shell coming up on monday. >> are you doing radio? >> not today. i'll be back behind the microphone thursday and friday. >> the great part of the show from the diner. brian kilmeade will pick up everybody's tab. >> can't hear you. >> bill: good morning. federal investigators have expanded their probe into former president donald trump meaning the justice department is considering whether or not to bring criminal charges against a former president. at the same time we're learning about accusations the f.b.i. and d.o.j. down played negative intel about hunter biden. we'll talk to chuck grassley, jonathan turley about this swirling out there today coming up. in the meantime rapid fire rate hike. feds teeing up another one. some fear it may plunge the

economy into a recession which is what we don't want. the gang is here. good morning. >> dana: good to be here i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." all that economic news coming this week with the administration, they're swirling as well as the news. they're swirling and spinning. the central back is expected to announce a rate hike again today. it would be the fourth one in five months that will pour cold water on an economy already slowing down. >> bill: the feds trying to pull us back from the brink of record inflation as the white house tries to redefine the r word. >> president's economic advisors are saying there won't be a recession. are you sure? >> let me just say this. we look at a range of data. we assess that data and we lay it out for ourselves and for the president. >> dana: team fox coverage. connell mcshane is with

analysis but let's begin with jacqui heinrich from the north lawn. >> good morning. as you mentioned the fed is expected to raise rates today by 3/4 of a point. it is the fourth hike since march. the second increase of its size but with inflation hitting 9.1% last month, it is looking like this move from the feds are not having the impact they want at least so far. ahead of tomorrow's gdp report the white house is trying to calm any recession fears telling people the economy is healthy even if we see a second consecutive quarter of negative growth. convincing people that it's healthy is an entirely different story. >> the high prices are hitting americans very hard but in a way that is different from some places that are facing famine, for example. >> have you checked gas prices lately and the interest rates? we're in a recession. >> economy isn't growing. don't seem to be growing anyway. we can't keep up with anything.

>> nationwide poll found 58% of americans are concerned they don't have enough savings lined up. 43% are expected to fall deeper in debt in rising inflation. in july the consumer confidence index slipped for the third straight month. the lowest point since president biden took office. and the administration that has long insisted this inflation is transitory, of course, doesn't have a best track record on predictions but placing full faith in the fed to execute a soft landing cooling inflation without triggering a recession. >> we have a strong labor market, that's why household balance sheets i know they are struggling and inflation is a problem but balance sheet addressing inflation are higher than they were at the beginning of the pandemic. spending in investment continues. we have a buffer for the fed to raise interest rates. >> the white house has been arguing that even though two

consecutive quarters of negative growth technically constituents a recession in the common definition of the word, it's not the way they look at it but they're declining to outline what constitutes or what triggers there might be. >> bill: want to bring in connell mcshane from the fox business network. thank you for making time for us. better to see you there than an airport. >> we did meet at an airport. >> bill: ignore the two quarter rule and retweeted by ron klain. >> dana: i didn't know that. >> it's semantics that i don't think normal people watching at home care that much about. the definition of a technical recession that economists are arguing about. at the end of the day if your life is impacted by the falling economy and you are paying more for everything you buy at the store, that's a recession to you. now, some people higher up the

income ladder for being fair not as affected like people at the bottom or lower on the income ladder. some people doing in the country are okay. the labor market is fairly strong. that's true. it is pretty strong unlike what we've seen in other recessions but inflation is really hitting people. we saw it from wal-mart this week who cut their forecast. people are starting to change their behavior and buy items that are lower priced. >> dana: if wal-mart has lower numbers that means the rest of the retail market might as well? >> it's like economic data in itself because wal-mart is so big. largest private employer in the country. when they report earnings it is like we get a piece of economic data from the government in some ways. i think it told us a lot about what is happening in the real economy and the federal reserve it seems, all but guaranteed the fed will raise by 3/4 of a

point. let's see what they say, if anything, about the next meeting in september and meetings after that because looking back at some comments from chairman powell he said -- hinted that he would rather go too far to crush inflation even if it hurts the economy. that's the mistake he would rather make. he doesn't want to make any mistake. is there a risk of going too far? certainly. the bigger mistake would be to fail to restore price stability. he said that many times and let's see how he phrases it today. >> bill: call for number four. the white house is releasing the fifth time the oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. here is where gas is today. $4.30. the day biden took office it was $2.36 for a gallon of gas. you have a very good perspective, connell. you are always on the road talking to americans all over the country. if you were to frame for us

what you have learned from them, what would that be? >> well, it depends to some extent making the point earlier where you go. i think rural americans have taken a harder hit as a result of this slowdown in the economy that may or may not be a recession. that's true anecdotally. it is also true in some of the numbers people are starting to run. the percentage of people's income that is impacted by this. the lower income and oftentimes rural americans are seeing their take-home pay eaten up more than people in the middle or higher income. we've seen that over and over again. gas prices are interesting. the numbers this morning. 42 days in a row that gas prices have come down. a lot of this is relative. yeah, they're high, much higher than when the president took office but they are down significantly from where they were. whatever the reason for that is. some of it is fear we're going

into a recession which hurts demand. whatever the reason it helps consumers across the spectrum and at the lower end especially. >> dana: interesting. i can't imagine the meeting at the white house where they said okay, this week we're going to redefine the word recession in order to help us, which is they spent so much time on that and retweeting paul cegman which is hilarious. you guys are in washington and you are arguing about the word recession and defining recession while i'm trying to figure out a way to pay my kids' school fees to play football this summer. >> exactly. again, we've heard this over and over again to your point about traveling. people have to make decisions about the fall, back to school shopping is now top of mind for a lot of people and everything costs a little bit more. people are budgeting their life because of the higher prices. now, you know, it will be interesting to see what happens. if gas prices continue to go

down, that does help and that's why they are so volatile. it is tough to predict. the administration is trying to point to the release of oil from the strategic oil reserve. it may have contributed to it but you have to look at the fact that all this recession talk and all this fear that we're slowing down is another reason. sometimes the why is important. if demand is slowing down and economy is slowing down it's a relief that gas prices are coming down but maybe not for the best reason. >> bill: for some people it's pennies on the dollar. come back any time. nice to see you. >> dana: thanks so much. is 16-year-old caught on camera attacking an nypd officer on a subway platform over the weekend already released without bail. we learn now he was freed in a separate robbery case just days before that incident. >> good morning. the 16-year-old was released without bail two times in four days last week.

