questions about that. i was asked what color i would be, i added why. but it was not on a college entrance examination and combination, doing away with the exam part, more weight is on these essays so more weight is on where is waldo, really. >> how about more weight on the blocking and tackling. >> i don't even know. >> he's not here. thanks everyone. here is "america reports." >> john: emily, thank you. the lawyer for paul pelosi entering a not guilty plea in a northern california courtroom. house speaker nancy pelosi's husband is accused of driving drunk when he crashed into a jeep near the couple's napa estate in may. >> five days probation, or five days in jail if convicted. some are concerned that pelosi's political influence could get in

the way here. we will be joined in a moment. >> john: but first, a fox news alert, a furious china and military on high alert. house speaker pelosi's trip to taiwan is now over, as the world awaits the fallout promised by the chinese government. good wednesday to you. >> gillian: pelosi met with taiwan's president and other senior leaders during her 20-hour stay in taipei. reaffirming the commitment to taiwan's democracy and supporting the island militarily. critics say it does more harm than good in an already unstable region. >> john: communist regime planning a series of live fire exercises tomorrow. ten miles off the coast of taiwan. tennessee republican senator

bill haggerty has expertise as a former ambassador to japan. >> gillian: aishah hasnie joins us this afternoon. how is the white house responding to china's plans? >> hey there, good afternoon to you, gillian and john. the white house is really trying to get china to not increase tensions any more, to not escalate the situation any more, but the country probably will not like this tweet that the president just pushed out about 30 minutes ago. seemingly following nancy pelosi's lead tweeting he just had a phone call with his national security team today about how to keep the indopacific free and open. does not mention taiwan but name, but the first time we are hearing from him since he said the military thought pelosi's trip was not a great idea, and comes hours after speaker pelosi talked about taiwan's democracy.

she met with taiwan's president and offered the self-governing president -- >> choice between democracy autocracy. >> china is planning live fire exercises around taiwan starting tomorrow. chinese ambassador tweeting the u.s. must pay the price for its own mistake and we mean what we say. the country also thumbing the u.s. ambassador. the white house is trying to make clear to the chinese there is no change in the one china policy. the u.s. does not support taiwan's independence but does support its defense.

former ambassador to china under president obama says the speaker's trip was irresponsible and that it was a provocation. >> doesn't really recognize our current policy, our one china policy. poor joe biden, he looks weak, either told her not to go, weak in the chinese eyes or told her not to go and she went anyway. >> and john kirby would not concede the white house was trying to convince speaker pelosi not to make the trip. the first time hearing from president biden since telling reporters that the u.s. military does not think it was a good idea. >> gillian: and general lloyd austin said so himself on camera a couple of times. thanks so much. john. >> gillian, bring in bill haggerty, a member of the foreign relations committee and former u.s. ambassador to japan. senator, great to see you.

what have you been thinking about the past 24 hours? >> well, to be frank, i would be concerned about president biden and vice president kamala harris or nancy pelosi going, just because their tendency to misspeak is great. the same time, we don't need to ask for a hall pass from the chinese communist party. we want to make a visit to taiwan, in the trump administration we never asked for permission. the unfortunate unveiling of the debate in the media, created president xi to beat his chest and domestic noise very helpful to him domestically that the you state is an invader, that's not the case. but it's helpful from a domestic standpoint and by the fact we had the back and forth in the media, the white house should have been supportive and move

on. >> john: and live fire exercises scheduled to begin tomorrow encircling the island of taiwan. is this bark or is there bite here? >> when i was ambassador to japan, we used the term kabuki theater, you will see theater, but what you are seeing and what we will witness is an audience in mainland china that president xi is playing to, and the same time, trying to exert his authority in a more broad basis. these are threats, it's not action, in my view. >> john: so the former secretary of state mike pompeo was on fox earlier today and said the biden administration needs to get much tougher with china, particularly in the face of increased belligerent on the part of that nation. >> if you continue down the path or conduct live fire exercise, we are going to begin to take real action, economic action, diplomatic action, lots of things to make clear the

behavior is unacceptable. there was no threat to china itself. they created this crisis. we should not let them, not let them use the visit of speaker pelosi to create this big uproar where america says oh, my goodness, we are going to have world war iii. >> john: does biden need to carry a bigger stick on this, senator? >> i agree. we saw what happened when china had tariffs imposed on them. they stepped back. we moved into the region from a forceful posture. military standpoint, we need to be present, and make sure they understand the predatory practices from diplomatic standpoint, military standpoint, china is trying to close the military confidence gap. we need to make certain the u.s. possesses the strongest military and we have a force in the region. >> john: this incident is likely to loom large over the upcoming

party congress in november, at which xi jinping is expected to grab on to a third term here. he looks a bit weak in the fact warnings from china don't go, don't go, and pelosi went. if he gains a third term, do you think he'll make a move on taiwan to ensure that this never happens again? >> well, it's interesting you point to the congress, i think a large part of the audience for this and theatrics we are seeing is xi's audience, and that's the national congress. he's playing to that as well. if you look longer well, xi has articulated his goal, to bring taiwan into the fold with china and talking about getting that done, it would be again after his next term begins. but we have to be ever cognizant of that threat, and support taiwan and present in the region. >> john: thanks for joining us, appreciate it. more on this coming up, gillian,

with james car afano, and senator kennedy from louisiana. >> gillian: you have republicans saying it's important we don't cave to china, any american who wants should be able to travel to taiwan. it's curious no republicans signed on to the trip with pelosi. she invited the minority leader, invited, according to reports, a handful of republicans. why not join her in solidarity. >> john: she invited mike mccall, he had a scheduling conflict. they could have gone with her. >> gillian: in a show of solidarity. >> john: well, they are supporting her trip, so some solidarity. >> gillian: that's true. and another tragedy at the u.s. southern border as coast guard agents there pulled a lifeless body out of the rio grande. griff jenkins joins us from texas with the breaking details on this. hi, griff. >> good afternoon, gillian. the wind is blowing, makes for

treacherous conditions along the rio grande river and so far there have been 185 deaths as of sunday of migrants just in this rio grande valley. sadly, one more. take a look at the video we shot yesterday as the cameras watched, game warden pulling a body from the river, a group of migrants started crossing, five of them. four turned back, one did not make it. d.p.s. says this shows the utter disregard cartels have for human life. >> they don't care, it's a commodity. their main purpose to get them across the river into the united states, and because of that, it's a multi-billion dollar trade. >> meanwhile, the triple digits temperatures not stopping the flow of migrants. fox news exclusively learning today in the last 24 hours, 1,093 encounters here in the rgb

sector. over west of me, eagle pass, watching the drone throughout the day, more than 1400 apprehensions. that includes very large groups of 3 or 400, and if you add those sectors together, that is more than 800,000 encounters this fiscal year, with three more months to go. now, most of the migrants from this sector are among those being shipped to d.c. and new york city, where we are hearing from the mayors, new york city mayor eric adams saying he will not agree to have the invitation to come see the crisis in a letter adams writing instead of a photo op at the border, we have governor abbott will focus energy and resources providing support and resources to asylum seekers in texas. we have been hard to work and taken care of in new york city. but not all are seeking asylum. there were 22 gang members and four criminal migrants apprehended last week just here in the rgb.

