it was a great move of booking and i fully support it. you know you have an apartment announcement on the couch, don't you? >> we do country music star bill nichols is set to take the all american summer concert series. can't wait for >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." stunning, 36 hours since that event the d.o.j. have said nothing. republicans are calling on garland to explain the raid on former president trump. unprecedented operations raising new questions about the d.o.j.'s independence. >> this administration, are they weaponizing the justice department and the f.b.i.

against political opponents? >> the president believe in the rules of law and the independence of the department of justice. >> yes or no. >> it is a no for you. i'm answering the question. you may not like it but i'm answering the question. >> bill: or you could just say no. here is what we think we know at the hour. the search was related to a dispute with the national archives over the handling of presidential records is what has been reported. president trump left the white house with thoeps documents in january of 2021. later that year, the national archives contacted the president's team about potential classified information that was missing. >> dana: fast forward to january. the president voluntary gave more than a dozen boxes. in june d.o.j. visited mar-a-lago to get the transfer of more materials. >> bill: that's where things start to get murky. the talks broke down over the

summer, sometime in june or july. the president disputes that however. federal officials viewed the president's team as uncooperative. sometime this month, prosecutors submitted an affidavit and a judge signed a search warrant. the rest as we know at the moment is history for now. >> dana: team fox coverage and reaction from senator tim scott. the justice department, david spunt is there to catch us up on everything going on. >> i'm at the epicenter of this investigation. things are quiet here for day two since the search of the former president's home. attorney general merrick garland remains silent. he will not be talking about this. it the standard that the attorney general or other d.o.j. officials don't talk about an open investigation. however, as we know. things are different in this case. extraordinary circumstances. speaking of attorney general merrick garland and f.b.i. director christopher wray, we can confirm there are growing concerns about garland's safety

and wray's safety. authorities are monitoring social media posts and spotting a significant increase in death threats aimed toward agents, wray and garland. they continue at a steady pace online. security procedures aren't made public. they traveled with armed security. fox is told there are discussions to increase their security. the f.b.i. gave a heads-up to the secret service and a few local law enforcement officials to let them know monday morning they would be entering mar-a-lago to enter and had a search warrant. there is growing public and political pressure to release that. one of the former president's attorneys said after a back and forth negotiation. she was there on the ground, the trump legal team was able to get ahold of a copy of the search warrant. they could release it to the public. what is said on the document. doesn't include all the details but give us an idea of some of the contents of the copy of

that search warrant. we're told from the trump team to fox news as of now they do not plan to release anything to the public and they believe the burden is on d.o.j. to do so. >> dana: we're hearing the f.b.i. seized a cell phone of a republican congressman. walked up to him and took it? >> this is scott perry, republican from pennsylvania. he is an ally of the former president. perry believes this is involving the january 6 investigation and the former president's attempts to overturn the 2020 election. we know according to the representative from pennsylvania, the republican from pennsylvania, the three f.b.i. agents came up and seized his cell phone. they didn't even reach out to his attorneys in this case. right now we know his cell phone is in f.b.i. custody, dana. >> dana: david spunt at the justice department. >> bill: joining us now is the the author of a book america redemption story, the author is south carolina senator tim scott. sir, thank you for your time and good morning to you.

>> good morning. >> bill: i was struck by your comment you said i think anyone who suggests they have a clue what is actually happening is heading in the wrong direction. so what is your clue as to what is happening in florida? >> i think this is a shocking and unprecedented development as relates to mar-a-lago and the raid the other day, two days ago. i can't imagine this is just over presidential records act. when you read through it all, it seems to me that perhaps there is politics embedded in every layer of it. very concerning. one of the things that we hope for from f.b.i., one of the premier law enforcement agencies in the country, is an apolitical approach and what we've seen over the last several years is a political nature within the f.b.i. and the weaponizing of justice. if they can do that to the former president of the united states, what hope is there for the average person? you just talked about scott

perry's cell phone. for the average person, republican or democrat, we should be very concerned about the developments that we're seeing today. >> dana: this is on a slightly different topic but also about americans feeling like wow, okay, the administration has decided we are the ones that will be the targets of new i.r.s. audits. listen to an exchange between peter doocy and careen jean pierre, one of the ways they would get there and i want to talk about you on the other side of the quote because you are a small businessman and you know what it's like. watch here. >> do you think it is popular when the 87,000 new employees hired by the i.r.s. go around and start auditing people to pay for the inflation reduction act? >> inth is focused on those who are, you know, corporate, wealthy tax cheats that republicans, congressional republicans wanted to defend.

>> no new audits on anybody making under $400,000 a year? >> dana: no, very clear. >> that's ridiculous. >> dana: i don't know if you've been audited. you are a small business person and represent a lot of them. what do you think about this? >> one of the things that is important in this case, the cbo says 90% of the revenue generated from the new i.r.s. agents will come from people making less than $200,000. that is absolutely the exact opposite of what you just heard. under $200,000 represents 90% of the revenue generated. the revenue generated is around $300 plus billion dollars. as a former small business owner the one thing i can't do is be the human resource department, my own legal department and sell whatever it is i'm trying to sell. this is a burden that is head winds for job growth and reinvesting in your small business. i can't think of something less

popular than the three letters i.r.s. showing up in your mailbox. ridiculous. >> bill: she talked about corporate wealthy tax cheats. there have been questions about who will be audited and who will not be. they can't answer the question if you make less than $400,000 a year are you safe from this audit? how long will it take to hire 87,000 agents? >> well, it makes the i.r.s. bigger than the pentagon, the state department, the cbp, all combined together plus the f.b.i. so there is no good news coming to any american family as you fear the i.r.s. already. >> dana: senator, i read your book america a redemption story. i loved it. today you can hear more about that on the radio as well. you talk a lot about polarization. you are concerned. we're 36 hours since the

justice department made the call saying yes, you can go ahead and raid a former president's house. how does that square with what you are trying to communicate in this new book, because half the people voted for president trump and they are feeling like the justice department is against them as well. >> it is not creating unity. my book says is the importance of a fair justice system applied to every single personal equally. growing up in the deep south in the 80s my experience is interesting around race and justice. how things have changed and evolved. we aren't perfect. we still have work to do but we're getting closer. this is actually a step back when you look at the raid. you ask yourself if i was the president of the united states, would i expect 30 f.b.i. agents

to show up for a dispute over a presidential records that we've been negotiating since june? actually since february. the answer is of course not. if you ask yourself is this the treatment we've seen for hillary clinton as relates to classified emails, of course not. if you read by book you will be more hopeful about what can happen when good people of good conscience have the backbone and the tenacity to enforce the laws on everyone the same. no exceptions. >> bill: congratulations on the book. it's a good read. a lot of good anecdotes from you as a younger man and i was struck by the relationship you had with your father and how you were able to just patch everything up over time. congratulations, senator. >> dana: for more with senator tim scott check out my interview on the fox news rundown podcast. we talk more about the new book and cover a lot more including his ambitions in the future.

