stands for. let's join together and remember unified and under that flag we can overcome everything and we can accomplish anything. >> i love her outfit. all red, white and blue. support the movement by using the hashtag flags across the country and america strong with the flag waving photos. >> send your photos to us and we'll relay it. >> see you tomorrow, everybody. >> bill: thanks, good morning. fox news alert now on the search for a missing heiress, memphis police found a body near the scene where liza fletcher was abducted. we'll give the information as soon as we're able. tuesday morning, summer is gone. review mirror as we say goodbye and we say good morning to what's ahead. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: we're glad you came back. we are sorry your summer is over. the weather will get better. i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." we have missed you but we're moving on right now.

we have been following the story abouty liza fletcher since friday when this heiress disappeared on her morning jog. she went jogging and her family reported her missing four hours after that. >> bill: that afternoon investigators got surveillance footage of a man attacking here. they arrested a suspect a day later. >> dana: his name is cleotha abston and served a 20 year prison sentence for kidnapping and appearing in court in an hour. we are reporting live from memphis. >> good morning, guys. 38-year-old cleotha abston will face aggravated kidnapping and evidence tampering charges this morning in a memphis courtroom with the abduction of eliza fletcher. this coming hours after memphis police say they found a

deceased body in a residential neighborhood in south memphis late monday evening. i want to make it clear memphis police haven't confirmed whether or not the remains belong to fletcher. the scene is attracting a large police presence. dozens of officers assisted in the investigation. the body was found a mile away from the apartment complex where abston was seen cleaning the floors of a gmc terrain. the same black s.u.v. police say fletcher was forced into on security footage as a man aggressively rushed her during an early morning jog on the university of memphis campus last friday. we spoke to a criminal defense attorney who tells us whether or not investigators find fletcher, prosecutors have an overwhelmingly strong case against the suspect. >> typically this type of crime is not committed in front of a bus load of nuns. you have little evidence to go on. but in this particular case, there is a lot of pieces of

evidence which, if you put it all together, it spells one thing. the prosecutors are correct and that is proof beyond a reasonable doubt of kidnapping. >> so according to an affidavit not only did abston's phone place him in the area of fletcher's abduction but he allegedly left behind a pair of sandals that linked him through dna testing. abston has a history of kidnapping. in 2000 he was convicted in a kidnapping of a memphis lawyer at gun point. this morning when he is in court he will also face three new charges separate from this case including identity theft and theft of property of $1,000 or less, guys. we'll keep an eye on the court proceedings today. >> dana: more information coming up soon. we'll check in with you. >> bill: politics, the race for

the mid-terms kicking into high gear. both sides jockeying for position. have a listen. >> this is a security election. it's about groceries and gas, being safe and secure in our homes and communities. democrats have caused this problem. >> we'll hold the majority in the house because we have a plan to fix the problems our country is facing. the other side has only a ploy to win back power for themselves and ripping away our constitutional freedom, our reproductive freedom has a wakened millions of voters. >> dana: president biden is hitting the trail where he continues to attack so-called maga republicans as a threat to democracy. we have team fox coverage. james freeman has analysis. let's begin we white house with jacqui heinrich. they have their own countdown clock to the mid-terms. >> they sure did. republicans say biden's strategy assailing his predecessor and maga republicans and leaving little room for discussion about the issues that voters care the most about, they say it will

play right into republican hands this november. nevertheless, president biden is not reversing course. all but abandoning his campaign pledge to be the uniter in chief and firing back at a heckler. >> president biden: everybody is entitled to be an idiot. everybody is, okay? look. extreme maga republicans don't just threaten our personal rights and our economic security, they embrace political violence. >> it caused questions whether biden has any respect for the more than 70 million americans who voted for trump. after trying out new lines on twitter, talking about maga agenda and maga proposals. now he is testing trumpy. >> president biden: the biggest contrast from what maga republicans, the extreme right,

the trumpies, they want to go to -- the maga republicans in congress are coming for your social security as well. >> those attempts to rally his base biden will convene his cabinets. democrats are -- by recent wins. wisconsin senate candidate skipped out on biden's event yesterday and john fetterman joined in on one of biden's three appearances in the last week. jim jordan says biden's name calling isn't helping his party's cause. >> you have to call your opposition names when you have nothing else to point to. we went from safe streets to record crime. we went from a secure border to no border. we went from $2 gas to $5 gas and stable prices to record inflation. >> we'll see the president around 1:15 this afternoon for his cabinet meeting. unclear if he will take any questions.

