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redactions. president trump argues there shouldn't be any. judge reinhart rejected the doj's attempt to hide it from americans. the whole affidavit should be released. given the democrats' penchant for using it to hide government corruption. >> that's the crux of the matter. they're demanding whether to know political buy as played a role in the buher eos decision making. >> we're interested in how that information was presented of the was it presented faithfully and truthfully given the past record of the f.b.i. and department of justice in trump investigations? >> mark meredith joins us from west palm beach, florida. good morning, park. >> good morning. the justice department says there is a lot of information about why federal agents came to mar-a-lago last week that they don't want to release at this point. a judge yesterday said in the

interest of transparency there is also the information the public needs to know and likely we'll see some information in that criminal affidavit released potentially a week from now. in court yesterday we saw attorneys from multiple media outlets argue that the public interest demands to know what was going on and this entire affidavit should be unsealed. it would offer detail which witnesses are cooperating and why so many top secret documents were being kept at mar-a-lago. the judge is giving the justice department to give them until next thursday to decide which can be disclosed. they can appeal the judge's decision. representatives for the former president did not speak at yesterday's hearing. trump himself has been calling for the complete release of the affidavit, unredacted version and accusing the justice department of abuse of power. we did hear from his legal team

not in court but on fox last night. they argue whatever is ultimately released still won't be enough. >> i think there won't be very much transparency. i would expect we'll get a lot of black ink all over that piece of paper. if i was the d.o.j., a biden d.o.j. i would be redacting everything other than the word & the. so we're going to have to see what they kick back. >> former president is not at mar-a-lago. he is in new jersey. we are waiting to see whether he will release any of the surveillance video that likely captures the federal agents here last week. talk maybe it could endanger federal agents because of the violent rhetoric online. we're waiting to see if the video will come out or kept quiet. >> thank you. >> bill: gillian. senator chuck grassley is back in iowa. nice to see you.

you look good on a friday morning in august. thank you for your time. what should we see? >> well, i think considering the fact that this is the first airing of a former president's home for potentially information, whatever they think is wrong, plus the way hillary clinton's negotiation and emails were handled, steele dossier, carter page, fisa, you can name a lot of them. there is evidence of the handle one thing one way for democrats and another thick for republicans of the and i think i have prove ebb some political bias in regard to hunter biden and trump in the f.b.i. i think full transparency is what is really called for in this very extraordinary situation. >> bill: i guess we don't know

if we will get that, do we, senator? >> well, it looks like the judge is willing to give some. how much some is, i don't know. but the more the better. and the better the public relations of the f.b.i. would be, because i think there is plenty of evidence of political bias. and the people of this country should have extraordinary confidence in the f.b.i. and that confidence has been spake en not just because of what happened a couple weeks ago but because of a history of this sort of thing that has been going on for the last several years and then even going back to the 1970s and the church reports and all that stuff. we shouldn't have to put up with the f.b.i. having any question about their lack of -- in other words, they have to be

totally independent, transparent. transparency brings accountability and just do everything so there is no question of political bias. >> bill: senator, you are one of those who is quite dubious. you wrote to the f.b.i. director recently saying you were looking for some answers about the political bias within the agency. we went back a couple years ago. the last poll we can find how americans feel about the f.b.i. a gallup poll. this is what we found. in 2019, 57% of americans thought the f.b.i. was doing a good or excellent job. in 2021 it dropped to 44%, among parties. would you say the f.b.i. is doing an excellent job? republicans at 26%. that goes to your point, does it not? >> yes, it does. but let me make very, very clear. we got dozens and dozens of f.b.i. agents operating in iowa

and nebraska out of the omaha office. we aren't questioning they are doing their work or questioning if they have political bias. we are talking about the upper echelon of the f.b.i., whether it's peter strock and you can name dozens of people. let me give you the most recent example. i talked about and released information of the political bias of a guy special agent in charge of starting investigations or closing investigations but not doing the investigation, on fuzzy newspaper reports. he started an investigation on trump on evidence of criminality in hunter biden. he stopped that investigation. if you go back and look at the man's social media, you know he is highly partisan guy. so what happened when i

released that information? wray moved him out of that position. and wray immediately had a telephone conversation with me and prior to that for six months i have been trying to talk to wray on the telephone, and i couldn't get any sort of answer at all. but just as soon as you show evidence, and i got it from whistleblowers within the f.b.i. of political bias, he did take action. he needs to give us a concrete program that he is going to erase all political bias in the upper levels of the f.b.i. >> bill: senator, thank you for your time. it is a big job and an important job. restoring that faith and confidence in them especially now. enjoy your time back home. thank you for your time today. gillian. >> wait and see, that's the word tr the white house on when americans can expect to feel the impact from the inflation

reduction act. white house economic council director brian deese acknowledged yesterday there is no question that inflation still is too high and we need to continue to see prices come down. let's bring in alex hogan joining us this morning. >> the quote could have come from any american at this point. according to the congressional budget office, this inflation reduction act impact on inflation itself is just about zero for the first three years. the biden administration thinks it will feel the impact first. >> at the cash register is rebates. point of sale rebates at the cash register when they go to buy energy-efficient appliances and dishwashers and washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, things like that. >> if your family isn't in the position to do that the impact

will be felt across time. >> across time. it will fix things like medicaid, negotiate for better prescription drug prices. >> it cost 437 billion dollars. senate democrats say 369 billion is go being toward energy security and climate change. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell called the name of this legislation laughable. >> they passed a $750 billion package. laughably labeled the inflation reduction act. there is not a single independent analysis done of that package that said it had any impact whatsoever on inflation. >> it's interesting now the bill has been signed into law by the president, many members of the mainstream media who had once supported this bill are

questioning if the inflation reduction act name was a marketing ploy. so we'll see in november if americans suspect the same. >> thank you, alex. bill. >> bill: you might think a convicted sex offender who nearly kills a man with a sucker punch would be kept behind bars. think again in 2022. why this suspect in the bronx is still walking the streets this morning. >> plus new video into the newsroom capturing a frenzy of looting and vandalism as a flash mob ran sacks a store leaving the store in complete shambles. >> the governor of virginia fateing back a proposal to try to stop calling america's first president george washington the father of our country. >> let's not give people names and dates. so let's make sure that at least our founders and framers get their due respect for the

