meanwhile the all-america on summer concert series continues this friday. one of our biggest stars, jimmy allen, will be live with us on stage. >> for vip tickets and access go to "fox & friends".com to register. >> if you are in new york city stop by fox square. see you >> dana: agents have arrested more than 2 million migrants this year alone. that set an all-time record. breaking moments ago the july retail numbers coming in below expectations. a landslide defeat for liz cheney. the wyoming congresswoman lost her primary to harriet hageman. i'm dana perino. bill is on assignment. good morning, griff. >> good morning, dana.

glad to be here i'm griff jenkins and this is "america's newsroom." cheney is one of 10 house republicans who voted to impeach the former president and she conceded early last night and gave a concession speech comparing herself to abraham lincoln. rich edson kicks things off with us from the teton village in wyoming. >> good morning, griff. also in that speech she compares the times and divisions of the united states today to the divisions of the civil war back in the 1860s. congresswoman liz cheney will launch an effort to oppose any donald trump run for president. that's according to a spokesperson telling fox news that information this morning. that effort likely be ultimately be from outside the united states congress. she lost her primary last night. polls were barely closed an hour last evening and cheney called harriman to concede. cheney says two years ago she won her primary with 73% of the

vote. that path was clear for reelection if she went along with the stolen 2020 election lie. she said she couldn't do it and congress wasn't worth it. unclear if she will run again for office. she only spent half of the $15 million she raised. whether she uses the money on a presidential run. she said the white house campaign is at least on her mind. >> that's a decision i'll make in the coming months. i won't make any announcements this morning but something i'm thinking about and make a decision in the coming months. >> cheney also told the g.o.p. has become a cult of personality. trump-backed harriet hageman is the republican nominee in a state where 70% of the voters in 2020 supported trump over president biden. hageman made cheney's vice chair in the january 6 committee a major part of her campaign. >> wyoming wants a senator to

put you and wyoming first and that's me. i did not do this on my own. we're all very grateful to president trump who recognizes that wyoming has only one congressional representative and we have to make it count. >> cheney's term expires in january. she says she will finish out her work on the january 6th committee and that report is due out as early as next month. griff. >> we'll be following it. rich edson live in wyoming. >> dana: on the senate side in alaska, murcowski got the most votes and trump-backed kelly tshibaka was not far behind. the top four vote getters advance to the general election where they will compete on a rank choice ballot. these rank choice ballots are interesting. i don't know if i'm for it. i watch it and see how it goes. they have it in maine and a couple other places, griff.

i don't know if you have an opinion on that. >> i still just can't get past the news we're waking up to that i this i is no surprise that liz cheney would lose but dana, you well know that sometimes it's not just a candidate but yet it's now trump's republican party. if you had a doubt that he had -- the campaigns are running on previous trump policies, many of them. to see liz cheney lose by such a wide margin really is pretty telling. obviously we're getting a lot of celebrating and crowing from the former president. >> dana: he has won on most of these. there are two that could advance that voted for impeachment and we'll see how this goes down the line. no doubt the voters decided that these folks if they were running for reelection most of them did lose indeed. >> a lot more to cover on that

coming up. tomorrow a federal judge will decide whether to unseal the affidavit tied to the f.b.i.'s search of former president trump's mar-a-lago estate. steve harrigan has the story from palm beach, florida. >> the battle is over the affidavit. the department of justice wanting to keep that affidavit sealed. they're warning that opening it could compromise their investigation. and also they say it could endanger witnesses. president trump taking the opposite tack. he wants a full opening of the affidavit unredacted completely. the attorneys say it's an unusual position to take for someone who is the subject of an investigation. >> you rarely have a target of an investigation saying please reveal all the details of what you utilized in order to get the search warrant. most targets don't want to be embarrassed or. this one is unusual. they don't see that. >> former president trump continues to blast the f.b.i.

for the raid on his home in mar-a-lago. as for the return of his three passports writing on truth social unfortunately when they raided my home eight days ago they opened their arms and grabbed everything in sight like a common criminal. it shouldn't happen in america. the judge expected to make the decision on the affidavit tomorrow afternoon. >> steve harrigan. >> dana: bring in andy mccarthy. you have been on top of this from are very beginning. what do you expect tomorrow? >> no way that affidavit is going to be released at this point, dana. now people should understand this is not like a now or never thing. what typically happens here is that an affidavit remains under seal until the investigation is concluded and at that point since you are talking about a search warrant that is a case in which they've gone to a court and said they had probable cause of a crime.

most of those investigations, doesn't mean it will happen this time. most end in criminal charges and what then happens is the affidavit is turned over to the defense in discovery. so it is not like if the judge denies this tomorrow, that's the end of the matter. i don't think in the middle of an investigation a judge is going to release a warrant, which would identify not only what their grounds were for seeking the warrant but probably tell at least the trump people enough so they would know who the informants were. that's not the kind of thing they ordinarily do during an investigation. >> dana: when it first happened one of the things you pointed out in your view was that they weren't necessarily just looking for these classified documents under dispute with the archives. it could have been broader. then you have this knowledge now that we have that the passports were taken as well and one was returned. they have gone back and forth a bit. does that make you feel even more strongly that you are initial instincts were correct?

