>> sandra: new at 2:00, is the united nations finally beginning to face reality in china after months of mysterious delays, a new report calling out possible crimes against humanity and condemning the persecution of religious minorities. >> john: will the bombshell report change anything for the international body that has been infamously ineffective, or the woke american corporations who have turned a blind eye. >> sandra: nikki haley will be joining us in a moment. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two, i'm sandra smith in new york. great to be with you. >> john: great to be with you this hour.

i'm john roberts in washington. before we get to china, we begin with president biden pushing back, and the critics who say he is demonizing half the nation. it's a fox news alert. >> donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens republic. quality and democracy are under assault. they spread fear and lies, told for profit and power. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. they embrace anger. they thrive on chaos. they live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies. maga republicans look at america and see carnage and darkness and despair. they spread fear and lies.

lies told for profit and power. maga republicans are destroying american democracy. >> sandra: you'll notice the red backdrop there, some say fitting as he doubled down on his attacks as maga republicans. >> john: and a marine back there in the speech that was political, but critics say he's lumping together more than 74 million americans who did not vote for him. >> in the past two years joe biden has launched an assault on the soul of america. when the president speaks tonight at independence hall the first lines out of his mouth should be to apologize for slandering tens of millions of americans as fascists. >> i'm very disapointed the president would call people who

don't agree with him those kind of names. i think he's made a political mistake. >> clearly biden wants to keep trump in the headlines. you know, sounded like his campaign launch against president trump. >> which he's engaging in political attacks on 74 million americans who voted for republicans in the last election. but then again, what would you expect joe biden to talk about. he can't run on his own record. >> let's get reaction from nikki haley, former south carolina governor and former ambassador to the u.n. for those of us that watched the speech and a bit of it there, we long for the moment where this country can come together. was last night's -- what did you see the attempt by this president last night? who was he speaking to? >> sandra, it was one of the most unbelievable things i've seen in a long time. he looked like he was in the depths of hell, he's got military uniform -- military

officers behind him, i hate they had to sit behind him as he was talking about how half the country are basically domestic terrorists. we are not extremists because we want our kids to ride the bike down the street and not worry about something happening to them. we are not extremists because parents want to make sure their kids learn the basics and not worry about what pronoun they are called behind their back. not extremists because of the illegal crossing of the border does matter and rule of law matters. we are not extremists because we see how distracted this administration is and how dangerous the world is becoming. we are not extremists because we are struggling to be able to afford groceries and not necessarily have the childcare. it's unthinkable that he would be so condescending and criticize half of america for just wanting our country to go

back to where it was when the economy was good, when streets were safe, when the rule of law mattered. the idea that he condemned us was worse than hillary calling us deplorables, worst thafr obama calling us extremists, he basically called us bad people and that's not a president i want. i don't think that's a president most americans want, in a time we are looking at how divided our country is, we are begging, begging for things to go back to normal, and joe biden just proved he's the last person that's ever going to help us get things back to normal. it's why the races in november matter, it's why every one of us needs to show up and why we need to show him just because we are americans, that appreciate the good of our country doesn't make us bad. >> john: you know, our peter doocy a little while ago had an opportunity to ask the president about his speech last night. listen to the exchange.

>> mr. president, do you consider all trump supporters to be a threat to the country? >> no, everyone, come on. >> come on, i don't consider any trump supporter a threat to the country. i do think anyone who calls for the threat of violence, refuse to acknowledge an election has been won, insists upon changing the way in which the rules you count votes, that is a threat to democracy. >> john: a little difficult to hear there, but the president says i don't consider any trump supporters a threat to the country. however, quoting from the speech last night. no question the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans and that is a threat to this country. he said it. >> these are americans who are

just trying to make ends meet. these are americans who are spending $6,000 more this year than they were last year. these are americans who are going into credit card debt because of the things he has done. these are americans trying to understand why he would go and have people who didn't go to college pay for people who did go to college. so, look, for a president to go and give a national primetime speech in front of military officers, and i'm the wife of a combat veteran, and the sister of a combat veteran, the idea he would give such a massively partisan speech that degraded half of the country in the eyes of the world, i don't know any democrat that can stand by that and say that that was ok. >> sandra: what's the plit cam impact. >> political impact -- i think that anybody that saw that felt

