your beer or wine or old fashioned. >> you know me, i'll probably do it after this, but yeah, definitely chug a few beers every now and then to keep it good. >> yeah. post-pandemic beer. all right, heading out. thank you for joining us. join us back here tomorrow. thanks to everyone. here is "america reports." >> jimmy buffett said it's five clock somewhere. in chicago, lawless drag racers and drifters, has residents outraged. [tires squealing] >> police are trying to crack down on the illegal stunts, complete lawlessness in the streets there. officers, when they show up, are being met with violence as angry crowds attack their vehicles. chicago alderman raymond lopez

and giano caldwell, but first this. >> john: to kick off "america reports," life expectancy in america dropping to the lowest level in more than two decades, according to the cdc. deaths from drug overdoses and covid fueling the decline. john roberts in washington. sandra, good wednesday to you. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith in new york city. plunged to an average of 76.1 years in 2021. fentanyl poisoning driving that number with more than 72,000 deaths by the end of last year. >> john: president biden's border crisis making it worse. officials are trying to stop the flow of fentanyl from creeping into the u.s., but despite efforts, parents are feeling the consequences of drugs in their family. >> fentanyl has changed the game. no longer can we say just be

careful or it's not going to happen to my family. >> it took half of what he thought was a percocet. you have to talk about these pills and other forms that unfortunately they are now taking other than just pills. >> no mother wants to wake up and have to find the news that their child has been taken and this is something that is taking america, the biggest crisis i think that we've ever faced as a nation. >> sandra: absolute devastation. dea is officially warning of an alarming new trend with cartels designing these rainbow colored fentanyl p ills in order to appeal to younger children. the pills have surfaced in at least 18 states. the last time we covered this story on "america reports," just last week, rainbow fentanyl was only found in five states.

>> john: looks just like smarties. >> sandra: matt is live at the u.s.-mexico border in eagle pass, texas, where massive fentanyl busts continue there. you have seen a lot of them, matt. >> sandra, it seems every week there are multiple announcements of major fentanyl busts here in the state of texas and arizona and now the dea is given the rather urgent warning saying it has seized the rainbow colored fentanyl pills in 18 different states across the country. dea says drug cartels are making the potentially deadly pills like colorful candy so they are more attractive to children and young people. the drug enforcement administration says brightly colored fentanyl is also seized in multiple forms, including pills, powder and blocks that resemble sidewalk chalk. the dea clarifies claims of certain colors more potent than others is not true, according to

laboratory tests. the dea writing in part "the men and women of the dea are relentlessly working to stop the trafficking of rainbow fentanyl and defeat the mexican drug cartels that are responsible for the vast majority of the fentanyl that is being trafficked in the united states." and u.s. border patrol just announced major fentanyl bust in the tucson sector of arizona. those pills weighing a staggering 187 pounds, worth estimated $4.3 million. we know just a few specs of fentanyl can be deadly. and nogales, arizona, seized 15,000 fentanyl pills strapped to a person's legs. cdc says of the 107,000 americans that overdosed in 2021, 66% of those were fentanyl-related, making it the most threatening drug in the united states right now. sandra, john. >> sandra: matt, thank you.

john. >> john: at the epicenter of the country's opioid crisis, innovative drug prevention program targeting at risk youth. aishah is in west virginia, what are they doing to fight back? >> aishah: it's so tough here in west virginia, not a lot they can do about the southern border so they are trying to get to their kids first before the cartels, before the drugs get to those kids. so we actually got an exclusive firsthand look at the mountainair challenge academy, 22-week long program for at risk teens like 16-year-old hayley. she told me she was a baby, john, when her mom abandoned her for drugs. growing up, she says she was bullied and was downright scared that she would wind up just like her mom. >> because i know how much pain that it put me through to have a mom like that and go through

that. i don't want anybody in the world to go through that, especially not my future kids. >> aishah: just 16 years old, john, vulnerable teens like her are the target of mexican drug cartels. last week, police found the first batch of rainbow fentanyl in this part of the state. it looks like candy sold as oxycontin. west virginia senator is angry about this, she's fighting back, she's doubling down on prevention programs like the mountainair challenge academy and businesses now hiring those at risk teens. but she says look, there has to be a change on the front lines. >> it makes me mad, makes me furious. what makes me furious, we are not stopping it at the border. we are not disrupting it. we are not getting the cooperation that we need at the border. >> aishah: john, i've been so impressed by the kids, they

truly understand they are fighting these cartels for their lives, and they know it just takes one moment of weakness, one pill, to kill them. john. >> john: when you get that message out that you take one pill it could be your last, i think it has some resonance. aishah, thank you so much. and sandra, when you look at the way the drug cartels are targeting young people with pills that look like smarties, you know the scope of the problem. and cbp is trying to interdict, you think ten pounds are getting across. >> sandra: look like candy, fruity pebbles, lucky charm, could convince any kid to take that. scary stuff and john, back to what we told our audience at the top of the show, the last time we covered this, seen in five states the rainbow fentanyl. it's up to 18 states now, it's not a border problem, it's

happening all over the country. >> john: i think sort of a scared straight message is in order here, particularly when you consider how deadly the pills can be. >> sandra: absolutely. we have heard from a lot of parents who have lost their children, it is heartbreaking. a court hearing 24 hours from now could determine whether a special master will be appointed to review the documents recovered in the raid on mar-a-lago. it all comes as the justice department files a detailed account of that raid claiming that documents were "likely concealed" at former president trump's former home and efforts were made to obstruct the investigation. our panel of mercedes and juan will join us in moments. but first david spunt outside mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida at this hour. david, this is the most comprehensive filing yet from the doj, correct? >> david: sandra, no question it really is. 36 pages filed just before midnight last night lays out some new significant details, including that some documents,

top secret classified documents were in the desk of former president donald trump here at his mar-a-lago estate in palm beach, florida. laid out in the document before midnight, the reason the doj filed this document was to oppose this idea of a neutral third party arbitor. we have been talking about it for a few days on fox news, a special master, someone to come and look at the evidence from a neutral perspective. the justice department saying a special master, sandra and john, not needed. tucked away at the bottom of this 36-page document last night, this photograph, it's the first one we have seen from the documents taken inside mar-a-lago, they are labelled secret, top secret and sci, sandra, stands for sensitive compartmented information, the highest levels of classification we are talking about here. the documents in the photo are mixed in with a box that shows a framed magazine cover of the former president. one of the parts of the filing

last night reads of most concern was that highly classified records were unfoldered, intermixed with other records. it continues as initial matter the former president lacks standing to seek judicial relief or oversight as to presidential records because records do not belong to him. the presidential records act makes clear the united states has complete ownership, possession and control of them. sandra, trump's team wants a special master but doj says just not needed. in early june, department of justice team went to mar-a-lago to meet with trump representatives. the former president, we are told, popped by the meeting to say hello and while he insists he was fully cooperating, the justice department indicated otherwise in this filing last night, that the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the diligent search the former president's counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform calls into serious question the representations made in the june certification and casts doubt on the extent of cooperation in