>> yeah. but i don't think, dana, that this is necessarily like rocket science on my part. i don't think this is an either/or thing. there are three things going on here. one is they really did want some of these classified documents back. that's because if they are not safe enough and if they fall into the wrong hands it could be very damaging to the country. secondly, there has been a dispute between trump and the national archives basically since he left the white house about whose property this is. and under the presidential records act which is 1978 legislation, it is the government's property. property of the united states government. so trump wants to see it at his property. that's really how it was before the watergate era. we haven't been there for half a century now. they wanted the records back. they wanted all the records back, not just the classified ones. then i think you can't

differentiate what's going on here and around it, a major stepping up of very frenetic activity by the justice department, investigative activity in connection with january 6 under circumstances where it is clear they're trying to make a case on president trump and the people around him in connection with the stop the steal stuff. to me it can't be all those things are related to january 6 and the one thing they do to search the home of the main guy they are looking at for january 6 somehow has nothing to do with january 6. >> dana: also the last question for you, then. i keep thinking back to "the new york times" story that it took merrick garland, the attorney general, several weeks whether to sign the paperwork to do the search warrant and then he signs it. do you think it's because they had some sort of information that said they should or he finally felt pressured to do it? we don't know, they aren't telling us.

maybe he will never tell us. love your view on that, though. >> well, i think number one it shows it wasn't a sudden emergency that triggered this, right? but i personally think -- this is the cynic in me, i suppose. i think they wanted to do it when trump wasn't there. i do believe that would have been a big complication for them. but i also think a lot of this activity that they've done has been done when congress is not in session. the day after the search, they did the search warrant on scott perry, the congressman from pennsylvania. congress was not in session. they walked up to him on a street in pennsylvania. when congress is in session there can be more organized protest against this sort of thing. this is a good time for them to do it. >> dana: andy mccarthy, thank you. as we get ready for the hearing tomorrow no doubt we'll see you on fox a lot. thank you very much. >> thanks. >> president biden: no one

earning less than $400,000 a year will pay a penny more in federal taxes. i will raise taxes for anybody making over $400,000. nobody making under $400,000 would have their taxes raised, period. >> dana: biden signs the inflation reduction act into law and his tax pledge could come back to bite, griff. >> a mysterious murder of a microsoft exec taking another bizarre turn that catches the victim's ex wife in a lie. >> dana: another record broken at the southern border. arrests of illegal immigrants topped the 2 million mark as cartels pour into the united states. >> the mexican cartels are the number one threat to our national security without a doubt. i don't understand why we aren't doing anything, really. we aren't anything, it's a dog and pony show on our part.

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hour ago right before 8:30 not one, but four migrant buses pulled into new york city. i can tell you i saw the migrants get off the buses. we saw a lot more family units than we've been seeing. single adult men also. the group pulled in at 8:22 at the port authority. commissioner manuel castro of immigrant affairs was there welcoming the migrants to new york city. we are expecting comments from him soon with more details about the group. the migrants are being processed and soon benefit from new york's sanctuary city policies which is something governor abbott has talked about. listen to this. >> i'm helping the local community by busing the migrants out of these local communities and sending them up to the northeast where they have self-identified as sanctuary cities where they want to welcome in any illegal immigrants and i'm more than happy to accommodate them.

>> castro and adams have been critical of that stance calling the governor of text's morally corrupt and anti-american. those in charge of patrolling our borders say leadership in new york city and washington, d.c. have no clue how chaotic our border really is. >> these states aren't seeing remotely close to what we're seeing in the state of texas. governor abbott, biden needs mayors to come to the border and see firsthand and that's what they should do. >> of course, governor abbott invited the mayors of new york city and d.c. to come to the border. an invitation they declined. something that precipitated the busing program. as for the group that arrived this morning, we're hearing reports that the total number of migrants is about 50 but it was four buses, which is more buses than you would need for just 50 migrants. commissioner castro says multiple migrants appeared to get off the buses along the way to new york city. we expect the details soon and pass them along. send it back to you.

>> dana: thanks for the update, nate. >> griff: fox news alert. customs and border protection sources tell fox news for the first time in history agents have encountered more than two million migrants at the southern border during a fiscal year and it's not over. the numbers far surpassing the previous record of 1.2 million set last year at this time. let's get right to tom homan. former acting ice director and fox news contributor. tom, i have described this to the producers here that if you were covering a hurricane and had a category five hurricanes that turned into a category six something we've never seen before and no one showed up to cover it. we've crossed 2 million as it grows in the last 24 hours. yet no one is talking about this. it has never happened before.

>> it's historic. if you look at two years in a row, griff, since joe biden became president he added 1.7 and 2.2 now. 2.4 by the end of the year. you look at 4 million -- over 4 million encounters since biden became president. you add to that we're at 900,000 gotaways now, they average 50,000 gotaways a month. if you are talking about a million gotaways, it is five million illegal entries in the united states since he became president. it's historic. if you break it down further 2.7 million were released into the united states. this is historic. people are paying attention to these numbers. 2.7 released? that makes the cartels convince the most vulnerable people hey, i can get you to the united states with this much money. you'll be released. you can go to a sanctuary city and be protected. you can commit a crime and not turned over to ice.

secretary mayorkas said being in the country illegally isn't enough to be deported. why wouldn't you come to the united states? these borders numbers will get worse. they are bragging the numbers went down this month on encounters. of course it did. 70% of the border -- less encounters means more gotaways which is even worse. >> griff: i want to get to numbers again. first let's remind our viewers we just had secretary mayorkas showed up at a conference in aspen, colorado and had this to say about the state of the border. his most recent statement a few weeks back. >> the border is secure. the border, we are working to make the border more secure. >> tom, how can he say that? >> the secretary mayorkas is lying. the man has zero integrity. he said the same thing while under oath testifying in front of congress. it was perjury.

day one if the republicans take back congress, day one he needs to be impeached. he has made this country less safe. we have over 66 known suspected terrorists arrested because of open border. if they've arrested 66 let's go back to 900,000 gotaways. how many of them got away that are known and suspected terrorists. this man needs to be impeached. >> griff: we've talked about how much control the cartel has. undeniable now they have such a strong grasp on our border. how do we take it this border back from the cartel control? >> you reimplement the trump policies. catch and release. continue building the wall. remain in mexico program and that way the cartels can't sell to people that can get to the united states and be released. under the trump administration

