police station. we're not seeking revenge toward that individual, like a personal attack. we're just wanting to make sure this person is apprehended and held accountable for not only sierras's death but we're not sure how many other deaths have been caused by this individual. who knows? so that's our goal here is to get this person apprehended and held accountable for delivering fentanyl on the streets. >> dana: robert, my last question would be we talk to a lot of parents like you who have lost their children and the heartbreak is so real and this bond you have with so many people around the country. we have 300 opioid deaths a day in this country. and we had a guest on earlier this week who lost her son and she said that was like a plane crash a day.

do you think that the government -- i'm not suggesting federal, state or city, just overall, are you not being well served for the protection of children and your child in particular? >> i can say this, 57,000 people died in 2020 from fentanyl overdoses and i don't know what 21 and 22. we're just eight months in. so no, i don't think the government at any level has done enough. i think that the current administration has got to stand up and take notice. i think the state of iowa has got to take notice. how many more people have to die before somebody takes it serious? this is worse than the 1970s

heroin epidemic. i'm calling everyone to action, everybody in the community stand up. the fentanyl pills are ridiculous. 40% of those pills kill people. they're lethal. so i think everybody, the community, the government, the state, the governor, we all need to stand up in solidarity and handle this. >> dana: i hear you. we grieve with you and pray for your strength. hold onto each other today. it's a tough day for you as well. thank you for helping us provide awareness and we hope you find whoever sold the pill. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> dana: federal judge keeping the door open for president trump as she weighs his motion for an outside review of documents seized in a raid by the f.b.i. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom."

i'm dana perino. bill hemmer is off. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. the judge holding off on a decision after the hearing yesterday. the justice department claims appointing an independent special master could delay their investigation. lawyers for trump say it would restore public faith in the probe and d.o.j. the judge seeming to lean in favor of a special master asking what is the harm in it? watch. >> judge cannon summed it up with one question. what harm is done by appointing a special master? the answer with the government was unwilling to do it provides oversight and accountability to the government. i think ultimately they should welcome that. >> trace: david spunt is live in palm beach, florida with more. good morning. >> good morning to you. judge cannon has a big decision to make, a serious decision with no real roadmap. this is unprecedented for all parties involved. we're told this will be a

written decision. it could come at some point today over the next few hours or few days. yesterday in federal court judge cannon made it clear that she was leaning toward appointing a special master in favor of the trump legal team and grant that request. the special master a neutral person to come in, look at evidence and potentially return any documents to mar-a-lago not under the scope of the investigation. cannon indicated she was skeptical of the government's opposition to having an outside arbiter examine documents ceased from mar-a-lago. she said what is the harm of appointing a special master? the department of justice attorney who heads the counter intelligence section in washington, d.c. told cannon the classified records do not belong to donald trump as he is no longer the president and has not been the commander-in-chief for more than 18 months. federal prosecutors say the former president likely violated the espionage act and

committed obstruction of justice. former president trump's legal team declined to speak to reporters after leaving the two-hour hearing making the argument a special master is in order. the american people do not trust the government and donald trump is a political target. christopher, an attorney for trump. newest attorney said these are presidential records in the hands of the 45th president as a place used frequently for work during his presidency. this is not some d.o.d. staffer stuffing records in a bag and sneaking off. a special master would give a greater confidence in the process. judge cannon will rule as a written order. the department justice even though the trump team is pushing for a special master d.o.j. officials are concerned it would significantly slow down the criminal investigation if a special master is appointed. >> trace: david spunt live in palm beach. thank you. >> joe biden has a problem. the only way he changes that is

by flipping the script and talking about maga, ultra-maga, trump and trying to make it about everything other than joe biden. this is a political play. it is very obvious what this is and they will try to drive this down everybody's throat. >> dana: critics slamming president biden for using last night's so-called policy speech to continue his fierce anti-maga rhetoric. speaking in philadelphia biden said maga republicans are a threat to the united states. and are determined to take the country backwards. senator tom cotton is here to weigh in. let's go to griff jenkins live in washington first. >> good morning. quite a speech flanked by marines and cast in dramatic red lighting president biden warned the nation from outside of independence hall saying his predecessor and millions americans who voted for him are a threat to democracy. listen here. >> president biden: as the republican party day is intimidated and driven by donald trump and the maga

