surfaces they touched a lot. toilets, trays, food. we knew that already. this confirms it. what we don't know if you can get it that way.

generally speaking it spreads from close contact from saliva, from sex, from rashes and that is probably the vast majority of it. what's the headline, there is a lot more of it than we know. i talked to our top hospital epidemiologist and he thinks there are thousands of cases in new york city alone. cdc is saying over 3,000 cases in the country. there is a lot more than that. most of it is men who have sex with men but spreading beyond that community, too. >> julie: fever, headache, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, chills, exhaustion and the rash. you see all the bumps on your skin. aside from that, how sick are people getting from this illness? >> that rash could be in a place you are not usually looking for. could be in the groin and usually three days after the other symptoms you mentioned which can be mistaken for any

flu-like illness. this is mild compared forwhat we are used to talking about. only five deaths around the world from this. this is a mild version, not smallpox. but the problem is that rash can be very painful and the treatment for it a drug is not routinely available for monkeypox. it should be. i am calling for the fda to give it an emergency youth authorization for people suffering the symptoms. >> julie: will there be a vaccine for this? >> there are two vaccines already. as charles said there is one that cdc told me they are getting 780,000 doses by the end of this month. that's the monkeypox vaccine. we also have over 100 million doses of a smallpox modified vaccine that is a live virus vaccine but what wiped smallpox off the planet. we have it in the national stockpile. i don't think we'll have to use

it. i think this will remain limited spread. i know we are talking a lot about it. this is not going to be another covid no way. it is too hard to transmit this. >> julie: thank you. at least some good news out of this. scientists switching gears found the likely culprit behind the mysterious hepatitis outbreak among children. do you think covid lockdowns could have played a part in the outbreak? >> absolutely. that's a huge headline and this is coming out of scotland and london. two studies that show that there is a genetic susceptibility. you have to get a certain gene to get the hepatitis but the other part, we thought it was this a virus we don't usually see in the liver. now there is a second virus associated virus. we think where did it all come from? it's because, you just said it. when we are locked down

everybody. they didn't get the viruses they are used to seeing. they didn't get exposed to the viruss they are used to seeing. you remove lockdowns and you get illnesses at times of the years due to the lockdowns. we need to consider that more. >> julie: while it was nice where kids were getting colds as often now they get them all time because their immune systems are shot and you have to be exposed to the stuff to build up a good immune system. >> absolutely. good to see you. >> we're putting in fire lines and we're battling this fire from the air and the ground. you can't just put out a fire with air support. >> bill: the biggest wildfire of the year in california presenting some unique problems. a live report to let you know how it is doing there. far left congresswoman cori bush dodging a question whether she supports a second term for

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>> julie: fox news alert. firefighters are making some progress against an out of control wildfire near yosemite national park. we're covering it and claudia joins us live with the latest. >> good morning, julie. firefighters are making gains here on the oak fire. they now say they have it 26% contained. but that may be little comfort to the people who live in this house. this is one of 55 structures that burned to the ground when the fire record through here friday. thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate immediately some saying they escaped with whatever they could grab. >> not able to get anything out. the clothes on our backs.

what we had in our car. i'm wearing donated clothes right now. >> just collected some important papers, packed the kids some clothes, got my daughter's bunny and just left and we're just hoping for the best. >> the oak fire has burned at least 17,000 acres and threatens more than 2,000 homes and outbuildings. flames are reaching 10 feet high. governor gavin newsom declared a state of emergency for the county. add to that triple digit heat and low humidity and you have a very dangerous fuel load. 2500 firefighters from across the state are on it including hand crews building containment lines, engine teams doing structure defense at home and chopper pilots making the critical water drops.

the fire is not threatening yosemite. the national park is open but there are road closures. with all of the smoke, the air quality is not great. in fact, smoke from this fire could affect air quality as far south as fresno, as far north as oregon and as far east as nevada. i can tell you it is very smokey here. the air is just act rid. the cause of this fire is under investigation. >> julie: you can see behind you it is cloudy and thick, terrible breathing conditions as well. please cover up. >> bill: meanwhile, california's governor gavin newsom picking another out of state fight running ads in texas going after governor abbott. want to bring in karl rove in austin, texas. two things i want to get to. he is getting attention on the cable side. here is a spot that ran in florida a week ago.

