>> i was into apple sauce oddly and once spilled it in my bed. >> cocktails in bed. >> cocktails are different. >> i never spill my cocktail, i don't have to worry about that. >> all right. well, i'm still for the chocolate. do what you want to, here is "america reports." >> john: kayleigh, thank you. fbi career is doa, a top agent is accused of putting his political bias before the badge, allegedly brushing off serious questions of first son hunter biden and shady business dealings with the nation's top rival. >> sandra: the agent resigned and was escorted out of fbi headquarters in washington, d.c. sure to fuel more accusations from republicans in congress who say the bureau is politically biased and only further erodes the american people's trust in an agency fighting for years to restore its reputation. andy mccarthy and chris swecker

will react in moments. first this. >> john: fox news alert to kick off "america reports." federal judge has ordered the government to file a "more detailed receipt for all the materials seized during the unprecedented mar-a-lago raid." i'm john roberts in washington, happy tuesday, sandra. >> sandra: you as well, john. sandra smith in new york. the judge also ordering the release of the findings from the private filter team review. this as we await a final answer on whether that judge will green light former president trump's request to appoint a special master. >> john: legal parties question whether it's needed after the doj sifted through all the materials. david spunt, and we are learning a new attorney is working with the former president's team. >> david: a well-known, well respected entity in florida, just came on former president trump's legal team, a former

solicitor general in florida. but back to what we are waiting for today, we know at any point over the next few hours the department of justice will file a lengthier detailed document that shows the evidence taken from mar-a-lago. this is strictly for the judge to see. it's under seal, meaning unfortunately we won't see it, hopefully at some point it will be unsealed so we have an idea exactly what is in that document. the trump legal team has a hearing john on thursday in front of a federal judge to push for the neutral third party arbitor, called a special master, to come in and see if the department of justice properly handled evidence. the special master, if appointed, would also return any evidence that is outside the scope of the investigation. judge canon will make that decision on thursday. she will take into account a court filing from yesterday indicating the justice department has already gone through the evidence as you

mentioned. federal prosecutors are suggesting a special master is somewhat of a moot point, john and sandra, because of what's called a filter team. it's kind of like a special master, it's a neutral third party team, however it's based at the department of justice and that filter team is done looking at all the evidence and found a limited amount that may contain attorney/client privileged information. the trump team wants a special master, someone not remotely even connected to the justice department. listen. >> we still need judicial intervention, we need a judge to monitor our access to these documents. we have not had a single phone call from the filter team telling us anything, the first knowledge we had about their findings on attorney/client privilege. >> david: the hearing, 1:00 p.m. west palm beach, florida on thursday. john, sandra. >> john: david spunt at the justice department. thank you. it would almost seem to be a moot point. jonathan turley was saying he

believes a special master would be appointed. >> sandra: thursday the next day for that. president biden's massive student loan handout is rippling across the spectrum. strategist say it could boost turnout among younger voters, but could alienate blue collar workers. ohio distancing them from the handout. first we head to milwaukee where we find our own garrett tenny, so what are you hearing there? >> given that younger voters skip midterm elections, we were interested to hear what kind of impact the student loan program is having on that demographic, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and ohio, and this issue alone in the action of the white house is

not enough to change their plans for november. >> i'm a college student but i'm not too big into it, so -- i would say it's not really going to affect me much. >> i would say it's something that might make me lean more left, considering i usually find myself laying smack dab in the middle. >> i feel like everyone shouldn't have to be talking about it. if there were things in place to prevent that from getting to the point where it is now, but make it so it's like affordable to go to college at the least. >> i think overall, it's a good thing for people to be able to go out and spend that money on other things, but i do feel like there's a level of unfairness there. >> if those reactions are any indication, the plan could backfire on democrats. in ohio, pennsylvania and wisconsin, close to 70% of people over the age of 25 do not

have a college degree. in both wisconsin and pennsylvania, the democratic candidates for senate are endorsing the student loan handout. in ohio, tim ryan is criticizing the white house plan for forcing blue collar workers who did not go to college to pay for the education for those who did. >> i think a targeted approach right now really does send the wrong message. there's a lot of people out there making 30, 40 grand a year that didn't go to college, i've been proposing a tax cut for working people that will affect everybody. >> no one we spoke to said the student loan handout will be a deciding factor in november, but it does give republicans another line of attack to use in the final few weeks before the election, sandra. >> sandra: live from milwaukee, thank you. >> john: rnc chairwoman rona

mcdaniel. first time in three years? >> three years, and exciting to be here. >> john: great to see you in person. student loan debt relief, the democrats are believing they might be able to get back some younger voters who had abandoned president biden, and the poll numbers, it was in the teens with people between the ages of 18 and 24. senator ted cruz thinks that might be a good strategy. >> if you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college studying completely useless things now has loans and can't get a job, joe biden just gave you 20 grand. like holy cow, 20 grand, maybe you were not going to vote in november and suddenly got 20 grand, it could drive up turnout, particularly among young people. >> john: what do you think, could it drive up turnout?

>> i'm not seeing that, i'm seeing some movement in the polls against joe biden on that.enter i talked to you about a poll in georgia just put herschel walker above warnock, and even educated voters are saying it's not fair, people who worked hard to put their kids through school, uber drivers, waitresses, hard working americans suffering from inflation and gas prices, they are going to have to pay for my college? i took out this commitment on my own, why should anybody else have to pay for it. i think this is a totally unfair, i think every american recognizes that and i think it's going to backfire. >> john: call for number three, you mentioned, herschel walker against rafael warnock, warnock had been up in every poll until today, an emerson poll puts walker in front by three points. if this is true, it's a big turn

around. what do you think is responsible for it? >> i think what the democrats have done with the 87,000 irs agents in lieu of police on the streets, yeah, employees that are instead of putting more police on the street, helping get more teachers for the kids who are having deficits after the pandemic, or the border, and then you add the student loan forgiveness, i think voters are very unhappy with the biden administration on top of gas prices, inflation. we know all the things that are happening in this country, the drug crisis that we are seeing, and remember, warnock has spent about 30 million against herschel walker on tv. to so see this, herschel has not hit tv at the same level. this does not bode well for democrats. >> john: pennsylvania, a little more problematic, president biden is heading to wicksbury later today, fetterman is up, a