>> dana: thank you for kicking us off. >> bill: james freeman from the "wall street journal" editorial page. you get the high honor of characterizing the mid-term elections, all right? two months from the actual vote day. where do we stand? >> history says it's a rough year for the president and his party. he is not on the ballot but you look at recent mid-term elections not just rough for the party in power but especially when you have a president as unpopular as he is. sort of like gas prices, sort of like consumer sentiment. we talked about how his polling is not as bad as it was but still awful. >> dana: the quinnipiac poll. republicans had a hefty lead. now it's 47-43 democrats in the lead there. the other thing i think very interesting right now, why covering this race starting today through election day will

be very interesting. "new york times" piece said women are so fired up to vote i've never seen anything like it. if you take all the things you just mentioned, the president's poll numbers, inflation, gas prices, all that and you add the roe v. wade decision that has more women registering than they've seen in the past. this is actually fairly unpredictable at this moment. >> could be. the generic ballot a little more volatile. our friend from real clear politics says it suggests a good republican year when you look at recent trends. it is tough to figure out given you think this is probably about the president's economic mismanagement but that decision does -- has changed things obviously. i still think as people -- if their number one issue is they want abortion to be available, i think they will figure out as they study this issue that while it may not make a lot of conservatives happy it will be broadly available. so i don't really see that as a

driving issue where it has gone back to the states. states are deciding it and the recent data is that it is not being outlawed. >> bill: a couple things clear over the last week the mainstream media characterized the presidency as making a great comeback. i think on friday the hill said biden surges to 40% approval rating. surges was the word they used. here are the democrats who are not campaigning with joe biden and if you look at this list, james, these are all in swing districts. they will be tough elections. colorado, arizona, ohio, nevada, on down the list it runs. come back to what biden's message has been on labor day. he is campaigning not on the issues, he is campaigning against what he called the trumpies. >> we've talked about this. the strange phenomenon where he makes a speech and staff goes out and says he didn't mean that. this week we had a new wrinkle.

he makes the speech and he went out saturday and said no, i didn't really mean that. the maga republicans aren't a big threat to the country and comes back monday and back on the thursday message after repudiating it on saturday. you know, it's obviously have partisan and nasty. that's why the broadcast networks surprisingly decided not to run it. they said it is a partisan speech. >> dana: peter doocy asked him about that. >> mr. president, are all trump supporters a threat to the country? >> president biden: i don't consider any trump supporter a threat to the country. >> dana: what's interesting so he could say that but when he was going through all his accomplishments during that speech he didn't talk about the republicans who helped him get a few of those. he didn't talk about them. he is not separating them out in formal remarks but chastising a rortder for asking the question. >> this game where jacqui said

he was trying outlines where he is trying different ways to describe people he wants everybody to hate and it is the ultramake america great again or maybe the trumpy or extreme. why not just focus on what he said he was going to do, unite the country. by the way, he is running the government. people might not realize given he is talking so much about these great threats, he is in charge. he is the president. >> bill: one last point. what's lost in all this discussion when you talk about ultra-maga or ultra-maga plus or ultra-maga supreme or whatever it is, you lose sight of what you have done in office. >> yeah. >> bill: you have things to talk about. centrists might not like it. republicans might not like it. but he has some things he can talk about. >> i think for base voters. maybe that is a better pitch instead of telling them how much he hates donald trump supporters, maybe he ought to

say look, i did this possibly not constitutional student loan deal. i did all the climate spending that people on the left want, and certainly will be good news for donors who run alternative energy companies. it is a more positive message if you want to speak to your base. >> dana: he does want to speak to his base. you need your base to turn out. what jessica tarlov said democrats are waiting for him to be mean and nasty and this is what they were looking for. maybe for them it can work. >> bill: told you it was a high honor, james. as you kick things off. in the meantime, caught on camera a woman attacked and robbed at gun point by four men over labor day weekend in chicago. neighbors say it is not an isolated incident. >> dana: a carnival ride plummets 50 feet in india. multiple people were hurt. >> bill: new concerns about a potential conflict of interest in the federal probe into

