moving. we were emotional. there were 504 who registered, from 1961 to last year, incredible group. >> public reallies for the team in a big, big way. we don't have anything like that in new york here. >> and now the honor of being on the couch with amazing women as well. thanks for watching. here is "america reports." >> bill: thanks, guys, go bengals. a troubling sign for the u.s. economy. labor development revealing 400,000 workers have dropped out of the workforce since the month of march. >> the number of workers in the u.s. has continued to shrink, as businesses struggle to hire. stunning number comes as the democrat's massive tax and spending bill heads to the president's desk this week, how will it impact the labor crisis? andy pudzer is here to weigh in,

but first -- >> another alert kicks off "america reports" on this august afternoon. lawmakers on both sides demanding answers into the raid at mar-a-lago carried out one week ago today. welcome as we kick off two hours of "america reports." i'm bill hemmer, a big welcome to my colleague. >> nice to see you, always a new yorker. i'm aishah in for sandra smith. fbi documents revealing the agency seized 11 sets of classified records, including some marked as top secret. >> mike: now the former president demanding the fbi return some documents allegedly covered by attorney/client privilege. >> the trump team also asked for an independent review of the records but the doj knocked down that request. >> all of this as republicans call for the release of the affidavit that would justify the

search in the first place. team fox coverage this hour. chris swecker. >> but but mark meredith live i washington, there is also some growing fears now about violence towards government officials, including the fbi, fbi agents, how is the bureau responding? >> aishah, they are monitoring the threats and warn law enforcement to be vigilant, one week after the fbi search at mar-a-lago. he believes cooler heads should prevail, he spoke to the digital team and the former president said "people are so angry at what is taking place. whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country, if it isn't, terrible things are going to happen." but in the same interview, trump accuses the justice department of abusing its power and he says it's possible agents planted materials at his home. late friday we learned fbi agents removed 20 boxes from mar-a-lago and uncovered 11 sets

of classified documents. trump insists he can declassify documents. and a growing number of lawmakers are demanding the justice department give them more information about the search and the events leading up to it. and intelligence committee is calling for a closed door briefing, sent a letter over to the attorney general, marco rubio saying we have asked the justice department to share with us the documents received from mar-a-lago. they have yet to say if they are going to grant it. a growing number of lawmakers and from both sides of the aisle are demanding to know more, not only about what's going on but also what the fallout could be. >> mark meredith from washington. >> mike: chris swecker, former fbi director.

good afternoon to you. what about this executive privilege claim? how would you prove it? pr where does that -- where does that go? >> chris: this is not new. they set up teams when this is a question whether information is privileged in some way, executive privilege, not as common, but usually attorney/client privilege, so the tank team, supposedly an independent group at the department of justice that will go through each document and segregate out those that are privileged. the problem is it's all one doj. experience with this before. second problem is it takes forever, and we are not going to learn anything new if a tank team takes over. and we searched congressman

jefferson's office in the early 2000s and we had to take that information and put it in the custody of a special master which is what i believe the trump team is asking for now. >> bill: ok. it appears they were grabbing whatever they could, chris. 45 boxes or parcels, 11 of which had classified information apparently, 34 others that were -- based on the warrant, if it was in the room they could take it away. what does that tell you? >> chris: the warrant was very broad and any document produced during the trump presidency or any other document. but focus on one thing, classified documents, the s.c.i. documents. if you read the three statutes cited in the search warrant as a basis for the search warrant, none of them mention classified documents. they talk about information relating to the national defense. so i think people are focussing in on the wrong thing, oh, gee,

classified documents in there. in the discretion of the prosecution, if you will, they could interpret a lot of documents as information relating to the national defense that are not necessarily classified. so, this is a huge broad search warrant, a huge broad investigation, if you will, with some pretty serious statutes leveled at the ex-president. >> bill: and one thing about the threats online, matt whitaker, former acting attorney general. >> many people, including myself, need to talk about how we need to lower the temperature but i think transparency is what's going to lower the temperature. we need to understand how is the fbi going to process, and how is the department of justice legally going to analyze things that could be attorney/client privilege. >> bill: so we are confirmed the former president sent merrick garland a note before he made his announcement last week to,

offering to do what he could to bring down the temperature. what do you make of those developments and what's come since? >> chris: i think the temperature across the board ought to be dialed down quite a bit. a lot of information we don't have here, but i will say this. having served in the fbi for 24 years plus, you should always be on your guard and i feel in some ways this warning that was put out publicly is a little bit disingenuine. it's like fort knox, security on security. they should have put that out privately between themselves and the agents out there. >> bill: chris, thank you. many more questions to come soon, thank you. everywhere i went this weekend this was topic a. what do you think is going to happen with this trump deal. >> and i would say whether the

white house likes it or not, it has become political and further, it's given the former president some momentum he may have lost from the infection fraud claims, maybe those were waning, we will hear from jonathan turley and dan henninger and what it means for our country especially where we are so deeply divided, an important conversation we need to have. the border now, migrant crossings exploding over the weekend in texas. a dhs source tells bill in just the last 24 hours alone, more than 2200 migrants have crossed into the del rio sector. more than one migrant entering every single minute. most of them, single male adults from countries that are not subject to the title 42 rule, which makes it even easier to deny entry to migrants. border patrol officials say more than 1.7 million migrants have crossed in the past year.

that represents a staggering 56% increase year over year. >> bill: texas governor greg abbott continues to send busses into places like new york city. in response to the immigrant affairs commissioner lashing out saying many are being sent to the big apple against their will and arrive feeling sick. nate foy has a take of that, what are you hearing from the texas officials, good afternoon. >> bill, good afternoon to you. i can tell you that the texas official in charge of these migrant busses from the texas division of emergency management says new york city officials are lying. he says there is enough food and water on each bus for four days, even though it typically takes three days, and says the idea that migrants are being forced on the bus or being told they can't get off the bus during the journey is ridiculous. take a listen.