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>> now under a directive go after the top -- is that where you get the money or are you saying anyone less than the 1%? >> they will not be scrutinized and taxed more if they're under $400,000. >> dana: they insist the democrats' plan to beef up the i.r.s. with 87,000 new agents will not mean more audits for the middle class. that claim is far from universally accepted. let's bring in connell mcshane. for the most part people think this office is nonpartisan saying at least $20 billion of the $124 billion in new revenue expected by a supercharged i.r.s. will be coming from higher audits on low and middle income americans. >> people making under $400,000. what's interesting about this and frustrating at the same time is that there is enough in this bill especially with the i.r.s. question about how it is being paid for where both sides can make arguments that are

technically true and in conflict at the same time. that's a perfect example. that number comes from an analysis that says the i.r.s. is saying we're under funded. if we want to go after people not paying what they owe in taxes we need more funding and we can bring in more money. how much money? the overall number is $200 billion over the course of 10 years. the headline that you pick out in the "new york post" the other day $20 billion is paid by people making under $400,000. democrats turn around and say, the majority of this money will come from the rich people making over $400,000. the reason he can say that if the analysis is right 180 out of 200 billion would be out of that group. both sides have something to grab onto. what people have to decide, is what's in this bill worth it? this is the spending bill that spends a lot of money on climate and healthcare. if you believe in those things

you will say it's worth it. if you don't, you won't. >> dana: this man had a good point. it is not just about the money you might owe to the i.r.s., it is about the whole process. >> a lot of taxpayers don't want to fight the i.r.s.. they don't have the time or money to fight the i.r.s. so they'll roll over and pay the relatively small amounts to squeeze a lot of money out of taxpayers just by harassing them. >> dana: right. >> there was a former whistleblower on fox the other day making a similar argument. the low hanging fruit if you are the i.r.s. is there for these people who don't have the resources, time or energy to fight and they'll go after those people. in the cbo analysis that's where they get the number, it's high of $20 billion. the democrats will go back and make that same argument that we're still going after the so-called rich because we get more money from them because it's where the money is than we will from the other groups.

>> dana: like parking tickets. you can't fight city hall. i'll just pay it and the i.r.s. tends to be the same thing. this exchange between senator manchin now remember the bill is called the inflation reduction act and hillary vaughn had an exchange with senator manchin. here it is. >> is it misleading to call this is inflation reduction act for americans? it won't make goods cheaper for them. >> immediately it's not. nothing happens immediately turn the switch on and off. >> last part of the question at least immediately and manchin had to say you're right. it won't be immediately. that's where democrats have opened themselves up to fair criticism that in naming this the inflation reduction act a normal person would look at that and say it will fight the inflation we're suffering from right now. all the independent analysis no matter who it is said no, it won't, not over the next year

or two. it doesn't mean it won't do good things for people down the line. the president talked about yesterday putting a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug coverage or expenses for people on medicare and that may help senior citizens. this is great for me. may be your point of view. it doesn't take effect in the year 2025. so it is really a question of timing if you be fair in analyzing it as hillary said to the senator you have to point that out. this is not something that will take effect this year or next year. keep in mind they will help you out a few years down the line. >> dana: it could feel like a long time paying high prices. great to have you here. thank you so much. griff. >> griff: trading has begun on wall street after a key measure of consumer spending was released earlier this morning. the dow jones down a little bit. it opened and hovering around 200 down. markets are reacting to the july retail sales report which

showed spending stalled last month. over the last year spending is up 10.3%. we're keeping an eye on that for you. wow. more fallout over a proposed union contract for a minneapolis public schools that allows the district to lay off-white teachers first regardless of seniority. garrett tenney is live in the midwest bureau with more. >> the policy doesn't simply allow, it requires minneapolis public schools to lay off-white teachers before any teachers of color if there are forced layoffs. this is a big change from the current policy which uses experience and seniority to decide who gets let go. under the new contract, which is still being finalized, race will be the priority in both who gets fired and who gets rehired. in a section titled protections for educators of color the contract states the district shall deprioritize the more senior teacher noot member of

an underrepresented population in order to reinstate a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers saying they are needed to approve the retention of teachers of color and to ultimately have a workforce that reflects the demographics of the city's schools. 60% of nps students are non-white compared to 33% of staff. but some critics argue the policy is unconstitutional and has almost no chance of surviving if it's challenged in court. >> the supreme court has repeatedly said that an attempt to remedy past discrimination that no longer exists by discriminating in the present is a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment and that's the case here. >> his office has already heard from both teachers and taxpayers in minneapolis who would like to take legal action if this policy isn't changed.

griff. >> griff: we'll dive deeper in this later with mr. dickey. garrett tenney live for us. thank you. >> dana: virginia governor glenn youngkin blasting a proposal to stop calling george washington the father of our country on tests. he said i believe we should tell our history accurately, the good and the bad. part of the history we are going to tell is our founding fathers, including george washington and madison and others played an extraordinary role in the founding of our nation. youngkin took on woke educators in his run for governor last year and it helped him to win that gubernatorial election. water levels drop at the nation's largest reservoir. this is not the first such discovery. starbucks demands a nationwide pause in mail-in union votes alleging misconduct in the

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>> dana: elon musk one of the

vips at a fundraiser for kevin mccarthy. the tech billionaire has been tweeting support for republicans. for years he has been politically all over the place is his quote splitting donations evenly between the two parties. >> griff: another gruesome discovery in lake mead. human remains has been found as water levels fall marking the fifth such discovery this year. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with more. >> people are finding all kinds of stuff down there, boats, bodies, trash as these water levels recede. the big story here are the new mandatory cuts imposed tuesday by the feds on states because of decades of political neglect, environmentalists and developers as the colorado river dries up. its two major reservoirs provide water to 40 million in

three states and parts of mexico. lake powell is down 75% and within 32 feet of falling below the spillway that allows it to run the tour bins at glen canyon dam. water could stop flowing through the grand canyon if that happens. lake mead. these images over the last 20 years show how lake mead is drying up. 27% full. lowest level since being filled in 1937. >> the bureau of reclamation is concerned the big reservoirs on the colorado river are close to losing their ability to produce hydroelectric power. that would be a huge blow to the region. >> the bureau said nevada, arizona and new mexico must reduce their consumption. california no cuts. arizona gave up its senior

