50/50 nation. but i definitely know this drives gavin newsom bonkers. >> brian: or you could be governor local, and if you don't vote for me or agree with me, leave the state. we look forward to hearing what you have to say on the radio show. thanks so much. >> ainsley: and thanks for watching. go listen to brian's radio show. >> brian:3 >> dana: d.o.j. accused president trump of hiding confidential documents. >> trace: this is "america's newsroom." the d.o.j. filing its most detailed account of the raid so far. it comes in response to the former president's request for an independent special master to review the documents seized from his home. >> dana: the d.o.j. opposes that motion. a federal judge holds the hearing tomorrow.

>> trace: we're getting a new look at the seized documents. some marked secret and top secret. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has more from the d.c. newsroom. >> good morning. a 36-page filing from federal prosecutors meeting a federal judge's late night deadline. they argue the motion for a special master in the case fails for multiple independent reasons. in this filing prosecutors write the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation. the government also released this photo which contains a number of files with bright yellow or red cover sheets signifying top secret material. they appear spread out over a carpet. the court filing said they were recovered inside a container in the former president's office. prosecutors write three classified documents that were not located in boxes but rather

were located in the desks in the 45 office. regarding the mar-a-lago search on august 8th the justice department says it seized 33 boxes, containers or items of evidence which contained more than 100 classified records. the government says that includes information classified at the highest levels adding, quote, even the f.b.i. counter intelligence personnel and d.o.j. attorneys conducted review required additional clearances before being permitted to review certain documents. the former president lacks standing to seek judicial relief as to presidential records arguing those records do not belong to him. the united states has complete ownership, possession and control of them. the trump legal team has an opportunity to respond by tonight. then tomorrow both sides square off in federal court in florida. >> trace: mike, thank you. >> dana: disturbing new data out today the cdc says the

average life expectancy for americans dropped by nearly one year in 2021 and it is not only because of the pandemic. drug overdose fueled by fentanyl is playing a major role. we have live fox team coverage. matt finn is at the border as officials warn about a new version of deadly drugs designed to get children hooked. first steve harrigan live in atlanta home of the cdc with more on the report that came out today. what did you learn? >> it is a shocking drop over the two-year period. if you go back in u.s. history you have to go 100 years to see such a drop in life expectancy. just three years ago the average american lived to age 79. right now that number is down to 76. health officials say it is not just covid that is driving the drop. >> covid-19 is the driving factor in the decline of life expectancy. the most significant -- it

caused the most significant rise in mortality. but it is not the only factor. we could see continued declines depending on what happens if the pandemic goes away. >> trace: fentanyl deaths in the u.s. over the past three years are up more than 56%. over the last year alone more than 108,000 americans died from opioids. ordinarily life expectancy in the u.s. is measured in months. the u.s. lost 2 years in 2020, almost another year in 2021. black americans among those hit the hardest losing more than three years in life expectancy. average life expectancy for black americans is 70 years. six year gap with whites. the gap between men and women continues to widen. men is 73 years. for women 79. dana, back to you. >> dana: more to come as we cover this for story all day on the channel. >> trace: on that note the dea is warning americans to watch

out for a new line of rainbow colored fentanyl pills marketed to kids and teens. matt finn live in eagle pass, texas, with more on this. good morning. >> good morning, trace. dea is giving this rather urgent warning saying it has now seen these rainbow colored fentanyl pills in 18 states in the past month. the dea says drug cartels from mexico appear to be making the potentially deadly pills look like colorful candy and more attractive to children and young people. the drug enforcement administration said brightly colored fentanyl is seized in multiple forms including pills, powder and blocks that resemble sidewalk chalk. the dea clarified that claims of certain colors being more potent than others is not true according to lab tests. they write the men and women of the dea are relentlessly working to stop the trafficking of rainbow fentanyl and defeat

the mexican drug cartels responsible for the vast majority of fent trafficked in the united states. u.s. border patrol announced a massive fentanyl bust in tucson, arizona an estimated $4.4 million worth. u.s. customs and border protection in arizona seized candy colored fentanyl pills strapped to a person's leg. it's the most deadly drug threat facing the country. 66 pers percent of 107,000 drug overdoses in 2021 were related to fentanyl. >> trace: matt. thank you. >> dana: looking at the pills. looks like a candy vitamin or sweet tart. we talked to parents about the fentanyl christ. listen. >> no longer can we say just be careful or it's not going to happen to my family. this does not discriminate.

>> zach took one pill sold to him as a prescription pill and that one pill ended his life. >> i found him on the floor non-responsive and he was gone. he died as easily as you can get a pizza. >> dana: their heartache is palpable and one of the things they keep saying they are a normal family. this shap evening across the board. 300 people a day dying from fentanyl overdose. >> trace: she equated it to a plane crash. a plane crash every day we would put a stop to aviation and we're not putting a stop to this. people are asking why. >> dana: president biden talking about crime. >> president biden: there is no place in this country, no place, for endangering the lives of law enforcement. no place. none, never, period. i'm opposed to defunding the police and opposed to defunding

the f.b.i. >> dana: president biden pledging his support for law enforcement but at odds with his own party. his party called to defund departments nationwide. not all of them but plenty of them and why the president had to give a speech on it. let's bring in congressman mike waltz republican of florida. the president is going to give even more remarks tonight that we'll get to in a moment. he decided yesterday this issue about crime and the police and law enforcement was so important that he had to come out and they are trying to figure out a way to put republicans on the defense. are they prepared to push back? >> dana, this is just a blatant and pathetic political stunt in the run-up to the mid-terms. we all know that 99.9% of republicans when they talk about the f.b.i., it is the leadership that needs reform. the leadership of the d.o.j. and we fully support the agents

out there. i've worked with many in combat zones. so if president biden is serious about law and order and really wants to take on supporting the police, first how about he walk down the hall in the white house and talk to vice president harris about supporting the bail-out of rioters in 2020, one charged with murder. how about going on a national tour to the 25 democrat-run cities that have proposed or actually defunded their police force, including new york city that took 1.2 billion away from the nypd or washington, d.c. that is seeing 100% increase in carjackings and thefts just steps from the capitol. finally how about he take on the progressive left. the leader of black lives matter proposed to the democrat national convention in 2020 the breathe act which would completely defund ice, border patrol and the entire federal