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>> bill: flash mob of looters swarmed a 7-eleven in l.a. absolute chaos. jeff paul with the fallout. what happened here? >> we've seen the countless cases of street takeovers where masses of people using their cars essentially shut down intersections but now police say one of those takeover crowds shifted towards a convenience store to do that business and take it over. the chaos continued as up to 100 people at times reportedly packed inside the 7-eleven

store in south l.a. as a masses filtered in and started grabbing everything in sight the store employee ran to the back room fearing for his life. dozens of people emptied the shelves and trashed the store. at one point two people jumped over the counter and started throwing items to people in the crowd. police are calling this incident flash mob looting and worried if they don't send a message with arrests it might keep happening or get worse. >> we want to prevent this from becoming a new trend where they show up and take over a street or freeway or any part of the city that they will be able to do whatever they want. come into a store and take what they want. that is not going to happen. >> so far no word of any arrests just yet. if caught, some are facing several charges including grand theft, looting and vandalism. get this, even after this store takeover, police say that very group went on to block lanes at the nearby 110 freeway. >> bill: it never stops. thank you, sir. we'll see where it gets today.

>> gillian: parents are blasting new jersey's largest teacher's union after the union called parents extremists in a new ad. listen to this. >> everything in new jersey but we all agree our kids deserve a world class education. when extremists start attacking our schools, that's not who we are. people who only want to fight to score political points should take that somewhere else. >> gillian: another example of problems that some states are having when it comes to the disconnect between school boards and parents over the curriculum being taught. >> i want to be very clear, i want us to teach all of our history in virginia, the good and the bad. this is the moment for us to take a really, really serious look at how we are teaching this most important topic. >> bill: that's the new governor again youngkin in virginia at a state board of education meeting putting a foot down with a proposal who would stop calling george washington the father of our country on a test.

the board delaying changes at least for now. virginia's lieutenant governor is here. thank you for your time. i think i had the impression, the rest of america had the impression there is a new sheriff in town and new team in town in virginia. is this going to happen with regard to george washington and also james madison, father of the constitution? >> absolutely not, bill. thank you for having me. we do have a new sheriff in town and his name is glenn youngkin and we have a team. i am here and we also have a new attorney general. it is not going to happen because these proposals that you are talking about were made under the previous democrat governor, his administration. this new administration is not having it. you have already heard the governor say we'll teach history, all of history, the wicked, the evil, the good parts. but we are not going to let people destroy what we are doing here in america.

that's what ultimately they are hoping for. if you say that madison was not the father of the constitution, then what you are saying is the bill of rights don't mean anything. because he is pretty much the father of the bill of rights as well because the bill of rights that america enjoys was first written from virginia's bill of writes and madison was the one who brought that in. then, of course, the father of our country everybody knows this, even the chinese know this, the russians know this because they studied our history to know how to go. washington is the father of our country. had it not been for him we might have had a monarchy, the very thing that we fought to get rid of. so no, we're not going to change it. >> bill: we'll see whether or not you can override the board of education. we had a mother on in fairfax, virginia. what the cdc copped to this week about the confusion and

staff and information on covid. fairfax county schools are still thinking about the possibility the kids could wear a mask. >> we just have to look at the learning implications of these masks, putting a mask on kids is detrimental. literal see rates are at 27% of kids unable to read at grade level. it is quite troubling. >> bill: is this going to happen? are you still going to have masks in fairfax county when school gets underway? >> i don't -- not just fairfax. richmond city is also proposing that. you wonder what are they not getting? we have a new system now. we have a new governor and assistant governor and torn general and new house. we want to give parents control

to make the decisions for themselves. we're not going to have that if we can help it. not under our watch. i mean, here is what we really want. when all is said and done the parents just give us our money, give us our tax money so we can make the decisions where our children should go to school. that way if you want to put these idiotic policies on your children, you do that. let us make the decision for our children. these are our children, not your children. we don't want our children to ask us what did you do to help insure that i had a good education so i could have a good future? this is what this is about. we have to fight for our children and i want our parents to know that you've got us in your corner. your children first, everybody else second. >> bill: we'll see whether or not you get your way. richmond, fairfax county, etc. we'll see what happens. thank you for your time. i love your tie. have a great weekend and we'll talk soon.

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remains in a coma. the suspect is a convicted sex offender sentenced to six years in prison back in 1995 and has since been released and now faces miss demeanor charges in connection with the latest attack. >> bill: border crisis spiraling out of control by the day. cartels continue to push border agents' resources to the absolute max trying new tricks to try to get deadly drugs across our border. casey stiegel is live at the border in eagle pass, texas with more how it's going today. >> good morning. we have a group of 20 or so behind us now under the bridge here in eagle pass. but we have to talk about how the smugglers are creative when it comes to getting their precious cargo across whether it's people or drugs. it is something that an equipment used for some time by hunters and members of the military. they are now known as so-called

smuggler suits being used by the cartels to avoid detection. according to federal agents, more and more of them are wearing what's called a gilly suit. a special type of clothing to resemble the environment it's in to help in and camouflage the surroundings. one way they help smuggle large groups across without getting caught themselves. cbp source says within the last 24 hours more than 1700 migrant apprehensions in this one sector and again we're talking just a single day. >> the very beginning of the crisis when border patrol hit 800 they would freak out and say we can't take anymore. now the number is 2,000. what happens next year? 3,000? 4,000? there is no end in sight. >> this morning in eagle pass our cameras capturing some smaller groups already on the u.s. side. one was close to about 200. a second nearby was about 100