this matter. back to the court hearing tomorrow, the trump legal team will be there, the government will be there, its in front of federal judge canon, she will make the final decision if a special master will take a neutral look at the document and potentially return some documents here to mar-a-lago. sandra. >> sandra: david spunt reporting live from florida. thank you. >> john: our panel, mercedes, senior fellow, and former trump white house adviser for strategic communications, juan williams, fox news political analyst. some of what the doj said in the 36-page filing. put it on the screen. appointment of a special master is unnecessary and would significantly harm important government interests, including national security interests. juan, do you think the judge will buy that? >> i don't know, but i think it's pretty overwhelming production by the government, by the department of justice last night. i think they were asked to do it in 20 pages, they went to, as

you know, nearly 40 pages. >> john: why in 20, when you can do it in 40? >> i think the effort was to make an overwhelming case and i think they had, but the effort from the trump perspective, to detract, or derail, the fact that they had the fbi raid mar-a-lago and i think the president, the former president wants to stop that, if possible, delay it for certain and even interject more political overlay. >> john: obviously in the doj interest to not have a special master. >> absolutely, because for the doj you know, they are working on their investigation, apparently they have the sort of independent team that's going through these documents. however, that independent team is, it has to report to the chain of command. we have a bigger problem here, john, which is that the doj is not winning in the court of public opinion.

at the end of the day we want to see transparency. at the end of the day what does the doj have to hide, why not allow for the special master, let that be the independent judge, basically, to look at these documents and determine what is executive privilege, what's attorney/client privilege as opposed to as we know the doj perceived as a political institution weaponizing and using their power and also leaking information out through this process which of course i think is creating a lot of mistrust in this process. >> john: as part of the filing, the doj put out the photograph, it says the top secret sci documents, we don't know if it's at mar-a-lago or somewhere else, clearly the documents were laid out. nothing in the filing that suggests that they were found on the floor. but here is what the doj said as part of the filing in terms of needing to go in there and do it and the broad scope of the search warrant. the government developed evidence a search limited to the storage room would not have uncovered all the classified

documents at the premises, mar-a-lago, 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. should we take the fbi and doj at its word or should a special master look into all of this? >> i think one key point we have not discussed so far, these are the government's documents. no such thing as oh, this was the president's, and he was holding on to his material. he has made the argument some has declassified but no evidence it was employed. >> john: you see the "time" magazine covers. >> i'll give you back the "time" magazines. they made the case what has been either protected by lawyer-client privilege or personal was returned, but the rest of the documents of government documents, not to say some of this may be their material. >> we have seen the fbi and the doj fail time and time again, they went after president trump when it came to the russia hoax,

absolutely backfired and we are going back to the fact the american people do not trust the department of justice. in essence, a special master would provide the opportunity, john, for there to be a look at what is happening, what documents are classified, which ones are not, and really make it more of a fair process, which is what i think we deserve. >> john: transparency. i want to ask you about something else. yesterday joe biden went off on his law and order speech. he tried to turn things around in terms of the defund the police movement. listen to what he said. >> when it comes to public safety and this nation, the answer is not defund the police, it's fund the police. fund the police. >> john: portrayed in the speech, juan, democrats as champions of law and order and republicans opposed to it. critics are suggesting that that's some pretty high octane gas lighting going on there. >> clearly in the infrastructure bill that he passed there was

additional funding for police. >> john: when you look at the overall democratic message, come on. >> no, i disagree. democratic message extreme on the far left, we know about the extremes in american politics have talked about that, but that's not been joe biden's history when he was running for president or as president. >> they are shifting into the political sphere, trying to pull in the independent voters, why they are talking about fund the police. their record shows that's not the case. record shows the democrat cities, they are the ones that you are seeing crime invested cities that are impacting the community the. >> that's not true, come on. >> why they are winning on crime. >> it's rhetoric, mercedes. >> it's polls, it's the reality. >> the crime is rising even in republican-led states. much more than in democratic states. >> look at the democrat-run cities, that's where you are seeing it. >> john: we have to end it there, good discussion. appreciate it. expect a letter from aoc and

presley. >> sandra: ukrainian forces, is the tide turning in the fight? a live report from the war torn country coming up. >> john: we have told you about quiet quitting. now managers are getting in on the act, too. so what is quiet firing and how worried should workers be? david and charlie weigh in coming right up. ♪♪

>> sandra: i told charlie to quit dancing on set here. get back to work, the message from some major wall street ceos to their workers saying covid work environments are over. j.p. morgan, goldman sachs, pushing for their employees to get back into the office for in-person working, citing a less risky covid environment. several of those banks now suspending vaccination requirements and cutting back on testing. that reporting exclusive to fox business's own charlie gasparino, we called him and said can you come on set, he is here, and david asman. >> lydia had the goldman aspect, we broke the j.p. morgan -- she worked for me and i trained her, that's why she beat me --

>> a hand on every reporter in new york. >> sandra: the message, not saying covid is gone, but covid is over, as far as the work environment is concerned. get back to the office and notably i asked you about, i said who is the wall street bank executive who said he was sick of going to the hampton, can't get a reservation and out to lunch he sees his subordinates. >> that's david solomon, that's the first wave the summer after it broke, so summer of 2020 when that strain of the virus was deadly, let's face it. the first strain of the virus was deadly. my brother was an icu doctor, he was very sick with it from treating people. fast forward now, and it's interesting. morgan stanley in the memo, we broke last night, essentially said listen, the virus, paraphrasing, the virus is waning. not what we had initially, this is more, you know, something that you could deal with.

so, get your rear ends back to the office. >> sandra: not to mention vaccinations are prevalent, treatments are out there. >> and people are getting sick even if they were vaccinated like the president and the first lady, and like dr. fauci himself, had it twice as well. >> dr. fauci is 80 years old, he did not look like -- on this variant was that sick. >> the point is, all of these mandates and one can argue in the beginning there might have been a purpose to some of them, but even those are now being questioned, they don't serve a scientific purpose and you have the crazy situation with the u.s. open in new york, the tennis match, you don't need to be vaccinated in the audience where they are getting all friendly with each other but you have to have one if you are playing, even though you are separated by a big tennis court. so these mandates don't make any sense. i thought they have not made sense over a year now, but particularly now and we have to

catch up with it. our workforce needs to be regenerated. >> sandra: i want to know if the employees are going to come back. they had leverage throughout this, they have said ok, come work for us, we'll let you work from home three days a week and go into the office two days a week. are they going to be able to get the workers back? new york post had a story, a tech worker, lamented, i can't go back to work, i had can't get in my lunchtime workout. >> i agree with her. that's a good reason. >> that's your lifestyle forever, not just since the pandemic. >> sandra: things have changed and people have changed. >> the economy is changing, we are likely going into a slowdown or recession, wall street is planning possibly for layoffs and i spoke with gary goldstein and said the power dynamic has switched. used to be the workers, the fed easing and the crazy stuff, now switch back to the employers

