up already. it will be a beautiful monday in the summer. heat it up, folks. >> seize the day. it is still summer, everyone. a little time before school starts back. enjoy a nice vacation. >> i heard today in some parts of texas school starts today. >> it is true. great to be with you today. >> bill: good morning. 9:00. raising taxes in a recession is what democrats did over the weekend. will it cost them in november? what will it cost you as well? good questions. good morning, it's monday. i'm bill hemmer. hello there. >> dana: good morning, everyone. it's been a little bit of time but glad to be here. i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." a ton of activity over the weekend. the democrats think they are riding high but it has been after a year of negotiations and senate democrats finally got their enormous spending bill across the finish line passing on a party line vote. all 50 republicans voted no. >> bill: what's in this thing,

huh? capital t for thing. hundreds of billions for climate change. deficit reduction and tax hikes. it could also turbocharge the i.r.s. more on that in a moment. >> dana: democrats named it the inflation reduction act. republicans say it's laughable and not even bernie sanders is buying it. >> i want to take a moment to say a few words about the so-called inflation reduction act that we are debating this evening. i say so-called, by the way, because according to the cbo and other economic organizations that have studied this bill, it will, in fact, have a minimal impact on inflation. >> dana: team fox coverage. marc thiessen is on deck with analysis. we begin with jacqui heinrich at the white house. >> democrats certainly think that bringing key priorities on healthcare and climate across the finish line ahead of the mid-terms will turn things

around for them. poll after poll has shown that the biggest problem for the president and his party is inflation. and even though they've dubbed this bill the inflation reduction act, congressional budget found it will have little to know impact on inflation. the biggest issue for voters this year and maybe next year. democrats say prescription drug costs will fall after medicare negotiations and believe that energy costs will be reduced by rebates and credits. the money remaining in people's pockets will be in circulation and no impact on overall inflation and he have earn bernie sanders who did vote for the bill referred to it as the so-called inflation reduction act. >> while americans continue to pay outrageously high gas prices at the pump, prices are going down but still higher than they were two years ago. the inflation of today is pushing the average person even

further behind. >> the bill imposes a new 15% income tax on large corporations. 86,000 more i.r.s. agents. it is larger than the state department, f.b.i. and border control combined and republicans are trying to peel off democrat votes in the house this week saying that democrat promises not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year are hollow. the new corporate tax increases could be passed to the consumer and new i.r.s. agents could mean new audits for the people class. ronna mcdaniel said democrats will pay the price in november for raising taxes on families in a recession and kevin mccarthy is urging all house republicans to vote no. we expect a vote in the house this coming friday. >> bill: marc thiessen joins our coverage. good morning. bernie sanders said the so-called inflation reduction

bill will have a minimum impact and still voted for it. that's rich. >> give bernie points for honesty. the whole name is a lie. if you want to know whether it's a political winner for democrats why did they call it the inflation reduction act instead of the climate change reduction act. simple. they know while climate change is the number one issue for most of their left wing activists, only 1% of americans say it's the top priority. the bill does not reduce inflation. a model says in the immediate term it will nominally increase inflation. so if the democrats went to the american people, if they were proud of this they would be shouting climate change from the rooftops. we hired 87,000 i.r.s. auditors to take more of your money for climate change. they aren't doing that. >> dana: my husband was calling the bill this morning the once

upon a time bill as he said it was a total fairytale. i said maybe i'll use that line but i'll give him credit for it. i do want to point this out. the i.r.s. staffing, if you look at this now compared to other agencies, it is incredible. call for number four. total estimate of 165,000 employees. the state department only has 23 thousand. f.b.i. 35,000, and customs and border protection at 60,000. who does the i.r.s. have to target? we know this to be true. they go after people, the majority of people making $200,000 a year or less. what does that lead to, marc? >> first of all, there aren't 87,000 wealthy people in the country who can -- they'll go after the middle class. good luck finding 87,000 workers. we're in a labor shortage where

there are almost 11 million unfilled jobs in america today. 60% of small businesses say they can't find workers to fill the job opening they have. the answer of the federal government is to go and pass money to dip into the labor pool and take 87,000 workers out of the productive sector of the economy in order to sic the i.r.s. of auditing americans. not politically popular or very smart. >> bill: they'll sell it on billionaires who cheat. they have staff to keep them out of the way of the i.r.s.. households with less than $25,000 a year in earnings are five times as likely to be audited by the agency than everyone else. how do you defend that? >> that's exactly right. what this is, it is basically a squeeze money out of the american people's pockets bill.

one, they will try to hire 87,000 auditors to go after us and the second thing is they'll raise taxes. this bill biden broke his promise not to raise taxes on people making $400,000 or less. the joint tax committee found that it does. and also the other thing it's doing, why it will make inflation worse, if 50% of the tax increases hit manufacturers. so the reason we have inflation today is because demand is outstripping supply. biden juiced demand with the covid spending bill which was social spending disguised as covid relief and then the supply can't keep up because they can't find workers. manufacturers are already having trouble because of ?rie chain issues and labor shortage and not a massive tax. how will it increase supply in it is not. we need less demand.

when you tax something you get less of it. >> dana: what's interesting is the media had all these pre-written stories. they have pre-written ob its. the media seems to have stories all ready to go. they're everywhere. it didn't quiet the talk this weekend of prominent democrats and liberals suggesting joe biden shouldn't run for office again. senator blumenthal was one of them but "the new york times" suggested the wins that joe biden has should basically give him confidence that he has done what he said he would do and that he should not run again. last thought on that. >> the rationalizations are coming out. they can't openly say before the november elections that biden shouldn't run. it is not what you say before an election. as soon as the election is over. joe biden's problem and the reason why he can't run for reelection. not only has he lost swing voters, he lost his base.