prison system. instead of trying this kind of cheap spin on republicans that he knows backed our law enforcement, how about he have some courage and take on the left that wants to defund police unapologetically? >> dana: the president's remarks are going to be tomorrow night. it's been a long week. everyone at home it is wednesday and that speech will be tomorrow. president biden said when it comes to fighting crime we know what works. he is saying they'll provide more money. but when you talk to people that are either considering leaving law enforcement or deciding against going into the career in the first place, is it -- money might be welcome but is that the only thing? >> our law enforcement, as i talk to our sheriffs and police chiefs, they don't feel supported. when you had proposals not from back benchers but the progressive caucus that makes up half the caucus in the house

and to pull their qualified immunity to see and their families could be sued or i've been fighting an effort to take away what's called the 1033 program, which actually gives things like body armor, night vision, swat-type armored vehicles. the left wants to not only stop that program but reach into sheriffs departments and take it back and destroy it. let's set the rhetoric aside. these are actual legislative actions that the left is taking to pull the rug out from under our law enforcement and that's what he needs to be addressing. that's what republicans are fighting against in the house. >> dana: one of the things the president emphasized, he says i don't want to defund the police and i don't want to defund the f.b.i. there is no doubt the democrats will try to say that every republican wants to defund the f.b.i. do you want to defund the f.b.i.? >> absolutely not. i fully support the f.b.i. that

is doing great work at the agent level. the problem is and has been the leadership of the f.b.i., the leadership of the d.o.j. whether it has been the abuse of the fisa warrant system. we have had an f.b.i. attorney since been convicted and go to jail for that abuse. a former acting attorney general say she never would have signed off on it if she knew now what was misrepresented to her what weather the warrant was sent for her signature. the mueller investigation, the hunter laptop sat on for years. we go down the list. we talk about reforming at the senior levels of our federal law enforcement that has been politicized. but again, this is a cheap political spin. i can point to actions all day long that the left has taken to try to defund our police at every level. >> dana: sounds like that will be one of the big fights going into the mid-term election. congressman michael waltz.

>> we'll take that fight on, dana, thanks. >> would you agree that the southern border is currently in crisis? >> objection. >> yes. >> would you agree that there are unprecedented number of aliens are illegally entering the united states? right now? >> objection. >> yes. >> dana: stunning admission from the border patrol chief. the white house still in denial that migrants are flowing freely into the country. we talked to one border town mayor who watches the crisis escalate every day before his eyes. >> trace: a manhunt is underway for two shameless thieves attempting to rip the necklace off a woman's neck as they pass her on their scooter. >> dana: a new school year begins as summer comes to a close. florida parents are putting candidates in the governor's race to the test. >> parents make decisions whether their kids wear masks is a disassociation with what real people are worried about.

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>> dana: nypd huntsing for two men trying to snatch a necklace off a woman's next on a manhattan street last weekend in broad daylight. they wrestled the victim to the ground but she was able to fend them off. the two made their getaway on a scooter. hope they find them. >> it felt like somebody walked over and that's not how -- >> thousands of people are walking in a day. some of them turn themselves over, some are caught. tens of thousands a week are not. that is what is happening. >> it is not just that people are walking across the border. we have -- we have a plan in

place. >> trace: the white house not seeing what we have been reporting for months. thousands of migrants arriving at our southern border and walking right into the country. the "new york post" with another stinging headline, great wide open. let's bring in the mayor of rio grande city, texas who has to deal with the crisis firsthand every day. thank you for coming on. when you hear the white house say they aren't walking over the border and you see it every single day, what do you think? >> good morning. we as a nation have to simply call it for what it is. it is what it is. so let's not sugar coat, justify or minimize our current border policy of catch and release, which by the way, does bring into question legitimate concerns for national security because we're not properly vetting these individuals. unfortunately at times we have no idea who is coming into our

country. however, it behooves us as americans to carefully manage the balance of immigration and border security that are not mutually exclusive. they can co-exist. what's at stake here is our broken immigration system which is comprised of multi-level deficiencies. white house, congress, republicans, democrats who have failed to address a broken immigration system in over 30 plus years. that's at issue as well. which unfortunately neither party has delivered on this promise of fixing our broken immigration system. >> trace: the people at the border are frustrated. ortiz says it is a mess and the border is a crisis. listen to more sound of him being questioned talking about zero consequences and get your response on the other side. watch. >> since president biden was

elected, does the document indicate that alien illegally entering the united states perceive that they will be able to enter and remain in the united states? >> objection. >> yes. >> if you don't have consequences what is likely going to happen? >> in my experience we have seen increases when there are no consequences. >> trace: zero consequences. what do you think of that statement? >> thus far we have had polar extremes real thetive to border policies. one end we have catch and release. the other extreme we have had family separations at the border. where is the middle ground? yes, i agree there has to be some consequences. however, what type of consequences are we going to bring into this fold? we cannot have these draconian consequences, either. where is the middle ground? it goes back to us as democrats and republicans really looking at this and addressing it from

the ground up because we continue to do the same thing over and over and guess what? we're expecting a different result but that's not the case. the last 30 years we've been dealing with this. unfortunately here in our communities many times without the federal financial resources necessary to better manage the flow of migrants. at what point? when does congress really look at this and prioritize it as we should as a country, not to blame democrats or republicans. that seems to be too often the case by the way and we don't get anything done. >> trace: there has to be blame. there are draconian consequences. we've seen the drugs and fentanyl and talking to parents who lose children every day. just in the rio grande are seizures. in 2019 there were 12 pounds of fentanyl, 2020, 30 pounds. look at the bottom number. 106 pounds is enough to kill millions of people.

and nobody is patrolling it or stopping all that's coming in. if we're catching that much can you imagine how much is getting in, sir? >> for the last 30 years this has been going on. drugs flow north, drugs flow north and guns and money flow south. this has been going on for decades. yes, it is a probably absolutely. and there are many individuals to blame. all of us are to blame for this because we lack the political will to address it. now, it is not just one individual to blame, no. it is a whole system. broken immigration system is what is at play here and full display. >> trace: thank you very much. >> the numbers are there. >> trace: the numbers are coming across at unreal numbers and mayors who have a few thousand and you get hundreds of thousands and nobody has apologized to you. thank you for your time, mr. mayor, we appreciate it. >> thank you, appreciate your

