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>> you guys have burger left? >> my new favorite way to make a burger hands down. amazing. happy labor day. are you okay if i eat this? >> go out there and have fun, be safe. see you back here later on. >> bye, guys. >> chicago mayor lori lightfoot blasting texas governor greg abbott saying he is manufacturing a crisis by busing migrants to chicago and other democrat-run cities. good morning and happy labor day. welcome to fox news live. i'm griff jenkins. hi, julie. >> i'm julie banderas. 50 more migrants arriving in chicago yesterday. light foot is slamming abbott for sending them there.
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this despite her repeated pledge. >> we're not cooperating with ice and we're a sanctuary city. we're a city that is a sanctuary city. we have immigrants from all over the world who call chicago their home. we're a welcoming city, a sanctuary city. chicago police department will not cooperate with ice. chicago has been a welcoming city and a city of immigrants since its founding. proudly so. >> the crisis at the border growing more deadly by the day. border patrol confirming at least nine migrants have drowned trying to cross the rio grande into texas, garrett tenney is live in eagle pass, texas. what have you got? >> the last few days alone. those deaths prompted the border patrol to issue an extreme warning asking migrants not to cross illegally due to strong currents in the river after getting a lot of rain
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with potentially more on the way. despite that warning, large groups of hundreds of migrants continue to cross over the weekend including some with young children. former ice director tom homan said sadly, none of this is a surprise. >> look, right now they've got nearly 1300 migrants, 1300 migrants have died on u.s. soil. the most vulnerable people in the world are going to put themselves in the hand of criminal cartels to come to the greatest country on earth. when they do that, many of them are going to die. >> while hundreds of migrants crossed over texas into the weekend, around 50 arrived by bus in chicago as part of governor abbott's push to get the federal government to secure the border. chicago mayor lori lightfoot is slamming the busing. some texas lawmakers hope it serves as a wake-up call. >> welcome to what we have been living with for years and why you have heard so many of us that are in border states speaking out against all of the
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illegal migrants that are coming over our border. we are looking at increases in fentanyl, increases in crime, increases on our public systems that we can't handle. >> the city of chicago is now trying to figure out how to handle the relative handful of migrants it's received so far. city set up a website for folks to be able to give donations to help those migrants who have arrived, griff. >> garrett tenney live in eagle pass. thank you. >> memphis police arresting a repeat offender in the case of the missing teacher and heiress. eliza fletcher was violently kidnapped while jogging friday morning. the suspect is not talking. charles watson is in memphis with the latest this morning. >> police have charged 38-year-old cleotha abston with
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especially aggravated kingdom and evidence tampering in connection to the disappearance of liza fletcher. he is not cooperatetive and haven't said where the teacher is. his arrest came after finding a gmc used in fletcher's abduction last week. the cell phone puts him in the area around the same time security footage shows a male jump out of a black suv, force fletcher into the vehicle as she struggles. a short time later a man biking on the same path found fleschers phone and slides in the street. they were linked to the suspect to a dna match from a previous conviction where he served more than 20 years for kidnapping a memphis lawyer at gun point.
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>> the police have worked very quickly on this. probably getting the vehicle and looking at one, dna that might have been in the car that they have that belongs to him. >> that affidavit also alleges witnesses saw abston cleaning his car and the floor of his s.u.v. the news shocking neighbors who say this is rare. >> she is just a beautiful person and awful to see the evil that's in the world. >> according to state crime data abductions are scarce on the university of memphis campus. only two instances have been reported in the last decade. after fletcher's abduction memphis police plan to step up patrols around the campus. the search continues on the part of state and federal law enforcement for fletcher. her family is offering a $50,000 reward through crimestoppers for any
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information leading to her whereabouts, julie. >> thank you very much. >> there is a lot of concern about how interest rates are going up. money we spend at the gas tank and grocery store. i haven't heard a lot of common sense solutions that i think will fix the problems. >> everything costs more. inflation is real. makes it hard to profit as a business owner. fentanyl is killing a person a day. >> the last two years haven't been great. that has to be addressed. >> one of the glaring concerns is how are we addressing poverty? >> focused on the economy ahead of a race between dr. oz and john fetterman. here is the national political reporter for "the washington examiner" and keystone state's most dialed in political reporter, selena, pittsburgh native, you heard that sampling of the voters. what are you hearing in talking
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to voters and what matters most to them? >> well, those are people that i interviewed for a story. it is a very common concern among voters are inflation, the cost of gasoline. while it has gone down, it is still very, very high. and also crime is also becoming a big issue in the past year, as well as fentanyl deaths. that's actually been a problem for several years. but that's just escalated since the pandemic. these are the top issues for voters. there also is deep concerns about overreach. too much spending by government. >> selena, we can show our viewers the full screen. they say the economy, stupid, in pennsylvania financial situation from two years ago shows, as you see on your
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screen, 52% say they're worse off. is that going to determine this and what are you seeing in terms of the trends of voters? pennsylvania has become the key battleground state in the country, it appears. >> right. and i think the economy will be the predominant issue once people lock into the voting booth. not just how they feel at this moment, but still the after effects of the pandemic and how it has impacted their bottom line. and that is at the forefront of everyone walking into the voting booths. while polling has been sort of fluctuating back and forth, the candidate that is talking the most about what is impacting their lives, their family lives, their community, state and country, that is going to be the candidates that are the most successful in november. and i think that we get too caught up in polling, in particular over the summer
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where voters haven't quite caught up with the intensity of journalists covering the races. i think in the next two weeks we'll start to see things start to break and we'll see a more reflective viewpoint of what is going to happen in november as opposed to what's been happening all summer. >> the voters in wilkes-barre pennsylvania get politics. both of these candidates are on the attack. >> dr. oz's campaign is in shambles. they just figureed out let's appeal to folks who get their jol east making fun of the stroke dude. people in pennsylvania across the state that have serious health crises in their own life and i don't think anybody would want a doctor in their lives making fun of them or laughing
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at their circumstances. >> as a physician, i have tremendous empathy and kam passion for how challenging it is to bounce back from a stroke. i offered him numerous opportunities to make it easier for him to debate. he has given numerous reasons for not showing up and didn't have time on his schedule i'm of the opinion he is hiding his radical views. >> what's the state of this race? >> i think it's really interesting that john fetterman decided to say, you know, that dr. oz isn't taking his campaign seriously. if you take a look at dr. -- fetterman's twitter feed, it has been nothing but a series of people like snooky or airplanes flying over new jersey or talking about the legalization of marijuana and calling joe biden to do that. i think that as voters get more serious and they take a look at what each candidate is talking about, they are going to make
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the decision okay, who is going to represent my concerns the best in washington >> 63 days to go to the mid-terms. we'll check in with you on the keystone state as news develops. selena, thank you. >> a shocking story out of mississippi. officials say a man stole an airplane, then crashed and threatened to crash it into a wal-mart. what we're learning about the suspect this morning on this startling story. a "new york times" columnist saying president biden was being disingenuous thursday when he claimed democracy was under assault. what was the speech purely about? purely political? we'll ask joe concha next. >> president biden: maga republicans look at america and see carnage, darkness and despair. they spread fear and lies. lies told for profit and power. i see a different america. an america with an unlimited future.