or 150 while over in del rio last night 37 migrants safely rescued out of the tractor trailer in a wal-mart parking lot while earlier in a separate incident 150 migrants discovered in the back of an 18-wheeler trying to enter the country illegally. everybody survives, a miracle really considering the sweltering summer heat. >> bill: casey stiegel, thanks. good to have you in eagle pass today. more coming up later today. >> gillian: chinese officials aren't happy the biden administration is launching formal trade talks with taiwan. taiwan right now is conducting military drills to prepare for the possibility of a future chinese invasion. chinese government spokesperson warns that beijing will use all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard sovereignty, security and development interests. joining us now is michael allen, former senior director at the national security

council under president bush. michael, thank you for being with us. yesterday the biden administration announces these formal trade talks with taiwan. china then immediately jumps in and threatens to respond to this development with military force. >> yes. i think china is getting more and more belligerent. i don't think it's empty rhetoric. i don't see an invasion quite yet but they see taiwan irverse ibly drifting away from their orbit. taiwan wants nothing to do with china especially after they saw what happened to hong kong as it was brutally reincorporated into china. i think the chinese are lashing out and trying to intimidate taiwan. >> gillian: like you said it is not only rhetoric. china is now sending troops to russia to help back up vladimir putin. they have this new sort of

dynamic alliance kicked into high gear as far as last year publicly when xi asked putin to delay invading ukraine so it wouldn't disrupt the beijing olympics and putin accommodated that insane request and now here we are. >> remember, they called it a friendship without limits. i think these two authoritarian leaders have bonded mostly over wanting to reduce the role of the united states in the world. they want to be able to dominate their respective spheres. russia is failing in europe. but as you know, china has aspirations to dominate asia, to turn the united states out of asia and to eventually displace us as one of the world's leading powers. that's very important and it ought to be something that the white house and the president are talking about frequently, which is what are the stakes of a rising china that is militarily modernizing and also an economic force to be

reckoned with? >> gillian: to that point, michael, this is looking down the road here but this caught my eye from the "wall street journal." let's put it up on screen. america's industrial basis nt ready for china. a war may arrive in this decade and the u.s. must be prepared. without a base that can make platforms and munitions america's military would be like a great football team that can play only through the first quarter. it shocked me a bit. it was my understanding that america's military industrial based is the most advanced in the world and taxpayers foot the bill with trillions of dollars every year. is that not correct? >> i still think we have the best industrial base in the world. what's happening is there is a tremendous demand, for example, for more ships for the navy. we realize the future conflicts or places we need to be the most are certainly in the

pacific ocean. we desperately need new ships. i don't know that we have enough iron works, ship building yards that can take us up to where we need to be quickly. so this is a big problem. there is a variety of studies going on in washington to figure out what to do about it. we definitely need to budget for this and get it started now so we can keep china at bay. >> gillian: well perhaps the u.s. government could throw some more dollars at the problem. we have to leave it there. thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> bill: we all know the famous play death of a salesman. in the state of new york it would break the law to say that now. governor kathy hochul signing a bill to replace everyday words in order to satisfy the demands of woke activist, there are many around here. salesman now becomes salesperson. is or her is there. updated council member and

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>> gillian: prosecutors have indicted three men in the prison beating death of whitey bulger charged with conspiracy to commit first degree mufrds. he was killed four years ago at a federal prison. he was on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list for decades before police arrested him in southern california in 2011. >> the question would be whether and how students should start to repay their learns that were paused payments on student loans across the board as part of the emergency efforts for different parts of the economy, small businesses. so there are those factors that need to be factored in. as the president has said, he is preparing to make an announcement on that. >> bill: what will he do? the deadline coming up end of august whether to forgive more

students loans. republicans say erasing debts would add to inflation. steve moore worked for donald trump, robert wolf worked for i think it was bill clinton and barack obama, right? gentlemen, welcome. president biden i think has forgiven 32 billion in student loans. i think that number is right. a gut punch to every kid who paid their way through college or worked hard to pay their loans. from the far left progressive in charge, the pause on student loan payments expires in two weeks. we must deliver immediate relief to more than 45 million americans by canceling student debt. steve moore, you are up first. the moral hazards are this are screaming at you. >> you better believe it, bill. how many people do you think will ever repay student loans if we erase all this debt? you are a sucker if you do that. i hate this idea. i don't have a problem with delaying some student loan repayments because of things like covid but come on, it is

completely unfair to the people like my wife who scifrmd and saved after she got out of college to repay her debts and went to ucla. that's the responsible thing to do. i hate it we reward people for being irresponsible. >> bill: robert. let's be responsible. >> you will be surprised, steve and i align on this. we talked about it for years, you and i. i am fully supportive of a moratorium when needed. i never supported cancellation of student loan debt in a full blown way. i always have thought it should be income based, maybe 5% of the income per year cap and no longer than 10 years. i think we can structure it where it is fair for all. but absolutely not to cancel all student debt. someone is making hundreds of thousands of dollars, i don't think they shouldn't pay back their student loans. it should be income based. >> bill: the health of the

economy. >> i think the universities are culpable here, too. one of the financial scams in america schools are starting next week across the country, colleges. these kids are now paying tuition of $70 to 80,000. outrageous that those universities have to charge less for families and tighten their belt. >> bill: gas prices have come down somewhat from the highs that were just unbelievable for a period of time there. meanwhile the question is about the health of the housing market. national association of home builders hear is the chief economist. tighter monetary policy from the federal reserve and elevated construction costs have brought on a housing recession. robert, do you see it that way? if they're right, think about all the homeowners and how much of their own personal wealth is in the home. go ahead. >> we're not in a housing recession yet.

