>> we need more lee brice. >> fort hood in texas. big difference. >> that will be tomorrow and we'll need more beer. ainsley is taking off for a couple of days. >> thank you so much. never met a dance floor that did us any good. >> dana: the border crisis. texas sending migrants to a third democrat-run city as the white house fails to respond to the surge of daefdly fentanyl. i'm dana perino and bill has some time off. >> trace: good morning, i'm trace gallagher and this is "america's newsroom." texas sending its first bus loads of migrants to chicago arriving last night. greg abbott saying he looks forward to saying mayor lori lightfoot welcome the asylum seekers since chicago is a sanctuary city and lightfoot

fired back calling it racist. >> dana: president biden staying silent on the fentanyl. 300 people a day die. >> that is expected to get worse. fentanyl seizures at the border continue to double year-over-year. peter doocy brought it up in yesterday's briefing but according to the white house everything is just fine. >> 300 overdoses a day now. we know fentanyl is coming in the sfwoo* the country across the southern border. >> we are securing the border. we have record levels of funding from dhs to stop drugs from entering into the country. >> 300 overdoses designed to target children. drug cartels in mexico want to kill american kids. what is this president doing about it? >> to say we're not doing enough is categorically wrong. >> dana: we have reaction from

former d.e.a. special agent. matt finn standing by at the border but let's go to grady trimble in chicago with new arrivals. >> we were there last night as the first two buses arrived. several migrants waved at our cameras and gave the thumbs-up. one man said something to the effect of thank you to president biden. the city says there were about 60 migrants on board. a dozen, maybe more by my count were children, including infants. the migrants i spoke to told me they thought someone would be here to help them when they got here. >> i think it is unfair to be thrown here without any information and just get out of the bus and that's it. >> you don't know where you'll go? >> we don't know anything. we were not told anything. >> after half an hour members

of chicago's office of emergency management came and loaded the migrants into two city buses and said they were taking them to a shelter. in a statement governor greg abbott said mayor lori lightfoot loves to tout the responsibility of her city to welcome all regardless of legal status. he went on to say he looks forward to seeing this responsibility in action as these migrants received resources from a sanctuary city. for her part, mayor lori lightfoot said the city will provide the migrants with shelter, food and protection taking a swipe at abbott saying greg abbott is without any shame or humanity but ever since he put these racist practices of expulsion into place, we've been working with our community partners to ready the city to receive these individuals. abbott has sent more than 7400 migrants to washington, d.c. more than 1500 to new york city and now he says chicago will be

a enough drop-off location. dana. >> dana: thank you. >> trace: for more on surging migrant appear rehetions we are live at the border in eagle pass, texas. >> we want to show you live a rescue attempt that is happening behind us in the rio grande river. a scene we see so often here. migrants on the mexican side of the river attempting to cross into the united states right now and the river is raging right now moving very fast, water level is high because it has been raining for the past couple of days. what happens is the texas army national guard goes with rafts in anticipation that some of these people crossing right now might hit some of the stronger currents and end up down river. sadly there are a lot of drownings crew. our crews have witnessed it here. this is a treacherous and potentially deadly scene we see at the rio grande river especially after heavy rain

like the last couple of days. here in eagle pass fox news did a ride along with the police chief in a small town not far from the southern border. the police chief there tells fox news his town serves as a hub for human smuggling. smugglers are not always a menacing looking criminal. now everyday people who might want to make some quick money by giving migrants a ride into the u.s. the police chief says he has busted nurses, teachers, teenagers, a 77-year-old woman. during the ride along the police chief pulled over a man from san antonio who said he drove to the border to see his aunt but given coordinates to pick up migrants and would get paid based on how many people he fit into his truck. >> to be honest with me. i know you aren't going on. >> they didn't give me the amount of people. >> they told you to come pick up some people? it would depend on how many people you got?

>> yes. >> switching to the southern california, a group of migrants with people from 12 nations was apprehended by border patrol south of san diego tuesday morning. some were from somalia, india, afghanistan, ethiopia, pakistan. the dea is giving the urgent warning about the rainbow colored fentanyl coming over the border designed to look like candy to appeal to children. d.e.a. says the majority of that rainbow colored fentanyl is coming from mexican cartels and being smuggled in from the border and the rescue mission in the border we'll keep you updated. >> dana: for more on this let's bring in former d.e.a. special agent. i want to show you some sound from yesterday on neil cavuto's show, a texas sheriff about the problem he sees. >> the problem talking about

sentences for people dealing fentanyl. where are the commercials on television every night and the social media campaigns warning parents and young people about the dangers of these knock-off prescription pills? how about looking at crime analysts and the badly needed technology we need to combat the drug traffickers. >> dana: the "wall street journal" had the long piece about the two main drug cartels trying to put much more fentanyl and more powerful fentanyl than what we have today into the country to get more people addicted. they don't care about the life count. over to you. >> dana, thank you for having me once again and thank you for bringing on so many families to tell their story. the mexican cartels run a global enterprise. they run it like a fortune 500 company. right now they have implemented a deceptive marketing plan to

drive addiction and profits. they use their existing strongholds in arizona as an example and san diego and they are bombarding our country with these deadly drugs. dana, the only way to address this at this point because of the volume of drugs coming in is to destroy the chemical labs in mexico. if you look at the volume of what is being seized at the border, just imagine what's getting into the country. that's why kids are dying at historic levels. we have to do more. the political talking points are no longer good enough. we need action. that's why i brought up last night we need an operation warp speed to address this crisis. >> trace: it is interesting. you see the picture on the left-hand side of the screen is eagle pass, texas. we know this issue well, so do the cartels. i started my career in imperial county in southern california. a vast, wide open border.

put up the numbers. 8,400 plus pounds of fentanyl seized so far this year and 5,000 of those pounds are from san diego and imperial county, 60%. astounding numbers and it shows you that the cartels know where they can get this stuff through. >> exactly. the sin low cartel run by guzman's kids have been using that corridor forever and take advantage of the weaknesses and vulnerabilities. let me bring up another point. san diego just put out some alarming stats. the fentanyl-related deaths have gone up 2375% over the last five years. the california stats show over 2200%. that should be a very frightening statistic for every american. >> dana: can i ask you something? you said only way to deal with this is to destroy the chemical labs in mexico.

would the mexican government be willing to work with us and do that themselves? >> well, that's a great question, dana. i would have an immediate meeting with everyone at the government. department of homeland security, d.e.a. f.b.i., homeland security and go there with a plan to let them know the level of urgency our kids are dying. right now joe biden's legacy will be 200,000 dead kids in the first two years. we have to go down there with a plan and ask them to be partners because we need them. we want to work with them. right now there is so much corruption down there, so much money is being made from the cartels, we might have to take unilateral action using the best and brightest technology and personnel in our department of defense, intel community. dana, if it was al qaeda and isis making chemical weapons and biological weapons in mexico, what would we do? sit there and let them kill americans? no, we would have to destroy the source of the problem.