75% of democrats in the country say he shouldn't run again. when you don't have the base and swing voters you are dead in the water politically. they can't say that before the election. as soon as the election is over, particularly if they get the kind -- if they lose controls of the house the calls will become more vocal to push him aside. >> bill: thank you so much, marc. ironic the president has been in the second floor of the white house the last couple of weeks recovering from his -- when all this stuff is being pushed forward. >> dana: the media has plenty of those story how brilliantly they executed. they did get wins. bernie sanders is not thrilled. look at the picture from him on saturday. super hot in august. here he is. why don't you just go inside? >> bill: speaking of covid, this question came up with our team and senator warren about are you testing when you are going into the senate chamber

before this vote, etc. it went down like this on saturday. >> have you been told by anybody not to get tested? >> no, oh please, the republicans are concerned about democrats showing up with covid? the republicans who wouldn't wear masks? the republicans who wouldn't -- who tested positive and still showed up? i'm telling you, they just know no limits on their political gamesmanship. >> dana: do you remember when they did no testing when pelosi didn't test? also happening this weekend a second bus of migrants from texas arrived in new york city yesterday. mayor eric adams was there to meet them. got 14 off. he said he expected 40 and not sure where the rest are. today's "new york post" suggests border crossers are afraid to come to new york city because of all the crime. nate foye has more on this.

hi, nate. >> dana and bill you mentioned 14 of an expected 40 migrants got off that bus. mayor adams was there to greet them a few blocks away from where we are now. rumors some migrants got off the bus at different stops along the way. look at the group that arrived at the port authority yesterday just like that first group on friday. mayor adams says every migrant will be cared for but he is requesting more help from the biden administration saying he will be in contact with the white house. so far the city is still waiting. mayor adams taking another shot at texas governor greg abbott. >> this is horrific when you think about what the governor is doing, the governor of texas after months of traveling across the border, place them on the bus with no direction, to come here to new york.

>> here is the governor's response. he tweeted three minutes to midnight last night new york city mayor says it's horrific. did he say it was horrific when biden flew plane loads? into new york? the new york mayor has no idea how horrific it really is. after the first migrant bus arrived in new york city friday. this group was bigger, about 50 migrants. new york congressman and gubernatorial candidate lee zeldin the economic burden will get worse in new york and time for the biden administration to lead. >> if these people refuse to go to the border to solve this, all of a sudden the border is making its way to washington, d.c. the border is making its way up to new york. we have to work together as americans to tackle this. >> do you hear the congressman mention washington, d.c.? mayor bowser plans to amend her

request for national guard support. the initial request was rejected on friday by the pentagon. this is just the beginning according to governor abbott. he said thousands more migrants will arrive not only in washington, d.c. but also here in new york city in the coming months, dana. >> dana: nate foye, thank you. >> bill: 13 past. china blowing past the scheduled military deadline for its largest ever military drills around taiwan. exercises that taipei says it is simulating an attack on the island. general jack keane next. >> dana: smash a grab robbers pulling off a heist in a matter of seconds. >> defunding of $6 billion nypd budget and not enough resources are being put in the kinds of

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for three masked men and they smashed and grabbed. some of the trays are dumped into a red plastic bag. all the while the man in the white t-shirt serves as a lookout outside. it is a very busy shopping area. a small number of people walking by during the robbery. a few look in. most are unaware of what is taking place inside. the end of the recording shows the four robbers racing out the door and heading down the street. police say they took with them $2.15 million worth of high-end diamond jewelry. as of this moment there haven't been any arrests. during the smash and grab there were no injuries. overall crime in new york city is up over 30% compared to one year ago. >> bill: wow. that is something else to watch. david lee, thank you here in new york. >> dana: let's bring in former

nypd inspector paul morrow. good to have you here. there is that crime there and you've written a piece i recommend to everybody at foxnews.com called aoc, mia, who can blame her? her constituents are learning that defund has consequences. you grew up in that district, then you became an nypd officer and you looked at the statistics. what did you find? >> it was simple. i took the eight commands are encompassed by her district and ran the crime numbers. they are on the website. the findings were startling. the last two years in her district overall crime is up 57%. so i should mention that i don't know what specific command that smash and grabbed occurred it, she does have a significant portion of the east bronx. so it's relevant. >> dana: you also looked at felony up 50% since 2020. call for number two for people

at home. shooting victims up 40% since 2020. shooting incidents since 2020 and all along you have had her suggesting defunding the police, reimagining the criminal justice department. you also named her the duchess of defund. what's the impact on the district with people trying to start businesses or get their kids safely to school? >> we just saw them in the clip you guys just showed. to really demonstrate where the rubber hits the road. statistics sometimes can be a little bit unclear. in the last two years there have been exactly 48 more people shot in her command -- in her district than in -- since 2020. 48 people out there whose lives have been altered because of this defund policy. there is no other way to put it. many of those people are likely dead. >> dana: what about the fact that she -- what you found and

i thought this was interesting in the piece, is what -- she chooses to comment on a lot of things and she is out there and prolific and great media present but doesn't talk too much about these victims. >> to do this one of the things i made sure i did was do the research and two twitter feeds. she has two. you see very little commentary about it. isn't it rich while she is in d.c. getting fake arrested there are equally fake arrests going on in her district but the criminals are real and arrests are faked because criminals get released very quickly. >> dana: the other thing we found today is a growing trend of nypd police officers deciding to resign, get out of policing before getting their full pension. 71% jump from 2021. you can see the statistics there. you recently retired. what does this tell you if people are willing to leave the police force before that full

pension is manifested? >> dana, this is really a troubling statistics. first of all, in new york city i don't care where you are a cop actually. let's take it nationally. every police officer joins any police department because he or she wants to be the good guy. i don't care who it is. it is not about the money. if you go in for money you are in for a rude awakening. when you make the police officer the bad guy, you end up with an empty shell of a police officer. i think that's what we're beginning to see here and really starting to have impact. the other thing particularly in new york, when you see police officers willing to give up on their pensions, you tell yourself on your hard days this is bad, i'm tired of hearing this, people are yelling at me, etc. but someday i'll have my pension and retire and be able to live a more relaxed life. the fact that folks are giving up on their pensions and either

looking for different jobs and jurisdictions is troubling. the police department is going to have some real problems. retention and recruitment is down and bad news for the future of the town. >> dana: bail reform laws are not changed. a little doom on the horizon. thank you for writing the article about aoc. thank you. >> bill: from california l.a.'s far left d.a. george gascon on a mission to get inmates off death row. why would that be the case? the taliban took control of their first afghan province one year ago today. we all know what eventually that would lead to. general jack keane with a look back and more next. >> we're watching in slow motion the bloody and ugly situation in afghanistan, which will likely be the collapse of the government and also their security forces as the taliban are on the verge of taking over.