the first came last wednesday after he and three others were arrested for punching a man in mid town manhattan and running off with his cell phone. three days later this is what happened. take a look here. you just saw police say the teen jumped the turnstile at a manhattan subway stop with a 16-year-old girl who you will also see in the video. officers asked them to leave and the boy is accused of becoming verbally aggressive before things turned physical as you can see. the boy gets the officer in a head lock right here. the girl also swinging at the other officer on scene. again, the teen who was previously arrested for robbery was released for a second time in four days after this. new york city mayor eric adams calls it a clear case for rolling back new york's bail reform law. listen here. >> when i say we are the laughingstock of the country this is what i'm talking about. how do we keep our city safe when the other parts of the

criminal justice system, they have abandoned our public safety apparatus? we need to look at violent offenders and this is a clear case of that. >> why new yorkers don't feel safe on the subway right now. another interesting thing. according to the "new york post" at the end of the teen's court hearing yesterday he asked the judge if he is allowed to press charges to which the judge asked against who and he didn't provide a clear spofnlts here is the president of the new york city detectives endowment association talking about that this morning on fox. >> that wouldn't surprise me at all. many of our politicians and district attorneys have emboldened the criminal element. they feel empowered and they know there are no consequences when you violate the law or assault a police officer or detective. >> the 16-year-old is due back in family court on friday of this week. he will be staying at a

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>> dana: huge drug bust at a port of entry along the arizona/mexico border, heroin and meth and 320,000 pills of deadly fentanyl. the entire stash was hidden inside one vehicle trying to cross into the united states. let's bring in doug nichols, the mayor of yuma in arizona. this drug bust is big. you have that many pills. one pill can kill. get those across america, that was in one vehicle. in yuma what have you seen in terms of drug seizures or illegal crossings this year?

>> illegal crossings are still at 700 a week -- 700 a day, which what that does is really locks up our border patrol agents from doing the positive work of trying to find the drug smugglers and those not just turning themselves in. so this last year ironically the numbers have dropped because we're not doing that -- not able to do the proactive drug interdiction. now that some of our agents are coming available we see the numbers climb back up. >> dana: why are the agents becoming available now? >> well, so we used to be at about 1,000 people a day coming across the border. we've had a 30% reduction but also more assets pushed to the border in order to handle the flow and so that's provided a little bit of an opportunity. it is not what regular order is as far as along the border. not where we would like it to be where agents could do the

full national protection mission that they have. but there is a little more capability now within the system. >> dana: what happens in your city when 700 people a day cross the border right there? >> well, thankfully our border patrol does a great job of engaging the majority of them and puts them through the system. we have a nonprofit that helps transport some of the people out. we've heard from a couple of mayors across the country that are now experiencing what we've been experiencing for the last year and a half and then really the rest of it is those that are the gotaways, the people looking to evade we do see high speed pursuits and people coming into the community and trying to disperse but for the most part, our law enforcement agencies work really well together and that helps to contain that locally. it doesn't prevent it from getting on the freeways and

moving to the rest of the country. >> dana: do you wish you had more support from the federal government and the biden administration in particular? >> definitely. the administration needs to change its approach. what the approach appears to be right now is how can we get people into the country faster. how do we make that immigration process when people cross illegally faster. those trying to do it legally i haven't seen any effort to try to increase that speed. but as you just try to facilitate people to come in all you are doing is encouraging more people to come in. the president and secretary need to change the policies and the way they are enacting the laws. that's how you prevent these numbers from coming through is prosecuting and getting people returned to their home countries or prosecuted in our country. >> dana: would federal representation in arizona and a possible change there, there is a big senate race, mark kelly the democrat is the incumbent.

would you like to see him reelected or do you want to see change there as there are challengers? we don't have the republican candidate locked down yet. the primary election is august 2. do you want to see a change in your federal leadership in the senate? >> i haven't endorsed anybody. senator kelly has been here and done some work with us. i think if we had a change it would help us with some of the narrative so there is no party conflict when we have some discussions on the appropriate actions. but to say senator kelly hasn't been here wouldn't be true. he has been and engaged in this but i think it needs to be a more holistic approach not just one or two people on the border. >> dana: when you are on the front lines local government is some of the hardest government to do. you are on the front lines of everything. thank you for being with us doug nichols of yuma, arizona.

>> i'm a little bit frustrated at how long it is taking to take action. there is more being added every single day. it is disgusting how many people are dying and we need to do something. >> bill: two parents there. father talking about his son. he lost him to fentanyl and wants more to be done. half of the overdose death in america is poisoning from the lethal synthetic opioid. casey stiegel picks up the story with more in dallas today. >> it is so tough. the first stop for many family members who lose a loved one to fentanyl is a coroner's office. medical examiners see the pain to the fullest extent of this crisis from big cities to little towns and they all agree things are only getting worse. this is all jennifer as left of her son, pictures and memories. >> he loved life.

he would talk to you with stars in his eyes when he was younger. he was hopeful of life. a happy boy. >> jacob died in 2020 after taking a fake percocet laced with fentanyl. >> i never thought that my son would die from drugs. >> as shocking as it was to his family, the coroner sees it every day. >> prior to 2021 it was rare for me to see a fentanyl death in this office and now i would say at least my overdoses have fentanyl. >> fentanyl is not just a deadly problem in texas. it is everywhere and its victims can be anyone. >> these overdoses are impacting all ages from young to our young teenagers up to our 80s in all demographics. it isn't one community that's hurting. we are seeing these problems. it is all of them. >> experts say across the

country fentanyl claimed more than 70,000 lives in 2021, the highest on record. >> a number of years ago when we would have a death and have a bottle of xanax on scene it was actually that drug. now it can say xanax but they can be fake and they're fentanyl. >> they show a legitimate pill next to a counterfeit one. nearly identical in appearance. one could be fatal. >> one of those pills to be the end of it. it could end everything now. they are paying with their lives. >> she hopes by talking about her son's death she may help save others. o'neill tells us there is a current need for new coroners across the country, in part because of the explosion of fentanyl cases. >> bill: powerful story, casey. thanks for bringing that to us. casey stiegel in dallas. >> dana: a u.s. naval officer

