and, again, she was very helpful in trying to get this done because these were all proprietary recollections. >> steve: thank you very much for joining us. the book, "breaking history: a white house memoir," available wherever you buy macbooks. thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. great to be with you guys. >> steve: solon. >> dana: we're waiting a court hearing for paul pelosi, the speaker's husband expected to learn if he will face trial for misdemeanor dui. >> bill: police arresting three men as part of a home invasion ring among two dozen suspected gang members indicted in a spring of robberies targeting celebrity homes in atlanta. first, though, huge day in politics. tuesday holding primaries to

give us a picture of what we might have come november. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." there is a lot to talk about. >> bill: every tuesday this summer we've been doing this. >> dana: you have an update for everyone. the races in florida and new york are drawing intrigue. drama is new york 12th district to force nadler and maloney into a fight for their political lives and trying to unseat them is patel. >> there is a special election for an open seat in congress in upstate new york. it could be a bellwether for november. the democrat campaigning hard on abortion rights. >> dana: in florida we're waiting to see who will emerge as the democratic challenger to governor ron desantis. charlie crist and nicki freed

are vying for that nomination. the republican governor sounding confident this morning. >> we have people that want to visit, have moved here. lower unemployment rate now than prior to covid. you continue to see us adding jobs in spite of all the head winds from the biden economy and ended the fiscal year with a $22 billion surplus. by far a record. none of that would have happened if i had done what the people on the democrat side wanted to do. >> dana: we have team fox coverage. bryan llenas has more on the race for the open seat in new york. kellyanne conway and marc thiessen standing by with analysis. >> bill: this is where we live mid town manhattan and trying to find out whether or not the democrats will eat their own or not. let's start this thing and i'll show you what we find. this is realtime. realtime tv. where is it? it dropped out. stand by. we can do this.

we can save it. give me one more shot. let me try and bring it up here. it is not there. so in new york they did a redistricting of the maps and carlin maloney and jerry nadler have been in congress for more than 30 years. they have been running in districts right along each other. seldom even challenge in the districts. because they've redrawn the lines they're competing against each other. north of there there is an open seat where republicans facing off a democrat. a swingy district, too. joe biden won the district by a point half but donald trump won it by 1.7 points. it means it's a toss-up and could go either way and might tell us something something how voters are feeling out there. we'll restart the engine and get to bryan llenas first off today.

>> will the issue of abortion galvanize people to the polls to stem the tide of a red wave come november? the veteran and democratic candidate pat ryan is betting on it in new york's 19th district. he based his campaign on abortion vowing to protect and codify abortion rights. his opponent, a county executive have made the race a referendum on president biden. inflation and crime. >> to see that millions have had for 50 years ripped away has really been concerning and something that we have to stand up. i feel is important that we're very clear on. single party rule in washington democrats in control of every lever of government has resulted in the highest inflation in 40 years. corrupted government and abuses at every level. >> the race for new york's 19th

district is a special election to fill the house seat vacated by delgato. democrats are trying to hold this seat. the district voted for trump in 2016 and swung to president biden narrowly in 2020. turnout is expected to be low after messy redistricting led to a later than normal primary day. >> people build this into their lives. you change the date to the third tuesday in august when no one votes at all ever and you say please show up. it's like telling you to put on pink costumes every day when you wear blue. it's ridiculous. >> the winner of 19 will only be in office until november. both ryan and monthly narrow will run again. >> bill: need a flow chart. we'll get one. thanks. >> dana: want to bring in

former trump advisor kelly an conway and mark penn. as we get to the fire for the mid-terms you see democrats figuring out maybe not in my best interest to voting alongside or seen alongside president biden. look at the ads from some democrats. >> i was the only democrat to vote against trillions of dollars of president biden's agenda. >> it's washington's fault. they spiked inflation. >> i stood up to my own party and stopped insider trading. >> what do you make of that, mark, as democrats have to figure out a way to survive this year? >> well, i think so far democrats have been pretty successful at keeping president joe biden out of the house races. and i think that everybody knows that biden has about a 40% approval rating so if you are in a swing district you can't campaign with joebld.

we're seeing there are a lot of voters who have voted democratic last time who don't like joe biden, sticking with the democrats because they don't like trump or the republicans even more. that's what is making this a close congressional race so far. >> bill: in florida, val deming, wants the senate seek marco rubio has and we believe she will succeed today and a closely watched race come november. this is what she said. this is my race and this race is between marco rubio and me. i can control what i'm doing, i can't control the president's approval ratings. those ratings are -- they are bleak. nbc just on sunday 74% of those say we're headed in the wrong direction. as they say, kelly ann, those are head winds. >> she can control the way she

votes and voted 100% of the time with joe biden. so she is closely super glued to biden and the terrible policies and awful spending. demings could have been a great superstar going against the green of defund the police and the kamala harris fund helping hardened criminal. she is having a difficult time using her what was an impressive background as orlando police chief and otherwise a law and order biography because she is stuck in this stew of a party that has a double digit deficit when it comes to who do you trust more on handling crime? let's face it, fast forward from the 2000 election bush versus gore came down to several hundred votes in several counties in florida. florida is a much redder state now. donald trump won it twice. ron desantis is probably the

most popular republican governor in the you country and marco rubio won his seat last time by 7.7 pers percent. he has strength going in. i'm amazed you have demings in florida and new york districting distancing themselves from joe biden. it is something 70s -- you can't win an entire mid-term cycle on one issue, abortion, when you have good candidates who the guy in new york 19, the democratic candidate a west point grad, a war hero and small business owner running as a democrat on abortion, it makes no sense. >> dana: let me ask you about that race. this is call for number 6. new york 19, this is actually a special election. this is not just for a primary. this is to figure out a way to get to washington your take on that race. >> well, it's a little bit of an oddball race in the fact

that why will i turn out an vote in a race for someone who will serve for a couple of months during a effectively a lame duck congress? i think if the republicans take it tomorrow, it will really be a good prognosticator for republicans to get their voters out, flip a district that went for biden last time even in a low turnout new york race. if democrats take it by four or five points i don't think it means all that much. i think as a demonstration race republicans have more to gain than not out of this kind of very silly race here for a couple of months. >> bill: a republican anyone's guest august 23 is a tough day to get people to think about anything other than school starting. true for a lot of parents. thank you both. see you next week. >> dana: legal motion now underway as the fallout from the f.b.i. search of mar-a-lago continue. president trump and his legal

team demanded the federal judge -- the decision to search trump's florida home three months before the november mid-term elections was politically motivated, an attempt to diminish his influence in the republican party. so that is filed and now the judge will and we'll hear from the justice department. >> bill: a push to get a special master to come in and decide this. it sounds reasonable. i was watching prime time last night. jesse had an attorney for the former president now. >> we mean impartial. not republican or democrat, impartial special master to go in there, take a look at what they seized. give back to the former president what is rightfully his. things that are clearly declassified. the problem is, we have this incredibly broad warrant that should never have been in place in the first place.