serious problem. >> pennsylvania will always be a battleground state, always tight. i think the fact that fetterman is not showing up with the president today is a symbol how democrats feel about joe biden. stacey abrams won't show up with him, tim ryan, fetterman is avoiding him, oz is a good candidate. as voters learn more about fetterman, he has been on the air, oz not as much, he had a very competitive expensive primary, i think as voters learn more about oz he's going to be in good shape. >> john: you had a conference call with republican donors the other day as documented by politico, you said look, we have good candidates we just don't have the money. how can you get more money out of the donors. when you have, what some people have suggested -- >> we always see this, the polls that come out, historically wrong. susan collins was never leading in a poll, ernst, tillis, and

don't listen to this. i had that call and i said our candidates are great, so much better than the democrats and even since the call we have seen the polls tighten and more money going to the candidates. give more, give to oz, j.d. vance, herschel, we need the candidates to have the resources. >> john: and polls tighten in terms of preference for congress. looked like the republicans were going to win in a landslide, a blowout. not quite like 2010, but the way things have narrowed, what has brought the democrats back to life here? >> you know, i think this always happens, the polls tighten in august and then september will do better. and these are generic polls. when i'm with iwan in arizona, monica de la cruz or john james, the candidates are amazing, zachary nunn in iowa, i'm not seeing what the polls are

saying. i see a lot of enthusiasm and we have much better candidates. >> john: we still have a long way to go, no question. >> great to see you. >> john: as we said yesterday, a day is a long time in politics, a week is forever. we have more than 60 days left. >> sandra: absolutely, great to get her take on that considering ted cruz put out a warning how this could play out in the midterm elections and says that might not be the case. >> john: always good to create concern among voters, that gets them out to the polls. >> sandra: and great to have her in the studio, tell her hello. a new report on the economy shows job openings in this country, wait for it, topping 11.2 million in july, that is nearly double the available workers. so is this other worrisome side for a federal reserve trying to tame record high inflation. our economic panel will dig in. >> john: a man who traveled more

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>> sandra: new report on the economy just out showing job openings in this country topping 11.2 million in july. those are open positions, nearly double the available workers. the new data could encourage the federal reserve to be more aggressive in the upcoming rate hike announcement, could put

millions of american jobs on the chopping block. a professor of business and economics at the kings college in manhattan and fox news fox business contributor, and susan lee, equally qualified to weigh in on this. this report gives us an idea how many job openings there are, turnover, the quit rate went down, a one-year low, that's good news, right, we were seeing that up for quite some time. people were going job to job to job looking for better offers. but 11.2 million job openings in this country, that is a very tight labor market. what does it mean to the average american? >> hiring went down in the month as well, so this is actually a bigger number, right, close to a million more all of a sudden in july, but inflation, that means prices will go up, higher wages in order to get people into those positions. i also want to point out i've been speaking to a lot of big money managers at silicon valley. >> sandra: as you do. >> yeah, 11.2 million sounds

great, but dig into it, the white collar jobs, high paying jobs are coming down whereas you have the, hate to say it but the minimum wage jobs you get more of. american workers don't actually get more access to the six figure salaries. >> sandra: a lot of theories on that, right, brian, a lot of the jobs filled are ones where people can pay their own way, they want to work from home three days a week, to an office two days a week, the restaurant workers, you have to be there. so, what's going on here? >> now the other end of the spectrum, small businesses, look at the surveys there. 91% of small businesses last month said they could not find anybody to fill the jobs. the labor market has shrunk so much, people are on the sidelines, for a long time we paid them to do that and now businesses are saying i cannot find workers. it's great to have open jobs but the frustration level gets so high the wages have to go way up and then you are right, people are paying for that.

that menu price goes up. you are going to pay for the fact so many workers are staying on the sidelines. >> sandra: and people feel that when they see the prices high. the federal reserve has a huge job to bring those prices down, that means higher interest rates, economic pain for the average american. now your reactions to this moment in the white house briefing room yesterday, karine jean-pierre with edward lawrence. >> job numbers are coming out on friday. should americans be prepared for job losses to tame inflation. >> i'm not going to get ahead of the numbers but talked about how we are expecting to see a bit of a cooling as we go to transition. >> in the transition you are expecting job losses. >> expect a cooling, especially as we are in transition. >> sandra: okay, expect a cooling. i believe we are already in a recession, according to the economic growth numbers that we have seen, gdp contracting two straight quarters. >> and you heard the word pain on friday by jerome powell and

they are meeting at jackson hole, and that hurts your 401(k). >> sandra: huge selloff on friday, 372 point drop on the dow right now, brian. >> the pain is coming. federal reserve is trying to raise interest rates to bring down inflation at the very same time the federal government is putting its foot on the gas to spend more money. one foot on the brake, one on the gas. that is not a good situation to be in. that probably means the fed is going to have to raise rates more than they want to which means more pain for businesses and americans. i don't like where this is going. it's self-defeating economics that we are seeing from the biden administration. >> sandra: and now there are some, including pennsylvania governor tom wolf, calling for stimulus checks to help out folks who are battling sky high inflation. here is tom wolf. >> i want to give pennsylvania the step up they need to survive inflation and higher prices. so, $2,000 to any -- to families

making $80,000 or less. we estimate about 250,000 families will apply for this. $500 million operation expense. but it's going to give families some room to get back on their feet. >> sandra: he's trying to rally republican lawmakers in the state, his second attempt trying to get this done. would this help? >> spend, spend, spend, spend, inflation, government keeps spending. how is chucking more mean into the economy, it won't. it's the pattern all year. we have to stop it. get more workers off the sidelines. bring down prices, stop paying people to stay on the sidelines, stop it with the student loan handouts to keep young people on the sidelines. get people back to work. >> federal reserve is trying to cut down the balance sheet while the government is handing out more $1,000 checks. wishful effect. >> sandra: great to have both of

you. >> john: as migrants flood the southern border in record high numbers, fox news followed one man as he made the dangerous journey. he came 2,000 miles from venezuela to the united states. now a month after crossing the border into texas he is talking about his journey. speaking only to fox news. matt is live in eagle pass, texas with the exclusive details. matt. >> hi, john. at the border we frequently talk to migrants moments after they cross into the u.s. and they tell us about their plans and which state they are headed to, and we tracked one migrant from venezuela, we met him last month, shortly after he crossed into eagle pass, texas illegally, 23-year-old brian brea is now in chester, pennsylvania outside of philadelphia. brian is seeking asylum, he says as a cook making about $30 a month, he could never get ahead, so he paid coyotes to come to the u.s. he says his feet bled on the