housing sales are slowing but the median housing crisis still over $400,000, greater than a year ago. the average number of housing sales is up 5% as far as the aggregate amount. more importantly, sales are still turning over with houses in a two-week period. we are just not in a recession but yes, the housing sales are slowing because rates are 5% and not under 3%. >> generally agree with that again too, bill. accept i would say i am worried about a bit of a bubble. the fed had the basically zero ipt rates for years and years and years and it inflated the bubble of housing and you have a huge increase in the valuation of homes. for me that's a good thing. i own a home. but young people trying to buy a house right now, the prices are high and hire mortgage interest rates is making it really tough. >> the only thing i would say is the data is not showing that. we are showing that housing

prices, the median is right around $410,000 which is where it was. number two, the turnover is the same at about two weeks. we aren't seeing any sort of bubble. i would just say mortgage rates were at 3% now at 5. it is standard when credit tightens things slow down. >> bill: when we do our polling, steve, the economy is still right there with inflation at the top. last word. >> it is. 80% of americans think the economy is headed in the wrong direction. the pessimism is out there. doesn't matter what washington says. what the people are saying is this is not a strong economy. >> bill: nice to have you. well done, gentlemen. great job. have a good weekend, thank you. >> gillian: parts of the trump affidavit are seeing the light of day after the judge ordered the underlying document partially unsealed. what the new information and the surrounding controversy could mean for a potential 2024

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arizona first. mark kelly, the democrat, right now kelly leads in our polling by eight points. slightly outside the margin of error. we wanted to find out what is important to voters in arizona. how fired up are you to vote? among those who are extremely motivated to vote in arizona, masters leads by six points. what does that mean? that means in a close race enthusiasm can make a difference. on the issues now in arizona, what is the most important issue to you? they scream at us, right? border security and inflation are tied at 20%. abortion follows at 16% in the state of arizona. watch arizona. it will be a battle there in the american southwest. up in wisconsin this will be a tight one as well. mandela barns lieutenant governor under tony evers, ron johnson trying to win another term. margin of error is three points. in theory this race is tied.

on our polling we find that johnson trails by 4 points. deeper into the numbers about what folks in wisconsin are thinking. what is your level of enthusiasm? johnson supporters lead barnes by nine points. close election could make a big deal come november. the issues, this is what we find also, okay? four inflation among johnson, his supporters rank this 75% of them think inflation is concern number one. on abortion, for barnes the democrat, 85% consider that to be the most important consideration for their choice for senate. that's what we found in the polling this week. we'll check in again a month from now. wisconsin, arizona, big-time senate races, one of the many we'll follow in november. 81 days and counting. >> gillian: let's bring in the national political reporter for "the washington examiner". let's dig into some of those stats that bill laid out for us

to recap quickly here, in arizona kelly is leading, but more voters are extremely motivated to head to the ballot box for masters. likewise in wisconsin barnes is leading but johnson is tied with him among motivated voters. selena, how is this enthusiasm rating going to play out likely on voting day? >> enthusiasm is the most important thing, right? if you are unhappy with what your party is doing or what the candidate is doing, it's another form of populism. you just sit home and sit on your hands. this is what i call my favorite time of year where polling is very different from what is on the ground reports showing. somewhere in between lies the answer. i believe that the report has an impact on the senate. i would say republicans are

probably -- that has probably gone down to plus 2 or plus 1 before that happened. inflation still remains one of the most important issues to voters. i have found that every time the media and or the democrats say, you know, don't believe your lying eyes, it is not really a problem or make climate change one of the most dominant issues in the election, they lose the voters' faith. and i think if republicans stay on talking about the things that are impacting people's daily lives, people vote about their community, they vote about their family. i think that enthusiasm is more beneficial to the republicans right now than the democrats. >> gillian: so with 81 days, is that enough time not just as you laid out there for the gaps to narrow, but could republicans potentially mount a comeback in that amount of time?

>> yeah, absolutely. i would think polling numbers right about the end of september will really start to show us where this race is. it has always been the tradition that, you know, voters don't pay attention until labor day. i always argue look at the end of september. that's when you really start to understand even in 2020 that biden was probably going to squeak it out but there also wasn't going to be a huge blue wave. it ended up being down ballot a bit of a red wave. >> gillian: selena, also the question with 81 days left, the biden administration has now passed the inflation reduction act that economists say there is no possibility any of the benefits for lower and middle income americans will be felt prior to election day. how does that factor in? >> i'm so glad you brought that up. that actually has had an impact

with voters. they are very unhappy with that. they don't believe that climate change is the most important thing. one of the things that has really bothered them with this democratic control is overreach. this just sort of doubles down on overreach and voters think about that when they go to the polls. i got back from driving across the country. i'm not convinced the democrats will hold onto the senate in the way that we are seeing reflected in the polls at this moment. it takes a while for polling to catch up with voters' sentiment on the ground. >> gillian: selena, have to leave it there. thank you so much. >> thanks so much for having me. >> bill: new hour begins now. thank you. soft on crime outrage in new york city yet again. a dangerous level three sex offender arrested on a charge of attempted murder in a violent, unprovoked attacked

released without bail within hours. while his victim fights for his life hospitalized in a coma. brand-new hour begins now on a friday morning. hello and welcome. i'm bill hemmer. dana has the day off today and gillian nice to see you. good morning. >> gillian: i can't believe an hour went by already. thank you. great to be with you. i'm gillian turner. that brutal public attack of a 52-year-old new york man is unconscious with a fractured skull, broken cheekbone. suspect this hour is back on the street. the judge let him walk free after prosecutors downgraded the murder charge to assault and harassment. the "new york post" is calling that a travesty. new yorkers say it is just the latest insanity. they say violent crime is now a feature of city life. >> bill: david lee miller more from the newsroom in manhattan today. good morning to you. >> the release of a convicted sex offender caught on camera with attacking and critically