>> dana: thank you so much. big, heavy, weighty issues with big decisions ahead of everyone on that as well. i don't know if you saw this. last week border patrol agent in laredo, texas they seized 1900 packages of cocaine worth $12 million. it's a business. >> trace: it's an industry and also point out we talk about shutting down the chemical labs in mexico. all these chemicals. 90% of them are coming from china. it is cheap to produce them and for pennies on the dollar they can send out these pills and make 15 to 20 times the profit on heroin and cocaine and that's what they've found, a cottage industry and easy way to make money. >> dana: let's move to the other news of the day. watch this. >> what the department of justice and f.b.i. have done have inflamed partisan divisions and mistrust among the american people by an

agency in the f.b.i. why wouldn't you appoint a special master to tamp down some of the emotions on this issue? >> dana: we'll know whether a special master will be appointed to review the sensitivity of the document seized from mar-a-lago. what it could mean for president trump's case. >> trace: fourth grade test scores take a plunge we haven't seen in 30 years. what is driving the decline that could take decades to recover from? >> dana: serena williams defies odds again. she had an incredible win against the world's number two player and the crowd went wild. >> this is what i do best. i love a challenge. i love rising to the challenge. there is still a little left in me. we'll see. we'll see. from a tough fig ht. they stood with their 38 million members

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>> in my 24 years in the f.b.i. i have never seen a search warrant that broad. basically it was all documents created during his presidency. that could include a lot of privileged material particularly attorney/client, executive privilege. >> dana: chris swecker slamming a search warrant for president trump's florida home as too expansive as we're hours away from a court hearing that could determine whether a special master will be appointed to look over the documents recovered in the raid. david spunt from florida. >> the hearing begins at 1:00 p.m. we'll have attorneys from the trump legal team also the department of justice in this building behind me to make arguments in front of a federal judge and make arguments against having this special master. talking about a special master for weeks since mar-a-lago was searched by the f.b.i. on august 8th to bring everybody up to speed, a special master

is a neutral third party arbiter, retired judge orr attorney not related to the case and come in and look at the evidence collected by d.o.j. and potentially return evidence not related to the scope of the investigation to the former president. last night the trump team out with a 19-page legal filing dana arguing for a special master. the former president says it is necessary to have a neutral party make sure the d.o.j. was above bar on every aspect of the investigation. the filing says at the outset the government does not cite any precedent for its assertion that donald trump lacked standing to request a appointment of a special master assessing mass records have seemed to assume rightly that the target of the search and seizure has standing to seek neutral review of seized materials. >> i really hope that we can get the special master put in place so we can have some impartial mediators to look at

everything and get the documents that are supposed to be with the president back. >> the department of justice says as an initial matter the former president lacks standing to seek judicial relief or oversight as to presidential records because those records do not belong to him. the presidential records act makes clear the united states has complete ownership, possession and control of them. it is clear the government is making a case regarding obstruction. trump seem said nothing about obstruction. the hearing is at 1:00 p.m. >> trace: let's bring in fox news contributor jonathan turley of george washington university law school professor and constitutional law attorney. thank you for coming on. explain this to me if you will. the d.o.j. releases pictures of top secret documents and the "time" magazine cover happened to be there. 20 of the 38 pages of the affidavit is redacted. the message here seems to be that what is in the documents is not nearly as important as

the fact that he had the documents. what is your take? >> well, it's part of a troubling pattern that has really developed since the raid, where you have the department of justice in court demanding total secrecy while the media is publishing leaks from the government. this filing seemed to have no qualms about releasing specifics that we had not seen before including information that very likely is in the redacted portions of the affidavit, information about what occurred before the raid. so there is this selective release of information to try to frame the public debate. the photo immediately jumped out in that respect. when i first saw it in attachment f, i looked in the actual filing why they have

that. to tell the court there were documents with covers saying they are classified. no one is challenging that. the court certainly doesn't need a photo to understand that. but then everything about the photo was clearly meant for public consumption including the prominent placing of a box with these "time" magazine covers framed. it just seems that this was another effort to frame the debate and to feed information to the public to put the defense team on the defense. >> it's my point. in the initial days of these things the "washington post" was saying they were nuclear secrets and now backed away from that and it's about obstruction. andy mccarthy writes the following. he says obstruction is an uncomplicated and easy to prove. no need to get into the content of the government documents classified or not. the case would focus on trump's allegedly lying about having government records and concealing them.

what's in the documents is beside the point. to your previous point. >> andy is right about that. of course, what we saw in this document, this last filing by the government, was not an indication they have evidence of intent. they said there was likely efforts to obstruct. they felt they saw obstructive conduct. that's very serious and a real throwing down of a gauntlet to the trump team. but the question is whether they have evidence of intent as opposed to negligence. this is not a lead pipe cinch of a case even with obstruction and comes at great cost for the department of justice if they fail to stick the landing at trial. they have to show that they are being consistent with past cases, including the hillary clinton scandal involving the emails. those emails included top secret information and they were on an even less secure site, in this case a digital

form. >> trace: you wonder if there is fairness in both of those cases. professor, great to sigh. thank you. >> thank you, trace. >> dana: duke volleyball player says she was the target of a racial slur while they had a game with brigham university. it is getting serious pushback. could the republicans flip a seat red? we'll talk to a g.o.p. challenger next.