water rights to california years ago to build the central arizona project. this drought now in its 23 year continues further cuts will happen to keep fish and wildlife so they can survive. that depends on snow pack and runoff in the next few winters but the states had years to impose conservation measures and they refused. >> griff: shocking images. thank you. >> dana: starbucks is requesting a nationwide pause for mail-in union ballots saying the government labor relations board is tilting the scales in favor of a unionization vote. this caught my eye because it seems a little like oh, so starbucks the corporation is now saying wait a second, the government, the biden administration has its thumb on the scale here and said this. that they converted the mail ballot only election into an

impromptu election for a handful of individuals who were handpicked and solicited by the union and giving them improper support to a single party. what's going on here, dan? >> something and not very good is going on. this is starbucks, one of the most progressive companies in the united states. a darling of the left. now starbucks is saying that the national labor relations board in a unionization effort taking place in overland, kansas, that they were putting its thumb on the scale. that they were giving the union, the seiu service employees international union that represents starbucks employees is giving them realtime information about the number of ballots coming in. this was supposed to be an all mail-in ballot but people were allowed to come vote in person and some voting at the nlrb's

offices. this is a very serious accusation against the union. they are acting more like union organizers than disinterested could be serves of elections. starbucks wants an investigation of this. they ought to get it. i would assume if the nlrb drags it feet on this and republicans win the house in november there will be investigations into exactly what's going on in these union elections with the nlrb. >> dana: does this remind you of how the nlrb was in the obama years? >> uh-huh, yeah, it does. this was a time when they began to move into a more activist direction like this. for instance, the nlrb filed a complaint against boeing when it was trying to move a manufacturing plant from washington state down to a non-unionized plant in south carolina. a private business decision by boeing but the nlrb intervened in that. this is an extension of that and really an extension of the

democrats' efforts to use these administrative bureaucracies to obtain policy goals they can't get legislatively. we recall earlier in the year how the nomination of sarah bloom raskin to be the regulator was withdrawn because of objections she would enforce efforts to turn the federal reserve into an enforcer of the biden administration's climate goals. way outside the federal reserve mandate. >> dana: well, starbucks stepping up here. we'll see what happens as this continues. fascinating story. thank you, dan, good to see you. >> good to be with you, dana. >> griff: border agents seizing more fentanyl in san diego than any other of the nation's ports. what officials are doing to stop the flow of the deadly drug. plus the failing of a u.s. navy lieutenant says he is wrongly imprisoned in japan and asking for the biden administration to get him home. his wife joins us next.

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>> dana: a new twist in the murder mystery of a microsoft executive in florida. his ex wife's personal trailer claims he had an affair with her as she was going through a rough patch. she says that never happened. we are live with the details. what do we know? >> we've been following this mystery for months, right? now her dead ex-husband brought her a package of work-out session with that trainer for christmas but she denied that she ever had an affair with that guy. take a look here. six months ago microsoft manager died, shot and killed in front of his 2-year-old daughter. this is where it all happened. it was the father of four driving out in this area on a florida roadway near st.

augustine. he pulled over to move a tire out of the roadway but when he got out of the car he was shot. one of his kids was actually sitting in the back seat, dana, when her dad was gun i had down in the roadway. after the murder his ex-wife hired a defense attorney and has denied she ever had an affair that led to this divorce. the trainer tells fox digital their relationship turned romantic during her and her ex-husband's breakup. after the murder police were looking for a dark blue ford f-150 that they believe is connected to the murder. >> i have a lot of faith in the detectives that are working this. it is frustrating that things take time. this is not a tv show being solved in 60 minutes. it takes time and that's hard. >> she said it is an attack on

her family and she won't stop until the killer is behind bars. >> dana: thank you. >> i find it nothing short of inexcusable that an american who experienced a medical emergency should be treated so poorly by an allied nation that he is protecting. >> clearly the japanese judicial system is trying to make an example of him. he is being targeted because he is an american. >> griff: frustration he gross as an army lieutenant sits in prison. he was sentenceed to prison. now his family and others are gathering in washington, d.c. today where they are protesting to bring awareness to his case. we are joined by his wife, britney. she has her three children here. thank you for being here. why are you here in washington

outside the white house? >> we are here because i need to speak with president biden. i need to ask him to bring my husband home. >> griff: if you could speak directly to president biden at this moment what would you be saying to him? >> i would tell him that the d.o.d. has abandoned my husband. but as an officer, my husband serves at the pleasure of the president and so i think it is appropriate for him to step in and bring him home. >> griff: what help, assistance, communication from the administration thus far, brittany, since you received? >> congress has been very supportive and we're very grateful for that. the d.o.d. told us from the beginning we cannot assume that

what is in rich's best interest is in the navy's best interest. but the state department, national security advisor, rahm emanuel can step in and make it right. i think it would be appropriate. >> griff: you mentioned rahm emanuel, the u.s. ambassador to japan. have you had any contact or conversations with him and where does that stand? >> we have. we have spoken to him directly. we have followed up with his staff. however, it is still unclear who is in charge of this. we got mixed messaging whether it's d.o.d. or state. and we need some clearances. >> griff: brittany, you are on a time frame of sorts. rich's leave runs out in october. where do things stand at this moment and what is the next step you are hoping for?

>> we have absolutely no idea where things stand. once rich's leave runs out we're left without pay, without benefits. my kids have no idea where they will be going to school or receiving medical care or whether or not they will be able to see him during the next three years. once his benefits run out, we are abandoned. we will not have access to him. >> griff: you have had no contact with your husband? >> i saw him the very next day after he was incarcerated. i was allowed a 20-minute visit but no, i have had no contact with him since then. >> griff: brittany, i see your children there holding up the bring daddy home signs. how has this impacted you and how are they doing? >> they are not doing well.

it is really rough, you know. they have their father taken away from them and i can't tell them what the future looks like. i can't tell them where they are going to school or if they're moving. i can't tell them if they will be able to see or speak to their dad. with all that uncertainty it doesn't help this incredibly difficult transition. >> griff: you are in a difficult, she is fighting for the release of her husband outside of the white house. thank you for taking time. we'll continue to follow this story and update our viewers as it warrants. brittany, thank you. >> thank you so much. >> dana: polls are closed in pair of high profile primaries and results are in. murcowski advances and tschibaka. hageman defeated liz cheney. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. good morning, griff.