uncomfortable. i think any moderate democrat that saw that would have felt very uncomfortable. i think the progressives probably loved it, i think the socialists loved it, but any freedom-loving american that looked at that would have felt bad about the bright red backdrop with the president lecturing the rest of the country on who is right and who is wrong and who is good and who is bad. you see this in other countries. you don't see this dictator type language coming out of the president of the freeest country of the world. if he keeps this up, he's got serious, much more serious problems come november. >> john: you mentioned this a moment ago, this type of name calling has now been inscribed in the play back, and 2016, hillary clinton here talking about the basket of deplorables. >> you could put half of trump supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. [laughter]

right? the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamphobic, you name it, and there are people that. he has lifted them up. >> john: that was a turning point in the 2016 campaign. it really fired up republican voters. what do you think will happen this time around? >> i think biden has totally taken that up a notch. i think he's totally kind of taken it to a whole new level. and look, i will tell you the democrats have become a bunch of elitists. i mean, these are people who now think that parents can't decide the schools their kids should go to. these are people who think that they should decide whether we fund police or not. these are people who suddenly think they are going to pick whose college loans get paid off and whose don't. everything they have done, these are people who don't think minorities are capable of doing

to a dmv and getting an i.d. to go vote. everything they continue to do is more and more elitist, and we have to be very careful. they are wanting government to take care of everyone, government to decide everything. and now basically biden wanted america to realize that government will tell you who the good americans and the bad americans are. and how dangerous this threat is. the only threat was the man at that podium with a backdrop of hell sitting there lecturing americans on the road that we are going down. it's a road he's taking us down and a road we have to stop. republicans have to stop complaining, we have to get to work. time to stand up and take our country back. >> sandra: ambassador, great to get your thoughts on that. the human rights report on the repression of uyghur muslims in china, chronicles serious human rights violations that may

constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity. "wall street journal" op-ed saying it should force a debate in the u.n. general assembly, ab and see if the muslim nations -- or if they will sell out. >> interesting enough, in 2018, i was giving speeches at the u.n. security council complaining about what was happening in china. and the person in charge of human rights, michelle bashalay, had a report, it took her five years to come out with this report. she just went to china, was heavily praised in china, and interestingly enough, she drops this report 20 minutes before the end of her term. and what does this report say? what we have known all along. mass torture, massive rape, forced sterilizations, forced abortions. this is the chinese party

sitting there basically trying to eliminate an entire group of people. that's called genocide. that's called genocide and we swore never again to look the other way at that. this is not just something the united nations needs to handle, this is something america needs to look at, specifically our american corporations. how much profits are coming from the fact that is forced labor that is being done so that american companies can get more dollars. we've got to start acknowledging these people who are begging, begging for some sort of safety, and say that we are not going to be a part of it. so it's not just the u.n., it's america, it's american companies. we need to look at what's happening to these people and make sure we always fight for human rights in that process. >> john: ambassador, just before we go, there was the story that was out earlier in the week of a lot of very prominent donors supporting you were made public. you were accusing letitia james,

new york attorney general, of leaking that list. what do you say to her? >> interestingly enough, i'm not accusing her. it was the new york state attorney general stamp that was on the tax return that was given to the press. so i know it came out of her office. and what i'm telling her is get ready for a lawsuit because we are coming after you. we are suing the new york state attorney general's office and we are going to make sure we expose her for what it is and i hope everybody will join us that stand for america.com and helping us go after her and let us know you did this to president trump, you did it to the nra, done it to the pro life groups, messed with the wrong girl, we are not going to let you get away with it. >> sandra: former ambassador nikki haley, appreciate you joining us. thank you very much. >> john: see you again soon. a politician greeting people outside of her home seeing a gun an inch from her head. we will tell you what happened to keep it from being the last