republicans. and that is a threat to this country. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. they do not believe in the rule of law. they do not recognize the will of the people. >> citing the maga phrase 13 times the often grim speech was a far cry from his pledge to unite the country, the centerpiece of his campaign. >> president biden: i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but unify. who doesn't see red states and blue states, only sees the united states. without unity there is no peace. we must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue. >> kevin mccarthy delivered a rebutteal saying he should apologize for divisive rhetoric. republican reaction continues to pour in this morning. >> missed opportunity to talk

to the american people straight up about the reasons when they lie down and sleep at night they can't. he could have talked about crime, inflation, learning loss by our children. >> all of this as the quinnipiac poll finds 66% of americans are concerned that democracy could be in danger of collapsing. dana. >> dana: griff jenkins in d.c. let's bring in the arkansas senator, tom cotton, to get reaction. "new york post" cover had it as a dark divide. before we get into the substance can i ask you what -- the visuals matter. if you remember a man who worked for ronald reagan mastered that. i'm not sure what they were going for last night but maybe the dark brandon look is what they really wanted. >> dana, i'm not sure what they were going for either. strange and wildly

inappropriate setting. unusual, weird, red lighting. most worrisome having marines standing behind him when he is engaging in political attacks on 74 million americans who voted for republicans in the last election. then again what would you expect joe biden to talk about? he can't run on his own record. congressman and senators can't defend the democratic record. what he didn't say last night. he didn't say anything about the student loan bail-out from last week. if you want to talk about dangers to democracy, it's a perfect example. joe biden without any legal authority is giving away hundreds of billions of dollars to his political supporters in places like colleges and universities across america. while people who didn't go to school, who worked hard, who went to school and worked hard to pay off loans and parents had saved, they will bear the burden of all that debt that joe biden has unlawfully given to political supporters across the country. that's a real threat to democracy just like the 87,000 i.r.s. agents that democrats voted to hire last month to

harass hard working families and small businesses. those are the real threats to democracy, not what joe biden was lying about last night. >> trace: you said he didn't say anything about the student loan stuff. this is fascinating. our crew put it together. it is brilliant. the words that biden failed to mention last night and remember that he and the white house kept saying this is a policy speech, not a political speech. inflation zero, fentanyl zero, border zero, cartels zero, debt zero, prices zero, gas zero. abortion zero, overdoses zero. mortgage zero. this apparently was not a great policy speech. >> not a lot of policy in that speech, trace. and again to go back to the threats to democracy, many of the things you just cited that he didn't address like the fentanyl crisis or 100,000 americans dying every year from overdoses, more than 20 times

we lost in the entire iraq war. the open border gets back to joe biden abdicating his responsibility to enforce the law, uphold immigration laws as within by congress but the invasion at the border. vicious, violent cartel members and gang members who are flooding our streets with drugs. this again gets back to the real threats to our democracy which is joe biden and the far left of the democratic party who will disregard the law and overturn longstanding customs and standards of democratic practice in america to pursue their radical ideology. what we need to do is to protect the american people from the deranged partisan ideologue you saw on stage last night by making sure that we elect a republican majority to the congress this fall. once we do that, i'm going to protect the american people

from that deranged ideologue. >> dana: can i ask you one last question? some on twitter from the left saying if you are criticizing this speech and the look of it with the marines behind, but you didn't criticize president trump for what they're saying is the same thing are you being hypocritical? give you a chance to answer that. >> again like joe biden, i think that's what psychologists would call projecting. the democrats continue to attack republicans for supposedly undermining our democracy. but the democrats are the ones who stood idly by while left wing street militias burned our cities in the summer of 2020 with almost no legal consequences. joe biden's department of justice is the one sicking the feds on parents at school boards or refusing to enforce the law outside of supreme court justice's homes when you have left wing agitators clearly violating federal law. the democrats are the ones that voted to hire 87,000 new i.r.s. agents. they are the ones that are