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a nearby wal-mart. >> numerous major streets in tupelo were shut down to help save lives during this critical incident. negotiators from tupelo police department made contact with the pilot and were able to convince him to not carry out this deed and to land the aircraft at tupelo airport. >> julie: that the tupelo police talking about this accident. now, wal-mart is saying this, and i quote. we're grateful saturday's situation ended without incident. everyone involved is safe. we'll continue working with area investigators as needed and refer all other questions to law enforcement. the 29-year-old faces grand larceny and terrorism charges. he is awaiting arraignment in jail. a judge denied him bond yesterday. >> griff: it's the official last day of summer. industry analysts say labor day weekend travel is bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels. aaa estimating nearly 48
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million americans are on the road this holiday. more than 12.5 million are flying. so how are things looking after a summer of flight delays and cancellations? bill melugin is live at l.a. x. hey, bill. >> good morning. to my surprise i went into the united terminal a few moments ago, checked the board. not a single delay or cancellation so far. everything on time. however, it's going to get busier as the day goes on. we'll have to see if that remains the case. millions expected to travel for this labor day holiday. a aaa survey showing 32% of americans plan to travel on this holiday. 12% say they're planning to go 50 miles or more. millions will be in the skies and experts say the flights are now back at pre-pandemic levels. the number of people flying now back to what it used to be two to three years ago. however, they say the number of flights haven't increased
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because of those ongoing staffing issues with the airlines. now, with that being said, the airlines do seem to be keeping up with the increased holiday demand so far. one airport says it's because the airlines planned ahead. take a listen. >> airlines over the past month or so have really adjusted their flight schedules. the goal amongst the airlines is to run a very reliable flight schedule over the labor day weekend and we're certainly seeing that play out. >> now majority of the traveling on this labor day holiday expected to take place on the roads because gas prices have been steadily creeping down from their record highs over the summer. we all remember back in june the national average for a gallon of gas topped more than $5. it has since dropped to $3.82. that's still a lot higher than it was two or three years ago, though. drivers say they're still feeling the pinch. take a listen. >> 2 1/2 years ago at the bottom of my street gas was
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$1.84 a gallon. now $3.50 down from 4.50. >> anything in the $3 range sounds good to us in los angeles. prices here are pushing up to $6 in certain areas. here you can expect a busy labor day travel holiday as we're in the middle of a record-setting heat wave out here. you can expect hundreds of thousands of people getting on the road heading down to the beaches trying to beat the heat. send it back to you. >> griff: i'm still stuck, bill, on the board having no delays or cancellations. hope it stays that way for lax. bill melugin live in los angeles. >> president biden: there is no question that the republican party today is dominated, drive and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. they do not believe in the rule of law. maga forces are determined to take this country backward. they promote authoritarian
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leaders and fan the flames of political violence. >> julie: president biden in his soul of the nation speech tearing into former president trump and many of his supporters. he has since walked back those comments but a "new york times" columnist doesn't buy that. he said biden is drawing a hard us versus them line ahead of the high-stakes mid-terms and beyond. you may believe that american democracy is threatened as at no point since the civil war, dear reader, but they do not. they are running a political operation which the threat to democracy is leveraged, used to keep swing voters on side without having to make difficult concessions to the center or the right. let's bring in joe concha. media columnist at the hill and fox news contributor. i didn't think the thursday's speech could get any more interesting. i'm still hung up on the red background. but now this. and i think this columnist has
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a point. he is politicizing at the very best and the fact that the administration wants us to buy that this wasn't supposed to be a political speech doesn't say much about their confidence in the intelligence of the american public. >> julie, i would go further than politicizing. i would say weaponizing. it's a disgusting tactic used in politics in an effort to stay in power. addition by division. the president delivers a prime time speech to the nation calling 74 million voters semi fascists. what is that? the diet coke of fascism. not once during the speech does the president mention any of the issues the american people say are most important to them. issues like inflation, who actually pays for the trillion dollars the student loan forgiveness plan will cost? mentioning fentanyl which kills a record number of younger americans in this country year after year or even mentions the crisis that is a catastrophe at
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the u.s. southern border on limp bail lines allowing criminals to repeat offenses over and over again. that's the true threat. you have a president and party that can't run on these issues so it's a classic deflection ploy with fear being a greatest motivator. it is a political operation indeed. >> julie: let's look at how americans feel. they should listen to what's on the minds of americans, those who are very frustrated with this administration and with the president. let's watch. >> i think we're more divided than we ever were. >> the country has never been unified to be honest with you. and whatever biden said he was going to do hasn't been done. >> this is not a fascist country. too many people gave too much to make sure that it's not. >> julie: i mean, why are they not listening and why are they not actually addressing the
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issues in america that mean most? he didn't bring up so many different things. immigration, crime, gas prices, opioid addiction, immigration because this president has never actually visited the border and that is what's hurting him along these border states. he doesn't bother visiting the states because. he is campaign and insulting more than half the country. >> that's the thing, julie. he doesn't visit arizona, a senate race that could go either way. one would think he would visit there and address the border issue, which is huge in that state. it is not happening because maybe the candidate also doesn't want him there in mark kelly. instead of unifying you watch his inauguration speech again, it is amazing that this is still the same president that was speaking on that january day. now we no longer have president joe biden, we have a weird combination of president keith ol berman means brian williams
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appealing to diehard msnbc audiences to win the election. in the end voters want a positive message. all we see from this administration, i'm with you on the blood red back drop, something out of the shining. it is selling fear and loathing. i think that's not what voters want. they want what will you do to make my life better? not here is everything wrong with the country. it hasn't ever worked in too many campaigns. >> julie: i like the see the positive glass half full. i got halloween decorating tips thursday night. i'll do red lighting outside my house. it will scare the trick-or-treaters. it scared us all on thursday night. joe concha. thank you so much. griff. >> griff: great segment. don't scare the children. this is scary. eviction notices are going out to millions of people across the country. why so many are so far behind in their rent and what's next
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>> julie: bed, bath and beyond confirming its chief financial officer fell from to his death from a manhattan high rise on friday. he was being sued for allegedly inflating the company's stock in a pump and dump scheme. david lee miller is live in new york city with more. hi, david. >> julie. bed, bath and beyond's 52-year-old cfo did not leave a note and said nothing to his wife before leaping off the balcony of the couple's 18th floor apartment according to a report in the "new york post." the medical examiner has reportedly ruled the death a suicide. 57 story high rise is nicknamed
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is jenga building that resem bells the popular came. the debt comes days after the company said it would close 150 of its lower-producer stores and laying off 20% of its employees. shareholders claim they lost money in a pump and dump scheme. a portion of the suit reads and i quote they engaged in a fraudulent scheme to artificially inflate the price of the stock. the suit says from early july to mid-august the company's stock soared from $4.38 to $30. shortly before it plunged to just under $9. another defendant sold shares. bed, bath and beyond is reviewing the suit. told "the new york times" believes it is without merit. in the statement of the death. they said he will be remembered
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by all he worked with for his leadership, talent and stewardship of our company. he leaves behind a wife and two adult daughters. julie. >> julie: tragic. david lee miller, thank you. >> griff: julie, millions of renters across the country are about to be forced out of their forms as pandemic eviction moratoriums expire. 8.5 million are behind on last month's rent payments. 3.8 million say they're likely to be evicted in the next two months. let's bring in robert wolf, former obama economic advisor and brian brenberg, business and economics professor at the king's college in new york city. thank you for being here. happy labor day to you. let's talk about this -- i'll start with you. why are so many people behind on rent and what will they do? >> rent has been one of the
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areas where inflation has hit the hardest. we have such a skewed rental market now because we had those he vick ton moratoriums for so long in the country. think about a landlord. they're still paying property taxes and have to maintain their property but no rent coming if from a lot of people living in their buildings. what do they do? they jack up rates on the people who are paying rent. what you get is the same kind of situation we've seen throughout this economy. people doing the right thing, paying the bills, paying the rent are paying so much more. now we're at the spot where the folks who will have to start paying rent aren't in a position to do it. the problem is 11 million open jobs in this country. people ought to be able to pay rent with 11 million open jobs. it shows you just how far wages have fallen behind for people as inflation has run away and now we're in a situation where the rental market is basically broken. >> robert, what impact does
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this have on the biden administration and really the mid-terms in the fact 3.8 million people are evicted before election day? >> let me reply to some of brian's facts, quite insightful. first during the pandemic we had 40 million people that had rental issues. the eviction moratorium at that time prevented a catastrophe of homelessness. that being said, since that time, rental income has gone up by 25% and as brian said, you know, inflation and wages are kind of upside down. so we did resolve it by about 30 million people with the recovery acts both under trump and under biden. that being said, we're in a situation -- i hate making this -- going back to the
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mid-2,000s, but we had a candidate in the new york city mayor's race that was under the party the rent is too damn high. the truth is, that's a fact today. we're in a situation that rental incomes -- >> griff: are you blaming the rentals? >> no, i'm not blaming either side. i'm telling you where we are. we had a pandemic that caused incredible under employment. under trump it was north of 10 to 15 million people. we've really got back a lot of those jobs but that being said, we had a mismatch. food insecurity, recental issues. we still have innation today. there is a mismatch going on. unfortunately there is no quick solution to it. one, getting a job is absolutely the must. increasing wages is a must. there is no quick solution to a pandemic. >> griff: you are giving me the
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perfect segue. prices are up. labor day, everything you could think of to bring to your labor day party in the backyard is up. watermelon up 20%, corn, condiments up 15%. brian, how significant is this going to be as we get closer to the mid-terms? >> this is where people live and what they need to put food on the table for their kids. let me just say this, we're getting a lot of talk about inflation peaking and my concern here is not that the inflation rate keeps going up. it's that we stay at the high level for too long. price increases built on price increases. people can't afford that. when you add up food and payments for the rent, when you start putting everything together you realize why people's budgets are tight. they can't make everything work. when they get to november, that is going to be front and center for them. let me just say all of these issues are policy issues.
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this government chose to spend in the middle of inflation. it chose to pay people to stay on the sidelines when we needed them back in the labor force. the labor force is too small right now because we created the wrong incentives. that has to change for all of this to fix. >> griff: we'll talk later in this program about labor shortages. brian and robert, thank you very much. have a great rest of your labor day. >> julie: griff, thank you. a massive manhunt for two men accused of killing 10 people in a stabbing spree. we have the latest on the desperate search. plus a tight battle for north carolina's open senate seat. a republican congressman going head-to-head with a former state supreme court chief justice. senate candidate and congressman ted budd joins us straight ahead. ♪♪
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>> griff: a manhunt underway in central canada for two suspects in a deadly stabbing rampage. 10 people killed and 15 wounded in one of the most deadly acts of mass violence in canada's history. lucas tomlinson is following it all with the latest. >> the stabbing spree took place in an indigenous community in saskatchewan sunday. they are asking people to regina to shelter in place. >> the public is often the key to helping us resolve these situations quickly. so if you know something or you speak to someone who knows something, please make sure that information gets to the nearest police service. if it's ours or rcmp. that could be the missing piece of information we need to bring this to a quick resolution.