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>> john: critics say one of the most powerful teachers' unions is trying to rewrite history claiming she was all for keeping schools open. and now could we overcome all the fear, i wish we could have. i don't think it's anybody's fault we did not understand what was going on in terms of school and what was going on in terms of covid. those comments right as a damning new report shows test scores for american kids hitting their lowest level in decades. byron york, she did not know what was going on in schools but plenty of people said you know what's going on in school with the remote learning, kids will get way behind, and now this national assessment on educational progress says the chickens came home to roost. math, down seven points on average. reading, down five points on average. lowest levels since 1990. and among minority students,

black students in math down 13 points. hispanic students down eight. in reading, black students down six. hispanic students down six points. this is an effect that bill bennett was telling us could go on for decades. >> first thing we should say is this report is really tragic. you saw on the graphic, the lowest since 1990. this is 30 years of progress just gone in the course of this pandemic. now, no one is to blame for the pandemic, but -- >> john: well -- >> ok, we can talk about the chinese. after the first few months it became clear that you could operate schools safely and randy winegarden and the biggest teachers' unions and the democratic politicians they support, were all in favor of keeping those schools shut and doing remote learning and then later some sort of hybrid

learning, and they were very critical when then president trump came out and wanted to open the schools. it became highly politicized, a lot of republicans were in favor of opening the schools, democrats were in favor of keeping them closed. those are just facts. that's what happened. and today that we see, now that we see the terrible cost, a lot of people saw coming, you can't just change what happened. >> john: according to randy in a tweet, it's all puppies and kittens. thankfully, after two years of disruption that killed more than a million americans, schools are working on helping kids recover and thrive. this is the year to accelerate learning by rebuilding relationships focusing on the basics. what the wall street journal editorial board wrote about all that today. america's teachers' unions d demanded the schools are shut even though they were open in europe. distorted money from congress.

schools received money to safely reopen and address learning losses but schools stayed closed and much of the money has not been spent. how many times did the teachers' unions move the goal posts when it came to the idea of reopening schools? >> initially, some teachers were older, more vulnerable to this, and then the idea more students would get this. there were plenty of people at the time who were saying this is a really bad idea, and that there will eventually be a price to be paid. now, one thing you are hearing from democrats and she will say this is that they would say the american rescue plan, the huge spending covid relief bill passed by congress in the first few months of joe biden's pregnancy, retrofitting schools, improving ventilation in schools and only now after the massive expenditure are they safe to return. again, that's not what happened.

>> john: the wall street journal made the point, schools were closed and much of the money has not been spent. we have to go, finish out. this was the end of the editorial, after the first months of covid uncertainty the school shutdowns had nothing to do with safety. you flunked the pandemic, randy, and set america's children back a year. bill bennett says probably for a decade, an entire generation, maybe. >> we should hope it is only a year. children at a critical stage of learning to read and improving their reading skills, if that doesn't happen they are set back for a long, long time. >> byron, great to see you. sandra. >> facebook's communications director in regards to policy, andy stone. worked for a democratic super pshg ac, senator barbara boxer, and press connect for the

campaign committee. he's deciding policy. >> sandra: that was joe concha on the relationship between democrats and big tech, appears to be through recently uncovered emails. this as the who us is being accused of colluding with social media giants to censor what they call misinformation. we just heard a moment ago a response from the white house on this. >> that's right. what the white house is saying, this all happened before, during the trump administration and they are citing a tweet from andy stone with facebook that this has all happened before, don't be surprised what you are seeing on this, edward lawrence give us that information, and the who us is facing increased scrutiny that appear to show emails between direct coordination between high ranking administration officials and facebook employees in an effort to police speech on their platforms, american speech, your speech, my speech, correspondence between facebook

and the cdc during the pandemic, one white house official going as far as to request that a tony fauci joke be removed from facebook. the facebook book that received the request replied on it. one cdc official even suggesting recuring meetings, listen to this, doing a monthly disinfo/debunking, that was suggested. and officials in the homeland security and health and human services sent emails to employees at facebook and twitter to flag instances of alleged misinformation and provide talking points to counter allegedly false narratives on the platforms. a quote, i know the teams met today to understand the scope what the white house expects of us on misinformation going forward. that's an email from facebook to health and human services. so that's how closely they are working. the emails coming to light after a new lawsuit was filed by the