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students and the results are simply alarming. for the first time since data collection began in 1971 math scores are down and reading scores hit a three-decade low. the findings from the national center for education statistics compared scores from this year to early 2020. the math score went down 20 points. black and hispanics decreased more than white and urban students fared worse. reading scored dropped five points across the country for whites, blacks and hispanics. the drop remains about the same. reading scores in the northeast and midwest dropped more than most. an education policy expert at brown university says most schools could not cope with the pandemic. >> to the big picture report card i could give a letter grade of an f. i think that the country as a whole did not meet the needs of the students during this time

period. i think our system wasn't set up to do it well. >> she says the drop in test scores for 9-year-old is troubling because poor performing students at this age are less likely to take school seriously in the future and more likely to drop out. she says kids who suffered academically during the pandemic need individual instruction from an adult who knows the student to make up for lost learning. one thing to be mindful of, some schools perform worse than the national average and others performed better. lessons to be learned from schools that managed to successfully educate kids during the pandemic. >> trace: david lee miller live in new york. thank you. a major upset in alaska. democrat mary peltola defeated sarah palin for the state's only house seat. peltola will be the first democrat to represent alaska in

half a century succeeding republican young who died in march. they'll face off again in november with the winner receiving a full two-year term. >> dana: in virginia a close race is taking shape in the state's second congressional district between the incumbent and republican challenger kiggans. the race is a toss-up after redistricting riepd out the blue city of norfolk. jen kiggans joins me now. your race will be one that everyone is paying attention to. i know republicans consider it a top pickup opportunity. it is a new district. newly made up. what are you hearing from people in the ground? you have your issues that you want to push. the democrats have theirs, too. they are pouring a lot of money into this as well. >> yes, they will. this race for the second district will be one to watch this year. we're excited about the pickup opportunity but the opponent i'm running against and i couldn't be more different. she votes for some of the

disastrous biden policies we see coming out of the white house including the inflation reduction act this past week, yesterday she admitted the inflation reduction act is a cover for a huge environmental bill which is harmful and hurts virginia and american taxpayers. these hard working taxpayers are hurting right now in pocket books. 1 out of 6 americans can't pay their utility bill but my opponent supports things like radical environmental agenda which will continue to be hurtful. this election will be a referendum on joe biden's economic policies and come out and vote and we'll see a lot of change in the u.s. house. i'm excited to be a part of the team to help flip the house this years. >> dana: one issue they'll run on is the abortion and dobbs decision. a poll that came out a couple of days ago said 40% want it legal always. 48% legal sometimes. 10% want a total ban. where do you stand on that

issue? >> the abortion issue what's important to remember. i'm a pro-life candidate. my opponent has been lying about me on her ads. we are not extremists. allowing for exceptions and something i've always support evidence exception for rapist and life of the mother. the democrat party what's important to know she voted for the women's health protection act. they are extreme and supportive of abortion up to nine months for any reason at taxpayer expense. 80% of americans disagree with that. the issue is now involved in the states. voters need to remember that as well. what the democrats have been pushing forward at the state level and that position is extreme. >> dana: you are a state senator. if the bill came before the state legislator a total ban on abortion, would you vote against it? >> i am a nurse, a wife, a mom. banning abortion is not on my

agenda this year. there is a debate to be had. i want to reinforce what we've seen in the state of virginia. democrats pushing for abortion any time for any reason at taxpayer expense. that's something i'm against. but we need to have the debate and have the discussion because i think there will be an issue next year for state elections in virginia. >> dana: people might disagree with the statement from the dccc. a quote from the democrats saying that you are -- after the devastating elementary school shooting in yu -- -- over the course of her political career she has bought and paid for by some of the slimyest special interests, either. you are a former navy pilot as well. >> navy pilot, nurse

practitioner. mom, common sense american. they will lie and say whatever they need to say to get the seat back. these extreme measures they're pushing. look at my voting record in the state senate. i am no extremist. they love to use that word and will continue to use and lie. that's all they have. when they continue to tell lies about me i'll continue to tell the truth about them and what my opponent has been voting for. we saw momentum with the change. look at the state of the country. people know something is off and something is wrong. that will drive people out to vote in november. it did last november and we had great victories in virginia which we're so excited having a great new governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. we will see the same people come out to vote this year for change in america. >> dana: kiggans running for the house in virginia. we'll see you before the election. thanks. >> thanks for having me. >> dana reads sports.

>> dana: exciting second round women's singles match ends with serena williams upset over the second best player in the world. she is moving to the third round in what could be the last u.s. open for her. 30,000 fans packed the stadium. serena is playing in the doubles tournament today with venus. she will return to the solo tournament for her next match on friday. >> trace: if she wins this whole thing i think she will come back next year. >> dana: you think if she wins she comes back. i think if she wins she goes out on a high note and doesn't return. >> trace: she is the goat either way. in tennis i think you have to come back. >> dana: i want to watch them play doubles to get pointers for free. i'm being paid to be told to keep my eye on the ball.

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a baseball bat in broad daylight a month ago. the victim had severe injuries to his face. he was hospitalized in serious condition. nypd says no arrests have been made so far. >> president biden: my deceased son beau was the attorney general of the state of delaware. he used to go down on the east side, the bucket, highest crime rate in the country, i was the only white guard that worked as a lifeguard on the east side. you can always tell where the best basketball in the state and city is. where everybody shows up. >> dana: president biden sparking controversy with those remarks in pennsylvania tuesday. critics calling the speech racist and questioning why the media lets him get away with it. a comedian joins us now. does he always get away with it? >> i don't know. unfortunately he will get the comedian vote because the

comedy when biden speaks is unparalleled. my favorite thing is when he speaks if you look behind him at his supporters, there is one lady who covers her face with a sign at one point. they watch him like a little kid on a tight rope crossing the grand canyon, please don't make a mistake. i don't know. sometimes i watch and wonder if his teleprompter doesn't have a space bar. it seems like it is one word that goes on and on and on. i don't know. this poor dude. i am starting to legitimately feel bad for him. >> trace: we talk about the what aboutism. some of this is the national review writes the following. little known -- a little known republican state legislator had characterized a heavily african-american where the best basketball is there would have been -- that's a fair assessment.