>> griff: great to be with you. i'm griff jenkins in for bill hemmer. last night's results putting a sharp focus on the power of a trump endorsement. 161 candidates backed by trump winning primary races since 2020 giving him a 95% success rate. even though cheney lost, she has no plans to simply fade away. >> understand the extent to which we have now got one major political party, my party, which is really become a cult of personality. and we've got to get this party back to a place where we're embracing the values and principles on which it was founded. >> dana: bret baier is the chief political anchor and anchor of "special report". it was no surprise she lost. 30 or 40 points she lost by.

what do you think about president trump's success in being able to support challengers to anybody who voted against him in that impeachment vote? >> if you think about it, good morning, dana, i think the 95% success rate you just showed on the screen there is pretty remarkable. more importantly, for the former president, he said he was going to go after and primary challenge all 10 of the house republicans who voted for his impeachment. well, technically it's 8 out of 10 that are no longer going to be in congress. but really it is nine because one of them they did not put up a primary challenge to. so that's a pretty remarkable rate as well. on the senate side with murcowski who the former president was trying to primary and take out, it is not as easy and it probably is not going to happen. alaska has a nonpartisan system

in which the top four move on to a general election and then from then on it's ranked choice. murcowski is likely going to win reelection by most experts in alaska. >> dana: ask you about liz cheney there might be another political run in her future or will try to start an organization. this was from the "today" show as well if we could play a little bit of that. call for number one. >> i think the republican party today is in very bad shape. the country has got to have a republican party that's actually based on substance, principles. based on a belief in limited government and low taxes and a strong national defense. >> dana: the democrats supported her in the last year or even during this particular election yesterday. in a future run those democrats will probably not be there for her. they want democrats to win, not republicans as she is

describing here. >> that's right. this organization will be about really, i think, challenging former president trump and trying to prevent him from getting to the oval office. she said that numerous times including in that speech last night. in that concession speech she also referenced abraham lincoln and how he lost early senate races and then she referenced grant who lost battles but then came on to win later. so she definitely foreshadowed she wants to run for higher office again and asked specifically this morning she is considering running for president. you have to wonder where the constituents is either in the republican party or the democratic party. but it's early. >> dana: also might be a spoiler for democrats and a future republican president if there was to be one. also wanted to ask you about senator joe manchin right there

with president biden yesterday as the inflation reduction act signed into law but then asked about the result of such bill. >> is it misleading to call it the inflation reduction act for americans when it won't make their grocery bill cheaper or everyday goods cheaper for them. >> it's not. we won't see anything happen immediately today turn the switch on and off. >> dana: i'm confused how they think they will do it. maybe they'll get away with it because circumstances outside of the inflation reduction act hopefully for americans relief will come because of any action by the fed. this bill won't tame inflation and there is senator manchin actually saying so. >> listen, nonpartisan, bipartisan analysis has looked at this and said it will have negligible in fact. in the early years it will increase inflation, which is exactly the opposite of what

you really want to do. this is more of a climate change bill. manchin in that ceremony picture is worth a thousand words. the president signs the bill into law and turns and gives senator manchin the pen. he is the reason this all comes to pass and there are things in this bill that senator manchin will benefit from specifically. he says long-term these investments will pay off. here is the president handing the pen. but in the short term there is going to be a lot of spending that goes out the door and the question is whether our economy will handle it and balance all of this out. tough to see it is going to turn that far before november, dana. >> dana: i think you will see the handing of the pen in many ads in the next election in west virginia. bret baier, great to see you. thank you. >> griff: student loan payments are set to resume in two weeks unless president biden extends

the moratorium imposed at the start of the pandemic 2 1/2 years ago. also possible biden could cancel some portion of those loans erasing billions of dollars in debt. congressional correspondent aishah hosni is live on capitol hill. hi. >> good morning to you, griff. that's right. so the president finds himself in a pretty awkward position because he has long promised he would somehow sign into law any legislation that would cancel at least $10,000 in student loan debt. but any cancellation or pause of student loan debt could undermine his newly passed so-called inflation reduction act. so the pressure right now from congress is mounting on him to do something. more than 100 democrat members of congress are calling for a payment pause extension at least saying in a letter last month that resuming student loan payments would force millions of borrowers to choose between paying their federal

student loans or putting a roof over their head, food on the table or paying for childcare and healthcare while costs continue to rise. but the nonpartisan committee for responsible federal budget says cancelling debt could actually undermine the inflation reduction act saying that extending the current pause through the end of the year could cost $20 billion. canceling $10,000 per person as the president would like to see would cost $230 billion. and combined, these policies would consume nearly 10 years of deficit reduction from the inflation reduction act. that's not quite how progressives are seeing it, though. >> if canceling student loan debt is coupled with restarting payments, we've been in a payment pause for two years now. the effect is not inflationary, the effect is denraish naer. that is, there will be millions

of americans starting making student loan payments like paying a tax. they will have less money to spend every month. >> pretty soon the president and his cabinet members will go across the country to try to sell the inflation reduction act to the american people and prove that it is going to reduce inflation and then he will also have to make a decision on this considering what the economists are saying. >> griff: we'll be watching. aishah hosni live on capitol hill. >> dana: a beating leaves a bronx subway worker injured. the defendant had 41 prior arrests. the subway assault the latest in a long line of crimes attributed to alexander wright, the suspect. good morning, david lee. he has the details. >> good morning. the man we're talking about alexander wright is behind bars

being held in lieu of $5,000 bail, which is half of what the prosecutors had sought. he was locked up after police say he assaulted a transit system employee anthony nelson who suffered a dislocated nose and broken collarbone. fellow workers and his family say wright shouldn't have been on the street. he was arrested and released more than three dozen times and he assaulted an asian woman in chinatown. someone with dozens of priors shouldn't be free to brutally attack employees who make the city move. the crime surge hitting one of the city's most trendy areas. chelsea people are thinking about moving out. it shows addicts in the neighborhood shooting up and smoking crystal meth. some of the drug use taking place near a school. >> we have people going around the block for the past three

years taking drugs, having sex in the basements, break-ins different type of intrusions. but basically we think the area isn't safe for the kids. >> other neighborhoods are seeing a spike in crime including bronx, the district of bowman who called for defunding the police. analysis of data by fox digital found violent crime in some areas of his district increased roughly 30% compared with the same period a year ago. bowman previously called for slashing the nypd budget for $1 million and said it should be used for health and other programs to benefit the community. >> dana: thank you. the city of san diego emerging as an epicenter of the opioid crisis. why agents are seizing more fentanyl there than any other port of entry.