new civil liberties alliance and the attorneys general of missouri and louisiana. listen to this. >> they have effectively outsourced their censorship. how far does it go, how wide in this lawsuit we are going to get answers. this ought to shock every american, regardless of the political stripe, that the government is censoring and silencing americans. >> the documents produced by the department of justice reveal a connection allegedly between 45 federal officials and the dhs and health and human services and the social media giant, sandra. >> sandra: and the response from andy stone through the white house, basically equating this, saying this began under the trump administration, they are making the argument these communications with the social media giants are similar to when the communications office at the white house would reach out to cnn or cbs about something they see on the air that is wrong. one might make the case this is deeper than that. >> when you read the emails, you

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>> if in fact he stood over scores of boxes not knowing what was in them and said i hereby declassify everything in them, this would be such an abuse. >> john: former attorney general bill barr talking about his old

boss, barr calling trump reckless if he blindly attempted to declassify documents, and weighed in on trump possibly being prosecuted. mark meredith is here. what are we learning about the documents taken, a long list what was in the boxes. >> a long list. we had an idea what was recovered but this list is more comprehensive, and you asked the attorney general a few minutes ago. the justice department has released new details, the latest showing thousands of government documents were kept at mar-a-lago. now, multiple documents have the secret and confidential markings, but also government documents, photographs, without classification, and articles of clothing, books, magazines, newspapers, articles, and empty folders, return to the staff secretary or military aide. the former president is claiming about it's an effort to curb his political power and the government seized material he

thought was private, protected by attorney/client privilege or executive privilege, bill barr said given the timeline he's seen, the government was not careless in the decision to execute a search warrant. >> deceived on the voluntary actions taken. they then got a subpoena, they were deceived on that, they feel, and the facts are showing they were being jerked around. so how long do they wait? >> meantime, we are waiting to see when a federal judge in florida will rule whether or not a special master or third party should be chosing to review the materials reviewed from trump's property. the judge appointed to the bench by the former president in 2020, she appeared open to the idea during a hearing on thursday. even asked the government to explain what harm could come on having an independent party review the material. bill barr also talked about this in the last hour. >> i think the whole idea of a

special master is a bit of a red herring. at this stage, since they have gone through the documents, i think it's a waste of time. >> kevin mccarthy sent a letter to the attorney general asking he and the fbi director christopher wray testify about what's going on, so many lawmakers want to know what's happening behind the scenes, even some democrats calling for congress to be briefed and the attorney general, you talked about this, if the former president would be charged, barr wants to see where the case leads, he doesn't hope it happens but it's out of his hands. >> john: and people say if the president is charged for having classified materials are charged, that would be a double standard with how hillary clinton was treated in 2016, she had classified emails on the server, she was not prosecuted. how can you not prosecute her -- >> it could be the obstruction argument, even barr said look, the government made it very clear they want to work with

trump's people to get the material back. but what was happening, were they misleading the government, that's a question to be decided later on. >> john: we will see where it governments. mark, thank you. sandra, go down the road of prosecution or end with the records administration just saying we got our stuff back, we are good. >> sandra: fair enough. a lot of questions over the timeline and did they ask for the exact documents. a lot of questions unanswered there. we'll follow all of it. absolutely. and then this. >> governor abbott has confirmed unfortunately many of us had already known. that he is a man with without any morals, humanity, or shame. governor abbott's racist and xenophobic practices of expulsion have only amplified the challenges many of these migrants have experienced on their journey to find a safe