>> if the bus is stopped, they are free to get off like every other person the federal government turns loose in the nation. they are not allowed to stop or get off while the bus is moving, but the busses stop for fuel, to change drivers, the busses stop to get food in other places, so no reason we have to kidnap these people and keep them on the bus. >> we also have new video from inside the migrant busses. chief kidd says every bus is inspected before it leaves by the texas department of public safety insists all protocols are followed. this as 52 more migrants arrive in new york city. the mayor's office of immigrant affairs was welcoming migrants and is calling the texas governor morally corrupt. >> governor abbott is doing this in such a way as disruptive and harmful as possible to new york

city. again, it's political tactic of his, you know. unfortunately, it involves human beings which makes this very morally corrupt. >> the texas lieutenant governor says other democratic-run cities may soon be impacted. >> every mayor of a big blue city, most of the top 25 in the country should be on notice, look out your window, you may see a bus coming to you in the future and the busses will keep coming. >> i can confirm from the chief after speaking with him, more busses are currently en route to new york city but he would not confirm how many or when they will arrive. we will be following that, bill. >> bill: thank you, nate. don't know how many more busses will come, we talked a bit earlier, you saw lieutenant general from texas, and the mayor wants the national guard

to help, she has not gotten that wish yet. >> the point that is overlooked, what's the difference bussing migrants to new york and d.c. as opposed to the administration putting them on airplanes and putting them on planes to florida, they don't speak english, need help to get to the gates. don't have family. >> bill: and the border patrol, we will get a view and how much longer it could last and i think based on talking to dan patrick in texas, this could go on for a while. >> absolutely. a new report by the labor department showing the number of u.s. workers has fallen by 400,000. why some experts say this could be the largest threat to the american economy. former cke restaurant ceo andy pudzer on that.

>> bill: and visiting taiwan, will it push the administration to consider the one china policy. senator big haggerty knows the region as well as anyone. >> i think the chinese believe they can do what they want, so this is a point where we should expect that the chinese will do something. to win big!

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military drills around taiwan after another delegation of u.s. lawmakers arrived for a surprise visit to the self-governing island on sunday. this time it was a bipartisan group that met with the taiwanese president and other officials sunday and monday. the trip comes not even two weeks after house speaker nancy pelosi, remember that big trip,

she enraged china with her own visit to taiwan. tennessee republican bill haggerty joins us now, a member of the senate foreign relations committee and former ambassador to japan. always good to see you. thanks for joining us. these congressional delegations are very important, i know how incredibly happy the taiwanese were to see speaker pelosi and the lawmakers before and after, but in a time like this where we are seeing china playing essentially war games around this island, right, how important is it to actually take action, for congress to strengthen taiwan security as opposed to just going, shaking hands, and showing the world that we, and saying that we support them? >> i think it's terribly important, aishah, i'll say this. these congressional visits are routine, going on for decades

and will continue to go on. what we have seen is a different response from china. and the chinese communist party feels emboldened in the weakness of the biden administration. today is the one-year anniversary of the collapse of an afghanistan, and i think you mentioned is true as well, need to follow up words with deeds. more exercises in the region: >> to your point, there is a bipartisan bill sponsored by your colleagues, bob menendez and lindsey graham, it's in limbo, reportedly the white house is lobbying democrats to try to push it off so that we don't continue to increase tensions with china. i want to pull up what it does. it provides security, $4.5 billion in security assistance, designates the

island as a major nonnato ally, and takes steps to counter chinese influence campaign. these are big, big steps. this would be a big stance for the u.s. to take. why is this in limbo and when can we see congress do something with the bill? >> you are correct, they pushed it off the calendar before the august recess, so focused getting the massive tax and spend package through they could not think about anything else. but they have scheduled it for mark-up in september, so we will get on to the legislation once we get back to washington. it expect it to happen in middle september. >> aishah: america's one china policy, it is ambiguous, a head scratcher, over speaker pelosi's visit, folks were confused by this. do you think the administration needs to go back to the policy and rethink it a little bit?

>> well again, i think this legislation that we are going to talk about in september will get in that direction. particularly, strengthen taiwan's military position, expedited process to do that, and more foreign military financing. i would like to see this. more exercises in the region, not only between the united states and allies, but also the allies on their own in the region and we need to see a lot more u.s. military strength build-up. i was ambassador to japan at a time we had massive tensions with north korea and china. we need to continue to build our presence and our posture. the asia pacific region is where the action is going to be in the years to come. >> aishah: and the japanese are sending or have sent active duty military to taiwan, so puts the spotlight on us as to what we do next. thank you, senator for your time. >> always good to be with you, thanks. >> bill: update on salman

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a book in 1988, a translator of his book was murdered, and he was added to a hit list. they say he was stabbed ten times in western new york on stage in a targeted and premeditated attack. by a 24-year-old who pled not guilty to second degree attempted murder and assault charges. he is sympathetic to shia extremism, and his mother says he came back from iran a moody introvert, and rushdie was stabbed in the liver, arm and neck, he could lose an eye.

he is speaking but remains in critical condition, according to his family. >> bill: amazing he survived. thank you for that. >> aishah: a new fbi report could reportedly have devastating consequences for actor alec baldwin. details coming up on that. >> bill: a year after the botched withdrawal out of afghanistan. could those involved be recruited by our biggest adversaries. adam boller is up next on that. >> in the way they did it is not the way america does things. we leave with integrity, we leave with power, and that's not the way we left afghanistan.