threatening democratic standards of norms in our country. they are projecting this onto republicans because they don't have any accomplishments on which they can campaign this fall. >> trace: senator, thank you. >> dana: senator tom cotton, thank you. have a good labor day weekend and appreciate you being here today. >> trace: it's fascinating. i want to put this on the screen. a speech writer for both reagan and first president bush wrote this in an op-ed saying the speech was nakedly even comicly designed not to elevate but to offend. biden knows he won in 2020 by successfully making the election a referendum on make him happier than having the 20s. nothing would make him happier than having the 2020 election continue in that vein. it is the early theme. villainize trump and the people who follow him. >> dana: we'll see how long it lasts. thursday night before labor day weekend. we'll check it out.

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. >> dana: it's back to school time. teachers are burning out and increasingly leaving their jobs all together. the timing couldn't be worse as the latest national report card shows student test scores going to levels not seen in decades. they blame one of the most powerful teachers union the american federations of teachers writing they flunk the pandemic. bill bennett, former education secretary. i want to play sound from the white house yesterday and read to you a pretty interesting quote from the randi weingarten

that the "wall street journal" writes about. >> went from 46% to open to nearly all of them being open to full-time. that was the work of this president. and that was the work of democrats in spite of republicans not voting for the american rescue plan, which 130 billion went to school to have the ventilation, to be able to have the tutoring and teachers and being able to hire more teachers. >> dana: lot to unpack in that response. randi weingarten tweeted this, the head of the union. thankfully after two years of disruption, schools are already working on helping kids recover and thrive. this is the year to celebrate learning by rebuilding relationships focusing on the basics. we'll have new test scores call for number four. bill bennett, you tell us how dismayed are you by these test scores and these results?

>> it's very bad, devastating report. for20 years we were making modest gains in reading and math. that was reversed during the pandemic. scores have dropped to where they were 20 years ago. for kids at the bottom scoring levels they dropped to where they were 30 years ago. these are the kids who need the help the most. it is unbelievable for the head of that teachers union, randi weingarten, to say thankfully the schools are open. what was the loudest voice about closing the schools and keeping the schools closed? randy weingarten and the teacher union. they have a lot to answer for. these test scores are part of the reason. in march of 2020, my colleague and i wrote about the social and mental and psychological and academic problems that kids would face with closed schools. we are now seeing those results. these academic scores are very,

very discouraging and there is a lot of blame to go into the schools and the teachers unions for doing this. no wonder teachers are leaving the profession. the self-degradation of the profession by its leadership in the unions explains part of this. >> dana: 86% of those funds that jean-pierre was mentioning going to schools were never spent. so i understand teachers burning out but the money was generously offered and voted on by the congress to go to the schools and it is not being spent. now you have children whose lives might be damaged for the rest of their lives if they can't make up this learning loss, sir. >> that's exactly right. i suggest the marshall plan. remember the marshall plan at the end of world war ii. $15 million to europe. we've spent $246 billion, $15

billion in today's dollars in the school. a lot of the money hasn't been spent for the things that need to be spent. funding is not the problem. the marshall plan was to prevent the spread of communism. what i'm calling for is to prevent the spread of ignorance. here is what we need to do. focus kindergarten through third grade on reading and math for the next year or two years, two subjects, reading and math. literacy and numerals. these are the keys for children to succeed. if they don't succeed or drop out or not able to get jobs or not interested in getting jobs, then to your earlier segment they will be attracted to the wrong kind of life, fentanyl is lurking there in the streets for those who don't have the right motivation and the schools have to do a better job. parents are now aware and alert to these problems and i'm glad they are very much involved. >> dana: if i were the president i would call a cabinet meeting for 8:00 a.m.