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>> dana: two people dead and multiple buildings destroyed after a wildfire in southern california and spread. thousands and homes in and around the city of hemet were evacuated. brush fire is one of 14 burning across the state as the region faces a brutal heat wave. >> bill: top republican house oversight committee accusing treasury department of running cover for the biden family. it comes after his request to look into reports involving

first son hunter biden were rejected. mark meredith is on that story in washington, d.c. mark, good morning. >> bill, good morning. for months republican congressman james comer is calling on the treasury department to turn over suspicious activity reports tied to the president's son hunter as well as other biden family members. the department is telling comer he is not going to be getting those reports at least for now. comer and house republicans say they want these documents for a national security investigation as they look into whether the president ever benefited financially from his son's foreign business dealings. the treasury department says given the rules already in place and that the fact republicans are in the minority, those reports are simply off limits. treasury argues if they got out the report would leak. in a letter to comer they say it is critical the executive branch continue to receive this information and keep it confidential. unauthorized use or disclosure of confidential information can also undermine ongoing investigations or proceedings.

comer is firing right back. >> they were created for congress to have access to them to be able to track any type of foreign transactions that would lead to terrorist activity. so this is another cover-up in the biden administration to block republican oversight and republican investigations of hunter biden's shady business dealings. >> if republicans end up with congressional majorities are expected to launch sweeping investigations into the biden family's business dealings. the same lawmakers are expected to demand more information if social media companies like facebook about how it handled storesy about hunter biden prior to the 2020 election. republicans are asking facebook to preserve communications with the justice department with campaigns in 2020. if republicans gain subpoena power they'll be on top of this in the new year. >> dana: new concerns about potential conflicts of interest in the federal investigation into hunter biden's business dealings. we're now learning a top official at the justice department was a law partner

with hunter's attorney. john levine is a "new york post" reporter. you pull on one thread and find something else. what is this about? >> the timeline. december 2020 hunter biden retains the legal services of chris clark. chris clark is a partner in a firm down the street from us in new york. big democratic law firm. a month later joe biden is inaugurated president of the united states. day one nicholas mcquaid, another law partner of the firm is appointed to be head of the criminal division at the justice department. okay. so that gives him potentially very, very sweeping authority or powers over any potential hunter investigation. we don't totally know. this is a very big law firm. a lot of partners, maybe they didn't know each other and cheney's husband was also a partner at the law firm. clark and mcquaid served on multiple cases together as co-counsel in 2020 and 2019

right before they went their different career paths. the question becomes is there anything going on here? >> bill: how will you prove it and get to that? we know a lot of these people in washington swim in the same waters. >> right. >> bill: maybe there is something here or maybe it's just -- >> we don't know. >> bill: maybe it's just the way washington works and it could be coincidence. >> you're right. maybe that's how washington works but it is very -- it was a very happy coincidence the two co-law partners on day one of joe biden's presidency is appointed to the senior position which potentially would have jurisdiction over the hunter investigation. >> dana: the other thing is there was the f.b.i. agent that resigned last week. i want to get more on this because "new york post" from yesterday hunter hiding and miranda devine, bobulinski said he gave the f.b.i. the contents of three cell phones containing

