share. >> my in-laws, they are celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary. just -- i got very lucky with the in-laws, and happy anniversary. >> were they big drinkers? how do you get to 70? congratulations, happy anniversary. thanks, everyone. here is "america reports." >> john: julie, thank you. texas adding a new destination to the express bus trips to democrat-led cities. now sending migrants to the windy city, adding the busses to new york and washington. mayors of the so-called sanctuary cities say they cannot handle the sudden surge of migrants. in chicago, even before the busses arrived, the mayor unable to stop the lawlessness spiralling in the streets. >> sandra: streets already being

taken over by drag races, drifters, critics are slamming the soft on crime approach. in chicago, kevin graham, and louisiana senator bill cassidy, both will be joining us in moments. >> john: begin with the fox news alert to kick off "america reports." former president trump's legal team set to square off in court moments from now. both parties awaiting to hear whether a special master will be granted to review documents seized in the mar-a-lago raid. that court hearing scheduled to happen right now. hello, john roberts in washington. going to beat you to it, sandra. happy friday eve. >> sandra: and great to be with you. sandra smith in new york. trump's legal team slammed the doj for opposing a third party review. >> john: the department says trump has no standing, claiming the records belong to the government and review has already been completed.

jonathan turley standing by with his learned analysis moments away, but begin with david spunt in west palm beach outside the courtroom. what are we hearing so far, david? >> david: this just began, no telling how long it's going to last, we are in brand-new territory here. department of justice looking to potentially charge the former president with violating the espionage act, and potentially obstructing justice. it's interesting, the trump team last night put out a 19-page filing responding to the department of justice and did not use the word obstruction or obstruct once when the government used that word multiple times. instead, the trump team is focusing on the request before the judge today for a special master. a special master is a neutral third party arbitor, think of a retired judge or attorney not related to the case, come in, take a look at the evidence collected by doj and potentially return some evidence not related to the scope of the investigation to the former president. last night the trump team out with the legal filing argued for

a special master. the trump -- the former president says it's necessary to have a neutral party, make sure the doj was above bar on every aspect of the investigation, according to the filing at the outset the government does not cite any precedent for its assertion that lacks standing to appoint a special master, appointment of a special master have seemed to assume rightly the target of a search and seizure, department of justice, john and sandra, said thin its filing as initial matter the former president lacks standing to seek judicial relief or oversight because those records do not belong to him. presidential records act makes clear the united states has complete ownership, possession and control of them. could federal judge canon rule from the bench, it's possible but we are in unchartered waters here, something she may want to chew on for a while. john, sandra.

>> john: unchartered waters in so many ways. david spunt in west palm beach, thank you. for more on this, jonathan turley, george washington law professor, constitutional law, and fox news contributor. doj is arguing trump does not have standing to request a special master because the documents belong to the government. however, trump's lawyers point to precedent in this, that he does have standing. pointing to the raid on michael cohen's home, of all people, saying the subject of a search warrant requested the appointment of a special master in light of potential privilege concerns and the u.s. district court for the southern district of new york granted the request. they are saying you did it for michael cohen, you need to do it for donald trump. >> i think the trump team has a better argument here. i said earlier i considered the doj filing exceedingly weak on the local points. i'm actually astonished that

merrick garland would sign off on it if he ever read it. as a former judge, he is familiar with special masters, they are regularly appointed, extension of the authority of the court, to create a record for the court to render decisions on the merits of motions. i was astonished by the absolutism of the doj statement. i think it undermined their credibility. i expect the judge will appoint a special master. if i was drafting that doj filing i would have definitely thrown a flag on the play and said do we really want to do this. a lot of judges would push back on some of these assertions and to say really, because i've been a judge for a long time and we appoint special masters to assist us in cases like this. >> sandra: jonathan, can you set up what's going to be happening in the hearing, obviously taking place now, 1:00 eastern time on

this special master in the trump case. becoming out of this that would move the story forward for us? >> jonathan: well, the judge is going to help finish this record, the basis for this motion. he's going to allow, or she's going to allow the parties to state their claims and she's going to then push them a bit. i think doj is going to be pushed the most on these issues, you know. the doj used that filing as a vehicle for other purposes, you know. they released that controversial photo, they talked about believing obstruction occurred here. there was a lot in the filing that was not necessary. the trump filing focused on the issue of the special master. having said that, that filing of the doj is serious, i mean, they said agents believed they saw obstructive conduct, of individuals trying to obstruct their investigation. that's a very serious thing to see in a filing because it tends

to create this path that's hard to walk back from for prosecutors. >> john: jonathan, call for number 2 here, the trump attorneys are making the point without the appointment of a special master, the department of justice will be the only entity that is framing the entire narrative surrounding these documents, the seizures as you pointed out, we saw that photograph included in the doj filing with the court. what trump's attorneys said, left unchecked the doj will impune, leak and publicize as spents of the investigation with no recourse but to trust the self-restraint can currently unchecked investigators. based on what we have heard so far and the leaks to various media organizations do they have a point? >> jonathan: i think they do. i mean, it was really glaring to

see the department of justice in court demanding absolute secrecy, opposing any redacted affidavit, opposing any special master, while these leaks attributed to the government were appearing in the press. leaks involving details, like the fact they believe nuclear weapons material was being housed at mar-a-lago. that has to grade on the court and the picture could come up. it was absolutely unnecessary. if you look at the filing, it says that some of these documents had classification covers that clearly stated their status. nobody is contesting that. the judge did not need a picture to go oh, ok, so there were covers. so, it really does appear to some of us like that was for public consumption, to try to again frame this case and put the former president back on his heels, and a lot of people took