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>> dana: aaa says it expects a surge in air travel this holiday weekend. travelers might experience some turbulence. it's been a tough summer. off duty pilots across the country are picketing the largest airlines calling for better work conditions as staff shortages continue to make a mess of air travel. it has been a rough one. garrett tenney is live at chicago o'hare airport with more on what we can expect. hi, garrett. >> labor day is the last hurrah for summer for a lot of folks. many are trying to get in one last trip. the good news is so far today here at o'hare and across the country flights are going pretty smoothly. nationwide only 700 delays so far. around 100 or so domestic flights canceled. internationally there are a bit more issues with several passengers saying they are stranded in chicago mid trip due to a strike by the airline pilots. >> the perfect time to actually

do it. i might as well take it for labor day. >> we started in l.a. to come to chicago to go to munich, to go to italy and we find out on flights that both connecting flights are canceled. >> i'm tired, hungry. i want a deep dish pizza if i'm stuck here. >> nothing like a deep dish to keep you filled if stranded for a few days. bookings for domestic travel are up 20% compared to a year ago. increased demand is pushing prices higher as well. the average lowest airfare now costs 30% more than in 2020. the 233 average for a mid range hotel is 53% higher, rental cars are up 32%. despite that, aaa doesn't expect the demand for travel to go down any time soon. >> it's been two years of pandemic restrictions and lockdowns and they're ready to get out and reconnect with

loved ones. not only do we anticipate this labor day will be a busy time for travelers, so will the rest of the year. >> looking ahead at flight delays or cancellations are not your jam. try booking the early morning flights. first ones out of the day. those typically have fewer issues. you may be tired but at least you'll get where you are going on time. dana. >> dana: i love first flight out. that's great advice. thanks, garrett. >> trace: i have a late flight today. it doesn't help me. the new august jobs report shows hiring slowed last month. u.s. employers adding 315,000 jobs, down 107,000 from july and the unemployment rate rose to 3.7%. let's bring in fox business chief national correspondent connell mcshane. numbers are good, not bad. >> you always have a wall street and main street view of the jobs report, right? and we're at a point where those two could be at odds.

what's good for one, bad for the other. this report, which is odd, was right in the middle. if you are looking at it from a normal person's point of view you can say hiring in this country still steady adding over 300,000 jobs in a month. the unemployment rate ticked up a notch to 3.7 but it did it for the right reasons. the labor force is now bigger, more people are in it and you have to be considered looking for work to be unemployed. so this is an odd occurrence it went up for the right reasons. wall street looks at this and the big fear as it was coming into today was the report would be too strong and the fed would look and say we have to hammer rates so that inflation comes down. it was pretty much in line with expectations. so i think the federal reserve doesn't change its calculus that much. >> trace: let's put this up on the scene. 5.2 wages rising. it looks like if you are a working you have taken a 3% pay cut over the past certain

amount of time. but that's the whole thing. is that enough to keep the feds from saying let's not bump up or -- >> they'll keep raising rates. just how much. they'll continue to have the debate whether they should be raise their rate by half or 3/4 of a point. i don't think it changes much. the 5.2% number was less than expected. the expectation was 5.3%. so from that point of view it shows inflation is maybe peaking or cooling off a little bit. but again from your point that you make from just the normal person looking at that, it is not keeping up with the cost of living in many cases. it's a tough situation for a lot of people. they are getting a raise but not enough to keep up. >> trace: "wall street journal" says many investors and economists think that controlling inflation will require a reduction in the pace of hiring because rising wages help fuel strong economic demand, which in turn boosts prices. you have to keep the jobs in check to keep prices down.

>> the point i made the unemployment rate went up for the right reasons. at some point it may go up for the wrong reasons. there are more unemployed people in the country and that's a good news/bad news thing as well obviously someone will look at say it's horrible news. federal reserve they'll say to some extent what we're doing is working. so that's why when you hear jerome powell talk about the fact there will be some pain, at some point there will probably be more pain and that's kind of what everybody knows is in our future at this point. it's a matter of how much. >> trace: we skipped over the barbecue numbers. barbecue, ketchup, must ard prices going up. watermelon, corn, potato skhips up 22%. how can you have a barbecue without chips? >> it may be true that inflation peaked and maybe we're on the other side of it. in a normal world you're paying a lot more than you were last

year. even if maybe energy prices have peaked. the things you are putting on your barbecue may not. we didn't have beef up there. the prices were already inflated and already high. still up like 8% from last year. just about everything you are cooking up over the weekend will cost you a little bit more. >> trace: dana, back to you. >> dana: while attacking maga republicans last night president biden was silent on the nation's growing fentanyl crisis as mexican drug cartels take deadly advantage of his border policy. former acting ice director on that and new evidence of collusion between the white house and big tech to restrict free speech online. >> we know that at least 45 officials, government officials have been identified as directly communicating with big tech and facebook and twitter to take things down.