where david solomon at goldman sachs, and james gorman at stanley, said you don't want to come to the office, you are out. >> the reason we don't yet have a full blown recession, you can argue whether we are technically in one or not, we had a huge number of jobs and fewer number of people looking for jobs. in excess of 11 million job openings compared to the people who want a job. that is changing now. we have begun to see it. >> sandra: those are not the white collar jobs. >> the bottom line, it bleeds through the various labor groups and that does sort of buffer the effects that we are having of the problems with the stagflation that we have, which is real. and as we go into perhaps a more severe recession, particularly into 2023, we may find that people are going to be so anxious for jobs that they are willing to go into an office even those not willing to do so now. >> if the fed raises rates, hate to turn it into an interest rate

conversation, 75, 75, the wall street kids are like oh, oh, my job is in jeopardy. kind of like listen, i lived through recessions, you lived through it. >> when you are desperate, you'll take anything. >> these kids have never lived through anything. >> sandra: we'll see, ceos have had it and i'll say this on the record, these big cities need it. they need the people to get back into the office, out to lunch, about he on the sidewalks. >> situation needs to change as well. it's so bad. >> eyes and ears on the sidewalk. it would change things. >> cities are in trouble. >> sandra: we'll continue the discussion on quiet quitting and quiet firing another day. we didn't get to it. >> john: and add in washington, d.c. traffic. everybody is back to work here. tensions in the pacific between taiwan and china escalating. taiwan firing warning shots at chinese drones near its border. how close are the two nation to say all-out war?

>> sandra: it's not a movie set, but the streets of chicago, can you believe, this is really happening almost nightly in that city. lawless street racing taking over the windy city and turning deadly and police feel they can do nothing about it, next. >> we have been around for 15 years and a store front for 12 years. you know, i've never had crime this badly in chicago. all those petty crimes are becoming larger issues.

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>> sandra: residents warn more terrified businesses outraged over chicago's street takeovers. large crowds gathering late night causing commotions of all kinds. illegal activity happening in the streets there, racers terrorizing some of chicago's historically safest neighborhoods. mike tobin is live in the windy

city. i know chicago very well, when i see where this is happening, this is happening in the central business district, the loop, the shopping areas, i mean, this is not just certain sections of the city we are used to seeing violence, this is happening everywhere. >> mike: it really speaks to the lawlessness all over chicago. mayor lightfoot and dave brown like to point to statistics showing the shootings are down from 2020 and 2021, very violent summers. robberies, burglary, thefts are up since that time. and back to 2019 when she took office, murders up by 33%, shootings up 34%. but the lawlessness is spilling over into every neighborhood in chicago, including the loop. chicago's business district. one business owner said she's had enough, theresa owns a sweet shop called sugar bliss in the

palmer house and the loop. someone vandalized the place and grabbed a purse, she says she is headed for the suburbs. >> when i have police officers come into my store and say they are understaffed, they are overworked, i mean -- there needs to be a solution for this, and we need more police that want to go into the police force. we need police that, you know, all these people that are doing these small crimes, there are no consequences. >> and you talk about the drag racing or drifting events. more examples of chicago's leaders losing control. they spring up over social media, young people take over intersections and neighborhoods. and these are not just kids having fun. first of all, they block traffic. and sunday near midway airport, 40-year-old woman was run down by cars apparently in a drag race and she died. shy city council passed an ordinance, giving police the power to impound cars and impose a fine. however, when police showed up at a street takeover sunday

night, the mob attacked the police. pelted with rocks, bricks, and uprooted trees. police did make some arrests and impound some cars and identify some cars for future impoundment. >> sandra: john, you know i've been following this story closely, that 40-year-old woman, she and her boyfriend were walking to a late dinner when that happened. they were not part of watching it happening, they were walking by when a car slid out of control and killed her. this is violence organized on social media, happens in a moment, lower whacker drive and they are in some of the high pedestrian area, it is extremely dangerous. and the police try to stop it, they fight back. incredible to see what's happening. it's destroying that city. chicago alderman lopez will join us and giano caldwell.

>> they are trying to hunt down the people who killed his 18-year-old brother. coming your way in 25 minutes. tensions between taiwan and china escalating as taiwan says the military fired warning shots at chinese drones that were hovering over restricted waters. it comes after taiwan's president promised to take strong counter measures against increasing chinese aggression. mark thiessen joins us now, fox news contributor, on occasion flips burgers at a local joint around the corner. good to talk to you. >> good to see you. >> john: yesterday we heard $1.1 billion arms package to sell to taiwan, and also missiles to be used at sea. a long time coming. still disagreement over what taiwan should be ordering in terms of weapons, and then also

the issue of how china will respond. >> yeah, so i mean, $1.1 billion is good, it's a good start, but donald trump gave $18 billion in four years. so, and four times what the obama-biden administration provided. it's a start but not enough. china is hoping to be able to pull off an invasion of taiwan without provoking u.s. military response. they would like it the way the war in ukraine has gone in the sense that america would provide maybe weapons to taiwan, maybe aid, sanctions on them but not involved militarily. that is their hope and doing it so soon after speaker pelosi's visit would undermine that. but i think -- so i think we might have a little bit of time, but time is running out. i think that we need to act and, on the assumption that an invasion of taiwan is not a question of if, but when. and start preparing ourselves for that inevitable outcome. >> john: and also the question

how china might undertake that. atlantic council police china will not try an all-out invasion, it could be disastrous for china. what harlan suggested beijing could do, some form of seizure, maritime and air blockade, sanctions and internal political coup. and what they should do, adopt the porcupine strategy, so bris ling with weapons in the interior that swallowing it would be harmful for whoever tried to do it, taiwan like the f-16s to chase away the chinese jets and likes ships, adds an amount of prestige. so, what do you think china could do and how would taiwan respond to that, and does it have the right weapons to respond?

>> it needs the capability to deny china to reach across the taiwan straight. the big difference between ukraine and china, ukraine had a long porous border to come across, and taiwan is an island. amphibious assault is difficult. we need to deploy china the inability to get across the strait and to taiwan. we need to provide them with those weapons and the right capabilities ourselves. one of the reasons we can do that, because president trump pulled us out of the international -- inf treaty, between the united states and russia, did not involve china, that barred intermediate range nuclear weapons. that means we can deploy intermediate range missiles in guam, japan, different places across the pacific that could deny them the ability to cross the taiwan strait and that would

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like to say there has not been a good song written since 1990. >> sandra: if no one has seen your sunday morning jam sessions, he on the drums and you on the guitar, it's awesome. >> john: he has talent, not from me. ukraine picking up the pace on a counter offensive, attacking bridges near kherson. meanwhile, a delegation from the united nations is heading to a russian-occupied nuclear power plant in the country's southeast. alex hogan is live and she has the latest on all this. alex. >> met with the iaea early this morning, stressed how dire the situation is, the first time the nuclear watch dogs have needed to step in in a conflict zone. >> we are going to a war zone,

to occupied territory. >> those experts have since arrived in zaporizhzhia and will head to the europe largest power plant tomorrow to hope to alleviate a nuclear disaster. and i joined rob portman and amy klobuchar yesterday, like to irpin and destruction at an air base where russian paratroopers descended in an effort to capture the capital, a battle that destroyed one of the country's beloved symbols. delegates were able to see what was the largest plane in the entire world, it translates to dream. >> 42 countries have provided military assistance to ukraine to protect themselves. if it has done anything,

strengthened alliances, done the opposite of what vladimir putin intended to do. >> now ukrainian forces are ramping up in the south outside of kherson, taking more territory. the question is how long they can hold on to the territorial gains. >> john: alex hogan, thank you so much, great reporting. >> six figure salary out of college sounds pretty good, but you won't believe the job description. why some college graduates are turning down finance jobs to become nannies? >> john: 25 years since princess diana's untimely death. we will ask her private secretary about the legacy and the impact diana would have had on the royal family were she still alive today. ♪♪