>> bill: we'll see how the argument plays out. back in court on thursday. you and i have a wager whether or not we get this before or after labor day, right? >> dana: yes, the affidavit. >> bill: we took the over/under. >> dana: i learned how to do over/under. >> bill: that means prior to labor day. i took the over. i think it will go on throughout the entire fall season. we'll see. >> dana: i guess i live in hope. >> bill: meanwhile dr. fauci calling it quits at the end of this year. republicans say they plan to keep him, however, very busy. >> dana: plus a tragic turn in the search for missing 16-year-old kiely rodni, what investigators say about the body found in a lake near where she disappeared. >> bill: d.c.'s mayors runs a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants. she has made that very clear. she sent a second s.o.s. to the pentagon for help with the migrants bused in from texas. >> careful what you wished for.

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>> dana: he became the face of the coronavirus pandemic. dr. fauci will step down in december. if republicans regain control of congress in the mid-terms his retirement could be anything but relaxing. griff jenkins live at the white house and has more for us. >> good morning, dana. he may be stepping down but not likely to ride off into the sunset if republicans have their way. dr. fauci making it clear in his december departure he intends to pursue the quote next phase of his career after nearly 50 years of service.

president biden thanking him in a statement saying this. i extend my deepest thanks for his public service. the united states of america is stronger, more resilient and healthier because of him. fauci spent 38 years as the head of the national institute for allergy and infectious diseases and credits science for his work. he lost the confident of many americans with covid with statements like this. >> i'm the bad guy to an entire subset of people because i represent something that is uncomfortable for them. it is called the truth. >> his republican critics are lining up promising congressional hearings if they take back control. >> he hasn't ever testified in front of the house since covid started. so there are so many questions that members have. we've already told dr. fauci to preserve all of his documents and all of his emails. >> unless dr. fauci decides to seek asylum in some foreign

country whose powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat and therefore which won't enforce a subpoena from the united states congress, then dr. fauci, retirement or not, is going to be spending a lot of time in front of a congressional hearing. >> it appears the origins of the virus and masking mandates are top of the list. >> dana: the wall street had this headline. his long service is laudable but covid legacy includes more public mistrust. the cdc says they'll do a big overhaul as they think about what they didn't do right. >> bill: unless he hits the powerball. 20 past now. defense department rejecting a request from the washington, d.c. mayor, second request for national guard help with all the migrants arriving in the district. texas governor greg abbott has

bused thousands of them from the border to washington, d.c. several hundred to new york city. want to bring in texas republican tony gonzalez whose district stretches from the border to san antonio. good morning and thank you for your time. you guys have been dealing with the this for a couple of years now. what is your advice to washington, d.c. do you think? >> thank you for having me. any city that gets sucked up into this border crisis immediately needs help. i was in a town 80 miles from the border yesterday and border patrol agents are getting pulled out of the field and pulled into a processing center. san antonio, another sanctuary and here is migrant center. this migrant center is run by the local san antonio firefighters. a mayor is taking away resources from our law abiding citizens to help with this crisis. this is an american last agenda. i'm sick and tired of it. call the mayor's office in san

antonio and let him know it is unacceptable to have firefighters in the migrant center. imagine if something happens and you are a law abiding citizen and can't get hem. today it's san antonio. tomorrow another city. >> bill: as a reminder this was the statement she put out in washington, d.c. about a week after donald trump won in 2016. the values laws and policies of washington, d.c. did not change on election day. we celebrate diversity and respect all d.c. residents. we are a sanctuary city because we know that our neighborhoods are safer and stronger when no one is afraid to call on our government for help, end quote. how does that look now? >> looks upside down. those are words. this is what we've seen from the administration. from the democrats. they say nice fancy words but their actions show something completely different. immediately when these buses started going, which is a fraction of what we're dealing

with here in texas, they have immediately surrendered the white flag and asking for help. what's comical in this is biden isn't giving them help and they are starting to realize he is not only abandoned republicans but democrats as well. he is nowhere to be found. the only way this goes away is to enact the laws that are already on the books and you people that do not qualify for asylum need to be flown back to their country of origin. it starts with the biden administration enforcing the laws. >> bill: washington, d.c. now, and new york second. they won't stop coming is a clear message from arizona and texas governors. 700 adult migrants who posed as children since october. what's that story about? >> it's dangerous. this has been ongoing. the number is increasing. we saw last month that there were 10 members or 10 illegal aliens on the terrorist watch list and these folks that are posing as minors are not 19 or

20. sometimes they're 30, 35 years old. our system is completely overrun and completely broken. what it is going to do it's the creating a situation where another terrorist action can occur and over 95% of migrants don't qualify for asylum. we need to enforce our laws before something terrible happens. this administration is encouraging illegal immigration instead of encouraging legal immigration. we have vacancies in every work industry but this administration turns a blind eye to that. >> bill: mayorkas is in your district soon going to meet with fire chiefs not to talk about immigration. we'll see if something changes. representative gonzalez down in texas 23. thanks. >> thank you, bill. >> dana: new outrage over another transgender athlete competing against biological women this time on the links. a poll shows lots of college students would decide their dorm roommate by political party if they could. clay travis on all that next.