download it at fox news podcast.com. >> bill: primary night yesterday. tuesday and something was going on. interesting findings we want to point to. we're watching up here in congressional district five for minnesota. ilan omar was given a good run for her money by don samuels. he was a centrist democrat. she won by just two points in this district that runs to the west of minneapolis. also in the upper midwest you had wisconsin. this was a race for the governor that was being watched by a lot of people. for very good reason. up here in wisconsin. tim michels, former businessman, never held office before, endorsed by donald trump, held off a strong challenge by rebecca kleefisch. she was the lieutenant governor there and worked with scott walker. had his endorsement and mike

pens's endorsement. michels beat her by five points. he will face off against tony evers. further west we've got a final in this race in the third district in washington jamie beutler has conceded to joe kent. why is this important? kent endorsed by donald trump came back to beat her narrowly but able to pull off a victory in the state of washington which means right now if you look at the 10 republicans who voted for impeachment on the screen here, do we have it? okay, two are still alive, dana. at least four retired, a couple have been defeated now in the primary battles. but there are two that are still alive, liz cheney will have her primary on august 16th.

polling indicates in wyoming she could go down to defeat. we're watching that. that is a run down. >> dana: big decisions going on. i want to point this out to the main story of the day. the "wall street journal" editorial board talks about the raid and says the f.b.i.'s dangerous trump search merrick garland is taking the u.s. down a perilous path and went on to say didn't someone at justice point out that a search in this case would draw comparisons to hillary clinton's mishandling of information before her 2016 campaign? she was never prosecuted. unless mr. trump's offense involved a serious risk to national security half of america may see the trump search as an example of unequal justice. >> bill: when this news broke, andrew cuomo, who resigned his governor spot here in new york,

he shot out a tweet and said the evidence must be consequential to back up a move they did in mar-a-lago. maybe you get a press conference today or maybe you don't. if it goes into next week and beyond there will be a lot of people saying what's up. >> dana: i am saying what's up. also this fox news alert on the economy. july inflation report revealing prices are going down slightly but only from historically high levels. larry kudlow next. >> bill: disturbing nanny kam footage shows a dermatologist allegedly trying to kill her husband by spiking his drink with drano. >> dana: three more buses of illegal immigrants from texas arriving in new york city as mayor adams escalates his feud with governor abbott. >> i don't think he is accomplish anything more than exposing the type of individual that he is.

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southern california police arresting a dermatologist after her husband accused her of trying to poison him. he says he caught her on a nanny kam in the kitchen spiking his lemonade with drano. what's up, william la jeunesse? >> one thing to consider, this is a divorce case. but what you say is accurate. husband, who is also a doctor, alleges his wife, emily, tried to poison him. she denies it and says it is about getting custody of their children in this divorce. having said that what you are about to see looks damning. there are images filed with the court taken on three separate occasions where his wife appears to grab a bottle of drano from under the sink and pour it into his cup. he claims he noticed a chemical taste and had stomach pain. a doctor diagnosed him with

stomach ulcers. drano is a mix of bleach and soda that will burn through hair, skin and muscle. he thought his wife was trying to kill him. in the video taken three times he claims she pours the drano in his cup. in a statement to fox news, the wife denies ever attempting to poison her husband or anyone else. so according to records, chan is 53, radiologist. emily a dermatologist. married 10 years, two kids. $3 million house in orange county. he said he feared being in the same home. he obtained a restraining order and filed for divorce. after her arrest for poisoning, who did she call to bail her out? her husband and he refused. she did post a $30,000 bail and the court date is set for later this year. >> bill: on it rolls.

william la jeunesse with that. >> dana: let's bring in attorney brian claypool. this is extremely serious. important to point out it is a domestic case, a divorce. but when you have something like this that's an accusation, you have photographic evidence in a divorce case, what happens? >> great to see you this morning. there is something bizarre about this case. what i mean by that, i this i the orange county district attorney is still trying to clean out that drain within their own office before they actually bring charges. that's what i mean here. she is arrested, right? but she has not yet been formally charged and her bail, dana, is set at $30,000? if this is an attempted murder, her bail would be a half million or a million dollars. so i think authorities are

still trying to figure out what happened here. i am not defending her but it seems a little strange that she would just repeatedly pour drano into his lemonade. he is not more sick than he is. did he have a blood test done? wouldn't a blood test really get to the bottom of what was in his system? and again like williams said these two are fighting so there is motive on the husband's part to bring this issue up. >> dana: the foxnews.com piece he claimed his wife and mother-in-law verbally and emotionally abused him for years and be littleed the children and isolated them from their cousins and friends. a lot to figure out there. hopefully it will turn out well. another case we're following the father in texas accused of murdering his two daughters because they went outside the muslim religion dating non-muslims. the mother and the daughters

had fled the state. they had returned. he said everything would be okay. let's go out to dinner and he shot them. he was sentenced yesterday. a little bit from that yesterday. >> mr. said, you are a devil. you murdered your girls. i am going to say this, i hope somebody gets their hands on you. nine bullets you put in sarah and she called 911, your other daughter two bullets in the heart. >> the ex-wife after he was con viktd. he will serve life in prison. >> two things about the case that resonate with me. this guy was on the run for years, right, six years? he was found, what, 35 miles from where this happened? the f.b.i. was involved? they just sent 50 agents down

to mar-a-lago to raid president trump's camp yet they can't find this guy? i think we have again a bigger problem with the f.b.i. and where their focus and resources should be. we have a child murderers and predators on the street and we can't find them yet you will attack a former president? the other issue that hits me here, dana, i actually work on quite a few department of children and family services cases and there were red flags in this case. one girl told a teacher saying she thought her father would kill her and she and her sister feared for their life. a systemic failure. why didn't the school as mandated reporters contact authorities and have this father investigated? so i really think at the end of the day he goes to jail for life, but i think this can be a teachable moment. we have to take a look at why

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the opening bell on wall street now. the dow jones is way up, 448 points. consumers are reacting. prices are up 8.5% from last year, down a bit from june's record surge. but still high enough to wipe out any wage gains. with the economy in recession, president biden is getting ready to head out of town on vacation. griff jenkins at the white house for us. >> good morning. you know this all too well. they might be getting together right now to consider delaying that vacation to let the president advocate for his agenda after a string of positive developments. this latest one, a slight decrease, inflation at 8.5%, down from 9.1%. but put that in perspective. a far car from the 1.4% when he took office. the latest numbers show wage gains that stand at 5.2% year-over-year are being wiped out by inflation.