50-day journey where he saw men, women and children being assaulted, he says one father killed himself after his child died. >> why did i decide to leave venezuela? main reason, because of the dictatorship. a person like me would never get a visa. we saw a lot of dead people left behind, suffering, dying. >> brian tells us he was given a cell phone from immigration authorities and has to send in a picture every friday. the white house has previously said that the government can use those cell phones to track migrant's location, their appearance, and their voice. brian says he cannot get working papers until he is formally given asylum, so he recently cleaned someone's house for some money. i talked to texas dps about brian's case. since he has been processed and given a court date for next august, a year from now. until then, he's in the country

properly, he would not be deportation priority. john. >> john: any early word what the adjudication might be, claims to be an economic refugee and political refugee. >> he just got here about a month ago, arrived in the suburb of philly a couple weeks ago. not clear where his case stands but he has a wife and two children he left behind and one day he hopes to get them here as well. >> john: matt, thank you. and more on this next hour, sandra. >> sandra: indeed. morgan ortega will be joining us on the female gop candidates at the border. she is there, and what a story to tell as we continue to cover all of that, john. >> john: a big topic in the election, no question. >> sandra: indeed. a senior fbi agent involved in the hunter biden investigation is now out of a job, accused of political bias on the job. andy mccarthy and chris swecker

on what it could mean into the inquiry of the president's son. >> john: and last year on this day, the final c-17 took off from the kabul airport, leaving the nation's longest war. we will look back at what went wrong those final chaotic days in afghanistan. >> i'm more frustrated now than i was there, finding out more and more how it was run, what they put our men and women in the military through.

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>> hundreds of people trying to get on american planes in an desperate attempt to flee kabul's airport. >> the withdrawal process was completely botched. >> the taliban has set up shop

in office inside the presidential palace. >> concern the airport in kabul could be targeted. >> we are hearing about an explosion that has taken place at the airport in kabul, the warning we are getting late last night. >> country mourning the loss of 13 u.s. service members killed in explosions outside the kabul airport. >> infuriated, up to this point, no responsibility, no accountability has been taken. >> the last plane carrying american troops departed the airport in kabul. >> the idea to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don't know how that happens. >> sandra: today marks one year since the final u.s. troops left the kabul airport in afghanistan after the taliban takeover was complete. questions remain how america's longest war ended in a stunning defeat. general keith kellogg standing by. but first jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with more.

hi, jennifer. >> jennifer: exactly one year ago, u.s. colonel was on one of the last flights out of kabul, responsible for the air field and runways during the messy afghan withdrawal. 621 airmen arrived to a nonfunctioning air field. his flight was at first turned back. >> those folks tried everything they could to get into kabul short of landing on people. imagine, people come across a barrier with their families and everything they have and they are doing whatever they can to get to safety. in this case, safety had a big american flag on the back of it and usually -- also included commercial airplanes. >> jennifer: august 16th, u.s. forces raced to regain control of the airport and carried out the largest evacuation of civilians in u.s. history.

over 17 days, on average, 7500 civilians were evacuated daily with the high point being august 23rd when more than 21,600 left aboard aircraft departing every 34 minutes. at one point, the air field lost electricity. a young girl approached colonel mcclasski, he tried to reassure her. >> she was balling and balling and balling, and i told her you will be in california and stay with your uncle, back in california before i am. and she left within an hour after that. >> jennifer: he and his team were among the last to fly out of kabul on august 30, 5 c-17s under the cover of darkness, loaded specialized -- ee equipm,

and the suicide bombing still haunts him. >> the loss of those americans was -- it still hits me to this day, and i think every day about those young americans who are still living with the scars from that and will the rest of their lives, and i just hope that they know that we didn't give up. >> jennifer: this photograph shot through night vision shows the last american soldier to board the last c-17 as it lifted off marking the end of the afghan war. 20 years, $1 trillion, 2,456 american service members killed in action, tens of thousands wounded. sandra. >> sandra: jennifer griffin from the pentagon, thank you. >> john: retired lieutenant general keith kellogg, national security adviser to former vice president pence, and also fox

news contributor. here we are a year after the disastrous pullout in which hundreds of americans, green card holders, afghan allies, were left behind and yet other than this remembrance that we have been doing the last few days, this issue has been all but forgotten in the biden administration attempt to leave it behind and move on. >> yeah, it has john, thanks for having me. not the only debacle they have walked away from, i don't care if it's afghanistan, the problem is going to happen in ukraine as well. but there was actually -- the disturbing fact about afghanistan, it was entirely preventable. there was a plan there, and general mckenzie said that this last weekend, four star commander and said there was a plan, go to 2500, hold, hold bagram, 3,000 plus para military, we were not going to walk out on them until there was a deal between the government and the taliban. we said this all along. and by arbitrarily saying i'm leaving and i know frank mckenzie very well.