the wrong, not a lot of people, but some being too the wrong meaning from the photo. look at how haphazard and where reckless the president was, strewn over the floor, it's clear the fbi had put them on the floor to take the picture. and why pick this picture? they took a lot of pictures, no doubt, from the scene, including just cover pages. why did they pick this picture with the box of the framed "time" magazine covers, these things laying around the floor and did not say anything in the filing to say this is something the fbi agents had laid out. >> sandra: all fair questions. see if we get any answers, we should know more soon on the judge's decision over a special master. appreciate it. and throughout the next hour and two hours, bret baier will join us, mike waltz as well, a lot of reaction as we will watch for anything that comes out of that

hearing that has just begun, john. >> john: to jonathan's point, why did they choose that picture, why do publications often choose the worst photograph of somebody possible to make the point when they are writing an article about them. >> sandra: fair enough. get everybody's attention. we'll watch for that.enter turning to the border crisis, texas governor abbott further expanding his operation, lone star reach, now adding the windy city to the growing list of dropoff locations in liberal-run cities. two more bus loads of undocumented migrants arriving in chicago last night. matt is live at the border in eagle pass, texas. matt, more concerns from police down there? >> it's been a pretty busy and dramatic morning here at the rio grande river. people are swimming across from the mexican side to the united states, but the river is raging. a couple of days of rain here so the water is high and moving

fast. the national guard launched boats out into the middle of the river basically assuming that some people are going to get caught in the currents and brought down river. they have been assisting migrants, men and women and young children, potentially risking their lives in this very strong current and a woman blessed herself before jumping into the water and another young couple and a daughter, and the border patrol told us any agent that goes into the water on the boats are risking their selves. a couple months ago a national guard agent drown trying to rescue a migrant. and fox news did a ride along with a police chief in a small town not far from where we are, human smugglers, everyday people who might want to make some money to give migrants a right

into the united states. he has busted nurses, teenagers, and 77-year-old woman, and the police chief pulled over a man from san antonio, he was driving down the border to see the aunt and then he admitted he was given coordinates to pick up migrants and paid based on how many people fit in his struck. >> honest with me, i know you are not going to meet your aunt. they didn't give me an amount of people. so -- yeah. >> they just told you to come pick up people? depend how many people you got? >> yeah. >> also switching to texas to southern california, a group of migrants with people from 12 different nations was apprehended tuesday morning south of san diego. some from somalia, india, afghanistan, ethiopia, and pakistan, and here at eagle pass, texas we talked to a border patrol agent and says on a busy day, upwards of 1,600 migrants enter the united states

right here. sandra, john. >> sandra: matt is in eagle pass for us, keep us posted from there. matt, thank you. >> john: and senator bill cassidy from louisiana will be joining us to talk more about this, and the growing fentanyl crisis in america and whether the biden administration is doing enough to stop it. you probably saw the exchange between peter doocy and karine jean-pierre yesterday. >> sandra: with the simple answer off the top when pressed, well we are marking the day, observing the number of deaths we have seen as a result of fentanyl in this nation. people want to know more about what the administration is doing more to combat this crisis, john. >> john: speaking of combative, i think the press secretary was yesterday. we'll dig deeper into that. we knew the pandemic was devastating for children's education, now we are seeing just how far behind american students have fallen. the worst we have seen in

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electricity, including not charging your electric vehicle between 4 and 9:00 p.m. connell mcshane will join us, but kelly o'grady is live in santa monica, california, at appropriately a tesla super charging station. what are residents being asked to do here, kelly? >> john, everything from not charging their electric vehicle to not turning on the a.c. during those peak hours, and it doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in residents and apologize, not just dealing with heat out here, but sound as well. it does not inspire a lot of confidence in residents as california races towards this future where we rely more on the grid. now, to get into what that flex alert as they are calling it asks residents to do, so the california grid operator, they are asking residents to voluntarily conserve energy between 4 and 9:00 p.m., and thermostat at 78 or higher, but avoid charging e.v.s.

and the state last week banned the sale of gas powered cars by 2035, and all new sales electric by 2026. and range anxiety, now add not charging your vehicle when it gets hot. social media users were very quick to point out the irony. we talked to residents here on how they are feeling about the mixed messages. >> if they cut down power, how are you going to charge your vehicle? >> we are not there yet. grid can't support it. >> i have a trip to go on, you can't depend on electric vehicle to take you there, it's kind of a hassle. whereas you have a gasoline energy, you have to crank the key and go. >> and that dependability may be in doubt for some time. capacity and storage improvements, demand is rising faster. a megawatt shortage, increase to 1800 in 2025, leaving 1 to 2 million without power, and not charging their e.v.

apologize for the noise but really, energy experts and residents are saying this heat wave is proof the grid may not be ready, may be too vulnerable, especially when you look for a feasible transition, does not seem to be there yet. >> john: a lot going on where you are. the charging station, will it operate between 4 and 9:00 p.m. or shut it down? >> so, it's an interesting question. it's actually voluntary, so it's not mandatory, they are not going to shut it down. i'll have to ask the folks here if they will voluntarily shut it down, but more about everyone in their homes, if you have a home charger, try not to do it at that specific time. we'll see if people race towards the chargers, interesting to see. >> john: 2035 will be here before you know it, let's hope they solve the problem. kelly, thank you so much. sandra. >> sandra: thank you, john. and thank you kelly for making