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been a year, taliban is celebrating it, though, one year since seizing full control of the country following the chaotic departure of u.s. forces from afghanistan. adam boller has conducted negotiations with the taliban, he'll join us in a moment. but first trey yingst. how did the taliban mark the one-year anniversary? >> aishah, good afternoon. taliban fighters took a victory lap in kabul, piling into the back of pick-up trucks and parading through the streets. many civilians are terrified, especially american allies left behind. look at what it's like under taliban control. >> 11-month-old, struggles to breathe, more than 1 million children under five, acutely million nourished in the taliban-controlled country. it makes me sad when i see him

in this condition, 35-year-old fatima explains. i have lost three other children, this is the fourth one. the economy has collapsed. united nations says 95% of afghans are at risk of falling behind the poverty line. international isolation, putting at risk billions of dollars worth of aid that acts as a humanitarian lifeline for this country. a strict interpretation of islam can guiding life under taliban control, making it impossible for a separation between mosque and state. right now in afghanistan, listening to music is outlawed. women must be covered in public and the majority of teenage girls are banned from participating in secondary education. taliban claims this is equality. >> are women free in afghanistan? >> of course. >> women can't go out in public alone at night, they can't serve

in senior government roles, they have to be covered in the streets of kabul. how can you describe this as free? >> the laws of the country regulate how people conduct themselves when in the public. that does in the in any way, shape or form mean someone is free or is not free. >> we also pressed taliban fighters about the topics and they were adamant, this is a society that will remain under the control of their interpretation of islam. aishah. >> aishah: a lot of my friends had family they were desperately trying to pull out of the family a year ago, they were able to move some of them, at least to neighboring countries. what are you getting the sense on the ground there of people who still want to leave. are they able to leave, is the taliban allowing that? >> there are many people who want to get out of this country, aishah, especially those american allies, who worked with

the united states over the past 20 years. many of them are in hiding. they are in safe houses or in homes of relatives where they never go outside because they are so terrified if they are spotted by the taliban they will be captured or killed. and many of them are waiting for special immigrant visas from the united states. we spoke to one man yesterday who was a former u.s. embassy employee for years here in kabul and feels forgotten. he told us he was frustrated with president biden because there were promises made by the americans, that the innocent afghans who helped the united states would get to safety and the united states has not made good on those promises. >> aishah: live in kabul. thank you. >> bill: and troubling report on the hasty exit, afghan security personnel with sensitive knowledge of u.s. operations. all those left behind in the evacuation vulnerable to recruitment of coercion by

russia, china and iran. adam boller has negotiated with the taliban, welcome to our program here. what do you think of the claim that those who could do us harm have that information in afghanistan? >> i think it's entire possibly. when you retreat in a way that was not particularly planned, that's not based on an outcome but based on a specific date, you leave a lot of things open and we abandoned our embassy there and so it does not surprise me that could be the case. >> bill: the republicans in the house have now issued -- i want to share a few things that they found. they went back and studied evacuation. they studied the chaos, and found only 36 u.s. officials on hand to process 100,000 evacuation requests. there were thousands of afghan troops that fled to iran, and

they know military tactics, the question we got to a moment ago. as you look back on this, why weren't we better prepared? >> one of the things the report says, the taliban offered to wait or do it concert with us, that was a huge mistake. and retreat, mistake in either case, you need to do it on your terms. and one of the things i learned in negotiating with the taliban, when you sit aside the table they are a regional militia, but make no mistake, they do respond to strength. and we are the united states of america and our view should be you don't abandon people and if you are going to leave you leave on your own terms. and we were offered that by the taliban. i think that report says that. >> bill: on that point, did we

know that a year ago the taliban made that offer? >> absolutely. the taliban made the offer in a meeting one with of our generals and ambassador who i know, a friend, talented, who thought we should consider that offer, and worked under trump as well, it was declined, because determined you said president biden's instructions we were leaving by a certain date, no matter what. that's where the problem comes in. >> bill: response from the white house, a memo, quoting, this partisan report is riddled with inaccurate information, and put the united states in a stronger place to lead the world. you agree with that on its face? >> what i don't agree is the way we left afghanistan was a mess. that's not a partisan view, that was a mistake in exit from

afghanistan. it does not mean we should have huge troop build-up, that was under biden and trump, how we could not have lots of people there. but the way you do it and timing, and under american terms, not taliban terms, it's a fact that things did not work out well. >> bill: and the impression of the u.s. and joe biden leadership, how do you view that now a year down the road? >> i think it's huge. foreign policy is all intersected so when you have an issue like this in afghanistan, guess who is watching, putin, and afghanistan begets russia and let's hope russia does not beget what could happen in taiwan. all of these are related so this showed weakness and people are watching the united states for that. >> bill: adam, thank you,

watching that with us. thank you, sir. one year ago tomorrow will be 365 days since we saw the c-17 roll down the runway. >> aishah: and the i want to add on to adam's point, too, the message the u.s. is getting, the people here, vastly different from the message that the rest of the world is getting. china is playing the afghanistan debacle to show the taiwanese people, look what happens when your friends leave. >> bill: and adam is right about that, hope they don't make a move. and president zelenskyy is warning russian troops from targeting the largest nuclear power plant in europe. what he says will happen if they do. >> aishah: novack djokovic at risk of missing the u.s. open due to the policy on foreign travelers. the new relaxed guidelines by

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>> aishah: kalua, the dog's back legs may be paralyzed about you not stopping her from helping her human best friend learn how to crawl in this very adorable video that has gone viral. watch. >> show her how to do it, kalua, show him, how you do it. come on. >> aishah: bill, i need a dog. they have racked more than

1.3 million likes, that's how we tell now whether something is good or bad now, based on the number of likes. >> bill: it could be good or bad, based on that. we watched that video a bit earlier today. adorable stuff. >> aishah: i need to get a dog. you can help me. from good news to this, a stunning new report, the workforce has lost 400,000 workers since march, not good. it's raising fears of a further economic slowdown as businesses struggle to find workers. also comes as a new cbo report shows the expanded irs audit from the spending bill will target lower and middle income families, refuting the white house pledge they would not do that. and andy pudzer, thanks for joining us. appreciate it. i want to start with the

so-called inflation reduction act. thanks for being here. the president is expected to sign later this week when he gets back from vacation, he'll handle inflation. the inflation reduction act, but everybody knows by now it's not going to reduce inflation in the short-term and even if it does in the long-term, maybe five years, it's not going to reduce it by very much, even the white house has come out and said that. and here is how some democrats have tried to make sense of it. watch this. >> as soon as the act goes into effect, i hope that all of the provisions will begin to work. we are hoping that the other fed is going to affect right away. >> these things may in the end not hit the mark fully on the bulls eye, but americans want to see their leaders try to do something. >> aishah: do something, want to