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>> the royal canadian mounted police say the attacks took place in several places in the village of weldon. 13 crime scenes. the death toll could rise. right now 10 killed, 15 others wounded as police continue to comb the area. police have identified the to suspects at 31-year-old damien sanderson and 30-year-old miles sanderson. they could be driving a black nissan rogue but may have changed vehicles. police are asking residence in neighboring provinces to watch for the two men. justin trudeau called the attacks horrific and heartbreaking. the two suspects are considered armed and dangerous. >> griff: we're following all the scary details. lucas, thank you. >> julie: nine weeks out from the mid-terms and counting. the race for north carolina's open senate seat could not get
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much closer. republican ted budd is leading democrat and former state supreme court chief justice cheri beasley by less than a point in the latest polls. talk about a dead heat. north carolina congressman and senate candidate ted budd joins us now. all right, let's get right to it. thank you for coming on this labor day. this is a very close race but as you know, nine weeks is a world of time. anything can happen. what is your plan and how do you plan on pulling ahead and winning this north carolina senate seat in november? >> thanks for having me, julie. we're 64 days out. we've been to all 100 counties and continue to be out there. what we're seeing is what people in north carolina are talking about. everything that joe biden is doing wrong and that cheri beasley is a rubber stamp for biden. they talk about inflation and crime. parents want a say in their kids' education. everything the left does makes
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inflation worse, it makes crime worse, and they want to take away parents' rights to their kids' education and that's wrong. our message wins and we have to be out there over the next 64 days. if you want to find out more go to ted budd.com. >> julie: interesting you mentioned immigration and crime. those are two things the president did not mention in his speech on thursday. do you believe that your opponent is going to campaign on those issues, or is she ignoring those issues and following in the steps of the president and i guess what do you think is the single most important issues to the people of north carolina? >> thank you. i was at the border not too long ago. what the border patrol agents told me as they were arresting cartel members is we have to finish this wall. what we really need is an administration that has our back. they don't have an administration that has their back. even my opponent, a rubber stamp for joe biden, has led fundraisers with the leader of
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the defund the police movement. whether it's law enforcement here in north carolina 100 counties or the lawlessness joe biden policies at the border, they seem to be anti-law enforcement and it makes neighborhoods less safe. it makes it harder on people in north carolina. everything i want to do makes life better for people in north carolina whether it comes to inflation, illegal -- i stress the illegal word. we're a generous country and want to continue legal immigration. or whether it comes to education. everything that i want to do makes things better for people in north carolina and everything that cheri beasley wants to do makes life worse for people in north carolina. >> julie: you have been endorsed by president trump. has it been helpful so far? >> absolutely. law enforcement endorsed me, president trump endorsed me. he won north carolina twice. it's his policies that led to 1.8% inflation, 2% inflation.
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lowest unemployment in recorded history for women, for minorities, for hispanics. and those are the policies we have to get back to right now. the biden policies which would be cheri beasley policies have led to so much chaos in our economy. a few minutes ago you were talking about people can't afford to pay rent because of inflation and the left's radical policies. everything the donald trump did made things better. we know what to do? >> julie: good luck to you, congressman. appreciate you coming on. have a great race. griff. >> griff: nearly a foot of rain causing flash floods in georgia. fox weather team is on the ground there with the latest. plus china on edge as the biden administration moves ahead with its biggest arms deal yet with taiwan. (vo) red lobster's finer points of fun dining when mouth is full, and shrimp is endless, the "booth bow" is the proper way to say "shrimp me!" ultimate endless shrimp is back,
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lake yesterday with water up to my waist. the water has receded a little bit. the problems haven't gone away. video from around town. we had nearly 10 inches of rain falling in a 3 to 4 hour time period. nowhere for rain to go that fast with the ditches and creeks become overloaded leading to textbook flash flooding scenario. businesses affected by this. dozens of homes evacuated with people being rescued by boats. i spoke with eric. he had to be evacuated from his home. barely had time to get his pets and belongings. >> stressful. trying to get everybody on the same level and stuff but they were coming around evacuating us telling us we had to leave. >> resources are being brought into the area to help both counties under this emergency declaration. local organizations stepping up to hand out bottled water, food and supplies to those in need. yet again we are talking about
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a water system being compromised. boil water advisory in place. the floodwater reached the water treatment plant. they are inspecting the roads to make sure there aren't problems with integrity of the roads. another mess to deal with from flooding. back to you. >> julie: thank you for watching it for us. >> griff: china threatening the u.s. with counter measures after the biden administration signs off on a 1.1 billion arms sale to taiwan. the deal aims to help the self-governing island defend against a chinese naval attack. beijing sees taiwan as its territory. let's bring in general jack keane, senior strategic analyst and the chairman for the institute of the study of war. thank you for taking time today on this most important story. your reaction to this arms sale. how significant is it and what does it tell you? >> it's an important step in the right direction.
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frankly we've been providing arms and munitions to taiwan for years. but obviously what we're really dealing with here now is trying to prevent a war because what president xi has said and about to be enshrined on october 16th next month for a third term, he said if necessary, he will take the island by force. we don't want that to happen, obviously. the way to stop it from happening is make certain that it's too costly for him to do that. one of the means to do that is give taiwan as much capability as we possibly can. that's step one. so this is a good thing that the biden administration is doing here. but listen, there are $14 billion of arms and munition on backlog going back to the trump administration. taiwan can buy their own arms and munitions, ukraine can't. we give ukraine weapons out of the stockpile. the foreign mill mary sale
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system. every ally complains about this system and why we have 14 billion dollars stuck in that system. we've got to fix this once and for all. the second thing that has to be done here is we need to help train the taiwan military. not just small groups of them but significantly train them. it can truly make a difference. we should not be concerned about what china's reaction to that is. we're attempting to prevent a war from taking place. then the third thing -- this is something our viewing audience will probably find quite remarkable. we have war plans to defend taiwan if the president says do that. but we don't practice any of those war plans with taiwan or with our allies in conjunction with taiwan. that is really quite alarming. we don't do it because we don't want to provoke china. we have to face the reality of what is happening here. we have president xi, who is of a mind to take action here, and we have got to deter him and
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convince him that taking action is too significant. >> griff: general, you talk about -- i want to play this for you, gordon chang talking about the prospect of war. >> joe biden should be in front of a television camera right now talking to the american people about getting ready for war. the chinese are not only involved in what is the biggest military build-up since the second war, what they are also doing is they are mobilizing the chinese people for conflict. >> give you the last 15 seconds. >> well, i agree with gordon. that is my point. we have an opportunity to prevent this from happening. we proved that with the soviet union for 40 years. i think we learned a lesson with russia and ukraine where we didn't prevent it. now we're providing all the arms and munitions after the conflict started. let's avoid that here.
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let's get them the help and prevent the conflict from getting started. that's the message. >> griff: general jack keane, great insight as always. have a great labor day. thank you, sir. >> julie: stunning new details in the violent kidnapping of a billionaire's granddaughter. what we're learning about the suspect's criminal history next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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>> julie: the man accused of kidnapping tennessee mother and heiress eliza fletcher is being held on half a million dollars bond. the search for the missing woman is now in day four. hello and welcome to another hour of fox news live. i'm julie banderas. >> great to be with you. i'm griff jenkins. police arrested the suspect saturday. officials confirm he was convicted of another kidnapping more than two decades ago. >> julie: police say he violently abducted fletcher while she was jogging early friday morning and has not yet told them where she is. now, witnesses are telling police the suspect was seen cleaning his car and washing his clothing shortly after the alleged kidnapping. >> griff: charles watson is live in memphis with the latest. good morning, charles. >> good morning, julie and griff.