this comes on the heels of a string of major legislative victories, first the chips bill. now in just about half an hour president biden will sign the pac act expanding access and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. it is not translating to momentum. bernie sanders becoming a latest democrat unwilling to commit. >> do you want to see him run for reelection? >> look, right now my concern is electing more democrats in this mid-term election. >> sanders joining a list of at least a half dozen other democrats including joe manchin and aoc who won't back biden yet. two names previously in the no column with backtracking. they are offering words of support after being non-committal in the debate. we're waiting for a statement from the president on the latest inflation numbers and bring them to you as soon as we

get them. as you mentioned, the president planning to head out to south carolina. maybe some r & r will give him time to get over the lingering cough. >> bill: let's dig deeper. larry kudlow is with us now. check him out on fox business at 4:00 every afternoon. here is overall in july down to 8.5% with 9.1 in the month of june. it would appear to be good news, right? core stayed the same at 5.9. core excludes food and energy. that is a lot. so we'll bring in the white house next hour and probably argue that inflation has peaked perhaps. if they make that argument what would you say, larry? >> well, actually, inflation may have peaked. i underscore the word may. we just legislated a barrel

full of government spending between the chips plus bill, which is close to $300 billion and this manchin/schumer bill that is $750 billion. so maybe that federal spending will take affect in three or four months and raise the inflation rate but right now you can say the numbers have peaked but we have a long ways to go. look at, if you look at three-month changes, which is an important trend line, you are still seeing some pretty rough numbers. core inflation is 9 -- core inflation is close to 7% and the overall inflation rate the top line is 9 1/2%. you had rents and shelter going way up, food going way up. new cars up. used cars down and energy, gasoline at the pump is down. that was a very important swing factor. i want to also note, bill hemmer, one more thing.

yesterday we got a very difficult number on overall wages and productivity which is essential to the economy. so wages up nearly 7%. business prices up nearly 8%. and productivity down 2 1/2%. so i don't have any problem with the workforce making more money even though the wage rate is below the inflation rate. so they are working harder but getting less. i do have a problem with the productivity collapse. that is central to the economy. so all these numbers, i think, are still recessionary. we have a long ways to go honestly. a long ways to go. >> bill: put it on screen. the spike is trending lower.4.01 a gallon but the demand for gas is dropping which explains a lot of why we're down 50 days in a row now. i heard you the other day call

this recent bill pathetic. >> yeah. it's pathetic absolutely. >> bill: more power to the e.p.a. and the i.r.s.. will that help growth? is that going to help inflation, larry? >> no. absolutely not. i mean, this bill was a central planner's regulators' paradise. this is all about big government and big government socialism. there is nothing in here to cut inflation. there is nothing in here to grow the economy out of recession. there is nothing in here to incentivize entrepreneurs. this is not a bill that will help working folks. it will not help small businesses. it will not help large businesses. it will not help young entrepreneurs. it helps government bureaucrats, okay?

it helps regulators. the epa war on fossil fuels is bolstered by this. the i.r.s. war on everybody, on everybody. they are coming for you, bill hemmer. affluent broadcaster you are. they're coming for dana, me, uber drivers, they are coming for gig workers and waitresses and coming for small businesses. really, this is just government power. d.c. swamp power. you know what? how about this, a nice, simple, low, flat tax code. simplification is the answer to tax reporting problems. >> bill: audits are miserable. >> stop giving the 150,000 i.r.s. agents?

they're going to come after everybody. >> bill: jared bernstein joins dana and me in 30 minutes. >> dana: elon musk making a drastic business decision. he is selling almost $7 billion in the car company's stock so far. only speculation as to why he needs cash on hand. but when asked if he was done selling stocks, he tweeted this. in the hopefully unlikely event that twitter forces this deal to close and some equity partners don't come tloou, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of tesla stock. musk and twitter are suing each other over his decision to not buy the social media giant. >> bill: sounds like a smart business move. >> dana: these are the days of our lives. the new soap opera to watch. >> bill: the richest man in the world needs more cash. >> dana: a frightening moment caught on camera. i couldn't believe it when i saw it this morning. a small plane crash lands on a

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>> dana: house speaker nancy pelosi once again extending a covid-era rule that allows lawmakers to vote remotely and by proxy due to an ongoing health emergency. americans are returning to their normal pre-covid lives. jimmy failla is the host of fox

across america. the thing is that all these democratic mayors are begging people to come back to the office. and you don't have to go back to congress to vote. you can continue to campaign, you don't have to worry about all that travel back and forth. you just stay home? >> the travel she is worried about. it sounds like somebody has summer getaway plans for labor day weekend. if you listen close you can hear girls just want to have fun playing in the background. it's a scam. think of the capitol as a whole. tours resumed, no mask mandate. it is safe for you and i to go to the capitol but want us to believe it is not safe for them to go to the capitol? this is one of those stories we can update by going to instagram in the next three weeks and five weeks when they're drinking. they aren't doing it for safety. >> bill: a wedding to italy. >> remember when jones went to a wedding and we can't be in d.c. right now it's dangerous.

so much safer doing a conga line. >> bill: remain in mexico has been reversed. remain where you choose is still in effect. >> it's amazing. >> bill: for how long? >> dana: until september 26th. because it is high campaign season i bet they will extend it. >> of course they will. it renews in 45 day increments. the day she said september 26 like covid gives you an epa. my phone says i'll be there in nine days. i'm not buying it. >> dana: there is this on the golden globes. last year they didn't air them. >> they were made at the hollywood foreign press association and had some shady practices when it ka imto inclusion. some comments they aernt saying. is that where we begin? >> dana: nbc cut ties. we continue to believe the hfpa is committed to meaningful reform. change of this magnitude takes time and work and we feel strongly that they need time to do it. as such nbc will not air the 2022 golden globes.

>> goodness gracious. that will disappoint all their viewer. this didn't have a big audience, let's be honest. it kills me on two fronts. one the foreign press association should be more inclusive. we can all agree it's 2022, shame on them for not having any black employees. that being said when it comes to hollywood, they are really blowing such a good thing in terms of the quality of life. the reason hollywood is famous and lives these spectacular lives of prosperity is they've hit the genetic lottery and why we turn to hollywood. these people are so gorgeous we are willing to pay $20 for a popcorn to recite words written by an ugly person. i have been in the writers rooms and i might have been one of them. no one goes to hollywood for social justice or politics. we go to escape it. now like you get to the vacation resort and it's like we built a crowded subway. >> bill: you have all these racist thoughts. >> they have them themselves.