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the paris car crash. unfortunately her royal sons will stay apart as they mark a quarter century since her untimely death. patrick was diana's private secretary and joins us now. patrick, welcome to you and thank you for joining us. hard to believe it has been 25 years, and there's so much that we follow with the royal family, of course, even here in the united states, we follow it somewhat pretty closely some of us. what do you want people to remember about princess diana 25 years later? >> well, sandra, i think the most important thing for people to remember, and it's not necessarily the first thing you think of when you remember princess diana, my memory as her private secretary and senior advisor was what a professional she was. we tend to remember her as a rather approachable, relateable, essentially informal sort of person. but that wouldn't be the whole picture at all. she was not the girl next door, she was an atristocrat, and a

future queen, and like you may know for yourself, the harder you prepare for a job, easier you make it look. diana worked hard every day. the fact that she made it look easy and could be so approachable and spontaneous was built on a lot of hard work. she was a professional to her fingertips. >> sandra: the more i practice, the betsy get, right. luckier i get. princess diana was reportedly planning to move to the united states. this was a recent report, it was said by her former body guard and she was going to leave her sons, all before her sudden death. do you believe that to be the case, was that true, was she planning to move to the u.s.? >> sandra, i came with princess diana to america several times and every time there were stories like this circulating and indeed, why not. i would move to america. best decision i ever made and i would not want to deny her, would not have wanted to deny

her the many advantages and opportunities that america offers but she was at heart a dutiful princess, and a glance at her royal career bears that out. she was beautiful but she was very dutiful, too, and i think that part of her that needed to serve her country, that love of country, would have meant she would not have stayed away for very long. >> sandra: for those of us looking at these pictures of her life, as a royal member of the family and also a mother to those two sons, we all just hope they can get back together and work things out. we really appreciate you joining us. thank you so much as we remember and look back at princess diana, 25 years after her death. thanks so much. >> thanks, sandra. >> john: coming up, new at 2:00, as the justice department defends the raid at mar-a-lago,

a high ranking fbi agent now firing back and denying claims of being pushed out over his handling of the hunter biden laptop probe. is there a doj double standard? we'll ask ken buck about that. plus, chicago alderman raymond lopez and gianno caldwell react to crime. and new pro police messaging. all that and more as "america reports" rolls on. re going up fast. the grocery store and the gas station alone are taking a big chunk out of our paychecks. fortunately, you've earned the valuable va home loan benefit. the newday 100 va loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value, not just 80%. and with home values near record highs, that could mean a lot of money. let newday turn your home's equity into cash.

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control in the middle of neighborhood streets. >> john: drag and drift racers doing donuts in busy intersections, terrifying residents and sending businesses to hiding while police struggle to get a struggle on the acts seemingly out of a "fast and furious" movie. [sirens] >> those street racers when confronted by the police fighting back. now cops are promising to crack down and warning this lawlessness must stop or there will be severe consequences. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two. i'm sandra smith in new york. hard to believe this is actually happening. >> john: it really is incredible. john roberts in washington. surreal scenes in chicago the

latest for a city plagued by crimes for years now, murder and gun violence are a sad daily routine. >> we were sleeping and suddenly hear a lot of noise, it's not legal and a lot of noise, a lot of commotion. >> timing is bad, 2:30 a.m. in the morning. >> john: business owners, particularly women, telling fox they plan to pack their bags and move out of chicago if police can't get a handle on things. >> store front for 12 years, you know, i've never had crime this badly in chicago. not just every couple years, it's now monthly, weekly, and now daily. there's no consequences for the small crimes, and it's a resolving door. they go to jail, come out of jail, do the same crime again. hit the same places and so there is no consequences so these crimes are going to continue to happen. i love the city, i've been here over 20 plus years, i went to college here, i really like to sit down with the mayor, the

alderman, anybody that makes decisions on crime to figure out how we can resolve this issue. >> sandra: terrifying for residents and those business owners, but also major corporations have already ditched the windy city, including major companies like citadel, the largest hedge fund, caterpillar, even boeing moving headquarters. citadel chief announcing after 30 years in the city, a residents there himself, his investment firm would be relocating to, florida, landing in miami. all of this after boeing moved to arlington, virginia and construction giant caterpillar relocated to dallas, texas. a lot of lost tax dollars. >> john: certainly is, no question about that. chicago under siege, live in the windy city with the latest. mike. >> you know, john, chicago's mayor as well as the police superintendent like to point out the murders and shootings are down from violent summers of

2020 and 2021, but since lightfoot took office, murders are up and shootings are up 34%. cocaine wars of the 1980s and 1990s, increase in drag racing or drifting events. they spring up over social media and young people take over, if you will, intersections and neighborhoods. it's a little more serious than kids having fun. first of all, they block traffic to everything, including emergency personnel. and on sunday night near midway airport, a 40-year-old woman, not a participant was run down by cars apparently in a drag race and she died. chicago city council last june passed an ordinance to crack down on drag racing and drifting, giving police the power to impound cars and impose a $10,000 fine. however, when police showed up on sunday night, the mob attacked the police. pelted with bricks, rocks, uprooted trees, they made some arrest and identified cars for

future impounding, as well as cars on the scene. flash mobs and smash and grab robberies, the glitzy gold coast part of town, they let their customers in one at a time and seeing a lot of businesses dine the loop, surrounding the loop packing it in and heading for the suburbs, john. >> john: dystopian movie there. thank you, mike. >> come home from school, someone approached him, they said to rob them, or bully them so my son was killed at the school like, it's sad, it's sad, very scary, senseless, all of it. he was somebody, not just a statistic. >> sandra: a mother's heartbreak fearing the chicago high murder rate reduces her son to another murder. caleb westbrooks was a high

school freshman, when he was shot three times and left to die. accused killer, another high school student and yet another life destroyed by crime. >> john: chicago so notorious for the bloodshed you might think people living there would be numb to the violence, yet the cruel and excessive savagery never fails to shock, even a year after moore was murdered, one detail still haunts her mother every day. >> she got shot 18 times. 18 times. a girl got shot 18 times. that's the worst news ever a parent can get. >> john: she was getting into a car when somebody in another vehicle opened fire. no one knows why. she was on the way to have her nails painted ahead of her 17th birthday, the very next day.