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>> bill: 9:30 in new york. an oklahoma sheriff's deputy shot and killed, another injured while serving an eviction notice in southwest oklahoma city. police say the suspect took off on monday after the shooting and led officers on a high speed chase before they caught him. the sheriff breaking down in tears. >> just praying for them and their family. law enforcement is a tight community and i'm so thankful, we're screaming across the state for my guy. >> bill: the human toll. god bless him and this man's

family. the fallen officer sergeant bobby schwartz joined the force in 1997 saying that he liked helping people. >> dana: that's why they do it. the grand jury in georgia handing down indictments against 24 alleged gunman targeting atlanta area celebrities. charles watson is live in atlanta for us. hi, charles. >> good morning, dana. the grand jury delivered a 220 count indictment against 24 alleged gang members accused of targeting the rich and famous in sandy springs, georgia, a wealthy neighborhood north of atlanta. these guys are charged with everything from burglary to home invasion to gang activity and police say this man, 24-year-old caldwell is the master mine. he and two others were arrested in miami over the weekend in connection to 16 home invasions targeting the properties of athletes, atlanta falcons and

atlanta united players as well as reportedly singers like mariah carey and a rapper. the gang had used social media to target their victims and their valuables and had no problem using violence to get what they wanted. >> when they saw people away on vacation or wherever they might be posting things on a wide open social media account, they unknowingly became targets at this time for the gang to go and invade their homes. they are armed and not afraid to use force or violence against our residents. that's what made it so imperative on our behalf to get them in custody. >> police say these arrests are a combination of good police work and pure luck and they point to this july kam video sandy springs police officers arresting some of these gang members in the act during what police say was an attempted

break-in at the home of a woman related to a rap superstar future. most of these celebrities and high profile figures aren't home at the time of the home invasions but point to one instance on fourth of july where these gang members allegedly shot a person as they were attempting a home invasion. police say they have arrested at least 20 of these gang members. looking for four more on urging them to turn themselves in to make it easier on them. >> dana: charles watson in atlanta for us. thank you. >> bill: transgender golfer haley davidson wants to be the first trans player to hold a ladies golf association tour card. she started transitioning seven years ago. fell short in the first stage of the lpga's qualify school yesterday. with us now outkick founder clay travis and fox news contributor. good morning to you. set this up a little bit here so -- apparently you have to score four rounds under 88.

so far in qualifying school she did 70, 76, 73. her quote to golf week. if i play bad then people will feel justified she played bad and wasn't good enough. if i do anything good it wasn't the fact that i put my whole life into it, it would be because i'm trans. she hits the balls 15 miles per hour slower than she used to. if you object to her on the tour you are transphobic. is she going to get her wish? >> i don't think it is trans phobia to point out that biologically born men are bigger, stronger and faster than women and that even with the transition going on, even if this golfer has less testosterone than a biological male would, you can't take away puberty or the growth that we saw that takes place during puberty and look, i am not a

very good golfer. i'm sure there are lots of people out there watching who aren't very good golfers, either. but the reason that we separate men's and women's golfers for competition and the reason why women's tees are often closer than men's tease and virtually every course in the country there is a big difference between the size, strength and power of a man and a woman. so look, we talked about this on your show before. it is going to continue to happen until we have a prohibition that comes down and says look, you play against your biological sex. i believe the lpga had that rule in place until 2010. what will happen is this golfer will not be the first. there will be many more to come. and at some point -- i don't know when it will be -- but it at some point the best golfer in the world under these standards is going to be a biological man who decides to

identify as a woman because of the physical advantages that are inherent in being male and from testosterone and going through puberty. men are bigger, stronger, and faster than women and deciding to identify as a woman does not take away all of those advantages. >> dana: it never -- i haven't seen it going the other way where a woman is transitioning to a man and then wants to compete in swimming or golf or whatever other sport, there is running. that's not happening. and if that were happening maybe this conversation would be different, but it is not. andy murray won wimbledon. his mom is one of the only people that is in the sports world speaking up for women. here is what she said. she tweeted no, not fair at all. protect women's sport. listen to the facts, the scientists and medics. this is wrong. i constantly am surprised there are not more successful, even

retired women athletes who are willing to put themselves out there and say we have to protect women's sports. where are they? >> there is one but i think you are hitting on what is an unfair battle going on, dana. so many people are afraid that if they speak out they will be called transphobic and not even just the athletes themselves. certainly in the college situation with lia thomas, most of those women swimmers were afraid to say anything and many of the parents were as well for fear that that is going to impact their ability to get a job. these mobs attacking you and calling you transphobic makes everyone fearful to say what they really believe and overwhelmingly men, women, everyone out there understands look, these girls, it's the height of feminism that no one will speak out about this. you have men deciding to be women and immediately becoming some of the best in the sport

that have ever existed. lia thomas at the university of pennsylvania won the 500 and almost became the greatest women swimmer of all time. it feels like a long-running south park joke that we are in the middle of that no one will actually speak out on. you have guys who are running for senate like john fetterman in pennsylvania where lia thomas is and where the university of pennsylvania is saying hey, i agree with this. it's absolute ball dear dash, pure madness this is going on as well. >> dana: st. louis cardinals slugger pujols has a lot left in the tank rocking career home run 693 last night. his seventh homer in the last

10 games as the cardinals beat the cubs 1-0. so the 700 club may be getting a new member. pujols sitting at number five on the all-time home run list. he needs 7 more with 41 games in the season. >> bill: he will get there for sure. he has been on a tear the last two months. ripping it. they blanked him, dana. >> dana: what does that mean? >> bill: sounds like a bad word. >> dana: it does sound like a bad word. what does it mean? >> bill: they shut him out. >> dana: i learn. >> bill: in the meantime another brutal sucker punch attack in new york city. unsuspecting victim knocked out cold from behind. what police are saying about this. it has to stop. plus alarming data on child literacy in the u.s. more and more kids are reading below grade level. what some schools are trying to