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monumental figure. mikhail gorbachev died at the age of 91. he died after a long illness. gorbachev took down the iron curtain ending the cold war trying to bring russia into a new era. his relationship with president reagan that changed the course of history. they saw a soviet leader willing to put confrontation aside. they negotiated the inf treaty in 1988. abolishing an entire class of nuclear weapons. the reagan foundation and institute paying tribute saying this. the reagan foundation and institute mourns the loss of mikhail gorbachev, a man who once was a political adversary of ronald reagan who became a friend. our condolences go out to the gorbachev family and the people of russia. when i was in high school and i did speech and debate and at that time, this is in the 80s,

you would choose three topics out of a hat and one of those would be the speech that you had to give. a lot of that all had to do with the cold war and gorbachev and i feel like i knew his life story and i didn't realize he was 91. >> trace: if you haven't been to the reagan library you should go. amazing information to be had when you didn't realize what happened and the documents back it up. >> dana: young people should go. >> trace: the situation in the former soviet union is far from what gorbachev envisioned. a team of u.n. experts are going toward the zaporizhzhya power plant to secure the facility as fighting raises concerns of a potential ridiation leak. alex hogan is live in kyiv. alex. >> good morning, trace. experts have arrived in zaporizhzhya after months of trying to get into the facility. this morning we met with the iaea here in kyiv.

i asked the director general if it had received assurances from russia that it was even safe to do so. >> this requires the explicit guarantees from not only from the russian but also from the republic of ukraine. we have been able to secure that. >> the convoy of a dozen vehicles set out from the capital at 6:00 p.m. local time. it could stay for several days to secure the situation as much as possible after months of overlooked safety protocols and weeks of fighting outside this facility. the nuclear watchdog also plans to leave permanent representatives there. yesterday we joined senators rob portman and amy klobuchar on their visit to soeft hardest hit areas in northern ukraine and discussed the impact of the war on americans back home. >> this is about the -- not just about ukraine. >> you see our top weaponry and

the weaponry of all of our allies taking on this invasion, taking on a country that thought no one would stop them and we have. >> much of the weaponry is directed south as ukraine begins its counter offensive. ukrainian troops are now using some of that weaponry specifically in ground attacks to attack russian forces near kherson trying to blow up pontoon ferries on the river. some boats have been used by russian forces to bring across more russian supplies. >> trace: alex hogan live in kyiv. thank you. >> dana: a new justice department filing accuses former president trump of trying to conceal classified documents at his florida home. this as trump adds florida's former solicitor general to his legal team ahead of a key court hearing tomorrow. let's bring in jason chaffetz. former utah congressman.

interesting to me about this photograph. it is unusual to get information like this. we've been asking for more information. now you have this photograph around and in a way it looks like this is just how they found the documents lying all over the floor at mar-a-lago which is extremely unlikely. these were placed there. the visual might leave people with the wrong impression. >> the impression i got was it was public relations effort. this is not needed in a court document to make the case to the sitting judge. this is put out there knowing that they were going to go out to the media. i would love to see on the far right side there, framed photos of donald trump on the cover of "time" magazine. what in the world does that have to do with this idea there are classified documents? what's behind those classified documents? the idea they spread them across the floor an started taking pictures does not instill confidence in how we're supposed to do justice. >> dana: how confidential are they? >> what else were they taking

pictures of along the way? not how we administer justice in the country. >> trace: it started out with leaks saying they were nuclear documents and now it seems like it is not about the documents that he had, it's about the fact that he would not give them back. this is a different thing, right? >> the whole idea is they aren't safe, not secure. it is protected by the united states secret service for goodness sake. i don't think you'll have that case. you have a case that says he has executive privilege and unilateral authority to determine whether it was classified or not. you know what the problem is that i have? when i was the chairman of the oversight committee and i issued subpoenas trying to get after classified and highly sensitive documents at the i.r.s. and the clintons and what not, they destroyed them. the bleach bit. did the f.b.i. do anything to help? no, the department of justice issued guess what, immunity

agreements with no idea they had to cooperate with the government. it is this double standard in the administration of justice that is the heart of the problem that so many americans have with this. >> dana: the mid-terms are about nine weeks away or so. the republican chairwoman ronna mcdaniel said everything will be all right when it comes to the election for republicans. let's hear what she had to say. >> working class voerts and college educated voters are saying this isn't fair. why should anybody else have to pay for it? it is unfair. every american recognizes that and i think it will backfire on the democrats. >> dana: specifically talking about student loans. there was a poll yesterday that showed for first time herschel walker pulling ahead of warnock. that poll was taken after the student loan decision. >> i think most of america

focuses after labor day. i don't know what the democrats other than abortion to galvanize their base. what do they run on? the bail-out? a lot of americans understand it is unfair. they won't run on energy, inflation. >> dana: apparently they will run on crime. >> what a total flip. biden struck me as somebody who sat through and got a briefing on the poll numbers and focus groups and this is what you have to say. you can't have a wide open border and say we're tough on crime when people have been living through this the last two years. they know the democrats have not been funding the police and they certainly don't go after the prosecutors who don't prosecute the crimes to get the people on the street. >> trace: you think they would avoid crime like the plague but they are embracing it now. president biden says we'll paint the g.o.p as being anti-crime. an odd strategy. >> the american people figure out these things. >> dana: jason is always sunny

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>> trace: california looking to pass a bill to become a refuge state for trans families trying to protect transgender kids from being separated from parents. this new push is in response to a texas investigation that is looking into whether child sex

change procedures are considered child abuse. california bill still needs to pass the state senate before heading to the governor's desk. >> dana: democratic nominee for florida governor charlie crist selecting union head as his running mate putting education at the forefront of november's election. interesting decision. what do you know about this decision by charlie crist? >> charlie crist has been a flip-flopper since i can remember. my first engagement with him was in high school when he signed the expansion bill for florida school choice programs into law. i was there behind him with the signing pen and he flip-flopped. he has been saying since then that he is not going to support school choice. that he wants to pull it down.