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police have charged 38-year-old convicted felon cleotha abston with especially aggravated kidnapping and evidence tampering in connection to the disappearance of eliza fletcher. he is not speaking to police at this point. has not told investigators where the 34-year-old memphis teacher is. his arrest came less than a day after police say they found a gmc terrain occupied by him allegedly used in fletcher's abduction last week while she went for a run on the university of memphis campus. according to an affidavit, abston's cell phone puts him in the area at the same time security cameras show a male jump out of an s.u.v. and force fletcher into a vehicle. a man biking on the same path found fletcher's phone and a pair of champion slides in the street. we're told the footwear was sent to state investigators who linked them to abston through a dna match from a previous conviction where he served more
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than 20 years in prison for kidnapping a memphis lawyer at gun point. >> the police have worked very quickly on this. probably getting the vehicle and looking at, one, dna that might have been in the car that they have that belongs to him. >> the affidavit also claims witnesses saw abston cleaning his clothes and the floor of his s.u.v. following fletcher's disappearance. the news shocking neighbors who say this is rare in this neighborhood. >> she is just a beautiful person and it's awful to see the evil that's in the world. >> now according to state crime data, abductions are scarce on the university of memphis campus, only two instances have been reported in the last decade. but after fletcher's abduction last friday, memphis police say they plan to step up patrols around the campus. now, as it relates to abston, a judge in shelby county has
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granted him a $500,000 bond and expected to make an appearance in court tuesday morning. guys. >> griff: charles watson live in memphis. charles, thank you. >> julie: let's bring in former d.c. homicide detective t*etd williams and defense attorney and fox new contributor. so sad to be having this discussion this morning, ted. already the evidence is stacking up against this suspect. as you just heard witnesses saying they saw the suspect cleaning his car and his clothes. washing his clothes after police say fletcher was forcibly taken into a vehicle during a morning run. how does the investigation go from here? >> well, hi, julie. i have to tell you, this is one of those sad stories that we've covered. your co-host there, griff jenkins, and i have through the years unfortunately have covered these kinds of stories. what we do know is that eliza
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fletcher was jogging around 4:30 in the morning near the university of memphis. it is believed that abston saw her jogging, pulled up ahead of her, and as she jogged in his direction, he got out and at that stage bull rushed here. there was a violent struggle. he was able to get her in the automobile. he stayed in the area for about four minutes before leaving. the authorities believe that there are individuals out there who know more and who can give them more information. but as you've already said, there were individuals who have given them information that abston was cleaning his clothes and that he tried to scrub that vehicle. also, julie, when the authorities approached him, he took off running. but this was excellent police work because what they were
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able to do, there was some slippers left at the scene. they were able to do a dna test and they were able to show that those slippers are -- were associated with abston. this is unfortunate what they will have to do now is to try to get others in the community to try to bring eliza fletcher home. we hope she is alive. the longer time goes as to whether she is alive really dims. >> julie: there is so much history behind this suspect that really does paint a grim picture of the outcome on this considering this guy spent 24 years in prison for an abduction. this is not anything new to this guy. a private investigator says that this was no coincidence. react to this. >> i don't think this was a
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random kidnapping. i think it was probably planned and to see what she knew about this or any evidence that might be in the house that they may have obtained in order to get them. >> julie: i mean, with that said, and then there is video as you just mentioned seeing his vehicle sort of follow her and stop and then actually see him aggressively run after her. so there is so much evidence in this case, at what point do we get a confession? how do they get a confession out of this guy? >> well, julie, it is more likely than not that they will not get a confession out of him. i can tell you, as an attorney, that they are not in the position where they want to make a deal with this guy. because this guy could very well be looking at the death penalty under the circumstances here. so what they are going to do is just try to bring her home. they hope she is alive and that she is out there.
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but they are not -- they are not going to make a deal, i believe, with this guy. >> julie: no, absolutely not. this guy deserves to spend the rest of his time behind bars, if not worse. ted williams. >> he deserves the death penalty. >> julie: i was referring to that absolutely. absolutely devastating. thank you, ted. griff, this is gross. $500,000 bond doesn't seem like enough money. meaning that he would need to post $50,000 in order to be released from jail. but he is interestingly enough being charged. i have never even heard of the charge until today with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering. you know how aggressive and violent this was. her body it appears suffered injuries because there was blood found in the car as well. >> griff: great insight by ted there. let me just tell you. i was born and raised in memphis. when this happened on friday morning my phone has been blowing up ever since. the person ted mentioned that
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found the cell phone riding his bike, a close friend of mine from high school. this has struck at the heart of the memphis community. they hear about crime in chicago, and in new york, but not in a sleepy southern town on the delta like memphis. when i began to talk to various friends from high school and growing up, they all say they know someone that was carjacked. they know a friend's son murdered and another robbed at gun point. this is really putting a spotlight on a much larger problem there and there will be one thing that you will see in that, the demand for accountability because the folks that i talked to in memphis are frightened by this. >> julie: yeah, not the norm, which makes it even scarier. it's very sad. hopefully they will get answers soon for the family and able to find her. all right. moving on. >> griff: we'll be following it. moving on, though, president biden traveled to the battleground states of
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pennsylvania and wisconsin today ahead of the mid-term elections. he will mark labor day with speeches promising to highlight the dignity of american workers. in pennsylvania he will meet with lieutenant governor and senate candidate john fetterman who like many democratic nominees has avoided biden on the trail. alexandria hoff is live in washington following it all. >> hi, griff. that might be the only chance the president gets to stand side-by-side with a senate nominee today. wisconsin democratic candidate barnes has avoided giving an answer if he will appear with the president today. fetterman is in a race against dr. oz didn't attend the presidents two speeches last week. the president has had to walk back statements like this. >> president biden: the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this
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country. >> biden clarified to fox news peter doocy traveling with the president today he wasn't calling all trump voters a threat. this congressman thought differently. >> it was to scare us. the point is it was to demean over 50% of the population of america and say that they are bad people. that's unacceptable for the president of the united states. >> former atlanta mayor keisha bottoms is standing by the president's words. >> what i see in the speech, i see words of encouragement. i see optimism. i see a commander-in-chief who is calling out to all of us, no matter our political affiliation. >> there does seem to be a shift in phrasing going on. the president's account used phrases like maga ideology and proposal rather than maga republicans. an effort to make it sound less
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personal possibly. >> griff: twitter is heating up ahead of the mid-terms. alex, thank you. >> julie: customs and border protection data showing that fentanyl seizures nationwide jumped more than 200% from june to july. what is going on? a former ice agent joins us next. >> griff: the border patrol recovering the bodies of nine migrants who drowned trying to cross the rio grande last week. we'll have the latest from eagle pass coming up. >> 1300 migrants have died trying to enter this country. that's what we know about. you talk to the sheriffs down there. bodies in the river we'll never find.
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>> griff: august was seattle's worst month for homicides in recent history. seattle police department confirming to fox news digital that it recorded 11 homicides last month, the most in a single month since at least 2008, the year furthest back on the seattle police department crime dashboard. the previous record was nine homicides in june of 2021. critics have warned we'd see numbers like these after the defund police movement. >> i don't think this is what we stand for. it is decidedly unpatriotic and unamerican. this is creating a human crisis and treating people without -- it's frankly another demonstration of unpatriotic conduct on the part of the governor of texas. >> julie: chicago mayor lori lightfoot slamming texas
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governor abbott for sending migrants to her city. 50 more migrants arrived in the windy city yesterday with more buses expected from the texas border coming in later this week. we've got garrett tenney on the ground. he joins us live at the border in eagle pass, texas. good morning, garrett. >> julie, good morning. to take a step back it's important to remember this strategy of busing migrants to sanctuary cities is largely about raising an awareness of this ongoing crisis at our southern border and trying to pressure the federal government to step up and secure it. so far chicago has received just over 100 migrants and lori lightfoot is criticizing governor abbott and calling this a manufactured crisis. >> this is putting people on buses and treating them like freight. that's the frustrating thing. he professes to be a christian. this is not christianity and the teachings of the bible that i know. >> to put it into perspective.
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the 100 or so migrants bused to chicago is what you can find in eagle pass crossing the border on any given day. this is just one spot along the nearly 2,000 mile border. even today, despite warnings from the border patrol asking migrants not to cross the river after nine people died from getting trapped in the stronger than normal currents due to heavy rain last week, you can see even as texas national guard were trying to perform a water rescue, the river currents sucked one man underneath the water for several seconds before they found him and pulled him back in. he was part of a group of seven, including a young boy who were rescued after swimming halfway across the rio grande. that group was processed when they made it to shore. the latest example of how groups are continuing to make their way across the border despite the warnings of life-threatening situations they face here. julie. >> julie: all right, garrett tenney, thank you.
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griff. >> griff: julie, jaw dropping new numbers from customs and border protection. nationwide seizures of fentanyl jumped from june. this man's partner was killed by a drug cartel. thank you for being here on labor day with us. but it is such an important story to cover, the fentanyl crisis. we told you 203% increase. one other number, the fentanyl seizures for the first nine months for the counties of san diego 203%. san diego and imperial county 5,091 pounds out of 400,825 was in this area.