gillian. >> gillian: griff jenkins live from the border this afternoon, thanks very much. john, city leaders over in manhattan and here in washington, d.c. are waking up to the reality that there is indeed a migrant crisis in this country. >> john: and what eric adams was saying to greg abbott. >> sandra: photo op. >> john: hope he will turn attention to providing for the asylum seekers, how many years have they been doing that in texas. texas have been taking the absolute brunt of illegal immigration, particularly in the rio grande valley sector. i was there in 2014 on the border when it was bad during the obama administration. new mexico, arizona, california as well. all taking it on the chin from illegal immigration. i think texas has done more than it's fair share of this. for adams to say oh, you should be doing more, might be a little misguided. >> gillian: hypocritical, maybe.

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ahead, a live report on the dire warning as russia accuses the united states of direct involvement in the war now. but first -- attorneys for paul pelosi entering a not guilty plea during his arraignment on dui charges this morning. the case stems from an accident back in may involving pelosi who collided with another driver in napa county, california. this as we learn new details about his arrest from court documents. fox team coverage ahead. mercedes joins us in a moment with the legal ins and outs, but claudia is live outside the courthouse in napa. we are learning more about paul pelosi's behavior when officers responded to the crash scene. what do we know? >> that's right, john. court documents are shedding new light on how intoxicated paul pelosi was the night of his dui arrest back in may here in napa, when he allegedly drove his porsche into the path of an suv,

injuring that driver and totaling both cars. highway patrol officers noted pelosi's eyes were red and watery. unsteady on his feet and his speech was slurred. when officers asked for his i.d., the 82-year-old pelosi handed over his license, along with 1199 foundation membership card, a charitable card that supports police and their families. if he was hoping for special treatment, that did not work. they arrested him and brought him to the napa county jail, and drunk driving causing injury. one indicates he had a drug in his system, too. the napa county d.a. says if the 38-year-old suv driver had broken bones or injuries beyond the soreness and headaches he reported, the charges here would have been felonies. nancy pelosi, who was in rhode island at the time, had no comment on her husband's arrest,

which the chp officers recorded but despite repeated requested, dash cam video has not been released. i asked the d.a. why not. >> dash cam video is evidence in this case and i'm ethically prohibited from releasing that. i don't release these items in any case. i won't release them in this case before i'm ready to do so. >> she said pelosi is being treated just like anyone else charged with misdemeanor dui in her county. everyone is back here in court on august 23rd. at that time, the two sides could reach a settlement or set a date for a jury trial. john. >> john: interesting decision by the d.a., we see plenty of dash cam video in other cases. curious as to why not this one. claudia, thank you. gillian. >> gillian: let's bring in mercedes now, fox news legal analyst. new details about the arrest.

this is from the criminal complaint that's been released. mr. pelosi performed explained and field sobriety tests, and .082% blood alcohol level, and in addition to some kind of a drug found in his system. we don't know which one. what do you read into these details? >> so it's really interesting because there was a strategic step whether it was done by the officers, maybe mr. pelosi refused to take the breathalyzer test, but if there's a delay between a breathalyzer test and the blood test, that blood test will show, depending on the time it was taken, your body absorbs alcohol. so the blood alcohol content derived from the blood test is presumably hours later. and therefore your body is absorbing some alcohol, it would

read much less with a blood examination. one test, whether he did or not. and secondly, in terms of, interesting, overhearing the presser with the d.a. office not wanting to release the dash cam evidence. it all depends on whether there's a continuation of the investigation. if the investigation is ensuing and maybe she's investigating whether other charges are going to be lodged against mr. pelosi, she does have a valid argument to not disclose those items and that evidence. we'll have to see. frankly, gillian, this is a case with two misdemeanors, might be one with someone that doesn't have a criminal history, might be one that will be pled out for something much less. >> gillian: what do you think about that, about the misdemeanor charges here versus felony? is that the right call? >> well, i mean, it all depends -- injuries are going to

be what's key. frankly, what's been reported is that the driver of the other car does not have any sort of broken bones, anything that's really a substantial injury. so that's number one. the other -- >> gillian: quick question, clarification on that, we don't know substantial or not. at the scene, the victim, john doe did not ask for a medical examination but the next day had severe pain in his upper body and headache. we don't know the injuries were not substantial. >> exactly. i think that's a point, gillian. it against on whether the exacerbation of those injuries, whether there could be felony charges. and making the rounds, whether he showed a courtesy card. it's interesting, cases where there is a bribery charge underlying that issue is like if he presented it to the officers and say hey, can you cut me a break, look, i'm really supportive of the police department, look how supportive i am, can you do something like that. that actually might be very

problematic, and that's when you can see bribery charges. none of that, we have seen, none have been confirmed but at least chatter that those courtesy cards can trigger more crimes, and depends what could take place and the dash cam will be vital. you'll start to see the interaction between law enforcement and mr. pelosi and what was said. >> gillian: we know he was bailed out of jail the next day for $5,000. do we know who paid bail? >> don't know who actually paid it but most of the time derived from the attorneys, they will pay fees and penalties. might be mr. kramer who represents mr. pelosi. >> gillian: thanks, we have to leave it there. >> john: russia has accused the united states of having a direct role in the war in ukraine after

kyiv carries out successful strikes using u.s.-supplied rockets. united nations warning ukraine's largest nuclear plant is spiralling out of control and getting more dangerous each day. alex hogan is live in kyiv. what prompted the kremlin to make a claim against the united states, alex? >> so we have heard the kremlin make comments like this in the past, russia accusing the u.s. of escalating the situation. here in ukraine, ukrainian president zelenskyy is thanking the u.s. for the $550 million in additional defense aid but noting it is the rocket launchers that are making the most scalable difference. >> the word himars is almost synonymous with the word justice and the ukraine defense forces will do everything to ensure the occupiers experience more and more painful losses every week. >> in the last several days,

russian forces have made gains in the east incrementally taking new territory, but looking at the south, that is where the war started to change as ukraine ramps up a new offensive. russia launched the largest attack on the southern city of mykolaiv since the start of the war. this city is racing to fix 40,000 windows that have been blown out before summer comes to an end, and the mayor spoke to us telling us that the most immediate danger is there is no more clean water. russian attacks hit piping lines so city residents can only get water from wells. >> they are able to take plastic bags and fill them with drinking water. water and heating are two priorities we need to resolve. >> meanwhile, the u.n. nuclear chief is now warning of a new threat that europe's largest nuclear plant, is out of control

and the safety protocols have been overlooked. russia took over this power plant at the start of the war and now the u.n. nuclear chief is urging russian and ukrainian officials to let experts get in there to avoid a nuclear catastrophe. john. >> john: the biggest nuclear plant in all of europe, that's a significant problem they have going there. live in kyiv. thank you. gillian. >> gillian: you may remember a time when equifax was responsible for one of the largest data breaches in history. now the firm finds itself in the middle of yet another controversy. mistake that may have impacted millions of american customers. >> john: as china flexes its military muscles, what's the fallout from speaker pelosi's trip to taiwan. ask the highest ranking state department official to visit taiwan in more than four decades just ahead. >> she defended the principle that the chinese communist party cannot dictate where or when american officials will travel. i think it's very important she did that.