what i know about charlie crist, i don't think he will win the next gubernatorial election. he is running for no reason. he is running to lose especially considering what has happened in virginia, especially considering school choice moms in florida wanting more school choice options in the state. >> dana: tell me about your person experience and why school choice matters so much to you. >> when i was in elementary school, i failed third grade twice. i went to my district school. it wasn't until i went to a private school that any life changed for the better. i had the opportunity to meet governors, charlie crist included who said they would continue to champion for students who came from backgrounds just like mine and charlie crist turned his back on students and parents in the state of florida. we have governors like governor desantis, rick scott who not

only continued to stand behind parents but expand choice in the state to say that they are really going to put students first and fund students rather than systems. >> dana: interesting that education and really because governor desantis pushed so much. you have had the history of the school choice movement with rick scott, gov for desantis continues it. covid had a way of opening parents' eyes to the problem and covid learning loss is a huge problem. you are more on the ground with the grassroots talking to parents. what do you hear? >> parents want choice. i have interacted with parents who said they would change their party and go from being a democrat to being a republican if that meant that they would have more school choice in this state. that's what parents here want. especially here in florida but not just in florida but across the country. we saw in virginia what parents championed for and they got

their governor elected. so this race that charlie crist is running especially picking the teacher's union president of miami-dade to be his running mate is a slap in the face. it is disgusting, really. >> dana: she had a tweet, carla mast the running made had a tweet that says for any of you following school board meetings you know the craziness is real, god be with us. i assume she is talking about parents. is the teachers union really so powerful in florida that this is a good strategic decision for crist to bring votes to his side? >> no, absolutely not. the teachers union has seen that choice comes out on top. they tried to sue the florida scholarship program twice and was defeated. it went to the state supreme court court and was considered null and void. the supreme court stood behind parents. so this really does seem like a

losing battle to me that both of them are running. the teachers union has no place here in florida. we stand by parents here and the voters will continue to say so. >> dana: you are a bright, shining light and thrilled to hear that your life turned around because of education and wonderful to have you here and hear your voice. talk to you again soon. thank you. >> trace: that's not governor desantis' only battle. governor newsom digging into his feud with the florida governor but some members of newsom's own family are siding with desantis. there is a woman sharing her story of recovery and redemption. how she is now helping others defeat addiction. >> i wanted to give people hope and want them to know it's possible to pull yourself out of a dark place. it helps to come -- for somebody to know what they're going through and what kind of

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. >> dana: glenn youngkin is vowing to fight a law. this comes after california recently approved a plan to eliminate the sale of gas and diesel vehicles there by 2035. the law that former governor north um signed last year would require virginia to do the same thing. here is governor youngkin last night. >> freedom matters in virginia and why parents make decisions about whether kids wear masks today and why people can make a decision whether they want to get a vaccine or not, and i'll go to work to make sure they can decide what kind of car they want to buy. >> dana: he hopes to have the virginia law reversed by the start of january's legislative session. we'll keep an eye on it. >> trace: back in 2017 deputies found kimberly passed out at a gas station with her 8-month-old daughter in the back seat. five years later she is clean and helping others at the same

shelter that helped her get back on her feet. kimberly joins us now with more on her story. it took you a while, you say, kimberly. you are open about this. your story is very inspirational. took you a while to get clean and now you are helping others. tell us how that's going. >> it is going well. as we all know i was arrested in 2017, you know, took me a little while longer like you said to finally get it together. it was a collective effort between community agencies to help me get over my addiction. of course between the sheriffs office arresting me. i went into the drug court program which helped a great deal with my recovery. and as you mentioned, i ended up coming to the neighborhood center for shelter and now i'm a shelter coordinator and help people that were in the same position i was. >> trace: it is fantastic. you talk about changing times. we should note your daughter in the back seat is now in

kindergarten doing very well. congratulations on that. >> yeah. >> trace: i want to put up these numbers. i think it's important. you talked about when you had these problems you were arrested in 2017. look at the numbers on synthetic opioid mostly fentanyl deaths because of overdose. back in 2017 when you were having problems there, 29,000, right? and now look at the deaths. four years later we still don't have 2022 numbers yet. 72,000. it is a massive crisis in this country. what are you doing to try and dissuade and sway people away from drugs? >> well, you can only help people that want to be helped. but here at the neighborhood center we have meetings, na meetings, aa meetings. church outreach. if i see somebody struggling i have a conversation with them. sometimes that helps because it is a daily battle with

addiction for anybody who has an addiction problem. >> trace: it's interesting. we talked to a mom yesterday who lost her child because of fentanyl and she said again and again we're just a normal family. we were just a normal family and we lost a child because of fentanyl. i'm wondering, you know, we think that people who are on drugs are a bad element but it is not the case. these are normal families and how do you get the message out to these kids? we talked about your daughter being 5 years old in kindergarten. kids, 6th, 7th, 8th grade are dying. how do you convince these kids not to touch anything? >> you just have to share your experiences. people who have gone through it and experienced it and recovering, people like myself, those are the best people that can try to get through to these kids. but whether it's a child or an

adult, you know, sometimes it's difficult to get through to these people. sometimes it's too late as we see in the numbers, you know. i hear of people overdosing and dying almost on a daily basis. so it really is sad. it's a bad epidemic. >> trace: i want to play this sound bite. this is a sheriff who you relied on heavily for your recovery and get your response on the other side. >> tht world with this epidemic. what a story of the human spirit. how much courage this young woman had. >> trace: how do you feel about that lastly, kimberly? he thinks you are a bright light and he thinks you are really inspirational to a lot of other people. >> it means a lot especially coming from the sheriff. he met with me yesterday in my office and we did a podcast and he should be posting that tomorrow. it was -- i was honored to be able to meet him and he was able to meet my daughter in the