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>> trace: the white house under fire for a series of emails that show direct coordination with high rank frng officials in the biden administration and social media companies in order to police speech. a new lawsuit claims a wide range of federal agencies were secretly communicating with

social media platforms to prevent private speech. gerri willis has more on these disturbing allegations. >> 11 different departments involved in this. today the white house facing increased scrutiny over emails that appear to show direct coordination, hand in glove work between high ranking administration officials and facebook employees in an effort to police speech on their platform. now a bulk of these emails show correspondents between facebook and cdc during the pandemic. one white house official going as far as to request that a tony fauci humor be removed from facebook. facebook rep that received the request replied on it. one cdc official even suggesting recurring meetings. here is that email. in addition to our weekly meetings doing a misinformation debunking meeting. more than just the cdc. officials within the department of homeland security and health and human services sent emails

to employee at facebook and twit, alleged misinformation and provide talking points to counter allegedly what they call false narratives spreading on the platform. our teams met today to better understand the scope of what the white house expects from us on misinformation going forward. that's an email from facebook staff to hhs staff. the emails coming to light after a new lawsuit filed by the new civil liberties alliance and attorneys general of missouri and louisiana. listen to this. >> they have effectively outsourced censorship. how far and wide does it go? in this lawsuit we'll get answers. this ought to shock every american regardless of political stripe that the government is silencing americans and censoring. >> documents allegedly reveal a connection between 45 -- 45 federal officials at the dhs and hhs and the social media giants.

like i said, trace, working hand in glove here. >> trace: gerri willis, more after the news breaks. thank you. >> dana: texas officials stopping a human smuggling scheme that planned to use an airplane to fly over the border. texas department of public safety official noticed a suspicious private jet on wednesday. the man who chartered the jet claimed he was flying employees to houston for a baseball game. dps says when they asked the passengers for i.d., they all took off. in the chaos one migrant hit the d.p.s. agent with an s.u.v. all are being transferred into cbp custody. >> every american city is now a border city. fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for americans between the ages of 18 and 45. biden's open border policies are killing americans. why is the white house not

treating this like the crisis it is? >> trace: fentanyl is poisoning and killing hundreds of americans every day as mexican drug cartels take advantage of the chaos at the southern border. the white house still refusing to do what needs to be done to stop them. the former acting director of ice and former chief of the u.s. border patrol. ron, great to have you on. 300 americans a day roughly dying of opioid overdose. most of those fentanyl. the white house and joe biden didn't mention it at all last night. it gets worse, ron, the white house is now, you know, insulting america's intelligence by telling them that people aren't just walking across the border, it is not happening. >> they have no credibility on this issue. the president can't use his prime time speech to talk about what is going on with fentanyl and drug overdoses will account for over 100,000 deaths in the united states this year. so he can't talk about fentanyl or all the drugs coming across the border from mexico.

that's where 90 plus% of them come from. he can't talk about the 700 plus people dying in the pipeline trying to cross that border because he will have to bring attention to the disaster that they've created by pulling down all the policies that were working at the southwest border and controlling that border. when this president took over, 45 year lows in traffic along the southwest border. we have a demand problem with drugs. fentanyl is killing people. a lot of people don't know they're taking it. they're buying drugs off the dark web and street corner and don't know they take fentanyl inside something else. it is a big problem. they have to avoid it because it brings attention to the disaster that is at the border. >> dana: ron, they did answer a question from the white house from peter doocy earlier this week. we've been showing all week. this is a map showing the fentanyl gate ways into the united states from mexico. and then you had karine