her way through the report. connell mcshane is here, great to have you here. all kinds of problems are quickly identified with mandating, forcing people into the electric vehicle situation. when the electricity is obviously still a problem and the cost of these e.v.s is a problem. >> it's quite prohibitive for a lot of people to own an electric vehicle, and put that aside for a second, what this particular situation highlights is the real disagreement or argument between the two sides here is about spending and you heard the gentleman kelly just interviewed say the grid isn't going to be up to this. we all know that, and including the democrats who support making these moves. literally last night california's legislature passed about $54 billion in new climate spending. so the idea here is to upgrade the infrastructure, just look at the numbers in california, something like 80,000 public charging stations, one estimate,

by the year 2030, they are going to need like 1.2 million. so everybody knows they are not ready for it, and the people who are criticizing it are effectively saying it's not worth it to spend tens of billions on this, they are committed to do. >> sandra: and what was said on this program and wall street journal, he's all about the green evolution, make it so it happens organically, innovate around it so it makes more sense for people. you look at the price, put it up on the screen, the average cost of a new electric vehicle in this country, cost prohibitive as you said, $66,000 compared to a new gas vehicle. it is still much cheaper for people to buy new gas, $43,000. but the cheapest electric car you can buy out there, we are told, nissan li, $27,400, and the point goes back to if this is so great for people right now, why do you have to tell them they have to do it, connell? >> i think more than anything,

sandra, you have to tell them what it's going to cost and then let people, voters, whoever the case may be, decide whether it's worst the cost. california's goal, cut emissions in half by 2040, that probably won't happen given where americans are right now. that would be one side of it, right. so, if you are going to make it happen, the truth of the matter is, spend tens and tens of billions of dollars to do it. >> democrats have no problem spending the money. >> they are committed to it. >> sandra: and housing in the country, and one common conversation in new york city is talking about rent, in some cases doubling, connell, and now what we are seeing is headlines like this, 3.8 million tenants in the united states could be evicted in just the next two months. this is a crisis that is happening right now, connell. people are kicked out of their apartments, they cannot afford rent. >> and the comparison there, a few years ago, 3.6 million for

an entire year and now 3.8 million in a couple of months. you know, there's a lot of reasons i think and if you read about this, you talk to people in real estate why rents are going up, and this might sound like a simplistic argument to some degree or reason for it, but i don't think we can dismiss the fact that this is just a weird economy right now. in other words, we went through this period for two years plus in a pandemic where we just shut things down, and a lot of strange developments happened after that. so rents might be going up anyway, we are already in an inflationary environment. we know from housing advocates over the years, not enough affordable housing, we get all of that. but also other factors happening. and how many young people maybe moved back in with their parents during the pandemic. now all those people are rushing out on their own and want an apartment, so all these things that have happened that might not ordinarily have happened that have left us in a situation like wow, this is crazy. one thing for rents to be going up but going up through the

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>> john: turning back to one of the top stories, governor greg abbott of texas adding the sanctuary city of chicago as a new dropoff point for undocumented migrants bussed out of texas. the governor is saying the plan is part of his response to president biden's open border policies overwhelming border communities and states. let's bring in louisiana senator bill cassidy for more on this. the chicago mayor saying she welcomes the migrants, but the same time slamming greg abbott. saying unfortunately texas governor greg abbott is without shame or humanity. we know racism, discrimination and human cruelty have played a role how migrants are received in the borders. still working to recover from the previous presidential administration that encouraged this. >> so forced from reality. in louisiana, i.c.e. is taking people from the border,

distributing them across the state and church groups know they are coming but often times arrive unannounced. now chicago, a complaint from the mayor who officially welcomes this? there's just an irony here, an irony and hypocrisy on top of each other, john. >> john: greg abbott's point and doug ducey of arizona as well, the government has not done anything to stop people from walking across the border, and that texas and arizona will share the burden with other cities across the country. mayor lightfoot, eric adams of new new york, muriel bowser, proclaiming they have sanctuary cities, slamming abbott, but not slamming the government flying them around for years. >> abbott is doing the country a favor. bringing this to elect d

officials and the people they representative. imagine mcallen, alexandria, louisiana, and now a city of i don't know, 8 million people and 1,000 in new york and don't know what to do with it, it brings it home. it forces other media outlets besides fox to acknowledge the problem. >> john: let me switch gears and ask you about fentanyl, you have introduced the halt fentanyl act. parents across america concerned their child may get one pill over the internet and take it and die, yet the white house does not have a plan to address this, particularly the component so much is coming across the border. >> you said shift gears, you didn't shift gears at all. because when i went to the border, the border patrol said oh, yeah, here will come a whole bunch of folks coming across illegally, the cartels know it attracts the border agents and sneak the drugs in over here. amount of drugs they are sneaking is astronomical. i was in central louisiana two days ago, sheriff says we

confiscated ten pounds of fentanyl. ten pounds could kill everybody in -- >> john: doesn't sound like a lot. >> it is. when a small amount can kill you it's a huge amount. part and parcel of the open border policy the administration has effectively adopted. >> john: and peter doocy addressed the problem. >> 300 overdoses a day now. we know how the fentanyl is coming into the country, right across the southern border. when is the president going to do something? >> 200% increase of fentanyl seizures, which means that we are doing the job of catching drug traffickers. we are securing the border. the fact that we are securing record levels of funding from dhs so they can stop illicit drugs from entering into the country. >> it's not being stopped. 300 overdoses.