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>> bill: markets are opening right now. see what the fed does later today. the pause on student loan interest and repayments however could be extended yet again. the biden administration telling loan serviceers not to contact borrowers about reserving payments. it was put in place in march of 2020 to offer temporary financial relief and for some apparently it is still in place. dana marie. >> dana: the president has extended it and his far left said they want to forgive

student loan debt. he is not willing to tell them know. he keeps saying i'll keep making this decision over and over again. when he did it in june we said watch before the mid-terms he will have to do it again and here we are. what if he does it through october. >> bill: he could very well. fox news poll. what do you think of the approval of debt relief for young voters. under the age of 35 now. 41% approve, 57% disapprove. >> dana: i want to see the follow-up question. >> bill: my follow-up question would be of the 41%, how many had a student loan? >> dana: right. and did you know this? >> bill: that's what i want to know. >> dana: or if you know somebody who has one. it is like when people say they want medicare for all oh yeah, 80% say it's great. the next question, that means this or x or y, oh, actually no, i don't want that. >> bill: it is contract law. if you have a debt, you pay it. new hampshire democratic poll

we find pete buttigieg beating joe biden by a point. keep in mind buttigieg did pretty well during the primary in new hampshire in 2020. he finished fifth, joe biden. he left the state before the results were in. >> dana: i guess if you wanted to put rose colored glasses on in the biden white house you say it's not so bad. just second. a good poll. lots of interesting recap now. also this. new information about a deadly car crash in wisconsin. it involved a state senator in one car. another a mother and 5-year-old daughter. they were both killed. garrett kenny has the details. >> state investigators are investigating the crash involving the top democrat in wisconsin senate could face charges. on friday afternoon 27-year-old and her 5-year-old daughter were driving down the highway along lake superior according

to the ashland police department the senator pulled out on the highway directly in their path. the crash sent the other car spinning across the highway and then hit by another car. the 5-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene and mother later died at a nearby hospital. senator boouly had cataract surgery the day before the accident and was on the phone with someone from the paper when the crash happened. senator's office tells us she was not seriously injured and they quote this is a heartbreaking event for the community. thoughts and prayers are focused on the individuals involved, their families and their loved ones. the victim's family, however, are concerned that politics may get in the way of justice. brandon, the little girl's father, told the paper he believes the lawmaker is responsible and that in the five days since the accident neither she nor anyone from her office has reached out to the

family. a member of the state senate since 2015 is not seeking reelection. investigators will wrap up their work this week and send a report to prosecutors who will decide whether or not to file charges. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: a u.s. naval lieutenant sentenced to three years in a jail in japan for killing two people in a car crash. now, his family is pleading with the white house to negotiate his return saying the crash was an accident due to a medical episode. william la jeunesse picks up the story from there in l.a. good morning. >> good morning. the question now is will president biden intervene and ask japan for clemency and suspended sentence? the case, last year lieutenant on duty in japan gets in a car accident, kills two japanese citizens. found guilty, sentenced to three years in prison. question now is it fair? according to medical testimony,

45 minutes after hiking mount fuji he suffered altitude sickness driving in a van with his wife and three children and fell unconscious, crashed into a car killing the two pedestrians. >> we were driving down the mountain and reaching the base. my husband lost consciousness and my daughter tried to wake him with no success. we hit two cars. he never hit the brakes, he never woke up. >> if the cause of the crash was what he alleged that he suffered from altitude sickness in no way should he be prosecuted criminally. >> police interrogated him without a lawyer for 26 days. at trial the court rejected the defense. the judge said he likely fell asleep and was negligent for failing to pull over when he felt drowsy. an argument his supporters reject. >> it was a car accident that

resulted from a tragic, unforeseeable, unforeseen medical emergency. >> what needs to happen is the white house needs to come forward and say you are our ally but you made a mistake here and he needs to come home right now so this never happens again. >> a little back story, bill. in the past the u.s. navy help shield u.s. servicemen from japanese court and caused a public outcry. this lieutenant could be paying for those past mistakes. the penalty for negligent driving causing death is seven years. he got three. now up to president biden to intervene. >> bill: something to watch. william la jeunesse on that story. >> dana: lia thomas is not making the podium this time. ncaa announced its woman of the year and it's sylvia binder. ivy league pick overly yeah thomas. she was among more than 500 candidates.

thomas has caused controversy since winning the championship title. look out, censors. congratulations to her, sylvia binder. do you fence? maybe it could be your fall activity. >> bill: concerns of a rise in violent crime nationwide and we've been on this story from the beginning. merrick garland was asked about it. it is a concern but not a crisis. keep on eye on this story. democrats are investing in republican candidates in republican primaries in an effort to, quote, save democracy. guy benson will try to square that circle coming up next.