injuring a man in the bronx to be set free hours later has outraged many new yorkers. a week ago today this man walked out of a restaurant and put on what appears to be a pair of work gloves and punches a man in the head. cortez was at the same restaurant and collapsed unconscious. the man was on parole after serving six years for sex abuse. he told his parole officer i'm in trouble and i hit someone and he is in the hospital. i don't know if he is dead. the police are looking for me. i was at the restaurant and i know the police are looking for me. following the release from the daily mail he was combative with a photographer outside the courthouse after being charged with attempted murder the charges were downgraded to third degree assault and second degree harassment, both misdemeanors with under the state's new bail system aren't bail eligible. >> certain crimes such as the one this individual was charged

with do not allow the judge to set bail. they are not considered bail setting offenses and until the bail reform law itself is reformed or changed, these people will be allowed to be set free without bail being set. >> the victim of the attack is hospitalized after brain surgeries after fractures to his skull and cheek. growing calls from republicans and some democrats to change the state's controversial bail reform laws. a local newspaper headline does the city feel sucker punched by the judicial system? >> bill: more on the effects of far left criminal justice reforms. former d.c. homicide detective ted williams joins us. thank you, david lee. back to gillian now. >> gillian: the southern border crisis is working its way north. two more bus loads of undocumented migrants who crossed into the u.s. arriving if new york city this morning.

this comes amid intense political conflict between washington and border states over the influx asylum seekers in liberal-led cities. lauren green joins us live from new york. >> good morning. with this latest arrival of migrants, the lone star state's governor is forcing new york city's mayor to live up to its sanctuary city claims taking a small sliver of what is flowing across the southern border. two buses arrived at the port authority terminal looking similar to commuter buses from the metro areas. these buses carried nearly 100 migrants. some seeking asylum. >> we welcomed two more buses that arrived from the state of texas with 78 people on board, 14 children, and again as in

previous times, people arrive hungry, thirsty, some with medical conditions. >> about 6,000 migrants have arrived in new york city since may according to new york city mayor eric adams. as texas governor abbott brings the crisis to the dorstep of democratic politicians. there is an already strained housing situation with 50,000 homeless people in city shelters every night already. adams administration and new york city advocates accusing governor abbott of using people as political pawns. >> these are families, these are people who are simply looking for help. what governor abbott and people like him who think like him are doing, they are doing their best to dehumanize people. >> later this morning the department of education

chancellor is expected to announcement related to supporting asylum seekers. gillian. >> bill: joining us now in new york jessica tarlov and co-host of the five. eric adams during his campaign sent out this tweet with regard to immigration. we should protect our immigrants, period. yes, new york city will remain a sanctuary city under an adams administration. this week he has called governor abbott anti-american governor that is going against everything we stand for and i will do everything feasible to make sure the people of texas realize how harmful he is to us globally. i don't know how you marry the two. he asked if he spoke to governor abbott and said no. i'm thinking you are the leader. at a minimum pick up the telephone. >> the person he should be speaking to is not necessarily just governor abbott. it is president joe biden and

the department of homeland security when it comes to this problem being the policies of the federal government implemented and refusing to secure the border and accepting anybody who claims asylum to come into the country rather than having a higher standard and calling on congress to change the law for the ability for people to claim they're fearful in their home country. cities like new york city and baltimore and washington, d.c. are seeing, this is just the beginning. little towns across the country, border towns have been dealing with this problem and states dealing with this problem for a long time. much worse over the past two years given the numbers are completely out of control and we have 4 million people think about that. entire cities coming across the border. >> bill: you mentioned washington, d.c. and new york city since mid april, 6800 migrants on 150 buses in washington the mayor wants the national guard to step in. hasn't happened yet.

new york city first bus was in the month of august earlier, six buses, jessica. >> i think it's important that cities that have made clear we're sanctuary cities stick by the policy and find a way to deal with it. katie is right. joe biden should solve this problem. it is part of the problems the democratic administration supports and put your money where your mouth s. we have space to accommodate them not in the shelter system. the shelter system became overrun with the first bus let alone when we get to six buses, 10 buses and it will continue because governor abbott will keep doing this. arizona is also sending migrants at this point. i think we should make the federal dollars available to be able to accommodate while still being smart about protecting our border. democrats like mark kelly who had a new ad out last week talking about how he was working on closing the border there. smart democrats in border states are doing that. there is a way to be balanced about this. >> the issue is not just

housing these people temporary. where do the people send the children to go to school? where do they work? what's the long-term plan for them. the court system is backed up for 10 years for the asylum claims. the biden administration has done nothing when it's done enforcement. taken it away from border protection and ice to take out people who lied and commit crimes in the country. long term we have to think about what's the healthcare system going to look like, the school system? all these issues come down to what the management of resources is. that's a fact. not just a temporary issue of sending them away from homeless shelters and finding a temporary place for them to live. when we talk about bigger issues, why is rent so high and more difficult to find housing? when you infuse millions of people in a country in a few years it becomes a resource

problem and impact on everyday americans and the poorest americans in this country. >> bill: i want to ask you about the affidavit here. we had a city official here in new york early in the week say these people were miserable, starving, they hadn't slept in forever. just watching them get off the bus this morning, everyone smiling and shaking hands. they were delighted to be in new york city. point number one, point number two, i don't understand what is happening in arizona, your home state. border issue is right there with inflation. if it was that much of a concern for arizona it would rank much higher. i don't know why it measures that way. wisconsin, it's way down the list. only 7% consider it to be the important issue for people in wisconsin. quick comment on that. >> arizona it is an issue and why governor doug ducey is building a border wall with shipping containers and something they've dealt with in a different way for years.