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>> john: beijing claims nancy pelosi's trip undermines peace and stability. our next guest in more than 40 years, let's bring in keith crock. he is a former under sent for economic growth, energy and the environment. keith, thanks for being with us, appreciate it. what's your assessment of pelosi's trip and impact based on your personal experience. >> john, i really support speaker pelosi's trip. it's an important message that we send to taiwan that american friends show up. and important for the world as well, and it was hard to see the bipartisan backing and see and

mitch mcconnell and other legislators showed that support and i know what it's like to have that backing. being unanimously confirmed when i went over there, that was really important and one of the things the great late senator vandenberg said partisan politics ends at the water's edge, and certainly at the taiwan straits. >> china did not interfere with her visit, they did send some fighter jets toward the air defense exclusion zone, taiwan scrambled some f-16s to wave them off. no challenge to pelosi's visit but now china seems intent ton making taiwan pay, live fire exercises ringing the island beginning tomorrow, what do you think the fallout of this is going to be? >> well, john, xi -- xi is the

one moving the goal post. nobody wants war, and have to strengthen our ties with taiwan. you know, look at what they did in hong kong. they sent their security forces in, co-oped it and eviserated freedom. and we have to strengthen ties with taiwan. heartened to see speaker pelosi talk about a trade agreement. i've been business in taiwan so many years as a businessman and always been pushing for the trade agreement and when i was under secretary of state we conducted economic prosperity partnership and agreement, leading up to that, and that's really important because what that does is it's a signal to the private sector to invest as well as our allies. i was also heartened to see

modernizing the playbook from senator mendez -- >> john: we seem to be having a problem with keith's signal -- no, he's back. let me ask you this question. we have the communist party congress coming up in november, xi jinping is going to seek an unprecedented third term as president of the country. do you think he will make a move on taiwan in order to ensure that something like this never happens again? because it's pretty clear that nancy pelosi going to taiwan over and above the protests of china was pretty embarrassing for xi. >> yeah, i mean, so much of the theatrics behind this is because of that congress. and here again, nobody wants war. but john, let me tell you something that i'm seeing out there in corporate america. some of the most prominent board

members in u.s. and in europe are demanding from the c.e.o.s a china contingency plan. hundreds of billions had to be pulled out from these companies and they don't want to happen in china. it's 10x fold. when the dreaded is the inevitable, it's time to develop a plan and execute on it. >> john: a lot of people are talking about the idea of a strategic decoupling with china to begin now so if the worst happens the exposure that u.s. companies have to china and the consumers have to china is not as great as it is now. keith crock, thank you for sharing your personal experiences. appreciate it. good to talk to you. gillian. >> gillian: a top credit reporting agency is under fire again after reportedly sending inaccurate credit scores for millions of americans seeking loans, higher interest rates for them and even denied

applications. lauren, this is just the latest black eye for the company. >> it really is. equifax had a hack five years ago that exposed 150 million americans' personal information and now it's in hot water once again. the company is said to have given lenders inaccurate credit scores for millions of consumers applying for loans this spring. wall street journal says sometimes off by 20 or more points in either direction, which would be enough to impact the interest rate offered on a car loan or a mortgage. equifax says this "we have determined that there was no shift in the majority of scores during the three-week time frame of the issue. for those consumers that did experience a score shift, analysis only a small number of them may have received a different credit decision." freddie mac said some 12% of all credit scores released from march 17 to april 6th may have been incorrect. and the journal is reporting an

unnamed bank, but big one, reported 18% of applicants were given the wrong score. in some cases, an applicant went from no score to 700 or vice versa. equifax says the problem is solved, it blames a coding issue. not everyone is as nonchalant. lenders want more information from the company, and do loans need to be repriced or reapplied for. and interest rates have shot up a lot since march and april when this was reportedly happening. >> gillian: lauren, thanks so much. >> john: shocking scene in san francisco. look at this. a group of men, i don't know if you would call them men, cowards caught on camera beating and robbing a 70-year-old woman. why she now says she's afraid to leave her home. plus this. >> for the past almost seven

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responded by showing them her watch, but the attackers followed her inside, ruthlessly beating and robbing the elderly woman. they first searched her body and found her iphone. she tried to hold on to the phone and video obtained by kgo shows the attackers pulling the woman to the ground and kicking her square in the face and using their fists to hit her head. the beaten does not stop there. she tried to pull a door closed to seek refuge in a hallway and the attackers come back to beat her again and take her keys. mrs. ren tells kgo she can't sleep because of this trauma and she wants the story to come out for other people to be aware and stay safe. mrs. ren says she spent the last two years in her apartment because of covid-19 fears, choosing to leave her apartment on sunday only to be met by this mob of attackers. the san francisco police union tweeting out "absolutely

shameless cowards," no talking about misguided youth in need of counseling. that went out the door when you came back to kick a 70-year-old woman when she was already done. they choose not to take her earrings or watch. >> john: hopefully they find them and justice will prevail. we'll see, given san francisco's track record, that's not assured. matt, the latest on that. thank you. >> gillian: some democrats, including a prominent house member says they don't think he's going to run. byron york next. and claiming the new spending plan will not raise taxes on everyday americans. but will the plan unleash the irs.