>> bill: zero african-americans a year ago. they have added 21 new members. six are black. >> which again congratulations on trying to keep up with the group. they've never practiced what they preach. the point is don't preach. you are all gorgeous and wonderful and you get to wear these $10,000 outfits and go hook up at parties. why are you wasting it on politics, dude? that's all i'm saying. >> bill: i noted your use of the word viewer, it was singular. >> no one missed it. i'm thinking about the white house correspondents dinner when they didn't have it a couple years. it is time to end it, but they didn't. you had a great time there. >> it was awesome. somebody thought it was a good idea to let me loose in a free bar. i did make it out alive. >> bill: all this before 10:00 a.m. [laughter]

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>> bill: fox news alert. forfort benning soldiers are dead and three injured in a weather-related incident in north georgia yesterday. they were training in mountains two hours from atlanta. they were caught in a powerful thunderstorms at the time. it is the second weather-related casualty involving georgia soldiers in the past month. >> dana: for everybody watching this case, a federal judge in california ruling against three professional golfers who signed with the liv golf financed by saudi arabia. they won't be able to compete in a pga tournament in memphis

tomorrow. claudia is live in california as the news broke today. >> good morning to you. a big win for the pga. a blow to the three liv golfers who wanted to play in a pga event tomorrow. a federal judge said sorry, guys, you can't. the three were suspended from pga events after they joined the rival saudi-backed liv tour. they filed an emergency petition so they could play in the fedex cup, the postseason getting underway right now in memphis. top winners earn millions in prize money and guaranteed spots in tournaments next year. pga argued allowing them to play now would be disruptive and unfair to pga members who followed the rules that clearly forbid participation in competing tours. the judge said the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate harm if they were kept out of the fedex cup saying they can still play golf for liv and earn plenty of

money there adding their liv contract took into account what they would lose by not playing on the pga tour and agreed with the pga. the plaintiffs knew the consequences and the emergency of one of their own making. the ruling tees up the next legal battle in the turf war. 11 liv players including phil mickelson and kam smith will join the liv tour backing the liv tour and adding another round of drama to the game of golf. >> dana: there is indeed. hemmer is here for all of it. >> bill: following all the twists and turns. claudia, thank you. if the reports are true cameron smith would be the highest rank golf player to join the liv tour. he just won the open, the

british open, six-time pga tour winner ranked number two in the world. he was asked about it this weekend. -- this week when he showed up at a tournament in memphis. he said i will play golf and we'll take care of that down the road. it looks like cameron smith is about to make a ton of cash from the saudi wealth fund to support the liv tour. >> dana: however they want to spend their money. >> bill: we'll figure it out. it will take some time. i don't know how you survive if you are just on youtube. you need the television component. >> dana: you don't think they'll get that? >> bill: maybe eventually perhaps. watch the court cases, see how they come down. fred couples was on the way. played golf on the pga tour his life. he ripped on this whole idea and then he ripped on greg norman who he thinks is at the heart of all of it.

says we haven't been friends in 25 years and we won't start right now. there are a lot of bruised egos and a lot of bruised feelings as we move through what will determine. >> dana: dana read sports on this topic and others as you keep me informed. i appreciate that. we have a brand-new bus on illegal immigrants arriving in new york city this morning as president biden's open border policy continue to cause chaos along the southern border. welcome. >> bill: this video is extraordinary. watch it carefully. texas governor greg abbott sending three more bus loads part of operation lone star providing needed relief to overwhelmed communities in texas. new york's mayor not happy with any of this and now threatening to campaign personally in texas against abbott who is running for reelection. >> i am deeply contemplating taking a bus load of new

yorkers to go to texas and do some good old-fashioned door knocking because we have to, for the good of america, we have to get him out of office. >> bill: bryan llenas was there when the buses arrived steps from time square. what did you see and hear? >> look, we saw approximately 95 illegal immigrants that were directly sent from texas arrive at the port authority bus terminal behind me in the middle of mid town manhattan this morning. this is the third bus convoy to arrive here in the city since governor abbott from texas began sending bus loads of migrants here last friday. most arriving today were single adult males. a total of approximately 160 immigrants have now been sent over the last week. the city is processing the migrants at four main shelters where they're placed in

temporary housing, including 11 hotels that the city has contracted. now, the commissioner for migrant affairs in the mayor's office greeted the migrants and said abbott is being inhumane by loading buses and sending them to the big apple. listen. >> the action by governor abbott, morally corrupt. for them to be brought here, you know, like i said, maybe, you know, against their will. it is unacceptable. >> mayor eric adams says they welcome immigrants but calls governor abbott's bus convoys to new york city and washington, d.c. horrific. he claims abbott is using these migrants as political pawns to manufacture a crisis. he also claims that the migrants were being brought here against their will. something we heard just now this morning. governor abbott's office says that is simply not true.

quote, these migrants willingly chose to go to new york city having signed a voluntary consent waiver available in multiple languages upon boarding that they agreed on the destination. abbott says adams is being hypocritical here when -- hypocriteically upset about 4,000 asylum seekers having come to new york city since may given that small texas border communities have been dealing with thousands of migrants crossing the border illegally every single day. now the mayor here is asking for federal reimbursement. we still haven't received a price tag on that. >> bill: you know the pattern on governor abbott. when he starts this he doesn't end this. washington, d.c. is a very good example. new york city better get prepared for this. bryan, thank you. >> dana: i think this is a stunning story. i can't get enough of it. it is -- washington is ignoring this. the biden administration won't even talk about it. governor abbott says i've been

asking for money, too. this is the federal government's responsibility. governor abbott hasn't gotten it but they dedicate a billion dollars of texas taxpayer money to deal with the issues and eric adams think he will go to texas and campaign against governor abbott in a plus 15 trump state? >> bill: if you have the video of the disembarkment from earlier today i will make a point here. eric adams the other day, if you inserted greg abbott, they are saying the same thing to your point. second point, this is from friday. if you look at the video from earlier today where bryan was reporting, dana, look, everybody has a cell phone. everybody is wearing clean, nice clothes, and everybody has a mask, two women there with a baby you can see from the end of last week. and as i stated, this is just the beginning for what new york is going to get. if you follow the story in washington, d.c., there is a

piece in the editorial section of the "washington post" earlier today that's putting pressure on the mayor in washington to figure out what she is going to do about this. the pressure is ramping up now and abbott won't concede. >> dana: he is not. we would love to talk to him, too. i think it would be great. eric adams, governor abbott should want eric adams should come and campaign in texas on this issue. i would love to see that. >> bill: we learn more about the raid at the home of former president trump in florida. an attorney for the president saying the f.b.i. would not allow the president's legal team to watch as agents searched his estate. phil keating picks up the story today on what we think we know at the moment. good morning, phil. >> good morning, bill and dana. here today at mar-a-lago quiet. a couple of secret service agents because this is the home of a former president, landscapers and property managers. the former president is not

here. he wasn't here monday for a matter of fact when the f.b.i. did the surprise search warrant execution inside the property. he was in new jersey but last night he was seen returning to trump tower in manhattan. before that, though, he met with a dozen conservative members of the house g.o.p. caucus, a pre-planned meeting to talk elections and political strategy. last night the surprise f.b.i. raid suddenly dominated the dialogue. indiana jim banks was there. >> i've never seen president trump as fired up as what he was tonight. he is not deterred or phased at all by what the d.o.j. has done to him. unprecedented move of raiding the home of a former president and not at all explaining to the american people why they did it. >> the monday search warrant executed by a dozen or so f.b.i. agents reportedly was all about sensitive and confidential white house documents taken to florida after trump left office.