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>> i think violent crime is a matter of considerable concern for our country and to the justice department, as it should be. >> dana: merrick garland acknowledging the wave of violent crime in major cities across the country but falling short calling it a crisis. guy benson, fox news contributor. we're redefining the word recession i'm not surprised he didn't want to add this as another crisis. do you think he understands the gravity of the situation. >> you would hope so. we're playing very stupid word games again on the border crisis, not saying it's a crisis. it is a challenge. a matter of concern on a crime crisis that the american people feel and polls show they're very concerned about. recession, let's change the definition of that word. i think that they can continue to go this direction if they want to but it's not going to convince anyone. i start to wonder from a communications perspective do

you start to actively piss people off by insulting their intelligence rather than being more straight forward and leveling with folks on issue after issue in fairness on which they are failing, so they are wailing as well. they won't even describe the problem accurately and i don't know who they think they are fooling. >> dana: i was saying earlier. when you are paying for gas. it is 60 cents cheaper it used to be but playing word games with recession while i try to figure out a way to put food on the table. but i think it does make people mad. >> they also want credit when gas comes down a little bit after saying they have no control and everyone else's fault but now it is them that has allowed the numbers to come down and putting out graphics from the white house. be grateful. you are only paying $4.30 for gas. people sit there and say these

people are dramatically out of touch. >> bill: garland said i have spoken to the mayor, eric adams, many times. i think that's a good thing. the question then becomes have you talked to the liberal d.a.s? have you talked to the governor? have you talked to the lawmakers who are making these easy bail laws easy for criminals to check in and check out of jail? >> not a crisis but you are talking a lot, fine. will anything change? turns out the 16-year-old trying to fight with a cop he assaulted the cop, this vicious attack and he gets released almost immediately after that and so they can talk about their talk, and i think most people who are affected by this are concerned about this saying fabulous, more words, now what? >> dana: yeah. also another story i want to get your take on. this is reaching a fever pitch about democrats trying to figure out a way to strategize

and manipulate republican primary elections. "washington post" said. a new level of absurd tee and far from defending democracy democrats are using claims that democracy is in peril to try to force moderate voters to support their left leaning partisan agenda. explain what's going on here. >> democrats are playing in republican primaries to try to boost election truth or deniers because they believe tactically that those people would be easier to defeat in the general election. they are pouring millions of dollars into races across the country and dana, it is not like this is some outside group where the democrats have plausible denyability. we can't condone that but it's not our policy or strategy. it is the official strategy of the democratic party. it is the senate democrats, democratic governors association have made this choice and we have had democrats sitting here now for a year and a half plus after

january 6 saying these types of people that they are funding are a grave threat to the very future of the country and our system of government and then they are trying to help get them elected in republican primaries. to then hopefully in their minds beat them in november. we've all done this for a while. this is maybe the most cynical thing i have ever seen in our politics. it is disgraceful. they keep saying these republicans need to put the country over party. they need to do the right thing and then some of the people who did the right thing in the democrats' minds are now being punished by the democrats for doing it. it is party over country, politics by the democrats. >> bill: we are out of time. jamie raskin, his quote. in politics we all have dirty hands up to our elbows. nobody is pure. we're in desperate times to defend democratic institutions and practices. we all have dirty hands up to our -- he says the quiet part out loud.

>> now we don't have to take you seriously anymore when you say this stuff. great to see you guys. >> bill: there is this. >> come to hunter biden with plenty of concrete information it was shut down. we have evidence that some of these people have exhibited this political bias over a long period of time. >> bill: senator chuck grassley wants some answers revealing that he has heard from whistleblowers plural who say the f.b.i. worked the damaging information on hinter biden. a new poll reaffirms that democrats are lukewarm on the idea of president biden running for reelection. talk to kellyanne conway about that and more still to come.

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>> bill: five minutes before the hour. my next guest is pushing to investigate the f.b.i. in response to allegations the agency worked to discredit damaging information on hunter biden. senator chuck grassley, republican out of iowa, ranking member of the senate judiciary committee. thank you for your time today. a lot goes back to october of 2020 i do believe. part of your letter you wrote the following. the allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain f.b.i. officials to undermine derogatory information connected to hunter biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation. let's go back and put this together. do you believe the fix was in early at the f.b.i.? >> i believe that there were people in the f.b.i. who had partisan views that should never be involved in any

investigation, that okayed a go ahead of an investigation of trump based upon fuzzy newspaper reporting. at the same time, we also have evidence from whistleblowers that that same person, his name was t-boll. he said cancel certain information we had or information that came to start an investigation that was based on information that was pretty sound for investigating hunter biden, but they wanted to characterize it as disinformation and they shut that investigation down. this is hurting the credibility of the f.b.i. people ought to have ultimate confidence in the f.b.i. >> bill: i agree with you on that last point.

we need that and well, it is dubious at the moment if you go back over the past six years. tell us what your experience has been. you have said that whistleblowers have come to you and told you what about how this was discredited, sir? >> well, they know about -- first of all, this guy by the name of tg go. he was the one making these decisions to shut down or open and investigation and i brought that information to director wray, let's put it this way i put out a press release and that guy was moved out of that decision-making process. i also had a conversation with wray that there was more of this to come and so i'm looking for concrete steps that the f.b.i. director is going to take to make sure that all of this stuff that's going on within the f.b.i. that may have

political influence or information that we're getting from the whistleblowers and we are giving this information to the f.b.i., i want to know what concrete steps he is going to take to shut down this partisan -- >> bill: you don't have the satisfactory answers yet. one more question on this. t-bot was an assistant special agent in charge of the f.b.i. is he the one who labeled this russian disinformation? >> yes. i don't know whether he listed it as disinformation but it was the reason for shutting it down. >> bill: senator, on another topic, the "washington post" is reporting this and the a.g. garland was asked about it during the interview with nbc yesterday. do you think the former president trump should face criminal charges? >> well, i'm going to leave that up to the justice department. but i believe that we ought to wait until we get the report

from the january 6 commission before any of us make any decision like you are asking me about. >> bill: apparently there is a grand jury that might be looking at this possibility. do you know what those charges would come under if they were pursued? >> no, i do not know and of course everything that goes on in a grand jury is secret so i shouldn't know about it, anyway. >> bill: i can understand that. let me try to push you one more time on this. did you watch the january 6th hearings, senator? >> i watched snippets of it but from 9:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night i got a full schedule so i don't just sit around and watch television. i had my staff look at it very carefully and i get daily reports and there may be some new things to learn, but there would be more detail than big

picture stuff. >> bill: did you learn anything new? >> i think i learned some things that went on, well, the people were under oath so i have to assume they were telling the truth but there is a little more detail to what went on between 1:00 and 4:00 in the white house that i didn't know about. >> bill: senator, thank you for that and thank you for your time today and we'll follow up on both stories. good luck getting all 99 counties, all right? we'll talk to you very soon. thank you, sir. >> dana: fox news alert. a huge drug bust at the border. federal agents in arizona seizing methamphetamine and heroin hidden inside a vehicle trying to enter the united states. the biggest find is 320,000 fentanyl pills. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning, dana. they make this stuff in china. they produce it in china, they put it together in mexico, and