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>> i can't rule out that the fraud could be not only in the tens of billions but maybe upwards of 100 billion dollars.

but it is too early for me to tell you how high that number is going to go. >> dana: justice department watchdog in may. reporting the amount of fraud during the pandemic relief program is mind-boggling. he was likely correct. gerri willis of fox business joins us. >> $160 billion. big numbers and the moral of the story is crime pays at least in the case of covid relief funds. two years after the first of the $5 trillion in relief funds were approved by congress prosecutors are still trying to catch up with the tsunami of pandemic fraudsters. 163 billion plus is the estimate of the losses due to fraud. that is a 60% increase over original estimates. the oversight of the dollars absent. this would be comical if it wasn't your taxpayer dollars. loans went out to 342 folks who said their name was no answer.

57,000 people on the government's own do not pay list got dough. dead people got money? a single person was able to collect unemployment benefits from 29 different states and another applicant got 10 loans for 10 different fake bathroom renovation businesses using the address of a burrito shop. sports cars, mansions, rolex watches. where your money is going. $57,000 pokemon trading cards with taxpayer funds. applicants in many cases on an honor system. think about that one. now another wave of your tax dollars are going to prosecuting the bad guys. 21 inspectors general have assigned a total of 500 people to pursue fraud cases associated with covid relief that the f.b.i., secret service, postal inspection service, i.r.s. full-time gig for these folks. labor department's i.g. office alone has 39,000 investigations

going. 50 agents in the sba are sorting through 2 million fraudulent plan applications. of course, dana, this won't be solved. we will never get the money back. it is your taxpayer dollars and all of it reminds me of cash for clunkers after the great recession. the government is just bad at giving away money. >> dana: that was infuriating as you went through the list. washington doesn't learn its lesson. american taxpayers will be generous in a time of need but the amount of frustration that people must feel watching what you just said, i can't imagine. >> i can imagine. we're all frustrated. thank you so much for being here. griff. >> this is right out of the pages of anti-racism. what this man says in order to remedy past discrimination, jim crow south, we need to

implement present discrimination. we need to implement future discrimination. it is a loop of evil. >> griff: critics a slamming a minnesota teachers union striking a deal putting whited indicators first in line foray office regardless of seniority. joining us is james dickey, senior trial counsel at the upper midwest center. the school district is saying they're doing it to remedy past discrimination but as the previous guest points out it is using more discrimination to treat it. what is going on here? >> that's exactly right. right now what the school district has done by agreeing to this collective bargaining agreement they put discrimination to law. it requires that instead of laying off teachers in the future if there are layoffs based on seniority or merit they will use the color of

their skin instead and a violation of the 14th amendment. >> griff: where legally does this stand? the equal protections under the law, the 14th amendment is what you mentioned. is there a precedent you can point to of where this is headed? >> definitely. in 198 of the supreme court decided a case and they struck down a lay-off scheme that was based on the color of skin just like this one. no question this is unconstitutional. >> griff: james, as you begin to weigh in and fight this, what has been the response from mps. >> we haven't heard any response related to it. this was covered back when the tentative agreement was struck in march and now coming back again. we would hope they would re-evaluate this even though it was part of their tentative agreement and consider not discriminating against teachers based on the color of their skin. >> griff: when we look at the

makeup of white versus non-white staff and teachers in this school district, how does that shape up? >> it looks like at this point there is 60% of the students are students of color and about 27% of teachers are teachers of color. so there is a difference there. but there are race neutral ways in which the district could pursue adding more teachers of color which in and of itself is not a problem. >> griff: civil rights attorney leo terrell weighed in and here is what he had to say. >> for 30 years i've been fighting for equality as a civil rights attorney. that's backwards. you are correct, it is racist, it is discriminatory and illegal and needs to be invalidated immediately. i have read what the unions said. they want students to have teachers to look like them. wrong. students need teachers who will educate them. >> griff: the last 20 seconds

to respond. >> leo is exactly right. the fact is you need teachers who will do a great job for their students regardless of the color of their skin and that's what the teachers union and minneapolis public school district should do. >> griff: quite a staggering situation in minneapolis. we'll continue to follow it. james dickey, thanks for being here today. dana. >> dana: not just a matter of policies. a top democrat says the party has a likeability problem that is turning off voters. is he right? president biden taking a swipe at republicans as he signs the democrats' massive tax and spend bill into law. is this a preview of what's to come as he hits the road for the mid-terms? ♪♪♪

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future for the latest onalaska's primary. murcowski advances to the mid-terms in the rank choice elections there. jonathan hunt live in anchorage with a wrap-up of yesterday's race. >> senator lisa murcowski a moderate and a nemesis for former president trump will go through to the general election as one of four voted through regardless of party. in alaska's new primary system. senator murcowski was railing against outside influences when we talked to her yesterday. those include president trump. she said it should not be about president trump. the election in alaska, it could be about alaska. listen to the senator. >> we're already seeing some of the nastyness that comes from the outside being imported to alaska. we import a lot of stuff.