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>> bill: over the weekend the chinese military added another day of drills around taiwan. president biden for his part left the white house over the weekend out of covid protocol heads to eastern kentucky in a moment. before he left he took a question about china and the taiwanese. >> how worried are you about taiwan? china is keeping a bit of a grip around the whole island. >> president biden: i am -- i'm not worried but i am concerned that they are moving as much as they are. but i don't think they'll do anything wrong. >> was it all right of the speaker to go to taiwan? >> it was her decision. >> bill: one on nancy pelosi. the other on how far china goes. want to bring in jack keane. china hasn't been at war since 1979. they had another day here. the word is they're trying to coordinate the air force with

the navy, with the army, etc. what is your read on what's happening now, sir? >> well, certainly president xi obviously reacting to the visit and sending a loud message. my concern isn't so much president xi but with this administration. are they going to finally accept the fact that self-censorship in terms of our rhetoric, self-deterrent in terms of the kinds of visits we have, no military visits, no training visits with taiwan, and no significant arming of taiwan, and those two issues, plus the general appeasement policy, bill, of not wanting to provoke the chinese. this policy has been in effect for years and you have to conclude it is a massive failure because president xi every single year for the 10 years he has been in power has

been increasing the intimidation and coercion of taiwan principally and in the region generally. he is more aggressive than his predecessors by far and more ambitious. he has stated time and time again like putin stated time and time again when it came to ukraine, that he fully intends to take this by force if the taiwanese do not capitulate. and they won't capitulate. what is the lesson we should learn from this? this general policy of trying to avoid provoking the chinese is not working. it is a massive failure. they are increasing their aggression. what we need to do is help taiwan even more than what we are doing. arms, munitions, training, doing exercises together. but right now as we speak, bill, we are being told that this administration is pushing back on the bipartisan bill in the senate to provide

significant more increased support economically and militarily to taiwan. can you imagine that? that's the conclusion the biden administration gets out of this is to do less. >> bill: wow. we'll watch that. general, one year ago today the first province in afghanistan fell to the taliban. nikki haley over the weekend was asked about this on "fox news sunday" saying that was the moment when the world saw us as weak. >> mark my words, had we never had that blunder in afghanistan, we would not be having the war you are seeing in ukraine. we would not have al qaeda terrorists sitting running free in afghanistan. we would not have china showing the arrogance that they are showing over taiwan. this all happened because of how america showed weakness. now we have to find our strength and we better get to work and we better get to work toon. >> bill: what do you think of that tying it all back to kabul?

>> yeah, i think it's principally correct. we can't prove all of that certainly but just applying some common sense to what has taken place here. it was a major inflection point for this administration. what drove this really was the unconditional withdrawal with a date certain. emphasis on unconditional. no cease-fire or no peace agreement. there weren't any real substantive negotiations going on. we were just going to walk away. i think the american people saw it as a huge foreign policy and national security failure regardless of whether -- what their political alignment was. they saw this as american weakness. it had a major impact adversely on this administration. but the accelerant it became for russia absolutely. a couple of months after the debacle in afghanistan in august, putin puts 170,000 troops on ukraine's border? is there a relationship with

what took place in afghanistan? i believe yes. it became an accelerant for president xi and also became an accelerant for the iranians. they began enriching uranium to 60% close to weapons grade all after the afghanistan debacle. we can't absolutely prove it but just looking at it. our adversaries did become more aggressive because they believe they could take advantage of this administration. >> bill: major inflection point. sir, thank you. we'll reflect a lot on this in the month of august. thank you for your time today. >> great talking to you, bill. have a wonderful week. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: basketball legend sue bird playing her final season home game for the seattle storm. a young fan gave her a flower during the game. they played a spoiler by the

aces. bird is retiring after 19 seasons and four wnba championship. baseball a stunning comeback for degram. he threw a perfect game for more than five innings. the met beat the braves 5-2. did you watch baseball this weekend? >> bill: little bit. >> dana: everyone knows that about degrom. >> bill: did you watch baseball over the weekend? >> dana: i did not. i was amazing. >> bill: how was your tennis game? >> dana: better. i spent a lot of money to be told to keep my eye on the ball. he told me he invented that phrase as well. even talked to my mom about that. i didn't learn it when i was a kid. i spent a lot of money. los angeles county's embattled district attorney george gascon is working forget several death

row inmates resentenced to life without parole. former deputy d.a.s may be an effort to try to get them out of prison eventually. william la jeunesse is live in l.a. and covering this. >> this is unprecedented. you have the prosecutor reversing, sometimes decades later, the sentences of more than a dozen felons on death row, reducing those to life in prison. according to the directive 2011 a sentence of death is never an appropriate resolution in any case. the district attorney's office will not defend existing death penalty sentences and will engage in a thorough review of every existing death penalty judgment from l.a. county with the goal of removing the sentence of death. we obtained that list of 65 l.a. cases under review among the 700 inmates on death row. so far he has sought or

successfully got 16 death sentence cases resentenced to life with an intent to get inmates eligible for early release or parole. >> what is happening in los angeles is that the district attorney's office based on policy only, is going through systematically and trying to undo every death sentence that has ever occurred in this county. >> it may include raymond butler who carjacked and executed two college students. harris who murdered a high school student working at a convenience store. harris who killed a man at a card game. and scott collins who robbed and killed excuse style fred rose, a father of three. gascon claims these inmates were either mentally ill or deficient at the time of trial and therefore eligible for resentencing. under state law inmates both age 50 and who have served at least 20 years are eligible for

elderly parole. the question isn't whether these guys will just get out, but gascon is nullifying the sentences of legitimately-imposed those by judges and joour -- juries. next week we'll learn if gascon will face a recall election. >> dana: if gascon were in florida we could imagine what would happen. >> bill: senator chuck grassley setting a deadline of today for federal officials to release hunter biden's records. what could come next in the investigation into his many overseas business dealings. >> this guy was a crook. he has been influence peddling all over the world but yet the intelligence community right before an election issues a statement saying it is russian disinformation. we need to make changes in the intelligence community. or psoriatic arthritis,rits enbrel can help you say i'm in for what's next. ready to create a bigger world? -i'm in.