>> it is almost like sometimes you run into like a grandpa or old person and you give them a little leeway because -- it's like that. this guy is mic'd and our president. >> dana: a southwest airline pilot tlented to turn the plane around because of naked air drops. listen to this from the southwest pilot. >> here is the deal. this continues while we're on the ground i'll pull back to the gate, everybody will have to get off and get security involved and vacation will be ruined. folks, whatever that air drop thing is sending naked pictures, let's get yourself to cabo. >> dana: it actually happened. >> it's unbelievable. i feel like the picture might not have been the most attractive person. if it's a non-attractive person i'm turning the plane around. hey, i need more photos if it's

a good person. the air drop thing, if you don't have children you don't realize what this is. what happens is you have no choice if your settings are that anyone can air drop you. mine usually are. if you're over 40 you have no idea. my kids do it to me all the time. not with nude photos but pictures they made. on your computer or phone you can't do work anymore. it shifts the screen over and takes over your phone. if you're over 40 and don't know how to reverse that. it is like a jarring funny prank my kids do to me all the time. i saw this. southwest airlines have no assigned seats. i don't know if this guy is the pilot or just got on first. >> trace: things have changed four or five months ago they wanted you to cover your face and now you have to cover everything. the weird thing about this is my kids are the same way. they air drop you this stuff. i had no idea it was on. i don't think people know their air drop thing is on all the

time. >> dana: i'm over 40 and showed trace how to find a podcast. >> thanks. >> dana: where will you be this weekend? >> i'll be at the helium comedy club in indianapolis, indiana. >> dana: do you have to speak with a high, squeaky voice? >> it is an option. heliums are popping up all over the country. a great place. portland, buffalo, new york, popping up everywhere. great club. a last-minute booking so i want people to come. >> dana: if you're in indianapolis have fun and let it all out up there. thanks for coming. >> we are tax paying citizens so we shouldn't have to live like this. >> it's a hurting feeling when you don't have no one. especially when you have a newborn baby. >> trace: have you heard about this?

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plants behind me. at times it could mean no service at all for tens of thousands of people who rely on the city for water. this is in addition to disruptions they are already experiencing. there is some progress being made. mississippi governor tate reed says they've installed a pump at the treatment center expected to pump an additional 4 million gallons of water into the city a day. there is still plenty of issues at this plant in terms of water treatment and chemistry that is slowing this process down. >> we are hopeful we were able to be able to increase the quantity of the water which will ultimately get it -- get the tanks more full and ultimately lead to a scenario in which we can do the protesting and actually produce clean water. >> as you can imagine there are a lot of frustrated residents in jackson.

they have been under a boil water advisory since late july and now having to wait in long lines to get cases of water so they can do the most basic things like showering and brushing their teeth. that on top of the fact that some of these distribution sites have not been able to keep up with demand. the governor says he is deploying 600 national guardsmen today to help out with the distribution of necessities. that's doing little to ease the anger and frustration of folks who live here. >> it's a hurting feeling when you don't have no water. especially when you have newborn babies. >> we're tax paying citizens and we shouldn't have to live like this. this is like, i say, this has been going on for years and years. it hasn't just started. >> that has to be the most frustrating part for folks who live here. they have been screaming about these water issues for years. in 2018, i moved down here as a

fox news correspondent and some of the things they brought up to me. the water quality issues and four years later they are still screaming about the same things. majority black community is fed up. >> dana: interesting about the mmr program. i remember when you started there and doing a great job for us and thank you for bringing us this story. we'll stay on top of it. >> trace: the water crisis forcing businesses to find alternatives. one restaurant says it is buying ice, cases of bottled water and canned soft drinks in order to stay open. tanya burns is the manager of the restaurant in jackson. some of the people we heard from are right. you are taxpayers and shouldn't have to live like this or run a business like this. this is 36 days old, this crisis. this has been going on for decades. >> this has been going on for decades. we've operated in this same location for 28 years and this is not new. we are desensitized to boil water notices.

it is not something that you would have ever picked up or heard of. only until there is a lack of pressure going on since monday that there has been an outcry for help. the boil water notices is second nature for us to accept it and move on. >> the owner of your restaurant says in a local editorial each day depending on the location and day of the week we spend between 200 and 500 per location to purchase bottled water and we have to perform additional steps to insure safety and still the customer count is not nearly as high because people are concerned. >> absolutely. absolutely. at least we can operate under a boil water notice. at least we have the ability to put our staff to work and come in and know we'll be there and we'll see our guests and support our community and here to support us. when there is no pressure, when you can't even get water in the

building to wash dishes, that's where you run into the issues. when people can't shower before work and show up for work because you don't have water it creates a huge ripple effect for the entire community. >> trace: people don't realize we see on the right-hand side of the screen bottled water and sodas and so far. a bottle of water is not going to solve the fact you can't wash your dishes or bathe. that you are hesitant to boil water because you are not confident that it is still going to be okay to cook your food in. what do you tell these people and what are people in your society saying? >> we're asking everybody to band together. speak to our community officials and say it is not about what was or what has been. we need to come together and talk about how to fix this. we need to be open and honest. it is not about posturing or what has been going on the past decade. what will we do to move forward?