we don't need the crap that they deliver from the outside. >> is president trump part of what you call crap? >> you know what? i don't lower myself to call other people names. >> the conservative republican candidate kelly tshibaka will also advance. she, of course, has been endorsed by president trump and she says although she is not at this point in first place, it still amounts to a win for her. listen here. >> the climb from here to victory is actually a pretty clear path of what we need to do and this is a win for us. >> now, former alaska governor sarah palin is still hoping to fill the vacant u.s. house seat. that election was held last

night under the ranked choice voting system. sarah palin currently sitting in second place behind her is nick begich, another republican. what sarah palin will hope is when the second choices are counted from the ballots. none of the candidates got 50%, she may emerge as the winner. but currently the democrat is sitting in first place. it is likely to be, griff, as much as a couple of weeks before we get a final result in that particular race. griff. >> griff: jonathan hunt live for us in alaska with a postcard worthy gorgeous back drop. great work, thank you, jonathan. >> president biden: the american people won and the special interests lost. it's about delivering progress and prosperity to american families. it is about showing the american people that democracy still works in america.

>> dana: president biden signing into law the democrats' social spending and tax hike bill but not without taking a jab at republicans. let's bring in our power panel. great to have you both here. so i will give you a chance. does the signing of the bill give biden some momentum going into the mid-terms? >> well, i definitely think it gives him some momentum. a long time since a good legislative win on the democratic side. i think he has some good things in there including prescription drugs negotiation, which a lot of seniors have been looking for for a long time. so i think there will be a battle about whether it is a tax and spend bill or whether or not this really advances social causes as well. there is good stuff in there and he does have a case and he did get something finally through a democratic congress. >> dana: terry, do you think republicans have the means and

message in order to fight back against any momentum. >> i certainly do. this administration's agenda has been tax and spend and trillions of dollars flushed into the economy. the american people don't see it in their everyday lives. they go to the grocery store and pay utility bills and struggle to make ends meet. the president and his democratic party are really trying to put their best face forward here in the mid-terms to mitigate losses, but the republicans really have the people and the political environment and economic environment on their side and that's really what it will come down to the mid-term for this president. >> dana: congressman maloney is in charge of house democrat races, the dccc it is called. he said something you've been saying for a while.

he said about the democrats' like built issue. most of the voters we ask about this think we're out of touch, elitist. we think we are better than they are and they don't like it and we have a likeability problem. is it sinking in for the democrats? >> well, i think democrats have two issues here. one they have a president that people don't like and that's a real problem. the president is at 38%. now, they also have a too far to the left. the party is seen as too far to the left and out of touch. now luckily the republicans are even seen less likable overall which is why i analyze 12% of the electorate who doesn't like president biden but is still voting democratic so far in the mid-term race. and that group is saying i'm not so sure i like biden. i definitely don't approve of his job. i'm sticking with the democratic party and i really don't like the republicans.

so both parties have a bit of this. >> dana: one place, one demographic that republicans are picking up on is the hispanics. and there is a likeability issue but also a policy issue and if republicans can figure out a way to keep pushing on that, then maybe they make up the margins and win some races that were considered unwinnable just a little bit ago. >> we have been saying for a very long time that hispanics families and hispanic community would find a place in the republican party with our conservative values and our approach the to government. it's making inroads there and positive. in my home state of indiana, the first district of indiana, the congressional district there is up for grabs and it is because the democrats are seen as out of touch. that's a race that hasn't been won by a republican in 100 years. it is a suburb of chicago and all the i shall ooh us that people are seeing in the

suburbs, they are seeing in other places like the hispanic community and they are flocking to the republican party. >> dana: thank you both. terry and mark, good to see you. >> griff: russian missiles strike the ukrainian port city of odessa overnight after the ukrainians hit a russian deep owe. >> shelling rained down in the early hours of night damaging dozens of homes while people slept inside. in the port city of odessa a massive fire broke out after a russian attack and several people are wounded. firefighters continue to atoement to put out the flames. today i joined the united refugee agency kelly clements visiting the hard hit northern region of a town.

she is working with the government to coordinate age. rebuilding shelters and homes ahead of the winter months. the displacement is intensifying and the need is growing. >> the lack of fuel, the economic situation this country, so dire. all of this compounds to make a greater humanitarian crisis. >> every house on the street has been damaged. there used to be a front door here. the homeowner tells me this was her kitchen. over here was the living room. practically every piece of her life has been blown to pieces. >> my son was screaming. they bombed all of us. what for? we're simple, hard working people. >> she is one of 6 million people currently displaced and living within ukraine. the u.n. secretary general will also be visiting ukraine tomorrow and meet with the ukrainian president zelenskyy

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>> dana: the number of migrants surging across the southern border. sources say it has topped 2 million never seen before in history. more than the population of some major american cities like phoenix, philadelphia or san diego. more states as well. bill melugin is live in eagle pass, texas with more on this. how are you doing today, bill? >> as usual, it has been another busy morning out here in eagle pass. we've already seen several hundred illegal crossings so far and we'll show you some of what we witnessed. look at this wild drone video we shot a short time ago.

two shirtless guys come to the u.s. side of the river. a sort time later a larger group of migrants begin crossing illegally into eagle pass here using the rope to guide themselves through the water and through those strong currents. you will see several of them are holding little kids, little toddlers. incredibly dangerous. there have been more drownings than we can count in this part of the river over the past several months where a texas national guard soldier drowned. all of those migrants made it across using that rope. look at the video we shot yesterday where we're standing. the first time we've seen this. the texas national guard closed and locked a gate on this property. a major crossing area and blocked the illegal imgrants from being able to come into this property. private property. the owner allows the national guard and border patrol to work here. illegal immigrants started showing up and weren't let in and expected to be let in and surprised they couldn't get in.