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>> bill: one of the worst droughts in europe's history revealing secrets of the second world war. two dozen sunken german warships are being exposed as water levels drop in the danube river in serbia. part of a nazi fleet from the

black sea that sank in 1944 while retreating from soviet forces. a lot of that wreckage contains ammunition and explosives. now they have been found. how about that? >> dana: something on my mind. several school districts across the country returning to phonics-based instruction to help children raid. only 35% of fourth graders were found reading on grade level in 2019. experts fear post covid numbers will be worse. we can almost guarantee they're worse. the co-founders of enriched literacy education. you want to look it up when we get done. how did we get away from phonics-based learning? >> thanks for having us, dana. over the last 30 years there has been a movement away from phonics. that's what i remember growing up with. each letter makes a sounds and putting the sounds together to make words. there was a push to get away from that because it was seen

as very wrote learning memorization and administrators and people started to move toward a balanced literacy approach. here is a book, look at the book, look at the pictures, see if you can use the first letter of the words on the page to guess what they say and therefore you are becoming a reader. it was essentially to try to empower students to think of themselves as readers. it was well intentioned. >> dana: it did not work. what is the scope and scale of the consequences. >> huge for our country. your involvement with the criminal justice system in the united states is correlated to how well you read. if we don't fix this problem quickly, our incarceration rates will go up. taxes will go up, crime will spike, this will put such taxes on our healthcare system. the ramifications are pretty

significant for our country. >> dana: over the years school districts have spent a ton of money on the new way of reading and they have 95% of the funds that were given to education during covid are not spent. so is there a movement for school districts to return to phonics-based learning? >> there definitely is an emphasis on that now. a study was done where mississippi adopted phonics-based learning and the only state to make progress with literacy rates that years. it is shown it works. the readers and writers workshop is a balanced literacy approach and come out publicly and said i will implement a stronger phonics emphasis in my curriculum. new york city in particular spent thousands of dollars on implementing in schools realizing now it didn't work. it has come forth as well. school across the country are targeting phonics. >> dana: oakland is one of the

school districts. a teacher said to "time" magazine choices made with our children were not in the center. we abandoned what works when the social justice thing to do is teach them explicitly how to read. when you and i talked on a podcast for foxnews.com you got messages from parents across the country who are worried and upset about their children. i can't get those out of my mind. some saying their third, fifth, sixth grader can't read. schools aren't doing well enough. they're embarrassed because they can't read. i just wonder if you are a parent and worried about your kid or a teacher saying how do we get away from this nonsense way to learn and back to phonics, where can they go and what's the resource? >> dana, i just sent you scores of messages. neurobiological learning to read is one of the hardest endeavors a human being will

undertake in their lifetime. these skills have to be taught. children aren't being taught these skills in school. have no word attack strategies. can't write grammatically correct sentences. parents need to take action. >> dana: how do they do that? >> they can put an importance on reading in education in their household. start from the earliest of learningings. singing abc songs, working on phonic awareness and getting refrigerator magnets with alphabets. let your children play. talk about this is the letter b, the b says b. if they can't afford to hire outside tutoring, go to their school district and their schools, sign up for any free after-school programs, at their libraries. there are many foundations out there offering support for children. >> dana: your website is. >> www.enriched nyc.com. you can sponsor a child under the link for onwards.

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yesterday and he is there live with the latest. this rain was fast and furious. >> dana, good morning. it certainly was. a terrible situation. dallas has not seen rain like this since 1932 yesterday. flash flooding scenarios created all over the big city here where literally interstates looked like rushing rivers. some of this video is unbelievable to watch. takes your breath away. hundreds of water rescues taking place biff officials, ems, firefighters, police, dragging people out. unfortunately as you just reported one person has lost their life and you see right here behind me the trinity river that goes right on the outskirts of dallas, downtown dallas. a week ago this river was a trickle. 11 inches of water because of the extreme drought across texas. now today flowing really fast and certainly this water has taken care of a lot of the drought situation in the region. believe it or not, even the 15

inches of rain that came down in the metro area still has not relieved the full extent of this incredible drought that is still going on. the thing is when you get that amount of rain, dana, the water can't absorb into the soil because of how baked it really is. so today many people across dallas metro picking up, apartments flooded, homes flooded. still pumping water out of some roadways. most of the water has receded. indeed, yeah, the rescues that happened yesterday including the one i was involved in much respect for the first responders out there certainly. they are the ones that are the heroes that have taken care and made sure that most people got out of harm's way. >> dana: thank you for doing your part as well. robert ray in dallas. >> bill: texas father not letting anything stand in the way of getting his kids to school. not even an alligator. his daughter said dad, we have companies. local authorities did not show

up in time and he took matters into his own hands. he tossed a towel over the alligator's head. i told you during the break you are nuts but you are a big fan of steve irwin. your daughter calls you to the front of the house and throw a towel over the gator. took your daughter to school and came back home and did what, mike? >> i just the gator was still there so i just remember steve irwin, i put a towel over his head and subdued him and put my knee on his head and kept his jaw closed. >> dana: how did you do the rest of the job? >> i tied up the legs, one of our friends who knew i had a post on social media called me and asked me if i needed a hand. i said yeah, we loaded him in the back of the truck, went out to the nearest lake pond and

released him. >> bill: once you grabbed the mouth it's done. you say i can deal with wildlife as long as it's not a stingray. >> a little inside joke. a little crass. but yes, like i said i'm watching crocodile hunter and know how to handle alligators and crocodiles. >> dana: is it common for you to have an alligator on your property? >> absolutely not. i have seen them in rivers but not walking around right in front of my front door. >> dana: shocking. why do you think he got there? >> i have no idea. i've been told because water levels was kind of low in texas. and it probably -- trying to find the nearest water source. >> bill: you told your daughter, what did she say, mike? >> there is an alligator out the front door. i didn't believe her. i'm thinking first day of school and she is trying to

skip school and have a little joke. i said no, you're going to skoo. let's go. >> dana: amazing. great dad, great guest. good to have you. glad you're here. keep in touch. thank you. >> thank you, mike. >> dana: take care. fox news alert. autopsy scheduled for today on the body investigators say they believe to be that of 16-year-old kiely rodni. a volunteer crew found the body in about half an hour after authorities conducted an extensive two-week long search for the missing california teen. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning. rodni was reported missing the 6th of august. she was at a large party at a campground near lake tahoe. adventures with purpose divers found the girl's body inside the car submerged in a nearby reservoir. >> dana: officials have

confirmed the car was rodni's. >> the f.b.i. is working evaluating the vehicle. we have to come in and do that. we want to allow them to work. we'll come in and examine data and the vehicle and all our investigators look at that car. >> bill: how did she get there? william la jeunesse has more on the story today. >> good morning, bill. police have not confirmed the body found inside the honda crv is rodni her family issued this statement. while we accept this the rising sun shines light upon us reminding us not to mourn our loss but celebrate her spirit. >> they recovered the vehicle last night. we have located a decedent inside the vehicle. we believe it is our missing person. >> police have not suggested foul play but today's autopsy should provide a cause of death. toxicology on the blood for drugs and alcohol will take several weeks. the focus is on two things.