see their leaders try to do something, andy, you have employed thousands of workers. is that what the workers need right now? >> they need the government to do something good, and given what this government has been doing, the best thing it could stop doing is stop doing everything. they seem to be more concerned with changing the language than solving problems. the inflation reduction act is not going to reduce inflation at all. in fact, it's simply a repeat of what they did back in march of 2021 when they passed 1.9 trillion spending bill that ignited inflation as larry summers and others warned it would. here now their solution, the way to reduce inflation is spend half a trillion dollars which is ridiculous. this is not an inflation reduction act, it's an attempt to change the language like recession no longer means recession, inflation no longer means inflation, we don't solve the problem, just change the

words. >> aishah: andy, you've been a big business owner. what would someone like you have wanted to see in a package called the inflation reduction act? what could have helped in the short-term? >> there are two things you can do. one is reduce demand. demand is excessive, and the fed is working on reducing demand. so, just don't pour more money into the economy on that end. the supply side, reduced taxes, reduced regulation, focus on domestic energy reduction, president kennedy, president reagan, president clinton and president trump did to get economies ignited, we need the supply support. if they are equal, there is no inflation. so we have a mismatch, this is a typical democrat approach. government comes in and creates a problem with a big spending bill and their solution is for the government to do another big

spending bill. it does not make any sense. >> aishah: the taxes, the other part of this, not going to raise taxes on the lower income class. pull up the tax hikes and at the very top left, 52 billion income tax hike on mid size and family businesses, and the cbo pound at least 20 billion is coming from the irs, going to target lower middle income earners and small businesses. can't imagine this is the news small businesses want to see. >> no, it's not. and it's not the kind of news that just regular ordinary americans, working class and middle class americans want to see. inflation is already killing you, and now you are told the government has hired like 80,000 auditors to come in and increase your taxes by $20 billion. no wonder people say why should

i go to work? given inflation, the tax increases, maybe i'll see what government benefits i can rake in in the meantime -- what we are facing is solely and clearly the result of terrible economic policies. you have to wonder what they are thinking of. brian deese came to the front and said it's about preserving the liberal world order and that's the only thing i can figure out they are trying to do. >> aishah: and the number of workers continues to drop, demand is not cooling off fast enough, and i imagine you would agree that spells trouble. thank for joining us. appreciate it. >> bill: the fbi raid on former president trump's home in florida, shining a spotlight on the doj, specifically merrick garland. a lot to say about this. >> aishah: and the trump factor in alaska as voters head to the

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>> bill: cdc is holding firm on blocking unvaccinated foreign visitors. that includes one of the best tennis players in the world. novack djokovic may miss the u.s. open because of his vaccination status. live with the story here in new york. are they going to change it by then? good afternoon. >> hi, good afternoon. the million dollar question, so far they haven't. and the policy preventing his participation is not sitting right with tennis legend john mcenroe. >> i think it's b.s. i've been vaccinated, i had a booster shot, that's up to the individual. it's really unfortunate. >> now it's up to the federal government to change the travel rules, and according to a statement issued by the cdc, it is reconsidering the requirements for travel since it just relaxed the covid guidelines eliminating

distinctions between vaccinated and unvaccinated folks but no timeline on a decision. djokovic did take to twitter assuring his fans, i am preparing as if i'm allowed to compete, if there is any room for me to travel to the u.s., finger crossed. but only two weeks, there is growing frustration and pointing to the hundreds of thousands of migrants streaming across the southern border with questionable vaccine status. >> maybe he needs to head to mexico and walk across the southern border and head to new york city and play in the tournament. >> djokovic, 21-time grand slam champion could miss out on the u.s. open, only two weeks away and miss out on a chance to tie his rival, rafael nadal, 22 grand slams. >> we can get this done, you

know we can. >> bill: two weeks from today, we have 14 days. and you've seen ba5, it makes people sick like they have a cold. nothing much beyond that. >> aishah: and especially after the president caught it, when do we move on, what point. new at 2:00, law enforcement on high alert over increased threats after former president trump's mar-a-lago home was raided. recent anger from both sides as american's optimism dwindles in all the different divisions. plus, border patrol counsel v.p., art del cueto on democratic mayors pleading for help. and tax and spend bill, what effect on you, and jonathan turley, why he says a.g. merrick garland's stature at the doj is shrinking. all that as "america reports"

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>> aishah: all new at 2:00, summer of america's discontent. from inflation to the border to the supply chain crisis and the deep political divides americans of all political stripes are fed up and angry as hell. so, what happened to american optimism? welcome back, as we roll into hour two of "america reports," i'm aishah hasnie in for sandra smith. >> bill: welcome back to new york, good to be with you. i'm bill hemmer. sandra has the day off. fox news following shows 75% of voters say they are unhappy with what's happening in the country today. the count down to midterms begins 85 days out, that will determine the control of

congress. fox digital spoke to voters how they grade biden's presidency thus far. >> horrible, worst president ever. >> maybe a c, you know. >> he's got a lot on his played. >> he's played by the far left. >> i think he's doing what can be expected. >> b plus. >> not good. probably a 3 out of 10. >> aishah: all this comes as the white house facing fires on multiple fronts. >> the economy is on top of the minds of all americans as they shell out more money as inflation keeps up to near record highs. >> aishah: texas moves the border crisis north, as the state says it is overwhelmed with the massive influx of migrants. footage of more than 700 migrants crossing just yesterday. >> all eyes on the justice department, as questions swirl over the raid at mar-a-lago and what comes next. >> aishah: the taliban

celebrating one year since taking full control of afghanistan, after the chaotic departure of u.s. troops. all of this as the president wraps up his vacation in low country. we have a line-up of guests ready to weigh in on all of these fronts. art del cueto, congressman ken buck and jonathan turley are with us. >> bill: and analysis from the wall street journal and polling and where we are as a country, but live in south carolina travelling with the president, what is the plan today? >> maybe some ice cream, not even kidding. a group of secret service agents at ben and jerry's and wonder if biden may plan a visit. in all seriousness, he is expected to sign the bill passed last week this week, and the white house is planning a big victory tour.