designed to target children. drug cartels in mexico want t kill american kids whachlt is the president doing about it? >> to say we are not doing enough, peter is wrong. >> number of fentanyl overdoses is increasing. that is evidence they are not. and there are other things they could do. the more that you have tools to stop people from coming over the border, you also have the tools to keep illegal drugs across the border. they use everything in their toolbox to do that, i believe they are doing what they can. >> and coming in multi-colors, look like sweet tarts, clearly aimed toward children, deadly scourge gripping our country is worse by the day. great of you to come in. >> sandra: the u.n. team of nuclear scientists is on the site of the power plant, the war

could lead to nuclear disaster. alex, what is happening at that plant at this hour, alex? >> hi, sandra. those inspectors are currently in the facility, the iaa says it's been able to collect a lot of crucial information in the last several hours about the safety conditions inside the plant. despite their visit, fighting on the outside of the facility has not stopped. large explosions took place in the nearby area just earlier today, and shelling also specifically hit the facility once again today. while the war rages on, it's also a big moment for millions of kids in ukraine. today is the first day back to class. we visited a school in irpin where every single window was blown out from russian shelling. that has all been fixed but the school is also preparing for a lot of trauma and therapists will be on hand this year. president zelenskyy visited the

same school speaking with kids and addressed the country, speaking about the resiliency and braverly the kids have shown in the last six months. >> they grew up very quickly. they did not get scared. and they helped. they helped in bomb shelters, they took care of parents who were injured. >> 51% of schools across ukraine will open for in-person learning, the others, because either of inadequate bombshelters, they will do virtual learning. regardless, a strange day for kids across the country but parents say it's needed to get those kids back in class. >> sandra: alex hogan live in kyiv as the developments continue. john. >> john: latest outrage, a far left group bails out a repeat offender for domestic violence.

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>> sandra: -- >> sandra: 4th graders, sinking five points since to 20, the lowest level in decades. >> john: math scores are down seven points since the tests began 50 years ago. >> sandra: bill, your name came up when we were having a discussion among our team about this. this is absolute devastation for our nation's children.

we have failed them. they missed a lot over the last several years. it was suspected and now it is confirmed in these latest reports. >> yeah, devastation is the right word, sandra. we had been making slow but steady progress in math and reading over the last 20 years, we lost it all during covid, we lost it all. some of us, dr. saphier, a few other people, said in the summer of 2020 these kids are not going to get sick from this, they are the most protected, it's the old people you got to worry about, but the schools stayed closed. unions insisted on closing them, big city schools, particularly, stayed closed the longest. the reading scores are back to where they were 30 years ago. this is really a disaster. so the kids can't read, they go out in the street, maybe they can find these colored coated

fentanyl pills john was just talking about or drop out of school because reading and math predict your, whether you are going to stay in school, have success, and maybe half of our unemployed male population right now, 20 to 40, is addicted. so, fentanyl is the next thing on the line. we have really got to get going here and that means, i think, things for the midterms, and a shake-up in american education generally. >> john: bill, one of the big questions associated with this that many people may have, are these effects temporary, turn around, or last years or even decades. a doctor from columbia university said i don't think we can expect to see these 9-year-olds catch up by the time they leave high school. this is not something that's going to disappear quickly. so the question is, could this affect america's economy and standing in the world as this affected generation comes of age a decade from now? >> sure it does. it affects america's economy and

personal economy. the kids who are scoring the highest fell the least. guess who fell the most, the kids scoring at the bottom. isn't this always the case. and they are going to have a heck of a time. i'm calling for a marshal plan, happy to call it marshal plan, for the schools, kindergarten through 3, reading and math, nothing else. reading and math. >> sandra: you think we can get there? do you think there's enough -- there could be enough public support for that in this country? i mean, teachers know what they are dealing with, they see the kids coming in the classroom, they are not prepared, not reaching the levels they are supposed to be as they start a new school year. >> yep, yep. alliance of the good teachers and we have a lot of them, and i don't think the nea and aft speak for most of the teachers, frarngly. the good teachers and parents across the country, and the media has to get in on this, you have been great but the other media, does, too, call attention

to this. because this is really a national emergency. you guys have seen the charts. 24th, 26th, 30th, anyway to start with, and then we see this setback. other countries had setbacks too but not as dramatic and again, the kids at the bottom part of the scale fell the most. they are going to have a heck of a time getting back. focus on those two fundamental skills, literacy and numeracy. it's america, we can do this. >> john: you mentioned teachers' unions, and many critics, bill, this was no surprise, they warned this was coming if schools remained closed, they were vilified for it. now that we know what ultimately the effect, well predicted by some people have come home to roost here, is it incumbent on the teachers' unions to do

something to really get at this problem? >> well, as shakespeare says, don't trouble the poor with begging. i would not count on the teachers' unions to lead the charge here. in the middle of all this, the mayor of washington, d.c., things are supposed to be smart but they are not these days, is saying nobody can go back to school unless they are masked. what in god's name are we talking about here? you are seeing a revolution, john and sandra, among parents who are saying we want other choices, we want other options and by god they should get them and have accountability across the system. this is a really terrible thing. a lot of people have been working hard. i congratulate the teachers who worked hard, tried to push the unions to open the schools back up. but man, those teachers' unions were not listening. don't look there for help. >> sandra: i think so many of us, where he see these stories and we heard the teachers' union

throughout this, and we all know fantastic teachers in our lives, and we want to support them. this is an incredibly challenging time for them as well. they are going to be receiving those kids this fall and have to do their best to help catch those kids up. and by the way, i want to end on this point, bill, to your point about the kids affected the most by this, those already at the bottom tier of literacy, to that point, the minority students, more affected than anybody through all of this, in math, the "new york times" article points out, black students lost 13 points compared with five points among the white students, widening the gap between the two groups. that's a harsh reality. >> they don't need the woke crap, if i may, don't need the woke junk, they need math and reading. good teachers ought to get on the phone to the parent community and say we are ready to go, give us another chance. the other teachers, disregard. go somewhere else. >> john: and the subject of