how will we work this out and band together and stick together and work together and be honest about the problems? we need to not only talk about what's really going on but look forward in how we'll work together. >> trace: we're pulling for you and the people in jackson. thank you for coming on. we hope some action is a result of this. thank you and best of luck to you. >> thank you, trace. have a great day. >> dana: two men wanted for killing tens of thousands of americans just last year now public enemy number one and public enemy number two with multi-million dollar bounties on their heads as our nation battles fentanyl poisoning and opioid overdose deaths. welcome to "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. bill is off today. >> trace: good morning everyone. i'm trace gallagher. the leaders of mexico's two most violent drug cartels are flooding the country with deadly fentanyl fueling america's addiction crisis. their operations stretching throughout mexico and coast to

coast across the u.s. moving tons of drugs across the southern border as the biden white house continues to claim that it is securing that very same border. >> we're securing the border. the fact that we are securing record levels of funding from d.h.s. so they can stop illicit drugs from entering into the country. the fact that it is not just drug traffickers that we're dealing with. we're stopping financiers. >> trace: richedson has more. >> fentanyl production for mexican cartels has exploded over the past two years. instead of importing the finished product from china cartels like the sinaloa and the other one are importing chemicals and making the drug in mexico and smuggling it into the united states. the "wall street journal" says 25-year-old fentanyl cook and his one-man operation is pulling in $2500 a week

producing the drug. law enforcement is targeting this. fentanyl is small, light and easily hidden and makes it difficult. officials say mexican cartels have seized on that with ruthless efficiency. >> the mexican drug cartels are very good at spotting a market, filling the demand, and creating demand. it is really important to know mexican drug cartels also help create demand. they did it with methamphetamine when they were able to see markets that did not have methamphetamine problems. >> mexican president has overhauled his country's approach to drug cartels embraced a policy of hugs, not bullets in dealing with the cartels arguing combating the groups only creates more violence. he has also suspended a counter narcotics unit that worked with the u.s. government. federal government is offering a $10 million reward for one and $15 million for the other.

the d.e.a. refused to comment for the story. the white house says there is a 200% increase the fentanyl seizures in ju. analysts say overdoses are increasing in mexico and canada. >> rich, thank you. >> dana: president biden in his own state of pennsylvania to rally his base with a speech in philly tonight. a crucial race there between democratic senate nominee john fetterman and dr. oz which could determine the balance of power in the senate. mark meredith is live at the white house with the latest. hi, mark. >> good morning. you said it. the president and other top democrats spending more and more time in the keystone state because of that senate contest between the lieutenant governor as well as the republican candidate dr. oz and that race still appearing to be close. the president was just in pennsylvania on tuesday. he was in the scranton area to talk about gun violence and in philly tonight to deliver remarks on the soul of the

nation being billed as a political speech. republicans will offer their own speech from pennsylvania, house minority leader kevin mccarthy will be talking this afternoon. fetterman is not expected to be with the president tonight but with him on labor day in pittsburgh. the candidate says he will tell the president that now is the time to decriminalize marijuana on the federal level. polling shows that fetterman is gaining in the race. the candidate who suffered a stroke back in mid-may is also still facing repeated questions about his health. he has backed out of some upcoming tv debates with dr. oz. the senatorial committee says if you're too unhealthy to debate you are too unhealthy to serve in the senate. fetterman fired back. >> this is just a sad approach at this point because they are trying to not focus on the condition of their campaign right now. and when they want to get into a serious conversation and really talk about having a

debate, i would be happy to engage in that. >> we have seen fetterman grant an interview on msnbc he hasn't done very many interviews but hit up some fundraisers outside of the state. the race, of course, so crucial to both parties. it could determine the outcome of the senate. dana. >> dana: mark, thank you so much. for more on this karl rove is a former white house deputy chief of staff and fox news contributor. john fetterman said this week that he blamed oz for making fun of his health and that was the reason he wasn't going to debate. now his campaign is saying one of the things they need to think about is how he have will deal with chaotic situation. perhaps a solution in a a debate like that is just oz, fetterman, moderator, no audience and you can have a debate. would that be a good compromise? >> absolutely. but actually the statement from the fetterman campaign was more in depth.

they referred specifically to some of the speech problems that he has had as a result of his stroke and said they have to take that into account. he doesn't want to debate for two reasons. one is he is still ill. he had a major stroke and kept him from appearing much on the campaign trail. he gave a speech in eerie, pennsylvania and it is painful to watch it because he is clearly laboring under the difficulties that stroke victims often has. the other reason he wants to debate he has wild views. this is a guy who said we can let 1/3 of the people in pennsylvania prisons out and our communities will be just as safe. he called it a profound observation that he supported. he is in favor of the abolition of private health insurance. he loves all the spending that has been done. the guy has got a lot of -- he is against fracking. most people outside of pennsylvania may not know this. this is one of the major sources of natural gas production in the country through the use of fracking and fetterman has said in the

pennsylvania i want there will be no fracking. he has got positions that the more they are exposed will create problems. this race will be interesting to watch. there have been four polls in august. one from franklin marshall university had the race at 13 points. the others had it at 4 points, 4 points, 4 points, 5 points. frankly i think the f and m poll is an outlier. this race is down to single digits and barely outside the margin of error with all the attendant concern that people have about geez, fetterman is such a good guy we hope he gets healthy again. it will be a barn burner to the end and fetterman will want to avoid debates and discussion of the issues and spend as much time as he can mimicking joe biden's 2020 campaign strategy of hiding in the basement. >> trace: expanding to the mid-terms you write partly in the "wall street journal." the trumpeting from democrats and media allies appears to be

pre-mature. the extraordinary comeback scenario seems to ignore underlying realities and assume things that aren't true. what do you think the left is assuming? >> they are assuming that the president's job approval rating is rising and we passed all these bills and abortion is a central issue in the campaign. a couple of numbers. president biden's approval rating today in the 538.com average is 42. at this point in 2018 president trump's was 40. the republicans lost 42 seats in the house. 2 point difference is him being better than two points better mean they'll have a democratic victories and not losses like the republicans had? think about this. in a recent poll, nbc poll, 44% strongly disapproved of the president's performance while only 21% strongly approved. so the people who don't like him and his performance not

only outnumber those that approve but those that strongly dislike him are 2 to 1 against president biden's performance. and then we ignore what the democrats are ignoring, we have 8.5% growth in inflation in july year-over-year. when president biden came into office it was 1.2%. gasoline yesterday for all formulations according to the u.s. department of energy was $4.09. $2.42 when biden was inaugurated as president. these are the things that will drive the ballot. the democrats are ignoring it and assuming it is all going to be about abortion and the bills that the president just signed on chips, semi conductors or the inflation reduction act. which won't reduce inflation. nobody says it will reduce inflation. democrats are in slightly better place today than they were a month or two ago.