might not rank at the top issues but they deal with it on an everyday basis. >> i want to add to that. inflation was eating up all the room we had in terms of the top concern. now that things are getting better when it comes to the prices of things and gas prices coming down you see other issues rise up. some states it's border security. you see abortion becoming even more important issue, the number two issue in pennsylvania. you will see other issues rising to the top. >> bill: 81 days and counting. how much will we see that's on the affidavits and how much will we learn? >> listening to the judge you will see as much as you can that doesn't compromise people's security. it was the concern the d.o.j. had about this. informants or f.b.i. agents who took part in the search of mar-a-lago would be compromised. there have been excessive threats against law enforcement since this happened. we saw what happened in cincinnati field office. we know what people have been threatening online and elsewhere. so --

>> bill: you can keep the identities -- >> i hope they give as much as they can while keeping everyone safe. >> i'm not so confident the f.b.i. will submit legitimate redactions considering they've redacted like furniture purchases that were embarrassing to the institution. we'll have to see how much they redact. for the sake of the country they should redact as little as possible. a lot of questions about political motives given it came from the washington, d.c. field office there are still people working in that office according to real clear politics on this particular case in this raid part of crossfire hurricane and another investigation by john durham. big questions who is involved here. >> bill: thank you for being here. on "the five" later? >> yes, we are. >> bill: seven hours to chill. >> gillian: we'll be watching that. also this.

a new report out of pentagon watchdog is revealing the taliban seized over $7 billion in u.s. military equipment last year. that total includes 920 million dollars worth of lost military aircraft, 511 million dollars small arms including things like rifles and machine guns. humvees and other vehicles fell into taliban hands when the u.s. pulled out of afghanistan last august. >> bill: 15 past the hour. long awaited justice for james foley. sentencing hearing is now underway for the terrorist who murdered him in syria eight years ago. how his family is now reacting. >> gillian: meanwhile this. fentanyl pills designed to look like candy are flooding into the u.s. officials fear it is all part of a new trend in drug trafficking targeting kids. >> bill: heads-up for parents on that. restaurants in democrat-run cities having trouble bouncing back from the pandemic while

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>> gillian: we flagged this earlier in the week. it is looking like a trend. border agents found rainbow colored fentanyl pills, over 15,000 of them, strapped to a person's leg at the port of know -- in arizona. they look like candy. it is designed to attract kids. >> bill: 20 past the hour. breaking news. sentencing hearing underway for the isis terrorist convicted in the murder of american journalist james foley. he is the last of the infamous isis beatles to face justice. jennifer griffin with more. >> today marks exactly eight years since american journalist james foley was brutally murdered in syria. today in virginia just a few miles from where i sit at the pentagon the last of the so-called sadistic captors

known as the isis beatles is about to hear his sentence. he was present in the courtroom today to hear his fate. james foley's mother, diane, will be joined by victim mueller's family and speak after the sentencing. we will talk to her directly when she comes out of the courtroom. this trial marks the end of a long journey for the victims' families. this is the highest profile highsis fighter to stand trial in the u.s. expedited from britain and likely receive a life sentence after being found guilty for the kidnapping and murder of foley kidnapped in 2014 and videotaped while being beheaded by his captors while kneeling and wearing and orange jumpsuit and also found guilty at his trial in april for the involvement in the kidnapping. torture of others, they were

taken hostage and handed to isis. their bodies never found. the hostages dubbed them the beatles because of their accent. they traveled to syria from london and used the hostage taking and executions to taunt the west as the islamic state attracted foreign jihadists from around the world. they were all captured or killed. barr negotiated for them to the brought to the u.s. for trial by promising the u.s. wouldn't implement the death penalty in exchange for crucial evidence from the british government. >> bill: what a journey for this family and what a story today. thank you. updates. >> gillian: new data shows restaurants in deep blue cities are struggling to bounce back from the pandemic while a lot of restaurants in red cities

are thriving. greg irvin is the owner of wild greg's saloon with locations in minnesota, texas and florida. greg, you really say that the state of play in the restaurant industry is feast or family and comes down to location, location. tell me about your spots. >> well, it is all about location right now. florida never really closed. it is off the charts booming right now. texas is doing well but minneapolis and from what i hear the other democrat cities are not doing well. we are certainly seeing that in minneapolis right now. >> gillian: you've told us the places where the covid mandates and lockdowns were the harshest are where restaurants are now hurting the most. the data bears you out. look at this. these are the locations, the cities where the industry is hurting the most. minneapolis, san francisco, you got the percentages there. portland, seattle, philly, new york, st. louis, washington,

d.c., baltimore and chicago. this mirrors what you just told us. >> that's absolutely true. you went through 15 months of lockdowns and mandates. one day we were locked down. the next day masks were required. the next day vaccines were required. at the end of the day people found it easier the stay home. a lot of them unfortunately still are staying home in the democrat cities like minneapolis. so it is really unfortunate and certainly there is a back drop of the crime. people have to deal with the crime and this sort to go downtown minneapolis right now. a lot of people are either staying in the suburbs or just staying home unfortunately and we don't see that in austin, texas or florida. people in the red states are going out and having fun and spending money. >> gillian: here are the cities booming right now.

look at this. las vegas is topping the list up 35.7%. fort lauderdale, miami, austin, naples, tampa, san antonio, scottsdale, phoenix. what is the biden administration doing to try to help restaurants? are they doing anything to help the cities that haven't caught up yet? >> no, nothing at all. everybody is pretty much on their own right now. we have biden-inflation that's through the roof. our costs continue to go up and we're having trouble getting people to come out to start with. it certainly affects us being able to raise our prices to cover those costs in cities like minneapolis. so the bars and restaurants right now are on their own and that's why you take a walk through minneapolis, you see a lot of places that are closed. i don't see that changing any

time soon. we're hoping the elections this fall help. and that's probably our best shot. >> gillian: there was a $27 billion restaurant revitalization fund but after effects look at that showed that most of the money there, about 78%, ended up going to big chains, big names that already had a lot of financial security leaving the small-owned businesses to crumble. greg, we wish you the best with all of your locations. we have to leave it there. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> bill: the suspect in the brutal and unprovoked at tack in the bronx freed without bail. he has a rap sheet a mile long. how is this possible? how long before he strikes again? plus it is sun, surf and sharks. beach goers along the beach coast up against a new normal this summer.