when he gives you his advice it is blunt, straight to you, and i know he gave biden that advice because he gave trump that advice as well. and we said ok, we understand it, we understand where we are going, what we need to do and they violated that, as a result of that, they had 13 dead americans at abby gate, and remember john, the year before that, the entire year, once we came to the dohar agreement, not a single american was killed in afghanistan in one year of that agreement and then the pullout. the taliban said to us at the time, remember, look, if you want kabul, you can have kabul. you take it and get out of there and we said no, we don't want to do that. that's what we should have done. should have had, gone in there and said we are going to leave when we want to leave, when all the americans are out, all the siv holders as well, we went out there and saw the commander get on the c-17. >> john: a haunted photograph, no question about that, and you mentioned the 13 service members killed a year ago, and what

president biden said after the suicide explosion. >> to those who carried out this attack as well as anyone who wishes america harm, know this. we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down and make you pay. >> john: hunt you done and make you pay. isis k has not been hunted down or made to pay. >> we talk about the government now in afghanistan. leader of their internal security, the guy who runs the security for the entire state is haqqani, he's a global terrorist. >> john: who was harboring al-zawahri. >> that's right, and $10 million bounty on his head, and that's probably the guy we should have taken out as well. these are all bad people, like the hole in the wall gang in the west, the terrorists in the world will assemble in

afghanistan and keep looking over our shoulder as a result of this. >> john: we had darin taylor on, his son was killed, what he told sandra yesterday. >> i'm infuriated, no responsibility, no accountability has been taken for the, let's face it, the botched way that this occurred. our kids, those marines, the army, they are all put in an atenable situation through the administration, through the state department, and there's no excuse for it. there's none whatsoever. >> john: the father of darin taylor. so, you had two children who served in the military in afghanistan. >> right. >> john: you've got to understand what his parents are going through. >> absolutely. look, first of all, the men and women in uniform did their job,

they did what they were supposed to do. here is where the pushback needs to be. president of the united states, commander in chief, is responsible for that. he got all the recommendations from the military commanders, he ignored that, secretary of state ignored it. he owns it, sullivan owns it, secretary of state owns it, they violated all the military preexcepts that were recommended to follow. >> john: general, good to get your thoughts, appreciate you coming in today. >> sandra: marijuana is going to pot. new studies show weed being sold today is very different than the drug was just a few years ago, and there's new evidence it can be devastating to the brain of a teenager. dr. mark seigel on this. and kathy hochul admits remote learning was a bad idea.

>> to have all the kids go home and learn remotely. wow, wow, what a mistake that was, what a mistake that was. >> john: many people warning the same things years ago were punished for having that view. one woman suffered serious consequences to her career for daring to say something we all now know to be the truth, coming up. with prices going up and up, it's more important than ever to have extra cash in the bank. and for veteran homeowners, it's as easy as one, two, three. one: call newday. two: talk to our team to see how much cash you can get. three: borrow up to 100% of your home's value with the newday 100 va loan. with home values near all-time highs, use your va benefit to turn the equity in your home into cash in the bank.

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>> sandra: fbi agent has resigned following allegations he helped protect hunter biden from a criminal investigation into his business dealings. the assistant special agent in charge left his post over the weekend after being under the congressional microscope for months. let's bring in andy mccarthy, former u.s. district attorney. we are not shy of stories and work for you lately, andy, but

dig into this one for us, a pic up of the resigning agent, timothy thibault. what do you make of all this? >> andy: that they have a real political bias problem, sandra, at the fbi, and what i find annoying about this is the claim that, you know, this is a bunch of conservative people criticizing the good men and women who work at the fbi with whom, by the way, i worked for about a quarter century. so i don't feel like i need to apologize to anyone about this, but they have a problem and you know, there has been hundreds of pages of reports that have been written, not by conservative commentators but by the justice department's own inspector general about political bias, leaking, corruption, all kinds of stuff, and it seems to me that they know they have a problem but we only, you know, something like what they did last week where they dismissed someone who merits dismissing,

that happens only when some news leaks out and they are embarrassed, so then the guy getting shown the door. but otherwise they are not dealing with the problem from what i can see. >> sandra: we remember those moments from the media, october 2020, and even the president himself, listen. >> authorities are saying if those emails we just talked about are connected to an ongoing russian disinformation effort. >> it is so obviously a russian operation. >> hunter biden, this laptop, intelligence officials have warned is likely russian disinformation. >> ongoing russian disinformation effort. >> all of a sudden two and a half weeks before the election this laptop appears somehow. >> sandra: we all remember those moments very clearly from the media, and now americans see this happening and this recent resignation of this agent, tim thibault and they want to

know how rampant this is. chuck grassley wrote letter july 18th, citing whistleblowers, a pattern of political bias, high ranking individuals including this man, thibault. whistleblower said the doj and fbi employees must follow strict substantial factual predication, that he did not follow the guidelines. how much more is out there, andy? >> andy: i think, sandra, the fact that you were able to point to the 51 intelligence officials, former national security officials, who come out on the basis what they concede is no evidence, not a shred of evidence that they have that this was russian disinformation, and anybody who looked at it and used common sense, i mean, we talked about it at the time. it was obviously authentic, and biden was never -- you know, he was happy to go along with the story that it was russian

disinformation but never came out and said a single thing was not authentic. >> sandra: in his words, another smear campaign, we heard from the president then. andy, thank you. out of time. >> john: new at 2:00, is president biden taking a page from a former president's playbook? feeling like 1979, biden resorting to dire warnings to keep democrats in power. in the end, it did not work for jimmy carter and the democrats, will it work this time around? katie pavlich and jackie deangelis, and chris swecker on the latest fbi bias bombshell. all that and more coming up as "america reports" rolls on. many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan, for up to 100% of your home's value. if you need cash for you family, call newday usa. with automatic authority from the va, we can say yes