back seat during that arrest. i dealt with a lot of backlash in 2017 so to be able to turn it around and hear all the positive feedback from everyone, not just the sheriff, it is great. >> trace: your story is compelling and inspirational. best of luck to you and your daughter and those you are trying to help. thank you for coming on. we appreciate it. >> thank you so much. >> dana: inspiring person. president biden ditching his promise to unite the country. instead he is calling on americans to take sides with the mid-term elections 10 weeks away. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. bill hemmer is off. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. president biden has blamed everyone except himself. now he is blaming republicans for america's crime crisis. >> president biden: let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress. don't tell me support law

enforcement if you won't condemn what happened on the 6th. don't tell me. for god sake, who side are you on? you are on the side of the mob or the side of the police. you can't be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. >> trace: let's get to mark meredith live at the white house. good morning. >> good morning. president biden is stepping up his attacks on the republican opposition as well as supporters of former president trump. this is a noticeable change from what we saw when the president took office when he was pledging unity. you played a clip of what the president had to say tuesday when he was in pennsylvania to talk about gun violence. he doubled down on his criticism of these maga supporters and lawmakers here in d.c. who still support trump. he appeared to take a swipe at senator lindsey graham after graham recently suggested that potential charges against trump could tear the country apart. >> president biden: no one expects politics to be a patty

cake. it's sometimes mean as hell. the idea you turn on a television and see senior senators and congressmen saying if such and such happens there will be blood in the streets? where the hell are we? >> tomorrow the president is expected to make similar claims during a political speech in prime time in philadelphia. white house aides say the speech will focus on core values of america and offer an assessment on where democracy stands. we don't know if the speech will do anything to help boost the president's own approval ratings. cbs reports more than half of the country, 55%, disapprove of the president's job performance and republicans say it is no secret why. >> the truth of the matter is, the reason we have the crime problems we have today is because of biden's policies. why mayorkas tells you the border is secure you would be a fool to believe that because it is not secure. >> the president will be in

philadelphia tomorrow and on the labor day holiday expected to be on the campaign trail in wisconsin and pennsylvania trying to shape that message as you mentioned mid-terms less than 10 weeks away. trace. >> trace: mark meredith live at the white house. thank you. >> dana: could things be looking up for democrats in november? the party getting a boost from abortion laws, falling grass prices and recent victories for president biden. we have a fox news contributor. my husband asked me if this is when a terrible football team wins one game and they are expected to win the super bowl. there does seem to be a in theable shift. >> polls are improving for democrats. i like your husband's analogy. they have gone for the president from really terrible to just bad and disappointing. and so -- >> dana: that looks so much better. >> if you're a democrat you like the trend. you think wow, if it keeps going this way by november we

might be in good shape. if it stays where it is i think it's still a big problem for the party in power. >> trace: it's interesting. it was an interesting comment, his name is a gop analyst saying the following. it is an unusual election. republicans have significant advantages on their seft issues, inflation, economy, crime and democrats enjoy add advantages on -- each party has an unusual opportunity to create their own narrative. do you find that to be a fair assessment on what's happening? >> i guess. with some hesitation. i think the economic issue tends to present vai. you can see there are a bunch of issues. that tends to drive it. i think inflation is still an issue. i think moderation in gas prices, you understand why it helps the president but realize it is happening not because we unlocked huge supplies of oil

but because traders in this town think the economy is going down and the demand is going away. >> dana: the generic congressional ballot says it's a tie. republicans when 5, democrats 44. democrats have come up on that. it is just before labor day and people the end to focus their mind after kids get back to school and you get into the fall. the student loan bail-out that president biden announced hasn't fully been baked into the polling yet. do you expect to see something there in republicans' favor? i'm not so sure. i think it's a terrible policy, i have said that. when we listen to some of these interviews with people on the street, i don't know if it seems that bad. >> free stuff tends to be popular among the recipients. people getting a benefit are generally not going to be as upset about it. i think as president biden's old obama administration colleague said this is gasoline on the inflation fire.

the federal reserve looks like maybe is trying to do its job but this is another white house policy that is fueling inflation. i don't think that issue has gone away because you get to the oil price, it is not huge supply coming on the market. those prices easily go back up if the economy isn't crashing and that's a problem if the economy does go down for the president. >> trace: when you look at the supreme court dobbs decision how big a factor in that, the abortion issue? >> lately you have to say it is driving some of the polls. when the supreme court did this, it was not a partisan move. i think the politics were unpredictable. they said we want to get back to the rule of law. this is an issue that always should have been decided by the people and their elected representatives. now the people and their elected representatives are figuring that out. i think it gets better for republicans because i think that people will figure out if

they want abortion to be available, that it is still going to be widely available in the country. i think that takes maybe some of the edge off. you have a possibility for republicans maybe pointing out you know, you may not like a total ban but also do you want ninth month abortions which is what many democrats favor? i the end to think that issue probably moves back toward where most people are, which is allow it early in a pregnancy. >> dana: in close elections it could possibly make a difference. the headline is how abortion could upend michigan. it could be the next state to put abortion on the november ballot and democrats hope their base will turn out carrying governor whitmer to a second term and flipping races. i don't know if that will happen in michigan but shows the democrats believe they have an issue to run on. >> it can help them in michigan if they can sell it to voters

as they want a total ban and we want it to be available. i think once michigan voters look at the details and they may say gee, do we want to enshrine that it should be available so late in a pregnancy as that law would allow? this gets into nuances. so far the edge politically is with democrats but like i said, i think over time people realize however they feel that it is not going away and probably loses some of its political force. >> trace: fascinating from california democrats are painting themselves as the party of freedom, right? if you want freedom you have to vote for the democrats. after the covid mandates and the lockdowns and all that it seems like an unusual -- it is like crime, right? all of a sudden they are the party of freedom and they shut everything down for two years but now things have changed. >> they were the lockdown party. president trump, i think, kind

of had an instinct to open up. maybe should have ignored the government health advisors a little more and been more forceful with that. it is a question. overarching all of this, i think presidential approval rating is still lousy. if you look at the gallup poll in 2010 barack obama was roughly where biden is now, maybe a little bit above. and what happened? the democrats lost 60 some seats and control of the house. so that history. you see it in mid-term elections consistently. i think that's what the democrats are up against. >> dana: fun to watch and cover. we'll see you soon. thanks. good to see you. >> trace: the flooding crisis continues in jackson, mississippi. a water treatment plant broke down leaving many residents remaining without running water. the governor announced a state of emergency and activated the national guard. jackson public schools have moved to online learning until