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>> john: what's your worst nightmare? for some people, malfunction at the most magical place on earth.

guests at disney world stranded more than an hour after it broke down. video shows one boat stuck and slightly tipped over with several people inside. others stuck in at least one other boat behind that. the song was on repeat the whole time. that's the ride, right? and calls the experience "torture." >> gillian: and poor john breaking out in a sweat thinking about the four people. >> john: i took my older daughter on that ride when she was very little and i still have the song stuck in my head. >> gillian: my father texted me that i was three when my parents took me and i made them take me on that ride 12 times in a row. i don't know how long that took them, that's my follow-up question, but i'm guessing we were there all day. >> john: usually the child that ends up in therapy. >> gillian: thank you to my mom and dad doing it for me. i have no memory of it. >> john: they sure do. >> gillian: now something completely different, a growing list of democrats may be putting

a damper on president biden's re-election bid if he makes one. two from new york are the latest democratic lawmakers questioning biden's viability as a candidate. listen. >> should president biden run again in 2024? >> too early to say, does not serve the purpose of the democratic party to deal until after the midterms. >> i don't believe he's running for re-election. >> gillian: let's bring in byron york, so byron, take a look at this, two minnesota democrats who won't commit to endorsing biden if he wins, angie craig and dean phillips, and a whole slough of people are not committing he's running in 2024. >> news from representative maloney who said she does not think biden will run again, that's news to the president who says he is going to run again. but i think there's been sort of

a dam breaking effect here because what we have seen in some recent polls is that large majorities of democrats want somebody else to be their nominee for president in 2024. we saw 64% in the "new york times" siena poll and then 75% in a cnn poll of democrats, democrats, who said they want a different nominee. so, it's now safe to say that. so in minnesota, dean phillips, the democratic representative there was asked do you want joe biden to run again, and he said no, i think we should have a new generation come in, the president will be 80 years old this november. and angie craig said i agree with congressman phillips and then the situation in new york at a debate, it's safe you don't

want joe biden in 2024. >> gillian: and the two primary reasons people, or the pollsters seem to be picking up on this question right now two years out, because of the sinking approval ratings as low as 31% in some polls, and at the end of a second term, biden would be i think, would he be 85? >> 86 years old. if he were re-elected. yeah, if he were re-elected, he would be asking the american people to serve until he's 86 years old. and you are right. the two big reasons that democrats cite for wanting a new nominee is, one, biden's age, and two, the feeling that he is not quite up to the job, that he can't quite handle the job. that's not necessarily the same thing as his age, they may just think he's from 'nother ra as representative phillips suggested and it's time to get somebody younger in the job. >> gillian: sounds like some of these democrats now who are

talking about this are perhaps not outliers, but saying out loud what the rest of the party is thinking about. >> that's right. and now these four people we are talking about are important members of congress. two of them are committee chairmen in the house. but they are not running for president. but what this effect is going to have is that democrats who do want to run for president, who did run against joe biden in the huge democratic primary in 2020, they are going to be making contingency plans for 2024. what if biden says he's not going to run, they need to be ready. i think we are going to see a lot of behind the scenes activity in the next few months. >> gillian: two years is all the time in the world if biden is going to run for re-election, go by in the blink of an eye if the party needs to set up a whole new slate of candidates between now and then. byron, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> john: coming up new at 2:00, a murder mystery in paradise.

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>> john: new at 2:00, it should have been a blissful beginning, but instead their honeymoon ended in blood. >> gillian: a man accused of murdering his new wife. her body was found in the ultra high end honeymoon bungalow so mutilated the family says they had no choice but to cremate her remains before returning her to the united states. >> john: the deadly mystery in paradise, but was it murder? welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second

hour. john roberts in washington. good to spend wednesday with you. >> gillian: hour number two starting now. mark is hear to weigh in on the groom who has gone from a suite to a cell. >> john: begin with china's military on the move as beijing sends a message straight to washington. the speaker has departed but the threats are just beginning. chinese warships just miles off taiwan preparing for live fire drills scheduled to begin tomorrow. expected to be the most provocative in 25 years. >> gillian: a direct challenge to areas that taiwan considers its coastline. one senior chinese official says the u.s. must pay a price for its mistake. the white house says, though, they are not fussed. take a listen.

>> we expected the chinese would have some sort of show of force, even a muscular reaction and they appear to be doing that. but we urge them not to escalate tensions any further than they already are. >> john: greg palkot has more, but first to aishah hasnie, live from the white house. >> hey, john, good afternoon to you. the white house is urging china to stop escalating this situation but it does not really have a good answer as to what happened, what the consequences are for china if china doesn't stop escalating. meantime, china is probably not going to like this tweet very much. president biden tweeting just about an hour ago that he had a phone call with his national security people about how to keep the indopacific free and open. does not mention taiwan by name, but it is the first time we have heard from him on this since he said the military did not think

it was a good idea for speaker pelosi to go to taiwan. the question is why did he wait until after the speaker left that island to tweet this message. overnight pelosi met with taiwan president and offered the self-governing her solidarity as it defends itself and its freedom, and then she actually directly spoke to china's aggression over her trip. watch. >> i just hope that it's really clear that while china has stood in the way of taiwan participating and going to certain meetings, that they understand that they will not stand in the way of people coming to taiwan. >> so china is planning a series of air and military drills in response, and that includes as you mention, john, the live fire exercises. pretty dangerous all around taiwan for multiple days. the chinese ambassador says the u.s. has to pay a price and the

country is summoning the u.s. ambassador and press secretary was asked what are the consequences for china if it continues this behavior. listen to how she answers. >> we knew this was gonna happen, we knew china was going to behave in this way. again, it doesn't change our policy. we are going to monitor and we will manage what beijing chooses to do. >> so not really an answer, john, just that they are going to monitor what beijing does. john. >> john: we'll keep watching it. something will happen at some point, no question about that. aishah, thank you. >> gillian: now to china's military maneuvers, senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot joins us from london. >> i think they are looking very, very ugly in the region gillian, just as nancy pelosi

leaves taiwan now and seoul, things could be heating up there. the house speaker said the u.s. wants taiwan to have "freedom with security" and will not back away from that. all of this is riling china. it sees the island as its own. according to taiwan, while pelosi was leaving, china sent a few dozen war planes into taiwan's broad air defense area. the big stuff is supposed to start tomorrow. six zones off the coast of thailand around the island will be the focus of beijing's armed forces and live fire exercises. targeting could come within miles of taiwan, as well as violating its maritime and air territorial space. the state media saying some missiles could fly over the island. making a lot of it look like acts of war. at the very least, taiwan says it's a violation of its sovereignty. it will block shipping and aviation, and increase the chance of a crash. one u.s. official saying it's

the most dangerous time in the region since taiwan was established. still, in the waters of the region, in part due to pelosi's visit, a lot of u.s. naval assets, including the huge u.s.s. ronald reagan aircraft carrier strike stores we have been telling you about, might be put to the test, or the very least, on high alert. speaker pelosi goes on to tokyo after seoul, gillian. the region is rattled. back to you. >> gillian: greg palkot, thank you. >> john: bring in retired army lieutenant colonel and foreign policy at the heritage foundation. so, tensions between the united states and china ramping up. i don't know if they are at an all-time high, but higher than they were. what do you think the up shot of this is going to be? >> and so don't throw rocks at people, i'm not even a republican, i don't belong to a political party, but two pieces of context before we talk here.