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>> sandra: new at 2:00, shades of 79, a democratic leadering --

facing the prospect of being a one-term president. >> it is a crisis of confidence, crisis that strikes at the heart, soul and spirit of our national will. erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of america. >> sandra: oh, the similarities. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two, i'm sandra smith in new york. >> john: everything old is new again. john roberts in washington. for jimmy carter, a crisis in confidence. the current commander in chief, battle for the soul of the nation. >> sandra: president biden is set to address the nation on thursday in primetime, midterms ten weeks away, both sides saying the message to voters could not be more clear. democrats arguing american's

fundamental rights are in jeopardy. and saying the anti-maga attacks are simply about getting out the vote. >> john: setting of thursday's speech cannot be overstated. president will be outside of philadelphia's independence hall, the same city he began his campaign for 2020. >> sandra: katie and jackie are here to help us out. >> john: begin with peter doocy live at the white house. what are you hearing about the big speech? >> peter: we are hearing president biden is hoping to reach an audience primetime that might miss him during daytime, and he will talk about the progress we have made as a nation to protect democracy but rights and freedoms are under attack and make clear who is fighting for the rights, fighting for the freedoms and fighting for our democracy. as the midterms inch closer, white house officials from the president on down are hoping to define most republicans as trump

loyalists with very few compensations. >> we have, you know, we have seen maga republicans attack our democracy. there are some mainstream republicans, he mentioned governor of maryland, larry hogan, and talked about him and what he's been doing and how he called him out of being the mainstream republican. >> peter: president biden has not even been in office two years yet but the midterm message is totally opposite what he pledged in the general election campaign when he promised to heal the soul of the nation. >> and to make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. they are not our enemies. they are americans. they are americans. >> peter: that was then, this is now, and earlier today we saw an update to an fec filing as the biden team based in philadelphia swapped in a new campaign treasurer but still no official 2024 re-election announcement

from the president yet. john. >> john: i mean, there was a little thing there when that was filed but i guess we are still waiting for the big announcement, and looking forward to a policy speech as well. >> sandra: katie pavlich is here, editor of town hall.com and fox news contributor, and also fox business own jackie deangelis. welcome to both of you. jackie, you first. the president is promising at a time the president badly needs it to unify the nation. that was a campaign promise and we have not seen him do so yet. >> i think the purpose of the speech to attack the country on thursday. and to tout accomplishments, he would say he spent trillions and trillions of dollars, forced inflation to a 40-year high and caused many americans a lot of pain and suffering probably

likely to continue because of the gut punch last week. so what he's going to do instead, pivot and attack half the country, grouping him into this, so you know, extremist maga republican group, most people would say they don't even know what that is, they just are looking for a change of direction in this country, they are unhappy with the way things are going, and the polling is showing that as well, and what the president has to do is confuse them into not focusing on what he has actually done, it's been harmful to them and has to say your rights are under attack, i'm sure he's going to bring up abortion, bring up voting rights, for example in this kind of speech. having said that, he's deflecting the issue, just basically that we are going to be in this stagflation bumping along for a while and it's going to hurt. >> sandra: good point. john, the speech will happen in the middle of the country in a recession. >> john: yeah, it will, and a lot of people are wondering, maybe we can talk later in the panel about whether or not this is a policy speech or a political speech, and if it is not a policy speech, should he

get free air time for it. but, jackie mentioned this idea of alienating or criticizing half the country, when the president came up with the ultra maga label, a lot of people rushed to embrace it but the president said this last week, he said what we are seeing is the beginning of the death nail of the extreme maga phil philosophy, it's the entire philosophy, underpin, i'm going to say something, almost like semi fascism the way in which it deals. katie, those are fighting words. >> we'll see if there is policy in the speech but it's certainly political given labor day weekend is this weekend, voters pay attention to the midterm elections after labor day weekend. timing on thursday is interesting going into a long weekend, people are not exactly remembering what he's saying, but looking at the topics for the segment and the battle for the soul of the nation, i said, that sounds very familiar and it was the campaign slogan for president biden during the 2020

campaign. he gave a speech in october of 2020 at gettysburg and said we had to be unified as a country, talked about abraham lincoln and house divided cannot stand and promised a president for all americans, american president. in the last week we have seen the complete opposite of that, said he wanted to work in a bipartisan fashion. legislation we have seen passed solely by democrats during his tenure in the white house does not, you know, reflect on that promise either, and so if he's going to go out there on thursday night and talk about democracy, a fox news poll came out earlier saying republicans beat democrats on the issue of preserving democracy and defending democracy by a point. so when you think about all the political capital that democrats have put into that issue and saying republicans are threatening rights or taking away your ability to vote, voters are not buying that, and they are very concerned about rising prices and this idea that inflation is not going down as the white house has claimed but

is still effecting them moving forward. >> sandra: john, perhaps to answer your question earlier about whether this is a political or a policy speech, it's an important distinction and one that was brought up on air force one, karine jean-pierre, press secretary to the president was asked that very question. we just turned the sound, it happened a few moments ago, listen. >> why is he giving that speech now? is this considered a political speech, is this a kick-off to his midterm message? >> like you said, it's a topic you've heard from him before. clearly i can't talk about politics from here, but -- >> political speech? >> no, no -- let me just say on thursday president biden will give a primetime speech as you just mentioned on the continued battle of the soul of the nation. >> so it's a political speech? give a primetime speech, i'm not sure that clarifies anything there, but we also had this headline up, mistakenly, but bring it back.

bloomberg pointing this out, perhaps it should be an economic policy speech considering more americans today than ever before cannot afford to pay their electric bill, more than 20 million american households have fallen behind on utility bills, one in every six homes and the amount they owe has doubled before the pandemic. >> it's a big problem with respect to people paying their bills and secure in their financial lives right now. you also look at what's happening with respect to the jobs market, you and i were talking about the jolts number, more than 11 million jobs still open and you have localized governments talking about sending out stimulus checks again, and that was the problem, and he did with the 1.9 trillion american rescue plan we didn't need, people would get ac

accustomed to that, and people would not return to the label force and he's putting pressure on the fed to raise interest rates to slow down corporate growth and i'm starting to see the signs that people will get laid off in earnest. >> sandra: john talked earlier, and believes handouts will backfire on democrats. >> john: ted cruz thinks they may turn out younger voters. let me bring katie back to the idea of the president labelling a portion of the country as semi fascist. seems to be the 2022 equivalent of 2016 basket of deplorables, for hillary clinton, a turning point, she energized president trump's base and a lot of those folks still out there. >> and just given the timing of that statement with the low approval number and trust when it comes to institutions like the department of justice, the federal bureau of investigation, the fact that the biden administration with democrats