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60%. what will we do to get the fentanyl crisis under control? >> give, it is out of control and in my experience, these seizures are great, by the way, but i worked 20 years on the border on both sides of the border including mexico as you mentioned, and when we see the increase in seizures of this type, it is not a good thing. it means that we're getting swamped with fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin that is continuing to pour into this country. the seizures are good, like i mentioned. but that means that it's coming in through every part of our open border down the southern border. >> griff: victor, the consequences, deadly consequences of this fentanyl crisis on friday on this show we had the parents who had a daughter who died of it. a little of what they had to say, listen. >> i don't think the government
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at any level has done enough. i think that the current administration has to stand up and take notice. how many more people have to die before somebody takes it serious? this is worse than the 1970s heroin epidemic. >> griff: my question to you is, it's ultimately the cartels that are to blame for this. is enough being done to stop it? >> definitely not enough being done to stop it. i'll put it to you both ways. one, we have to hold mexico accountable. they are attached to us. they are our neighbors. we must go in there with a different strategy to hold them accountable for what they are not doing in their country. of course, the united states and this administration is doing absolutely nothing to stop the flow of these killer poisonings is what i call them
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because we're over 107,000, 65% of those poisonings are from fentanyl. i spoke to parents who have lost their loved ones, their young children, teenage children, college-age children to this fentanyl poisoning. these are not drug adigts. they're experimenting with a drug and have no idea what they are taking is a counterfeit pill laced with fentanyl. one out of every four pills in this country according to the drug enforcement administration is a counterfeit pill. they are playing russian roulette with these drugs. let's not forget that china has a huge role in this in working with the cartels and providing them with the chemicals and precursors. they are almost bringing a lot of these pills already fully produced into mexico for the cartels to distribute them into every corner of our country. i speak to police groups around the country. they have a lot of issues in
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south dakota, bozeman, montana. it has touched every corner of our country and, in fact, every state has become a border state because of it. >> griff: that's a great joint. i would challenge anyone to find a corner of the country that hasn't been affected by this crisis. victor, thank you very much for your insight. >> thank you. >> julie: the shocking death of a high-level executive at bed, bath and beyond. why did the company's chief financial officer apparently take his own life? plus are we seeing a biden/trump rematch this november? the current and former president both making stops in critical battleground states. our panel up next on those hotly-contested races. >> the rhetoric on both sides has been heightened. i wish the president could have been more like abraham lincoln who really did not condemn the
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suggest the broad majority of americans, democrats, republicans and independents support our values, support free and fair transparent elections and to have been inclusive in his rhetoric rather than used it as a campaign speech. i'm not quite sure it was the worst speech ever or that harsh, but he missed an opportunity and i was disappointed as a result. >> the former mayor of atlanta, georgia on abc this week used the word optimism when december contributing the president's speech. democrats there are some not as open minded and seeing this as optimistic. what is optimistic about insulting half the country, calling them fascists. it is just down right insulting
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not to mention ignoring the issues that matter most to americans. one being inflation. didn't talk about that. didn't talk about crime, didn't talk about immigration. didn't talk about a number of things but yet made plenty of time to insult 75 million americans. >> if you are one of those 87,000 new i.r.s. agents, you are feeling pretty optimistic. if you are one of those college students that doesn't have to pay back their college loans you are feeling pretty optimistic. the president has decided he will narrow in on the very base that helped get him elected, whether those be folks who favor bigger government or folks, college-educated white americans who are a big part of the president's base. and young people. he is going to -- it's his only hope at this point to help save the democratic party this election. the problem is that coalition is not big enough to save them from the defeats they'll face this november.
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>> julie: when deciding your vote for congress, in fact, the "wall street journal" did put out a poll. i want to throw it up real quick and have you react. when deciding your vote for congress the number one issue, the economy. that's what everybody is worried about, what everybody is concerned about and where democrats will get hit hard comes the mid-terms. my prediction. abortion, inflation, immigration down at 7%. when it comes to voting for your congressman or woman these are the issues that matter. if the president was politicizing. clearly a political speech, you think he would have hit on the issues. these are the issues that democrats will need in order to get elected come the mid-terms. >> he did talk about the issue of choice in the context of the dobbs decision. so he dealt with the second issue. but inflation and the economy you and david are right. it wasn't addressed. he has an argument about what
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has happened with gas prices, what he believes the inflation reduction act will do. we didn't hear about it. it was not an inclusive speech, julie. he missed an opportunity to unite america and be truly optimistic in a way that would have given all of us comfort. >> julie: all right. david avella and doug schoen. thank you for coming on. thank you to you both. >> griff: the u.k. has a new prime minister. what will liz truss mean for our special relationship? we're live in london. the cdc has approved and updated covid booster vaccine meant to target more omicron variants. dr. marc siegel is here with what we need to know. step 1: greet your shrimp step 2: bid your shrimp farewell. repeat! ultimate endless shrimp is back with new parmesan-bacon shrimp scampi.
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the new leader of the conservative party succeeding boris johnson forced to resign over ethics scandals. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot joins us live from london with the latest there. hey, greg. >> liz truss will become the fourth u.k. prime minister in the last six years. no easy job. 47-year-old foreign secretary won the vote among the conservative party membership mostly on bread and butter issues. u.k. faces a stagnant economy, high inflation and soaring energy prices for which she offers a good dose of free market religion. listen. >> i know that our beliefs resonate with the british people. our beliefs in freedom, in the ability to control your own life, in taxes and personal responsibility. >> she succeeds boris johnson who stepped down.
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she is pexected to pick up where he left off on foreign policy. strong in support of ukraine against russia. critical of the chinese communist party and for more defense spending. so considering all the above it makes sense her idol is margaret thatcher, very good friend of past u.s. presidents. the only thing worrying u.s. lawmakers right now is her willingness to tamper with post brexit northern ireland arrange also. the fear is the good friday agreement could be at risk. she will become prime minister tomorrow after she sees the queen up at her scotland estate. the queen decided not to make the trip down to buckingham, palace. truss will be the queen's 15th prime minister. now that is longevity. back to you. >> julie: amazing. all right. greg palkot, thank you. >> griff: the cdc has approved and updated covid booster vaccine meant to target
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multiple omicron variants even though human testing is not complete. what do we need to know about it? let's bring in fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel. tell us what we need to know about this and who should get it. >> well, first of all i want to cut through some of the confusion here because the administration has purchased 170 million doses. at the same time, a lot of vaccine centers are drying up in various states and there is a lot of resistance to new vaccines. the fourth shot of the prior one you only saw 25 million people take. so there is an issue with messaging here. i would start by cutting through the messaging by saying that i in my office and practice will offer this to people at high risk first. there has been a lot of evidence that vaccines have helped the elderly and those with underlying conditions and multiple medical problems and diabetes and obesity. those people need to be targeted first.
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second cdc is saying two months or more after the last shot. that's not that realistic. i think six months is something that will get my patients' attention more. you haven't had a shot in five or six months. a new one is coming along targeting this sub variant, it might give you more power. we don't know how much it will give you. that sales pitch is missing. i hope, griff, the cdc like they've been doing for monkeypox will give us more data on the ground. in other words, as this rolls out and people take it, how did they do? did they stay out of the hospital? did they stay alive? did they have milder cases? that's the information we have lacked from the very beginning and i want that now and they are claiming they are gearing up for that kind of thing. that will help me. >> griff: dr. siegel, i am stunned that you had to begin this report about clearing up cdc mixed messaging. we just heard from them saying they'll fix it. sounds like they have it right
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on monkeypox but still not an covid. i want to just show you a full screen here, a quote from the fda advisory board member. i would like to see clear evidence of dramatic increase in neutralizing antibodies, more dramatic than what we saw against ba1 before launching a new product. we're owed at least that. what do you make of that? >> i spoke to him about this the other day. he voted against the ba1 in june for this reason because it didn't give you more than about 1 1/2 times the impact. i want people out there to understand that even the old vaccine, the prior vaccine that is still going to be in this one, by the eight. it has this plus the new, gives you t-cells and b cells and antibodies. so you get a layer of protection from any of these covid vaccines. he wants to know how much more do you get from this one? we don't know. i also want to point out.
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this is really important. one of the other bungling in messaging has been about natural immunity. dr. poland from mayo is saying, and he is right. we have to factor in where you get your immunity from. all of your immunity. you just had a covid infection, i'm not giving you any vaccine. you had two or three covid infections this year plus the vaccine, i count that in. i do math in my office. how many times have you been sick? how many vaccine doses have you had? and what are your risk groups? that's how medicine is done. i still like the vaccine and i still will utilize the new one but i want to see data going forward. i'm not concerned about safety. it similar enough to the previous vaccine so it's safe but we don't know how effective yet and we should know that. >> griff: dr. marc siegel with great insight. thank you. julie. >> julie: all right. president biden is heading to wisconsin, site of a key senate match-up this november.
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>> griff: labor day marking the end of summer and chaotic travel season. this is the busiest labor day for travel in three years. so far hundreds of flights have been delayed or canceled as we return to pre-pandemic numbers. bill melugin is live at lax with more. hi, bill. >> good morning to you. that's right. it will be a busy day here at lax. more than 450,000 people expected to pass through the airport over the holiday weekend. the third busiest airport in the entire country. aaa says one survey showed 32% of americans say they're traveling for this labor day holiday. 12% of americans say they'll go
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more than 50 miles for their travel. now, millions of people will be in the air flying. experts say that the number of people flying has returned to pre-pandemic levels. however, the number of flights has not increased to match that demand. that's because of ongoing staffing issues, shortages with the airlines. for the most part, though, the airlines have been keeping up over the holiday weekend and airports all around the country getting pretty busy. take a listen. >> some of these lines are wrapping around the corner. i'm asking people what is going on? people are excited to go away for the weekend or coming back home. >> it has been a really busy traveling weekend. you can definitely tell there are more people this weekend traveling. >> majority of this holiday travel is going to be done on the roads because gas prices have been slowly creeping down ever since the record highs we saw over summer. we remember back in june the national average for a gallon of gas topped more than $5.