>> sandra: a democrat running to unseat mayor lightfoot, she's welcome to join us as well. alderman, thank you for joining us here. our hearts break for the parents suffering through the crime, losing their loved ones, losing children to the senseless violence. to this -- to this violence that is happening in the streets there, we have been playing out the video for our viewers. difficult to obtain, sometimes only via cell phone footage, it happens in the middle of the night. organizing social media and getting together in a matter of minutes sometimes and they are doing this all over the city and it's resulting in some people dying that are just simply pedestrians walking by. what is happening in that city? >> what we are seeing is the effects of three years of a mayor and a superintendent who has not made addressing crime and criminality in chicago a priority. it is only now at the 11th hour

that they are concerned about what's going on on the streets of chicago, simply because there is election in five months. we are here in the middle behind one of the most historic locations, maxwell's char and grill and yet across the street already empty store fronts, next to us, empty store fronts, communities would love to rebuild but can't, attract businesses and entrepreneurs in a city that makes people feel unsafe. and lori lightfoot is only pointing the fingers elsewhere to deflect from her own failures. >> john: john roberts here. earlier today we had a store owner, she owns a cake shop called sugar bliss, theresa ging, she's in downtown chicago but says the crime is so out of control she's thinking like others have, as pulling of stakes and moving out of the city. what she told us, listen here.

>> i've never had crime this badly in chicago. it's now not just every couple years, it's now monthly, weekly, and now daily. i mean, just yesterday another incident down the street. later on that evening, a friday, another business owner just two doors down had someone steal their tips. >> have you made the decision, theresa, to actually pick up and move or are you strongly considering it? >> i'm strongly considering it. i'm looking out to suburbs, outside of illinois. >> john: so crime, violent crime, murders, deadly street racing in the loop, corporations, businesses leaving the city. what's going to happen, raymond, to the city of chicago, which has long been one of the great american cities if something isn't done? >> if chicago does not get its act together and we do not address the violence in our streets, regardless if it's drifting, shoplifting or the mayhem we see nightly from gangs and drug activity, we will no

longer be the crown jewel of the midwest. our luster will have dulled chtd we still have the opportunity to turn it around. many good people whether we are here, downtown, gold coast or the communities who have not lost hope in the city of chicago. i hear on a daily basis. we will stand up, take our city back and show we will bring balance back to not only law enforcement but to the common sense needed for government. we are not going to lose the city of chicago. >> sandra: i want to go back to the video on the screen. again, this is happening all over that city, and in this particular case it shows what is happening all too often. cops showing up to the scene and instead of anybody getting scared and running or stopping the illegal activity, they are fighting back, throwing rocks at the cop cars, if the cops get out, they are getting attacked. you are talking about a sea change to get things going in that city and i don't know where

you go. suburbs are having the problem too. milwaukee, just up the lake, suffering from this crime, minneapolis is a mess, this has to be support thrown by those that wear the blue. so that they can get in there and do their jobs. >> first and foremost, democrats by and large have espoused the mentality that enabling and how we stay in power. i reject that notion. we have to know who the real heroes are and those are the brave men and women that put on that uniform and badge every day to keep our communities safe. they are the ones who are keeping our society together at a time when so many politicians and community leaders are making excuses for those individuals who think that they can quite literally act with impunity in cities like chicago, and the moment we start showing consequence for the behaviors

you have just shown your viewers, things will change in the city of chicago and i believe throughout this country. >> john: raymond, you pointed out that you are a democrat, you are also one of lori lightfoot's fierceest critics, she has been critical of you as well but says the city is on the right track in fighting crime. what do you say? >> you know, just yesterday, john, lori lightfoot was blaming the media for why people don't believe chicago is the same position she tells everyone it is, because it's contrary to her narrative. easy to make a narrative when you don't have to walk the streets, unless she had 25 police officers she hates protecting her. i know we have to move forward, bring our communities together and have to stop making excuses, which is something that lori lightfoot will never do. she will always look for blame elsewhere, and not take responsibility for the city she has created. >> most recently she turned a blind eye to the fact that a lot

of the police that remained on the force, they were being asked to work extraordinary hours with no break and some cases 11 straight days of work. she denied that they were overworked until a scathing report just came out and it did cause leadership to change rules for the police, allowing them to take a little extra time off because they are diving into extremely dangerous situations like that each and every day. appreciate you joining us, sir. and keep us posted and again, our viewers know we have an open invitation to mayor lori lightfoot. we would appreciate if she would join us and come on and talk about what's happening in this city and what she is doing about crime like that. >> john: thank you for your time. >> thank you both. >> john: chicago's out of crime crisis impacting our fox family. christian caldwell, brother of

gianno caldwell, was gunned down, he was not the intended target and no one has been arrested for his murder. again, our condolences for the loss your family has suffered. we will keep your brother in our prayers. >> thank you so much. >> john: the same question i asked raymond a moment ago. we have all of this lawlessness, so many different levels going on in the city of chicago. do we risk a major american city as raymond called it, the crown jewel of the midwest, being hollowed out because the leaders there cannot get a handle on crime? >> i think that process is already started, john, and to be honest, with your alderman, he said something so poignant, democrats have had this mentality whereas if you coddle the criminals you have a better chance getting elected, that's the mentality they have been moving, the leadership in the city of chicago have been moving with. we have seen it for years but especially after george floyd and the protests and the reforms

that took place after that. we really have seen it, seen it with the no chase policies, police officers have to ask for permission from their supervisors in the cars to chase people, can't chase them on foot, only limited situations, we have seen bail reform in 2017. the city has become a disaster and truthfully speaking, i give messages on social media, instagram, people say fox news is playing it up to make it look like it's bad, some of the lori lightfoot type of rhetoric. that's not true. fox news is the only network, the only major network on television that is showing the reality that many people are facing in the city of chicago on a day-to-day basis. my brother died, murdered on the south side of chicago. i mean, on 114th and south vincent on the south side. people are being murdered downtown chicago, sandra mentioned it. you used to not see this kind of stuff, i'm sure when you lived there you didn't see that.

you might have felt safe when you were downtown chicago. that was the area people did not go in and create and wreak all the havoc. now it's literally everywhere in the city. doesn't matter what color you are, your age, gender, your religion, whatever. you are a target for criminals there. and that must come to an end and they are not going to be able to have it come to an end unless folks get tough on the criminals there. >> sandra: amen to that, we have been showing the beautiful pictures of your little brother and our condolences continue to you. we grieve with you. it is absolutely heartbreaking. there are too many stories like yours, a senseless unexplained violence taking these innocent lives in that city, and you mentioned, i grew up there, i started working downtown chicago when i was 17 years old, the world trade center, the sears tower, commodities exchanges there, and there used to be safety in numbers. you can't ignore the fact crime was always present but there is safety in numbers, and corporations like boeing in the loop, you had people going to

work every day at the big banks, going to lunch, you know, a lot of those people have fled, those companies have fled, residents have fled. the taxes have tripled in the past few years driving residents like myself, used to have a small condo down there, it became senseless to do that anymore. crime was spiking, taxes out of control. i don't know where you get people back into a city where this is happening, gianno. >> you are right, and like when i was 16 i worked 600 west madison in the west loop. i did not fear for my safety downtown chicago at that time. now i go down there and looking across my shoulder. it is a sincere problem. what's even more of a problem, the county prosecutor, refusing to prosecute cases in the right way. she's undercharging cases and created a sentiment, a cancer, i would argue, for criminals who believe they either won't, one, won't be arrested, or two, not be prosecuted. now that's why lawlessness