one, how did this happen? how did or did she simply accidentally drive across the road and into the lake? was she conscious at the time or impaired? or something else? the second question, why did police divers fail to find her earlier? multiple departments combed the lake and found nothing and sunday the volunteer group got involved and their divers found the car in 35 minutes. so officials said yesterday maybe it was they had better sonar or training, equipment. visibility that day had improved but they were grateful for the help. >> nick detected an object under water using cutting edge sonar technology. i was able to then confirm that it was, in fact, a vehicle in roughly 14 feet of water. only 55 feet off shore. >> a lot of this equipment is high-end, very expensive and you need to have a lot of practice and expertise. i think that's where a group

like adventures with purpose is able to focus and practice those skills and hone them. >> volunteers and police agencies put in 20,000 search hours and detained several unregistered sex offenders. bill, rodni was last seen the night of the party at 12:30. her phone went blank about three minutes later. >> bill: we'll speak with adventures with purpose lead investigators doug bishop and the diver will tell us how they found her car when investigators could not. that's coming up 30 minutes from now. >> i'm the only democrat to vote against trillions of dollars of president biden's agenda because it would make inflation worse. >> it's washington's fault. they set the rules, weakened our supply chain and spiked inflation. >> i stood up to my own party and stopped insider trading and pay raises. i'm here for you regardless of

party. >> dana: several democrats are distancing themselves from president biden in their ads. some are highlighting their opposition to president biden's agenda. marc thiessen, fox news contributor, former speech writer for gwb is here. biden's approval rating is low. this week we have the nbc poll showing 74% of americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. that's also a reflection on how they feel about what's happening in washington marc, your take. >> well, his approval inched up a couple of points but he is still the least popular president in the history of presidential polling at this point in his presidency going back to harry truman. he has delivered the worst inflation in 40 years. highest gas prices, highest drop in drk-record teacher shortages and baby formula shortage.

worst crime wave and worst border crisis. what do these people run on? they do an ad saying i gave you that? of course not. >> dana: that and an electric vehicle tax credit. and then inflation reduction act that they will have to admit won't reduce inflation. >> yeah. here is the thing. there is a narrative in washington now that the biden comeback. joe is on the roll, the wind is at his back because he passed the inflation reduction act and chips act and bipartisan gun law and killed the leader of al qaeda. that's a completely inside the beltway narrative. if it wasn't -- if i'm wrong, show me the ads and show me who is running on that. who is campaigning with aviator joe? nobody is. it's a completely -- >> bill: we'll watch and see if anybody shows up.

something to see over the next 11 weeks. dr. fauci announced yesterday he is done at the end of this year. rand paul says not so fast. private citizen you will come back and testify on the origins of it. meanwhile we can reflect on his tenure and you can agree or disagree with how he led during this period. but this is how the media in many ways cast his message. >> there has never been anyone else like him and there never will be again. >> always pushing for science first and president trump's white house, fauci at times exasperated his -- >> i would hope this president would give dr. fauci the presidential medal of freedom but he has already received the presidential medal of freedom. >> bill: they're going to miss him. >> never has anybody been so wrong for so long and so lionized as fauci. the left narrative was if donald trump had moved faster

at the start of this pandemic things would have been different. if you go back to the first three months, january, february, march dr. fauci was saying it is no threat to americans. we don't see it spreading here. don't wear masks because masks will make you touch your face and feel better but don't work. he got presided over the failures of detection, prevention and testing. and then once he figured out that he was wrong he was the author of and prime mover for the lockdowns that did more damage to the country than the virus did. we're still dealing today with the consequences of these lockdowns with millions of businesses that were shut down that will never reopen. kids with lifetime learning losses they will never recover from and he is the author of all this and the one pushing all this. anthony fauci is the most overrated person in american public life that i've ever seen. >> dana: he will retire in december. if the republicans take over

they've already said we'll be holding hearings in the house and maybe in the senate if they win back the senate. do you think he should be -- make himself available, present his case in those hearings? >> he certainly should and he has testified before and had his flashes with rand paul and the rest of it. what we do need to do at some point if and when republicans do succeed in taking over one house of congress is we need an after-action study like we did with the 9/11 commission. this pandemic has a failure from preparation to execution to the response on every level except for one thing, operation warp speed which gave us the fastest delivery of vaccines in human history. other than that, cdc and nih these institutions have failed in so many ways and done so much damage to the country. you wonder why we have a teacher shortage and labor shortage today and inflation? because of the lockdown. we're still suffering from the

pandemic response, from the lockdowns and the money the government poured into the economy to make up for the lockdowns. it distorted the economy and people are still paying the price today. we need an after-action study. >> bill: many a book to be written. nice to have you in today. "wall street journal" wrote about this. in march of 2020 they say fauci was the first one who said 15 days to slow the spread. >> dana: a long 15 days. >> bill: picked up by the trump administration. two years later we're still dealing with it. the origin of virus we need to figure that out. investigation should be conducted and also like the selling of the vaccine. this wasn't just fauci. it was the cdc. administration. they sold it as an inoculation of the virus. dr. birx admitted she said they should have done it differently. we were under the impression you get the vaccine and you're

safe from covid. two vaccines and two boosters later people are still getting the virus. >> dana: they should have said it will provide you some measure of protection. hopefully keep you out of the hospital and from dying. that has been the case for at least for me in particular but there is a lot. it is a long career but ends it on covid. >> bill: to that i would say okay i'll get the vaccine, am i free from this? maybe they could or could not answer that question at the time. the virus is always changing. anyway, 2023 i think we'll see him again. speaker pelosi, her husband goes to trial over a dui crash today. paul pelosi's car collided with another driver who sustained injuries. the local d.a. charged him with a misdemeanor. claudia cowen has the story live in napa today. good morning. >> good morning to you, bill. just like at his arraignment three weeks ago paul pelosi