further notice. fox news weather is live at the water distribution point in jackson. will, good morning. >> good morning. this is where hundreds of people will be lining up hoping to get their hands on bottled water and bring in tankers to try to help people fill buckets. every aspect of life is affected by this. they can't brush their teeth, flush the toilet or take a shower. the kids are home from zoom but going to homes that don't have running water. that's the reality. thousands of families are facing that. let me show you what is happening in terms of trying to repair the water treatment plant. i was at a station this morning crews worked throughout the night with big vacuum trucks trying to clear sludge and debris to build up water pressure. even if they're able to bring the pressure up a little bit the water is flowing back into broken pipes and a very messy infrastructure. the mayor telling us overnight it will be in the order of millions if not billions of dollars to fix this system overall. meanwhile nearly 4500 national

guard troops are mobilized to bring in water tankers to go to neighborhoods trying to distribute water. we are looking at a situation where the waterlines could be down in terms the of pressure for weeks if not months. a lot still to unfold. fox weather will be on the ground tracking developments. >> trace: a tough situation. thank you, will. >> dana: what are kids doing on line? new reports that self-harm hashtags are up 500%. what can be done to help? >> trace: today marks 25 years since the tragic death of princess diana. new tension inside the royal family and we'll tell you why. >> dana: already we know that crime is out of control in chicago with mayor light foot going soft on offenders. some business owners are calling it quits. we'll talk to one woman fed up and pulling up stakes. >> i've been in chicago for 15 years and i have definitely seen the crime in downtown

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death while he was trying to kick down the front doorpost breakup. the chilling encounter caught on a ring doorbell camera. that is the thing. this is a total mistake. he was breaking into the house. >> dana: the interesting thing about the ring camera takes you inside the moment. the jury is able to see, feel and hear what they were hearing rather than just a description. it has changed a lot for law enforcement in a lot of these trials. also it went from a cold case to case closed. an australian man was convicted of killing his wife 40 years after she disappeared. justice was finally delivered thanks to a true crime podcast that gripped the entire country. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot has more. >> a court decision in australia could be proving the power of this current wave of true crime podcasts. found guilty of murder this

week by an australia judge. a former school teacher 74-year-old dawson. the murder happened in january of 1982 when his wife went missing without a trace. the husband said she left him. people close to her didn't believe it. what the judge believed is dawson deliberately killed his wife to pursue a relationship with a teenage student he was having an affair with who babysat the couple's children and lived in their house. it came after decades of police investigation into the case. their line was they had suspicions about him they didn't have the evidence. the ruling came as a relief to the family of the wife. it is all because of a podcast about the murder called the teacher's pet downloaded 30 million times globally popular. it came out in 2018. a short while later dawson was charged. dawson was out on bail and he

is now in custody facing life in prison. his lawyers say he will appeal. as for his wife lynette her body has never been found. some is hoping now that he is serving life in prison maybe her body will surface. >> dana: fascinating. >> trace: chicago's out of control crime and the city's refusal to prosecute criminals is causing people to close up shop and leave. one owner says her back re was vandalized was attacked. she joins us now. theresa, i was reading your account there and you say when your business was vandalized, you really felt like a sitting duck. it has to be a very, very terrifying feeling. >> definitely. we are in downtown loop and

around for 15 years, store front for 12 years. i have oh he never had crime this bad in chicago. it is now not just every couple years, it is now monthly. weekly and now daily. just yesterday another incident down the street. later on that evening a friday, another business owner two doors down had someone steal their tips. all the petty crimes are becoming larger issues. >> trace: you talk about petty crimes. i want to put on the numbers. 22 compared to 2021. shootings are down but everything else. you look at theft and robberies and burglaries up 65%, up 19%, up 29%. a lot of businesses in chicago are having the same complaint. what is being done in your estimation? >> quite frankly, nothing. it is actually astonishing that i just read an article that the state's attorney now is

removing cash bail. so if you remove that, there are no consequences for the small crimes. it's a revolving door. they go to jail, come out of jail, do the same crime again. hit the same places. so there is no consequences. these crimes will continue to happen and it is really destructive to the city of chicago. >> trace: have you made the decision to actually pick up and move or are you strongly considering it? >> i'm strongly considering it. i have been in chicago. i love this city. i have been here for over 20 plus years and went to college here. i would like to sit down with the mayor, aldermen and anybody that makes decisions on crime to figure how to resolve this issue. so i am looking at manufacturing facilities. we just launched a project to a major retailer and i need to think about that and i'm not looking in chicago. i'm looking at suburbs and

outside of illinois. i want my company to grow and have a good business. >> the mayor says chicago's economy is thriving and poised to have the best economic recovery of any big city in the country. down playing the crime there. your final thoughts on this. >> it is growing but if you can't control the crime, it will decline. it will be that curve. if you can't control it. >> trace: would you look for -- if you moved would you look to a town with a fully funded police department? would you look for more security? is that one of the big things you want, if you do decide to move? >> i will definitely look for fully funded police. lower crime rate. i want my employees to feel safe as well. >> trace: you hear of a lot of starbucks and other businesses around the country. we appreciate it. thank you for coming on. >> i'm furious that anybody would target children with

multicolored killers like fentanyl. what makes me furious is we aren't stopping it at the border. >> dana: an influx of fentanyl disguised as candy. how one state is fighting back. the pennsylvania senate race getting fierce. democrat john fetterman is refusing to debate dr. oz. the republican nominee is here to respond straight ahead.