one is the single most significant foreign policy and national security challenge that the united states has today is china. i don't think anybody would dispute that. the other is taiwan is a crucial part of this competition. i don't think people realize this. it's not about selling us chips or their democracy, taiwan is the key island in the first island chain. if they control everything from taiwan to the south china sea, they control one of the most important air and sea lanes in all of the asian indopacific. they could lock the united states out of asia virtually completely, and the other is chinese nuclear arms would have a sanctuary. the future of taiwan is a big fricking deal. i would say all those things. you would think if the united states is going to do something regarding taiwan, it would be

thoughtful and clear and decisive and coordinated. and be honest, we got the keystone cops, she's going to go, shouldn't go, one china policy, we tweet after everybody leaves we have a free and indopacific, who makes sense of this. and it's a red flag. on the single-most important relationship on perhaps the single-most difficult issue, we seem like we are making it up from hour to hour. >> gillian: john kirby said this morning, he says the trip is "completely consistent with u.s. obligations under the taiwan relations act and then also under the one china policy." is that true, though? is the speaker of the house going to taiwan and then speaking about u.s. military defense and speaking about sovereignty really in keeping with the one china policy? >> actually, it is, it's totally -- gingrinch went there. if there is a sin, that why hasn't pelosi done this before, why is she waiting to literally

the end of her tenure what she's almost a lame duck, when she has personal issues with finances and her husband and everything else, to do this thing which she should have done years ago. so yeah, i think if anything, being u.s. administration's have been risk averse in really making the point that this is. what's really, really clear here and very important, what does it say about what china thinks of us, right. because when covid started, you know, they were kind of into the diplomacy, the chinese films, they battle americans around the world and super aggressive. they got hammered over covid and then hammered over ukraine because they stood up for russians and everybody is going what the heck. >> gillian: and putin delayed his invasion at their request. >> and they got hammered for that. so they were kind of quiet. now all of a sudden the wolf warrior diplomacy is back on steroids and part of that is because we gave them a perfect issue because of the lame way we

set this up, and they sense weakness in this president. because if you actually look over the last 12 months, biden, from you know, coming into office, i'm going to be tough on china he has been walking that back and literally we are back before this visit, back to the old obama policy. well, we know we have to compete but it's misunderstanding, we should clear that up and cooperate. >> john: the map on the screen, this is going to begin tomorrow. we have seen the chinese military with stock footage there, this is in red. the live fire exercises taking place tomorrow. probably tonight our time. it's literally ringing the island of taiwan. blue boxes are what they did in the mid 1990s in response to the tensions back then. so this is much more ramped up than it was back in the 1990s, and can you see a scenario in the future when xi jinping, i

don't think there's much doubt he will, gets an unprecedented third term, that he'll make a play for taiwan? >> a couple of things when you look at the map are glaringly clear, and i mentioned the wolf warrior diplomacy. regardless, this is the most aggressive thing they have ever done. the other thing is, and people missed this thing, who pays the price for this? it's not the americans, it's taiwan. they are the ones putting themselves at risk. they knew the red lines would be there when they accepted this visit. so they're the ones who are really in harm's way here, and it's not us, and so i think sometimes, you know, this is missed by people, right. the chinese are not threatening us, they are threatening the people of taiwan. they are very much in the cross hairs as ukrainians are against the russians. the third thing is, why it's so important for us to take this competition so seriously. you said it, and everybody knows it's true. china cannot rest easy while

taiwan is not under their control. they will take that back some day. but, and your point is well taken. they are going to do it on their timeline. we think the chinese are responding to us but the chinese are going to do it when they want to. and the most important we can do is make sure that they think they can't do that, and two things that are important. one, they have fought a big war since the 1970s, hard stuff, can they do it. and the other, you know, our commitment to taiwan and our ability to help defend taiwan. there are so many things we could have done to make a point here. have said you know what, we are going to give them f-35s, suspend all military relationships with china forever. and instead, we say we are monitoring the situation and we are going to be forceful. this is the big -- this is biden's foreign policy, finger waving, and then what happens is stuff like ukraine when people start dying and then we have to kind of go in and clean up the

mess like in ukraine. >> peter doocy just had the opportunity to ask karine jean-pierre in the white house briefing, still going on. >> chinese official said the u.s. must pay the price for its own mistake and we mean what we say. when the chinese threaten the u.s., does the president take them seriously? >> the united states will not seek and does not want a crisis. we are prepared to manage what beijing chooses to do. nothing has changed when it comes to our policies. this was a precedent, this was precedent for the speaker to travel to taiwan, nothing new and it changes absolutely nothing when it comes to our one china policy. >> gillian: answer was yes but kind of no. >> where is the button, where is the red flag? what she just said is what's wrong with the policy. they have warped back to the

obama era, we will not make it on frontational, not recognizing that china wants a world without america, and we demonstrate weakness, biden should have done on the call when xi said basically schooled him like he was a little kid and biden said we have a one china policy. biden should have shut him down and said she's going, the americans are behind it, you have nothing to do with this, and if you do anything to threaten the taiwanese and the americans we will come down on you. >> gillian: what about the rand paul view of the world, he was on with bret last night and it's important that we stand up to china but the same time it's really important we don't unnecessarily escalate or unnecessarily tick them off. they are still an important trading partner, etc., etc.. >> here is where we agree, we ought to have an administration that is thoughtful and proactive, and sending clear messages. instead, we have an administration which is

literally making up as they are going along and looking for the lowest common denominator. a lot of times when you try to be risk averse, you end up being really risky, you add risk and that's the problem with this administration. got them in afghanistan, got them in ukraine and here, too. >> gillian: that's the whole ukraine build-up lesson. >> john: and not one to mince words. >> gillian: thank you. >> john: have you been feeling the relief when you fill up your gas tank? prices are going down, but you might not have noticed. where is the white house celebrating saving pocket change when prices are still way over what they were last year. that question straight to a white house energy advisor who has the president's ear. >> gillian: and senator kennedy to weigh in on that and more from china, and the democrats' tax hike. he has a lot to say, to put it mildly. he's coming up next. veteran homeowners, newday wants to help you use your va home loan benefit to get more.

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>> we are now 50 days into what remains the fastest decline in gas prices in over a decade, and drivers can now find gas for less than 3.99 a gallon at more than half of all gas stations across the country. prices are coming down even as putin's war continues to put pressure on global energy supplies. >> gillian: the white house is touting incremental decreases at the pump, in addition to the briefing room, officials tweeted this chart, average price is down $0.83 over the last seven weeks. that is about half a penny worth of savings per day. even though the price is down from its peak, the current average of 4.16 is over a dollar higher than a year ago.