exists. i'm having to go, i mean, to great lengths to try to get justice for my brother. thank god for our colleagues sean hannity, i know he doesn't like me to praise him like this, but he was the one who called me one day and said hey, do you know john walch from america's most wanted, of course, he's a legend, and that's how we came about with the public service announcement. going to extreme length to get justice for him. imagine what it's like for the everyday person who does not have a fox news channel to support them. this is terrible for people there. >> sandra: or the money to flee. >> laws need to change. and a lot of people don't. >> john: i was going to say, you mentioned the west loop. scenes of the car doing donuts. that is from the west loop over the weekend. you mentioned john walsh and a public service announcement to bring down the killers of your

brother. >> i'm gianno caldwell, my 18-year-old brother christian was an light every room he went to. june 20, 2022, he was murdered in chicago, illinois. >> i'm john walsh, the father of a murdered child. i've been chasing fugitives and asking people to make a difference for over 40 years. this family needs justice. >> john: john walsh is a legend, tracked down many criminals and killers when the police were not able to. do you have some sense of optimism with john at your side he might be able t bring the killers of your brother to justice? >> i do, i do, and every moment counts, so thankful to fox 32, our local affiliate in chicago who is running the psa, so this has really truly been a family affair. fox news family has supported me and my family in ways unim

unimaginable, i'm fighting for other families as well in chicago that don't have this platform. i will gladly lend it to those folks to tell their stories and hopefully somebody watching says i know what happened and they call in and get someone arrested. that's the goal of this. now it's my life mission and purpose. i am beyond hurt that this has happened to my family, i cannot believe it and i hope no one has to imagine this, the reality for so many people. we got an exclusive on fox and friends on monday, a democratic state representative on the we want side of chicago, one of his relatives is murdered. he is now calling out the mayor of chicago, calling out li lightfoot and fox. something needs to change, john. >> john: play a little of the interview you can with ford. >> you know, right here on the block i grew up, my niece lost

her husband, he was murdered. shot down right here on claire and chicago avenue. my daughter went to pick up her cousins from school, she dropped them off, and in moments a car drives by and shoots up the car. and shoots and kills john right here in front of my daughter and his kids. >> sandra: just absolutely heartbreaking story after heartbreaking story. we are really moved by that interview, gianno. >> thank you so much, and the grandmother was there when it all happened. he was speaking to the relative in question was speaking to his grandmother. i mean, these folks have no respect for human life, and people have become so desensitized, even the victims, the victims' families, they receive it as ultimately the reality they have to live in it as john mentioned, they don't

have the financial resources to move out of chicago, even though according to forbes, illinois is the number one place people are moving out of and a lot of these areas they are relying on government assistance and the government is not giving them a hand to get out of there. what is joe biden doing about chicago. he should be talking about this. number one issue. a number of cities, chicago, new york or whatever, under assault from the criminals and the defund the police movement brought about that sentiment and a lot of the folks in the elected positions they are responsible for that, they encouraged that and now they have to take responsibility for their actions. >> sandra: and it's amazing, too, mayor lightfoot seems to be punting to the social media companies, calling for fed regulation and enhanced police platforms, you see the street racing, drag racing, donuts that are happening, ending up fatal for some of these pedestrians

that are walking by while they are hang, but organizing on social media and that's an important part of this story. they are able to put a message out there meet at this intersection at this time and it gets out of control the number of people they attract to that one area. so to her point, a lot more should be and could be done at the local leadership level, social media companies have to see this is happening and potentially they could step in and do something to stop this. >> potential there, and i was reading "sun times," a lady, her two sons were murdered blocks away from each other. the person who they believe did it has been bragging about it on social media. those folks have been turned over to the police. but what have they done? what has the mayor done about that? another consideration. if these kids know and the streets often talk on facebook, they'll brag about who they killed, who they murdered or what they are associated with.

if nothing is happening there, what's the point of having the social media companies look into the other posts not doing anything about the murders. >> john: a closing thought here, we had theresa on, a store owner talking with raymond lopez. another store owner said this of chicago, we can't live like this, the city has become, i would even say, gotham city is a little bit better because you had batman. some sardoni humor but a grain of truth. >> you see billionaire ken griffin, leaving and coming right to miami and citadel. it's going to take place and hit the pockets of the city hard. >> sandra: and he hung in there for a while, he loves the city, but people don't feel safe walking to work or coming to work, having their families live here, so it became harder for him to retain and attract top talent which you need to run the largest and most successful hedge fund in the world.

add this in here on the news front on what they are trying to do, they have stepped in, said you are not going to get away with this, now vowing anybody doing this drag racing, this dangerous street racing there in chicago, they are going to tow your vehicle, impounded, up to $10,000 fine. that's great, but i mean, that's going to take a lot of effort. police cannot stop it while it's happening, dangerous for the residents around it or pedestrians in the street, its unbelievable that is happening, almost nightly we are seeing this happen. >> that's right. and worst of all, the county prosecutor won't enforce the law. >> john: and the police can't get to the scene. our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much. >> sandra: oh, another major story making life tough for another american city, water everywhere, but not in jackson.

heavy rains over the last week causing devastating flooding. officials say it did not just taint the drinking supply, but it also messed up the water system so badly people's faucets are not pouring any water at all. as a result the problems go way beyond filling up a cup. >> until it is fixed, it means we do not have reliable running water at scale. it means the city cannot produce enough water to fight fires, to reliably flush toilets, and to meet other critical needs. >> sandra: fox weather live at a water distribution seb ter there in jackson, mississippi. will, people are stuck waiting for bottled water there? >> that's right, and tried to fill up buckets, whatever they can. a little bit of confusion here on the ground in terms of what water is available where. we have situations like this, you can only fill up buckets and

jars and other locations it's bottled water and drinkable water. so confusion as they try to mobilize a tremendous amount of help to serve the need here in the jackson community. meanwhile, fox weather spent some time at one of the two water treatment plants this morning, saw them bring in large vacuum trucks to move the sludge and debris, clogging up not only the tanks in the treatment centers but the pumps and lines, and once the pressure starts to build and able to get water back out, they are putting it into a system with broken infrastructure. and that's the problem. so many of these natural disasters and you know, difficult times where they have not been able to address the infrastructure issues have led to the ongoing problems, hitting a boiling point, if you will, right now. i talked to one gentleman here filling up earlier, just like this guy is doing here, and he knew the attendants here helping in the relief effort. this is a familiar sight, it has

happened before. a pitiful scene to see it's so familiar for a lot of people. schools are closed, restaurants, businesses closed, they sent the kids home where there is no running water there. no brushing teeth, showers, things like that. the governor is expected to speak later this afternoon. we will monitor that closely with new information. >> sandra: live in jackson, mississippi for us. >> john: the lawyer for a top fbi agent ousted is denying there are political bias into the investigation into hunter biden's laptop. >> sandra: timothy thibault's legal team denies he was escorted out of fbi headquarters. bring in colorado republican congressman ken buck, a member of the house judiciary committee. you know, everybody sees the story and that this is happening and want to know, how much