it comes across our border every day. that seizure on tuesday hardly an isolated matter. mexican cartels operating on overdrive taking advantage of the chaos at the border to smuggle the deadly drugs into our country. the mayor of yuma, arizona spoke to us last hour saying the administration is helping to fuel the crisis by not doing enough. >> the administration really needs to change its approach. what the approach appears to be right now is how can we get people the country faster. the president and secretary need to change the policies in a way that they are enacting the laws because that is how you prevent these numbers from coming through. >> bill: steve harrigan in texas with more today. >> good morning, bill. no slowdown in groups of migrants crossing into the u.s. illegally. we're following one group of eight. it looks like a family unit. one infant being carried. a guide in front with a stick out there as well. it has been one group after

another here crossing basically with impunity into the u.s. at times 100 people or more at a time. men, women, children. many from guatemala and venezuela crossing right into the u.s. the current is strong today. looks like the person in front with a stick could be a paid guide. of course, it is not just people who are crossing into the u.s. illegally. there are narcotics as well, especially fentanyl. it crosses the border and spreads across the u.s. really creating chaos in small towns and cities across the u.s. >> narcotics come from the border without question. they are coming to us. ravaging our communities and the overdoses. i have had over the last year numerous deputies hospitalized because of fentanyl exposure in my jail where we have had to hospitalize the deputies because they come in contact

with it. >> the amount ceased is staggering. 320,000 pills hidden in one vehicle and just hours earlier, another 100,000 pills. when you keep in mind this is a drug two grains of which can be fatal. bill, back to you. >> bill: thanks. eagle pass, texas again today. thank you. >> dana: new hampshire voters are having buyers remorse, a poll shows transportation secretary pete buttigieg narrowly beating president biden in 2024 in the early primary state. joining us now is kellyanne conway. never too early to start thinking about new hampshire, kellyanne. here is the poll here. new hampshire, number of democrats that don't want biden to run again only 74% said no. that's a huge number for an incoming president even before a mid-term. >> it's a huge number.

the poll of democrats and independents in new hampshire was taken while president biden was fighting covid. members of his own party are trying to haunt and taunt him too much these days. i don't know why they are trying to weaken our president and leader of their party. they must also see what "the new york times" and some of the other polls are something which people just don't have confidence in joe biden's leadership. guess who doesn't register on the poll of five? his vice president, kamala harris. normally that's the president in waiting and she does not register. she is doing worse than biden when it comes to poll position and favorability. that poll in new hampshire you are citing. biden's net favorable is plus 19% among democrats and independents. in new hampshire first primary state. if he starts taking on water within his own party and will face not just head winds in

polls now but an actual primary challenger that spells trouble and can really weaken the front run of the incumbent president. last thing i will say about this. thank you so much for shining a light on the horrible drug crisis. something i worked on and led in the white house for president trump. new hampshire is one of the hardest-hit states with the fentanyl drug crisis. another problem for president biden and the democratic party if they don't start doing what we were doing, when we were in office, we got those overdose deaths down. we got the fentanyl is seizures up. we had a lot of bipartisan support doing it. i wish someone at the white house would build on that work. it can be done. you mitigate damage and save lives by doing it. >> bill: back to that cnn poll. among democrats who want to nominate a different candidate, 75% now are in favor of wanting someone new.

kellyanne, you are a student of presidential history. i can't ever remember a time -- listen, in 1979 we did not do the polling we do today. it is big money today. when has a party collectively, one could argue, got together en masse and said get out? >> not this early. and not under circumstances which i actually think could be mitigated a little bit. other presidents who have been unpopular have faced -- they've been at war or they faced economic circumstances like this. but they at least tried to build a little confidence within and be a man with a plan. we don't see any of that. any of the course correction from this white house and that's what is most surprising. i feel right now the only democrats in washington and perhaps the only people in the entire country who think joe biden is doing a good job and their messaging and facts are in balance are people in the white house. so if you don't have folks around you willing to say mr.

president, this is not working, it has not been a good stretch for the home team, we need to rebuild and communicate better what our plans are, i don't see anybody doing that for the president. he and the vice president can't do it. once vice president harris gets past the pronouns the rest make no sense. >> dana: there was a report last week that she and gavin newsom were testing wall street and be ready to run for president. if you are a wall street guy and you are somebody that likes to invest in political campaigns, you look at a poll like this in new hampshire. if the vice president of the united states comes to you and asks you for a donation, what do you think they should do? >> they should say no because the market doesn't like risk. she is a huge risk and a terrible disloyalist. she is not good at her job, the job. why would you give her a

promotion? she is a sitting vice president. not only is she disloyal to joe biden doing that but disloyal to the country. she doesn't have a body of work that we can point to that makes us feel great about her performance in the last 18 months. if you don't believe me, believe the 15 senior staffers who have left the vice president's office. so if you are going and trying to convince donors to invest in you, what's the game plan? what's the deliverable? she likes to run around and say i'm the first woman, first vice president of color that's great for the country but my goodness she has to show a body of work. we just don't see it. three or four things she has been put in charge of have not produced results. in fact, they're among the -- with gavin newsom. he has a high homeless and high crime problem in california. terrible economy.