they put out a memo, writes between sunday and the end of august, cabinet members will travel to 23 states touting the inflation reduction act and the accomplishments. but congressional democrats have had a tough time when americans may feel the effects of the inflation reduction act, congressman john bowman says it has an impact on the gas prices even though the president has not signed it, and they say americans can save right away by spending. >> 30% tax credit you can claim in 2022 for installing energy efficient windows, heat pumps, emergency efficient appliances. citizens want to install solar panels on their roofs so that they can generate their own power. that's another 30% tax credit. >> the congresswoman defended

spending billions on client when the economy is technically in recession, saying inflation did not get worse from june to july, and republicans seized on that, pointing out overall inflation remains at 40-year highs. meanwhile, a group of congressional democrats that went to taiwan is inflaming china. military drills around the self-governing island, similar to what russia did before they invaded ukraine and could be used as a pretext before invasion. >> what we have seen is obviously the united states government has not waivered in our ongoing commitment to our one china policy and our commitment under the taiwan relations act. so certainly china should not use a visit as a pretext for any kind of hostility. >> president biden is reportedly set to meet with chinese president xi jinping in november

but reports the white house is recalibrating thinking whether they should lift tariffs on beijing as a result of actions over taiwan. >> nice to see you where you are, it's 2:00 in kiawah, south carolina. >> aishah: dan, good to see you. let's start with the doj raid and the tensions rising, the heat that everyone feels, deeply divided country. we are seeing rising threats against the fbi, was not long ago we were talking about threats made against supreme court justices. foiled assassination attempt on justice brett kavanaugh. can the white house continue to stay silent about this raid? >> they probably will, and i don't think they should, quite frankly. you know, even donald trump

himself said in an interview with fox digital that temperatures need to be lower and indeed they do. they are political ran core in the united states, a sense of bitterness, reaching extraordinarily high level. joe biden is the president of the united states. he's not just the president of the democratic party. he was elected on the presumption that he would return american politics to a state of normality, that has not happened. it has gotten worse. and one might expect the president to address these issues. now he's caught in the middle of this raid on trump's residence at mar-a-lago and he's sitting there in silence. in part, i guess, they didn't know it was going to happen, we have had all these questions going unanswered for almost a week now about the intention of the raid and where it is taking us. and now they are talking about going through these documents for months and months into the election, passed the election,

and that means the issues involved with former president trump will loom over the country's head for an indefinite period of time. yeah, i do think the president should somehow address this and be the guy who steps forward and tries to lower temperatures. >> bill: on that, brian fitzpatrick out of pennsylvania said it is an unprecedented action, we can agree on, that should be followed and supported by unprecedented justification. now, think about what you just said. we waited last week for three days before we heard anything from the doj or fbi, and when they spoke, the a.g. took three minutes and no questions. to your point, if you take months to go through this, that would allow the issue to linger out there with a lot of people asking questions. and therefore -- it should be

supported by more of an explanation. >> you know, at the center of the bill i think is two things. whether, as i suspect, the fbi and the national security agencies in washington basically wanted to get their hands on highly classified documents, get them out of that room at mar-a-lago, get them back to a secure place in washington. that, i think, would be one thing. the question that hangs over all this is whether the department of justice, merrick garland's department of justice is going through the documents with the intention of finding some sort of evidence of criminal behavior by the former president they could make criminal referrals or indictment. those are two completely different things. yes, national security has an

obligation to protect our secrets, but criminal referrals by the former president hang over our heads as they pour through the documents? i think they ought to address directly. if they have reason to believe that donald trump is viable or -- liable to criminal behavior, they should say that. speculation is simply endless over this and it has become extremely damaging. and so i don't think it's tenable for merrick garland to sit there over several months when we wonder whether donald trump will be criminally referred. >> aishah: when there is a void, someone will jump in and it's not always the best thing. the discontent, the way people are feeling right now, not trusting different parts of

government, not just the doj, i would say, other parts as well. i want to show this fox news poll just recently released shows about, you know, 75% of americans are feeling very dissatisfied right now. how do we turn this around, dan? >> well, it's not going to be easy. 75% of people not being optimistic and depressed about the country, that's an awful number. and when you consider what the country has been through in the last several years, it's easy to understand. i mean, in a sense, centers for disease control has announced the pandemic is over, but we lived with that pandemic for two years. it essentially shut down much of the economy. disruptions to the economic function of the united states, supply chain, people sent home from work, many of them not wanting to come back to work now, the closure of the schools, kids falling behind in their school performances.

this has had a terrible effect on the attitude of the country and now we are pitched forward into another something resembling a political crisis like this and any wonder people feel bad about the future. the answer, i think, is what it always is, in a democracy it requires political leadership, and we don't see much political leadership right now. in some ways, i have to be honest with you guys, i think it's time to turn the page, the country will have to get past joe biden, and past donald trump. we need a new generation of political leaders in both parties to step forward and start talking about the country's future, not about the political battles of the present. >> bill: dan, thank you for that, dan henninger, wall street journal. very interesting. at what point, dan, do you push past this moment, because we are living in it right now and i think the polling reflects that.

some of the -- you bet. some of the other polling numbers, how do you feel about life with the next generation of americans. better off or worse off on screen here. 70% say worse off than today. and we also did a poll of the economic conditions, how do you feel about the country and personally, 81% feel the economic conditions of the country is poor. and you personally a little better, 59% is still underwater, and president biden's job performance on energy and foreign policy, border security, but he is well over 50% each one of those categories when it comes to disapproval numbers. goes a lot about henninger's point he's making. >> aishah: and we are in 90-day window, anything could happen, have a bad feeling something else could be coming. another bus carrying migrants