political bias is there in the fbi? >> i think, sandra, it depends on what level you are talking about. certainly at the upper levels of the fbi we saw with jim comey and andrew mccabe and peter, there was a bias and yet at the lower levels a lot of hard working men and women out enforcing the law and doing a great job. and so we need to make sure that this particular director, christopher wray is able to clean house and get rid of those who won't enforce the law impartially. >> john: he says this was a case of an fbi agent reaching the age of retirement and retiring. nothing more to it. but he was removed from his position. former president trump certainly does not believe that it was just routine retirement. he wrote on truth social security "people that retire

from the fbi are not perp walked out of the headquarters on a hot sunny afternoon in august, after being screamed and and ridiculed by his bosses, the firing from hell." but people escorted from the building is standard operating procedure, nothing more than that. what do you say? >> john, i think it's clear from senator grassley, and he received a briefing and a hearing on this in the last month, he has great concern about the bias that was shown in the laptop investigation. he said so, so we have a conflict and that's why we need to make sure we elect a republican majority in the house so we can have oversight hearings and get to the bottom of it, christopher wray doing everything he can to make sure the fbi agents that are investigating crimes, potential crimes involving political figures are impartial and applying the rule of law. >> sandra: i want to ask you about the top secret documents

and images we have seen at mar-a-lago, they are laid out on the floor, doj judge told the trump team they likely concealed or moved a classified document as new, newly released images show the secret files recovered from the raid. what do you make of the the latest developments in all of this as tomorrow, of course, we expect this court hearing on the mar-a-lago raid documents? >> sandra, i think it's incredibly unfortunate that merrick garland goes before the public and says he's going to be transparent involving the search warrant and the raid at mar-a-lago, then they redact the search warrant affidavit so hardly any information can be gleaned from the search warrant affidavit and then they leak information to the public to create a narrative around president trump, a naegtive narrative, and i think what we need is actually hold merrick

garland to his word and be transparent. let the public see what was going on. you can't make judgments based on leaks and that's all we have at this point. >> john: president trump is pushing back against the narrative established through fbi leaks and through what were the unredacted sections of the affidavit, and now in this 38-page filing the doj has filed with the court, they will take this up tomorrow. you know, we saw the top secret documents on the floor, some of them said sci, sensitive compartmented information, among the nation's most closely regarded secrets. what president trump said about that, terrible the way the tib during the raid of mar-a-lago threw documents haphazardly all over the floor, perhaps pretending that it was me who did it, and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see. thought they wanted to keep them secret. lucky i declassified them. this again brings up the conflict here over whether or not the documents were declassified by president trump

or were not, and the biden administration apparently rescinding any declassification. so a lot of he said/he said whether the documents were legally in the possession of president trump or if they weren't. >> sure. there is and there was negotiations going on between the national archivist and president trump's legal team. my understanding is president trump had set up a secure location within mar-a-lago so the thing -- the proper procedure, in my view, is to have gone to court, the department of justice should have gone to court and used least intrusive, he may be writing a memoir, an autobiography and the fact he had documents in and of itself

isn't a concern. how he treated those documents and what negotiations occurred with the archivist we just don't know at this point. >> sandra: congressman ken buck from the state of colorado, appreciate you joining us. president biden going after republicans over crime. that's despite the democrat-led cities like chicago we were just discussing. >> john: charlie hurt says the president should look closer to home. he's coming up next.

the violence in our streets, regardless if it's drifting, regardless if it's shoplifting, or the mayhem we see nightly from gangs and drug activity, we will no longer be the crown jewel of the midwest. >> sandra: quite a warning from chicago alderman raymond lopez who joined us a short time ago

on this program talking about the rapid descent of his city into lawlessness. other cities are seeing the violent crime spiking as well. here in new york city, the mayor and governor announced a new safety step, making time step a gun free zone. response to it all, president biden is trying to flip the political script going after republicans for being soft on crime. hillary vaughn is live in washington for us. washington is dealing with its own level of crime. the president used to blame covid for all the crime now admitting it's a lack of police in some of the cities. >> sandra, you are right. kind of a 180 from the president on what is causing the problem, but also the way to solve the problem. last night biden admitting a lot of americans do not feel safe anymore and he said the answer is more police.

>> and i mean it. folks, when it comes to fighting crime, we know it works. officers on the street. >> that's a big disconnect from mayors in the president's own party who are not ramping up hiring of police officers to help get a handle on high crime, and it's forcing businesses to limit hours, move locations, or close shop entirely because it's not safe to be open for business. >> a lot of times we feel we are on our own. we had to increase our security patrols, the police department is helpful when things crop up in the neighborhood or hot spots in the neighborhood. so understaffed it's difficult to respond with any kind of force. >> according to the national retail federation, about 69% of retailers say they have seen an increase in organized retail crime, but it's more than just theft. violent crime is up, too, in

stores. business owners and workers do not feel safe and neither could their customers. "new york times" report fbi data shows assaults at convenience stores have increased by 75% between 2018 and 2020. business owners say it not just a lack of police, it's a lack of prosecution triggering a rise in repeat offenders. >> that's the most crazy thing. a guy robbed us here, out of jail in 24 hours, robbed us a few weeks later and released again. >> and sandra, it's not just small mom and pop shops closing. big name retailers like target, walgreens, even starbucks closing some locations in the past year due to safety concerns, sandra. >> sandra: really something to watch, thank you. john. >> john: charlie hurt, "washington times" opinion editor and fox news contributor. a clip on what the president

said yesterday in pennsylvania as he attempted to flip the script. >> when it comes to public safety in the nation the answer is not defund the police, it's fund the police. fund the police. we are in a situation in this country where we have to give additional resources they need to get their job done. >> john: runs so counter to the democrat narrative overall and the idea, it's the democrats for law and order in the country, not the republicans, they are the enemy of law and order. >> charlie: as somebody who cares more about the country than either political party, i'm glad joe biden has come to his senses and hopefully the rest of the party as well, and realize we need the police and defunding the police is a horrifying idea and even talking about it in a political sense is a very dangerous idea, and i think we are seeing it play out. but, the problem for joe biden is there is lots of footage out

there and internet remembers and video tapes remember all of the democrats, none of the republicans, but all of the democrats who spent the last couple years talking about, and not all democrats, but a significant number of them, talking about defunding the police, talking no cash bail, talking about -- and actually working like the vice president, actually working to get people out of, you know, bail people out so they could get back on to the streets. >> john: funny you should mention that, we just happen to have this. >> defunding the police has to happen, we need to defund the police. >> yes, i support the defund movement. >> talking about the reduction of our nypd budget and defunding $6 billion budget. >> not only do we need to defund, but we need to dismantle. >> defund the police does not mean abolish the police. >> john: you were saying? sorry for the interruption. >> charlie: there are miles and

