the olympics wanted to win a medal and she would put the flag on her shoulder so she could burn it. it shouldn't be. >> go back to the idea we cancel what we don't agree with. it's so cowardly, why can't we talk to each other and use our words to debate. >> and we just throw out terms and names. >> we have to go. "america reports." >> sandra: a shocking jewelry heist caught on camera. a team of thieves in new york city smashing glass cases and fistfuls of high end diamond jewelry into bags, seen there. more than $2 million worth of valuables gone in less than a minute. >> the latest in the disturbing rise in crime here in the big apple and cities across america. leo terrell will be here to sound off on that coming up in moments. >> sandra: but we begin with the fox news alert to kick off

"america reports" on this monday afternoon. democrats scoring big wins over the tax and spend bill. will they pay the price as many republicans are suggesting come the midterm elections? hello, and welcome everyone. sandra smith in new york city. >> bill: hope you had a great weekend. good weekend, too, at home. john roberts has the day off. let's get to it now. months of negotiations, different versions of build back better. democratic senators manchin and sinema get on board with schumer's passage, kind of was a secret to everybody. >> sandra: and manchin claiming the $740 billion bill would not raise taxes on the middle class, republicans are making the case otherwise. >> bill: warning that billions in extra spending will come back to haunt democrats election time in november. >> sandra: and in the middle of all of it, aishah is live on capitol hill, manchin and sinema

are dealing with serious fallout from every direction after this passage. >> hey, sandra, good to see you. that's right. democrats have headed home to tout this package as a big win. but senators manchin and sinema were getting hit from every side before they even left the building. as you know, senator sinema convinced her colleagues to ditch efforts to include private equity firms in a new 15% minimum tax rate on billion dollar companies and in exchange for her very crucial vote. progressives are calling the move an afront to those who pay their taxes by providing tax breaks for wealthy money managers, while critics took to the airwaves to blast her. >> yeah, find someone who loves you the way sinema loves the private equity and venture capital. you know, she fought really hard

for that carried interest tax loophole. >> sinema is reportedly the sixth highest paid recipient of the investment industry. senators office claims she is simply protecting arizona's economic growth and competitiveness. senator manchin's republican colleagues who feel betrayed by his reversal will likely target the senator in 2024. former president trump threatening that over the weekend. >> joe manchin has totally sold west virginia out. what he's done to west virginia, i don't believe. i don't believe they are going to stand for it. i'll go down and campaign against him as hard as anybody can. >> trump won west virginia by 68% in 2020, his words do carry weight. but manchin, trying to downplay the threat by saying the president tried it in 2018, it

helped him get elected. maybe he'll help me again. republicans, don't forget, scooped up plenty of midterm ammo by forcing them to vote no on crime, border security, already seeing this play out in battleground nevada, sandra, where they are using this against vulnerable democrat cortez mastro. >> sandra: thank you. byron york, great to have you. thanks for joining us. byron, i'm still stuck on inflation reduction act. by the white house's own estimates, this would only bring down inflation by a third of a percentage point, said jared bernstein on this program friday. byron, is this going to do anything to help people struggling through the high prices? >> no, and you have to remember, this is a ten-year bill.

and the so-called anti-inflation effects would only take place in the last two years, so talking about 2028, 29, 30. so it's nothing for right now, and you know, if you noticed, all of the news coverage in the washington post and the new york times about the passage of the bill, they said senate passes huge new climate prescription drug measure, don't say anything about inflation. other than the name, there's really nothing about inflation in the whole thing. >> bill: so the inflation claims are one thing. bernie sanders said it will have minimal impact, so-called inflation reduction. he still voted for it, byron. of the households in america, with less than $25,000 in earnings, they are five times more likely to be audited by the i.r.s., byron. yet the argument over the weekend is that the money -- the billion dollars of dollars that will beef up the i.r.s. will go

to tax cheats in the billionaire and millionaire class. do you buy that? >> it's an extraordinary development here. $80 billion for the i.r.s. the i.r.s. only has about 93, 94,000 employees right now. this would add close to 87,000 employees to them. it's an extraordinary increase, and as a matter of fact, this is something that's been bouncing around for a while. democrats included the same i.r.s. provisions in the old build back better bill that didn't make it, and at that time a former i.r.s. commissioner under both presidents obama and trump said you know, it's too much money. i.r.s. does not have anything to do with that much money. maybe 25 billion would be ok. but 80 billion is crazy and yet that is what democrats have just done. >> sandra: quoting senator john

kennedy from louisiana, says raising taxes during inflation and recession, a special kind of stupid. i'm not a fan of name calling, but byron, you go back in recent american history, never a time of sky high inflation in the country where raising taxes would help bring down prices. the same conversation with larry kudlow on friday. a special study of economic history in the country. it just does not work. you can't do it. so, what do you see the consequences of raising taxes on the american people and businesses in the middle of a recession? >> that's the other problem, not only during inflation, but in a recession. and even for those who argue that we are not in a recession right now, they are worried that we are falling into a recession, not a good idea to raise taxes. it's not going to help the problem. you have to look at this bill what just passed, so-called inflation reduction act.

and it's a lot of long standing democratic priorities. they have wanted to put a huge amount of money into climate change measures, mostly into massive subsidies for renewable energy resources for solar panels, for wind, subsidies for electric cars, all that sort of stuff. they have wanted to do it a long time. and frankly, a lot of them think they are going to lose control of at least the house in november so this is the last chance to do anything like that with the democratic president. they did it. >> bill: called for two guys and then for 1, 69% say the economy is getting worse, dreadful number there. and another poll found the congressional ballot between democrats and republicans getting wider. how much credence in the idea that republicans led in may by four points and democrats lead in august by seven on this.

>> well, frankly in what's called the generic ballot poll question, asked in so many polls, which is basically the question if the election were held today, would you vote for the democrat or the republican for your member of congress. and republicans lead by the tiniest amount in an average of those polls. but there's a lot of optimism, actually, that's come out in the democratic party in the last week or so. they think the generic ballot is getting closer, they think they are doing better, and now they think they can go to the base and look, we have kept the promises, passed this enormous bill and we'll fight republican efforts to outlaw abortion. so they are feeling actually some new strength right now. but the basic underlying fundamentals of this election so far are inflation at 9.1%, and democratic president whose approval rating is in the mid 30s. that's a terrible predictor of a way a party will perform in the

midterm elections. >> sandra: if this bill can bring inflation down to 9 and 2/3, joke, joke, byron, thank you for joining us. good to see you. >> bill: happening right now in kentucky, president biden is in the bluegrass state touring the devastating toll from that historic flooding. 37 dead, thousands more without power. from fox weather, robert is in neon, kentucky, so many towns in ruins. and robert you were saying about 100% of that town has been wiped out. >> yeah, bill. this town is decimated by the north fork of the kentucky river. you see behind me, the mud and the debris literally someone's sofa, you've got tires, this an office basically that has been ramshackled and taken out, the building collapsed.

it's a difficult time, ten days after this flood occurred, 37 people lost their lives, including four children. people have been at it literally all this past weekend, more rain and pooling and flooding here, and now it is very dusty as the store fronts here in neon, kentucky are so damaged. if you can walk with me, give you an idea about all the aid and the supplies that are coming in. there are groups from all over the country that have brought in foods, cleaning supplies, rations. funeral home, folks have dropped off -- sorry about that, we have a vehicle coming to get us on the road, but all the stuff here for the people to take. this is a disaster like no other in the appalachian mountains, not a good scene as the president is talking right now with the governor and making remarks here and the president about 60 miles from where we are at here in neon, kentucky, bill.