the rest of us don't want high gasoline. he wants to reconnect with the californians in florida and texas who left his state for greener pastures and why he is running ads there. >> dana: great to see you as always. >> hearing now president biden's doctor says he has tested negative for covid-19. he says he remains fever-free and will end his isolation measures. he will wear a mask for 10 days around others and will deliver remarks at 11:30 eastern time from the rose garden an hour and 20 minutes from now. >> dana: a real testament also to paxlovid, the prescription drug he was tainging to help him recover more quickly. something to keep in mind if you come down with it yourself. this from the "washington post". report says the justice department is investigating former president trump as part of its criminal probe into january 6 in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

merrick garland did not confirm or deny that trump is under scrutiny. senior national correspondent rich edson has the details for us. >> department of justice is investigating the attack on the capitol and try to send bogus pro-trump elect tors from states that president biden won. investigators are questioning witnesses about their conversations with president trump. attorney general merrick garland has refused to say whether the d.o.j. is investigating the former president and told nbc news his department will prosecute anyone it believes is guilty. >> we will hold accountable anyone who is criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer, legitimate, lawful, transfer of power from one administration to the next. >> soeft investigators' question was the fake elector scheme. investigators seized eastman's

phone. jeffrey clark's form and former chief of staff mark meadow's phone ro,. mike pence's lawyer and mark short have appeared before the grand jury in washington >> do you think the d.o.j. is making a case against top officials tied to january 6th? >> i can't know that. i don't know that. >> this justice department investigation is separate from the congressional january 6th committee. some members have said the committee could make a criminal referral to the justice department to ask the attorney general to prosecute the former president. >> dana: jonathan turley will break down the developments with us coming up later on this hour. >> i woke up to my basement inundated with water and the water came all the way up from the basement to the ceiling. >> all i could see was water. it was up waist deep.

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>> dana: heavy rain overnight in st. louis a day after torrential downpours caused major flooding across the city. robert ray is live in st. louis. terrible weather there, robert. >> good morning from the streets of st. louis. behind me the mississippi river not too far indeed last night got a little hairy again but thankfully no flash flooding like we saw on tuesday. historic rainfall that came down. have not seen numbers like this since 1915 when a hurricane came into galveston island and made its way to st. louis.

even then now the same amount of rain as fell yesterday. nearly a foot in some areas, in metro st. louis. at one point over the period of six hours, there was nearly eight inches of rain coming down turning highways and interstates and roads to rivers as people's vehicles floating. there were hundreds of rescues. swift water rescues by officials pulling people out of vehicles and their homes and unfortunately one person tragically lost their life in a vehicle submerged. a man was pulled out and gone by the time officials could get to him. today red cross is on the ground here in st. louis helping those displaced. the governor is watching this very closely as are other officials and it should be noted just last week here in the great state of missouri the governor declared a drought emergency. now some parts not so much. but to the south of here in southern missouri still dry as a bone. dana. >> dana: robert ray in st.

louis. hope they have better weather soon. thank you. >> coming in to have this very important discussion about some of the most pressing issues of our time. i am kamala harris, i am she/her a woman wearing blue. >> bill: it was widely mocked after introducing herself with preferred pro nouns. each person at the table did the same thing. critics say it is all wokeness gone amuck. others say the practice was to help the visually impaired. jimmy failla, fox news radio, hello to you, sir. to point out they are saying we do this to help the visually impaired at the event commemorating americans with disabilities act. >> which is fair.

as you know, i am a male wearing a blue suit because if you match your colors to your eyes you don't look as fat on tv. it is a different motivation. not woke. a tip for all the guys watching at home. if you want to slim it in and don't have time to go to the gym put on blue. >> bill: how about a white shirt? >> not good. let's talk about this. obviously there is some consideration being given to the visually impaired when she says this. what people are calling out is the virtue signal on the pronoun. that has nothing to do with a visual impairment other than this is how we do things now. my wife teaches at a school for disabilities, some are blind. if you wanted to help the communication process, take off the mask. that would be the first step because it makes it harder to hear for those people who are attempting to follow lips, also not the easiest thing to do. why are we here? because kamala says so many

ridiculous things it created a cottage industry on the internet. people stand outside of wrigley field to catch a ball. people sit around with a mitt on saying i'm going to get the next doozy. kamala says it is time to keep doing what we've been doing. that time is every day. >> dana: a "new york times" piece today. the vice president is stuck. interesting not only she is stuck. look at that magic, tv magic. and it is interesting when you are saying that. when you are down they are going to keep -- it is hard to get back up and pivot. probably one of the reasons she told her staff i want to be out with the people three times a week. she is stuck there. >> you mean the one person who is still left from her staff? >> bill: i can understand i'm wearing a blue dress. is it necessary to say i am a woman? >> dana: no. it is happening at schools. it is happening at meetings

across the country. it doesn't happen here. i wouldn't do it but -- it's happening. >> bill: we're going to chicago now. the mayor there is in a case of, you know, >> rules for thee not for me. >> bill: yeah. >> a little hypocrisy. >> bill: the security detail for lori lightfoot, three speed camera tickets, one red light camera ticket and two speed warnings. somebody has a lead foot. keep in mind that the chicago police department has been told to pull back from high speed chases for fear of injury to others in the area. >> when you look at the numbers you are saying that's it, three, one, two, i can beat that in a shift. truth is. i have the record. i got six in a day. this is why people are so upset about this so we're clear. they are used to hypocrisy.

she flouted covid regulations. this is a different kind. a red light camera ticket burns your soul because you don't know it is coming. it shows up in the mail and a $200 surprise party. it is not a fun party, you understand. there is a thing in the fail yeah house where we know when we get a red light ticket from the city of new york we have little oscars. we don't know who the winner was and whose car it was. oh, you are the worst ever when we open it up. >> dana: the ramp up on capitol hill. you have to accelerate to get onto the highway. her office said this. the mayor -- her statement is the mayor has repeatedly stress running red lights is never acceptable. i have to say i don't believe that she is -- oh, please, let's make sure we don't get to that event on time. >> she is throwing her weight around. i'm the mayor. she doesn't care. here is the thing when you break down all the damage she

has done to chicago, this would be like writing a letter to the owner of the titanic because you didn't like your bed spread. people are mad about much bigger things but it hits voters on a personal level. red light traffic tickets is a punch in the soul. you are out 200 bucks having a nice day. >> bill: you look good in blue. >> hopefully slimmer. >> dana: i'll wear blue from here on out. >> that's all i've got. >> dana: good to see you. >> this is part of the left's concerted effort to intimidate the court. i think the country understands this for what it is. is not for it even though the left continues to push it. >> dana: congressman jim jordan calling out the january 6 committee's plan to possibly subpoena ginni thomas. is there real focus, is it her husband, clarence thomas?

