they are all paranoid what you will ask and what the answer will be. with this man there was no one around and just let him do his thing which i thought was very impressive. >> dana: a very important tribute and so glad you went down and did that on assignment. >> bill: me, too. >> dana: it was great. sandra smith is in for harris today. "the faulkner focus" is next. here she have is. >> thank you. fox news alert now. president biden expected to cancel billions in student loan debt today. critics warn it will only fuel that inflation fire and shift the burden to hard working americans already struggling to make ends meet. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm sandra smith in for harris today. the president is expected to cancel up to $10,000 in debt for borrowers who make less than $125,000 a year. republican critics are outraged. senator tom cotton tweeted biden is telling every college in america to raise tuition by

$10,000. senator rick scott says if dems want solutions here is one. stop wasting taxpayer dollars and start holding institutions accountable for student outcomes. former trump senior counselor kellyanne conway with this. >> it also is a complete farce that they already passed something misnamed as the inflation reduction act and turn around and going to make inflation worse. we are making things more expensive because they continue to spend money that we don't have on things that we don't need. >> let's dig into the real cost of this bail-out. according to a budget model a one-time cancellation of $10,000 per borrower would cost $300 billion. but if the white house -- it wipes out $50,000 per borrower that price tag jumps to $980 billion.

sometimes the numbers get so big it is hard to keep track and hard to really get a grasp of just how massive this sort of pay out is. >> it is massive. the bit by bit number is $10,000 for each person with student loan debt outstanding that makes up to $125,000 a year or a couple making up to $250,000 a year. that covers 60%, the top 60% of income earners in this country. if the president announces this later on today the cancellation of 10k and four-month pause -- extension on the pause of the repayments progressives are saying, $10,000? wait, we want 50,000 and moderates are saying that's just not fair. >> do you worry from your side of the aisle that there will be people that say i paid off my loans, or people that don't go to college saying why do i forgive this?

>> no question, i'm already hearing that from people in vermont. i don't know what the answer is. >> they think people who didn't go to college are being left out here with this statement. president biden's decision on student debt cannot become the latest example of a policy that has left black people, especially black women behind. this is not how you treat black voters who turned out in record numbers and provided 90% of their voeft to save democracy in 2020. even if the program comes in on the low end of the projected costs, there are new concerns it could wipe out the deficit reduction the white house has been bragging about as a plus of the inflation reduction act. >> the problem is their constituency is the government they're growing. they love that government. they love the power of it. they love the dependency of it and they love the organization of it. and that's just a fundamental difference between us and them. >> president biden landed at the white house and didn't say anything to reporters on the

way in after this extended vacation and he doesn't have any public events on the schedule yet. chief of staff ron klain is teasing that he will have some news today and we expect it to be this. >> keep us posted live from the white house. will cain "fox & friends" weekend co-host is here in "focus" now. i can only imagine what you have to say about this. the "wall street journal" takes it on and makes the case it will undermine all these alleged efforts by congress to bring prices down for the american people writing this. student loan forgiveness is an inflation expansion act but if he does forgive student debt it will expose the hollowness of the democrats' anti-inflation posturing. the party these days is about spending ever more money without restraint. except for defense. it is that simple. spending is what has gotten us here and spending more will make matters worse. to you now. >> yes. the operative word you just

used, sandra, was alleged when referring to the inflation reduction act. this should do away with the concept it was an inflation reduction act. it was a fraud and mislabeling and bait and switch. it would have been outlawed. it is outlawed in most consumer transactions. it was not meant to be reduction in inflation. we knew days later almost every single media institution began to parrot the lines of the administration it is a climate change bill. look, we don't have to peer into their language use. now we look at the motivations. this proposed bill would, as everyone recognizes, extend hyper inflate inflation. showing the motivation were never to help average americans out there with the cost of groceries. it sto play to a constituency. that constituency in your lead-in. what really stood out was that report and statement from the

naacp. so the naacp is recognizing hey, this hurts the average black voter, the average american. the non-college graduate american who pays for the bill. what's the constituency? increasingly looks like some type of elite or aspirational elite college educated liberal voter who wants their relief. who wants their support from the government bureaucracy. >> it is hard to digest this. college costs real versus adjusted for inflation and you see these prices continually going higher. will, if you fall into the category in this country of somebody happy to have your debt waived and paid for by other americans, you will have to deal with this sooner or later whether it's your children or your grandchildren. what does this do to address those soaring costs? why aren't we talking about that? >> look at that chart.