a much better place than they were three or four months ago but still in a bad place. the idea that they will somehow or another going to reelect nancy pelosi as speaker of the house and maintain control of the house and run away with the senate is, i think, farfetched and a little premature. >> dana: are you in a great state today? >> i'm in the great state that you and i have a special affinity for that spent part of our childhood, colorado. >> dana: thanks for the insight. usual life what he says about the fetterman polling. initially right after the primary it was grueling for the republicans between mccormick, oz and bar net. then there were some polls that showed oz down 19 points. now as karl said they are just about within the margin of error. it has closed. once we get to september things start to focus. >> trace: karl talked about fetterman's speech problems and the campaign is having trouble

with auditory processing. not wanting to debate or go on late night shows. >> dana: doesn't seem right. >> trace: america is failing its children with math and reading scores dropping to their lowest levels in a generation. what can be done exactly? >> dana: domestic abuse suspect was behind bars until a woke group bailed him out and now he is accused of murder after being released. >> trace: a hot spot getting hotter as china tries to impose new normal in a stand-off against taiwan. is the biden administration doing enough to keep peace in asia? >> the chinese are involved in the biggest military build-up since the second war. what they are also doing is mobilizing the chinese people for conflict. of dentistry. one who believes in doing anything it takes to make dentistry work for your life. so we offer a complete exam and x-rays free to new patients without insurance - everyday. plus, patients get 20% off their treatment plan.

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. >> dana: update in the fiji honeymoon murder. bradley dawson cited health concerns. he reportedly confessed to killing his wife in july but didn't officially sign the confession. the judge is expected to rule on the request but not until later this month. >> trace: the debate over criminal justice reform intensifies after a progressive

group in portland, oregon posted bail for a 33-year-old, domestic violence suspect who allegedly murdered the mother of his children a week later. the chief correspondent jonathan hunt has the chilling details. live for us in the west coast news hub. jonathan. >> trace, mohammed had nine arrests on his record, six of those for domestic violence against the mother of his children, rachel angel abraham. on july 12th he was charged with trying to strangle abraham. august 20th the freedom fund paid to bail him out of jail. a week later august 27th prosecutors say he murdered rachel abraham repeatedly stabbing her and strangling her to death in her home. her three children all under eight just yards away in the same home. the man was arrested and charged with murder.

prosecutors furious the portland freedom fund had bailed out a man with such a long record of domestic violence. the district attorney saying his intent to kill the victim was unambiguous. after the judge set the bail, the portland freedom fund undermined our efforts and the efforts of the court to save the victim's life by using their resources to bail him out. now the freedom fund describes itself as quote an abolitionist organization currently dedicated to reducing harms perpetuated against our black, brown and indigenous neighbors by the criminal justice system through posting bail. the group said in a statement after the murder. our thoughts are with the families and communities affected by this tragedy particularly the children who have effectively lost both parents. it goes on, we were in contact with the defendant throughout the time between his release and rearrest and did not

receive any indications for concern. no concern, of course, until the man they bailed out allegedly murdered the woman he had already attacked six times. >> trace: there is that part of it. jonathan hunt live in los angeles. thank you. >> chinese tried to create a new normal and new status quo in and around the taiwan strait. we won't accept that. the taiwan strait is international waters and we'll continue to sail through there as appropriate. >> dana: talking tough on china after two navy sheets sailed there. taiwan issues its own warning vowing the right to self-defense if chinese forces enter its territory. let's bring in the fellow at the stanford and american enterprise institute.

you visited the region and what did you hear? >> i met with senior leaders include the president herself. what i heard was concerning. though the administration and add min traitions have tried to do more and more for taiwan we are far from enough of insuring their defense. >> dana: what led you to understand that. >> first and foremost the basic things taiwan needs are things like weapons. the weapons they need they've asked for but the united states is not providing. that's because we don't have the production capacity, one, to produce a lot of those weapons in volume. those that we are producing we're giving to ukraine. secondly, there is a lot of things the united states does with partners and allies to prepare for defense that we aren't doing with taiwan. we won't do exercises together, minimal intel sharing. anything you want to establish

in peacetime to insure we can fight together we currently don't have. much more has to be done in that area as well. >> dana: do you feel that china is going to make a move within the next two years maybe? >> i think absolutely china is going to make a move. 2025 to 2027. the individuals i spoke to in taiwan agreed with that assessment. xi is not happy with the status quo and clear that part of his legacy is unification with taiwan. the only thing holding him back in my mind is the fact that he thinks his military needs to exercise a bit more before they are ready. we're seeing a higher tempo of exercises. it is only a matter of time before he has the confidence he needs to make a move. >> dana: he will pull together the communist party for a congress this fall. is this something where he feels like he needs to show a little muscle in order to get people behind him as he tries

to be basically the guy for life over there? >> it's really hard to tell what's going on inside the communist party. when i was in taiwan a lot of speculation that actually his military exercises after pelosi's visit to the island were not very popular within the party. some felt went a little overboard with the missile tests. but from the outside it's hard to tell. he won't take taiwan before the party congress. once he has consolidated his position for his third term it is hard to place bets on taiwan being an independent defact owe independent entity. >> dana: what do you feel the impact of speaker pelosi's visit to taiwan was? >> surprised to find the people in the government were happy with the speaker's government. they're very isolated internationally. not only to have pelosi and

congressmen and senators is something they feel really puts the spotlight on taiwan moving forward. >> dana: you are an incredible patriot. i know that you are also serving in the reserve. we appreciate that and appreciate you coming in. sounds like we need to have you back as the story develops. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i've never seen it like this. there is no regard to human life. >> trace: the city of philadelphia reeling from a record number of homicides. president biden will be there tonight but not expected to talk about crime. what's behind that deliberate omission? plus why california's electric car mandate could end up crashing the state's power grid. ♪♪