will not be here in person. his lawyer will handle today's court hearing that's expected to be short and possibly end with the announcement of some kind of plea deal or the setting of a trial date. the 82-year-old pelosi was arrested back in may after driving home drunk from a dinner party and causing a two-car crash that totaled both vehicles and left the other driver with minor injuries mostly soreness, stiffness and headaches. now the county district attorney says the nature of those injuries, plus pelosi's blood alcohol content just above the legal limit at .082% led her to file the d.u.i. charges at misdemeanors, not felonies. another attorney said he would expect a quick resolution. completion of a dui course and if pelosi wants to keep driving a breathalyzer installed in his

car. >> he is likely to have to have an interlock device. you blow into it to start your car for a year. and have a summary probation or form of probation until restitution is paid for the damages to the other person. >> most experts agree he won't serve jail time. in recent days nancy pelosi has had several public events in the bay area but refused to comment on her husband's arrest or the accident. but it is the talk of the town here in napa valley where the pelosis own a largest state. court begins in just under two hours and we'll let you know what happens. >> bill: we'll be in touch. >> dana: voters heading to the polls in florida today in what could be a pivotal moment for the future of the republican party. >> bill: when will it end? another serial criminal released without bail now charged with beating a man to

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>> dana: it's my primary days. which democrat will face ron desantis in november? another race we're watching is in the first congressional district where matt gaetz is facing two republican challengers. aishah hosni is in st. petersburg, florida and can tell us what she knows. >> good morning to you, dana. gaetz got the trump endorsement over the weekend. that will definitely give him a

boost in this state where there are a lot of republicans who love trump. but let's start with the marquee race which is the governor's race. he is unopposed in the primary. today is finding out what his democratic challenger will be in november between a former republican charlie crist and governor or nicki free, the state's agriculture commissioner. whoever it is desantis says he is in good shape. >> i'm running on a record of accomplishment. if you think what we've been able to do over the last four years in the state of florida, we have been the focal point of freedom in this country. >> bust dana, the republican house races are the ones to watch. they could really be a referendum of sorts on gop fire brands. of course matt gaetz is involved in a scandal facing

two primary challengers. in the 11th district incumbent dan webster is challenged by loomer who calls herself the most banned woman on the internet over remarks she has been making or has made in the past and in the seventh district state representative has gotten some backlash for saying that f.b.i. agents should be arrested on-site after the raid on the former president's home. florida voters that we've been talking with are divided as to where they want this party to go. what they want to see in their representatives. >> we have enough people chasing sound bites and social media and it's just not good for us. >> right now we also feel silenced and censored. >> we need a fighter, a passionate person. >> the polls are open, dana. we could start to see results

come in as early as 7:00 tonight. we'll keep you posted. >> >> dana: i'll be tuning in. >> bill: a criminal used a metal pole to beat a disabled man to death. it was only eight days after adjudged released the suspect on bail on a separate charge. someone who intervened in the attack, loren page. we saw you a moment ago. i know how much this affected you. this is right smack dab in the middle of seattle, right? this is where tourists go, am i right about that? >> yes, sir. i was four blocks right from the market right up the street waiting for my family to meet me at a restaurant. i happened to have an extra hour time to wait and i walked down the hill just one block to go to the market to enjoy park place market. that's the whole point of seattle. we were on our way to a soccer

match. we as a family and as friends we used to always enjoy seattle. >> bill: aaron falk is the man's name and 48. he had a metal pole and he was hitting this man repeatedly over the head is my understanding. what did you see? >> that is correct. i heard the shouting. i just crossed third and pike and i looked to my left and heard the shouting. got a little closer. i saw the first strike with the pole. i yelled out hey from across the street and i saw the second strike and at that point i knew it was a pretty deadly blow. the victim went down. i started running across the street as fast as i could. i grabbed the poll from him, apparently i caught him offguard and we held onto the pole together for a few minutes and i gave it a tug and he released the pole and turned around and started walking towards the market. and as i stepped back and saw

the victim on the ground, i knew that he was totally unconscious and not moving. i looked up again and saw the attacker walking back up towards me. he had left his backpack there. when he picked up his backpack he headed across pike street and that's when the police pulled in and grabbed him. >> bill: eight days prior he was before a judge and the judge let him walk out of jail. at the time what you didn't know is the rap sheet for aaron falk. look at this. oregon, idaho, state of washington what you didn't know is the statement from the prosecutor that reads this, the defendant admitted to officers he was trying to kill the victim and while acknowledging the victim was the first that he attacked in this manner he made it clear this victim wouldn't be his last. i know you don't live in seattle but you have family and friends there. you are there often. can you explain to our viewers

what has happened in that american city? >> it's sad. i used to -- my family and i used to take the ferry over to seattle and spend the day walking around the market enjoying the beautiful city. it used to be a really beautiful place. now i can't take the transit and get to the airport anymore. i have to have somebody pick me up. i can't go to pioneer square. it is not safe to have a cup of coffee there anymore. i thought it was safe to at least walk around the market 3:00 in the afternoon. a beautiful day, bill. i was hoping to enjoy a great day with my family in the city and it turns out that the city isn't safe. it is not a place to bring your family and friends to enjoy the day anymore. >> bill: it can't go on this way, lauren. thank you for coming on and sharing your story. i'm sorry for what you experienced. thank you, loren. >> dana: can never let their guard down. look what they found hidden in