monday they removed a dozen boxes worth and reportedly no electronics. president biden did not comment whether he had a heads-up that the f.b.i. raid was going to happen and that the white house press secretary said this. >> no, the president was not briefed, was not aware of it. no, no one at the white house was given a heads-up, no, that did not happen. >> president trump also had no forewarning of what he describes as a raid on his house. gop leadership all day yesterday including senator lindsey graham and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell demanding that the attorney general, as well as the head of the f.b.i., produce some sort of statement not only for the lawmakers, but for the public for a more detailed and thorough explanation as to why for the first time that anyone can think of a former

president's house was raided by the feds with a search warrant. but in cases like this ongoing investigations, typically federal law enforcements agents are mum on the matter. >> bill: the country is waiting for that at whether you are for against this. no matter which side you are on, you want to know what's happening. phil, thank you. phil keating in mar-a-lago. >> dana: more on this let's bring in former utah congressman jason chaffetz. chuck grassley says if the f.b.i. isn't transparent and rooted out political bias they will have sealed their own fate. i wanted to bring him up. he has worked in washington for a long time and he is considered somebody who has been very fair and he has run the judiciary committee when he has been the chairman in a way that the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. would definitely have to take notice. this is not a partisan hack

they can blow off. the chairman of the judiciary committee, jason. >> chuck grassley has a stellar reputation. i find it interesting that the raid happened hours after director wray was in front of these senators knowing the time it would take in order to get him back before the committee would be significant. i happen to think, dana, i think this is all about january 6th. i think it is a ruse and dropped media story to suggest it is about the presidential federal records act. i think it expands the net and if their fishing trip comes up with guppies as opposed to the sail fish they are looking for they can justify the reason they went in here. but i'm with governor cuomo. he is the one who is out there saying hey, if you don't come out and come out soon with an explanation, you seal your own fate much like what senator

grassley is saying. i think this demands an absolute explanation sooner rather than later and they should have be having a press conference yesterday. >> bill: they better have it nailed down. there are a lot of smart people following the department of justice and f.b.i. for years as you have as well. they agree with you. there is something around january 6th that they're trying to capture. i don't know what that is. others say it is about presidential record. not your property, you work for the government. it's the government's to keep. what would be the crime surrounding january 6th? >> i don't know. i think the proximity to the confiscation of congressman perry's phone is just -- it's not just some coincidence. i don't know what it is. this is again why i this i the department of justice has to do this. they are inside the window of elections. they vowed after we went through what we did with hillary clinton that they weren't going to do that type of thing again and yet here they are doing it.

>> dana: jason chaffetz. thank you. it is interesting when you bring up that your opinion is that it could have to do something with january 6th. but the longer the justice department doesn't say anything, that allows for people to say this is my opinion and those things start to harden. they should have had some sort of statement or release of a document. but they are being silent is very strange. >> yeah, absolutely. release the search warrant. get out there and have the attorney general make a statement. i think the deep concern here is that there is an unequal application of justice. this is not how they treated the cases with hillary clinton. this is not how they treated the case with hunter biden. this is not how they treated the case with the i.r.s.. when i issued a subpoena against the i.r.s. for documents and then months later they destroyed those dock also, they didn't even prosecute these people let alone have raids and go nuts with it.

that's what is driving people crazy. >> dana: don't forget sandy berger for the clintons who puts documents in his pants and socks having to do with al qaeda and he had a misdemeanor. >> bill: the last point you make is extraordinary. sandy berger, the 9/11 commission was trying to figure out what we knew about al qaeda before 9/11 2 1/2 years after the attack. one of the national archives building stuck it down his pants and socks and hid it in a building and picked it up later. >> dana: the democrats were trying to say it was george w. bush alone that millsed this and didn't want to have anyone say the clintons were dealing with the fact that bin laden was trying to plot and plan over time. i'm not blaming one person. but that was what the political conversation was the left was

coming toward george w. bush. >> bill: donald trump is back in new york city today. former president arrived last night a day after the f.b.i. raided his mar-a-lago estate in florida. back and forth between the city and his golf club in bedminster, new jersey. he faces questions from new york prosecutors today into the trump organization as oh business. david lee miller is watching it today. good morning, david lee. >> good morning, bill. another day, another legal challenge for former president donald trump. a little more than one hour ago mr. trump waved to the media as he left trump tower and headed to lower manhattan for a deposition at the attorney general. he arrived there a short time ago, entered the building, a short time later released a statement on his social media platform that said it is a very plush, beautiful and expensive a.g.'s office. nice working condition. she spends her effort trying to

get trump. looking at the investigation by the attorney general who is black mr. trump released a statement that read in new york city tonight, seeing racist new york's attorney general tomorrow continuation of the greatest witch hunt in u.s. history. my great company and myself are being attacked from all sides, ban an an republic. this is a civil matter that could result in fines. the deposition initially scheduled for january and bill we have some breaking news coming up so i will toss it back to you. >> bill: back to you shortly. dana has that now. >> dana: president biden is making some comments now on the economy and the new inflation number. let's listen. >> president biden: about the lowest amount in several months. when you couple that with last week's booming jobs report of 528,000 jobs and low unemployment underscores the economy we've been building.

we see a stronger labor market and we are seeing some signs inflation may be beginning to moderate. that's what happens when you build an economy from the bottom up and middle out. gives everyone a chance to make progress. now i want to be clear. the global challenges we face from the war in europe to disruption of supply chains and pandemic shutdowns in asia, we could face additional head winds in the months ahead. our work is far from over. two things should be clear. first the economic plan is working. second it is building an economy that will reward work, wages are up this month, provide opportunity, help the middle class and still have work to do but we're on track. the second point i want to make is we need to pass the inflation reduction act right away. the most important thing that congress can do to keep our progress on inflation from getting better -- from getting

worse. keep it moving in the right direction. it will bring down the cost of prescription drugs, health insurance premiums and energy cost and make big corporations pay their fair share. nothing more than their fair share. it will reduce the deficit without raising a penny in taxes or people making under $400,000 a year. it's far from done. our effort to bring inflation down but we're moving in the right direction. so some good economic news today and some work ahead. now to the reason we're here and the most important reason we've assembled in this room in a long time. danielle, when you were here for the state of the union i had hoped to be able to sign this bill. it turns out that's working. and mom, i remember how strongly supportive you were from the very beginning all the way back when i met you at a book signing a long time ago. and i'm just in awe of your family's courage. i really mean that.

through the pain, you found purpose to demand we do better as a nation. and today we are. bill, i know you miss your daddy but he is with you all the time. he is inside you. he will whisper in your ear lots of times when you have hard decisions to make and dad, what should i do? he will be there for you. you see the little guy sitting right next to? that's my grandson. his daddy lost to the same burn pit and he knows what you are going through. but guess what you are going to do this and be really, really strong. it is hard taking care of mommy and grandma but you have to do it, okay? all right. to the veterans and families today and around the country, we can never fully thank you for your service and your sacrifice and that's a fact. less than 1% of you, less than 1% of you risk everything to defend 99% of the population.