jean-pierre the white house press secretary say fentanyl seizures are up by 200%. she said so that proves that we are doing all that we need to do because the cbp has actually seized this much fentanyl. how would you respond to her saying that they've done their job? >> i'm grateful there are people out there border patrol, cbp, dps are protecting us from the poison. let's not pretend the disaster going on at the border is somehow doesn't exist because we made more seizures than we did last year. the reason there is more fentanyl in the pipeline is because the cartels are becoming more and more bold because they essentially control the traffic across the border between the ports of entry. yes, great we catch it but it is not everything. when the highway patrol goes out and writes three speeding tickets they don't tell the people they work for know one on the highway is breaking the

speed limit. it's not how it works. i'm glad they're doing what they can but much more needs to be done. what is the plan for the border? will we continue to have hundreds of thousands of people per month crossing the border and giving cartels millions of dollars a day? >> trace: that's the question there. what is the plan? what is the remedy for this? you just can't let this keep happening. you have democrats saying oh, the cartels are smuggling this through border ports and entries and stuff. it is not true. we see this every day. they are sending drug mules across with a lot of this fentanyl every single day. >> people who don't want to protect the board are say that everything is coming through the port. don't think for a minute these cartels will change their business model. if they can't get it through the port they'll smuggle it underground. we've seen tunnels across the southwest border. people that don't want to patrol or protect the border say it's coming through the

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special assistance for george w. bush. in several areas of their cooperation, russia and china have compatible goals. similar threat perceptions and synergistic interests. one such field is military security and shared long land border makes it attractive to have a good neighborly understanding. troops can be deployed elsewhere for both country's ambitions. near the indian border and this is a huge advantage. how do you look at things today, michael? >> the diplomat stated it very well but these three countries are united first and foremost by hostility to the united states and the global order of freedom and free trade that we have established especially since world war ii. they are united in locking us out of their backyards. they want to reduce our influence, politically and economically. we have to watch this very

carefully. especially in asia. far and away the biggest potential economic market in the world. u.s. jobs depend directly on asia as an export market. we have got to be smart and president biden, i wish he would lead us better so that we might be competing better on a global stage. >> dana: does north korea rate anymore in terms of a threat? >> i think north korea is still a threat but we really don't talk about it anymore because there hasn't been a good policy option to pursue. i think it's best if we sanction them, try to keep them in a box, work on our missile defense systems and try and get the chinese to cooperate with us to keep them down. it is definitely a problem. nobody has any good solutions on either side of the aisle. >> dana: what about china and its support for iran? i'll have them bring up this call for number two for

everyone to look at. increase in cooperation across the board and let you speak to that. it's a full screen saying beijing and tehran are cooperating. what level of concern do you have? >> a lot. they put together a 25-year partnership they announced. they want to work together on sanctions evasion, weapons transfers, technology cooperation. so they want to work together as much as they are able to do to again lock out the united states, reduce our influence. keep us bogged down in certain regions of the world so that we may not be able to challenge them. they are hostile to our way of life and we have got to be vigilant moving forward. >> dana: the iranians have written back to the state

department about the iran nuclear agreement. the state department says we have confirmed we received the response through the e.u. but it is not constructive. is this deal dead? >> i think it's getting less and less likely. i don't think the iranians can take yes for an answer even though the biden administration is seemingly willing to give them all sorts of sanctions reductions, all sorts of cash that might become available through a new deal. frankly, it restores the terms of the old deal. it is not like it was lengthened and strengthened through the negotiations. even though the biden administration has tried to get iran to join in, i don't think iran wants to do it. so this is sort of a remarkable outcome as we are watching closely. >> dana: you know i love a rhyme, zeal for the deal. have a great weekend with those three sons of yours. have a great one. trace, before we go, if i could show you a little something

here. the world gravy wrestling championships are taking place in england. a pool of cold gravy, that sounds disgusting. judges award points not just for wrestling but costume design. the event raises money for a local hospice. it looks like a good cause. >> trace: a great week, dana. thank you for having me. super fun. have a great holiday. >> dana: an honor to be with you. "the faulkner focus" is up next. julie banderas is in for harris, hi, julie. >> thank you. fox news alert. dividing biden ditching the whole unity thing. remember that he promised? the president last night yet again blasting what he calls the maga g.o.p. the white house is insisting this speech was not political. this is "the faulkner focus". i'm julie banderas in