>> bill: thank you, we'll follow it from here. they have been dealt a very tough hand there in eastern kentucky. and as we are watching this right now, among the people you speak to, just about everybody says they want to rebuild, don't they? >> yes, you know. that's the thing. there is a lot of talk about rebuilding. the question is, will there be funds, and you see the supplies here. and ask from the mouth of one person here, jeff hawkins, a long time resident here, my goodness, jeff, the president is speaking right now, there is a town that is decimated here as so many are. what do you need right now, what does this region need? >> i think very specifically we need money beyond a commitment to help. we need immediately the resources that are necessary to rebuild the infrastructure and invest in the people who are here. and that could come in the form

of money or the contracts with folks to be able to rebuild roads, put bridges back, get people potable water, the list goes on and on. >> you have need it now, right. the talk of getting money, guys, that's all good. the reality is we need it now. >> that's exactly right. talk is talk and i appreciate the well wishes and all of that, but we are at a point now where we really need trained people with equipment to be able to come here and do work. the volunteers who have poured from all over the country, and our neighboring counties, have been incredible. but they have come with shovels and brooms and mops. we need equipment, we need money for culverts and the roads. >> jeff, thank you. rising from the mud a phrase said around here bill, and i've got to say as a journalist i don't advocate, usually, i tell the facts. but this time around the reality

is, is that this region needs cash and they need it now. otherwise the rebuild is not going to happen and people's lives will still be in danger. >> bill: neon, kentucky, eastern part of the state. thank you, robert. >> sandra: we will check back in there. china says it is ramping up military drills around taiwan. the move coming a day after the island hosted the prime minister of the caribbean nation of st. vincent and the grenadines. china argued nancy pelosi's trip violated the united states one china policy. the policy says the u.s. acknowledges but does not condone china's claim of sovereignty over taiwan. as many of you may have seen, chaos at the airports coast to coast over the weekend. thousands of flights either canceled or delayed. where it was the worst and what

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>> sandra: fox news alert, pentagon just announcing $1 billion in new military aid for ukraine. largest yet deliveries of arms from american stockpiles. includes rockets, ammunition and other arms straight from the department of defense stocks for

ukrainian forces. all comes as analysts are warning that russia is moving troops and equipment toward port cities in southern ukraine to hold off a counter offensive. so that news just coming in to us now, bill, and continued need and support for their ukrainian forces, the united states continues to respond. >> bill: the bill getting higher and higher, does it not. back at home, a massive amount of fentanyl across the southern border. a series of busts in arizona, found nearly a million pills. bill has the news. eagle pass, texas, and where have the agents been seizing most of the fentanyl, bill. >> nogales, arizona, bill, quickly become the fentanyl hot spot. agents have seized more than 1 million fentanyl pills in a single one-week span. take a look at the photos of the multiple busts.

420,000 fentanyl pills and 11 pounds of meth, hidden in a secret compartment in the floor of a vehicle. a second bust, 391,000 fentanyl pills in a vehicle's doors and spare tire. and ten pounds of meth in that vehicle as well. note bust, 90,000 fentanyl pills and 14 pounds of pure fentanyl powder, and 21 pounds of met in a spare tire of a smuggler's vehicle. more than 1 million fentanyl pills in nogales, arizona in one single week. border patrol made their own bust in the nogales area of fentanyl. a canine hit on a vehicle at a checkpoint on interstate 19 in arizona interior, they opened up the car, 12 pounds of fentanyl pills inside the interior of that vehicle. those pills worth estimated $140,000 on the street.

again, those pills found in the interior of arizona. they had already gotten past the port of entry. and where we are, the video in eagle pass over the weekend, enormous numbers of migrants continue crossing illegally here, day in and day out. averaging more than 1500 people every single day. the video you are looking at, several groups we saw, several hundred in size, almost all of them single adult men. we are not seeing the family units like last summer, adult men primarily from venezuela, cuba and nicaragua. and since october 1st, the del rio sector, almost 390,000 illegal crossings. those numbers are double the same time last year. and back out here live, many of those migrants on the video right there, the ones that texas governor greg abbott has decided to start bussing to new york city and to washington, d.c., almost all of them are coming

from here in eagle pass. taken into custody and then start the long journey up to new york or washington, d.c. and officials up there are not too happy about it. back to you. >> bill: thank you, bill. nice to see you. eagle pass, texas. thank you, sandra. >> sandra: kansas republican senator roger marshall. are we doing enough to stem the flow of these drugs over our southern border? it is killing so many americans, and notably now they say the most dangerous time to be a teenager in america because of it. what more can we be doing? >> oh, my goodness, sandra. i don't think we are doing 1% of what we could be doing. our border patrol officers basically are functioning like hotel operators. greeting 5,000 to 10 to you illegal immigrants every day, and that gives the drug cartel free rein to cross the border. most every day in kansas somebody dies from fentanyl

poisoning. across america, 250 are dying every day. kansas, my only state sits at the crossroads. we are a border state like every state is in america. so we are doing minimally to help it and we have an administration that won't even admit that we have a problem. >> sandra: that is a problem. america's fentanyl crisis, comparison made by the cdc, opioid overdose deaths in 2021, over 80,000 of them. you compare that to the number of deaths, u.s. deaths in the vietnam war, over 58,000. i mean, this is killing so many people. why is this not being made more of a priority? looking at this health crisis, looking at this drug crisis and seeing where the drugs primarily are coming from, senator. >> you are right, sandra. and again, for over a year now, i've been saying our southern border is the number one national security issue, most prominent issue facing america.