at the current rate of decrease, we would not see prices as low as last year until this coming january. ed lawrence joins us from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> the president's policies first started pushing up gas prices, and now wants credit for the fix related to that. the fact remains as you said, the price of a regular gallon of unleaded is 4.16 a gallon. when president biden took office on january 20, 2021, the same gallon was 2.39 a gallon. the president has been around the globe trying to get more oil supply making the hard sell to the saudis, opec plus announcing an increase in production of september of just 100,000 barrels a day, among the smallest since 1982, and it amounts to about 86 seconds of global consumption. so i asked this today. >> given what the president has invested, does he feel like the

increase is an insult? >> look, and i said this earlier, and i'll say this again. the fact of the matter is that oil and gas prices are coming down. they are coming down, and they have been coming down since the president announced his trip. >> republicans say the president did not have to go all the way around the globe to get more oil supply, adding the president should have never been seen as going buddy buddy with the saudi prince, because the u.s. has all the additional oil the globe needs. >> so if we are going to produce oil and gas, produce it where we create american jobs, use american environmental standards and where we strengthen our economy and not the economy of our enemies, i think the white house has it all wrong. >> but president joe biden is not changing course on any of his energy policies. he adds regulations and restrictions on the industry here in the u.s. >> gillian: ed lawrence at the

white house, thanks very much. >> john: for more on the white house perspective, bring in the special presidential coordinator. so let me put up aaa gas prices, 4.16 currently down from 4.30 a week ago, down from 4.81 a month ago, but well off where it was a year ago. and diesel prices, currently 5.23. a month ago, 5.74. a year ago, 3.28. prices are coming down but diesel is still above $5 a gallon, and $2 a gallon more than what truckers were paying a year ago. should anybody really be taking a victory lap here? >> so first, thank you for having me. look, let's look at where we are and put in the right context. because you have broaden by a

month, but over $5, price of barrel $120. six weeks later, a barrel of oil is today just about $90, maybe 91, and gasoline, yeah, the average is 4.16, but most americans are seeing prices below $4. and comparing this to january 20th, a year and a half ago, obviously, i don't think anybody in america wants to go back to prices that are based on, if they are based on covid where before we had the vaccines take so much hold and where americans really were starting could go back to work, back to vacation. our demand is significantly higher because people feel as a result of the administration's policies and where we are with covid, that people are actually drivmo more, shipping more, vacationing more and going to work more. so, that is a good thing. in addition, we do have a war in europe that is involving the invaders, one of the largest oil producers in the world and under

sanctions from the united states through bipartisan support for, including sanctions from europe and from asia. so it's a very complicated energy market right now as a result of all these things. and the same time, remind you that most six weeks ago, most of the headlines in the news were that oil prices were going to go further up and gasoline was going to go up. yes, they are not where we like them, but no doubt the trajectory of oil and gasoline prices are in the right place. >> john: fear by a lot of analyst, come to fall that the price also go back up again. drill down what you said a moment ago about the war in ukraine. we heard this president say over and over and over again, heard every aide that was willing to speak in front of a microphone say it's putin's price hike, putin's price hike. you pointed out the war in

ukraine is still raging and prices are coming down. what about the idea that this was putin's price hike? many people say it's a fallacy because the war is still raging and prices are coming down. >> it's not a fallacy. >> why are prices coming down? >> i'll explain. prices are going up when putin interfered in europe. they were not going up, that is not true. main increase in prices as putin was started to intervene in fall of last year, and long before the invasion, and increasing the security premiums, those went up. why are they going down if the war is raging, that's a great question. we have taken different actions to bring the prices down. unfortunately, we live in an era where we want instant

gratification when you take an action you see the reaction immediately, sometimes it takes time in the market. released a million barrels a day, 180 million in total, the largest ever. international community is following suit and release 60 million barrels on to the market. and talked with the producers, in the united states about increasing investment in oil production and investment to allow for oil and gas production as well as to potentially bring on more refinery capacity and all the actions put together are having that impact. we want them to be, to go further, but there's no doubt that the action we have taken are part of the reason these prices are coming down. now before the president announced his trip to the middle east, opec actually increased significantly the output for july and august and yesterday everybody was reporting yesterday that the numbers for july were out and saudis increased production was

incredibly high, one of the highest they have been in about two and a half years. so we are seeing a lot of factors of both our diplomatic engagement overseas, as well as our domestic efforts. >> john: first of all, i will challenge you on this idea that gasoline prices were not going up before putin invaded ukraine because i think the timeline will show that in fact they were going up. when the president took office, it was 2.39. a year ago, 3.18. that would be a rise. but let me ask you this request he because you mentioned saudi arabia. saudi arabia has announced 100,000 barrels more a day coming up here in the month of august after the president's trip, which is just a drop in the bucket as ed lawrence was pointing out. does this speak to the need for this president to engage in policies that increase domestic production to help bring down prices? >> well, first just a minor

correction. the increase is going to be for september and august, 600,000 increase as announced on july 1st. >> john: for saudi arabia? >> for opec, yes. >> john: i said saudi arabia. >> saudi arabia increase for the month of august was announced two months ago. 100,000 today announcement is effective for september, not for august. august is more significant increase. the president has engaged with the oil companies in the united states. i have met with them as well, and as we have done everything we can to allow them to increase production. they, in fact, when i meet with the c.e.o.s of most of the major oil companies they do not complain about any regulatory restriction for them increasing production. and in fact, john, i'll tell you, last week was the reporting for the second quarter earnings of oil company, and they all had record profits, and i mean

historically record profits. we are not asking them to not make money. as the president said many times as a capitalist and they should make money but what we are asking is that they take some of those extraordinary profits that have really come on the backs of the consumer because of these extraordinary circumstances of post covid and the war and invest them back in america. and invest them back in increasing production. the fact that we want to accelerate the move to electric vehicles, the fact we want to accelerate solar and wind does not -- does not go in contradiction to the fact that we are expecting them to increase production in the short or medium term. this is america. we can do both of those at the same time. in fact, we have to do both. we cannot sustain energy growth for the next several years without also affecting the demand side. regardless of how much we produce we will never be there. >> john: now that you bring this

up, the transition to green energy and everybody from the president on down to the transportation secretary and everybody else wants us to get into electric vehicles. but if we were to put tens of millions of electric vehicles on the streets of america the electrical grid would probably collapse. and we are talking about solar and we are talking about winds, but nobody is talking about what it would really take to drive the new green economy and electric vehicles which is nuclear power. why aren't we talking about that? >> so a couple of things. one, i think you are right. and that's why the president wanted to pass the infrastructure bill and that's why he wants to pass the bill that senators schumer and manchin are proposing now, we want to invest in the grid and to strengthen the grid so they can manage the electrification, not just of electric vehicles but in general, our economy is electrifying. so no doubt we need a lot more investment in the infrastructure and backbone of the energy system in the united states. we support additional nuclear

power. in fact, we are helping countries and the world to achieve additional nuclear power and here at home. i think we support nuclear and solar and wind and obviously that is more on the power sector, and the electric vehicles that will take the oil demand off. we are not going to have tens of millions overnight but do want to accelerate and make that so that we have more of them available, built in the united states, controlling the supply chain for them, and to make sure that they are more affordable so more people could have access to them and have more access to charging. that's all the work we have to do right now. when we say we want to invest in that, it does not mean we have less oil on the market right now and less natural gas on the market right now. >> john: and we have a graphic up on the screen to go back to the point about whether or not gas prices were increasing, you see the graph, a point in the graph, biden takes office, 2.39 and there's dips, there's rises and dips, but the general trend