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>> sandra: pilots are picketing at airports across the country in the wake of travel disruptions over the summer. garrett is live at o'hare airport. what do the pilots want? >> well, sandra, this is really about new contracts for pilots. airline pilots association is in

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>> sandra: new at 2:00, a jam packed hour of breaking news. the left, west palm beach, we are awaiting the judge's decision, screen center, i should say, on where the fight over the mar-a-lago raid heads next. now, screen right, we are also awaiting to see if more documents explaining the raid

will be unsealed at that hearing, so a lot coming up. >> john: the white house set to brief reporters this hour. the president and his team ahead of the anti-maga talk ahead of the big speech tonight. >> sandra: welcome back, as "america reports" rolls into hour two today. >> john: updates on both fronts as we get them, but the white house labelling trump-supporting republicans a threat to democracy. >> sandra: republicans saying that's nothing more than rhetoric to divide and they say it all boils down to the midterm elections. >> john: we have full coverage for you. bret baier is standing by. >> sandra: david spunt outside the courthouse, but first, on the north lawn, is the president making pennsylvania a priority?

>> making his second stop in the keystone state tonight, three stops in pennsylvania in one week alone, an amazing amount of travel. but we expect the speech to be focused on the president the last couple of days, the belief that reporters of the former president are a threat to the united states. the president has been stepping up attacks against his predecessor in recent weeks, did it also in scranton earlier in the week. he continues to bring up the january 6th riots. take a listen to two recent speeches, very harsh words for his opposition. >> we are in a situation where to this day the maga republicans in congress defend the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th. >> the republicans have made their choice to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division. but we have chosen a different path. forward, the future, unity, hope and optimism.

>> a new wall street journal poll finding 54% of registered voters disapprove of the president's job performance, only 45% approving. democrats are seeing an upparticular in support compared to what we saw earlier in the year. and rnc chair woman says joe biden is the divider and chief and epitomizes the party, disgust and hostility toward half the country. the white house insists the president is not referring to all republicans when he calls them out, even mentions specifically maryland governor hogan that he could work with, but even hogan says the rhetoric may be too far as divisive, and republicans will be in pennsylvania to give a speech to try to get ahead of the president's message tonight. >> sandra: thank you, john.

>> john: now to west palm beach, florida, awaiting the decision for a special master for the mar-a-lago raid. david, what's the timing here? >> david: we don't know when it's going to end. we know it began an hour ago and per court -- we have a team inside and as soon as the hearing is over, we were there, john and sandra, as president trump, former president trump's legal team, lindsey, jim, and evan walked into the building about 12:30 ahead of the 1:00 hearing. they believe the doj investigation is political, and the former president had every right to those records even if classified at mar-a-lago. declassified or classified. the department of justice believes it's quite simple. federal prosecutors say donald trump likely violated the espionage act and committed

obstruction of justice. the team does not address it directly in the filing. they want the neutral third party arbitor to come in and look at the evidence and potentially return some of the evidence outside of the scope of the investigation. john, sandra, that is the point of today's hearing. a special master is not necessary, according to doj as the justice department already had a neutral third party filter team come in and look at the evidence. doj officials believe the situation is already under control without a special master. the trump team wrote the government appears to argue simultaneously that a special master is unnecessary because the review is complete and that such a special master is inappropriate because such an appointment would interfere with the review process. the decision rests with eileen canon, she's been on the bench a little over an hour, a district court judge appointed by donald trump in 2020. she may decide today or take

more time to think about this, and a special master for reference could be a retired judge, a local attorney, someone not related directly to the case, but does have experience with dealing with these sorts of issues and the trump team and doj both agree if a special master is appointed, special master must be able to get security clearance dealing with some of these documents. >> john: see what the ruling is today, david, thank you. >> sandra: bret baier now, chief political reporter and special report, and the judge has to decide on the potential special master in the case of president trump. >> yeah, good afternoon. i think it's fascinating time because the fbi, essentially the justice department saying they have been through the documents and the trump folks are saying we need the person to go through and make a determination about executive privilege,

attorney/client privilege and we are kind of already down the road. see what the judge comes back with. but eventually, pretty soon the doj will make a decision moving forward or not with charges against the former president. >> john: bret, in the 19-page filing by trump's team filed by the court last night, they do not argue president trump, former president trump had declassified the documents at mar-a-lago. it's curious he was all over truth social saying i had a standing order to declassify the documents, in the court of public opinion but the court of law not making that point. >> bret: no, and what matters is filed in the court of law. and i think you know, you have a situation where the doj or the fbi, saying it doesn't matter about the classification, what they are looking at materials that deal with national defense, and so maybe going down that

road is something these trump lawyers understand that it is the material itself that is potentially problematic. we are going to make the argument that this was overkill and the search and raid was too much. but when push comes to shove, it's the documents in possession and what they already have. >> sandra: what are you transitioning to what we are going to hear from the president tonight in the primetime address, the soul of the nation, the president is expected to deliver a speech on at a time we are seeing some pretty serious attacks on certain members of the republican party, bret. >> bret: i think it's really an interesting moment as we get ready for the midterms for the president to go on the offensive as much as he is. obviously you have seen the poll numbers go up in recent weeks. we have seen some races that have been sliding towards the democrats in review of this. they think, i believe, that the more focus there is on former president trump, the better they