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>> aishah: welcome back. migrant crossings exploding over the weekend in texas. fox news drone capturing this, more than 500 migrants crossing in legally in a one-hour span alone yesterday. this comes as texas officials continue to send migrant busses into new york city and washington as the mayors there plead for federal help because of their shelters being overwhelmed with migrants. complete coverage happening border patrol agent art del cueto live 4, but first bill is live in eagle pass, texas. hi, bill. >> good afternoon to you. this weekend here in eagle pass one of the busiest we have seen in recent memory. just in the last 24 hours alone, more than 2,000 illegal crossings here in the del rio

sector, and it has been storming all day long out here, but that has not stopped anything. despite the rain and the wind, a group of 200 that crossed at the same time, predominantly venezuelans and cubans, most of them are single adults turning themselves in. the weekend numbers, look what we saw yesterday, this was early yesterday morning, a single even bigger group of approximately 300 who came across all at the same time, once again single adults from all around the world. central and south america, africa, asia as well, many are them are well-dressed, smartphones with them, listening to air pods as they are waiting for border patrol. then you'll see some of them actually walk towards a local highway and almost got on the road before they were stopped by texas dps troopers. and two other groups totaling

more than 200 migrants also yesterday morning again here in the eagle pass area. once again, i know i sound like a broken record, predominantly single adults. it's no longer the mass family units. just since october, now 401,000 illegal crossings. i had a chance to talk to texas congressman tony gonzalez, he represents this area, just got back from a trip to the northern triangle countries, he spoke with the leadership there, what he had to say. >> i recently visited guatemala and sat down with the president there, what would it take in order for you to take back more guatemalans who do not qualify, his answer was this, all it would take is a phone call from the president of the united states. biden has not even called the leaders from the northern triangle. and another from el salvador told me they have never spoken

with the biden administration. >> the biden administration is claiming they are working with these northern triangle countries on solving the root issues of the cause of the migration down there. two of the leaders of the countries evidently told the congressman they have not heard anything from the administration since kamala harris visited them in june of last year. back to you. >> aishah: we have not heard anything either. bill, thank you for that update. >> bill: art del cueto, welcome back to our program. nice to see you today. what's your message for new york and washington, d.c. thus far? >> well, you know, they are seeing firsthand what has been happening for quite some time, and they have failed to see the problem and more importantly, they have failed to address the problem with the individuals that caused it. this administration is responsible for all that is happening currently at the border. they are responsible for the busses that are being taken up

to washington and to new york. and what they need to do, they need to go back to the policies that, would. it's that simple. and i understand asking, you know, the northern triangle countries and saying hey, what is it going to take, you know what, it's not what it's going to take for them, but what it's going to take for us. we need to put in place policies that work and individuals need to get sent back. having financial issues is not an asylum claim. but the message is clear. come across, claim asylum and you will be released. no consequences, so it's catch and release nonstop. that's the problem. >> bill: david paterson, the former governor of new york was on the radio over the weekend in an interview, he called this a stroke of genius on behalf of governor abbott. listen. >> the governor of texas, greg abbott, has come up with i think is one of the most brilliant political strategies i've heard in a long time. it put new york's mayor, eric adams in position, he won't say

he can't accept the immigrants, that's the against the policy most democrats have about immigration. >> i don't know if you agree with him, i think you do. and if you do, patterson is right, where does this go? we just take hundreds and hundreds more? >> i think it's -- it's at a breaking point, been a breaking point, and the mayors that have, you know, had that magnet at some point they need to reach out to this administration and say hey, you know what, we were wrong. we were wrong, and we got to fix the problem because it's affecting every single citizen of this country. somebody needs to admit when they are wrong. >> bill: art, in washington, d.c., the mayor there is pleading for the national guard to help. it has not come just yet. you know about that. >> right. instead of pleading for the national guard, needs to plead to this administration to realize there's a problem, get what the borders are and

something is done correctly, we have been asking for help for some time, and say we are not going to do catch and release, but back to individuals having to claim asylum and wait in their country, that's what it's going to take. if there's no consequence for your action and everyone knows all you have to do is claim asylum and you get released and never have to show up to your immigration hearing, there's nothing to stop these individuals from doing it. that's the problem. >> bill: thank you, art. art del cueto, so it's going to continue for some time. one of the gentlemen here, manuel castro, head of immigrant affairs in new york, says some on the bus tried to get off earlier but he were not allowed. i don't even know how you can justify that. the suggestion is that it's some sort of taxi service that's going from the border to whatever town you would like.

>> aishah: sometimes we don't know what the end destination is. but back to our point, got to get mexico more involved. there are places in mexico where these folks can stay someplace safe until their application process -- >> bill: and we listened to bill every day for a year and a half, what he describes, everybody is well-dressed and iphones and ear buds and they are mostly men and sees fewer and fewer of the family groups. mostly adult singles. that suggestion that things are changing in other countries and they know the door is open. so, that's that for today. >> aishah: some of the most recognizable names in the republican party are in the fight of their political lives and we are not just talking about liz cheney here. a lot is at stake for the primaries and live in alaska. >> bill: and enduring image from history so many would rather

forget. evacuation of saigon 1975. another black eye a year after the u.s. left kabul. congressman ken buck is here on that with more coming up live.

>> bill: new poll showing americans are more worried about inflation than any other issue. the white house insisting the so-called inflation reduction act will lower the cost of goods but after a cbo report laying out the tax hikes required to pay for it seems even the mainstream media are not buying the claims. >> isn't it orwellian? >> i appreciate the question, we have addressed this, the cbo. that was the top line number, more in there shows it will have the money.

>> reaction from congressman ken buck in a moment, but first a look at another claim the new beefed-up irs will not come after the little guy. what's the cbo saying who the irs could be targeting? >> it could be that little guy you've been talking about, bill. congressional budget office confirms at least 20 of the 124 billion raised by the inflation reduction act will come from low and middle income americans, people making less than 400,000. the analysis is the second to contradict claims by the white house and treasury who insist that audits will not affect those making less than 400,000. analysis by the non-partisan joint committee on taxation showing 78 to 90% of the revenue raised by the irs will come from taxpayers earning 200,000 or less. cbo made the statement after analyzing the impact proposed

amendment that would protected low and middle income americans from new irs audits. cbo says such exclusion would lower revenues by at least 20 billion. and more than just the money the irs can extract from you in taxes. another cost will be compliance. the time and money you'll have to spend to defend yourself against a more aggressive irs. this is from the koto institute. inflation reduction act adds or expands special interest tax breaks and parallel corporate tax structure, those misguided changes would increase tax compliance costs from the private sector. bill, the ira would double the irs by hiring 87,000 employees and additional 80 billion in funding. create a staffing size, well, larger than the population of the president's entire hometown of wilmington, delaware. >> bill: that would be a