1%. 99%. we owe you. you are the backbone, the steel, the sinew, the very fiber that makes the this country what it is. that's a fact. as a nation we have many obligations. i've been saying this for a long, long time. many obligations. only one truly sacred obligation. to equip those we send into harm's way and care for them and their families when they come home. we have a lot of obligations but it's a truly sacred obligation we have. [applause] today we're one step closer to fulfilling that sacred obligation with the bill i'm about to sign into law. the most significant law our nation has ever passed to help

millions of veterans who are exposed to toxic substances during their military services. you know, secretary mcdonagh can tell you i was going to get this done come hell or high water. it was one of the first things when i -- staff knows that is true. as part of my agenda i announced in the state of the union address, i announced four things that all americans can agree on. one was beating the opioid epidemic, two was tackling the mental health crisis we face as a nation as a consequence of the pandemic, three was ending cancer as we know it which we are going to do come hell or high water again. and three, supporting our veterans. big issues that unite us. we are always being told democrats and republicans can't work together. when i ran i said one of the reasons i was running was to unite the country and i was roundly criticized for being naive. that was the old days. used to be able to do that.

i don't believe it. we never have failed to. there are a lot of issues we can disagree on but there are issues we can work together on. this is one of those issues. so many of you here today remind us that we have fought for this for so many years. veterans, surviving families, surviving family members, advocates like rosie torres and jon stewart. jon, i want to thank you again. i wanted to come out and hang out on the capitol steps but the secret service said it would be a pain in the neck and they wouldn't let me do it. what you've done, jon, matters. you know it does and you should know it really matters. refused to let anybody forget. refused to let them forget. we owe you big, man. we owe you big. [applause]

all the rest of you. you never gave up the fight and never quit. think about it. think about how distant this looked five years ago, seven years ago. also want to thank senators chester and morgan. if you are in a foxhole you want tester in that hole with you. where are you, john? is john here? [applause] only problem is john may try to bring his combine in the foxhole with him. also john bozeman and kyrsten sinema and blumenthal and representatives and all the other members of congress who supported this bill. many of whom are here today.

i would like you all to stand. all the members of congress, please stand. [applause] you know, we learned a horrible lesson in vietnam where many of you fought. after vietnam agent orange left too many veterans unable to access the care they needed and deserved. that is why back in 1991 we co-sponsored the agent orange act. that laid the ground work for how the v.a. addresses environmental exposure and the bill i'm about to sign. veterans of the wars of iraq and afghanistan not only face dangers in battle, they were breathing toxic smoke from burn

pits. because i was vice president and chairman of the foreign relations committee before that i was in and out of iraq over 20 times. all those places and you could actually see some of it in the air, burn pits the size of football fields, incinerated wastes of war such as tires, jet fuel and so much more i won't even mention. a lot of the places where our soldiers were sleeping were literally a quarter mile, a half mile away from it. and where they ate their chow. it was there all the time. toxic smoke think with poison spreading through the air and into the lungs of our troops. when they came home many of the best warriors we sent to war were not the same. headaches, numbness, dizziness,

cancer. my son, beau was one of them. his son is son. and others, the commander of the national guard when beau was there. i want to thank them for being here as well. to us and to many of you in the room, if not all of you, it's personal, personal for so many people like danielle and others. a 39-year-old, and they held his hand for the last time at age 39. this is the least we can do for the countless men and women. many of whom may be in this room who suffered toxic exposure while serving their country. it expands access to health care and disability benefits for veterans harmed by toxic ex closure and move quickly to determine the illness and relate i had military service

to see if they qualify and families of veterans who died of veterans from toxic exposure $2,000 a month with surviving spouse for two children and access to life insurance, home loan insurance, tuition benefits and help with healthcare. it means new facilities, improved care, more research and increased hiring and retention of healthcare workers treating veterans. this new law matters a lot. it matters a great deal because these conditions have already taken such a toll on so many veterans and their families. i have directed the department of veterans affairs to treat all 23 presumptive conditions as this law as applicable the moment i sign this bill. i'm urging veterans of those decades of war to promptly file for your claims. the v.a. will move as quickly as possible to resolve your claim and get you the benefits and care you've earned. now i want every member, every

service member, every veteran and family member to know how to access the law. just go to va.gov/pac, va.gov/pact. apply for your v.a. healthcare now or go to your local v.a. hospital or reach out to the veterans service organizations, many of whom made this happen as well. disabled veterans of america, to american legion, veterans of foreign war. if you need additional assistance, just call, call. this law becomes on top of my administration's efforts to pioneer ways to link toxic exposure to diseases and help more veterans get the care they need we built a more comprehensive databases to track exposures and expand the

eligibility for veterans, earlier this summer i signed nine veterans bills into law that will do everything providing mammograms and screenings for veterans who served near burn pits to compensating veterans who develop cancer and other things from our world war ii nuclear program. secretary mcdonagh and the department of veterans affairs are part of my cancer moon shot initiative to end cancer as we know it. today i'm proud to name dr. monica -- get it right, doc. bettinolli. she is a leading cancer surgeon from a family of generations of veterans and my director of the

national cancer institute. please stand up. [applause] >> bill: important issue passed by congress. get a lot of veterans help whoever overseas in iraq and afghanistan. as that ceremony continues at the white house jared bernstein has been patient, the white house economic advisor. it is hot out there and you want to get going. >> i'm not overheating. >> bill: we wanted to squeeze this in before we get back to other news here. a major deal on the inflation report. on screen call for 2. here is what americans are dealing with. eggs up 38%, flour 22, coffee 20, soup 19%, lunch meat 18%. can you say today that inflation has peaked in america given these numbers? >> what i can say today is that inflation went up zero percent in month of july.

this is the first month in over a year that inflation did not go up, held down by an 8% decline in the price of a retail gas. by the way it wasn't the only component that fell. airfares, hotels, motels, apparel. cpi components had a negative handle. shelter ticked up but less than the previous month. in fact, about a month ago we were talking about a 1.3% incoos in inflation. compare that to zero today. if you attach that to the growth of pay in july from that great jobs report we were talking about a few days ago, we see the first real increase in monthly wages that we've seen in well over a year. half a percent up in real terms over the month of july. so a great report following a great jobs report and a bit of much-needed breathing room. no victory lap as you pointed

out. there are still a lot of areas. >> bill: they reflect demand in the economy and consumer. >> dana: what do you attribute this to? do you think your work is done and just say what happened going forward because people as they get ready for back to school, all those prices are still way up over what they were. >> great question. our work here is far from done. i cannot underscore that enough. the president will continue to talk about unacceptably high inflation. however, we have to look at the fingerprints of some of his initiatives as you requested on what is going on here. one of the most important declines in this report is the fall in the price of ga.s it is now about $1 off its peak in mid june. down 20%. many factors going. the release of oil from the strategic reserves is one of them.