just hired 87 through new irs officials to go after not billionaires, but mom and pop businesses and landscapers who maybe made some money they feel should be counted as income, when it comes to putting trust back into institutions, especially the government, the timing on president biden's statement about fascist, gone after political opponents as you have been reporting, the official resigned from the fbi, if joe biden's goal is regain trust with the american people in government and institutions and representation in washington, d. c., calling half the country semi fascist and smirking on the way out the door what does that mean, and what do you do with semi fascist, what's the next step to stop them, and someone talking about rhetoric and

unified as a country does not seem the right tone to take. >> john: appreciate your thoughts. see you soon. >> sandra: just in to fox from the southern border, a group of republican women running for public office from across country are there to see the migrant crisis with their own eyes. their visit happening at the same time the white house is claiming that migrants are not just walking into this country. >> this is an open border that needs to be shut down. and it is often framed this open border is somehow more humanitarian, that you care about people more if you have the open border. we have learned today that nothing is further from the truth. >> john: former state department spokesperson morgan ortagus, she organized it for the candidates and morgan, we'll get into the why of your visit with the candidates down there, but first of all, we want to highlight that yesterday our peter doocy had a go around with karine

jean-pierre on the double standard that the administration seems to have in people entering the united states. this is going to take a moment, but worth watching. >> how come migrants are allowed to come into this country unvaccinated but world class tennis players are not? somebody walks into texas or arizona unvaccinated, they are allowed to stay. why? >> but that's not how it works. like we actually -- >> i know that's not what you want to happen but that is happening. >> it's not like somebody walks over, that's not -- that's not how -- >> that's exactly what's happening. thousands people are walking every day, some of them turn themselves over, some of them are caught, tens of thousands a week are not. that is what is happening. >> john: so she insists people are not walking across the border. morgan, seem to be along the lines of saying well the sky is not blue. >> morgan: yeah, we observed

people doing that just today. an hour or so ago, a half dozen migrants, you know, i'll give the press secretary a little credit, they used a ladder, but the wall, they were taking ladders and they were scaling the fence. we have had people out here all day, fox cameraman out here watching people walk across the border. so, the press secretary is more than welcome to come join me and the other candidates and she can see it for herself. >> sandra: morgan, it's obviously republican women that are down there visiting the border, seeing firsthand what is happening. why do you fathom that we are not seeing more democrats? where is alexandria ocasio-cortez? >> morgan: well, i think they are ashamed and embarrassed of what's happening at this border. we are here at the rio grande and we heard stories of the bodies that are piled up. they are fishing bodies out of the rio grande every single day. you are talking about children that are also, i mean, as young

as three years old just recently being fished out of the rio grande. what we are really seeing here, why i have organized so many republican women candidates coming here is you are seeing a war on latina women from the biden administration due to their open border policies. these women think they are going through smugglers and cartels for a better life but they are being raped, often multiple times, they are human trafficked, some of them die, and are sold for body parts. we learned about something called a rape tree today, that is a tree with women's under garments where the rapist put it there to brag about what they are doing. it's heavy and horrific stuff but a war on latina women and republican women are here at the border to shine a light on it and put a stop to it. >> john: how big an issue do you expect it's going to be in the midterm elections. predominantly a local issue there in texas, new mexico, arizona and california, although more recently a national issue,

because of the fentanyl problem, and people bussed to washington and new york city, hearing from the mayors of those two cities. one of the women you have with you is mayra flores, and overturned a seat held by the democrats for more than a century, how do you think it's going to play out? >> morgan: i think it's the number one national security issue. i spent my career in foreign policy and national security and intelligence community. what we are seeing is a dramatic uptick in aprehennings on the terror watch list, and fentanyl deaths, fentanyl comes from china and the cartels smuggle it over the border. some estimates, they will make $13 billion, 13 with a b. so when you have the number one killer of young people in this country as a direct result from

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>> sandra: the fbi has been trying to win back americans' trust cleaning house of political bias made infamous in recent years by fired officials like lisa page and peter struck. but a new move at the bureau threatens to send the agency's rehab back to square one. first, top republican senators demanding that facebook hand over all its communication with the feds related to hunter biden. this comes after mark zuckerberg would reveal the social media giant buried the laptop story after the fbi gave them a warning over russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election. kelly o'grady has more on that. so, why are these senators demanding this information? >> good to see you, sandra. this new request is really all about uncovering whether the fbi acted with political bias. ron johnson and chuck grassley

are demanding clarity and documentation in a letter saying the american people deserve to know whether the fbi used facebook as part of their alleged plan to discredit information about hunter biden, the letter also demanding records of all communication between facebook and government agencies relating to hunter biden and the names of all those privy so the exchanges regarding russian disinformation. the clip that is spurring this information, zuckerberg on the joe rogan podcast sharing what the fbi told facebook. >> did they specifically say you need to be on guard about that story? >> no, i don't remember if it was that specifically but basically fit the pattern. >> the nuance, the uncertainty spurring new demands, though meta saying the warning was very general, recently tweeting in the lead-up to the 2020 election, the fbi shared general guidance about the threat for foreign interference and potential hack and leak

operations, not hunter biden or the laptop, and timothy thibault has been whistleblower acquisitions with political bias on the handling of the hunter biden case, but does undermine the trust in the institutions ahead of a very important midterm election. >> sandra: thank you, john. >> john: bring in chris swecker, former assistant fbi director what do we know about tim thibault's departure, he suggests he resigned, and some question whether he was forced out. what do you know? >> chris: it was a strategic retirement, retirement age and 20 years in and at least age 50, probably confronted with an internal investigation or you can just retire. i think he decided to retire.