here is what happened. look at this video, border patrol showed up. supervisor came with a key, opened up the gate and let all of those illegal imgrants in. symbolic of the way the state of texas handings things versus the federal government right now. lastly show you the major fentanyl bust out of arizona. cbp seized 108,000 fentanyl pills hidden in a smuggler's vehicle as well as more than 20 pounds of meth. back here live it goes to show cbp just reported fentanyl seizures were up more than 200% over june. >> dana: thank you, bill melugin. >> griff: dana, that drug seizure in arizona in bill's report the latest episode in the long term battle against drug cartels. check this out. border agents in the san diego sector seizing more than three tons of fentanyl so far this year. that's about 60% of all the fentanyl seized in the entire country. a u.s. attorney for the

southern district of california joins us. randy, have you ever seen an epidemic of this level with such a dangerous narcotic like fentanyl? >> good morning. thank you for having me. we appreciate the opportunity to speak to this. san diego continues to be a wonderful place to live, work and visit but unfortunately we have become an epicenter for fentanyl trafficking in the united states. as you just indicated for fiscal year 2022. more than 60% of the fentanyl that has been seized by cbp nationwide has been seized in san diego and in this county. not just the seizures but also the deaths. according to the medical examiner 817 people died from fentanyl overdoses in san diego. that's a trend that continues in 2022. >> griff: in the year 2016 there were only 33 fentanyl deaths in san diego county.

it is a 2,375% increase. what are you doing as u.s. attorney and other law enforcement to combat this to try to get this fentanyl seizures and certainly the fentanyl deaths you see on our screen, the 2019 to 2020, 39,000, the year after 61,000 and 72,000 in 2021 and 2022. so it is going in the wrong direction. what are you doing to get this under control? >> i am so very proud and honored to work with our federal, state and law enforcement leadership in san diego and imperial county to combat this crisis. what we're doing really is employing a prosecution strategy and prevention straj gee. on the prosecution side i can tell you thanks to the great work of the dedicated staff members of the u.s. attorney's office as well as our law enforcement partners,

our prosecutions of fentanyl related offenses are up 1600% in the last five years and we're targeting everyone that is involved in the distribution network of this dangerous and deadly drug ranging from the drug cartels -- >> griff: the cartels, we can show you a map the sinaloa cartel, the new generation and hall is co-and operating in areas near you. are you having success in going after them? what do you hope happens next? >> we are targeting drug cartels but we are also targeting others involved in the distribution of this deadly poison including not only the drug cartels, but the drug trafficking organizations that import the narcotics. the couriers and street level dealers. we are achieving good results for the citizens of san diego.

if those who are involved in selling and distributing fentanyl that results in the death of somebody else, they are looking at a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. we will relentlessly pursue justice for the victims of those crimes. >> griff: randy grossmann, u.s. attorney for the southern district of california with a stern message for the cartels. problem spiraling out of control. thank you for your work and for coming on today. dana. >> dana: the mother of a little boy racking up views on social media after posting a video of herself running through active shooter drills with her 5-year-old son. why she feels she had to resort to taking matters into her own hands. she is next. >> you get out of the building, where do you go? where do you run? >> outside. >> where outside? >> home. >> you run as far away from the school as you can go. mom will find you. >> okay. mes in american history

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>> harris: the backlash is fierce after president biden signed the so-called inflation reduction act and suddenly the truth about what's in it is dripping out. and trump's biggest g.o.p. critic in congress, liz cheney, booted from office. plus stacey abrams on the board of yet another defund the police group. georgia voters may have some thoughts about her. congressman jim banks, brian kilmeade, tammy bruce, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: thank you, harris. a new school year begins for many around the country. one mom's video conducting active shooter drills with her 5-year-old son is getting a lot of attention. the clip has racked up more than 7 million views. take a look. >> the teacher calls over the intercom there is a drill. everybody go in the corner and be quiet and still. what do you do?

>> dana: that mom joins us now. this video has gotten 7 million views, quite a lot. it is a sad thing, i think, that you felt like you had to do it. but because of what we're seeing across the country, you decided it was important for your 5-year-old to learn what to do. tell us more. >> yeah, i know that they do still do active intruder drills in schools. i used to do them in school. the last one i did was about five years ago right before he was born. i was doing alice training in high school and i kind of took what he does at school and basically just added a bullet proof backpack to that. >> griff: you talk about the bullet proof backpack for a toddler. it's terrifying. that was the moment in your video that really struck me as a parent. let's watch that quickly. >> show me how you use your bullet proof backpack.

okay, good job. if the teacher said you don't need the backpack let's get in the corner. >> i say no, i need it. it's bullet proof. >> griff: you were emphasizing the point to your son that regardless of what is happening with teachers talking to you, you have to protect yourself. why did you make that so important? >> well, i just went off of what he does in school. i know that during their drills they say get in the corner, be quiet. we'll pretend we aren't here. i wanted to make sure he knew he needed to have the extra cushion of protection and to know that you might need that if someone comes by into the room and starts shooting away. >> dana: you gave him advice what to do if police are outside the door in an active shooting situation. listen here. >> if the police are outside the door and the shooter is in your room and you call out is

anybody in there what do you do? >> you don't say a word. >> okay. >> if the shooter is in there you don't say a word. you stay absolutely silent. >> dana: was your son asking about school shootings? >> yes, he was, with uvalde being on the news and his family was watching it and he had questions. could this happen at my school? he couldn't understand why somebody would want to do that. i tried to answer best i could in words appropriate for a 5-year-old. >> griff: in a few seconds we have left. what is your message to other parents? >> just start the conversation even if you aren't going to do the drills. teach your children about guns. i'm from gun country. i am in the back woods of oklahoma. we grew up with guns in the closet and treated every one like it was loaded and we

learned how important it was about gun safety. >> dana: again it's a sad thing that we have to have these conversations. you have chosen as mom to do what you this i is right. 7 million views and a lot more after this as well. we appreciate you. thank you. griff, it was a joy to be with you today. thank you for being here. >> griff: thank you, dana. great being with you. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: fox news alert now, the d.c. swamp is in full effect with democrats spendsing our money and taxing us like we don't count. fierce reaction to president biden's new enormous spending law. he called it the inflation reduction act. that is not even close to what it actually is. and a new problem for biden and his team. they can't seem to figure out when families will ever get a break from sky high prices. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the