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>> bill: we expect in an hour to see president biden come out in the rose garden. his doctor tells us as of 20 minutes ago he has tested negative for covid-19. biden remains fever-free and end his isolation measures. 11:30 eastern time. cover the comments then. he will wear a mask when around other people for at least the next 10 days. those are the details we learned from the white house a short time ago. stay tuned for more. >> dana: american basketball star britteny griner taking the stand. her testimony in a russian

court in her trial on drug charges. senior foreign affairs correspondent is live in london. what happened, greg? >> to use a baskets ball phrase, wnba star britteny griner went for a three-pointer today in the moscow area courtroom testified for the first time on her own behalf in the month-long trial. she said she mistakenly packed those vials found when she was stopped at a moscow airport in february. she said today when she was detained she was not read or rights, given access to a lawyer and little of what she was told or documents forced to sign were translated. here is some of the audio of her testimony today. >> [inaudible]

>> exact words were you are guilty. in addition to playing for the feen oix mer kur east she place in the off season for a russian basketball team and why she was coming to russia. despite having had covid-19 earlier she was determined to make the game there. all this part of a two-time olympic gold medalist attempt to gain leniency with the court. she faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in a russian jail on the charges. authorities there, i think as we all know, the end to tow the line. the state department says she is wrongfully detained and trying to get her free. there are high tensions between the u.s. and russia with the ukraine war going on. many believe it is all politics. they are trying to get her out. the trial should be wrapped up by next month. at the very least all fingers crossed. >> dana: we hope it gets

resolved very soon. thank you so much, greg. >> bill: the "washington post" reporting the justice department is now wrapping up -- ramping up its wide ranging criminal investigation into former president trump including his actions on january 6th in efforts to overturn the election of 2020. jonathan turley, law professor at george washington university and fox news contributor. nice to see you. thanks for coming back here. just as you read between the tea leaves here, prosecutors questioning witnesses before a grand jury. could the former president face criminal charges? >> well, as a criminal defense attorney i would tell any client that you cannot downplay a grand jury under any circumstance. this is not something that occurs every day. they wouldn't be bringing in people into the grand jury unless they believe they had cause to do so. what is really unclear is what case they are making. the january 6th committee

promised at the start of the hearing that they would be presenting new evidence that demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that crimes were committed by former president trump. they failed to make that case. in fact, they didn't introduce a lot of new evidence in terms of the elements of various crimes that have been suggested. so the question is does the department of justice have more information that we haven't seen thus far? >> bill: great point. you ask the critical question. what case are they making? i would ask what would be the charge? >> originally they were talking about incitement to an insurrection. many of us said that would be a rather difficult row to hoe. the supreme court precedent mill taits against that. the president told his followers to go to capitol hail to protest peacefully. the committee keeps deleting that sentence when they

presented his speech, he did sait and that would be in the trial. now there is more talk about obstructing a proceeding or defrauding the government. but it comes again to his motivation. trump is saying that he received legal advice from one of these two teams in the white house that said that he could do this. that history had shown there had been multiple slates of electors. democrats have challenged certification. now, i disagreed with the advice he was being given, but that's a rather difficult case to make. the question is, does merrick garland want to take that type of case into trial? >> bill: we shall see. the question is what could be charges be. you mentioned the word obstruction. is that what you are thinking about? >> yes. talking more about obstructing a proceeding and also

defrauding the government largely focusing on the fake electors. both of those issues will come down to whether the president was seeking people to protest to try to get votes for the certification denial or whether he was actively trying to cause a riot or to stop these proceedings from occurring. there is a lot of interpretation that goes in there. now, if there is evidence of a crime against former president trump, i would be the first to say charge him. i believe that richard nixon should have been charged and bill clinton should have been charged. nixon and clinton had very clear and rather conventional criminal charges that were raised against them but they were never prosecuted for those charges. this is a very different situation. merrick garland would be taking a case that is unprecedented not just against a president but in terms of the underlying elements being used in this type of action.

>> professor turley, thank you. we'll see if anything comes of it. anything at all. thank you, sir, nice to see you today. >> dana: you could be just one ticket away from living easy. the mega millions jackpot topping $1 billion. no one won last night's drawing. that grand prize wasn't exactly pocket change. talking $830 million. your next chance to cash in is friday night. big friday night plans? >> bill: i will win a billion dollars. those are pretty big plans. >> dana: can i get 10%? >> you could. absolutely. >> dana: gave you the suggestion. >> bill: a wild nighttime police chase unfolding on a freeway in california. how the cops were able to track down the suspect in the dark as he ran. plus china threatening serious consequences if np goes to taiwan.

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>> bill: sparks flying literally during a police car chase in southern california last night. check it out under the cover of darkness a slow chase on the freeway on i-10 involved in an allegedly cow trans work truck. the cow's trailer making sparks. a police car rams the truck into the median. forces it to stop. the driver ran and was arrested with the help of a police dog as he made a run for it across the freeway there. >> dana: quite a getaway vehicle. >> bill: you can't escape the spotlight. >> dana: warning of a military response if house speaker nancy pelosi moves forward with a trip to taiwan. let's begin with gillian turner in washington >> senator chris coons weighed on the speakers' potential trip flagging the national security risks associated with the trip

if it does go forward. take a listen. >> it could be a significant distraction if we ended up in an escalatory situation around taiwan and its status but i have confidence that the speaker will do the right thing at this moment. i do think it risks escalating tensions with china. >> chinese communist party officials don't want speaker pelosi in taiwan. late yesterday they fired another shot at her team saying they're prepared to meet the challenge militarily. listen. >> the chinese will take firm and strong measures to safeguard our sovereignty and territory integrity. the u.s. must assume full responsibility for any severe consequence arising from that. >> here in washington the leak of her planned trip is causing major headaches for the white house national security team. >> it only escalates tensions in a completely unnecessary