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>> dana: president biden is getting ready to deliver a blistering attack on republicans. it will be a prime time campaign tonight outside independence hall in philadelphia. people who live in that city all that they can think about is rising crime. like this mom whose son was wounded by a stray bullet. >> he told me mom, he felt his legs once the bullet hit him. i cry because i'm happy that he is alive. >> dana: bryan llenas is live in philadelphia, a city going through a lot there, bryan. >> dana, good morning. it really is. a pregnant woman, a 75-year-old man and 4-year-old boy have all been shot in just the last

month here in philadelphia. it is no wonder crime and fear are top of mind for people in philadelphia. this here alone the city has seen 361 murders. 1600 people have been shot. that's worse than in larger cities, new york city and los angeles. it is a pace that could break the city's murder record that was set just last year. 35-year-old shane smith was shot in the head while driving in a targeted attack last month. his father said he has never seen philly like this. >> do you think politicians and leadership in philadelphia is doing enough to make chester and parts of this city safe? >> no, absolutely not. not in the black community. i'm moving my family and my grandkids very soon out of philadelphia.

>> there is karen grant, her 31-year-old son was shot by a stray bullet a couple of weeks ago. he is in icu and may be paralyzed. >> people don't realize it is a mental thing. to see the person, ptsd is real. i got ptsd now. i'm looking around. these juveniles who have guns in their hand need to be sitting like a dog. you want to be doing grown people stuff? get grown people time. they get away with it and get a smack on the wrist. >> pennsylvania's house of representatives is now investigating philly's district attorney larry krasner's handling of crime. it could lead to impeachment. residents say something has to change. >> whatever you are doing right now is not working. you need to redeploy, restrategize until you come up with something that is working. what will be working? when we can leave our houses and know that our women,

children and elders and young people can go to and fro without being wounded or murdered. >> stanley's son was murdered in 2018. the philadelphia police say the city is awash with too many guns and they are stretched way too thin. dana. >> dana: bryan llenas in philadelphia. thank you. >> it's pretty clear that mother nature has outrun us. the reality is we're living in an era of extremes. extreme heat and extreme drought. >> trace: gavin newsom increasing the state's supply of electricity in response to an upcoming heat wave and telling them not to charge their electric cars during certain hours after saying they would ban gas cars by 2035. let's bring in the founder and president of environmental

progress. it is amazing, california has 1.3 million electric cars and the governor is trying to figure out a way to charge them this weekend. what will he do when there are 25 million electric cars with the same power grid? >> there is no plan, as you can probably imagine. i mean, it was quite ironic that six days after the state voted to ban internal combustion engines, the state grid operator warned that people should not be charging their cars because of a risk of black outs. this is a poorly managed state. people are lost in a kind of fantasy of being powered entirely by renewables and think you can change technology overnight by passing laws. it's not the way that technological change happens. they don't have the reliable electricity to power the state's electric vehicles today much less to go from as you

mentioned a million electric cars to 30 million cars and trucks over the next several decades. >> trace: you talk about not being prepared. california's goal was to have 250,000 electric charging stations by 2025. a little over two years from now, right? that was the goal. and we now have 80,000. the experts say there is no shot in getting anywhere close to 250,000 of these charging stations. california is so far behind and they keep trying to raise the bar. >> that's right. this is what you get when you convince yourself that the end of the world is neu and climate change is something that is going to basically destroy civilization within the next 12 years. there has been a kind of mania, a kind of hysteria that has really resulted in very poor decisions being made in the state. there is still a big debate

whether or not electric vehicles are the right way to go. a lot of people think that hydrogen fuel cells are a better bet for a variety of reasons because it wouldn't massively increase our dependence on chinese rare earths and chinese manufacturing, which is what electric vehicles depend on. so we're in the worst energy crisis in 50 years. this is not the time to be becoming more dependent on a total al-arian region like china. there is a wake-up call going on. we need reliable sources of electricity and we need to be more deliberate and rational and science-based about this rather than taking orders from angry adolescents and from people that are convinced the sky is falling. >> trace: people don't realize california's grid system is a mess. pg&e is being sued every day because their lines are breaking and causing wildfires and, you know, fossil fuels are

actually used to push the electricity onto the grid. "newsweek" says this quoting here about california's car and gas ban. like president joe biden's decision to forgive student loan debt this ban strikes one more blow against the poor and working class. it panders to the fears of the most educated people while ignoring the needs and welfare on those on the lower end of the economic spectrum. >> that's right. this has been a net wealth transfer from working californias to wealthy californias in terms of the subsidies for solar panels on people's roofs but subsidies for electric cars including teslas. it is shocking when you consider working class people that get paid a minimum wage have to commute one or two hours a day are subsidizing the solar systems and teslas of people who live in hilltop

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>> dana: a nurse charged with killing six people may have lost kojsness before the deadly crash according to new court documents filed by her attorney. she was charged with six counts of murder among the dead were a pregnant woman and a little baby, trace. we'll see what this results in. >> it is horrible. these stories. brings the whole thing down.

>> dana: absolutely. also this at the border. >> people are dying. >> hold on. migrants who attempted to enter the country illegally are taken into custody by border patrol agents and that's how it works. to say we aren't doing enough is falsely, categorically wrong. >> trace: the white house claims president biden is doing everything possible to secure the border. but you look around and reality quickly sets in. the number of migrants crossing the southern border braerking records and overwhelming border agents all while fueling a dangerous surge of drugs and human trafficking. tennessee congressman mark green just returned from the border. a republican on the foreign affairs and armed services committee. when you hear karine jean-pierre give these kinds of remarks and answers, it is baffling to people who are savvy to what is going on at

the border, sir. >> yes, it's infuriating. it is intentional deception. when we were down there on the border, trace, we were told by cdp they were ordered to turn off the seismic fiber-optic sensors and ordered to turn off cameras. you look at everything whether the 2023 budget for homeland security or the interim final rule they are trying to implement. everything is designed to speed people into the united states and the drug cartels know this. they target one sector with mass waves of people, cdp pulls people from one sector of the line over to process those individuals and then the drugs just come pouring into those empty sectors. we witnessed this firsthand. >> dana: one of the things about your trip just reminds everyone about the fact that president biden has never gone. president harris has never gone. when you go and see it firsthand and we look at some of your video that you provided here, it really must shock the

system and now you see governor abbott making some decisions about sending migrants into sanctuary cities. i wonder what you heard about that down there, if anything. if they're aware that the cbp knows that there is at least the governor trying to figure out a way to get some attention focused on this issue. >> while we were down there, we saw the news clippings from governor abbott sending folks to chicago and now he is sending buses of migrants, illegals to new york city, washington, d.c., and chicago. and, you know, the cdp guys are celebrating this. it helps educate america particularly the sanctuary cities to what is really going on at the border. >> trace: amazing to me and i want to put up the numbers on the screen. call for number four, fentanyl seizures at the border and you can see through this year alone we're talking about 10,000 plus pounds of fentanyl. enough to kill millions.