picture. thanks. aishah. >> aishah: bring in republican congressman ken buck from colorado. congressman, welcome to the program, thanks for joining us. pick up where she left off, the irs make folks at home nervous, and when you think about 87,000 possible new staff members, some will be auditors, there is that big unknown, right. who are they going to go after, and the white house says they will not go after the middle class, the low income earners, but really have not heard that promise from the irs. they say the percentage will not increase but still try to go after the wealthy -- what's the worst part about this deal for the average american? >> well, clearly when you hire 87,000 people they are not going to be going after only the wealthy, they are going to be going after a broad cross

section of americans, $20 billion that the congressional budget office identified as new taxes from middle class americans is part of the target that the irs is going to have. the democrats lied to us when they told us that these new agents wouldn't be going after the middle class and that the middle class wouldn't be paying more taxes. clearly that's what their intention is. you are not going to get that much money from the rich to pay for this bill so the deficit will increase, taxes will increase, and inflation is going to increase as a result of this bill. >> aishah: congressman, i want to pivot to the other big story today, the one-year anniversary of afghanistan, we remember where we were when this happened. congress got very busy afterwards trying to conduct as much oversight as possible, but all we kept hearing from the hearings, i attended every one of them, was that the white house was proud of the way they

handled it, house republicans out with a scathing report of the job this administration did. tell me, congressman, what stuck out most to you from reading this report? >> well, what i think the most important part of this report is is the aftermath. you know, the russians invaded ukraine under president obama. russia and china were not adventuresome during the trump administration. when russia saw what happened in afghanistan, they set their eyes on ukraine again and when china has seen what's going on, they started targeting taiwan again. so it's clear the failures in afghanistan have led to russia and china becoming more emboldened, and it's also clear that the biden administration did not have a plan for this withdrawal, didn't have a plan for the taliban taking over the country as quickly as they did. the result was 13 dead

americans, terribly sad, as well as the country just falling apart into utter chaos. >> aishah: congressman, i'm so glad you brought up the 13 u.s. soldiers, brave heroes, do not get enough attention by anyone in the mainstream media. we have not heard much from the white house about the one-year anniversary or the soldiers. what do you make of that? >> callous disregard for the reality they caused and the families of those soldiers, marines, they understand the gravity of the situation. americans looked at that and understood that america looked weak because we had not planned for the withdrawal, we had not planned for the taliban controlling the airport and the surrounding areas, and so because president biden made a decision to reduce troop

strength in afghanistan to a point we did not have any influence, we were at the mercy of the taliban and 13 americans died. >> aishah: you would think so many lessons learn from what happened there. congressman buck from colorado, appreciate your time. please come back. thank you. >> bill: big day of primaries tomorrow and the story line continues to be trump-backed candidates trying to unseat republican incumbents. start in alaska, national attention given murkowski's status as a moderate, sometimes a critical key vote on issues. jonathan hunt in anchorage, begin in wyoming and breaking news that's exclusive to fox, kevin mccarthy talking about incumbent congresswoman liz cheney's race and rich edson

joins us in teton village. >> the house minority leader is hear campaigning against a member of his own congress, he's against liz cheney, he's backing the trump backing as well, he believes cheney will lose the primary. we asked him about the leader of the house republicans actively getting involved in this case to try to boot liz cheney from congress. >> the principle philosophy is less government, idea of freedom and the aspect of the country conceived in liberty. >> hasn't she fit that bill over the last several years? >> her focus is against one individual, whether she has information or not, instead of focusing on her district herself. >> mccarthy says it's about

cheney's work on the january 6th committee. one house republican says the former president asked him and other republican members to come to wyoming and campaign against cheney. cheney has called trump a domestic threat to the united states, and backing election fabrications and his conduct around and during the capitol riots. mccarthy said it's one race that will sweep house republicans into power. >> will you be speaker in january? >> i believe we'll win the majority and i'll be speaker, yeah. >> we just heard back from cheney's campaign during this whole discussion about what he's been saying, congressman, kevin mccarthy has been saying. liz cheney said it's really difficult to understand that word salad, was there an actual sentence in there somewhere. bill, back to you. >> in realtime, rich, thank you, in jackson, wyoming. >> aishah: also important to pay

attention to alaska, a big senate race up there. jonathan hunt is live in anchorage, alaska, with the latest on that and more. jonathan. >> jonathan: lisa murkowski has been in the senate 20 years but faces the fight of her life in large part after she voted for the impeachment of then president trump, the now former president has made it part of his political priority list to see the senior and moderate republican from alaska defeated. i asked senator murkowski about president trump's comments that she was lousy and the worst senator in the united states. >> you know, former president trump is going to say what he will say. he's not only done that in a state like alaska, he has weighed in in elections in other states. that's certainly his

peroingtive. >> and senator murkowski said in her view he should be disqualified from future office because of past actions. >> i've had people say wait a minute, donald trump's policies were good, president biden's policies are bad, that seems to be an easy answer. the problem that we have is that donald trump, when he was in office, failed to uphold the constitution of the united states. for me it's pretty simple. >> senator murkowski's chief challenger is running from the right, embraced by president trump, and embraced the former president and said the fbi recent raid his home in mar-a-lago is riling up the conservative base, and that's what she needs.

>> it's the politization and weaponization of law enforcement of the biden administration against people they don't agree with, and that would mean a lot of alaskans. who is going to protect us and keep us safe. even texts from rural alaska, saying it's dangerous and scary. >> and a special election here on tuesday for the house seat left vacant by the death this year of congressman don young. among those running for that and embraced by president trump is former alaska governor sarah palin. >> aishah: not a bad gig from alaska, thank you so much. >> bill: what are the legal facts behind the raid. we'll go to our guy on the constitution, jonathan turley standing by on deck.