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need money for your family? call newday usa right now and use the va home loan benefit you've earned and deserve. >> bill: outrage growing. people dumbfounded as to why this keeps on happening. the convicted sex offender accused of sucker punching a man in the bronx leaving him in critical condition released from jail without bail. the progressive d.a. downgraded the charges from attempted murder to assault. ted williams, fox new contributor, former d.c. homicide detective. good morning. you were fired up on this yesterday. i don't see it stopping. i don't see an end to this right now as long as these people are in power. >> bill, i would like to tell you that i was just fired up yesterday. i am still fired up.

america has watched a man standing on a sidewalk, a man, a thug, putting on the glove, sucker punching this guy. the guy has brain injuries. the assailant is arrested for attempted murder. a d.a., a bronx d.a., reduced the charges to a misdemeanor so this guy, this thug, could walk free. when you look at that video alone, i mean, it should send chills through you. the question is, what in the hell is going on in america when we allow these kind of thugs to walk the streets of america and get away with this kind of a scenario and situation? >> bill: here is the assaults in new york city through august 7th on screen. we're at 15,640. that's an increase of 19% over

last year, 28% over 2020 and whopping 50% of where we were a dozen years ago, ted. >> i can tell you the citizens of new york and other major metropolitan cities, specifically when you look at an incident like you look at here in new york, they cannot feel safe in their streets. they have to do something about it. they've got to exercise and get rid of politicians if they can't reform the bail laws there to make the citizens safe. i'm sick and tired of the criminals winning. ladies and gentlemen, this is what is happening. the criminals are winning. >> bill: you have to get the governor to change it and right now it's not happening. another story. it helps us understand what this bail reform is all about. for a lot of us at fox we understood it last christmas when this crazy guy climbed our

christmas tree and burned it down and the next day, as we were rebuilding the tree, he was sitting across the street on the sidewalk watching us rebuild the tree. he was in jail for a couple of hours, ted. i think it's really when people started to understand this is how it works, okay? last night around 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 in the evening outside my apartment building in manhattan. check out the picture for who is sitting there. the same guy two miles south from where we're located in mid town manhattan. this is the pattern and it keeps on churning. >> it keeps on churning. think about it. this guy was let out after he tried to burn that christmas tree down. he was let out the next day and here again if you fast forward to what you observed, it must be very chilling for you to know that you are a fox

employee and that this guy is right outside your door. >> bill: on that point i don't care. he is nuts, all right? i'm cool with that. my point is that they continue to live among us when they've done things that are not right. that's the point. >> well, it's an excellent point. not only does he continue to live among us, bill, but what we're really seeing here is that the officials, the politicians who should be looking out for the citizens, are not looking out for them. and we have guys like this that are out there on the street. we've got guys who sucker punch people. we've got shooters shooting if broad daylight. we had a taxi cab driver there in new york who was killed recently just trying to make a living there. this is not the way we should live in our society. we should be able to walk down

the streets free and without feeling that we will be attacked. unfortunately, that's happening. and when you look at that video again and you look at what happened to this man that had to have brain surgery and now you find that this guy gets out of jail, what the hell is going on in america? we can't let this continue. >> bill: hopefully we'll get some change. we'll see, though. for the moment you can't be hopeful over this crew. thanks for your time. enjoy the weekend. talk to you next week. >> gillian: a lot of hope but no chance there, bill. northeast lifeguards working double time as the summer of the shark continues with more reports and sightings and attacks. new york's rockaway beach has seen its fair share of fins. there was a shark sighting that shut it down yesterday. katie burns joins us from rockaway beach. >> there have been a lot more

shark sightings if new york this year causing more beach closures. the latest one happening here yesterday. lifeguards had to pull swimmers out of the water for two hours after spotting a shock. people are wondering why sharks are coming closer to the shore. marine experts say it could be because of water conservation efforts leading the thriving fish populations. more fish and more food for the sharks. two shark attacks happened, six attacks total this year. the sand tiger sharks. she is used to sharing the water with them one swimmer says. >> you have to be careful. they are out during the dawn and the evening. i was actually out and there was -- i think it was a thrasher. my friend diane was on her board. we all moved in and went back

out and it was cool. a lot of these sharks are younger, maybe aren't as experienced, i don't know. but i'm not nervous or afraid of them. i think it's fine. >> there have been 34 shark attacks so far in the u.s. this year in 2022. most happened in florida and trailing right behind florida is new york, south carolina, california and hawaii. most recently two people were attacked by sharks in south carolina this week within hours of each other at myrtle beach. >> gillian: katie in rockaway for us. sticking with sharks now. look at the video that's gone viral online. >> oh my god! >> i know. >> gillian: people saying a hammer head. frantic swimmers were sent running for their lives.

thankfully in this instance nobody was hurt. >> bill: i think it's exactly the right video to see before a weekend. >> gillian: going to the beach it's also awesome to take a walk and dip your toes in. that's my hot take. >> bill: in a moment here a christian college that wants to keep men out of the women's doors losing a key court battle over gender identity. what they plan to do next on that. an elected city official caught on camera in a hit and run refusing to resign. his story coming up. liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. contestants ready? go! only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.