that is actually stunning. sandra, nothing i just said should be read as someone who thinks that what's going on in college with cost and by the way the return on investment of a college degree is acceptable. that it is just and appropriate market forces. it is most certainly not. basic law of economics, if the government subsidizes something and makes payment responsible for a third party, meaning the consumer and the seller aren't actually the true transaction there, you get rising costs. healthcare the exact same thing as college education. it is hyper inflationary just like education. so the appropriate -- i struggled with this. what's the metaphor for forgiving college debt. someone addicted to heroin going through withdrawals. the only thing we can do is give them another bump of

heroin. this bill would only serve to hurt the long-term equation. it would raise the cost of college once again. >> forgiveness down the road will have to be bigger and bigger. not only that the far left democrats, some of these progressives, this isn't even enough for them. cori bush tweeted student debt is a $2 trillion crisis. potus must cancel all of student debt. senator bernie sanders staff tweeted this. republicans will attack forgiving $10,000 as much as if biden canceled all student debt. think big or go home. cancel all of it. to your point, where does this end? final thought. >> it never ends. what do you do for the next generation? what about the next people to take on college debt? it is like illegal immigration. do you just continue to give out dreamer status and pathway

to citizenship status to every wave of illegal immigrant? do you give $10,000 in debt forgiveness to every generation of college student? you can't. the point we're making is college prices will continue to go up, to continue to be hyper inflationary because of these policies. last point and it is not a hand waving point. it is important. culturally what do you say to blue collar people that didn't go to college and they have to shoulder the tax burden for this and all the people who paid off college debt? that you were stupid to pay off your debt? wait for the government to forgive it? this is a real cancerous idea to our culture. >> we'll see where the president goes from this when we hear from him later today. thank you very much. great to see you. thank you. the challenges facing our southern border agents on full display in a new video. two suspected smugglers attempting to take on agents on

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>> sandra: shocking new video from the border showing two suspected smugglers facing off with border patrol agents on a san diego beach. this happened this weekend near a place where people enter the u.s. illegally from tijuana by swimming around a border fence. another tragic outcome of biden's crisis three children died in an attempt to cross the rio grande river into the united states. the "new york post" cover summing it up like this. when will this end? an opinion piece said deaths of migrant children expose biden's cruelty. in arizona even more drugs seized at a port of entry where agents discovered more than a million fentanyl pills. congressman michael waltz yesterday said this. >> it is the cartels behind all of this. it is a clear and present danger to the stability of our country. americans are dying by the

hundreds of thousands. we need to treat it like a threat it is. it is unconventional warfare against the united states. >> sandra: casey stiegel is in eagle pass, texas for us. an incredibly deadly week for many of these migrants right where you are. >> yes, it really has been. in fact, the del rio sector has become ground zero, it seems, of this crisis. in the past week that we have been down here, at least seven migrants have drowned in the rio grande river attempting to illegally cross, and we have physically seen them recover some of those victims, air boats usually pull them from the water and bring them to shore. this is video from last wednesday from this vantage point in eagle pass. officials here tell us they have been averaging at least one a day since august in the del rio sector, border patrol says there have been more than 200 migrant fatalities so far

for the fiscal year. tracking numbers like these down can be difficult. some sectors release it, others don't. it is not included on the cbp's public dashboard with all the other data that is regularly updated. in april, a gao report said the feds needed to improve the way it tracks and publishes those particular statistics. this as arizona agents seized 2,000 fentanyl pills at the arizona. >> the totals from last year for fentanyl close to 6 million tablets seen this year here. >> this is the same port of entry, by the way, where last week this candy-colored fentanyl was discovered, more than 15,000 pills. it had been dyed the bright colors. alarming to see the least since