why won't the dhs secretary take responsibility and i have you have to include the administration wants the mass migration, willing to sacrifice our children. number one killer for ages 18 to 45 across america but not a priority for this administration. >> sandra: are you a fan of the texas governor bussing migrants to washington, new york and other places where they are now saying they need additional federal resources to handle this. republicans are saying hey, it's a taste of what texas is dealing with. is that an answer or do you believe it's a photo op or political stunt? >> it makes sense to me. i would personally drive a about us to help the other democrat cities, cities feel the same pain. i've been to the border three times, the border cities are simply overwhelmed and i think that our president just refuses to acknowledge the challenges. i wish they would send them to his beach home area and see what

it's like to have people camped out just humanitarian crisis he's creating. so much more when you see it yourself as opposed to hearing it. i think they should do more of it. >> sandra: we obviously saw a lot of activity in washington with the massive spend and tax plan that has the goal of bringing down inflation, senator. many of us are having a hard time finding any economist who is touting this will help bring down prices in the country. quite a weekend. what was your reaction to it all? >> i'm not an economist, 101 by my track coach in college, but this is inflationary for several reasons. number one, drive taxes up, and what corporations do they are going to pass the tax increase on down to the consumers, specifically, it's going to have a bigger impact on manufacturing, and that's going to disrupt the supply chain. we already have a horrible supply chain problem right now. when you start taxing those

corporations, there is less money for pay raises, less money for capital investment, and that's going to trickle down to the consumers and i can tell you the number 1, 2, and 3 issues i hear from people back home is the price of groceries, the price of gas and safety and security which we already addressed. i'm saddened. >> sandra: and i want to ask you about the i.r.s. staffers and the beefing up of them and who will be affected by this the most. you look at the i.r.s. staffers versus other federal agency, set to have more staffer than any other federal agency, workers in the u.s., estimate for the i.r.s., 165,000, department of defense, 27,000. state department, 23,000. fbi, 35,000. you cannot look at any other agency where there are more employees. and now there is this new analysis of i.r.s. data, senator, i'm not sure if you've seen it, transactional records

access clearinghouse at syracuse, university, says the target of this are low income households with less than $25,000 in annual earnings. they are saying the i.r.s. audits the poorest five times the rate of everyone else. your concerns, sir. >> i think hard working americans will once again feel the brunt of this. they have doubled the number of i.r.s. agents. i think they are going to target small businesses. look, i signed a paycheck every other week for as many as 300 people for 25 years and when you go through the audits, number one, it's expensive. so a small business is going to spend 25 to $50,000 a year to defend the audit and you try to do everything right but you still have to defend the audit. this will disproportionately impact small businesses and people that don't have lawyers and accountants full-time in their offices as well. so, once again, joe biden is creating another tax, just like

inflation is a tax on middle income, hard working americans as well. this will be another tax on hard working americans. >> sandra: all right, kansas senator roger marshall, appreciate you joining us. thank you very much. bill, the question continues to be an easy one, it should be, at least, if you sign the legislation, how much is it going to bring down prices? the inflation reduction act, and we had the white house here on friday and they are being advised by their economists that it will result in one-third of a cut to inflation. when you are looking at 9.1% inflation, sky high grocery and gasoline bills, it does not bring you a lot of peace of mind. >> see how it goes through the house and how the title changes or takes on a different definition once it becomes more clear. the whole idea about suggesting the american people want more i.r.s. agents, pretty bold. i think the congressman is right. they say they are going to go after billionaires and millionaires. those people have teams to keep

them away from the i.r.s., to protect them from that. remember the stat we just read about people making $25,000 or less, five times as likely. in the meantime, the actress ann heche in the hospital after crashing her car into a home, a fiery blaze. why are folks like alec baldwin expressing concern for her and not the homeowner? a look at that and see how the homeowner is doing. >> sandra: and smash and grab stealing millions in broad daylight here in new york city. are police overwhelmed by a lack of support and staffing shortages? leo terrell will sound off. >> now you have cops that have to second guess every move they make because of the risks of losing everything you've worked for, losing your life.

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>> sandra: smash and grab

robbers getting away with more than $2 million worth of jewelry in new york city. take a look at this. surveillance footage capturing the robbery on friday. it happened in broad daylight around 2:30 in the afternoon. david lee miller has the details on this for us. david lee, this video is something. did anyone try to stop that robbery while it was happening? >> based on the camera video, no one tried to step in to prevent the robbery. you have to understand, too, the entire smash and grab from beginning to end lasted 47 seconds. began when a man wearing a white t-shirt is buzzed into the store by an employee. instead of entering, he holds the door open for three masked accomplices. trays are smashed and trays of jewelry removed. some in a red shopping bag, others are carried out of the store. the man in the white t-shirt stays outside. it's in the fordham section of

the bronx, a number of people can be seen walking by during the robbery. and a few even glance in the direction of the store's window. most people seem indifferent or unaware to the robbery that is taking place. the recording ends with all four men racing down the street. in addition to the video, the nypd has released freeze frames hoping someone will help identify the crooks. as of this afternoon, there have been no arrests. police say total value of the loot taken, 2.15 million. in the last few months, similar smash and grab thefts at nearby jewelry stores, and according to the latest crime data, robbery in new york city is up more than 37% compared to the same period, sandra, a year ago. >> sandra: a struggle for people who live here and for the businesses trying to protect themselves while still here. david lee miller, thank you. >> bill: thanks.

nationwide, more and more police officers leaving their jobs and crime is on the rise. it started during the early days of the pandemic, and only worse in the wake of the defund the police movement and tightening job market as well. one police sergeant in oregon says because of a staff shortage, some cops are only to investigate violent crimes. leo terrell is with me. hello to you. good afternoon in california, good morning. one cop says we are triage -- some head winds for the cops right now, leo, look at something, all right. in the city of new york, about 33,000 on the force. 1500 retirements this year. in chicago, down 750 in the last year, san diego 230, seattle 225, and dallas 550. leo, how do we stop the slide? >> well, we can't at this point. police officers are an endangered species.

you don't hear of the progressive wing of the democratic party talking about a build back better plan for police officers or rescue plan. officers are a hindrance to the progressive left, and officers are not going to apply their talents and skills to these crimes when they are not getting support. bill, you mentioned triage, that means a lot of people working on cold cases cannot work on them anymore because they are short-handed. there is a massive police shortage. victims and families, those cases go without closure, without completion, and these cases are ignored. that's what's going on right now. top of the story you just mentioned with the smash and grab jewelry store, bodega worker leaving, the average citizen does not have the same police protection as joe biden or the elitist who can have their own private security. >> bill: if you retire early you don't get your pension, and that's quite a statement, leo. and some cases, like we found in chicago, a lot of cops are

leaving the force and moving to other towns where they feel that their job is more respected. >> a case in portland, 36-year-old man was stabbed to death. it's been five years, the parents cannot get closure because the case has been abandoned by the police because they have to work on the current case load. when you couple a large police shortage with ongoing crime, look at the data you just provided on the graphic. more cases of crime going up. this is a problem, and i want people to know the democrats do not look at crime as an issue. police officers are a hindrance to the progressive wing of the democratic party. that's why we will continue to have this until we have a change in the administration and a change in the house and senate. >> bill: crime in major u.s. cities, new york is up 37% -- 37%, wow. chicago, 35. and the list goes on, l.a., san fran, new orleans and

philadelphia. did you see a piece in wall street journal, george soros is not hiding behind his efforts. pretty much saying we have to reform our system and i'm going to help these prosecutors do it. on the other side of it, you have the cops that are looking at the revolving door in all the major towns, a minimal number of people, leo, are committing the crimes, checking in the courthouse for an hour and walking out the other side. >> bill, let me be as clear as i can. career criminals love what's going on in the democratic cities and george soros article, i read it, he's doubling down. democratic politicians are more loyal to george soros than their own constituency, and they don't care. they care about the money that george soros has admitted he's going to keep funding soft prosecutors and the democratic, opening their arms. >> chicago this weekend, 52

people shot, seven fatally. no one on the national level is talking about that. another weekend, a summer of chicago. >> it doesn't meet their narrative. and guess what, you'll be reporting that again in seven days. it happened every week in chicago. >> bill: i get it. leo terrell from l.a. >> thank you. >> sandra: from the nba to apple to snickers, some u.s. companies caving to china and they are saying the who us is to blame. adam will weigh in. >> bill: a year since the chaotic withdrawal of troops out of kabul. thousands clung to the airplane and tossed their babies over a fence in desperation to get out. not one u.s. official has been fired for it. where does afghanistan go next? >> it's clear the taliban is protecting al-qaeda, so that as far as i'm concerned afghanistan is a safe haven for al-qaeda.