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>> dana: critics ripping the pennsylvania department of education over new gender identity guidance for teachers and administrators. the department website calls genders is a asphalty concepts. let's bring in veronica, a pennsylvania mom and former school board member and education chair for ta economic

growth pac and really good to have you here. i want to read this to give people more context before we get your take on it. it says in addition to the tradition a pronouns he, him, she/her, they some people prefer to just gender neutral pronouns. i don't know if i'm even saying it correctly. if you don't know a student's preferred personal pronoun it is best to ask. how has this gone over in pennsylvania? >> good morning. thank you so much for having me. it is not going over very well. parents are outraged by this new pde guidelines for this going into classrooms as young as 3 years old. it is dangerous and divisive and confusing. these children at these young ages, their minds are so impressionable and trying to learn their colors, abcs and numbers. this has no place in the

american classroom. this issue, parents at the ballot box will speak loudly. >> dana: i have said because of covid and what you are talking about here, the fact that the school boards got so much attention in the last couple of years and a lot of people leaving public schools to try to find alternatives if they can. there is a renewed interest in school choice. but there will be democrats saying this won't matter in the upcoming election. what will really matter is the inflation reduction act that just got passed and all the things for climate change in the bill. what do you hear in pennsylvania? i won't show you the fox news poll on the pennsylvania senate raised indication down at 2% in terms of the most important issue. inflation being 27%. but i don't know about that. i feel like this could be the year where parents fight back or make their voices heard and you are deeply involved.

how is your assessment of this mid-term election in education? >> as a former school board member, i have been fighting against the social/emotional learning, critical race theory, the objectionable content in books that are being placed in libraries and classrooms. this is the year of the parent. the parents have woken up and they are speaking very loudly in opposition of this agenda. children cannot learn being confused about their gender. children cannot learn being taught they are an oppressor or they are oppressed. we need to get back to basics in education and bring academics clearly back into the classroom and bring back our high standards that this country once had in exceptional education. i believe that youngkin in virginia won on this very issue in virginia last year. >> dana: a good point. i wonder if you hear from teachers. the teachers are the ones being told you must do this. i wonder if the teachers are

reluctant to or don't want to do this. >> i believe that there is a large majority of teachers that are against this but because of the teachers union and the administration of these school districts they feel that they cannot speak up. they are afraid to be reprimanded and they are reprimanded when they don't prefer to use these pronouns. i have seen students being given detention because they mistakenly used the wrong pro noun with their peer. it is ridiculous and has nothing to do with education. >> dana: thank you. >> the republican party has a chance to be the party of the parent. the party of the people in november. and the candidates really need to focus on a commitment to parents giving them

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>> dana: police in northern california are desperately

searching for a 16-year-old girl reported missing after attending a campground party over the weekend. they say kiley rodney was last seen at 12:30 a.m. saturday 100 miles from sacramento where she was partying with about 100 other young adults. the car she was driving is also missing so everyone is on the lookout for her. >> bill: wow. in the meantime back in the early days of the pandemic california distillery was one of many companies in america that pivoted from making liquor to hand sanitizer with fda approval. now the fda is going after the company for a second time claiming the sanitizer contains a contaminant. it is aaron berg of cal wise spirits. you responded to the call and what happened for your good deed? >> well, i just continue to get

a slap in the face for it. back in december of 2020, the fda came through and audited my business as well as dozens of other distillery and tried to slap companies with a $14,000 flat fee for making sanitizer. we thought it would be the end of it. two years later the fda is coming back to audit distillers again even though we haven't produced hand sanitizer in more than two years and no more left in stock. >> bill: in 2021 the fda apologized. small businesses who stepped up in covid-19 should be applauded not taxed for doing so. we have directed the fda to cease enforcement. now they're back. how come?

>> right. i don't know why that stance has changed. to be fair, this occurred under the previous administration but they were right to pull back on the leash of the fda and i shall ooh you that statement. i this i the current administration has let them off the leash a bit and needs to rein them back in. >> bill: there is a component, here on screen. the levels of this in your sanitizer was 160 parts per million, right? in wine you've got 229 and spirits 104 and fruit juice 230. why is this a danger or contaminant or something similar, aaron? >> that's a good question. even included on the fda's list recognized as safe for adding as a flavor to food and beverages. i'm not sure why.

it doesn't make any sense to me. it is interesting that the dozens of other distilleries audited the fda is saying the same thing to them. it is a natural occurring component of wines, juices, foods. it doesn't make sense and come after something so arbitrary two years later. >> bill: we were talking about this republicans having a big problem with expanding the i.r.s. you feel like you are being harassed and how i hear your responses here. how do you get yourself out of this or do you? >> you know, i don't know. it begins with public awareness which is why i'm coming on fox news this morning and talking to other press. it helped us in 2020 when the fda tried to charge that $14,000 fee on us. it is awareness. congress is passing a bill to create 87,000 i.r.s. agents.