>> bill: so is demand. demand is lowering, too. that's a big reason why gasoline is dropping the way it is. >> but we saw used car prices come down with a negative handle. part of that also reflects some of the work we've done both in microchips but also in the ports trying to get goods from ship to shelf as quickly as possible. so i think some of our efforts are manifest in the report. we have a lot more work to do. prices are still too high. >> bill: so on the i.r.s., why does america need 87,000 new agents? >> look, i think this reporting has been pretty convoluted. i want to quote something from the commissioner of the i.r.s.. these resources, he is talking about what you are referring to is resources in the inflation reduction act to reverse what i call a shadow tax cut, the long-term defunding of the

i.r.s. to facilitate tax evasion by wealthy evaders. here is what the commissioner said. these i.r.s. resources are not about increasing audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle income americans as we have been planning. he is the commissioner and he knows what they are planning. our investment is designed around treasury's directive that audit rates won't rise for households making under $400,000. in other words, i.r.a. resources won't add to audits for households under $400,000 and those same households won't see one penny increase in their taxes based on proposals in the inflation reduction act. let's just make sure the record is clear on that point. >> dana: there are many other institutions that have said otherwise including the congressional budget office considered nonpartisan. let me ask you this. what people are feeling as a personal reaction to the possibility of the doubling of your chances of being audited.

have you ever been audited, sir? >> i have never been audited. i actually have a great record in paying my taex and i suspect most people listen to my voice would say the same thing. >> bill: they have to prove their innocence. >> most people haven't been audited. here is the thing. you shouldn't evade your taxes. there is my public service announcement. it is illegal to evade taxes. >> dana: nobody is advocating that. >> you may well be audited. what is confused in some of this discussion is finally reversing the long-term defunding, which is really in my view a shadow tax cut for wealthy tax evaders will not increase audits one bit according to the commissioner for families under $400,000. which is about 98 or 99% of taxpayers. let's be very clear. this is about making sure the top 1% pay the taxes that they

owe. i don't think too many people would object to that. can you object to that? >> bill: we have breaking news here. answer me this. if you have wealthy corporate tax cheats i think was the phrase you used and used from the white house as well. >> i did not say that in this interview. >> bill: it was what was said in the briefing room yesterday at the white house. if you have millionaires and billionaires. you know what they do? they have a team to keep them between the lines. we had a fact the other day that shows you are more likely to be audited if you make less than $25,000 a year. how are you going to square that? >> so first of all, let's be very clear. we're not talking about tax avoidance. we are talking about tax evasion. tax avoidance we may not like it but it is not illegal. it is as you say between the lines. tax evasion goes over the line and that is what we're talking

about here. literally hundreds of billions of dollars. it is by far concentrated among the most wealthy, not lower or middle income people like you are describing. the difference between what is actually owed and what is paid is very much disproportionately on the top of the income scale. this act enforces tax -- it enforces paying your taxes for the wealthiest taxpayers. i don't think anyone, including you two, would object to that contention. >> bill: thank you for your time and we welcome you back any time. we have a ton of questions and appreciate your time today. we'll see how it plays out and whether or not you are right in the end. thank you. >> dana: the breaking news that bill was referring to is that president trump was due as david lee miller was telling us before the president spoke, president biden, that president trump was due in court today and giving a deposition. news there. we go back to david lee miller

now. hi, david lee. >> hi, dana. the headline this hour. is former president is pleading the fifth rather than giving testimony in a deposition regarding a civil case brought by the state attorney general leticia james. he released a statement soon after he entered the offices of the state attorney general that said in part and i quote, i did nothing wrong, which is why after five years of looking the federal, state and local governments have found nothing. it goes on to say and i quote. accordingly under the advice of my counsel i decline to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the united states constitution. again, dana, underscoring the fact that this is a civil deposition. mr. trump and his company are facing possible financial penalties. one reason perhaps he decided to plead the fifth, the district attorney in new york

has a parallel his own investigation, criminal in nature, that is taking place and it is very possible that the district attorney would be able to access this deposition and use it against mr. trump if he goes forward with any criminal prosecution. so at this hour we understand the former president is still in the offices of the new york state attorney general. he left trump tower, the building behind me, about an hour ago and he will possibly return here in the next few minutes. we don't know his schedule but again the headline this hour is the former president is pleading the fifth. back to you. >> dana: in that particular case. david lee miller, thank you for that. >> bill: 22 before the hour. president biden losing support growing list of democrats avoiding the endorsement for his bid in 2024. will he return or is he on his way to becoming a lame duck in the white house? hi, i'm william devane. did you know there's only been two times in american history

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>> you want to see president biden, senator, run for a second term? >> what i want to see right now is that the congress of the united states, working with president biden next year. >> do you want to see him run

for reelection? >> look, right now my concern is electing more democrats in this mid-term election. >> dana: to be clear bernie sanders does not want to answer that question about president biden in 2024. martha maccallum joins us. he is not the only one. a list of democrats on record saying they are wary of biden reelection. a couple of names you might recognize. joe manchin, cori bush in missouri and tim ryan from ohio. all these democrats will continue to be asked this. the president today even as he was giving his remarks that he feels there is wind at his back. is there? >> i think that politically there is some wind at his back now. he has a good jobs number. inflation number that has to make him feel better how things are going given the onslaught of bad -- terrible numbers we've watched over the course

of the last year. one hand common courtesy with dictate that all these people should be saying of course he will run and support him. just get in and out of that question. the problem is that so many of them are running themselves and if you are tim ryan in ohio or alison spang berger in virginia you have people that you want to vote for you who would rather hear you say no, i think we need to go in a different direction. >> bill: i think bernie is one of them. >> absolutely. it is a very tricky time. there is also a decent argument to be made for the president to say i said i wanted to be a bridge to the future and i am not going to run again. this is what we'll accomplish now. i don't think that's a completely losing proposition. it would relieve him of some of the pressure that's on him. he could be the person he wants to be, as moderate as he would like to be. he could try to do some unifying and could potentially put a successor behind him who would have the support of all sides of his party.