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>> bill: closing in on one year since the fall of kabul which except the taliban back into power. just weeks after the u.s. withdrew from afghanistan, the chaos in that withdrawal stunned the world, even as president biden defended how it played out. national security correspondent jennifer griffin from the pentagon with a look back on how we got here and how did the withdrawal begin last summer? >> hi, bill. afghanistan has always been known as the graveyard of empires. four successive u.s. presidents tried to pull all troops out of afghanistan, three presidents were talked out of it. february 29, 2020, secretary of state mike pompeo and president trump's direction signed a peace deal with the taliban in qatar,

includes a promise to withdraw all u.s. troops and release 5,000 taliban fighters from prison, begins the eventual u.s. withdrawal. defense secretary is fired just days after the 2020 election after sending -- after sending a letter to president trump outlining the dangers of a full withdrawal, acting defense secretary chris miller is trump's final defense secretary. >> we will implement president trump's orders to continue our repositioning of forces by january 2021. 2,500 troops. >> president biden then must decide whether to continue all of his national security advisors advise against pulling out all u.s. troops out.

april 14, 2021, joe biden announces u.s. forces will withdraw unconditional by september 11th. july 2, 2021, u.s. troops pulled out of bagram air force base, leaving thousands unguarded at the air base. august 15, 2021, the afghan government collapses. taliban take over the country. and scenes of desperation ensue, u.s. troops are sent to secure the airport and begin the largest evacuation of civilians ever carried out by the u.s. military. august 26, 2021, 13 u.s. service members, 11 marines, a soldier and navy corpsman are killed by a suicide bomber. four days later the last u.s. soldier, boards the last c-17

military aircraft as it leaves kabul. august 30, 2021, united states is completed the withdrawal from afghanistan. hoping to end america's longest war. a year later, president biden announces u.s. forces have killed al-qaeda leader and osama bin laden's right hand, where he was living. >> bill: makes you think it's not over yet. a look back today. thank you. sandra. >> sandra: the white house is boasting about falling gas prices, but what may to come. goldman sachs is reporting supply shortages will push prices up to 4.35 by end of year. phil, thank you for joining us. everybody has been enjoying this break from where we were, although gas and oil prices are up substantially under the

current administration, but goldman sachs with a major prediction, we are going to be paying more to fill up our tanks soon. what are you hearing? >> i think you are absolutely right. start buying the orange cans and filling them up. i think they are absolutely right. and it's not unusual, you know, touting the fact that after the 4th of july, look what we did, drove down gasoline prices and they are right, they have fallen eight weeks in a row. but historical trends for gasoline prices they normally fall after the 4th of july. they normally start coming back down. the sad part about that is, they also normally start to go back up in the second week of august. 13 of the last 14 years, wholesale prices have gone back up. and the biden administration is declaring victory on gasoline prices, i'm afraid they are going to get another spike that will bite them right around the midterm elections. >> sandra: 4.05, a week ago at

4.21. a nice drop people are experiencing. to your point, seasonally we tend to see it after the busiest part of the summer driving season. down a lot from a month ago, and from a year ago, however, we are still up nearly a buck. here is goldman sachs prediction. 4.35 by end of year. we forecast u.s. fuel prices will rally into year end, then decline, from second quarter 2023 as refining and marketing margins start to normalize. ok, a little good news in there, perhaps we'll get some relief next year, phil? >> well, maybe, if you want to wait around that long. and you know but then you have to look at the other side of that, right. the biden administration with their new tax reduction act is actually going to be taxing, you know, every barrel of oil more like i think 16.04 cents per barrel. so more taxes. and you also look at the bill where it's going to discourage

investment. if you know, and sandra you watch this carefully when you look at the rate counts, they fell dramatically last week. normally you would think they would be going up when the price of oil is up. but they are pulling back because of the uncertainty about the future when it comes to the new regulations and generally when you pick on oil prices and start taxing them you get less oil production. that always leads to higher prices. so instead of inflation reduction, you get higher prices. >> when the white house comes out and touts the recent drop in gasoline prices, it's a great thing for the american people to see the prices come down, but to what are they attributing? what policy are they attributing that drop if they are going to take credit for it? i mean, they have been tapping the strategic petroleum reserve still, is that working? >> i don't think it is. i mean, it gives the illusion that hey, we have released all this oil to the global market,

driven down prices, pushed down gasoline prices and while that might be partially true, you are going to have to make up for that on the back end, have you to buy it back. inventories in the strategic reserve are at the lowest level since 1985, and i'm really concerned that when we look into next year, if we have a real disruption, we are not going to be able to face it. i mean, for example, we have reduced refining capacity in the united states, lowered than in many, many years. if you get a hurricane and it's still hurricane season that could drive prices back up. so i'm, you know, i -- i'm very concerned that we use the strategic petroleum reserve too early and it's going to cause us to see higher prices down the road. >> sandra: i guess i had thought about that, but this moment i was not thinking about that. we are not even dealing with a major storm yet, let alone a hurricane that could wipe out some supply.

goldman sachs was really detailed. by the way, sort of unprecedented, goldman sachs made it clear this gasoline price forecast at the retail level was the first time it had predicted prices at the retail level, interesting they are doing that. but they updated their forecast, bill, because of continued disappointment in supply. and i think that's key. with demand instead supported by the ongoing covid reopening and gas to oil substitution, and i'll paraphrase this part, saying the only way that prices will come down is demand destruction. if we are not going to see change in policy that's more friendly to the fossil fuel environment, basically saying we have to see demand destruction on top of the economic slowdown. we have to see prices so sky high that people change their driving habits. phil, final thoughts. >> yeah, i think we saw a preview around the 4th of july, people did pull back.

and a report last week, demand had dropped 7%. listen, you don't want to force people into, you know, slap them in the face and take money out of their pocket to make sure they behave the way you want them to. that's not the way things should work. i think you should have a competitive market, you should encourage alternative fuels, and you need to encourage u.s. oil and gas, the cleanest, most effective producer in the world and american jobs at the same time. >> and i think they write about in the wall street journal. the old trading adage goes, best cure for high prices is high prices, unfortunately in this case it means people are bucking up and coming out of their wallets. >> electric car? >> i knew he would come back with something. great to see you. >> bill: thank you, phil. new at 2:00, major u.s. companies accused of caving to communist china.

why are they tip toeing around a nation known for human rights abuses. and byron york is back whether democrats will pay the price of a massive spending bill. jonathan turley on one school trying to cancel amy coney barrett. all that and more.