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>> bill: to the southern border today here is your daily update now. the crisis not slowing down. patrol agents finding hundreds of pounds of fentanyl an other drugs concealed in a tractor trailer trying to cross into the united states. how did they do it this time? >> good morning. this was in arizona at a port of entry. more in a moment. a lot to get to. we have a group of 50 migrants under the bridge here in eagle

pass. they've been here for some time. border patrol showed up and they are beginning the processing of that. underscoring the humanitarian crisis out here along the southern border with all of these increased crossings, we know that translates into increased tragedies. the video we're about to show is disturbing. as we sat here late yesterday afternoon waiting for one of our live reports, we saw a border patrol agent here on the banks of the rio grande performing cpr on an infant as a woman sat next to them crying. they were rescued from the river trying to cross. taken to a local hospital. their conditions unknown. about 30 minutes later here in eagle pass the fox flight team drone captured the moment a 3-year-old was pulled from the water in a small body bag. lately they average one fatality a day. this as the cartels flourish again over in arizona this past weekend a major drug bust at a port of entry. close to 1.6 million fentanyl

pills, two pounds of raw fentanyl powder, 13 pounds of heroin and more than 1110 pounds of cocaine hidden in an 18 wheeler all seized. >> you have the legitimate trade that goes through. the criminal organizations have gotten really good at hiding that stuff in the chaos and clutter of legitimate traffic. >> finally this morning more large groups have been crossing once the sun came up not only here but out of the road in normandy, texas. more rain has caused more stronger currents in the river and more treacherous to cross. >> bill: another day in eagle pass, texas. >> we've recovered the vehicle last night and we have located a deceaseent inside the vehicle.

we believe it is our missing person. we have not been able to positively identify. it is still a very active investigation. >> dana: nevada county, california sheriff making the announcement yesterday about missing 16-year-old kiely rodni. it was found by volunteer divers. it took them 35 minutes after authorities searched the area for more than two weeks. doug bishop, the lead investigators with adventures for purpose and nick a diver with the group. not a discovery you necessarily wanted to find but you did. tell us how it happened. >> you know, we've developed a unique skill set over the years here with cold cases. we use those tactics in this particular case. we specialize in sonar, particularly in discovering vehicles underwater linked to missing person cases. it is not necessarily a knock

on law enforcement but if you don't know how to use it, that's what we bring to the table. we bring specialty sonar skills to the table and that was the difference maker in this case here. >> dana: nick, you are a diver with the group. did you dive in this particular situation? >> yes, i did. >> dana: what did you discover? >> once we were on the water for approximately 30, 35 minutes when i saw something on the sonar that caught my eye. we had two separate boats at the time. doug was in one, i was in one. we saw something on the sonar, scanned it from different directions. knew that it looked out of place and it was manmade ob jefjt i called doug to get a second set of eyes on it. once we did several passes over it and confirmed it looked like a vehicle under water we relocated our mobile dive unit around onto the shore closer to the location.

i put my dive gear on, got in the water, swam out to it, and went down and pretty much within five seconds i recognized it was the missing vehicle we were looking for and it was upside down in 14 feet of water. i was at the rear of the vehicle and saw the license plate and right away knew it was the vehicle we were looking for. then i did a 360 degree assessment of the vehicle, which is protocol that we do to see the condition of the vehicle and see if there are human remains inside. and during that i discovered there were human remains inside. so we knew this is what we were looking for. i came back to the surface and informed doug what i had found. he immediately called the family members and then law enforcement to get them on the scene. >> dana: the rodni family put out a statement saying we're eternally grateful for the love and support in the last couple of weeks.

we weathered a storm. give you the last word more broadly what you do. in the commercial break there are 600,000 missing americans every year and you have thousands of cases where you are being called to ask to help. final word to you. >> yes. we're a vessel of the community. if everyone doesn't support our social media platforms, youtube, facebook, sub describeing and watching what we do it wouldn't be possible. our purpose is to be a voice for the voiceless and fight for those who can no longer fight for themselves. >> dana: great americans. thank you for coming on the show today and i'm sure we'll hear from you in the future as well. thank you. >> thank you. >> bill: what a story. the man who viciously attacked a woman in new york city working as a model was sentenced yesterday. how much time will he spend

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>> bill: the man who admitted to attacking aspiring model from thailand on a new york city subway platform sentenced yesterday to five years in prison. he is 41. his name is kevin douglas. sources say he has a rap sheet dating back to 1997 pleading guilty last month in the brutal attack. she is 23 waiting for a train at 34th street where macy's big building is. she was assaulted there and told police at the time she felt lucky to be alive. >> dana: bless her. the latest fox news power ranking gives the gop a slight advantage to take control of the senate in november. narrower than chances last month. the rankings also say the chamber is still up for grabs due to five toss-up seats.

chief washington correspondent mike emanuel is live in washington i hope your lips are moving better than mine are this morning apparently. >> good morning. democrats are safe in 46 seats. power ranking republicans look solid in 49 seats. much of the focus in the fox news power rankings is the five toss-up states, arizona, georgia, nevada, new hampshire and pennsylvania. four held by democrats and pennsylvania where republican pat tuomie is retiring. senate gop leader mitch mcconnell talked about what's at stake. >> the outcome is likely to be very, very close. either way. so -- but if both the house and the senate flip, i think the president will be a moderate. he won't have any choice. >> bill: senator chuck schumer wants to remain majority leader and he sounded upbeat after democrats passed a major

climate, health and tax package. >> i think it will help us in november significantly in two ways. first the specific things we're doing that people care so much about and second hey, democrats even in this tough situation polarized, 50/50 can actually get big things done. >> one long time senator on the ballot in what fox considers a likely republican race is iowa's chuck grassley who told fox news digital his take on the balance of power. >> we are going to take back the majority because of the fact that the president's approval rating is under 40 and all these problems with the economy. people's pocket books are being robbed every day because of biden inflation. >> key thing to remember here is republicans must get to 51 to be the majority party in the senate. democrats need 50 with kamala harris as the tiebreaking vote like she is now.