encrypted messages between hunter and his businesses partners and documents detailing the biden corrupt influence peddling but the evidence has fallen into the same black hole as hunter's laptop never to be seen again. the senior f.b.i. agent has left and resigned. do you know if there is a preservation order on his phone or his laptop? >> that's a very good question. the truth is i don't know. it is certainly something if there was going to be a sweeping investigation into hunter biden, that would need to be part of it. you wouldn't want the situation where you have almost a hillary email situation where 33,000 emails get deleted and these were normal and just in the course of doing business. >> dana: or they destroyed a phone or repurposed the phone and the information is -- >> you wouldn't want to lose data under the argument under this is the course of doing business. >> bill: if the republicans took the house in november and

they started committee hearings let's say in january of next year, do you know where someone like chuck grassley on the senate side where a jim jordan, say, would start on the hunter biden investigation? >> that's a fabulous question. i mean, there are so many avenues, aren't there? there is places like the justice department with mcquaid but also key players on the laptop itself. people like eric and james gill iar and bank records that we would need to get banks to hand over. there are many different avenues to pursue. they will all get pursued from what i've been told. >> dana: a coincidence that hunter sought legal protection in december of 2020 or he wanted to have more legal representation? >> i know a lot about his legal representation. you email the lawyers when there is a new story.

this is a new attorney, a different attorney before december of 2020. he changed to chris clark. >> dana: keep pulling the threads. >> bill: nice to see you from the "new york post." thanks. >> we're seeing mom and pop shops close up and national chains exit our beautiful city and instead, we are leaving our city to people who are abusing hard drugs which are now legal in our state. >> bill: that's portland, oregon. the people are fed up and moving out. they say the homeless crisis has gotten so bad they have to sell their own home. jason rantz will take that on coming up. california is planning to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by the year 2035. we'll explain how it could affect car sales in more than a dozen other states. veteran homeowners, need cash?

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>> dana: president zelenskyy is ringing the bell at the new york stock exchange virtually this morning. more than six months into the war, zelenskyy says he will not give up any territory. he is calling on president biden to designate russia a state sponsor of terror over their recent actions at the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. he did an interview last night on abc and it's hard to describe, but it looks to me the real concern and fear about what could happen at this nuclear power plant. >> bill: i was watching it on a different monitor. cool what they just did. he face timed in from kyiv. really good example, too. 31 past the hour now. california plans to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles in about the year 2035. if it does, it could also affect car sales in more than a

dozen other states that follow the emission standards in the state of california. got that? a lot of people to watch. william la jeunesse live in l.a. today. good morning, william. >> this began around 2007 and dana will remember when jerry brown adopted tougher emission standards than the bush administration. about a dozen states immediately followed and that kind of became a national standard. that's where we are now. you have basically 17 states that are at a crossroads. do they adopt the new california package, right? most of them will. colorado and pennsylvania probably will not. minnesota is not sure because electric cars don't work as well in the cold. republicans in virginia, however, are saying no. >> so we find ourselves today with this ludicrous law that

virginia has to follow california's law. the law is ludicrous. 2% of all cars sold were electric vehicles. to say in 2026 we'll have 35% and phase them out totally by 2035 is ridiculous. >> right now nationally 6% of cars are electric. in california closer to 12%. that goes to 35% in four years, 68% by 2030, right? the concerns price, electrics are 50% more expensive. you also need a charging station and electrician to install it. most electric car owners have two cars. so a six-hour drive to phoenix or san francisco doesn't take twice as long because you can't find somewhere to find a charging station. not to mention just having electricity. >> try not to use too much electricity in those key hours, they are between 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. in the evening. >> the power grid is already

taxed and then you will put greater demand, significantly greater demand by having all electric cars, you know, i don't see that as a recipe for success personally, at least not in that time span. >> so, bill, the problem we're having with the heat wave and the electrical problem stems back to 2003 when california put in a renewable portfolio standard that 50% of the power come from renew -- they come back to haunt you in 2003, 2017. that's the way it works. >> bill: big question, a lot of people watching. >> dana: in seattle the city is on track to record its most deadly year in recent history. in august 11 homicides. the most in a single month since at least 2008. let's bring in jason rantz,