before putin invaded ukraine was that gas prices were going up. let me ask you one final question if i could. you chuckled when you said some analysts say oil prices will rise in the fall because of inflation. >> i'm chuckling, every few months i come on, and they say yeah, they have gone down now, but they are going to go up in the summer because it's driving season. we are in the middle of the high demand driving season and prices are coming down because of the actions that we are taking. and there's always -- if you want to find the negative side, i'm sure you can find it. on the chart, i was referring to oil prices, not on gasoline. gasoline prices also come up. remember where we were in covid, a year ago, and year and a half ago. i know nobody wants to go back to lockdowns that result in lower prices. we want to bring prices down not because of less economic activity and more people at home, we want to bring prices down because we have more

economic activity, more supply on the market, and companies are investing in america so that we can have that capacity brought on while at the same time investing in the future of energy. >> john: well, if you could manage to get prices down, i think a lot of people would be pleased at that. good to talk to you. appreciate the discussion. >> good to be on, we can agree on that point. >> john: you just heard from the white house. senator john kennedy of louisiana has been listening in as well. he gets his turn to respond coming up next.

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>> john: a senate subcommittee holding the first congressional hearing on gain function research. hearing is an attempt to find the origins of the covid pandemic more than two years after it began. david spunt has been following this, and live in washington with more. david. >> david: john, several members

of the senate have been waiting for this hearing since the early days of the pandemic. it just kicked off a few minutes ago. the purpose to look specifically as you mentioned at gain of function. a group not only of politicians but the medical community believes covid-19 was accidently released from the wuhan institute of virology. it's an organism is genetically altered via a human to make its effects more enhanced. used in the field of medicine for years. kentucky senator rand paul has pushed the theory that covid-19 is a result of gain of function research and he's called for today's hearing, john, for more than a year. actually, since the early days of the pandemic. senator paul believed the chinese communist party and other health officials in the country are the no being truthful about the origins. here he is last night. >> this is an elite group of scientists that will be there tomorrow. i'm going to ask them, was it gain of function research going

on in wuhan. it does not prove it came from a lab but that dangerous research was happening there and could have come from the lab. >> senator paul has argued numerous times with dr. anthony fauci from the national institutes of health. fauci was also on fox news recently and denied the lab leak theory. >> upon relooking at this carefully now, we think it's more likely that it was a natural evolution. >> you still believe that? more and more organizations that point to a lab leak. >> bret, more people saying it doesn't mean there's more evidence of it. >> david: john, dr. fauci is not at today's hearing. if republicans take senate control next january, expect to see more of these hearings down the pipeline. john. >> john: we'll be looking forward to that. david spunt for us, thank you, david. the white house on defense denying a massive social spending measure will hike taxes significantly. the press secretary insisting the bill has the backing of the american people. listen here. >> americans are weighing in

with resounding support for the inflation reduction act and that's in contrast to republican members of congress who want to block this legislation to protect tax welfare for the wealthy and corporations. >> gillian: senator joe manchin is also defending the bill he brokered with senator chuck schumer. manchin said i agree we should not increase taxes on historic inflation. the reduction act does not increase taxes. a new partisan report is claiming it does, for those who earn less than $200,000 a year, most folks. john kennedy, sir, what do you say? >> well, let me say as just a general proposition. at some point we need to stop asking who needs to pay more taxes and start asking what the

hell happened to all the money that we had. but i digress. because of inflation, which was made in washington by president biden, more and more americans are getting really good at barely getting by and the wealthiest country in all of human history and it's because of inflation. i don't hate anybody, but senator manchin's bill is an inflation machine. if he passes his bill, joeflation as some call it, will refer to joe manchin, not joe biden. a couple of examples. number one, it's a massive, senator manchin's bill is a massive tax increase on oil and gas. now, when you tax something you get less of it.

duh. and his bill is going to make prices go up. now, senator manchin of the white house may say well, here is what you ought to do, because you can't afford gas, you need to go buy a $75,000 tesla. that might work in west virginia, that doesn't work in louisiana. number two, the joint committee on taxation, which doesn't take sides, has said unconditionally, unequivocally, that every american will feel the financial burden of senator manchin's bill. and i like joe. he's very clever. i've listened to his interviews, he can talk a dog off a meat wagon, but he can't change the facts of the joint -- the impartial, non-partisan joint committee on taxation.

and joe's bill will raise money, raise taxes on corporations and corporations don't pay taxes, people do. and it is -- it is a special kind of stupid to raise taxes on businesses during a recession. >> john: you have to have some pretty powerful powers of persuasion to talk a dog off of a meat wagon. but on the subject of joe manchin, he was on with bret baier over the weekend. in his appearance he acknowledged that he got it wrong when he said that spending all of this money in the previous bills was not going to cause inflation. so bret asked him this. listen here. >> so why should americans believe you now when you said this new bill will not exacerbate inflation? >> i mean, sure, i don't make that mistake again. bottom line. i'll make sure i don't make that mistake again. >> john: the initial mistake was spending a whole lot of money

and causing inflation. so the answer is spending a who el lot of money and not causing inflation? >> joe's bill is an inflation machine. i mean it, i don't hate anybody, john. i don't think senator manchin intentionally wants to hurt people. i don't think that he wants more americans to have to live in a tent behind what-a-burger, but that is the result of his bill. any economist who is fair-minded will look at this bill and tell you that. we are in the middle of stagflation. that means the economy is slowing, the worst thing you can do then is raise taxes and prices are rising, and he wants to make products and services and gasoline and food more expensive. it's just -- his bill is gonna hurt the american people. >> gillian: sir, your colleagues, though, your

democrat colleagues tell us this week they just handed the president this china competition bill, the chips act, hand him the climate bill, they say it upsets you and you are jealous for lack of a better word. >> this is america, they are entitled to their opinion. i didn't vote for the chips bill. republicans on my side of the aisle, since president biden has been in office, have voted for $1.3 trillion worth of joe biden spending. you are not looking at one of them. and then they, after voting for the chips bill, some of my republicans trusted senator manchin. they -- joe turned around and pulled the rug out from under them and i hope my colleagues have learned a lesson. i love dogs but never let a dog guard your meal, they are going to eat it, and that's what happened to us.