watch. >> i urge all of you living in florida to join the fight or join us in california, where we still believe in freedom. freedom of speech, freedom to choose, freedom from hate. >> bill: now in texas the ad reads the following. our creator endowed us with the right to life, yet children lose their right to life every year because of gun violence. in california we work to save those lives. what do you think about that message, karl? >> i think it is absolutely totally brilliant on the part of governor newsom. think about this. he raised $23 million for his reelection campaign. spent $100,000 on ads in florida. you will see -- we have just now had more viewers see the ad on this news program than will see the ad in florida. he spent $30,000 on newspaper ads in texas so he has spent less than half a percent of what he has raised and he will dominate the media for two

weeks. what could be better for a potential presidential candidate to get two weeks of national identification as a fighting democrat willing to take it to the republicans and in the meantime probably several thousand people a week have left florida -- have left california for either florida or texas and california is going to continue to hemorrhage people because of liberal policies by newsom but he has got himself a great stunt to attract the attention of national democrats and position himself for 2024. >> bill: i imagine the rnc has hours of tape from downtown san francisco that don't look so great. in a word you study this stuff. do you think gavin newsom is running? >> absolutely. he says that he is not running. he wants joe biden to run. but that's the right thing for him to say now because everybody really knows, everybody really knows joe biden is not going to be the nominee of the democratic party in 2024.

in the meantime he looks like a firefighter. i'm taking on the bad guys in texas and florida. i'm standing up for california values. the values that have made it for the first -- he is the first governor of the state of california since it became a state in 1850 to preside over a state that is losing representation in congress. every 10 years since 1850 california has either gained or held its representation in congress until this last reapportionment and they lost seats because the population didn't groe. that's a record to be proud of gavin newsom. >> bill: here is cori bush on a similar question, watch. >> i don't want to answer that question because that's not yet -- i don't want to answer that question. he is the president and he has the right to run for a second term absolutely. i don't want to -- i would rather you not do that.

>> bill: do the other squad members feel the same? >> don't you bet they do? absolutely. there are 10 million ways to answer that question. that's his right. she attempted to say. she said i don't want to answer the que. it wasn't my answer. she could have said i'm focused on 2022. the president has to make a decision after the election. there are plenty of things she could say. people on the hard left of the democratic party are terribly disappointed that joe biden not that he hasn't attempted to do what they wanted him to do but that he has failed to get build back better and transformational economic and environmental programs that they are pushing. >> bill: i would rather you not ask that question. i will try that one. >> exactly. we've seen how that works, don't ask, don't. but we're all candidates don't

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>> bill: no escaping crime in chicago. the breakdown of law and order in the city extending into the most affluent neighborhoods. it has taken a toll on tourism. garrett tennessee -- tenney is in chicago. >> when you look specifically at some of the most affluent neighborhoods that have long viewed as safe, crime is out of control. just this past weekend in the old town neighborhood where the average home price is around half a million dollars, two women out for a night on the town were shot along a popular stretch of restaurants and bars. two of the more than 50 shootings this past weekend. in the heart of downtown crime is up across the board. murder, theft and car jantion are up by more than 100%. robberies and burglaries not far behind. there is growing concerns about safety on the city's train

lines. early monday for the second time in three days, a large group attacked and tried to rob a rider on chicago's busiest train line the red line. in both instances the victim pulled out a knife to defend themselves and on monday that included fighting off and killing a 15-year-old boy with a gun. local leaders say something needs to be done because folks here no longer feel safe to simply go out and enjoy all the city has to offer. >> we're at a new low. you see it every day. it is a brazen attitude on the streets. we've been saying this for months and years nou. parents need to take control of their kids and raising them. our criminals are again the ages of 8 and 19 now. it is a crazy world right now. >> so far the city's efforts to address the rise in crime here downtown have had little effect to change the perception that it's a soft target for

criminals. >> bill: garrett tenney. the beat goes on in chicago. >> julie: senator chuck grassley demanding answers from the d.o.j. and f.b.i. on the hunter biden investigation. at issue is whether the special agent in charge of the case is biased. let's bring in fox news contributor katie pavlich. editor at town hall.com. katie, great to have you as always. let's talk about the agent in charge of the case. here is what grassley says about him. political partisanship went much deeper than the inappropriate social media posts. the question is whether or not the person is biased but how biased and how much longer will he be in charge of the investigation? >> he had a long history of government oversight and good at having whistleblowers come forward with valid information by grassley. in the letter he talks about how this assistant special

agent in charge of the f.b.i. received information about hunter biden's laptop in september of 2020 and didn't open an investigation into what was on the laptop. instead he got ahead of the narrative and said it was russian disinformation and pushed it to the media and the broader intelligence community. once the information about the laptop came out in october of 2020, the letter that 51 intelligence officers, former intelligence agents said the information in the laptop and the laptop itself was russian disinformation. not just a matter of this special agent assistant special agent at the f.b.i. having a political bias tweeting how horrible republicans are on social media but instead of opening an investigation into this case he took the information and then drove the narrative that really did change the outcome of the election because people said if

they knew more about what was on the laptop they would have changed their opinion. let's not forget the reason it was censored by twitter and the "new york post" and taken off that platform for weeks, a couple months was because of the f.b.i. telling everybody else this was russian disinformation. so that is the key here. it is very corrupt and also on the back drop, of course, of the 2016 presidential election when the f.b.i. was involved in trying to sabotage president trump's campaign which led to a special counsel investigation and accusation of russian collusion which did not come to fruition. with the senate at play senator grassley is interested in learning more. >> julie: as we should all be, right? i want to switch over to these six house staffers that protested for legislation to combat climate change. they were arrested during a demonstration in of all places chuck schumer's office. i can't get this guy to call me back. they got in his office.