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>> bill: more reaction on the fbi raid on mar-a-lago, kevin mccarthy moments ago in the state of wyoming talking with fox on that. >> number one thing the attorney general has to do is come before

the committee and explain why. why would you take this approach? and remember what's happening here, this, the president was working with them providing information. why wouldn't you just ask for it? why would you go to this level? it's a simple question. >> would republicans launch an investigation? >> i think republicans wants to know the answer to the question and americans do. >> aishah: attorney general merrick garland facing major backlash over the fbi raid in mar-a-lago. jonathan turley out with an op-ed, attorney general merrick garland stature shrinks. steve, what's the latest reaction from the former president? >> former president trump is going on the offensive, he wants the documents returned to him, he claims they are protected by

attorney/client privilege and attacking the raid as politically motivated. writing on truth social, says america has never suffered this abuse of law enforcement, to raid the home of the 45th president of the united states or any president is unheard of and unthinkable. a sneak attack on democracy. the biden white house says there was no politics involved in the raid, the decision was made by the department of justice. many current and former republican officials are saying they want more transparency. especially when it comes to the affidavit behind the original search. they are concerned the investigation may become open ended. >> what i thought they were up to here was basically trying to do a fishing expedition to see if they could find information that's relevant to the capitol riot that might help them make a case arising out of january 6th and looking at the warrant i

think that's what it is. >> at this point, the investigation into the documents is expected to last months. back to you. >> aishah: steve, thank you so much. >> bill: jonathan turley, constitutional law attorney and a man we quoted a moment ago, how are you, good afternoon. explain this as you describe merrick garland as a pedestrian and not a driver in his department. what do you mean? >> jonathan: well, when merrick garland was nominated many of us thought he was an excellent choice. impeccable ethics and reputation and integrity, and judicial temperament, may not be serving him well in this position. every time he has faced political controversies he's really failed to act. that's the reason i refer to the stature as shrinking in the justice department. we all hoped he could be that moderating force and he has not

been, every opportunity he's had to recognize the concerns of millions of citizens he's really been absent without leave. a good example of mar-a-lago. many of us are saying we need to see the affidavit before we decide whether this raid was abusive or not, see what was the basis they gave the court. but he has refused to release that affidavit. but on top of that, the trump team asked for attorney/client material to be returned, or for a special master to be appointed to sort through this material to protect privileged material. that seemed to me a reasonable request, and something that the attorney general could say all right, this will assure people this was not a pretext, that we were not after other material. but once again, he refused. and this is a record that has repeated itself over and over again over the last two years. >> aishah: jonathan, in this

case, don't you think he's following the white house lead here? they don't want to touch it with a ten-foot stick and him by himself out in the ocean to handle this on his own. what would you have wanted to see from him? >> jonathan: what i wanted to see was leadership in the real sense, that is he was a figure, i thought, who could bring the country together, at least when it comes to the justice department. but other examples are i think troubling. in the hunter biden investigation, the case for a special counsel is absolutely unimpeachable. you cannot investigate the hunter biden influence deals without running over the name of the president. he's referenced as potentially receiving some of these profits. how on earth could you not appoint a special counsel. but garland went further, the department is investigating january 6th and issuing search warrants on gop members of

congress, taking phones, very aggressive. that's looking at the past opponent of the president and the likely future opponent of the president. how could you not appoint a special counsel to assure the public? in watergate we had archibald cox. where is our archibald cox? the real question, where is merrick garland? where is he at this moment when he could take steps to assure the american people i am not following the guidance of the white house. keep in mind when you don't appoint a special counsel you guarantee the white house there will not be a report of a special counsel. usually the u.s. attorneys don't produce a property, either produce charges or do not. that report is what the biden white house fears the most, particularly with hunter biden and it will not happen because there will not be a special counsel. >> bill: jonathan turley, thank you. a lot of questions in the coming days and maybe if the wall street journal reporting is

right in the coming months without answers. thank you, professor, for coming in today. >> thank you. >> word that rudy giuliani is said to be under criminal investigation what is considered election interference in georgia in 2020. his attorney taking to the "new york times" confirming that guliani has been informed he's the target of an investigation, the trump team's actions after the former president's election lost. >> aishah: he was a key figure in the unsuccessful efforts to overturn the results in several swing states, including georgia. according to his legal team, the fulton county district attorney is investigating his appearances before the state legislative panels in december after the election where he made numerous claims of voter fraud. >> bill: he was scheduled to appear before a special grand

jury in atlanta today, but his lawyer said if he thinks he's going to talk about conversations between him and president trump they are delusional. we'll get you more on that as it comes in, breaking news out of georgia. meanwhile, from overseas, ukraine president sending a dire warning to moscow as battles escalate around the largest nuclear power plant in europe. president zelenskyy will target russias who shoot at the plant. and they have called on russia's military to leave the area immediately, citing nuclear risks. alex hogan in ukraine. >> saying any russian troops that shoot at or use the facility as a shield, will become targets.

moscow is claiming it will allow any international experts to come into the nuclear site and example it, but so far those words have yet to yield any real actions. russian forces and they continue to advance in the donbas region. ukrainian forces say in the last 24 hours, rush shelling on the donetsk has killed three civilians and wounding 20 others. new evacuations are currently underway in a nearby town. for those that stay behind, residents in the east have started the task of digging up the bodies that were quickly buried at the beginning of the war to give them proper burials. it's something a northern town did days ago. in kharkiv, russian strike

killed one and wounded six. missiles hit a church and even a flay ground. >> everybody knows this is a residential corridor. there's no behinds for military infrastructure. >> meanwhile, ukraine today releasing this new footage of forces taking out a russian communications tower by drone. this taking place across the northeast region russia. in the southern part of ukraine today, ukrainian officials confirming the death of at least two people and others were wounded after what appears to be a water mine went off killing swimmers in the area. bill. >> thanks. alex hogan, thank you. so it's been a good two hours. great to be with you. >> thanks. >> markets have turned favorable

here. we're watching that in about an hour from now. tomorrow really there's going to be a lot of coverage as we reflect on one year ago. >> absolutely. yeah. we were talking about the summer of discontent. i hope there won't be a fall of discontent on the way forward. >> for aishah hasnie, i'm bill hemmer. see you later, okay? welcome back to new york. "the story" begins right now. good afternoon. >> thanks, bill and aishah. i'm gillian turner in for martha maccallum from washington. we've got a great line-up. karl rove, congressman kevin brady up here in just a moment. but first, this. >> gillian: the taliban celebrating in the streets of afghanistan. the afgn