that's an option that you have that should not stop an inspector general inquiry what went on here, what i'm hearing is incredibly disturbing, i mean, these social media companies are so powerful and you know, the fbi manipulating them, i don't know thibault had any role in that, but the fact that he, you know, that he doctored up this information and manipulated it in a way that just should never be done in the fbi, they should be apolitical straight down the line. >> sandra: and that's what americans want to believe every day is the case but they see something like this happen and they have questions and want to know if it's rampant. we asked andy mccarthy and he said this. >> they know they have a problem but we -- something like what they did last week, dismissed someone who merits dismissing, that happens only when some news leaks out and they are embarrassed, so then you know,

the guy gets shown the door. otherwise they are not dealing with a problem from what i can see. >> sandra: how do you clean house? visit pains me to give this commentary and be critical of the fbi, but there are so many good men and women in the fbi, they built up this reputation over the last hundred years, they literally had a good brand and the good will of the american public. and what i see happening is painful because i see good people, people who have always supported the fbi, former fbi, judges, lawyers, just regular old people that i interact with every day have lost faith in their ability to be apolitical and to apply those enormous powers they have in an objective, equal basis, equitable basis. they have so much power and they have to understand that when you wield that power through -- from a standpoint of ideology, they discredit the fbi, they drain and hemorrhage all the good will right out of it. >> john: he had already been on leave for a month after senator

charles grassley sent a series of letters to attorney general garland and fbi director wray suggesting thibault was involved in political bias, what he said in a follow-up letter on the 7th of, or the 25th, rather of july. he said in october 2020, an avenue of additional derogatory hunter biden reporting was ordered closed at the direction of assistant special agent in charge thibault. in addition, ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required by fbi guidelines. despite the matter closed in such a way the investigative avenue might be opened later, it's alleged he subsequently attempted to mark the matter fbi systems could it could not be open in the future. this is information grassley gleaned from a whistleblower. it sounds if you believe what

grassley is saying thibault had his thumb on the scale. >> chris: sounds baffling to me, i was the number three in the bureau, he was not in a high level position, especially washington field officer, 13 of them. he should not have the authority to open or close that type of sensitive investigative matter, if you read the attorney general guidelines they talk about sensitive investigative matters and that's exactly what this is. so i find it really hard to believe that he could close that all by himself unless he did it, you know, not overtly, but was trying to do it in such a way that nobody paid any attention to it. along come whistleblowers. i've talked to people inside the fbi as well and they are absolutely -- they cannot figure out why this hunter biden case has not moved off of where it was two years ago. we know they had an investigation, the receipt that

they gave the computer shop owner had a money laundering file number on it out of delaware. so we know that case is opened. so what's happened to it, fallen into a black hole. >> sandra: and people have big questions on the accountability of the social media giants, mark zuckerberg saying the fbi basically came to them about the russian disinformation, they did suppress the new york post bombshell story on hunter biden's laptop. >> chris: that was an extraordinary interview. and sounds to me like they went to the powerful social media companies spring loaded to suppress any commentary from the right that's derogatory or not convenient for anyone to the left side of the political spectrum, and the fbi just gave them a good excuse to do that by coming around and saying hey, we are about to get a load of russian disinformation. they quickly put it in that category and gave the hook they needed to suppress the

information. >> john: we saw facebook doing what it did and twitter suspended the new york post for writing about this online. so, you know -- >> chris: they are very powerful organizations. >> john: no question about that. but very tantalizing investigation and i think you raised the right question. why is this dropped into a black hole. chris, always good to get your expertise. thank you. >> sandra: thank you, chris. one state hoping to follow california on lowering vehicle emissions. but now that california has set a deadline for gas-powered cars to be banned, folks in virginia are slamming the brakes and looking to make a u-turn. >> john: a -- one executive lost her job for saying too little too late from closing schools. we will hear from that former executive coming right up. for appraisal or termite inspections.

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>> john: to her bosses she was cool enough to hang with snoop dogg but not talk covid. next, the levi executive forced out for raising restrictions, and now watch what he has to say that they are taking it all back. republican leaders in virginia trying not going down the same road as california with cars, banning gas-powered vehicles simply because of what california is doing. and mike, you and i both live in virginia. why is virginia tied to california when it comes to gas-powered vehicles? >> mike: john, you always have good questions, and last year the democratic legislature and the democratic governor before leaving office passed this bill and signed into law with california admissions standards. and in an effort to turn virginia into california, liberal politicians sold

virginia out by subjecting virginia drivers to california vehicle laws. the lieutenant governor says virginia voters did not elect california officials. >> if that's how we are going to pass laws in virginia, whatever california does, that's what we do, then why do we have legislators? why do we have a governor? so, we are going to get rid of this thing. >> mike: not just virginia. 16 states and the district of columbia have adopted californi

and put our head in the sand is not good for business or consumers. it's happening, might as well help it along.l season and despite nearing three full years of covid, the messaging is still a mess. especially in some democrat led areas of the country. >> john: deadline pushed back for a requirement that experts call unnecessary. in philadelphia, masks will be required for the first ten days

of school. why not after that, or why the first ten days. and in new york, the governor has admitted that remote learning was a mistake. >> sandra: our next guest was forced out of her high profile job and walked away from a million dollars, all so she could speak out freely against school closures. a story we remember very well, jennifer is here, former brand president for levis. jennifer, if you were to tell the audience in a nutshell why you walked away from the job, give us a reason. >> well, i was pushed out and then i walked away before accepting the severance and the terms of a nondisclosure agreement but i had been outspoken about the harms done to children from school closures, playground closures and other restrictions since the very beginning of covid ind wasr the course of two years and eventually it was decided there was not a place for me at the company any longer. and i chose to leave on my own

terms. >> john: so you wrote an essay online about this, jennifer, in which you said of your opposition to school closures and remote learning, i wrote op-eds, appeared on local news shows, attended meetings with the mayor's office, organized rallies and pleaded on social media to get the schools open. i was condemned for speaking out. this time i was called a racist, strange accusation given that i have two black sons, and a qanon, and kathy hochul now has come out and said remote learning is a big mistake. what do you think now that a very prominent democratic governor said wrong thing to do. >> yeah, and not just her. she said this on friday. but the headlines are all confirming the fact that closed schools were a disaster for kids, and for women, which hochul also talked about,