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"america reports" rolls into hour two. >> bill: nice to see you, i'm bill hemmer in for john roberts. get to carolla in a bit here, but begin a jam packed hour with several stories breaking, and now a fox news alert. >> sandra: breaking a short time ago, a push to get justice for gabby petito beyond the grave. >> bill: the boyfriend who murdered her last summer took his own life. but not stopping petito's parents for all those who failed gabby to pay up and pay up big. parents $15 million lawsuit, details in a moment. >> sandra: breaking news on the west coast, anne heche explosive car crash she was able to survive. there is word a warrant is now issued in that case, and police are looking to meet up with the celebrity. >> bill: also here in new york, the mayor eric adams furious after texas governor abbott

sends bus loads of migrants to the big apple. now he's demanding help from the feds, ironically. something border towns have been looking for the administration to do since the president took office. >> sandra: and breaking news at 2:00, a city in new mexico on edge as a possible serial killer hunts his prey. three muslim men murdered over the span of two weeks. a fourth man was found dead on friday. >> bill: chilling new details, president biden says he is angered and saddened and sends prayers to the victim's families. >> sandra: bill daly, former fbi investigator, thank you for joining us. first the investigation of the killings of four muslim men. what can you add to what we are learning at this time? >> this time it appears from local reporting is that there's a cluster, kind of north of the airport and east of downtown where the incidents are taking

place. it appears at least three of the men, the most recent two deceased and another one died over the past weekend were, went to the same mosque. nahim, hussein, who died on the 5th had attended the funeral ceremony hours for two others before he himself was killed. they do not have a person of interest, but they have a vehicle of interest. may have appeared at a couple locations in and around where at least one or more of the incidents took place and police actually posted a picture of this v.w., dark v.w. with tinted windows, either a jetta or passat. >> one of the deceased is described as a brilliant sub servant. can we say whether or not religion is tied to the

killings? >> it's difficult now, bill. certainly you cannot immediately think that direction because of the community and the people who attended perhaps the same mosque, but police are looking for the common denominator. they have not classified it as a serial killing or hate crime, because of what may be the motive or connection. and besides them attending perhaps the same mosque and sharing the same religion, police are looking to find out what other things they may have shared in common. people, business relationships, projects, maybe the religious community, and those things will shed a bit more light on to perhaps who might be involved. fbi has been asked to help out and between the behavioral analysis team, plethora of forensic capabilities can start to look outside of new mexico as well and canvas the blogs or of

the postings, are there chat rooms would lend itself to somebody who may be looking to commit the acts. >> sandra: leader of the islamic center of new mexico saying we are sickened for someone that has this much hate. we are scared for the families and children and confused why this is happening. and the governor in new mexico said friday that she was deploying additional state resources, state police to help with the probe of these targeted killings. she wrote on her twitter page, the targeted killings of muslim residents of albuquerque is deeply angering and wholly in tolerable. i'm sure they will need more help with the investigation. >> they will. and i think, and some of the reporting was they reached out to the fbi for support in kind of the forensic side of this investigation. at this point at least when the victims, the last victim was shot, so we have ballistics to

go on, we perhaps have some forensics around the vehicle, which vehicle was this, who might it belong to. other video indiana opportunities in and around where the victims were killed, what was the movement, similarities between people, and the big question, since the last victim, mr. hussein was at the funeral for the other two, was this random or somebody who was actually doing surveillance, from the memorial service to where he was killed. a lot of questions here. i think police may know a bit more. they are asking for the public to help. anything they can do with regard to the vehicle or oat movements related to the crime to give a call to the fbi or to local police. >> bill: dark gray, silver

volkswagen, briefed to be a jetta. bill daly, thank you for your input on that out of new mexico. >> sandra: we will monitor that. new details in the explosive crash involving anne heche, police will collect a sample of her blood, investigators suspecting she was drunk at the time of the crash. new video showing the actress speeding down a tight residential block minutes before she crashed her mini cooper into a los angeles area home that almost killed the resident that was inside at the time. this comes after tmz published photo of heche in her co-op before the crash that appeared to show a bottle of vodka in her vehicle. jonathan, any charges likely against the actress? >> well, sandra, los angeles police confirmed a short time

ago a court order was indeed issued to draw blood from anne heche and once the results come in, the actress could face charges of a misdemeanor hit-and-run and dui. it was a horrific crash as anyone who has seen the pictures knows. anne heche's car burned, the house in which she crashed while allegedly driving at twice the legal speed limit severely damaged, and heche suffered serious burns, initially listed as being in critical condition. that has now been upgraded to stable. the actor, alec baldwin, one of several celebrities wishing the star a speedy recovery. >> i love you, anne. i love you, and i think you are such a talented person and i hope everything is ok. i hope you come through this. >> while rosanna arquette took to twitter to bring attention to heche's crash and condition and

asked people to "pray for her" to which one twitter user replied "she could have killed somebody." heche needs some serious mental health counseling before she hurts someone. now anne heche has spoken openly about her mental health struggles, although there is no official word on whether any type of mental health episode may have played a role in the crash. she also, though, recorded a podcast last week talking about having a bad day and drinking vodka and wine, although we believe that podcast was not recorded on the day of the crash. the en oar of the home into which she crashed was unhurt, but the home almost completely destroyed. and the woman lost a lifetime of memories in what is now an uninhabitable house. sandra. >> sandra: keep us posted on the breaking details as we follow that story. jonathan, thank you. >> bill: destruction there.

meanwhile, the parents of gaby petito filing another lawsuit over their daughter's murder. this one targeting police in the state of utah. they accused the officers of missing signs that their daughter's life was in danger. laura, hello. >> legal action announced today lays out a list of reasons why the family of gabby petito believes the police in moab, utah were negligent which they said led to the death of their daughter at the hands of brian laundrie. lawyers for the petito family held a press conference announcing they are seeking $50 million in damages in the wrongful death lawsuit, naming the moab police department, along with two officers involved in the widely viewed traffic stop caught on police bodycam footage last august, it's already been a year, and eric

pratt and daniel robertson failed to properly handle a 911 call in which a witness said he saw brian hitting petito before driving off in their white van. one of petito's attorney said had the officers involved had training to implement proper assessment and recognize the obvious indicators of abuse, it would have been clear to them that gabby was a victim of intimate partner violence and needed immediate protection. gabby's mom who appeared via zoom, watched the video of the traffic stop. >> it was very painful, i wanted to jump and scream, that's all i can really say about that. >> a lot of legal action to come. her remains were found the next

month in wyoming. petito had called her parents during the traffic stop and they wanted to fly her home to get her away from lawn -- laundrie. >> sandra: call on the federal government tore help, for the city to deal with the illegal migrants showing up on busses from texas. but in towns along the border, a lot of officials are reacting to the plea for help, asking are you kidding me, some 3,000 migrants have been bussed to new york over just the last month and a half alone. officials in texas say they see double that number coming across the border every single day. we hit the streets of midtown manhattan to ask what new yorkers think about this. watch. >> i think it's disgusting.