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challenge academy, a 22 week long program for at-risk teens like 16-year-old haley mcallister. she told us she was just a baby when her mom abandoned her for drugs. growing up haley said she was bullied and down right scared she would wind up just like her mom. >> i definitely thought of many ways to get out of the pain. i probably wouldn't be here right now, i wouldn't be alive if i wasn't here. >> vulnerable teens like haley are now the target of mexican drug cartels, trace. last week here police found the first batch of rainbow fentanyl in this part of the state. candy looking pills that are sold as oxycontin. west virginia senator is angry about this. she blames broken border policies. but until something changes on the front lines, she is doubling down on prevention programs like the mountaineer challenge academy and supporting businesses here that

hire at-risk teens to try to get to these kids, save these kids from the cartels. >> we're going to make it economically impossible for you to do that. that's what we have to do. it's all about the money for them. they don't care whose lives they ruin. it is all about their money. we have to cut off the head of the snake. >> trace, i was so impressed by these kids. they really do know that they are fighting these cartels for their lives. really it takes just one moment of weakness, one wrong decision, one pill to kill and they say they're better prepared and they felt like they ever have been. >> trace: it's a war. aishah hosni. synthetic drugs come from china. cheap. cartels take it. they use this to put in all kinds of drugs and making a lot of money and costing a lot of lives. >> dana: i'm so good aishah did that piece to tell us about the

academy and tell us one young woman's story and hopefully she will stay on that path. we talked to a woman yesterday who lost her son. look at what she said. >> 300 americans are dying a day. that's a plane crash addae. we have a plane crash a day right now. if there was a plane crash right now it would be on breaking news all over for the whole week. >> dana: her name is erin rockwell. i thought about that all day yesterday and help us focus the mind as we need to deal with this especially if the candy-colored fentanyl pills will be all over the country. the senator from west virginia said you have to deal with the cartels immediately. >> trace: it's crazy. >> dana: it is. also this in pennsylvania. take a look now. democrat john fetterman is refusing to debate my next guest after a back and forth after his stroke. the democrat said my recovery may be a joke to dr. oz and his team but it is real for me.

i won't be participating in a debate the first week of september but look forward to having a productive discussion how we can move forward and have a real conversation on this once dr. oz and his team are ready to take this seriously. here to respond is dr. oz. how do you respond to -- he is saying he felt that you were making fun of his health and that this is going to be the reason that he won't debate. were you making fun of his health? >> of course not. i've said all along as a physician i have tremendous empathy and compassion how hard it is to bounce back from a stroke. i asked him to explain to me how to make it easier for him to debate. at this point since he has given numerous reasons for not showing up and that he didn't have time on his schedule. i think he is hiding his radical views. the furthest far left candidate this cycle and doesn't want the views to be exposed. he didn't want to debate in the primary. five major companies offered debates. i have accepted the five

debates. one that was supposed to be next tuesday he pulled out of. the other one next i friday. he also doesn't leave his home and go out and answer question. i have been to 180 campaign events. candidates need to listen to the voters, answer questions and accountable for what they say. they takes radical stances and not willing to declare why he has taken them. if you are frustrated about this, please support my campaign. john fetterman is going to the coast outside of pennsylvania. folks who want to buy the senate seat for the democratic party. they don't appreciate how far left radical he is. he wants to do things destabilizing to the country. he wants open borders, sanctuary cities, wants to legalize all drugs, wants heroin injection sites. as a physician there is no way for us to keep up with the massive influx of lethal fentanyl if john fetterman gets

his way. >> dana: you've been out there. he is not. he doesn't do media interviews, really. you have to wonder if he is taking a page out of biden's campaign of 2020. if you don't answer questions, you don't have the scrutiny. what is lost for pennsylvania voters if you don't have the media getting a chance to ask him questions or if you ever debate him? i guess i would ask you this. do you think you will ever debate him before the election? >> if there is pressure put on john fetterman by the voters who are swinging our way and the media, which i think should be completely open about the fact they expect to have their questions answered, john fetterman will be pushed into a debate. he doesn't want to face hard questions about radical position he has taken but it is not just about this campaign. imagine what happens if we have a candidate for the united states senate, a body of our government that is built on deliberation and talking and

finding out ways of reaching bipartisan consensus. imagine if a candidate for that body of government never leaves their home to ever answer a question from anybody and still gets elected. do you think you will have any other candidates leaving their home? the smart thing to do is push and keep the pressure on. if we have 450 million lethal doses of fentanyl enough to kill every american how can fetterman stand behind his current position that would worsen the crisis. it sounds good in a tweet. he has to answer for his decisions. >> dana: president biden yesterday gave a speech talked finally about fentanyl and talked about providing some money. but there was no discussion about the southern border. i wonder as you talk to voters there, are they connecting the issue of the border to the fentanyl crisis they are seeing in their backyard or is there work to do to try to explain to people what's happening? >> voters are starting to get

this message. we still have to make sure we connect the dots. a lot of folks have been hurt in their personal lives by fentanyl overdoses so they study the problem and understand when we have a weak border, porous border it allows cartels to make money with human trafficking and take that money and go off and buy fentanyl from china. raw materials from china are incorporated into this country in many forms. in the last two months alone there were more fentanyl pills, some of the rainbow pills you showed brought into the country than during all of president trump's tenure. we have a crisis and folks are not owning this reality. our federal government is not doing its job. we have a covenant. we obey the law as citizens. the government protects our borders. they are breaking the covenant. john fetterman is not hearing these problems and not leaving these homes. if you aren't campaigning you don't understand the challenge to the voters of pennsylvania. >> dana: he is not complaining but the real clear politics has

him at 47% and you add 39%. do you think if the election were held today you would lose? >> no. if people were paying attention as they will be over the next two months. the gap is closing and continue to close rapidly. when people in pennsylvania appreciate how far left radical john fetterman is, it doesn't what people want in pennsylvania. they want folks who can understand the values of all people in pennsylvania and protect people. that's not what fetterman is about. he tweets out an idea that seems cool at the time but doesn't have the chops to make our commonwealth work. if you want to see an example of his policies look at philadelphia. open border, sanctuary cities and weak on crime policies we have a 60% increase in murders in philadelphia. the most ever. under his tenure at lieutenant governor. we can't afford john fetterman. >> dana: we invite john fetterman to come on the show as well. let you get back to the campaign trail. it is a big state.