place. >> sandra: that's chicago mayor lightfoot calling the texas governor immoral for sending migrants to her city. >> john: critics say what's really immoral is what's happening in america's third largest city under lori lightfoot's watch. tammy bruce, a host on fox nation and fox news contributor. play a little more, tammy, of what she said about greg abbott and the situation. >> instead of treating these individuals with respect that they deserve, the due process that our laws require, governor abbott chose instead to inhumanly load them on to busses, send them on a more than 12-hour journey across a country they don't know. >> john: she's tearing a strip off of greg abbott for sending migrants across the country, not eliminating their due process because they will go to court if they so choose to, why isn't she

taking the federal government to task which have been doing exactly the same thing for years upon years? >> well, you know, what's fascinating here is since lori lightfoot was elected, we talk about immorality and shame, she was elected in 2019, murder up 34%. hundreds of people certainly every single year. over, averaging 54 shootings and 13 murders a week. and she dares to point a finger at a governor, some other person and calls them immoral and that they are shameful. so the people of chicago have experienced this kind of decline. in addition to, yes, they are in an air conditioned bus to a city that they have asked to be taken to. it is these cities that have created incentives, they call themselves sanctuaries, it's a powerful word. it's used in faith and in places where people are saved and they have cities, voters who vote in people who raise taxes to

provide services for individuals who are here who are undocumented. so when they are working -- walking not just 12 hours, but walking for days and weeks and months to get to our border because of the incentives people like lori lightfoot put out, that is the problem. the sex trafficking, the human trafficking, and she has a problem because texas put people on an air conditioned bus for 12 hours to go to a city they have requested to go to, because they have family there, or chicago is a great american city, as is new york, as is los angeles and san francisco, and they are incentivized to come here. she is the tip of this spear that have drawn these people here. they are not asking to go to other cities. these are cities that most americans also love, and would love to be able to go to if there was not such a level of violence in new york, level of violence in chicago. so, it is unfortunate but this is a woman whose responsibility

since she was elected from 2019 to 2022, give us the numbers of people murder, increase at 34% since she took office in this great city. >> sandra: you and i share a love of that great city, chicago. it is an absolute mess. john and i have been covering this a lot this week, this street racing that is running rampant in that city, crime out of control, things like this are happening in the middle of the night. organized on social media. one 40-year-old woman walking to dinner is dead as a result of this, cops are called to the scene, these people fight the cops, they stomp all over the cop vehicles when they arrive on the scene, seen here, there are scenes like this happening every single night in mayor lightfoot's city. she's touting how great the economy is there. >> and this is really, it looks like mad max, doesn't it, and thunder dome. this is the result, what the lack of law and order looks like, and when you send a message through the no bail

policies, with the rhetoric that the police are the enemy, defund the police, it sends a signal to society that the police are the problem, that order is the problem, that taking responsibility for what you are doing is the problem. and so of course this is going to manifest, and whose lives are ruined? the people who are doing this right now. the police have said well, if you attack a police officer we are going to arrest you. well, g it matters whether or not you would stay in jail, if those lives are ruined, the lives that are lost, it is a remarkable visual of the end point of what the democrats and what mayor lightfoot has been calling for and what happens when you denigrate law and order and responsibility, this is what happens. >> sandra: you know who pays for it, those who cannot leave the city or the state. those left behind that are footing the bill for this. their taxes go up, they are living with that crime. it's the people that work for

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>> john: this is terrifying. a sitting vice president coming face-to-face with death. a would be assassin pointing a loaded weapon at argentina's vice president but then the gun jammed when he pulled the trigger. william has got more, so, why do we think this whole thing happened? >> well, john, police have not revealed a motive. it appears political, not personal. watch this and say it is not a miracle she is still alive. 9:00 p.m. last night, former president christina kirchner, you'll see a man point a gun inches from her face and then the gun will jam. it's coming up here. and then take a look at the, bingo, the slow motion version. he lifts the weapon, pulls the trigger, reportedly twice,

before a supporter hits his arm and the security tackles the brazilian national living in argentina. >> we were greeting christina when it happened. at first i didn't know what was going on but i heard the noise when he triggered the gun, not understanding it was a gun until the security jumped on him. >> i was amazed. we went to the corner because they were holding him in detention, and i was amazed at how calm his face was. he was cross-legged and playing with his hands. >> the gun had five rounds but none in the chamber. check this out, security lets kirchner continue walking in the crowd of supporters, apparently without fear of another shooter. she is controversial but popular. she was argentina's first lady from 2003 to 2007, and succeeded her husband as president until