this is just a foreshadowing of what will come to america if people don't wake up and realize what our government is doing. >> bill: do you regret doing the conversion to sanitizer? >> no, i don't regret it. i wouldn't do anything differently. i needed to heed the call to help my community. it makes me think twice. that's the potential consequences is will other businesses heed the call when another disaster comes about if they are afraid of government retribution for it? >> bill: good luck. see whether or not you can dig out of the hole. thank you for your time, sir. >> thank you for having me on. >> dana: cartels pushing huge amounts of fentanyl across the southern border and making billions of dollars sending deadly poison to america. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer, good morning. >> dana: poor guy. the interview you said. it's important. the fda needs to figure itself out. >> bill: the other thing he said at the end i'll think

twice if you ask me to do something like this again, right? you mention the southern border is wide open. fox news cameras on the scene in texas. huge groups of migrants crossing the border illegally and in yuma, arizona check this out. 799 crossings in a 24-hour span. all the activity stretching our resources along the border making everything easier for the drug cartels to do their business. >> we do know this. the drug cartels are poisoning our kids and they are doing it in a way because there is no consequences to them flooding the stuff into our country. we'll see it spread. as i said before, arizona is a border state but every state is a border state now. >> dana: bill melugin is live in eagle pass, texas. hi, bill. >> bill: dana, good morning. the drug cartels have been pushing enormous amounts of fentanyl through one part of the border in arizona in

particular. cbp agents there seize eds more than 1 million fentanyl pills in the last week alone. look at the photos. multiple different fentanyl busts at the port of entry there. 420,000 fentanyl pills and 11 pounds of meth all concealed in a hidden compartment in the floor of a vehicle in one bust. another bust 391,000 fentanyl pills hidden in the car's doors and spare tire. they also found 10 pounds of meth in that bust. a third bust 90,000 fentanyl pills and 14 pounlds of pure fentanyl powder and 21 pounds of meth. 1 million fentanyl pills, one week, one tiny spot on the border in arizona. that's not all. look at these photos. border patrol making their own fentanyl bust. they just seized 12 pounds of

fentanyl pills hidden in a vehicle at a highway checkpoint off i-19. a canine hit on it. the pills are worth $140,000. they made it past the port of entry. the agents were at the checkpoint to seize it and now where we are look at this video over the weekend here in eagle pass. massive groups of migrants continuing to cross day in and day out. almost all of them single adult men from venezuela or cuba. averaging more than 1500 illegal crossings every day here. some of the folks you are seeing in the video here are the ones who will likely end up on buses to either new york or washington, d.c. all those people being transported on those buses to the major metro areas. almost all of them are starngt right here in eagle pass where we're getting massive illegal crossings day in and day out. we'll send it back to you. >> dana: bill melugin in texas. thank you so much. also now the other side of the world china launching another round of military drills near

taiwan today despite the fact the drills were scheduled to end yesterday. let's bring in former c.i.a. station chief dan hoffman. why do you think they're continuing? >> i think china is taking the opportunity further to try to isolate taiwan and they are trying to make a point to taiwan's allies in the region to try to induce them not to support taiwan further with economic, trade and with any sort of military assistance. they know the united states will carry on with our close coordination and collaboration with taiwan. this is a strong message to taiwan as well as to the region. >> bill: they expanded it by a day. you have to think they're practicing, right, dan? i made the point with general jack keane china hasn't been at war since 1979. they need to see if they can even communicate. >> yeah. they didn't do too well in the war against vietnam. it was 40 years ago roughly when chinese general secretary

ping said that china should hide its strength and bide its time. now china's policy extraordinarily different. now with that aggressive posture in the taiwan straits, militarizing the south china sea. it is an opportunity for the u.s. intelligence community as well to collect on china's military exercises and then take action as a result to provide the assistance taiwan needs in the future to protect their territorial integrity. >> dana: one of the things china always emphasizes is they want a peaceful reunification. these drills wouldn't suggest that. >> no, they sure wouldn't. china has made it clear that taiwan is what they consider to be a breakaway province. i also think that they believe that time is not on their side anymore as each year goes by, taiwan citizens grow ever more committed to the democracy that

taiwan has built for its 23 million people. i think china understands that and they know that their only option at least at this point is coercion. if you are wondering whether the one country, two systems policy might work look what china did to hong kong. a clear message to taiwan. >> bill: we're one year removed from the afghanistan exit. a lot of reflection this month. we did it with nikki haley. she did not hold back how she believes the world sees this administration based on that one event in kabul, and they've worked around that with ukraine, with china, etc. and now there is a suggestion that the intelligence community will make a pivot toward china. what do you make of that based on what you've heard about it, dan? >> i tell you, based on my decades of experience at the c.i.a., i always felt there was a dichotomy between the c.i.a. and intelligence community at large. we're a global service tracking threats all over the world.

iran's nuclear program or north korea, terrorism, china. whatever the threat of the day is we have to be there globally detecting the threats so they won't visit our shores. policy is a different matter. there is a bandwidth with this administration with deal with only so much. they wanted to pivot from a policy standpoint to china. the threat with the shortest fuse continues to be terrorism. we left behind a failed terrorist state in afghanistan. al-zawahiri strike, as important as it was, it just demonstrated the extent to which al qaeda and taliban are intertwined. safe haven exists in afghanistan since 9/11 and a clear and present danger to our country. >> dana: thank you for your thoughts this morning. we appreciate his expertise as always. >> bill: al-zawahiri was removed.

>> dana: a little thing. nancy pelosi got a lot of attention last week because she went to taiwan. a lot of questions that were posed to her about china. this is what she said about her connection with china. >> when i was a little girl i was told at the beach if i dug a hole deep enough we'd reach china. we always felt a connection there. >> dana: my sister and i had a sand box on elm street in denver and we were told the same. that's our connection. >> bill: you didn't go to tokyo and say that. she did. >> dana: i haven't been given the opportunity. had i been given the opportunity i might have. >> bill: when i was a little boy if i kept digging i would hit china. we didn't say it out loud. >> dana: keep digging and hand me the shovel. >> bill: every day. eight minutes past now. president biden, first lady jill biden heading to eastern kentucky. one a mess there is to see there. the president cleared to travel

after his second straight negative covid test on sunday. white house says they'll visit affected families and survey recovery efforts at a fema disaster center. robert ray from fox weather live in neon, kentucky with what's happening there. how does it look? >> bill, good morning. from one of the hardest-hit towns in all of the appalachians in eastern kentucky you can see piles of mud and debris still on the ground. garbage truck trying to get some of it out of here. this area is grappling. over the weekend they saw heavy rains on saturday and the cleanup continues here as many people are in need. president biden will be on the ground soon. but to the north in lexington and visiting a town 60 miles from here. the people here have told us firsthand they would like to see president biden visit here, one of the hardest-hit pockets along with governor.