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>> gillian: a new jersey council woman accused in a hit and run caught on tape is still refusing to resign. she faced critics at a city council meeting wednesday and acknowledgeded having some remorse for the incident but insisted she is not going anywhere. >> for those who call for my resignation you are heard. this has only made me stronger and i will fight. when the legal process in traffic court is finished i will have more to say and i can address outstanding concerns and questions. in the meantime i am not resigning. >> gillian: the biker who she

hit is considering launching a lawsuit. >> bill: from overseas russian forces targeting civilian areas in eastern ukraine. shelling two universities. a 53-year-old woman was killed by a bomb blast there. we're back in kyiv. >> fire breaking out an russian soil. this time in the northeastern part of ukraine. two villages are being evacuated after the fire broke through tearing apart a munitions depot. it comes just after reports of an explosion last night in russian-held crimea and two other explosions took place on the peninsula in the last week or so. tensions escalating today as both ukraine and russia accuse each other of planning provocations outside of the largest nuclear power plant. yesterday u.n. secretary general called the attacks on

the facility suicide. the kremlin says the idea is unacceptable arguing that pulling back forces will make the site even more vulnerable. ukraine's state nuclear claims russia plans to turn off the power plant to disconnect them from the power grid. russian officials say they might shut down the facility if continued shellings persist. meanwhile russian shellings today killing one person in the northern city of kharkiv and in the east five people were killed and 10 were wounded by shelling. yesterday was a first day in recent weeks that we saw that russian troops made no territorial gains. this is a slight victory for ukrainian troops but again a very slight one because again in the last six weeks it was

the first time russian forces have not made a dent. >> bill: good to have you back on the ground, alex hogan. >> gillian: christian college is losing court battle to keep men out of women's dorms. u.s. appeals court looulg against the college of the ozarks upholding a directive by the biden administrations that colleges have to provide student housing with gender identity. those who identify as female must be allowed to use other spaces in women's dorms. thank you for being with us. housing and urban development issued this memo in february 202 prohibits discrimination of sexual orientation under the fair housing act. the biden administration is saying this straight up is

meant to protect lgbtq students who have been historically discriminated against. >> the federal government has no place telling christian universities that they can't have college dormitories unless they violate they violate their religious beliefs. this is about telling religious schools they can't operate based on their religious principles and that's just wrong. >> gillian: to that point, dr. johnson. look at this question from forbes. they say why doesn't the college of the ozarks go truly private like hillsdale college so the federal government has no control over it? >> gillian, that's a fair question but this case is really not about federal funding. it is more about the residence halls and not just the private colleges and universities that would be at risk here.

it is all colleges across the nation. the federal government telling them how we would have to operate our residence halls. >> gillian: essentially what you are saying it's a question of a broader question of who do you want deciding how these private colleges and universities conduct themselves? do you want the schools to be able to have the right of self-determination or should it be up to washington, is that right? >> absolutely. >> it is not about federal funding. the fair housing act replies regardless of whether you take a dime of federal funding. even if college of the ozarks took the hillsdale rate this would still apply. >> gillian: what do you say to the school's critics who contend it's anti-gay and anti-lgbtq. what do you say? >> i think our college

constituents, our students and parents appreciate the values that we hold as a college and we are committed to that moving forward. we have been committed to that since 1906. and we will continue to stand for those christians values that we believe in. i really believe that the ruling on the executive order is discriminatory against christians and christian values that we hold dear. >> gillian: dr. johnson, we thank you for taking time and ryan, for taking time to come on and talk with us about this. we wish you all the best going forward. >> thank you, gillian. we appreciate you talking to us. >> bill: is the wrong man behind bars for a brutal killing? steven avery is serving a life sentence in the making of a murderer case. his attorney is now calling for a new trial. >> once someone is convicted we have to move fast to get out of prison.

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>> gillian: the f.b.i. is now weighing hate crime charges against the assailant who attacked rushdie. he was stabbed multiple times when he took the stage last week. he is now still in critical condition. the suspect pleaded not guilty after being indicted on charges of second degree attempted murder. >> i have one goal and that's overturn the conviction of steven avery. if he is guilty i'll fail. >> bill: they claim new evidence occurred in the netflix documentary that's called making a murderer case. chief now calling for a new trial in order to get the real person responsible. garrett tenney is live in chicago on this story. what do we know? >> good morning.

this is the third time steven avery is requesting a new trial. this time around his attorneys are arguing that new evidence could raise reasonable doubt as to his guilt and they are placing the blame on one of his nephews. in a 100-page filing this week the defense says it discovered a recording of a witness's phone call to the local sheriff's office that was never turned over to avery's attorneys during his trial in 2007 for the murder of a woman made famous by the netflix show making a murderer. there is a delivery driver claims he saw avery's nephew and another man pushing the woman's car to salvage yard where law enforcement found it with blood samples. avery's argue that the nephew framed his uncle and the new evidence knee gates testimony

at the trial that the woman's car never left the property and that avery was the last person to see her alive. the nephew testified against avery at trial and they have tried to link him to the murder. even avery is facing a life sentence for the woman's murder. >> bill: watch that. garrett tenney in chicago. >> gillian: new developments from the fatal shooting on the set of alec baldwin's movie rush. the armorer is criticizing the santa fay sheriffs office over their investigation asking how live rounds ended up in the prop gun of the set and refusing the authorities to test the gun. the gun bald win was holding discharged during a rehearsal and killed the cinematographer.

>> bill: it's a friday and thought we would do this before we go. out of tokyo, japanese government. they say fewer people are drinking and costing them tax revenue. the government is soliciting ideas to make drinking more attractive. they have a campaign called -- >> gillian: i vote for a kwik trip to japan. >> thank you for being here. out of time. see you next week. trace is in for harris today on "the faulkner focus". have a great weekend. >> fox news alert now. a judge moving to unseal at least part of the affidavit on the f.b.i. raid on former president trump's florida estate. big questions now over how much the public will get to see and if some of the information is really transparency. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm trace gallagher in for harris. the key word is some of the documents connected to th