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>> dana: tensions are rising between taiwan, they are vowing the right to self-defense and counter attack if chinese forces enter its territory. tough talking coming as china increases military activities following nancy pelosi's visit there earlier this month. we'll keep an eye on it. >> diana, princess of wales, has died. >> hard to believe it's 25 years since she died in a paris car crash at 36 years old. today's commemoration comes as we're hearing about all kinds ever tensions within the royal family. let's bring in martha maccallum, anchor of "the story". great to see you. i wonder if harry and william, they commemorated the 20th anniversary in 2017. not this time. it is because of their

fractured relationship? >> it is convenient at the 20th anniversary they said it would be the last public remembrance of her and remember her privately in years to come. they unveiled a statue. it was a tricky period at that point as well. they are estranged in a serious way. the relationship is ruptured at least at the moment beyond repair. the family -- they've moved on, the family. they have plenty of layers of leadership. they don't need meghan and harry and maybe that's what makes them so outraged. that's the fact at the moment. >> dana: megan markle married harry and so much celebration around that. you covered that story as well. and then that's been a little bit of a -- the rupture between the two families as they return to -- she returns to the united states. now harry and meghan have two

children and it seems like the feud and rift is getting bigger. >> i think -- i don't think it's unfair to say she has been a very destructive force in this whole picture. and 25 years after diana's death, it would i think also fair to say be the last thing that she would want to have seen someone who pulled her son so far away from the rest of their family. so far away from his own legacy. i think she wanted william very much to be king and she wanted harry to be there by his side because she saw how difficult it was, what a lonely job it can be. and she wanted them to provide that. fortunately, william has kate and he has a very strong structure around him. and the queen is 96 years old but again i think that, you know, these two keep sort of lashing out. in this new interview, she said

they used the n word against her child. she said there was constant racism that was directed towards her and always treated like a black woman. it is incessantly about her, right? and that's what -- diana was great about getting publicity but good at shining the light on others, on mother teresa and her work with the mines and she was very good at steering her platform toward really good things. that's simply not what markle said on the oprah interview. she said i was conscious of the fact there are little girls i meet and they're like oh my god, it's a real life princess. i look at them and think you have the power to within you to create a life greater fairytale. you can be up against the greatest obstacle and find happiness again. this is a strange way to go

about it. >> i would say grow up. she married into an institution. when she made the comparison i thought the royal family was like people i knew growing up in hollywood. she didn't get it at all? she didn't understand british history at all. it is a part of history. >> dana: she said nobody told me. come on. >> come on. it's pathetic in a way and i think people do feel bad. >> dana: they need to work on the onboarding training. >> they embraced her with open arms, the country did. the british people spent an enormous amount of money on a huge wedding for these two. they embraced her with open arms. >> trace: does this marriage last? >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't have a crystal ball on that one. >> dana: he always asks the

question. >> harry missing home. we'll see. >> dana: see you at 3:00. disturbing trend on twitter encouraging self-harm and promoting suicide. what you need to know before it's too late. summer maybe i winding down but sharks are making a splash. new research and what it means for crowded waters near big cities. martha will stay around and watch this one.

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and how prevalent it is. could you describe for the audience the scope and scale of the problem? >> it's absolutely incredible. when you take children that are born into this digital craziness, you put them through covid, you tell them that they need to do all their homework and schoolwork and lives and social interactions on these digital devices, but yet there is this sort of underlying pull that is designed into social media that these algorithms feeding them the material and the minute their eyes gets hooked on it, it spirals out of control and keeps feeding it to corner that attention market and keep making profits. we then see the outcome as of now where the snowball turns into a raging boulder leaving a path of destruction behind. >> dana: help me understand and describe maybe as well you can self-harm meaning what? the cutting of your skin?

>> yes. that's part of it. it's basically self-injury. it can look in many different ways. it is cutting is one of the things but it can be just behavior that hurts your body and it can even be as bad as suicide related. >> dana: is this just something that twitter is dealing with or jason is this a broader-based social media phenomenon? i don't know how many children are actually on twitter. >> yeah. it is absolutely a broader base social media problem. it really is a business model problem because really, the kids are caught in a crossfire of these algorithms designed to go out, learn behaviors and really they know that these algorithms are looking at shocking, inappropriate and even sexual behavior. the low hanging fruit that's drawing attention and refeeding

it back into these kids and we're seeing all these mental health problems rising up in that. yet with millions or hundreds of millions of dollars the industries are making we aren't seeing any sufficient changes in the direction protecting kids, families and parental rights. >> dana: for parents that are concerned, what can they learn from reading the glass between us in order to help protect their kids? >> one model that we follow is left later limits. the internet and especially social media platforms were not designed to protect kids. it is always profit over people. and right now we live in this time where kids, they are born into this age but they are often not equipped. so we say talk to your children about the real dangers and delay screens and social media use and then set certain limits. there are great filters and

great phone alternatives so you can start with a simpler and have a smartphone later on. the conversations are absolutely at the core. we love conversations in the context of values. that's what our book is about, a value-centered approach. >> dana: lisa and jason you do important work and honored to have you on the show today. thank you. >> trace: the summer of sharks and there has been no let-up in sightings on both sides of the country heading into labor day weekend. molly line live in massachusetts. good morning. >> good morning. vacations may be coming to an end. for the sharks, they enjoy the cape code lifestyle and city escapes as well. according to the shark activity app they recorded more than 20 shark sightings in the cape in the last two days. it turns out sharks don't mind

a city escape. new research released by scientists at the university of miami tracked three shark species. they are swimming close to swimmers. >> sharks tolerate people and the end to avoid them. we saw that even some aerial things we saw people out on miami beach and there were sharks around them, which is pretty crazy. but just shows that humans are not on the menu when it comes to sharks. >> there are the occasional shark attacks. some fatal. we get word out of australia this morning there was a shark attack, a young surfer was bitten in the hand. always something to look for. >> trace: molly line live in massachusetts. molly, thank you. >> dana: you are a big swimmer.

do you worry about them? >> we see baby sharks come by. they can't hurt you but a little disconcerting. i would not go swimming in cape cod. >> dana: i would never. this weekend or never, ever. "the faulkner focus" is next. sandra smith is in for harris. see you tomorrow. >> thank you, dana and trace. fox news alert. loads of reaction to the president's speech in the key state of pennsylvania. he is trying his darnedest to take the d out of defund the police. critics calling it another political ploy. i'm sandra smith in for harris today. mid-terms front and center the president hitting the trail but not so much in the way of unity. plenty of harsh words toward republicans and a big push to convince voters that his party has your security top of mind.