2015, and many are prompting protests crashing with police and her supporters on the left. why? corruption. she faces 12 years in prison and a ban on holding office for using state funds to benefit friends, and last year she beat charges that she helped cover up the bombing of a jewish center to protect friends in iran. so, police are checking on why this gun misfired, reportedly got close to her for asking for an autograph from her book. john. >> john: if there wasn't a bullet in the chamber, because they did not rack the slide and thank god she did not do that. apparently pope francis called her shortly after that, god clearly on her side there. >> and guardian angel. >> john: yeah. thank you so much. >> bottom line is jobs are up, wages are up, people are back to work and we are seeing some signs that inflation, may be, may be beginning to ease.

>> sandra: president biden taking a victory lap on the latest jobs report out today. 315,000 added in august. we like to see jobs were added, in line with expectations, pretty good growth although slowed from the month before. but we are not out of the woods yet, especially when it comes to the job picture. 11.2 million job openings, more than twice the number of people looking for positions. extremely tight market. >> no doubt the labor market is moving in the right direction for policy makers. but when you drill down, there is still some weakness in the jobs report. talking about the participation rate, we love seeing more workers coming in to look for a job, because you are cutting the stimulus checks so. that proves when you remove stimulus and handouts, people look for work. now, one point i want to drill down on, the part-time workers. the number have gone up over the

past year. so you are looking at 20 million part-time workers, otherwise would want full-time work and that's higher than in 2021. also the u.s. is now employing the record number of temporary help services, that's a bit of a concern going forward. also want to note hispanic and the black unemployment rates actually spiked in the month as well. >> sandra: interesting, ok. larry summers, former from a democratic administration everyone likes to quote him, having worked under democratic presidents he's been very critical of the way this current democratic presidency has been handling the economy, he says after the numbers were out, overall this evidence suggests that we still have a long way to go to cool the labor market and that it is far too soon for a victory lab regarding the prospects for a soft landing for the u.s. economy. still a huge job the federal reserve has to do to tame inflation because we are still seeing sky high prices and we are not seeing demand destruction yet.

>> and larry summers in an interview, says a soft landing is probably more hope than experience. over the last 50, 60 years, almost impossible, especially when you have inflation above 6%, unemployment below 4%, and to him, even said we need to get to the jobless rate of 6% in order to bring down inflation. >> sandra: for years, for years, not just one quarter. >> how do you marry the fact we have been talking about layoffs this week, so snap is cutting 20% of workforce, silicon valley is in a hiring freeze, even the vision fund, they are cutting 20% of their staff. so when you have high-priced jobs, six figures there, being reduced, you know, that's not an indication that the economy is moving in the right direction. >> sandra: unfortunately it did not have to be the case, if inflation had not been ignored as long as it had been, the federal reserve would not have to inflict this economic pain on the american people to try to bring those prices down.

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>> sandra: millions flying for the holiday weekend. >> john: if you're one of those folks, good luck. garrett tenney live in chicago with a nightmare for some. garrett? >> yeah, john, a steady flow of folks throughout the day here. it's not the kind of travel day that a lot of folks were expecting to have. that is a good thing. so far today we've had very few delays and cancellations. that's saying something considering that the labor day weekend is expected to be the -- one of the busiest travel periods since the pandemic. the flight booking site hopper projectses 12.7 million passengers will take the skies

between thursday and monday. when folks are looking at delays or cancellations, there's a new tool to help them know what the airlines are offering. this holiday weekend, the trans moretation department debuted the new airline customer service dashboard which breaks down what each airline offers within their control. hopefully you don't have to use it. if you do, it's great to have. john and sandra? >> that does it for us. have a great weekend. i'm sandra smith. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" starts now. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. the president goes all in vilifying what he calls maga republicans and it appears that the word is out that this is the narrative for the next nine weeks running up to the