manner. so we find that unhelpful and certainly not in the least bit necessary given the situation. >> here is the real rub. the timing of this is very sensitive because chinese president xi is gaming out his own political future now. he is about to start seeking an unprecedented third term next month a couple of weeks from now. sources tell us it is one of the primary reasons why president biden is planning to hop on the phone with xi asap. >> dana: thank you so much. let's bring in michael waltz republican of florida and member of the house armed services committee. what is your daik? do you think the speaker of the house should go on her trip to taiwan as planned? >> i always hesitate to say i support speaker pelosi in anything but on this one i absolutely do. she has to go. if she doesn't at this point with it now out publicly, what message does that send to the

taiwanese and what message does it send to the japanese, south koreans, australians and allies in the region? if we aren't willing to go and visit, are we then going to stand for taiwan and defend them if xi realizes his vision of unifying through military means if possible. so i think it is critical that she goes. just the principle of we don't get dictated to by the chinese communist party on what allies we visit. >> dana: do you have any reason to believe she would be in danger if she goes to taiwan? >> you know, i think the white house is looking at this the wrong direction or from the wrong perspective. that we're escalatory. it's the chinese communist party that is escalatory. i can't imagine they would go so far as put the speaker of

the house of the united states in danger. >> dana: the chinese we know they are -- they spy on our companies and try to infiltrate our government. there is a report from the senate that says that china targeted the federal reserve in an attempt to undermine americans monetary policy. jerome powell said we would be concerned with any supportible allegation of wrongdoing whatever the source. we're deeply troubled at what we believe to be the report is unfair and unverified insinuations about particular individual staff members. setting the second part aside. it is important to him and his employees. the fact there is a possibility the chinese are trying to do this what do you make of it? >> i go back to chris wray the f.b.i. director and that historic press conference with the british head of intelligence ahead of mi5 that points to the fact that the chinese communist party has unleashed a tsunami of espionage and collection and influence activities.

it is in wall street, it is in hollywood. it is in academia. not only through the professors, students, endowments. it certainly in our politics through a policy they call elite capture. they want to secure and manipulate our money supply through the fed but our -- all of our -- from our food supply to pharmaceuticals, you know, all of our supply chain because they seek to influence us economically and win an economic war well before there is any type of military conflict. this will be won economically here at home way before it will come to any kind of conflict in the taiwan strait. we as a country have to wake up to what is going on from buying up our farmland to influencing the fed to controlling all of these things. >> dana: i wanted to drill in on that a little bit. farmland is important to us, to our food supply, to our culture

and traditions and history to the people that work in rural america. the chinese are buying up farmland all around the world. i didn't realize how aggressive they are trying to be in the united states including the state of florida. your take on that. >> well, they just so happened to be right next to some of our most sensitive military sights. the bigger piece, they bought up the nation's largest pork processing plant. it is a key part of their strategy called made in china 2025 to be able to manipulate key portions of our supply chains. we have to bring them back home. if we can't get them in the united states get them to an allied country and you will see a tremendous push on that when the republicans take back congress in november. >> dana: i know you just returned from ukraine. you had a chance to see president zelenskyy. love to have you back as you continue to press for the american people to try to figure out a way to help them there. have a good day. >> bill: speaking of ukraine,

the ukrainian president and his wife giving piers morgan a world exclusive interview about their relationship and the obstacles they face. the couple revealing the war's impact on their marriage. >> is your marriage stronger do you think because of what you've gone through? >> i agree with the theory that marriage gets stronger with challenges. i think in our case it would be the same. we have become more interested in each other. i think in our case it will be the same story. we have something else to say to each other. that is why i wish that this challenge can make us more united. what do you think about it? >> my answer wouldn't be different. when you are next to me your opinion has priority. >> bill: that's great. you can see it all.

the exclusive interview on piers morgan uncensored. cool to see them in that venue. >> dana: marriages are the same the world over. peter says the important words to say every day are your owe right, dear. >> bill: you're right, dear. >> dana: always. check this out. democratic senators cracking down on airlines over summer travel chaos. how they want to hold the industry accountable for the mess. you've probably been in it, next.

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>> dana: all those flight delays and cancellations could cost airlines more than just angry complaints from customers like you. democratic senators now pushing the white house to hold the industry accountable on their bottom line. madison all worth is live at newark airport. this might make people feel a little better. >> it could. but really unclear it will even get passed. there has been a ton of money put at this problem and we're still experiencing it.

the proposal today are pushing the department of transportation to put fines for delay and cancellation involving poor planning. one of the suggestions they have. aggressive. they are also looking to create concrete rules that would require refunds for passengers that have significant delays. right now it's really a case-by-case basis and it varies from airline to airline. this is all coming after a summer and spring filled with delays and cancellations. airlines have canceled nearly 122,000 flights in 2022 alone. the timing of this proposal, though, it comes after senators are now experiencing what everyday americans have been seeing for months. senator gillibrand was stuck in new york after two flights were delayed. take a listen.

>> coming back from new york, who knows? so that's why we are calling for investigations of what is going on with air travel today. >> we reached out to airlines for america. they said u.s. airlines strive to provide safe, efficient travel and committed to increasing operational reliability. i brought up the money thing at the top. we saw airlines get over $54 billion in relief during the pandemic and yet we're still here. so something needs to be done. this might be the solution. if you are a summer traveler you know just how frustrating. >> dana: i know you travel all around back and forth. good to see you. thank you. ♪♪♪ >> bill: before we go, want to share this with you. a piece of fashion so out of this world and so is the price. buzz aldrin's space jacket worn

during the moon mission sold for 2.4 million. the only one privately owned. others are housed at the smithsonian. that's a good artifact and a good halloween costume if it fits. >> dana: that's a great show. thank you for being with us on "america's newsroom." martha maccallum is hosting "the faulkner focus". she is next. >> hi. fox newspaper alert for everybody here as the crisis at the southern border is just continuing to get worse and more deadly. it has gone far, far beyond the record number of migrants that have entered the country illegally. this is "the faulkner focus" and good morning, everybody. i'm martha maccallum in today for harris, the reality at the border and beyond, drugs, deaths, and debt. ted cruz shared