since 2019, it is almost four times the amount and the deaths since 2019 have doubled. now the administration's response is we're interdicting the fell -- fentanyl. the death rates are going up an there is more getting through and killing people. >> when we were the at the border meeting with ranchers in the areas that cbp can't cover, they showed the game cameras of people in camouflage wearing backpacks full of drugs and we actually went to one of the sites where they have a drop-off point, pickup point and there were hundreds of backpacks and carpet shoes discarded, empty backpacks we know were carrying drugs there at these drop-off sites. they meet a prearranged vehicle that takes them all over the country. we have had in tennessee a 50%

increase in fentanyl deaths. that's just one cost of the president's border policy. uncompensated care at our hospitals has skyrocketed. a small hospital with a $20 million increase in lost revenue due to taking care of migrants who don't have insurance. what happens is americans wind up paying for that. local jails have seen a 40 to 50% increase in incarcerations because people are coming across that are sneaking in have all committed crimes before. many multiple crimes they don't want to report to cbp. they come across the border. 40% increase in the jails. it's millions of dollars in daily cost of taking care of inmates. the costs are human lives, budgets of local governments. every american paying for higher hospital costs to cover the uncompensated care. it is insane what the president is doing. >> dana: i want to ask one quick question and i won't play

the sound bite. one thing jean-pierre read yesterday. what i will say you are seeing a 200% increase of fentanyl seizures. we're doing the job of catching drug traffickers 200%. that's what she said. your quick reaction to that? >> that's deception. they know for a fact, cbp guys are showing them the video we're showing them of this increase in fentanyl that is going around. they find these empty backpacks, find these drop-off centers and know what's going on. they are being deceptive when they say -- seizures have increased and we're getting all the fentanyl. they know the gotaways. >> dana: thank you for sengd us the video and going on the trip. see you soon. academic achievement falling to levels not seen in decades. how can we help get america's kids back on track?

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. >> dana: school is back in session and the impacts of lockdowns are becoming more apparent. test scores are down with "the new york times" saying the pandemic erased two decades of progress in reading and math. we have a pro-bono literacy advocate and mom here. the numbers are shocking and a little terrifying. what it means for the future. you understand it firsthand. how so? >> well, daughter started our kindergarten in a massachusetts public school and very quickly showed signs that i now know are associated and linked with reading failure. frustrated by the task. she would avoid the task and those behaviors would manifest

with a refusal to go to school and in the afternoon when she could get off the bus or pick her up at school she would get into her safe space in the car and have what is called a meltdown after school. >> dana: so she is better now. you moved, you have her in a private school and able to read. you are a pro bono literacy advocate. when you see numbers like this, what is the scope and scale of the problem and how should we figure out a way to help parents and teachers who are probably upset by this, too, turn things around? >> well, our teachers, our educator preparation programs, are not including the science of reading in their curricula. so we have teachers that are in a classroom who are passionate about serving children and improving lives with literacy but they don't have the tools they need to teach these

children how to read appropriately. and so our educator preparation programs are failing teachers. and then we have, you know, bureaucrats that are having these debates about how we teach children to read but yet we have science, 50 years of science, that tells us how the brain pathways work and which neuropathways are firing when children are tasked with reading. and so we need to be supporting our teachers and training them appropriately so that they have the knowledge and the tools and the skills to insure that each child can read proficiently. >> dana: average schools in reading and math in 2022 declined 215 out of a possible 500. that is falling 5 points from 2020. math scores fell 7 points. the department of justice said

this. the link between academic failure and delinquency, violence and crime is linked to reading failure. you sent statistics to our producers with regard to that. tell us more here. >> according to the data, 70% of incarcerated and 85% of the youth in juvenile detention centers do not read above a fourth grade level. and we know that reading is fundamental. we know that reading is not natural. and it should be explicitly taught. but these -- this methodology of direct explicit instruction is not available in most k-3 classrooms where the foundations are laid for the skills for literacy for life. >> dana: what is life like when you can't read?

>> well, typically the research will show that they suffer from low self-esteem. they feel powerless, they can suffer from depression and anxiety, which links to other types of behaviors such as crime, drug abuse. leads you down a pathway to the school to prison pipeline which -- >> dana: right. to me it robs you of the pursuit of happiness. and we have to figure out a way to deal with this. >> absolutely. >> dana: thank you for your expertise and coming on today and good luck to you and your family in fort lauderdale. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> dana: barbara bush, former first lady, the late barbara bush focused on literacy. unfortunately it seems to be getting worse. >> trace: in schools across the country. covid exacerbated it. >> dana: i hope everyone remembers to talk about that. there is a gardner in delaware

before we go. he sent a camera to figure out what was eating vegetables, a groundhog named chunk. he is an internet sensation. he has a girlfriend named nibbles and babies are named chip and nugget. they have over half a million instagram followers. the owner keeps them stocked with fresh fruit and vegetables. percy has work to do. we need more followers. sandra smith is in for harris faulkner. >> sandra: washington, d.c., new york city and chicago. the windy city the latest landing spot for the migrant buses showing democrat-led cities how dire the crisis is in their communities. i'm sandra smith is for harris today on "the faulkner focus". the first bus loads arrived in downtown chicago. texas governor greg abbott in a statement