it appears it was specifically targeted to children. back to you. >> sandra: casey, thank you very much reporting from eagle pass for us. florida republican congressman kat cammack a member of the house homeland security committee is joining us. heartbreaking what is happening and so many continue to make the dangerous journey and the children losing their lives as a result of it. >> it just breaks your heart. i think that we are at that point where everyone, regardless of your party affiliation, recognizes there is nothing compassionate about the open border policies that the biden administration continues to allow. you think about these children that are not only in grave danger as part of the crossing of the border, but the exploitation that they face. sexual and otherwise. it is heartbreaking. and we have to first and foremost secure the border if

we end the exploitation of these kids and the death of migrants as they make the journey. this is a national security issue, a humanitarian issue and public health issue. we need to start treating it as ufp. >> sandra: not just a border community issue. we see it all over the country and how new york city continues to handle the bus loads of migrants being sent here. five more buses arrived in new york city from texas just this morning, congresswoman. this is the most in a single day. texas governor greg abbott is calling out mayor adams hypocrisy out today writing adams talks the talk about being a sanctuary city welcoming illegal immigrants into the big apple with warm hospitality. talk is cheap when pressed into fulfilling such ill considered policies he wants to condemn anyone pressing when imto walk the walk. this is america and we need to start acting like it. we're a nation of laws and it is time to start enforcing them.

this is a battle royale and the governor of texas is not halting the shipments of migrants to the big apple any time soon. >> you play stupid games and you win stupid prizes. mayor adams and new york city has championed himself or fashioned himself as the law and order mayor. now it is time to start acting like it. for him to belly ache the fact that illegals are flooding into the city and taking advantage of the sanctuary city status, there you go. you won a stupid prize. there is nothing compassionate, bold or moral about enforcing or perpetuating this whole narrative about we're a sanctuary city and we take anyone in. you are punishing the rule followers, the taxpayers and rewarding the illegals.

mayor adams, d.c. mayor need to stop complaining. they got exactly what they asked for when they claimed to be champions of the illegals that have been flooding texas and arizona and new mexico and california for a long time. >> sandra: there are in a tough position. i want to move on to this. anthony fauci is now defending himself in a new interview as he prepares to retire at the end of the year. this is with neil yesterday. >> do you regret particularly the last one, the shutdown, the sweeping shutdown that some said made things worse. >> no, i don't. i didn't shut down anything. >> this wasn't a way to avaid republican investigations if they take over the house or the senate? >> not at all. not even a little bit. i have nothing to hide and i can defend everything i've done and every decision i've made. >> sandra: he is defending

himself there in that new interview. republican lawmakers are promising, however, to investigate him and other biden add -- administrations officials if they take control in november. >> i imagine he will comply. how many more in the administration will resign before we come to power in january? the homeland security secretary and others? the democrats have been deceiving the american public and republicans will demand accountability. >> sandra: he is defending himself but is it defensible to say he didn't call for any shutdowns? roll the tape as many already are on the many times he did support shut downs in this country. >> absolutely. it is not defensible, his position and what he has done. this is the same man that was doing photo shoots for the covers of magazines while telling americans across this

country that they couldn't be with their loved ones while they were dying alone. this is the same man who continued to act as though he were above it all in saying well, this is what we are going to do and you'll do it even though the science and data is a little shaky. when questioned about his connection to the gain-of-function research or any of the science that was a little bit questionable he became infuriated. this man needs to be held accountable. his resignation does not mean he is exempt coming before congress and us getting answers that the american people deserve for all the faulty information and guidance that they published and again thousands of americans today had to die alone without their loved ones by their side because of this man's arrogance and his complete self-righteous attitude. he will be held accountable mark my words. >> sandra: "washington examiner" writes in an op-ed what we need from our post

fauci held officials. giving the -- congress needs to hold hearings and make additional funding contingent on real reform that would return the cdc and other public health bodies to their core mission, fighting disease, which should have been its mission all along. final thought, congresswoman. >> absolutely. there needs to be an entire shake-up from the cdc and fault' guidance on covid and fda and them killing the infant formula supply here in the united states. it has been a mess. nih, nsf and cdc have a lot of work to do to get back on track. we'll hold them accountable to get answers and fixing the problems that plagued them for so long. we'll take this up. >> sandra: thank you for joining us this morning. the head of the nation's second