do in independent swing districts. but here is, you know, just looking back to october of 2020, the president delivers this speech called the soul of the nation speech and in it he says instead of treating each other's party as the opposition, we treat them as the enemy. this must end. he's saying unify, don't vilify. now the message is completely different. maga republicans don't just threaten our personal rights and security, they are a threat to our very democracy. think about the dichotomy between the two statements in less than two years. >> john: and that's something that kevin mccarthy is going to point out when he gives a prebuttal, saying instead of trying t bring our country together to solve the challenges, president biden has divide, demean and disparage

fellow americans. first lines out of his mouth should be to apologize for slandering tens of millions of americans as fascists. i don't expect we will hear an apology from the president. >> bret: no, definitely not, or semi fascist, i don't know how you can be semi fascist. it's -- it does fall into the basket of deplorables. republicans look at it as, you know, 70 million plus people voted for donald trump, and there are many of them who perhaps don't agree with the man and everything he did or said but agreed with the policies. are they maga republicans, do they fall into the category that the president is now lambasting, i don't know. >> sandra: are they americans and shouldn't he talk to all americans. that's the question. see what he has to say in the speech tonight. great of you to join us.

special report, 6:00. >> john: thanks, bret, see you soon. i don't understand why biden went there. when you look at history and when hillary clinton talked about the basket of deplorables, that came back on her pretty hard and this is coming back on biden maybe not quite as hard but certainly a lot of people took extreme offense to that. >> sandra: and i was talking to marc thiessen earlier today, talking about the missed opportunity to unite the nation, to bring people together. they don't like the direction the country is going in. seize the moment to bring the two sides together where he might think that's possible. >> john: that's a moment that has been missed since january 20, 2021. i would not expect things are going to change. also coming up new at two, part two of our deep dive of chicago under siege. deadly drag racing and donuts in chicago as an innocent woman is

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>> i just was really astonished by the absolutism by the doj statements. i think it really undermined

their credibility. i expect the judge will appoint a special master. indeed, if i was drafting the doj filing, i would have definitely thrown a flag on the play and said do we really want to do this. >> john: jonathan turley making his case for a special master to review documents seized from mar-a-lago. turley saying it should have happened a long time ago. >> sandra: as we await the judge's decision down there in west palm beach. >> john: as we await the decision, let's bring in florida republican congressman michael waltz. what do you think the judge is going to do in this case? >> well, i certainly hope the judge airs towards transparency. you have 70 million americans that have a lot of questions about the timing of this raid, the necessity of this aggressive action, so many of us, myself included, are asking what changed between the back and for the process in june to then august to then have to -- take

this action, did they have some type of evidence that president trump was going to hand these documents to some foreign entity, i highly seriously doubt that. so, what was that cataclysmic moment and the judge should err toward restoring confidence in the department of justice, law enforcement, and really quelling, you know, what i'm hearing, and that so many people are so outraged and alarmed. >> sandra: say the judge a few moments from now as we await this, we keep watching, anything could come from that courtroom, decides on a special master for the former president per their legal team's request, that happens. what do you believe the true impact would actually be? >> it's unclear at this point. i think again, there is the restoring confidence because so much has been lost in the leadership of the bureau and i make that distinction, not against the agents themselves, but the leadership of the bureau

and the leadership of the department of justice, but you see all these activities that are going on despite this judge's deliberation. apparently the bureau in their filing indicated that they have already had a review team, that they have decided that things that should fall into attorney/client privilege don't. i think that's something that we should have an independent entity decide, not the bureau who obviously has a bias in this matter. we have the dni conducting their review of the damage to national security of the classified documents yet go back to 2016, the dni declined to do a review of the 8 or 9 or so special access programs, higher than top secret sci that were on then secretary of state clinton's server as it pertained to our drone program. dni declined back then. why back then did they decline but now they are going to do a

review of president trump? so it's this uneven application and doing so just 100 days before the midterm election that just, i think, stinks to high heaven for so many people. >> john: i think we can hear army sounding off in the background, congressman. not sure if it is -- >> armie has a voice in all of this. sorry about that. >> john: bring him on tv, his thoughts as well. i thought it was rather ironic making the case for the special master, brought up the one time confidante and attorney michael cohen who asked for and got a special master. trump attorneys in the filing saying the subject of a search warrant requested, this is cohen he's talking about, requested the appointment of a special master in light of special privilege concerns, and they granted the request. making the point here with judge canon, the southern district of new york gave a special master

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proactive in addressing these issues to work with law enforcement is an absolute abomination. drag races are clear violations of the law. if the video are taken down because people are watching them, what's the attraction of them. >> sandra: bring in kevin graham, former president of chicago fraternal order of police. thank you for joining us. can you shed some light on this drag racing? we have obtained some video, there is a lot of video of this happening all over the streets there in chicago. some of the nicest neighborhoods are dealing with this. the police are called in some cases, they show up, and these criminals are fighting back. what are you seeing there? >> you are correct. what is going on on the streets of chicago with the drag racers and one woman has been killed because of these drag racers. we need to crack down. i think you know i'm a law and order type of person and i believe that we should be enforcing the law to the fullest

extent. but one of the problems, and believe me, the men and women of the chicago police department are working their tails off to try and keep the public safe. but the biggest problem we have is our prosecutor and believe me, i think you know this is not unique to chicago, when you have prosecutors funded by george soros, there is a lack of prosecution, criminals are let out on the streets, tim evans, the chief judge in our criminal court building and he is unwilling to hold people, and hold people for a significant bond. we cannot operate as if it's a hockey penalty box and we are only going to grab them off the street for a few minutes and we are not going to hold them accountable for their actions. we cannot operate where people are not going to be held accountable and the only one who is ever held accountable are the police. it has to be a fair set of rules