it should be new york's decision or washington's decision to bring those people here, if that's what they chose to do. i'm a taxpayer, i live in florida. and i don't want them illegally coming to where i live. >> i don't think it's a good idea. >> i think it's a difficult question because texas is probably being overrun by immigrants. it's not that i want immigrants to be bussed here, but the government does need to address our immigration issue. >> i think it's a great idea. basically, nobody cares about what's going on in texas because it's not in their back yard. >> i think it's a tough situation. i don't know if there's a solution like right away. >> if texas wants to get rid of them and get them to d.c., they'll do as good in d.c. as in texas. >> the whole government is in shambles. we are going the wrong way. >> used to live in texas and i feel like texas is actually kinder to its migrants than the

rest of the u.s. >> you let them walk in and then bus them all over the place, i have a problem with that. >> sandra: good to see you here today. interesting reaction from new yorkers but a reality so many are living every single day and hour in texas in the border towns, the communities are inundated. so to have the migrants bussed up, new york city, washington, d.c. and other places, perhaps they are getting a sense of what places like texas are doing with. >> we are a safe haven. and when they get here, he uses the word horrific. i don't know why he uses that word for this instance, but what's going on in new york city is horrific in his own city. so, this is politics at its best. he sees them later on as future voters the way the democratic party sees it, but new york needs to see what texas is going through. not only new york, the rest of

the nation needs to see what's coming across the border. a lot of them did not want to get off the bus in new york city. that's hilarious, and right near the mayor's face, they won't even get off because it's so dangerous. >> bill: if you take eric adams comment and say greg abbott, they are saying the same thing. adams is saying we need help, and john miller is an outgoing aide for the nypd, a ton of experience here in new york and nationally when it comes to terrorism. headline, ex-nypb top aide says bail reform was atom bomb that set us back a decade. people working for 20 years to make the people safe and blowing it up in a matter of two years. >> absolutely and he's 100% right. when you see what we went through -- i say we, i was part of that administration, what we went through to get the city to

where it was, economically, crime wise, he was part of that as well and he sees what happened, and he can say it now that it's out, he had to work on other administration's, a tight lip because he was in charge of a bigger issue. so think about where he's coming from with this, and he's just as disgusted as we all are that the city has taken a turn for the worse and you know what it is, we are under siege here, and so is the whole nation. things have to turn around and turn around quickly because we are losing everybody in the city. and first line of defense, dismantle the police department, mass ex do you say. >> sandra: nearly 2,000 cops quitting before getting full pensions, 71% jump from 2021. residents are fleeing, cops, tendering their resignations or retiring early, and nypd is still hemorrhaging cops, the

story reads. it's a mess. >> big mess, and they can blame it on the economy, chief of department, that's not true. cops are leaving by the thousands, not hundreds, by the thousands and they are getting out with sometimes they have five years, sometimes three years, ten years, you can vest your time in the city and you'll collect it after 20 years, 20-year what your anniversary date would have been. you want to stay in new york city, you want to make a home here, but they take everything from you. the city council and everybody has to work with the unions. they are working six years without a contract. ridiculous. sit down and make the department the department it once was, the premier department in the world. >> bill: fort lauderdale, florida said we are hiring. said wish you were here, we are hiring, fort lauderdale police

department. >> sandra: times square. >> in our own back yard. plus they are getting great cops and they can use them better in florida than up here in new york because their hands are not going to be tied down there. >> sandra: there was a police detective on "fox and friends" this morning -- >> when you work with an agency that does not support you, working for, you know, you are not getting the proper training to do your jobs effectively, not getting the equipment to do the job effectively, and enticed by a state like florida, it points towards leaving. >> sandra: brutal reality. and they are told no in their own department, the supervisors are getting on their case about every thing, public on their case, city council wants nothing to do with them, takes away indemnify indication. what would you do if you were a cop?

>> bill: helpless. and sandra said in chicago, they are leaving the big force and moving to smaller towns in illinois, greater protection there. >> sandra: not everybody can afford to get up and leave. that's the problem there. we are looking live in kentucky, the president is there touring the devastation in the wake of the historic flooding there, he's talking to families, those that are grieving. so much is lost. we'll monitor that. >> bill: also the democrat's massive spending bill will pump up the tax man in a way this country has never seen before. ♪♪ my relationship with my credit cards wasn't good. i got into debt in college and, no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. between the high interest, the fees... i felt trapped. debt, debt, debt. so i broke up with my credit card debt and consolidated it into a low-rate personal loan from sofi. i finally feel like a grown-up. break up with bad credit card debt. get a personal loan with no fees, low fixed rates, and borrow up to $100k.

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>> sandra: democrats have launched a war on the middle class with the massive social

and spend plans paid for with tax hikes and they say it will come back to bite them come midterm elections. >> bill: the tax man may be the biggest winner. get this. as a result of the spending, i.r.s. projected to wind up having more staffers than the state department and the entire fbi and the u.s. border patrol combined. james freeman stands by, but first, peter doocy live from the north lawn. when it comes to taxes, the president will have to answer to voters. hello to you. >> peter: hello, bill. the president is conducting official business, he's touring flood damage in kentucky but with this huge tax and spend bill now through the senate he's also got the november midterms on his mind. >> i expect it to help, yes, i do, for example, no senior will have, on medicare will have, billed more than 2,000 for

drugs, no matter what the costs are. that's a big deal, changes people's lives. >> josh hawley said this, 50/50 senate and unpopular president, they have had major, terrible legislation lots of it. they came to do something. a lesson there for the gop. if they get back congress, they better be willing to fight. $740 billion and comes with new regulations aiming to reduce carbon emissions by as much as 40% by the end of the decade. new regulations that regulate prescription drug prices, and 87 new i.r.s. agents because democrats calculate enough money out there from people doing their taxes wrong to pay for most of this, and audits could be on the way even for tax bracelets, the white house claims they will not raise rates on. >> wait a second, you don't pay

the min -- you don't pay -- no, no, no. that's not what i said. >> peter: if president biden wants to rally the base around recent wins, killing the leader of al-qaeda, better than expected job reports or inflation reduction act through congress, expect to see that in the first half this week because come wednesday he is off to south carolina for vacation, bill. >> bill: thank you, peter. sandra. >> sandra: james freeman, fox news contributor, i just want to get your reaction to the weekend. they pushed this thing through, with, i don't know that the white house can say any estimate that this is going to substantially bring down inflation in any way, but still somehow bring down inflation act. >> that label is what they wanted to put on this other big slug of climate subsidies that