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a risky play for the president in deciding to cancel some student loan debt he is carrying out a campaign prom ims that could leave progressives and working class democrats unsatisfied and republicans an opening to his move to get rid of debt could make inflation worse. welcome to you both and look forward to the discussion. this is a heated debate happening in this country right now. there are those struggling to pay the bills because of government spending, and now you have a white house wanting to spend even more in the face of that sky high inflation. so what are they getting wrong here and could it backfire for democrats come the mid-term elections? >> yeah, you are hitting the nail on the head with the mid-term elections. the democrats' message to america in the mid-term elections the inflation reduction act is going to raise taxes on the middle class and now we are going to forgive

voluntary debt that the upper middle class and rich have taken on themselves and we'll forgive that and ask the middle class to pay for it. good job. we'll raise your taxes and pass on other people's debt to you. not a winning message for democrats. by the way, it is going to add to inflation and going to add to the pain that you are already feeling about rising costs at the grocery store, at the pump still historic highs at many gas pumps in the country. it is a losing issue. my favorite part is the base they are trying to appease isn't happy with it because they think it should go further. a really bad message for democrats less than 100 days out from the mid-terms. >> sandra: doesn't this effort to forgive or cancel the student loan debt, doesn't it undermine congress's efforts to try to bring down inflation? won't this government spending just lead to more high prices? >> it depends how you look at it. for the past two years most

borrowers of federally backed student loan that haven't been paying their student loan debt because it was deferred. it started under donald trump and continued under joe biden. the cap is for people who make less than $125,000 a year. last time i checked none of those folks are the ultrawealthy. they are middle class working families, many healthcare workers, firefighters, police officers, or their children of these professions struggling to make the student loan payments each month. >> sandra: i understand that could be the case in new york, new jersey, on the coast. but in the middle of the country those that are making $124,000 a year, college graduates have the ability to pay off this debt? cassie quick on that before i move on. >> 60% of debt holders are upper middle class and rich. a lot of people would disagree with your assessment of middle class, richard.

>> here is my point on that. you have to make less than $125,000. if you make over that you will not get any debt relief. i'm talking about a family making $60,000 a year who happen to be a dental hygienist and they need to debt relief. that's the person this will target. >> i talk about people who made responsible decisions and don't need to go to a four years college who don't need to take on debt or go to a technical school and now i have to pay for your debt that you took on voluntarily. >> sandra: i want to get the news in here. we've been waiting on official announcement since the president just returned from his vacation. he is announcing at 2:15 p.m. eastern time today we'll get an announcement from the president tweeting out from the white house in keeping with my campaign promise my administration is announcing a plan to give working and middle class families breathing room as they prepared to resume federal student loan payments

in january 2023. more details this afternoon. says the president. richard, it is also the liberal media, by the way, that's raising alarm for democrats on this. cnn opinion piece says democrats are fooling themselves about the mid-term elections. in a "washington post" op-ed titled the mid-term swing voter people who disapprove of biden only a little unless his job approval ratings rise. both nationally for the house and each closely contested senate race. top of the list for many voters is inflation. so we're going to spend all this money to cancel student loan debt ahead of the mid-term elections you could have inflation higher come mid-term elections? >> listen, i'll be honest there is a potential there but also the potential, given where the market is now. we have see the decrease in gas prices over the past 60 some

days and the idea we could see a down tick in inflation for many of these working class families and biden voters can then also see not having to pay 200 or 300 or 400 a month in student debt payments. more relief for them as they think about their disposable income. i will not deny the fact he has an bad approval rating but you see in some statewide senate races you see democrats beating republicans to the point where mitch mcconnell said it will come down to candidate quality. the republican side that is lacking. >> sandra: let's stick to the news at 2:00 from the president and the political fallout will be something to watch because you have republican senator rick scott of florida saying people that didn't go to college and run up all this like electricians and plumbers, we'll make them pay for taxes to help doctors and lawyers? that's wrong, he says. you have senator cotton saying

biden is telling every college in america to raise tuition by $10,000 and the thought it could push the college prices higher and larry hogan, the maryland governor told bret baier waiving the debt is penalizing the people who worked three jobs to pay things off right now. >> so many points there. senator scott's point, it is not fair and where people are now. they see a lot of unfairness now and democrats pushing policy position which pushes for unfairness. it doesn't sit right with people. i would also note people would rather see the gas prices go back to norms to that less than $3. people still paying close to $4 a gallon. let's work on energy independence to bring down those costs for everyone as opposed to this cost which only helps some. that's the broader story here.