we are hearing comments expected this afternoon. the neon fire department here now is at a spot where all of the supplies are coming into the region. everything from toothpaste, shampoo, clean supplies and good. army national guard gear on the ground. aid groups are on the ground. i can tell you right now all weekend people were driving up into here asking and saying to folks we are in need. many of these folks live in poverty and now their homes are gone, displaced. this town is almost 100% destroyed. unless you were on high ground you were flooded with rapid rising waters. 10 feet or more in some spots, bill. that's the problem. there are people here that would like to rebuild but the question is will the funds come in? answers like that are expected from the ground and the residents here. they hope to hear concrete words from the president and other officials that are

elected here. they are in need. cannot stress that enough. this is the situation, day 10 after 37 people lost their life and you look at the disaster still on the ground. >> bill: it's something else, robert. thank you for that and we'll follow the trip today and see if folks get what they are looking for. 100% of a town destroyed is hard to 4th fathom. >> dana: anne heche is facing a long recovery of the accident that sent her to the hospital and what happened before the crash. >> bill: the new york city bow diego worker is afraid for his life again. his plans for the future and a life-changing decision coming up. >> dana: democrats say their new spending plan will help tame inflation. republicans say it will do the opposite. also raise taxes on the middle class. >> the bill does not reduce

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>> dana: an update now that is very depressing for us here at

fox news covering the story dill gantly. the new york city bodega worker is reportedly leaving the city and moving back to the dominican republic. jose alba is said to be in fear for his life. this after prosecutors charged him with murder and sent him to ryker's island. an enormous public outcry. the d.a. later dropped the charge. sadly for him the situation is that he feels that he needs to leave in order to have his life. it is a terrible outcome. >> bill: there is a lot wrong with this story. it continues to be. the mayor and nypd will hold a press conference and embrace the guy. might set an example for some crime we're watching in the city though, right? that you have to leave new york as bad as it's gotten to go back home after being here 35 years. >> dana: right. >> bill: good luck, sir. in the meantime dana we're learning more about the car

crash in l.a. that put actress anne heche in the hospital and destroyed a home. she is 53, in stable condition. severe burns we're told. police say she slammed her car into a garage and backed up and took off before smashing into a house setting off a massive fire. jonathan hunt live in l.a. with the latest on her condition today. what have you learned? hello. >> good morning. it was the horrific crash as anyone who has seen the pictures knows. anne heche's car horribly burned. the house into which she crashed while driving at twice the legal speed limit severely damage and heche stretchered away suffering burns listed in critical condition but now we understand upgraded to stable. that's the good news. the actor alec baldwin one of several celebrities wishing the star a speedy recovery. >> i love you, ann. i love you and you are such a

talented person and i hope everything is okay. i hope you come through this. >> while there was attention to heche's crash and asked people to quote pray for her. one twitter user replied, quote, she could have killed somebody. she needs serious mental health counseling before she hurts someone. heche has spoken openly over many years about her mental health struggles. there is no official word whether any type of mental health episode may have played a role in the crash. the owner of the home into which heche crashed was unhurt but her home was almost completely destroyed. she lost a lifetime of memories in the now uninhabitable house and also this question of the podcast that heche recorded last week prior to the accident. not on the day of as we understand it, but she talked

about having terrible days and drinking vodka and wine essentially at the same time. no indication that that played into this but the lapd has a lot of questions to ask anne heche when they're able to. >> bill: a lot of questions. few winners in this, too. jonathan hunt, thank you. we'll follow it to see how she does in her recovery. >> it takes a special kind of stupid in my judgment to raise taxes during both a recession and inflation. that's called stagflation, which is what we have right now as a result of president biden's policies. >> dana: senator kennedy taking aim at the multi-billion dollar spending bill passed by democrats yesterday. 51-50 vote. republicans saying the package will super size the i.r.s. to target taxpayers. and they say democrats will pay

the price at the mid-terms. guy benson, fox news contributor and ronna mcdaniel said democrats will pay the price for raising taxes on families during a recession. do you think that's true? >> i think there is a lot to dislike in this bill. you heard a brief summary of some of those things from senator kennedy there. you just referenced this i.r.s. piece that could be particularly toxic. they're doubling -- the democrats are doubling in this bill the size of the i.r.s. hiring tens of thousands of new employees, agents, auditors and swear no, this is not intended for anyone making less than $400,000, only for the rich and those evil corporations and their buddies at the i.r.s. say trust us, that's true. no intent for middle class or working class americans. there are all sorts of indications that yes, ordinary americans would be in the crosshairs of more audits and senator from idaho said if that's what you are saying, it

won't hurt average people. let's put that into the bill and offered an amendment over the weekend saying let's protect anyone taking under $400,000. every single senate democrat voted it down and killed it. senator warnock and kelly to name a few at random. they all got on the same team and on a party line vote killed that amendment. they can promise things with their rhetoric when given the opportunity to actually enshrine what they are saying into their own bill they all said no. i think that speaks volumes. >> dana: the political ads will write themselves and so you will see a lot of that this november. number three, taxes will rise by 16.7 billion in 2023 on americans earning less than $200,000 a year. we're going to continue to see this. we'll cover it and the impact

on the elections we'll have to wait and see. there was also this which is an incredible fight that's going on between governor abbott in texas and the new york city mayor, eric adams, about migrants who have crossed illegally into the united states getting a bus ticket to new york city. here is mayor adams. listen. >> this is horrific when you think about what the governor is doing. some of the families are on the bus that wanted to go to other locations and they were not allowed to do so. they were forced on the bus with the understanding that they were going to other locations. when they tried to explain they were not allowed to do so. >> dana: what do you make of this controversy? >> it is just incredible to listen to these quotes from mayor adams and also here in washington, d.c. mayor bowser. he called it horrific. what the state of texas is doing by sending migrants to the blue cities in the

northeast, not a peep about the actual border crisis that is crushing border communities and states and adams went to go meet one of these buses for a photo op to welcome the migrants with open arms because new york is a sanctuary city. they claim to be proud of that. although the other side of his mouth he is saying it is terrible and we can't have this. a few days ago he said texas should be keeping these people and giving them housing. basically keep this problem out of sight, out of mind. we don't want it in new york but we support it but only down in texas. that's a totally incoherent position but it is currently the position of several big city democratic mayors. >> dana: fascinating to watch indeed. we'll catch you on the radio this afternoon. guy benson, thanks. >> thanks. >> bill: charges expected today in a los angeles car crash that left six people dead. what we're learning about the woman police say was behind the wheel. the push for answers on hunter

biden. what the f.b.i. is supposed to hand over by today.