i hope we can stop senator manchin's bill but it's gonna be tough. we gave up all the leverage we had when we gave in and passed his chips bill. >> john: we are in a dog theme today with you, senator. let me ask you this question. >> i love dogs, man. i love dogs. >> gillian: we don't mind, we don't mind. >> john: you probably heard amos talking about the price of gas and reasons why it has come down. your reaction. >> i'm delighted gas has come down and it's better but it's still not well. in my state, when president biden took office, gas was a little under two bucks, it's still four bucks. i hope it keeps coming down. but i believe in supply and demand, i think most fair-minded people do who don't live in their mom's basement. they understand the supply and demand. and joe biden is trying to restrict and so is joe manchin, the supply of oil and gas and

that's going to make the price of gasoline medium term, hope not short-term, but longer term, go up. it's not -- it's not that complicated. >> gillian: senator, we did talk to you all afternoon, but we have to leave it there, because this is tv. thanks for joining us. >> ok, thanks. >> john: as we celebrate the dog days of summer. >> gillian: oh, there you go. well done. >> john: thanks, senator. >> gillian: this just in now from the white house, president biden signing an executive order on abortion access. peter doocy joins us from the white house with breaking details. hey, peter. >> peter: if you look at the video, the reason the vice president is sitting at the head of the table surrounded by key members of the cabinet and the president is virtual is because they told us early this afternoon that he once again tested positive for covid. but from isolation through the tv screen everybody quieted down and he signed an executive

order, the first of several that he has pledged to sign after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. this one is going to allow healthcare providers to use a new waiver in medicare that would let them treat -- let them give an abortion to people that travel from out of side. so if a woman is living in a state that outlaws abortion, they will now be allowed to cross state lines and apply for a medicare waiver. the healthcare provider can apply for a medicare waiver to pay for the abortion, for the abortion service. this is something that came up a few minutes ago at the event, we have a sound bite. >> ultimately thank you, thank you, thank you. do i sign this order now? i'm going to sign this executive

order right now, ok? >> peter: the first time we have seen a major executive order, presidential directive signed by zoom, but when you've got a president who has to isolate for most of the last two weeks, that's them showing that he can carry out the duties of the office from upstairs. gillian and john. >> gillian: peter, thanks so much for joining us. appreciate it. >> john: a honeymoon in paradise ended in a deadly horror. a newlywed from tennessee charged with killing his bride at an exclusive resort on the island of fiji. prosecutors say bradley dawson beat christie to death but his lawyer says it was all an accident. mike tobin has more on this. mike, we are intrigued.

>> mike: that's it, a couple from tennessee gets married after a whirlwind romance, honeymoon in fiji. now the bride is dead, the groom is in jail. christie chen became christie dawson. and july 10th, she was found in a pool of blood. injuries to face, head and back were so severe her remains could not be preserved. the family was told embalming fluid would have leaked out of the wounds so she was cremated before being transported to the united states. a second autopsy in the u.s. was never done. high profile forensic scientist says the family was given bad information. says human remains in bad shape are commonly transported back to the u.s. >> that doesn't make sense at all because it's not uncommon when somebody is autopsied in

one country for the other country or the family to want a second autopsy, whether they feel that the other country may not do it up to the standards of the united states or for any other reason. >> according to reports from the daily mail, that husband, bradley robert dawson, left his g.p.s. tracking watch at the resort, took his passport and wallet, and kayaked to another island in the middle of the night. the daily mail talked to a person who found dawson walking on the beach. he admitted to leaving the island after having a fight with his new wife. a lawyer for dawson said only her death was an accident and something surprising happened the night she died. the bride's wounds were described as overcall, and dr. boden says it only happens when the murder victim knows the killer very well. john, back to you. >> john: mike tobin with the latest, thank you. gillian. >> gillian: mark, a criminal

defense attorney. the lawyer representing the bride's family says the corpse was so mutilated they had to cremate it before returning it to the united states. does that hold up? >> no. i've never heard of that. you have soldiers killed in war and what remains of them is sent back in a coffin, not an urn. this only benefits the accused because the body tells a story, and i don't know what the story is going to be. i accidentally somehow struck myself 20 times. >> gillian: the husband was then also found by police on the 11th at a nearby mile away different fiji island where he fled. in your experience, do husbands whose wives have just died leave the scene in the middle of an investigation? >> well, as a defense lawyer i'll say anything is possible. but if we are intellectually honest, he left his very expensive watch behind, he flees

in a kayak, that clearly prosecutors will show evidences consciousness of guilt. >> what kind of evidence does the prosecution need here in order to convict this guy? >> well, first of all you say this is not an accident. there is absolutely no reasonable hypothesis that supports that somehow this was an accident. secondly, you put together a circumstantial evidence case. there's no bus load of nuns who saw this happen, so it's piece by piece. he admits they got into a fight, the blows were so personal that you would immediately look to the house, he apparently had cuts and bleeding on him, he'll say was because i fell on a coral rock while trying to escape but they will link it back to a struggle. significant pieces of evidence lead to only one conclusion, and again, presumption of innocence, but looks like he's guilty. >> gillian: and you mentioned

they had a fight, presumably to motive here. >> absolutely. i mean, ultimately we want to know more, we want to dig in and find out how a guy who just married the girl of his dreams somehow now kills her. the most difficult thing for the defense is going to be to answer the following question. if not him, who? you are in fiji. you are talking about -- they are known for butlers and bungalows, not burglars and blow. he's got a tough time pointing the finger at somebody else. >> gillian: a real head scratcher. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> john: new york city mayor eric adams lashing out at new york city's bail reform system. highlighted ten criminals who have been arrested and released 500 times since the new bail rules took effect. nate foy live with what else the mayor said this afternoon. >> good afternoon, john. mayor adams and the police

commissioner in the past hour said the new york criminal justice system is broken and highlighting ten criminals arrested 585 times just since the bail reform law was implemented at the start of 2020. nypd says at least six of the ten are on the streets right now. mayor adams moments ago. >> no one is talking about the victims. no one is talking about the victims. all we hear is how do we assure those who commit crimes get justice. how do we assure those who are the victims of crime get justice. can we have that conversation? >> mayor adams also sharing this stat. so far this year, 25% of people arrested for burglary have been arrested again for another felony win 60 days, which as you see is a 208% increase compared to 2017, which of course was before the bail reform law was passed. mayor adams also used this

example for bail reform last week. a teenager is seen on camera beating a new york city police officer and john, this was three days after being released without bail for a robbery arrest. many of these repeat offenders are committing crimes in manhattan, where district attorney alvin brag have been criticized for soft on crime policies. one criminal, busted 101 times, including 88 since bail reform and larceny arrests. the governor has the power to remove brag as d.a. but has resisted calls to do so. a counter group was arguing for bail reform. they claim mayor adams is lying about the effects of the law and the mayor says the group is simply wrong. back to you, john. >> john: seems the mayor is becomingly increasingly frustrated with the situation going on there. nate, thank you so much. how many times has adams said

the criminal justice system in new york is the laughing stock of the country and the criminals continue to perpetrate crimes and go free. it's nuts. >> gillian: that's why he ran and staked his claim to the office. here in the district of columbia, crime is not an issue -- >> john: great way to finish off. i'm john roberts. >> gillian: gillian >> martha: thanks very much. i'm martha maccallum. the store that is breaking right now, it's the middle of the night in china. but the latest that we have is that taiwan remains this hour on a red alert. the chinese military has blockaded the island, as you can see with these red squares and boxes around the island. this really was prompted by speaker pelosi's visit. you can see