i don't know how but they demanded that schumer resume negotiations with west virginia senator joe manchin, a thorn in his side as you know because he thwarted democrat ambitions to pass the climate and energy package. how do these protestors even get into his office, do we know? >> we have to get you to d.c. to interview majority leader chuck schumer yourself in his office. i guess you need to dress like a climate activist. the same tactics they've used against manchin and going to his houseboat in d.c. and employed by alexandria ocasio-cortez when she was just congresswoman elect leading a climate change protest into the office of speaker nancy pelosi and demanded they do more on the climate. it proves that instead of going through the legislative process and being able to negotiate and do things that way they throw tantrums like you are seeing with activists gluing themselves to pieces of art

around the world. it is ridiculous and i'm sure the majority leader doesn't appreciate it and it won't change the mind of someone like senator joe manchin to infuse more money into the issue of climate change. >> julie: katie pavlich. thank you so much. you have this really cool show coming up. catch her new series, luxury hunting lodges of america. this is like glamping beginning tomorrow. we have hunters watching and this takes it to a whole new level. >> hunters, outdoor enthusiasts, the show is for everyone. listen tomorrow. >> julie: thank you, katie. >> bill: someone has to do it. thanks, katie. shark sightings on the rise east and west coast. how is it impacting the fishing industry? you didn't think about that one, did you? ♪♪♪

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water. not everyone is running away. most people are trying to avoid them. you are trying to find them. >> we want to find them. we'll do anything we can to find them. >> tom spends his life chasing sharks off long island sound as owner of rockaway fishing charters in brooklyn, new york. over the last few years he has caught a 323 pound maco and 438 pound thrasher. none of which he would have seen 30 years ago when long line fishing nearly wiped out the u.s. shark population. today thanks to successful fishery management, some shark species are thriving. it is a fact creating controversy among sports fishermen. 90% of your members report their fishing is being affected by shark encounters. >> that's correct. >> he heads the bill fish

foundation. a group that advocates for the rights of sports fishermen who are being beaten by shyster sharks stealing fish off fishing lines at an alarming rate. >> what happens is you put a baited line in the water, fishing for a targeted species, as soon as you get one on wham, there comes a shark. >> this is not a shark problem. it is a human problem. >> chris fischer tracks shark populations saying more sharks simply means a healthier ocean. >> oh my god, look at the bull shark. look at it. are you kidding me? oh, whoa. >> this is how the ocean is supposed to be and everyone has to adjust. >> that's right. there is a lot more fish and a lot more everything in our oceans off the east and west coast and something to be celebrated. >> exactly the way tom looks at it. >> if there are more sharks out

there you'll catch more sharks. >> we're trying to catch them and get them closer to shore so we don't have to go 30 or 40 miles like we used to do. >> a convenience for him but a real threat for those who want to avoid any and all shark encounters. that's it from here, back to you julie and bill. >> bill: how about that bull shark came out of nowhere. >> julie: it was amazing. >> bill: thau, douglas. nice to see you douglas kennedy. before we go, are you ready for this? you like ice cream? >> julie: i do. >> bill: we have major news now. klondike will discontinue the chocko taco. will you miss it? 57% of you say yes, you will miss it. only 43% say you would not. would you or not? >> julie: i've never had it but i don't love chocolate on chocolate. it is chocolate ice cream with

a chocolate filling and outside. i would go with a no. i don't care, how is that? >> bill: i'll take a scoop of orange sherbet every day. >> julie: i love it. me, too. >> bill: thanks for helping out the last couple of days. dana is back tomorrow. enjoy your day, okay? stay cool in the heat. we have to run. "the faulkner focus" begins right now. here is harris. >> harris: fox news alert. criminals at war with victims. criminals targeting police officers. and now getting help from the revolving door that prosecutors are swinging. i'm harris faulkner. the assault of two new york knee police officer caught on camera. a warning to our young viewers, children in the room that you may have. some may find the video we're about to show disturbing. give it a beat. the officers confronted a teenager after he apparently