they have been pushing for for many years. now inflation is a problem, that's the label that goes on it. obviously officials are struggling and senators are struggling to explain how this actually reduces inflation, or could reduce inflation. even bernie sanders acknowledging it doesn't. this is all the climate subsidies they have wanted. by definition, it's going into inefficient energy sources. >> bill: you have to pump up the i.r.s. to get it through the senate parliamentarian, and saying you are getting it from the millionaires and billionaires cheating. >> that's the claim, but they get audited a lot and have ems too of lawyers to fight this

stuff. joint tax committee has acknowledged where the money is, where the money is is not huge corporations and not the wealthy. the the biden pledge that i'm not going to raise anyone's taxes below $400,000 of income, you look on the corporate side, increase incorporate rate is going to be paid for in part by workers, a lot of economics to support that, including the obama white house report on the economy, but also the i.r.s. piece. this is a middle class tax increase without changing the rates, in theory. now, i think what you are going to find is they actually don't find all that money, they don't get a return on that $80 billion investment. but this is -- this is going to be a tax increase at least in terms of hassle for people below 400,000. >> sandra: they are not suggesting it's going to end up with substantial growth in the country as well, some are

predicting it will result in job losses. and the latest poll and the biden economy, those that are unhappy with the biden economy. 29%, just 29% approve of his handling on inflation. everybody still sees the high prices out there, 37% approve on biden's job on the economy as a whole, and 69% say the economy is getting worse. i mean, that really tells you how people are at least feeling about the overall economic environment right now. >> and seeing the negative sentiment among investors and the white house says it's not a recession yet, even though it's two quarters where the economy is shrinking, but unless we get a new inflation report where it has plunged you are still talking about declining real wages. even though we have gotten back

to the same number of jobs precovid, it's basically the government reducing the value of our incomes and our wealth in a very substantial way in this year of inflation. >> bill: see how it looks thursday and wednesday when we get new inflation numbers. thank you. some big names, smitty, bending over backwards for china. that as china is doing drills close to taiwan. >> sandra: adam carolla on screen. he is fired up. he'll join us next.

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>> sandra: adam carolla moments away on american companies bending the knee when it comes to china. but first the communist nation

extending large scale military exercises around taiwan. according to the miller at that, includes anti-submarine and drills. drills come after nancy pelosi's big trip to taiwan last week. china has since ignored calls to calm tensions and it's not clear when the drills might end. >> bill: meanwhile, as china's military makes moves, american companies are throwing themselves at china's feet, begging for forgiveness. madison, everything from snicker bars to smartphones. >> that's right, bill. so, as the tensions rise between china and the u.s., some of the companies doing everything they can to keep china and its consumers happy because there are a lot of consumers there. apple has asked suppliers to ensure shipments comply with labels either made in china or

chinese taipei. m and m and snickers have apologized for a snickers product launch which chinese social media users accused that suggesting that taiwan was a company. and said mars wrigley respects china's sovereignty and territorial integrity and strict compliance with local chinese laws and regulations and that was posted to webo. china's power is strong. the purse is strong. 1.4 billion people in the country, and the companies that you are seeing on screen in recent years have apologized to china, most using the same phrase, respect and uphold china's sovereignty and territorial integrity. experts warn the attempts to stay in china's good graces further jeopardize the companies. >> when people apologize to beijing, they think they are stopping conflict but they are emboldening the chinese and the chinese will be more aggressive next time. if you are a company doing

business in china and find yourself apologizing to the chinese thinking that gets that off the table, it's only going to get worse and your business is going to be more at risk. >> and you see that, china and consumers regularly exercise the power of their wallet. since 2016, 78 boycotts of foreign companies. more than six times the numbers seen in the preceding eight years. >> bill: very interesting. think about snickers and apple. a lot of times you talk about nike and the nba, and you don't think about the individual products but that's what they are doing. >> if you lose the buyers, that's what they are concerned about. but point made, if you do a little bit, constantly at the whim of the chinese government. >> bill: like he said, it can only get worse. >> sandra: follow the money. adam carolla, also author of everything reminds me of something.

adam, welcome to you. weigh in on this. apple telling suppliers to avoid made in taiwan labels on shipments to china, mars, wrigley apologizing to china over a snickers ad that called taiwan a country? why are they doing this? >> well, obviously they are trying to make money and that's fine because that's the business they are in. hollywood, the nba, they are all trying to make money. i think the problems with nike, apple, hollywood, the nba, don't get preachy and -- get off your high horse. hey, we are business, we have shareholders, we are in the business of making money. sorry if it looks weak, that's our bottom line. what they do, they get super weak with china and many other wrong doers around the world and then they come home and they get

super preachy with america. spare us the speech. you are soulless companies who want to make money, fine. then don't come back and pretend like you care. >> i have to wonder where it goes. they are worried about the money stopping and the flow of goods between the two countries, right. united states and china, and the manufacturing angle so many companies so dependent on china, and arguably you can make the case what's happening with the push for more lithium, we are more dependent on china. so, what gives finally? i mean, you have nancy pelosi putting her foot down and her continued support for taiwan so you have mixed messaging coming from the white house and nancy pelosi on the issue. where ultimately does it go, adam. >> i think ultimately china is a bully and you can't negotiate with them because when you negotiate or you apologize, they just look at that as weakness.

i mean, the same with the terrorists. all they understand is a punch in the mouth. obviously we have set up or economy where we are too reliant on them so we have to start producing some of this stuff and we can't have the green party saying well, we don't want to dig and mine for lithium because it's too dirty so we'll just let china do it and they can go after all the rare earth metals and then we'll just pay them. it's insane. we need to be more consistent what our message is in our country. but the other hand, apologizing to china is like apologizing to the far left. all you get is more apologies. at some point say shut up, we are not apologizing, and you need us. >> sandra: perfect segue t chris pratt. i'll end with this. the actor appears to be having the last laugh over his woke critics on rotten tomatoes, that's a movie review site.

certified his new amazon prime show "the terminal list" as rotten, adam. the navy seal commander, james reese, determined to find out who killed his platoon and get revenge, fans came to his rescue, audience score was 94% fresh, i think rotten tomato was 30 or 40%, but he's trolling all the woke critics over his new show. he's basically saying he's had it. >> well, obviously they hate him because he's religious and he hunts, and the people who do all of the criticism for movies, all the reviewers, they are all lefties, so they all come out of the same system and they are going to hate anything that a guy that, a, shows americans firearms, you know, action,

bullets flying, but the main thing and they never really say it, they don't like him because he's religious and he's a hunter and he's an old school values guy, and so whatever it is he does is going to be put under a jeweler's loop and critiqued much more than let's say michelle obama. >> sandra: fair enough. the official instagram page for the show reported last month "the terminal list" number one show on prime video and 1.6 billion minutes were devoted to screaming pratt's new show. so big fans, they obviously spoke out and spoke up for him. adam, great to see you. thanks for coming on with us. >> thank you. >> bill: you need us, carolla. cancel culture coming for supreme court justice amy coney barrett at her own college. jonathan turley has that.