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it has since dropped to about $3.82. aaa says people are ready to get back out there. take a listen. >> people have spent two years of pandemic restrictions and lockdowns and they're ready to get out and reconnect with their loved ones. go to the mountains and the beaches and the amusement parks. not only are we anticipating this labor day will be a very busy time for travelers, so will the rest of the year. >> so far this lax terminal no delays or cancellations to report. send it back to you. >> griff: let's hope that continues to be the case, bill melugin live at lax. thank you. julie. >> julie: president biden heading to wisconsin today. polls showing my next guest slightly trailing his democratic challenger in one of the key match-ups for control of the senate. here to talk about it is senator ron johnson. senator, great to see you. thank you for coming on on this
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labor day. all right, so it's a close one. your opponent mandela barnes a bit of an advantage according to the latest fox news poll. but there is still time, as you know. how do you plan to win over voters by november? >> good morning. i've always considered a dead even race down to the wire. but with president biden coming here today, certainly he hasn't helped wisconsin workers. his policies, his governance have been disastrous for wisconsin workers. record gas prices. i know they're down a little bit but 60% higher they were when biden took office. unsafe communities, rising crime. here we are in america the year 2022 and we don't have enough baby formula to feed infants. workers in wisconsin, people who either scrimped and saved to pay off college loans or
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never went to college are furious that president biden and this is all supported by mandela barnes. all these policies are supported by my opponent. they are furious he is trance fearing maybe a trillion dollars onto their backs. the biden administration policies, democratic governance has been disastrous to wisconsin workers and bra*ns supports all these policy. a page out of president biden's playbook. not necessarily campaigning from the basement but he is in hiding. not answering questions from the press. he is a radical leftist who thinks the founding of america was awful. he thinks our national parks are racist. you know, it's just unbelievable the kind of grievance and resentment this man holds for america and still wants to be a u.s. senator. we'll point out who he is. it's a mystery at this point in time. >> julie: it seems to me any democrat running for office that takes a page out of
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biden's playbook is doing themselves a disservice because if you look at president biden's track record specifically this past thursday night last week when he didn't address the key issue to not just wisconsin voters but to voters all over the country, i believe democrats would be playing close attention. it could do you a huge favor. inflation was something not discussed. wisconsin voters say 28% say they'll be most interested in voting for the senate based on inflation. i got 15 seconds. most important issue to you is what? >> it is inflation. record gas prices and rising crime. they're concerned we're losing the country. they want to unify and heal this nation. >> julie: all right. congressman johnson. senator johnson, thank you very much. good luck to you. we'll be right back.
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hour three. the rio grande rising over two feet in a single day according to officials. the swell causing a dangerous and fast moving current over the weekend which only further complicated search and rescue efforts. border state republicans are again calling out democrats for ignoring this crisis. >> that's exactly what we're saying. they're saying we don't care for human traffickers and sex traffickers and don't care to the people coming through mexico who are being raped on a daily basis. they don't care. they don't bother to go down there and see it. they don't bother to discuss what are the plans to be able to stop it? >> julie: garrett tenney is live at the border this morning with another report. garrett, the situation does not improve. every day it gets worse. >> yeah, julie, cbp just saying that the death toll is now at 13 migrants who drowned late last week trying to cross the
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rio grande, making this the most deadly mass drowning incident here in years. these dangerous conditions prompted border patrol over the weekend to issue a warning asking migrants not to cross illegally just because of how strong the currents are right now. we saw that first-hand this morning when a group of seven migrants, including a young boy, tried swimming across the river and got stuck halfway. texas national guard came out to perform a water rescue and you can see as one man tried to swim to the boat he disappeared for a few seconds when he got pulled underwater. we've already had a couple dozen migrants cross today. about half of them from venezuela. yesterday around 50 migrants arrived by bus in chicago courtesy of the state of texas bringing the total number of migrants to sanctuary city has received to just over 100 which mayor lori lightfoot is calling a crisis. >> i don't think this is what
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we stand for. unpatriotic and unamerican. i understand the pressures that the people of texas and some of the other border states are under. we see that on a daily basis. but the thing to do is not this. this is creating a human crisis. and treating people without dignity or respect. >> the city of chicago is now trying to figure out how to manage this small handful of migrants that it has received and set up a website for folks to make donations to be able to help. just a small taste of what towns all along our border have been experiencing for the last couple years, julie. >> julie: right, unbelievable. thank you. >> griff: let's bring in sean duffy, fox news contributor and former republican congressman from wisconsin. sean, let's dive into this. you were a politician. you've heard a lot of republicans talking about the
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crisis, myself, bill melugin, now garrett tenney, how long can we stand there and show the tragedy, the drownings of which i've witnessed last month firsthand and brought it to this show? why is it the administration has been able to really duck it and just continue with this line and secretary mayorkas says the border is secure? >> you know this better than anybody. you know the horror of the southern border, the trip and pain of the trip coming from countries in central america, south america, the rape and abuses that happen to children and women, the drugs that flow across the southern border. the fact people are losing their lives. when they get into country many young kids are being dropped off at homes of people that aren't in their families and it is ripe for abuse. child abuse, child trafficking. to your point the reason it can happen is because one network carries this story. it is fox news. guys like you, reporters like you who will tell the story, politicians in the republican
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party will talk about it. but a vast majority of americans who get their news from other networks don't know about this crisis. they don't know about the pain being inflicted on people that come across the southern border so they don't deal with it. joe biden, when he doesn't have a media that pressures him on this topic can ignore it himself. he is like, i love the idea of open borders. i want to be a draw for everyone around the world to come into this country. they don't have to be vetted or have a background check or vaccine. they can come right in. he loves that side of the story. but if everybody in america knew the crisis that the border was, no american would stand for this. >> griff: let me change gears to another story. that is the "new york post" reporting major bias inside the f.b.i. when it came to hunter biden. their front page this morning hunter hiding. the report saying timothy thibault the agent who interfered with an
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investigation hunter hid major intel that bobulinski shared with the bureau. thibault was assigned as the so-called point man to manage bobulinski. senate judiciary ranking member chuck grassley with this on the f.b.i. director. listen. >> wray has to do much more to come up with a plan to show that this political bias within the f.b.i. is going to be attacked and rooted out. are they an enforcement agency or aren't they? are they using political bias or not? that's why total transparency is important. >> griff: transparency doesn't seem to be what we're getting, sean. >> first of all, to senator grassley, of course there is political bias. they aren't about law enforcement. they are about imposing a political ideology in the f.b.i. and d.o.j. i was a prosecutor for 10 years. this is a lay-up case. you have the laptop of hunter biden with all of the emails
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laying out the money you're receiving from foreign countries and reserving 10% for the big guy. who is the big guy? bobulinski said the big guy is joe biden and i'll give you my phone text messages as well to lay out this case for you. the coordination and collusion between joe biden and hunter biden and foreign countries. it's while joe biden was the vice president. the problem here, griff, is you do have a political f.b.i. and d.o.j. though tim tebow who sandbagged this investigation, is now gone. there is a bunch of rats coming after him that are political ideologues. i don't think the f.b.i. and d.o.j. will do anything in regard to hunter biden and joe biden in regard to this collusion and money flow, the sale of american influence from the vice president. they have will sit back because they're about politics, not justice or truth, they're not
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about law enforcement any longer. chris wray you would think would stand up and say i won't tolerate this. the man is silent. see not rooting out the corruption and politics of the agency. he is sitting back and letting it happen. >> griff: maybe he should speak up and speak out a little bit to reinstall the trust in the f.b.i. have a great rest of your labor day. >> julie: we're learning more about the tennessee teacher abduction case. the suspect's chilling criminal history and what police say led them to him. plus criminals in new york city getting bolder and scarier by the day. now using cars as weapons next. you never know what opportunities life will send your way. but if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis, enbrel can help you say i'm in for what's next. ready to create a bigger world? -i'm in. ready to earn that “world's greatest dad” mug? -i'm in.