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>> bill: kharjts expected in a deadly crash in l.a. a warning you could find this video disturbing. here it is now. police say a registered nurse from houston named nicole linton was driving a car that sped through an intersection at 100 miles per hour. six people were killed including a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. also her baby son was killed and 24-year-old boyfriend. police say the suspect slammed into five cars at the intersection that she and seven others were injured during that crash. it is devastating from l.a. wow. >> dana: multi-state manhunt coming to an end after the suspect wanted in a deadly mass shooting spree in ohio was

captured in kansas. mike tobin is live with this. >> the good news it is over. any threat to the public has been removed. a lot of credit is going to police in lawrence, kansas. police in lawrence, kansas, gained information that gave them reason to suspect that this suspect steven marleau could be coming to their town. an officer spotted the vehicle that he was driving. the car turned into a parking lot. the man was arrested without incident. he was arrested for the murders of four people in two crime scenes in a town called butler township near dayton, ohio. a little town of 8,000 people that has never seen any major violence before. information is that he drove a straight shot up i-70. the shootings happened just before noon on friday. he was picked up saturday night in kansas.

not a lot is known about the motive. neighbors say he complained about people in the area making noise prior to the murders. dayton daily news reports he graduated from the university of kentucky at lexington and worked in chicago as a traird and the career ended in 2018 and lived with his parents. he was picked up for aggravated burglary and threatening the owner with a weapon. awaiting extradition from kansas. he is looking at charges are unlawful flight from prosecution and four counts of aggravated murder. >> bill: today is the deadline given by senator chuck grassley for the f.b.i. and d.o.j. to turn over their records on hunter biden. he accused the agencies of a cover-up designed to bury negative stories about the president's son. here to talk about it a columnist from the "new york post" from austin, texas. good morning to you. grassley's letter says the

allegation provided to my office appear to indicate that there is a scheme in place among certain f.b.i. officials to undermine derogatory information connected to hunter biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation. i guess recall october of 2020 when the laptop was going public, the f.b.i. kicked it to the curb. >> right. thanks for having me, bill. it is important to remember that the f.b.i. has had the information on the hunter biden laptop since at least december of 2019. part of the reason the laptop ended up in the media at all is because the laptop repairment gave it to law enforcement and thought he was doing the right thing and they did nothing. he was sort of a whistleblower and gave it to the media. there was a whistleblower complaint to chuck grassley and in october of 2020 the f.b.i.

moved to sideline lines of inquiry into hunter biden and to not look into things and falsely classify things as russian disinformation. i think a few days after the post's reporting which exclusively revealed the existence of this hard drive, 51 former intelligence agency officials put out a letter calling this russian disinformation. and a number of these officials, james clapper, john brennan led whole agencies during the obama/biden administration. it is very hard to believe that some of these people who signed this letter calling it russian disinformation, you know, wouldn't have been aware of what hunter was up to while his father was vice president. >> bill: let me just remind our viewers about part of what that letter said from 51 former intel agents. again two weeks before the election. the arrival on the u.s. political scene of emails from hunter have all the classic

earmarks have a russian information operation. if we are are right this is russia trying to influence the vote and we believe americans need to be aware of this. end quote. that held up like sand on a beach, john. >> right. people who run the department of defense, people who run the nsa, these are people that can find a terrorist in the middle of a country and do a precision guided strike. it is very hard to believe they would have been completely in the dark about what the vice president's son was up to when they were leading these intelligence agencies. so if they were aware of what hunter was doing and they also signed this letter calling it russian disinformation, something doesn't square right and so the hunter investigation clearly is much larger than just hunter himself. >> bill: to your newspaper today kevin mccarthy is talking

about hearings. if republicans take over the house, a lot of these intel officials will be subpoenaed i would imagine, would they not? >> i mean, it is probable. it is probable there will be subpoenas for those who don't come willingly to answer questions. we have to get to the bottom of this letter. the whole credibility of the u.s. intelligence agencies are on the line. if they put out information that they know is false you have to ask yourself why are they do that and you have to get into where did this letter come from? who got the letter going? was there a political origin to this letter? why would these intelligence agency officials put their good names on the line for stuff that they probably would have known wasn't correct? so these are all things have to come out in a broader hearing which has been promised if republicans take back the howls in the mid-term elections. >> bill: nice to see you. see you in new york sometimes soon. thank you. >> dana: crime and chaos and