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>> bill: cancel culture coming for amy coney barrett at her former college. alumni group in rhodes college in tennessee is trying to remove the supreme court justice from the school's hall of fame because she voted to overturn

roe v. wade. jonathan turley, nice to see you sir on a monday. hello to you. just so our viewers know, part of what the petition reads. we believe that justice amy coney barrett is one of the biggest current threats to our fundamental rights. the stability of our nation and our democracy. i don't know what the school is going to do, but they have made their view quite clear. >> they did, and the petition is slanderous. they cite the honor code of the school to make allegations that are clearly false. they say that justice barrett in her testimony misled the senate about her position on roe v. wade. it's unbelievable to make that allegation. at the time i wrote a column saying that barrett gave one of the most frank and open discussions on roe that i've seen of any contemporary

justice. she rejected the notion that roe was super precedent. she says she did not view roe as in violate. so if anything, she was more open of her views than any of her predecessors or contemporaries. so the petition makes allegations with no evidence at all. but then accuses her of being a threat to democracy. and at some point, you know, mature and civil voices have to take control of our debate. they have to be heard. but unfortunately it's these extreme voices that are heard more often. >> bill: the school has not made a decision, right, rhodes college in tennessee? >> i suspect the school will not yield to this cancel campaign, i hope they won't. this is a justice that rhodes college as a whole should be endlessly proud of, and you can disagree with the justice about

her views but she has written profoundly of her views of jurisprudence and her views are shared by many, including many jurists. >> bill: city university of new york has a graduate and they were bragging about her because she was on -- she was the youngest lawyer to serve on johnny depp's legal team, and then they -- they scrubbed the profile of the graduate, they just dropped her. i mean -- what explains that? >> you know what's extraordinary about that story is that this was a young lawyer who was a third year associate who made the achievement of a lifetime, became one of the lead counsel, one of the most famous cases of her generation. immigrant came to the country, withent through the college, and fordham for a law degree and extraordinarily well in one of the most difficult trials of the century.

any school should be proud of that record. and yet the school yielded here, actually scrubbed and got rid of this profile. >> bill: two things, she's age 29, obviously proud of the work she does. the school says domestic violence is a serious issue, regret any pain the article may have caused. they are taking amber heard's side of that, and dropped her profile from the school. jonathan turley, i have some breaking news. thanks for your time today. >> sandra: president biden is visiting some of the hardest hit areas in kentucky. speaking live in lost creek. >> it's not beyond our control. i promise you we are staying, the federal government along with the state and county, and the city, we are staying until everybody is back to where they were, not a joke. one other thing i would raise with the gov, we have never done this before, but because of a number of things we got done on

a bipartisan basis like the billion, $200 million infrastructure project, today what we passed yesterday, helping take care of everything from healthcare to god knows what else. we are going to do, we are going to see, for example, got to put a new water line in in the community. no reason why they can't at the same time be digging a line that puts in a whole now modern line for internet connections. why, why can't we do that? so, it's going to be different. we are going to come back better than before. i really mean it. that's the objective i have, not come back to what we were before, come back to better than we were before. and i mean this, gov, and you know i mean it and i'm confident with your leadership we can do it, along with, we don't call them -- county executives where i'm from, but the judge here, finding this is something we can all do. we can get this done because we

are the only country in the world that has come out of every major disaster stronger than when we went into it. got clobbered going in but came out stronger. that's the objective. not just to get back to where we were, but to get back to better than where we were and we have the wherewithal to do it with the legislation that's been bipartisanally passed. i don't want anyone in kentucky to say you don't have to do for me. oh, yeah, we do. you are an american citizen. we never give up, we never bow, we never bend, we just go forward and that's what we are going to do. i promise you the bad news for you is i'm coming back because i want to see it. thank you very much. that's it, all right. now we are all going do run laps around. but all kidding aside, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. these people deserve enormous

amount of credit >> sandra: so president bye-bye -- biden visiting kentucky. looking at the overflowing rivers below. there was a boat that capsized the president was able to view. a ton of debris, clothing on the trues. an absolute mess of a situation. the president saying he's going to do everything he can do to help those people get through this incredible difficult time. >> communities have been changed forever unfortunately. 37 dead. the flooding is intense. our reporter there was telling us that 100% of these communities are gone. 100% from the water and the mud and everything you see there. best of luck to those folks. we have this, sandra. explosions in the sky over the gaza strip. three days of fighting.

israel reaching a cease fire with the palestinians but not in time for the 44 people dead. more than a dozen women and children. trey yingst on the ground. he's got the latest. nice to see you. is the cease fire hold something. >> it's shaky but it's holding for now after a bloody conflict between israel and islamic jihad. here's a look at what happened. >> islamic jihad rockets stream through the skies of southern israel before being intercepted. >> those explosions indicating interceptions taking place. >> day and night, they fire as some slip past the iron dome missile defense system. slamming into the land and sea nearby. amid the incontinuing rounds, israeli fighter jets, helicopters and drones target positions inside gaza. >> our target objectives are

very clear, to disable islamic jihad from terrorizing the people in the state of israel. >> the israeli military is us yoking artillery units to fire at positions in the gaza strip. they're striking at facilities. this round of fighting erupted friday after israel targeted an assassination. many population centers were targeted. towns at the gaza border took heavy fire sending civilians running for cover. similar fear was felt by the civilians inside gaza. some of the deaths were militants. others were women and children. the region understands this cease fire is a temporary solution to an ongoing problem. bill? >> trey, how did that start? >> this started after the israelis took out a rocket

commander leading to these rockets being fired in to southern and central israel. right now things are calm. the israelis say they're preparing to strike again if the cease fire is violated. >> something to watch. thanks, trey. live from israel. thank you. >> sandra: just remarkable. and so much news to start off the week, a brand new week here. we'll continue to cover the fall-out of this massive tax and spending bill. you can pop the dow up on your screen here. looks like there's a little concern over what this means in the near term for inflation. >> looks like everybody is scratching their head. >> sandra: you can make that case. rallied at the open. the s&p 500, a broad shot of the u.s. stock market is negative right now. hovering just below 33,000. >> any time you pass bills of this size, 750 billion, you don't know what is in it for some time and the stories will dribble out. see how the debate goes and

moves to the house. democrats have the votes. if they want to push this through, they can get it done. >> sandra: and amendment yesterday was an interesting one. the smaller companies that make up the bigger companies will they see their taxes go up. we'll help out the newsroom end of the week. good to have you here. >> you help us, i help you. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> i'm bill hemmer. the news continues right now. >> martha: thanks very much, bill and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. today on "the story," joining us congressman burgess owens. karl rove is also here and former secretary of state mike pompeo. lots to talk about as we look towards the mid-terms with all of the gentlemen that will be joining us shortly. that as 59% of the americans say the american economy is getting worse, not getting better as the white house takes a