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>> griff: new details in the kidnapping case of memphis teacher and heiress eliza fletcher. she was force evidence into an suv in a violent matter while jogging friday morning. a pair of sandals left at the scene identified the abductor, kleesh abston, a convict with a history of kidnapping. charles watson is live in
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memphis, tennessee. >> good morning, griff. police say they have charged 38-year-old cleotha abston with especially aggravated kidnapping. abston was granted a $500,000 bond. at this point authorities say he is uncooperative and has not told investigators where the 34 yeerd memphis teacher is. abston's arrest came less than a day after police say they found a gmc terrain occupied by him allegedly used in fletcher's abduction last week while she went for a run on the university of memphis campus. abston's cell phone puts him in the area around the same time security footage shows a male jump out of a black s.u.v., aggressively rush fletcher and force her into the vehicle while she struggles. a short time later a man biking on the same path found fletcher's phone and a pair of
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champion-branded slides in the street. we're told the footwear was sent to state investigators who linked them to abston with a dna match for a previous conviction of kidnapping a memphis lawyer at gun point. we talked to a defense attorney, police may have few legal options if the suspect isn't talking. >> it might be possible if he has a lawyer to perhaps cut some kind of a deal. but law enforcement won't want to cut a deal with someone they believe is involved in this kind of kidnapping and perhaps a homicide. the fact he has invoked his right to remain silent leaves the police in a little bit of a bind. >> so according to state crime data abductions are rare on the university of memphis campus. only two stances report evidence in the last decade or so. after fletcher's abduction they plan to step up patrols around
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the campus. fletcher's family is also offering a $50,000 reward through crimestoppers for any information leading to her whereabouts. as for the suspect in the case, abston is expected to make his first court appearance tuesday where we hope to learn more about this incident, griff. >> griff: charles watson live in memphis. thank you. >> julie: so new york city criminals now taking a page from the fast and furious book. this actually happened on the upper east side of manhattan in broad daylight. take a look at this zone. teens ramming a car and trying to steal $20,000 from the driver. we don't know why he was carrying $20,000 on him or why they knew he had it in the first place. the nypd is reporting weekly spikes in almost every major crime category compared to last year. as of late last week the rates
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of serious crime was up 36% including auto theft and grand larceny. murders and rapes not among the rise. there was a "new york post" op-ed that con great later mayor eric adams for bringing down murders but a lot more crime. quality of life remains horrific. the lack of proactive policing except when it comes to guns explains how disorderly behavior goes to theft and assault. crime is at an all-time high in this country. victims of theft are wondering when the administration will do something about it. last week's address left them empty-handed. >> if we think this current administration is going to do anything about it they will hold their breath. their policies fueled by their base that is responsible for this. when you look at all of the
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cities embraced the abolitionist mindset defunding cops, cashless bail or restorative justice programs in place of jail time for criminals you have seen incredibly high rate of crime occurring all over the place across all of these categories. even in new york, look, this is a little bit of an anomaly. to your point it happened in broad daylight. they would not do this if they didn't think they could get away with it. that's telling. >> julie: yeah. that's really sad. i like that you point that out because they don't think they'll get caught because cops' hands have been tied in this country. they assume even if they get caught they'll get right out. it doesn't matter. no risk in trying to steal. the cops' hands are tied. the crime crisis in new york city, seattle, it's most deadly month in recent history on august and on track to set a 25 year record high in deadly
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shootings. seattle police say they had 11 homicides last month. the city averaged three homicides between 2008 and 2021. this year's august saw a roughly 267% increase compared to the previous 14-year average. when are lawmakers going to see that they are the problem? >> that's a good question. lawmakers right now aren't talking about this. we have heard virtually nothing coming from the seattle city council which is directly responsible for a lot of what is happening in seattle. when you step back and look at washington state we've seen the same kind of crime surge. again, you can point the finger at specific policies that democrats passed, including a ban on almost every single vehicular pursuit. guess what? a criminal who can do their crime and get into a car usually stolen and drive off. so long as it's a non-violent crime police can't chase them. they are adapting to these
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policies. >> julie: chasing a car speeding down the road is violence. that car was a weapon. that is why you should be chasing down cars to stop them and ram them so they can't continue to potentially run over pedestrians and cause more carnage. i just have to move on. speaking of cars to california and this ridiculous electric car mandate going on out there that may actually impact car sales across the nation. 17 states with emission standards tied to the clean air act are considering following the state's lead. the mandate calls for following federal emissions standards or abiding by california's rules, oregon, washington, massachusetts, new york among those looking at falling in line. okay. the state of california has botched this so badly. not only are they trying to push electric cars down our throats, right, because of course it will save on air pollution, great, i gotcha. spend $60,000 to save the earth. don't ban those people from charging their cars between the
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hours of 4:00 and 9:00 p.m. and come around and say by 2035 we'll ban gas-powered vehicles. it makes zero sense. >> it doesn't make any sense and i'm glad of the timing of this. it highlights how we're not ready for this world that democrats are pushing us down. i have no problem with electric vehicles. in fact, if people want to purchase them, more power to them. i think it cuts down on pollution and our reliance on oil. the problem is, we do not have the infrastructure nor the energy policy to handle that kind of shift. so we're talking just about california. clearly won't be ready by 2035. let's say you go from bakersfield to los angeles because you have a doctor's appointment. if you forget to plug in that vehicle guess what? you will get stuck on the drive over and you will be without any kind of solution. so this idea we're suddenly going to do this across many states just in a short amount
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of time when we don't have not just the infrastructure but energy policy to insure that the cars are able to be plugged in to begin with. it is just so absurd. it is putting the cart before the horse. i think we need to roll this back. again, smart policy does encourage this kind of technological advances we've seen in cars. let's say we go to 2035 doing this. people might not have a money to spend and end up purchasing used cars which are gas guzzlers which don't have the newest technology. you aren't going to do anything different here. >> julie: electric cars are not cheap. unless the government gives away cars, i don't think so. >> griff: help wanted signs are common this labor day. the worker shortage hitting small businesses the hardest. why some workers are deciding to stay home.
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. >> julie: new details of the bed, bath and beyond chief financial officer. police believe he jumped to his death from the 18th floor of a new york city high rise on friday. david lee miller is following the story for us and joins us live in new york city with more on the allegations and more. >> alleged financial misdeeds might have had something to do with why bed, bath and beyond cfo took his own life but there is no certain explanation. report in the "new york post" says the 52-year-old did not leave behind a note or say anything to his wife before jumping to his death in the couple's high rise apartment balcony. last month he was named in a class action lawsuit filed by shareholders who claim they
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lost $1.2 billion in a so-called pump and dump scheme. a portion of the suit reads quo. they engaged in a fraund leant scheme to inflate the stock. bed, bath and beyond based on early valuation of the complaint it believes the suit is without merit. in a separate statement, the cfo was instrumental in guiding the organization in transforming the company's financial foundation and building strong and talented team. his death comes days after bed, bath and beyond said it was slashing 20% of its workforce and would be closing about 150 of its lower-producing stores. in addition to his wife, he leaves behind two adult daughters, julie. >> julie: tragic. david lee miller, thank you. griff. >> griff: help wanted signs hanging in many u.s. store windows this labor day as critics warn america is facing
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an unprecedented worker shortage. the labor department reports over 786,000 people joined the workforce in august but 11 million jobs were open. fox business host mike rowe blames a lack of motivation. >> work has become the enemy. job satisfaction is now a thing that relies entirely upon the job and not upon the person. all of these things have combined to make work a fundamentally unattractive thing. >> griff: let's bring in a cpa and small business expert. what is going on with this labor shortage when the available pool of workers is just over 5 million and yet there is 11 million jobs open? >> there are a lot of factors, griff. what mike said is absolutely right. there is this sort of antithesis to work.
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a very anti- business, pro-labor position and fueled a lot of workers the trying to stay home. more than half of the small businesses in this country according to the national federation of independent businesses are looking for workers. paychecks reported this as well, the h.r. firm. there is a lot of demand for businesses to hire, as we know. some of my smarter clients are doing a better job than others at locating good employees. it can still be done. >> griff: an op-ed on foxnews.com by the former transportation secretary caught our eye. she lays out three ways that the worker shortage can be fixed. you see in the first one, the skills gap. what do you make of that? >> so there is a big lack of skills in this country. we have always known that. there is a real reason behind that, griff. we -- there has been a lot of conversation about the president's loan forgiveness
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that he has done in the past couple of weeks. griff, i have to tell you, so many of my clients that hire people out of college find that people are so unqualified for their jobs that they almost have to retrain them from scratch. because of that, it creates a much bigger burden on businesses as well. the skills gap as well to me is a real fault of the higher education industry. it is also something that a lot of businesses are really trying very, very hard to get around. i do have some advice for your watchers. there are some tax credits available to help workers. in fact deductions if employers want to pay for educational expenses they can get a deduction for doing that and paying down some student loans. that might help with employers. it is a big issue among many employers. >> griff: good insight. let me ask you also about
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another story. democrats defending the president's student loan forgiveness plan and experts are warning of the financial fallout that may result. here is new jersey governor phil murphy backing the bail-out. take a listen. >> this program gives relief to over a million people in new jersey. i like the fact that the pell grant grantees get double the amount. i think this is a smart and good move. >> griff: a new washington examiners op sed says voters oppose the plan. the liberal media won't present people with most of these politically inconvenient realities. instead they'll parrot the white house's talking points. what do you make of this? >> i don't know if you've got kids in college or not. i just put my three kids through college and it is a fortune. we did not take student loans out. now we're being penalized for making that decision. the other thing that really
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upsets me the most is it is enabling the very people that have created this problem and that is really our higher education industry. you and i both know that it will take a very short amount of time before students are wrapped back up again in student loans. what the president is doing is doing nothing to address the cost of tuition. and the industry itself will continue to do what they've been doing in the past, now knowing the government will just bail out loans. i don't even understand. having put three kids through college i don't understand why we don't go to a 12-month schedule of education and readdress tenure of college professors, such an outdated management policy. why people can't work through the summers. if colleges offered three-year degrees instead of four years, that alone would cut tuition by 25%. so loan forgiveness is one thing but not addressing the real problem. that is the higher education industry and like i said
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earlier, american businesses that are picking up the bill for this problem and that impacts everybody. >> griff: gene, as the father of a daughter who is a senior in college and a high schooler heading there in two years you are speaking the truth for the costs and coming down. gene, thank you for taking time today. great insight as always. >> thanks. have a good weekend. >> julie: president biden back in pennsylvania. will we see a repeat of last week's fiery anti-maga address? plus education officials say they are taken aback by how dramatically elementary test scores have fallen. more on this scary situation next. with limited-time offers. like our best price on our best business unlimited plan. and a 5g phone, on us. at verizon small business days from the network america relies on. >> tech: when you have auto glass damage,
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here is texas republican congressman michael mccaul on biden's soul of the nation address. >> if this was a speech to unify the american people, had just the opposite effect. this was not a presidential address by the way, a political speech. a campaign speech before the mid-term elections. >> griff: white house correspondent peter doocy is live in pennsylvania. hey, peter. >> griff, so far this cycle president biden hasn't had a lot of company on the campaign trail. as his polls fell, a lot of democrats didn't want to be seen with him. but the official in charge of helping democrats hold the house says that is about to change. >> you better believe we'll stand with the president and say we passed in a bipartisan way better roads, better bridges, better healthcare for our veterans. >> but as president biden says, the mission of his presidency
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is to save democracy by calling out so-called maga republicans. those republicans say they see an opening. >> folks on our side are also tired of being called semi fascists, we're tired of being called potential domestic terrorists. this is the classic tactic of the left. they falsely accuse their opponents of doing exactly what they do. president biden, i was on the platform when he took his oath of office and gave his inaugural speech. he said his number one goal was unifying and healing the nation. he has done the exact opposite. >> so while democrats are starting to appear with president biden out on the campaign trail they aren't going all in. today is a good example of that. the president will be joined by the democratic candidate for senate in pennsylvania, john fetterman, who is recovering from a stroke. it is the president's third trip to pennsylvania in the last week, but only fetterman's first appearance with him.