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>> bill: small businesses are struggling to stay afloat in major cities. people say they will continue working from home. mark meredith is in the story in washington, d.c. how will it work out? >> it will be tough for a lot of businesses out there. even if covid is fading from the headlines the economic repercussions are felt nationwide. commercial real estate market. some businesses mandated workers get back and others offer remote options. buildings remain quiet. a commercial real estate firm reports inflationary pressures and uncertainty around office yulization caused hesitation

slowed down leasing. businesses nearby whether about bars, restaurants, you name it all seeing less foot traffic that impacts their bottom line. >> i used to have seven or eight people work here. now coronavirus came and it's day and night. >> we begin to look for people help those businesses. leaders admit the future remains uncertain. crime surging in major u.s. cities which could incentivize workers to stay home instead of going to an office building downtown. demand for office space rising in some places, sun belt markets austin, dallas, charlotte. >> bill: the great migration continues. very interesting. nice to see you. thank you in washington >> dana: the new york state health department says hundreds

of people may be infected with polio after it was found in waste water samples from two counties north of new york city. the last cases to originate in the u.s. back in 1979. health commissioner dr. mary bassett writes based on earlier polio outbreaks for every one case of polo observed there may be hundreds of other people infected. the department is treating a single case of polio as the tip of the iceberg of much greater potential spread. the danger of polio is present in new york today. let's bring in fox news contributor dr. marc siegel. two ways that people get this. you can have mild symptoms which would be like 1 in 4 people. sore throat, fever, things like that. there is severe polio symptoms 1 out of 1,000 people. what would people feel then, dr. marc siegel? >> well, dana, very well set up. the issue is that it's rare to

get the paralysis from polio. everyone thinks it's common because it is so striking. that's rare. if you see a case of par all si, which we saw in rockland county in new york you say there will be hundreds of other people that had it and didn't know it. may have had flu-like symptoms or 75% of the time no symptoms. that's the problem here. we think it spread in a county like rockland or orange where the vaccine rate is low often because of religious reasons. the amount of people getting the full vaccination is 60% in rockland county. way, way too low. how did it get here? from someone who had the oral vaccine, a live virus back seen somewhere else not in the united states. we don't give that vaccine in the united states anymore. we only give the sauk vaccine, a dead virus vaccine. someone got the live virus, traveled here and gave it to someone at risk because they

weren't vaccinated. >> dana: how quickly could something like polio spread and what should people be looking for? >> well, i want people to be reassured today if you had a full vaccine series, four shots when you were a kid before school age it gives you 99 to 100% protection and it lasts for years. if, however, you are going to an area where there is polo around. i want to show you the dramatic result of the vaccine. we have gone from 350,000 cases in the world in 1988 down to 140 last year. in the united states there hasn't been a naturally occurring case since 1979. huge success for this vaccination. so if you've had the vaccine as a child, your chances of getting polio are really low. if you live in an area or traveling to an area where i'm seeing polio, i will give you a booster. i have that in my refrigerator. that booster will give you 100% protection. we have the tools we need.

i don't want anyone to be afraid of it. paralysis is relatively rare. the way it's spread is through g.i. track. in the 1940s swimming pools were where it was spread and also saliva, not airborne transmission. you won't get it from standing in a room from someone with polio or was infected with it. >> dana: just for people watching at home. if they are headed to the doctor for a regular checkup or going in should they ask for a polio booster or not yet? >> not yet. i am starting to think this morning. you always ask the smartest questions. maybe for people living in rockland county where this case is it might be a good idea to ask your doctor about it. i give it to travelers going to somalia or asian or africa. it is a dead virus. sauk vaccine around since 1955. new york university school of

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the south. texas's governor just sent another bus load to a dem-led new york city. the mayor there is begging for help from the federal government. ronna mcdaniel. congressman michael waltz and jason rantz. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. ♪ >> bill: there was a 17th century shipwreck our lady of wonder living up to its name. underwater exploration of that ship has uncovered a treasure trove of fascinating artifacts and a lot of money to boot. carl allen is with me. good morning to you. congratulations. just want to update viewers on what you have here. shipwreck in 1756, right? it was going from havana, cuba, to spain, a great road trip. what happened? >> bill, first of all it's great to be here. i'm a big fan.

yes, i have been thinking about this ship almost my whole life. i met mel fisher when i was a young lad and got the disease and a couple of years ago i got a license from the government and we have brought up the last couple of years thousands of artifacts. i'm sitting here in our museum that opens in 20 minutes. very excited. >> bill: here is what i've got, 360 years to find this. since you have been diving you've come up with 3,000 silver coins and a lot of other stuff. >> this is a 7-foot gold chain that weighs almost three pounds. it is intracatly carved. >> that would look great around dew point's neck. >> i think my wife might have a

problem with that. >> bill: how much could you get for that if you sold it? >> oh gosh, don't even go there. i don't know. i mean it's -- there is nothing like this. i don't know. i'm not selling it, i know that. nothing has left this country and we're very proud of that. this is one of the most unique pieces ever found in the western hemisphere. >> bill: what else do you have there? >> i got a little piece here that we found. it is a 20 carat and the knights of santiago. we found this gold cross that says -- a blessing that you won't break bones. what is amazing about this piece, it is embedded with wood.

after 365 years why is that wood still there we don't know. it is fascinating. a piece that was found. i didn't find this but found at the site owned by a man named jack kelly found in the 70s. i did not find that debris field. a man named bob marx did. i got to know him a couple years before he died and i am on his debris field now. we have thousands and thousands of artifacts in this museum. we open in the bahamas today. a great public/private partnership agreement with the bahama government. >> bill: grab that pendant. the area of the water is 50 feet deep. i think it would look great on dana perino. it is only 50 feet deep but a lot of treasures were 20 feet below the sand.

how do you find it? >> that's the biggest problem. it is all dead reefs out there. anywhere from 2 to 20 feet of sand. we can blow the sand out and we send divers down with metal detectors. a fascinating process. we aren't hurting the environment. it is great. >> bill: good luck on the museum. love to come and pay a vits. >> yes, sir. >> bill: my best to your wife. >> dana: fascinating. amazing. before we go i have to tell you this because that was under the sea. this is scientists apologizing for tweeting this picture telling his followers it was a photo of a distant star captured by the james webb space telescope. in fact, it is a piece san francisco -- there was anger online. the scientist said it was meant

as a joke. i have to say. >> bill: i feel like i have been defrauded. >> dana: will you sue? i think it is proof there are no ufos. i will go with this evidence. >> bill: what would you tell the fighter jets, those pilots from the u.s. navy? >> dana: check the deli counter. here is harris faulkner. >> harris: dire warnings for democrats now. that so-called inflation reduction act has passed. the poll it will tax mower grab that sics the i.r.s. on middle class families may backfire in november. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". it is a nearly $740 billion energy and healthcare bill squeaking by the senate. vice president kamala harris had to cast the deciding vote in the evenly divided