>> bill: former president trump suing the d.o.j. to have an independent special master to review documents the f.b.i. seized from his home in florida. bring in trey gowdy. good morning to you. a couple things. lena hobba trump attorney last night with jesse made the case this way. >> they were basically saying we'll set it up, in my opinion they were going to set it up to look like he was hiding it. not thinking that the former president or his legal team would actually say hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you talking about? we let you in. you told us we were good and you didn't communicate with us for months and then you send in two dozen f.b.i. agents? >> bill: that happened. and that's behind us. now we're trying to figure out what the next step is. do you think a special master is acceptable now in this situation? >> well, bill, thank you for having me. certainly legally plausible. i understand why they are

asking. we have special masters in certain categories and cases. usually complex either election or patent or document intensive cases. here they are asking for one because the material taken was privileged. i certainly get they do not want prosecutors to decide whether or not this is privileged or this is not. i think ultimately the judge is not going to appoint a special master but there is a messaging component to these pleadings. the fact that you and i are talking about it this morning means they are doing okay in the messaging part of that pleading. >> dana: another one of the president's lawyers, she had signed a document apparently according to reports signed a document attesting that all classified documents had been returned. the justice department must have seen something that said no they are not and decided to go in and get the documents. is there a discrepancy there. were there particular documents they were looking for? >> all of that could be true,

which is what i love about the criminal justice system and why we need trials. it could be she believed that. it could be it was not true. what i am most interested in, dana, is how the department of justice came to conclude or believe or have probable cause that that statement was not true? who is the informant? how reliable is the information? look, the curse of being fair is you try to look at both sides. if they knew for a fact that classified material was there and yet they had this document saying it had all been returned i'm not sure what the government is supposed to do, just say okay, well, you gave us a pinky promise it was all turned over, we have to take your word for it. so i need to know the chronology. what i do find fascinating, "the new york times," which has more information probably than the trump defense team does about this, said this all happened in january and because

the department felt such great urgency they searched in august. eight months and urgent don't go together. i need to know what happened in the interim. because there is nothing urgent about waiting eight months to go get documents. >> bill: trey, there is primary tuesday today and we'll see what comes out tonight. on the issue of crime, we just spoke to a gentleman in seattle who watched a guy beat a man to death with a pole in downtown seattle. stunning stuff. this is tom hogan former federal prosecutor. characterizes crime and how we look at it. >> for 25 years, everybody was told doesn't matter, crime is going to keep declining. guess what? we took our foot off the gas in every way possible and now crime is coming back up. that combination of the police being sidelined and prosecutors

sidelining themselves is an incendiary confirmation. let's talk about the something the public doesn't want to hear. the police are out numbered. >> bill: how does this play? >> well, most people go to law school because they aren't good with numbers. i will try to give you numbers that will help. the overwhelming majority of your fellow citizens will never do anything to hurt you. the vast majority don't want to hurt you or kill you or rob you. so if we can figure out who that 5 to 7% is that you are at risk from and then separate them from society, then you are going to have a safe society. but when you have progressive prosecutors that take that 5% and 7% and keep giving them chance after chance after chance no, you will have a spike in crime. which is exactly what we have. >> dana: trey gowdy, your show is wonderful on sunday nights and love having you here as

well. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> dana: more drama at twitter. former head of security says the social media giant had major holes in its privacy security. how this could affect elon musk's take over bid. the pilot who had to land his plane on a florida highway joins us next to explain how and why it happened. ♪♪♪ are you a veteran, own a home, and need money for your family? newday usa can help. by refinancing up to 100% of your home's value, you could take out $60,000 or more. you could use that money to pay credit card debt and other expenses, plan for retirement, and get back on your feet financially. and don't let less-than-perfect credit hold you back. even if you've been turned down for a va loan by your bank, call newday usa. they've been given automatic authority by the va

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>> bill: developing this morning a former twitter executive accusing the company of covering up major security problems. susan lee is tracking that from the new york city newsroom. what's the claim? >> it helps elon musk in his case to walk away from the twitter takeover deal. it's the former head of

security, former hacker hired after the infamous hacks of celebrity and politician accounts in 2020. he filed a complaint with the justice department, fcc and sec accusing twitter of misleading regulators, investors and users including some serious lapses in protecting user data allowing too much access to foreign governments and accusing one or more employees of actually working for foreign intelligence. he is blaming twitter executives for trying to cover up the company's vulnerabilities. twitter said this man was fired from his role in january of this year for what they call ineffective leadership and poor performance. adding what we've seen so far is a false narrative about twitter and our privacy and data security practices. now the whistleblower pointing a finger at the current twitter ceo for the mismanagement and also important to note that the man was hired by the former twitter ceo jack dorsey who was

he said extremely disengaged in his final year at the company and suggests that twitter doesn't have the resources or ability to account for the number of spam accounts on the platform. elon musk argued that twitter overstates the number of real users and undercounts the number of spam accounts. musk's lawyer has subpoenaed the twitter whistleblower and twitter stock is down today. the new complaint helps elon musk's case to possibly terminate his twitter takeover deal. >> bill: something to watch. see what they say. susan lee, fox business for that. >> dana: florida highway patrol says mechanical problems forced this small plane to crash land onto a busy florida highway over the weekend. we showed you the video yesterday. the pilot of the plane was the only person on board and he escaped with only minor injuries. that pilot is here with us now. remi, good to sigh. what happened when you were up

in the air? >> good morning. what happened? well, the accident should never have happened because of one single thing. it was a chain of events. i had bad information. supposed to have an hour and a half of fuel in my plane. i knew it was low immediately. i revised my estimation of my fuel to 30 minutes. then when i got onto the ramp one of my radios was faulty. i went up for five minutes, the radio was faulty and tried to turboshoot it and got out of the pattern and came back and that's what did me in. when i was coming back to land to fix my radio. it was an annual flight to receive -- the plane had been fixed directly. it was doing well apart from the radio. i was supposed to land back

right away but yeah, i spent too much time trying to troubleshoot the radio. >> what did it feel when you hit the contract? >> the first hit was fine. i was prepared for it. i had stalled the airplane at 25, 30 feet in order to stop me going forward and plowing into hundreds of cars at a busy street light. so i was fully prepared for the first shock. then when i hit i had control for one second and i saw a driveway so it was -- i thought it was my best solution. i went for that driveway. what i did not see was the two trees that stopped me and where i hit my head as you can see i have a little bit of a thing right here. ist is absolutely nothing. i am 100% fine. the next day i was back flying banners. i own ariel messages and it has been business as usual. >> dana: it is amazing. a good example for the ranch if

you fall off your horse you get back on. if you have an accident like you did get back up there and do your job. >> bill: you are lucky, wow. thanks for sharing your story, good luck to you, okay? >> dana: he said when he is up there he sees a lot of sharks in the water. don't worry, they don't like you. dagen mcdowell is next. >> dagen: i'm dagen mcdowell in for harris. over the past three years fauci has become the face of what