for everyone, and we have to work at trying to get people to realize that the public are the most vulnerable people that we need to keep safe. >> john: when it comes to street racing, kevin, and the drift racing we are seeing and the guys doing donuts in the west loop there, lori lightfoot is saying it's the fault of social media, they need to do something about this. clearly social media is acting as a bulletin board so people can find out where it's going to take place and they can gather there. here is what she said. lori lightfoot said the social media companies have the ability to regulate what's happening on their platforms. isn't it a question of first amendment rights, a question of public safety for our kids and our communities. fair enough social media can do something about this, refuse to post videos, monitor what's happening in terms of the bulletins that go out to gather in places like the west loop, but the overall climate of lawlessness in chicago goes well beyond social media, well beyond

street races. what are -- what is leadership in chicago doing to step up to combat this problem? >> well, i have looked at some of the things that they are doing. they are trying to put a task force together to go after the street racers. they have reduced the shootings by, from last year of about 18%. we still have an unacceptable number. the men and women of the chicago police department as i've already said, they do a phenomenal job. they have taken more guns off the street than new york and los angeles combined. they are doing an incredible job and they don't have enough help. they are working long hours. >> sandra: that's another problem that falls on lori lightfoot's lap, right? she reportedly has turned a blind eye, ignored the fact that a lot of cops are asked to work

in some cases 11 days straight on these shifts where they are stepping into violent situations like that, until a scathing report came out that that was indeed the case, and now the city has changed and said ok, these cops can have a day off here and there? >> the inspector general of the city of chicago came out with a report that said that this is unacceptable and that you need to have people have time off and one of the biggest changes that has come out and it came out this week by the superintendent and said that we are now going to mandate that you have eight hours, excuse me, nine hours between shifts. so some of it is that we are -- that the chicago police officers are going to have a day off and that they are also not going to be required to work back-to-back shifts without significant time off. >> sandra: gee. >> john: when you've got law

enforcement exhausted, and probably ticked off they are working so many hours does not help the problem at all. kevin graham, appreciate you coming in. crime not just an issue in chicago but cities coast to coast. that includes philadelphia, which is on track for the most murders ever in a single year. it also happens to be where president biden is set to speak tonight. folks in philly tell fox crime is at the top of their minds. bryan llenas live in philadelphia, what are you hearing there? >> john, the reality is that violence is on everyone's mind here because it's much worse in philadelphia than even larger cities like new york city and los angeles. take a look at these numbers. so far, at least 361 murders in this city, about 1600 people shot, that is a record pace, and just 44% of the murders are being solved. karen grant's 31-year-old son was shot by a stray bullet a few weeks ago, her son is still in the icu and could be paralyzed.

>> he told me mom, he felt -- he can't feel his legs with unz that bullet hit him. i cried, i know he's an active guy, but i cry because i'm happy that he's alive. too many people get a bill that they can pay, they get out of jail, pay a bill. but to me you are on bail you kill somebody else. like do something about it. >> pennsylvania's house of representative is investigating the progressive district attorney here in philly, larry crassner, and his handling of crime in the city, a move that could lead to his impeachment. stanley crawford is founder and ceo of the black male community council of philadelphia, his son was murdered in 2018 and part of the problem, police are not working with the community enough. >> it's not money, it's not lack of personnel, it's just a lack

of strategy. it's a lack of strategy. with the proper strategy, with the money and the personnel that they have, i believe that they can do what they took an oath to do. the oath was to protect and serve. >> philadelphia police say they have the strategy, it is a lack of resources, they say they are stretched way too thin and the streets are just awash with illegal guns. the police commissioner here yesterday said it's as if guns are falling from the sky, in fact every day school fights now have evolved into everyday shootings. >> john: the president will talk about the soul of america, maybe he'll include that, we'll see. bryan llenas, thank you. >> sandra: a man accused of murdering the mother of his children days after a liberal group in portland bailed him out. the bail coming despite the woman saying she feared for her safety because of his history of abuse. chief correspondent jonathan

hunt is live in the west coast news hub for us. tell us what we are learning about this suspect. >> jonathan: sandra, he 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. on august 20th, the portland freedom fund paid to bail him out of jail. on august 27th, last saturday, prosecutors say aidan went to abraham's home and murdered her. repeatedly stabbing her and then strangling her to death. her three children all under eight just yards away. aidan was quickly arrested and charged with murder. prosecutors furious the portland freedom fund had bailed out a man with a long record of domestic violence. 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 an abolitionist organization, to reducing harms against 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. and went on, we were in contact with him 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. sandra. >> sandra: wow, jonathan hunt on

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>> sandra: the toll lockdowns took on our nation's students is becoming more clear, and test scores plunged to levels this country has not seen in decades. >> john: new numbers showing reading scores for 9-year-olds hitting the lowest level since 1990, all of that progress wiped out. at the same time, math scores dropped for the first time ever in the history of the nationalally representative test, dates back to the 1970s. for more on this, tyrus, a former teacher himself. we learn something new, we learned you were a zoology mainly, and now a teacher? would you agree this is the chickens coming home to roost? >> no, that's a part of the problem but not the whole problem and a lot of people are not going to like what i say.