democrats seem to keep spending more of our money on things that don't actually get to the heart of an issue. one other point to that is that why aren't we talking about how to fix the cost of tuition or how to get more benefit out of all that money you pay towards tuition? why isn't that where the heart of this conversation is now? that doesn't sit well with people, either. >> sandra: we talked about the same thing with will cain. richard, as greg price tweets this. 37% of americans have a four-year college degree. 13% have graduate degrees. a full 56% of student loan debt is held by people who went to grad school. biden's plan to cancel would be like taking money from a plumber to pay the debt of a lawyer. that's what the country is seeing happen right now no matter what you call this, richard. final from you. >> listen, i get how folks at home feel. i think what this requires is a little clear eyed realism. the truth is most lawyers make over $125,000 a year.

most doctors make over that as well. the other truth is there is a lot of borrowers who didn't finish college. a lot of borrowers who went to for-profit colleges and struggling to make ends meet. what it does says to those borrowers after bailing out the banks and the airlines, after bailing out millionaires and billionaires over and over again and writing a tax code that only benefits the wealthy while the middle class tax cut is not permanent, this says for middle class folks and working fam leels out there we see you and hear you and acknowledge you and here is something we can do so you can continue on your path towards the middle class. >> sandra: we expect the president to deliver those remarks at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. thank you very much both of you. appreciate the debate. west virginia senator joe manchin losing ground with voters after critics accused him of caving to the left on the democrats' massive spending bill.

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>> sandra: out rage in fairfax county, virginia after parents learn a twice charged sex offender worked as a middle school guidance counselor for nearly two years. officials took immediate steps to fire him after learning of his criminal history. the parents, the virginia attorney general and governor are demanding answers as to how this could have happened. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has the story for us. how did this fall through the cracks >> a lot of parents are asking that question. police tried notifying the school about this guy in november 2020 and emails never reached the superintendent. thornton was arrested in chesterfield county virginia for solicitation of prostitution from a minor in november 2020 and convicted on march 11th of this year and put on probation and then arrested a second time on june 9th for soliciting prostitution during a sting operation.

fairfax notified the public schools by phone on june 10th. a week later he was placed on unpaid leave. virginia authorities are looking into it. the virginia department of corrections is opening a full investigation regarding this incident and the department is prepared to take any and all necessary actions following the results of the investigation. virginia governor glenn youngkin says fairfax county blew it. >> this circumstance in fairfax county is a colossal failure on the local level from law enforcement and from the school board and superintendent. to have someone who in fact has been arrested for soliciting sex from a minor on staff for 20 months and then to be arrested again. >> dr. reid is the new superintendent of fairfax county public schools. she started her job on july 1st. reid wrote to parents last week i want to make this very clear. this entire situation is unacceptable from any

perspective. we are deeply concerned about how this happened in one of our schools. thornton was required to register as a sex offender. authorities say he lied and listed himself as self-employed. sandra. >> sandra: mike emanuel on the story for us. hours after his guilty plea the california highway patrol released paul pelosi's dui dash cam video. watch this. >> are you sure you can complete the test? i don't want you to fall over and hurt yourself. but that's the whole purpose of the test. you were involved in a crash. you are unsteady on your feet and i can smell alcohol on your breath. i understand who you are. i am not here to try to do anything to draw any negative