it would take a little pressure off him from the progressives. it doesn't seem like that's the way he is going now. a decent political argument for that. >> dana: it was interesting that maureen dowd. she said this should give you the confidence to say you aren't going to run again. that won't end for all of them. the other thing is the raid on president trump's compound we still haven't heard from the justice department. lindsey graham said he spoke to the president and this is what he said. >> what i have to tell you is i believe he was going to run before. i am stronger in my belief that every republican i have talked to by phone has been lit up. what the hell are these people doing? can you imagine if the rolls were reversed? >> dana: it's a lot of buzz. people talking about this all over the country. the justice department is not talking at all. >> the justice department is not talking and interesting we aren't hearing a lot from president trump.

in a typical scenario having followed him all these years he would be out there talking and doing interviews. there is a little bit of a quiet moment going on here and there are a lot of things not filled in yet. i think this goes one way or the other. either they have something very specific that they went in there for, which is in the affidavit, which has not been revealed. it is not necessarily in the warrant. the warrant can be more general and the warrant has been given to conduct this search. the affidavit has the much more detailed information what they are seeng in here and why they were given this right to go in based on the judge's decision that it was -- there is some sort of criminal connection. if they don't have that, this is the biggest political d.o.j. blunder potentially in the history of politics. it will be so empowering. i read a quote this morning from a reader who sent in to a

blog saying that he just donated $500. he makes $1,000 a week. i can't remember the number exactly but half of his weekly income to president trump to the former president trump because he is so outraged by what happened here. it is a motivator, i think, in a way that we haven't seen the full impact of yet. it is very interesting that the president is just sort of synth and waiting on his comments and reaction right now. >> bill: we'll see, right? >> that's what we do. >> dana: that's why we're here. >> bill: a story like this it's all we can do. a lot we don't know. martha, thank you. >> keeping a lot of people from saying. >> dana: great to sigh. thank you. >> bill: a 16-year-old girl last seen at a campground near lake tahoe vanishes and a desperate search to find her. nancy grace is on that case. >> please just come home.

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>> harris: dramatic new details of the f.b.i. raid on former president trump's home. republicans demanding the attorney general explain how and why he went after trump. he has to tell the american people. and the illegal immigration crisis being dealt with with don't mess with texas style. and the governor putting pressure on democrat-led cities and states by busing illegals straight to them. texas governor greg abbott joins me. congressman tom hemmer. brian kilmeade and charles payne. >> bill: a missing northern california teenager is 16 years old. she disappeared early saturday morning after she was out with friends at a campground near lake tahoe in california. she texted her mother she would

be home soon. that was the last time her mom heard from her. her mom talked to "fox & friends" a bit earlier. >> we just want her home. we are so scared and we miss her so much and we love her so much and kylee, we love you. if you have any ideas, please come forward and share them and we're not looking to bust anybody or get anybody in trouble. we just want to bring our daughter home. >> bill: nancy grace host of crime stories. thank you for this time. she is 5'7", 115 pounds. apparently numerous piercings and jewelry with a nose ring. she would be distinctive if you find her. silver 2013 honda crv with california license plates. there is a lot there if you can get the word out, nancy. >> there is a lot there.

she was at a farewell party. she was graduating from high school. there were 100 teens at this party at a campground area. and her friends left. she stayed behind. a natalee holloway situation. texted mom i'll be leaving in 45 minutes and that was that. this is what i learned. that older boys had shown up at this party and they were trying to get younger girls. she is just 16, to drink. what, if anything, did that have to play in her disappearance? her car, the s.u.v., kind of a crossover car has not been found. her phone is not in service. the last pings we think were in that area. as of 12:15, 12:30 she is off the grid. divers are looking at the

campground in the water. >> bill: we'll see whether or not they get the help they need. a tip line out there. we had it on screen a moment ago. you have interviewed the parents of a woman who apparently committed suicide. her name is ellen greenberg. she was found with 20 stab wounds and correction made there, my apologies. her fiance called 911. his name is sam goldberg. this is his phone call to 911 and i'll ask you about it. >> he was seen pacing in the hall. you look at the 911 call and the scene. it just doesn't jive. he had those lines practiced before he made entry into the apartment. >> bill: that was the proem oel for your special. the fiance called help, i walked into my apartment.

my fiance is on the floor with blood everywhere. what did you find out about that moment? you have talked to the parents. >> i found out a lot. the fiance had come home. she had sent out her save the dates for their wedding. fiance comes home. she is calling the students' parents saying did they get home careful? she is making a fruit salad. he works out. 30 or 40 minutes later he comes back and she is dead. this is what is the kicker. there is new evidence. this is what it is. this woman, this young bride to be is stabbed over 20 times and it's deemed a suicide including stabs to the back of her head and her neck that go all the way to the bone in an upward position and the final stab, bill, is with her left hand. she is right-handed, into her own heart with her non-dominant

hand. this girl did not commit suicide. i agree with her parents. >> bill: we have a 911 call i just mentioned. roll this. >> i need -- i need help now. i just walked into my apartment and she is on the floor with blood everywhere, my -- i went downstairs to go work out, came back up, the door is latched, my fiance was inside and after a half our i see her now with blood. she is not responding. >> bill: he is panicked on the call. did you find out more about that? >> i took a very close look at the latch. he said he had to break into the door. but if you look at the latch and you will see it in our special where we recreate the scene, two of the screws are seemingly unhinged and not broken off when he breaks through the door. very unusual.

i'm telling you this, i would stake it all, this girl, this bride to be, did not commit suicide. the new evidence is that from many of her stab wounds there is no hemorrhage. in other words, she wasn't bleeding, bill. she was already dead. your heart is not pumping so there is no blood coming from the stab wounds. some of the stab wounds were postmortem and a medical examiner agrees. >> bill: thank you. it is dropping on fox nation. for more on that check it out now. thank you, nancy. we'll talk again soon. >> dana: important stories and the last one troubling as well. there is also this. did you see this before we go? a video of a little girl if tennessee getting police escort to her first day of kindergarten. the police department honored the girl's father, the lieutenant who died on duty

back in november. so a big moment for her. >> bill: she will never forget it. god bless her soul, too. we have to roll. a big day. still waiting, right? >> dana: we have a little -- there was news on all fronts, harris faulkner will take you through more of it. here she is. >> harris: fox news alert now with a new report breaking down exactly what happened during the raid at president trump's home. it comes across as heavy handed. so let's see if the justice department can justify why the f.b.i. spent nine hours, 30 agents and confiscated 12 boxes. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". the "new york post" is reporting agents spent hours inside trump's private primary home. they apparently broke open a