because more than a million women left the workforce to help their kids with zoom school. you know, they could not leave the kids home alone, although some had to do that, if they had essential jobs or hourly wage jobs. it's frustrating, that's a gentle word, that this thing i was saying that i lost my job over is now just accepted as the truth but we seem to have skipped a step because we have gone from villefying anyone who spoke out against it to accepting it as truth and no accountability. it's as this this happened but nobody did it but this was a policy decision by government leaders, largely in blue states and cities, and public health leaders that they empowered and there needs to be accountability. you know, it's too late for me, and you know what, frankly, it's more importantly and more tragically it's too late for a lot of the kids who have fallen desperately behind or kids that dropped out that are not going

back. it's going to affect their life choices, life expectancy and what happens to this generation for a very long time. >> sandra: and you look at how long that will last. look at the teacher shortages that are happening as a result in this country right now, it's a huge problem, and i want to seize on that word accountability, you said people like me were fired for saying what governor kathy hochul and new york casually said about kids and schools. worse, kids lost years of education which will impact their lives and future prospects. where is the apology, where is the correction, how are they going to make up for this. add to that, jennifer, where is the accountability, you know, for leadership in the country that got this so wrong. are they going to pay the consequences? >> well, i hope so. parents need to continue to speak out when parents make their voices heard it does make a difference. just a couple weeks ago a preschool principal called the police on a 4-year-old who showed up at a preschool in

mountain view, california for not wearing a mask and that policy was changed the next day when a video went viral. and so our voices do matter. while i wasn't able to get schools open in san francisco, the parents coming together really did push to get playgrounds open, it took us nine months, but it was the coalition of parents that made that happen, and you know, people just have to stand up and then as far as accountability, that's through your vote, obviously. you know, this will be the most important thing for me. did you support kids during this time when i vote come this november, that's going to be the main factor for me. because so many were neglected and so many were harmed and two weeks, two months, but for far too many that's not the case and it will impact them for the rest of their lives. i would just add that you know, i'm not crying poor me here, i was just one well paid executive and i'll figure out my way from

here, but the demonization and the villefying of public voices like mine amounted to censorship, and kept parents afraid of speaking out, even journalists i think failed, well, they failed in their duty. and doctors were villefied as well, and so problematic, we didn't have a societal discussion and now yeah, kids were harmed and i remember who did it. >> john: anyone who challenged the status quo was villefied. you are a former world class gymnast, you wrote about the abuse physically and mentally and slings and arrows from that, and walked away from a million dollar handout from, i don't want to call it -- severance,

golden parachute, from levis and i'm not going to sign a nondisclosure agreement, i'm not going to stop talking. >> obviously they could not have required that i not talk about kids and schools and ongoing restrictions but what they could have required was that i not talk about the terms of my leaving the company, and you know, as i just mentioned, the censorship and the demonization and instilling of fear of name calling is so alarming to me and i did not -- that's why i was pushed out because i did resist that and i did speak out anyway, and i didn't want to be silenced on that matter. it felt contradictory to everything i had been trying to do in speaking out and bucking the narrative. >> sandra: you've been a powerful voice throughout this. thanks for joining us, jennifer. >> thank you for having me, bye. >> john: coming up next, horrifying attacks carried out

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>> sandra: a 14-year-old boy in new york under arrest and facing

hate crime charges. this after a cop says he sprayed two older jewish men with fire exting extinguishers. this video showing one of the incidents. the arrest in part of a spike in hate crimes in america's largest city. nate foy has more. how big of a spike in crime are we talking about here? >> it's absolutely staggers. compared to last year, hate crime arrests are up 103% in new york city and 45% targeting the jewish community. two days happened in brooklyn. the 14-year-old boy sneaks up to the man, sprays him with a fire extinguisher and chases after him again. minutes after this, this same teen is accused of attacking another jewish man by spraying and punching the second man. police say the next day, this guy is accused of hitting a man in the face who was dressed in

traditional jewish clothing. a rabbi in brooklyn says bail reform laws are putting his community in danger. >> we have to ask our legislator, please fix the whole system. the system is letting him out in two hours, six hours, eight hours, they hit again. it's the same problem again and again. >> police have not blamed it on bail reform but police say the suspect has a criminal history in florida and nevada. no previous arrests in new york. his bail is set at $10,000. the other suspect, 14. his name is not being released. he's in family court. this problem is not confined to new york city. according to anti-defamationlation, there's more problems this year than all of last year and it's not even september. >> martha: new york is a different place right now. needs a lot of help. thanks, nate.

>> you got it. >> sandra: john? >> john: this afternoon, president biden going to pennsylvania to take on republicans over crime. there you can see the president touching down in wilkesbury, pennsylvania. bryan llenas has more. >> john, good afternoon. in about 25 minutes, president biden will address this crowd in wilkesbury, pennsylvania where he will tout how he plans to fund, not defund the police nationwide. a $37 billion plan called the safer america plan, which would add 100,000 new police officers nationwide, hire more attorneys and da's offices and create violent crime tax forces and invest many prevention and mental health services and boost the atf's budget to go after illegal guns. the president will head to philadelphia thursday where he won't be talking about the da's liberal policies there amid a record murder raise but instead will be talking about how

democracy in peril. john? >> john: thanks, brian. we'll be right back.

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>> sandra: that does it for us. >> john: yes. we will see you again tomorrow when it will be the perry penultimate friday. >> sandra: looking forward to it. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks very much, john and sandra. good afternoon. great to be with you. i'm martha maccallum. we're ten weeks away, tuesday, tuesday, there's an election day somewhere. in ten weeks, we'll be covering the mid-terms on this day. right now the laser beam is on the state of pennsylvania. president biden is about to speak there. two more stops in pennsylvania in the coming days. back in the 2020 time machine, former president trump also has a lot on the line in pennsylvania. he's also going there in the