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griff. >> griff: all right. peter doocy live for us in pennsylvania. thanks. >> julie: we get the power panel now to weigh in on this one. brad, let me start with you. republicans say by president biden bragging about his record, bragging about his achievements and ignoring a lot of the issues that are bothering american voters, he is actually risking appearing out of touch. would you agree with that sentiment? obviously not but do you see where they're coming from? >> for the last year and a half the president has a historic record of legislative accomplishments. the american rescue plan that got us out of the pandemic. bipartisan gun safety bill. infrastrk tour bill putting shovels in the grounds and people to work. now you tell americans how these new laws are going to improve their lives.
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you have to acknowledge the problems that everyday families are facing and now you have to say here is what we're doing to help. gas prices are plummeting at record levels. inflation is coming down. things are starting to turn around and democrats have a good story to tell this november. i feel good about our chances. >> julie: brad, i agree with you in the fact you need to address the problems that americans are facing, absolutely. and with the issues that you just discussed there, those are addressing the problems. the problem is when the president is given a platform such as thursday night to address the nation, rather than unifying the american public talking about the problems and how he plans on continuing to try to fix them, he completely ignored all the issues that are on american voters' minds and decided to bash 75 million republicans in the country by calling them fascist, etc. ted, not the way to unite a country, we know that. is he more concerned about addressing the problems in the nation or bashing half the
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nation? >> well, look. >> julie: let ted respond. >> sorry. >> he talks about all these accomplishments but gas prices are up 25% higher than they were when he came into office. inflation is at a 40-year high. we have serious, serious problems in this country and what does he do rather than trying to fix these issues, he goes on national prime time tv and tells the world that people like my mother, an 88-year-old air force widow is an extremist and threat to democracy. that's not what the president should be doing at a time like this. but that's where the democrat party is. they have nothing to offer the american people other than fear, which is what they have been pumping out to the entire country for the last two years, if not seven years. trying to bring down trump and anybody who supports a conservative message of sovereign borders and pro-life
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and peace in the middle east. those things you can't be supportive of or else you are considered an extremist even though donald trump pushed those issues and was incredibly successful in passing those issues, better than any president in my lifetime. >> julie: another big election concern is education. students and parents recovering from the effects of the pandemic. some lawmakers are demanding, defending their decision to shut down schools. here is patty murray. >> people had to make choices based on the best scientific and personal evidence they had. now what we need to focus on is making sure we help those kids get back to where they need. >> julie: a new study finds that fourth graders test scores fell dramatically in the last two years and critics are accusing the biden administration of ignoring the academic problem instead of focusing -- instead focusing on covid, monkeypox and woke curriculum and a lot of
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democrats seem surprised by this. none of us are surprised. if you are a parent you are not surprised. if you are anybody in the american public you would expect that children are going to be falling behind when they are not allowed in the classroom. >> look, our number one priority always has to be the health and safety of children. the number one priority true in homes and schools. we have to acknowledge the deficiencies created by once in a century medical issue which was a global pandemic. knowing what we know now, of course we should have done a lot of things differently. what we need to do now is insure -- we can't pretend covid never happened. we have to prepare schools for the next medical crisis or the next pandemic, make sure we get the resources available and focus like a laser on insuring our children get the education and the health and emotional support they need to recover and continue to make america the greatest nation on earth. >> julie: i wish that thursday
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night more had been said about this crisis and all the other crises that our country is facing. i don't understand why the administration basically takes the page out of this by blaming the former administration when the former administration were the ones that wanted to keep schools open and yes while schools did reopen under biden we had already been two years into the pandemic and it was republicans pushing, ted, for schools to be reopened. i get dizzy just thinking about it. >> you bet. the democrats, as you just heard it was an unpresent dented pandemic. only 1200 people -- 1200 kids under 17 died of coronavirus. we destroyed an entire
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generation of kids' education because they were trying to push a political agenda and push a narrative that we had to shut down the country and have all mail ballots and do the other things we did rather than focusing on the kids and giving them the education, not shutting down schools and masking them when the science was there and we knew we didn't need to do that. the administration was listening to the teachers union and setting health policy for these kids because it is what the teachers union wanted, not what was good for the children. it should tell everybody in this country why they need to elect republicans and you saw it in the 2020 elections when school boards across the country were thrown out because of the radical policies that they pushed. >> julie: i wish i had more time with you. that's all we've got. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. >> griff: more fallout from the chaotic afghanistan exit more than a year later.
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it is taking a toll on our veterans' mental health issues. more on that coming up. only at vanguard, you're more than just an investor—you're an owner. we got this, babe. that means that your dreams are ours too. and our financial planning tools can help you reach them. that's the value of ownership.
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taken from former president trump's mar-a-lago residence last month. in the order, she has just issued, it says quote a special master shall be appointed to review the seized property, manage assertions of privilege and make recommendations there and evaluate claims for return of property. the exact details and mechanics of this review process will be decided expeditiously following receipt of the parties' proposals as described below. the latest. an order being issued from the miami federal judge on this labor day. we'll bring you more as we get it. just over one year after the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan, our veterans continuing to feel its impact. a recent survey finds 40% of the military community members say they are experiencing trauma because of the evacuation. ted kennedy, u.s. army special forces soldier and co-founder
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of save our allies responds to humanitarian crisis in afghanistan joins us. what is happening with regard to veterans and service members' mental health following the withdrawal a year later? >> wars are terrible, there is no way to slice that besides wars are horrible. the end of this war was i think extraordinarily horrific. the way that we withdrew, lack of strategy. not only the way that we 20 years we fought in afghanistan and at the end of those 20 years there were a lot of veterans after the longest war in american history are standing by like why did we do this? why were we there? what was the purpose? a bab -- abandoning so many friends and allies. everybody over there has lost friends and lost a bit of their soul there. for us to leave in that manner
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just rips your soul out. when we were evacuating out of afghanistan, watching people fall from the wheel wells of aircraft from the landing gear, watching babies being passed over walls, the stories we heard what was happening on the ground and the courage and the men and women who helped people get out. that's not how you want to see a war end. >> griff: i was stunned and discouraged to learn that some 98% of the messages to the call line, the v.a. says to the veterans crisis line and text messages increased after this withdrawal. what needs to be done? >> we have to win wars. that's the point of the military. and the purpose of the military is to win our nation's wars and be a deterrent. for us to show our hand like that, to show defeat and
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failure, that's not what anybody that serves in the military why we're there. we're there to go out there and win. but we also have to be available and ready to talk to any service member, any veteran that -- whose soul is hurting. there is a hotline now, 988 press that and it goes to a suicide mental health line. veterans, press that number. what do we need to do if 43% of veterans after afghanistan were saying they were having a mental melt crisis. 98% surge happened immediately, during and following the evacuation of afghanistan. we have to take better care of our vet answer and we also have to be adults about what happened. we need to do look at the failures and policies that failed in afghanistan to make sure it doesn't happen again. in 1975 it happened in saigon. my uncles who served in vietnam remember the feeling of that
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and now here we are again doing the exact same thing. making the exact same mistakes. giving up strategic ground and leaving americans and allies behind. it is horrific and horrendous and unconscionable. >> griff: unacceptable indeed. your service did not end at the u.s. army special forces. you also with the save our allies organization were there. in fact, you did a special on our fox nation that our viewers can check out about what the save our allies folks did in afghanistan. thank you for your service and our thoughts and prayers for all veterans out there. there it is. check it out. ted kennedy co-founder of save our allies. thank you for taking time. >> thank you. >> julie: i got some personal exciting news to share with you. i have partnered up with brave books. a christian conservative publishing company on a new children's book i'm the author
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♪ ♪ >> hello, everyone and happy labor day. this is a "outnumbered" i am kayleigh mcenany, we also have dr. nicole saphier, and james freeman. to president biden just went from bashing nearly half of america to trying to gaslighted the nation. we all saw it on thursday evening. it involved some of the most explosive comments he made during that speech where he vilified magda republicans and trum
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