attention to you. you've been honest with me and there is nothing you should be worried about. >> sandra: we see house speaker's husband taking a sobriety test and hear his slurred speech and talk with police in a nearly half hour interaction. his blood alcohol registered at .082 two hours after the may 28th crash. new photos show damage to both vehicles involved and injuries to pelosi's hands and forearms. he pleaded guilty yesterday to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence and sentenced to five days in jail but will be spared any more time behind bars since he got credit for the time he already served and good behavior. he will serve one day of community service, be on probation for three years and pay less than $2,000 in fines. tammy bruce is in "focus" now and fox news contributor and host of get tammy bruce on fox nation. i emphasize his blood alcohol

content was measured two hours after that crash took place. i spoke to jonna spilbor yesterday said it could have been much different taken immediately. >> you have the right to refuse to allow that to be taken and he did. throughout this process. in california law, if there is a dui and there is injuries that result, that can be charged as a felony. most of the time it is. but if it's considered a wobbler for some reason you can charge it as a misdemeanor. a pretty big scandal in california that he was charged with a misdemeanor because of the injuries. the other driver does claim injuries. you saw the pictures of him. he was injured. he not only refused on site for the blood allowing it to go on. the longer you wait the less there will be an issue. as you heard tried to tell the officer well, i'm a

high-profile person and handed them like a charity card saying you are a donor to the california highway patrol. that could be considered an attempt to interfere. with all of that, if there was not a two-tier system of justice, either one of us would be sitting in a dungeon somewhere. it is a remarkable thing this is what the american people see regardless that this could have ended up with both individuals deceased. it seemed to be a horrible accident. you saw the photograph of his $100,000 car. it looked destroyed. the police officer said you're lucky you're not dead. this is what americans get upset about. there is a different standard and americans are tired of that. >> sandra: any time we see somebody driving under the influence, beyond ability to control a car, to avoid injuring anyone else on the

road and still the napa county district attorney is again defending not charging pelosi with a felony. listen to this. >> when we evaluated the nature of our survivor's injuries and so forth. keeping how we handle every other case the charging decision was made as a misdemeanor. these injuries were there and a result of the crash, but not the kind of injuries we see in a felony case like lacerated livers or broken bones. >> sandra: people see the story and want to know did he get off easy or was he treated like anyone else in this situation? >> when you look at the collective issues here. his refusal to cooperate with the blood test. the attempt to interfere or to influence while he is there believing that his position will help him, and there you heard her confirm that there is injuries on both sides. now it is about purseing how bad the injuries are.

that again is really a miracle. he is 82 years old. now the other driver may have been able to have survived but what if he didn't? this is a remarkable choice for a man worth over $100 million and you can actually hire someone to drive you if you know a couple of drinks are going to get you smashed. he chose not to. >> sandra: he has the right to drive himself but many wondering with that kind of wealth why you would even take that risk not to himself or anyone else. meanwhile hillary clinton is out with a trailer for her new tv series gutsy celebrating bravery in women. she and her daughter traveled across the country to meet and learn from other influential women. clinton herself shared her most daring choices in life. watch. >> you have been on public display since the beginning.

the >> sandra: this is involving the sex scandal with her husband and monica lewinsky. >> we're looking at the absurdity. gutsy not divorcing her husband believing she needed him to become the first woman president. you know what's really gutsy is when you have two children and you don't know where you are going to get baby formula. what's really gutsy is when you have to decide if there will be protein on your children's plate or you put $10 worth of gas in your car because you can't really afford both. gutsy is making sure you take care of your children knowing that gas prices, that heating oil prices will go up more for the winter. that's gutsy. not being a privileged woman talking about whether or not

she stayed in her marriage. that's insulting to everyone. >> sandra: a bunch of wealthy women sitting around. celebrities. not talking about those working two jobs to pay for inflation. great to have you here. that does it for us in "the faulkner focus". i will be back in john roberts. i'm sandra smith at 1:00 p.m. eastern on america reports. thanks for joining us. d home. there's a powerful va benefit that veterans have earned, but many don't even know about. it's the va home loan benefit. as a veteran, you're eligible to apply for a refinance loan for up to 100% of your home's value. not just 80% like other loans. the newday 100 va loan lets you refinance your mortgage, consolidate your high-rate credit card debt, get cash and lower your payments an average of $600 a month. so if you need money to take care of your family, use the valuable va home loan benefit

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