miles and miles more of that stuff. and obviously the house members are up for re-election and there are house members up for re-election in tough districts and i would argue in this environment, just about every district becomes certainly tougher and pretty tough for a lot of senators. >> john: running out of time, i want you to weigh in on one of the most fundamentally untrue things i have heard come out of the mouth of the press secretary here in washington. listen to this. >> somebody walks into texas or arizona unvaccinated, they are allowed to stay. why? >> that's not how it works. like we actually -- no -- >> you know that's not what you want to happen but that is happening. >> it's not like somebody walks over, that's not how -- >> that's exactly what's happening. thousands of people are walking in a 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: not like somebody walks

across the border. well, they wade, morgan pointed out they used a ladder, maybe technically not everyone is walking. >> charlie: peter does a very respectful job of that, as you were, but she's delusional and people see through it. in politics, you can lose an argument or election, loses the credibility, which is what's going on in that clip and others dealing with defund the police and claiming you didn't say it, when you lose your credibility you are finished, you are done. >> john: to say people are not walking across the border is not true, thousands of them. >> charlie: historic levels, it's happening, the white house, bad enough they are not doing anything bit, but they are ignoring it. >> john: i don't know who is writing the talking points but

need to get somebody. >> sandra: thank you very much, john. a new look and how much americans are lighting up, and what they are using. sorry, i've been talking with tom on set here. he'll join us live next.

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>> pleading not guilty by plunging a knife blade into his heart. her web cam showed her soak in blood. she stabbed the cryptocurrency trader, the boyfriend, in self-defense. prosecutors are not buying her story. sandra? >> sandra: crazy story there. meanwhile, americans now prefer pot to cigarettes. they say -- that's according to a new gallup poll. 60% of marijuanas say they smoke marijuana. that's up from 7% less than a decade ago. that's down from nearly half a century back in the 50s. tom is here. a fox news contributor. okay. so by the way, hello to you. >> i don't smoke pot.

i don't want people to think you chose me -- who knows about pot. call me. >> sandra: here he is. the trend is less cigarette smoking, more pot smoking. >> yeah, i'm not surprised. the way it's marketed. when i was in high school, pot smokers were a joke. fast times at ridgemont high. the stoners falling out of their van. now the way that it's marketed, cigarettes are bad. vaping is bad. pot smoking? have you seen the ad council. don't smoke and drive. don't drive while high. it says don't drive while high. the ads make it seem so cool. it's young people, they're all smoking. responsible. none of them is driving. did you drive? no. hey, let's just camp in the lawn, man. we're cool. we smoke pot. it makes it seem cool. the marketing is all there. i'm not surprised.

>> sandra: as if it doesn't change your ability to think or make decisions whatsoever. by the way, in that same study, they also measured alcohol use by far the most used of the three. 45% of americans say they have one alcoholic drink in the past week. it remains steady. the number of americans that say they're drinkers, 67%. back then it was 63%. pretty steady. >> i'm surprised. you think the madmen days, everybody was drinking and smoking. i like a couple drinks myself. i don't smoke pot but i love whiskey. >> sandra: all right. six figure salaries and benefits galore. the "new york post" is digging into why this growing trend of ivy league graduates are opting for nanny gigs over salary finance jobs. i mean, the way they put it, modern day mary poppins are flying higher and higher. what is this trend?

>> why wouldn't they? i don't think people like these jobs. oh, i'm going to work in a building. when they get the job, they want to stay home. everybody wants to be on zoom. that tells you something. >> sandra: they're commanding these nanny child care professionals now in new york city, hourly salaries, hourly wages between $35 and $45 an hour. it was about $20 to $25 an hour. >> i'm not surprised. >> sandra: that will be tough for other people to go back to work if you're paying those salaries. the influx of californians to texas now is credited with in and out burger visits. up by 24% in three years. that is something. in and out? >> in and out is driving people -- well, obviously. you have so many california yarns. it's one in ten new residents in texas is from california. so you have -- >> sandra: that's been happening awhile. >> they're used to their in and out burger. my question is why don't we? we've been waiting for decades.

everybody loves in and out burger. people go bring back an in and out burger. why can't we have one here? >> sandra: it's driving sales of the fast food chain through the roof, the amount of demand for it. i'm wondering why if your relocate to texas you're not seeking the favorite texas foodses, the chicken fried strategic, the tex mex. >> it's going to change texas into california. >> sandra: come back. fun to have you here. >> will do. >> sandra: no, we don't think that's the reason we brought you in. drugs. john? >> john: okay. summer may be winding down. the sharks aren't going home any time soon. they're putting beach goers on high alert. in cape cod, officials reported 20 sightings the past two days. that's where we find molly line. molly, tell us where the sharks

are. >> that's right. this is lovely. the shark activity that you talked about from the atlantic white shark conservancies app detected 20 sharks, just in the last two days as well as the named tagged sharks that exist. iceland, the elephant sharks. as it turns out, the sharks don't mind a city escape. university of miami tracked three shark species and discovered city lights and noise did not deter the predators. >> sharks tolerate people and tend to avoid them. we saw that with some aerial drone footage. people out on miami beach, and unknown to them, there were sharks swimming around them, which is a crazy spectacle. >> if you dream getting up and close and personal with a great white shark, o search holding the meet the shark contest

donating to get close to the sharks. >> john: i have the shark app. it kept going ding, ding, ding. a lot of sharks off of cape cod. >> that's for sure. keep your toes in the sand if you're afraid. >> john: thanks, molly. enjoy the beach. sa sandra. >> sandra: a new trend at workplaces across america. basically referring to employees that are just not happy with their job. instead of quitting, they don't try as hard or try at all. as a result, quiet firing is also taking hold. madison alworth is here. tell us what exactly is happening with this trend. >> some might say that quiet quitting has been happening a long time but it's picking up steam now because you see it across social media. that's when workers are doing less for the same pay. so it's been a trend on social media. now those employees, they're facing the consequences. take a look.

nearly half of workers have seen quiet firing happening at their offices. so that's when a co-worker is passed up for any sort of advancement. like you said, the hope is eventually the workers leave on their own. why is this happening? because they're not engaged. you look at that, 54% of our youngest workers, gen z and millennials say they're not engaged. some of them will find new jobs or careers. those that chose quiet quitting, experts warn you it's not only going to put you in danger at your current job but could have long-term effects on your career. so i believe we were supposed to have sound there from gina cox, an organizational psychologist. she says when you do this, you're sending a bad message to your job.

the overall concern is, when you're not engaged, not to actively disengaged even more. you're in an unhappy situation. doesn't help the worker and doesn't help the company. >> sandra: if the employers see it's hard to fire somebody, it's a different environment. thanks very much for that report. that does it for us. 5 seconds. thanks. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. we'll see you tomorrow. "the story" with martha starts rights now. >> martha: great. thanks very much, guys. john and sandra, good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. so a deliberate effort by drug traffickers to drive addiction among children and young adults. that's the new warning from the dea surrounding deadly fentanyl made to look like candy. they're calling it rainbow fentanyl and it's in 18 states in this country right now. to give you an idea of the potency of this drug, the amount that you could fit i