it's parenting. we are not -- if the average parent looked at how much time they spend on social media and took that time on the phone and how much they were working with their kids on education, a huge disparity. we have to be better parents and you are going to hear the first world problems come in, let's look at the country's history. a time people were learning by candlelight, dealing with famine, bad weather, war, etc., single moms working 70 hours a week, my mom worked 70 hours a week worked nights and my butt was at the table doing homework. >> sandra: unfortunately those are the kids hurt the most, the single mom did have to -- >> so did ours but they found a way. parents need to get back to parenting. the schools are not off the hook, but you know how much you were watching what they were doing at school. instead of watching the netflix series we all love, i'm guilty,

too, take that time and reinvest in your kids' education. hear are the cop-outs. they changed it, i don't know it anymore, it's different from when i was in school, learn and figure it out. the government is not going to fix it, especially this administration, p ut a committee together and charge more taxes and not change anything. teachers are caught up on issues and political stuff and focus more on pronouns and critical and nothing with the core things, reading, writing and arithmetic. that does not change. it's up to the parents, us. >> john: i'm with you on the parenting thing, my mom worked 70 hours a week, and biggest influence on my life, and time is limited, serena williams winning last night in what is supposed to be her swan song, now there is talk whether or not she wins the u.s. open she'll

keep going and come back next year to defend her title. what a powerhouse. >> how is anyone stunned? i'm not stunned. >> sandra: she just lost -- she just lost in the first round in the last two tournaments she played in, that's why some are stunned. >> like saying everyone is stunned muhammad ali beat someone in a boxing match. greatest of all time. >> sandra: i'm cheering so hard for her. she has space for one more trophy in her cathedral of success, and i'll take any bet she wins the whole thing. >> john: any time our kids, our twins try to shirk, we point to the williams sisters and say exampleserena's

mother -- jam packed, pretty awesome. i mean -- greatest of all time. >> john: tyrus, great to have you in, and can't wait to have you in next time and learn something else new. >> i'll try out a new job and get fired by next week. >> john: i doubt that. >> sandra: it became an accepted quirk of life in america. changing our clocks twice a year. some lawmakers say the time has come to leave that practice in the past. >> john: chad explains the history of congress meddling with the clocks and who might happen next. >> it is said time is fleeting, but congress determines just how fleeting it is.

regardless, they keep the time here at the u.s. naval observatory. the constitution grants congress the power to fix the standard of weights and measures, that's why congress approved the first version of daylight saving time during world war i, and lengthended it in 2005. no one likes doing it twice a year. >> majority of the american people stop the back and forth changing. >> the senate approved a bill to spring forward and park the country on daylight saving time. >> is there objection? without objection, so ordered. >> yes. >> but the bill is stalled in the house, or perhaps the house already passed the bill. this is why time is relative. >> of all of the things that we can observe and measure in the universe, the one that we know

the least about intrinsically is time. >> u.s. naval observatory in washington is where government establishes time. >> so this is kind of where time happens, sort of depends on who you talk to. >> at the tone, eastern daylight time, 14 hours, 30 minutes. >> master clock fields millions of calls so people can hear the time. computers and mobile phones ping the clock to tell you the time. >> u.s. naval observatory master clock. >> everything that happens is now. >> that now is already in the past just a few seconds ago, we are regarding this now, to watch it in the future. >> that future is already -- >> in the past. >> regardless, we are out of time. that work for you? >> good take. >> ok, thank you. >> your microphone. >> thanks, guys. >> all right. have a good night, thanks, guys.

>> but we are not really done. time depends on where you are. that's why a telescope is essentially a time machine. >> we are looking back in time at things that happened. >> seeing everything as it was. we see the moon as it was one and a half seconds ago. we see the sun as it was eight minutes ago. we see pluto as it was five hours ago. >> location is key to understanding time. >> when you look at einstein's special theory, relativity is, it's a very, very interesting subject. i mean, the time that -- the time that a clock ticks for a person here is going to be perhaps quite different from where -- what time it ticks at somewhere else. >> time dilates in interstellar space, slows down near black holes yet seemingly accelerates here on earth.

>> time of course passes too fast when you are at the beach. >> surely one measure of time everyone can agree on, what constitutes a second, takes about sen seconds to define. >> specifically it's 9,192,631,700 hyper fine oscillations of the electron in sesium133. >> the layperson may not know what that means and yet we all know precisely what that means, the clock is ticking, and even congress can't do anything about that. >> everything that happens is now, but that now is already in the past just a few seconds ago. we are recording this now so you can watch it in the future. but that future is already in the past and regardless, we are out of time. at the u.s. naval observatory, chad pergram, fox news. >> john: and time does march on

and the clock remains ticking, by the way, on a decision from judge canon on whether or not to appoint a special master, sandra. >> sandra: that was an amazing package. nobody does those like chad pergram. i'm left with more questions, though. let's sneak in a quick break here as we keep an eye on the courthouse in florida, any news from there on the decision, the mar-a-lago documents, anything could come from there at any moment. a quick break, we'll be right back. i'd like to thank our sponsor liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. contestants ready? go! only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uhh... here, i'll take that! yay!!! ensure max protein, with 30 grams of protein, 1 gram of sugar enter powered by protein challenge for a chance to win big! your record label is taking off.

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>> sandra: all right. that does it for us. we look live outside the courthouse. a bit of news coming in. various reports that the judge has deferred the ruling on trump's request for a special master. we await more information. >> john: there was a thought that she might rule from the bench. looks like judge cannon won't do that. she says a ruling will be coming in short order. she's considered both sides of the argument here.

the doj arguing strenuously against the appointment of a special master. trump's attorney saying it's only fair since it was done for michael cohen. we'll see which way it goes. >> sandra: thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: and i'm john roberts. we'll see you tomorrow for friday, our favorite day. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. breaking update on former president trump's special master request. we'll have more on that as we follow that story out of west palm beach, florida in just a moment. first, the nation just got our report card in on the pandemic education situation. those who oversaw it are calling it a very sobering look at the devastating impact that all of it had on our children. so this new federal study is of 9-year-olds across the country and shows that from 2020