seattle radio talk show host and good friend of the show. thank you for being here. not good news. we have all these homicides. i want to show you from 2021, a total of 42. we're just at the beginning of september and you have 27 there in seattle. are you hearing people start to get a little panicked about this? >> they are. especially because that 27 number is old. the spd doesn't update its dashboard for months. we're at 44 homicides. we've already done more than what we did last year. on pace as you point out to hit an historic number, 25-year high at the end of the year. people are panicked. there is more and more conversation that frankly didn't take place when they should have last year. we were clearly going in this direction. now you are starting to see some of the liberal columnists call it out. more media outlets pointing to this. the mayor has been making it a key issue even though the council is not. >> dana: are all of these

homicides unrelated? is there gang activity that is driving some of this? >> so it's kind of all over the place. the main driver is gang violence. we're clearly seeing gang violence in seattle and seeing it connected to the drug wars. we, just like other pacific northwest cities and states, have decriminalized drugs. more drug dealers are out in our communities starting to fight with one another. when you see this kind of issue getting in front of some of the homeless encampments you are seeing gun violence breaking out there. across the board we're seeing this hitting specifically because of policy that we can easily point to and say we have seen an increase in violence due to these policies, due to the defunding movement as well. >> dana: then you have just yourself in oregon a tight gubernatorial race. the republican was on hannity's

show. watch this. >> what we are experiencing has been a decade of decline under progressive, extreme, single party leadership in our state and we are feeling it across the whole state but especially portland. less safe today than they've ever been before. >> dana: you have people reportedly leaving their homes. deciding to pull up stakes and leaving because they say the homeless problem is so bad that their quality of life has suffered as well. >> you are starting to see the same trend across the west coast especially homelessness. the policy there for the most part is let homeless people do what they want without any consequences and when they are ready to ask for help that's when we'll give it to them. a lot of the homeless crisis is fueled by unaddressed mental health issues, drug addiction. not folks just going to willingly raise their hands and say i need help.

we're enabling them. unless you are going to have a policy that takes this seriously and includes sweeps while connecting people to services you won't see any change. unfortunately we're starting to see more people just say i'm done. i don't pay what i pay to live in portland, seattle, san francisco, to be surrounded by human waste and folks who frankly can be really dangerous. >> dana: do you think the republican does have a chance in the gubernatorial race in oregon? >> they have a chance. i don't know if it will be easy. the same here in washington we have some conservatives who have stepped up on the senate side where people are paying attention. the unfortunate reality we still live in a region that is deeply blue and people have blinders on and don't want to acknowledge the problems that they have caused by embracing some of these policies. so it is going to take a lot for them to decide to vote for a republican. that's the unfortunate reality here. however, if there was ever a time where you'll start to see

that kind of shift, it would be now. >> dana: it's a beautiful part of the world this time of year especially. thank you. >> bill: from seattle to chicago. a woman brutally attacked in broad daylight. violence caught on camera, a ring camera on a door. police say it happened in a residential part of the city's north side on sunday when several men got out of a car, wrestled the victim to the ground at gun point and took off with her belongings. this is the lake view neighborhood just north of town. >> dana: also there was another huge fentanyl bust at the southern border and look at how cartels are fueling the crisis. be right back. i'd like to take a moment to address my fellow veterans because i know so many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan, for up to 100% of your home's value. if you need cash for you family, call newday usa.

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. >> bill: terrifying video from india. 16 injured including children. a high-rise carnival ride plummeting 50 feet. listen to the sound. it hurled several riders into the air. officials say it happened at a fair in northern india on sunday. the swing malfunction swung out of control. no serious injuries reported, wow. that's a miracle. >> dana: incredible. >> bill: nerves frayed as you watch it hit the ground. >> dana: the manhunt underway in caen for a man that went on a stabbing spree with his brother on sunday and killed 10 people on a rural indigenous reserve. one suspect was found dead yesterday and doesn't look like he killed himself. alexis mcadams, you have the details. >> we're learning more about this. all unfolding for the past couple of days in canada. one brother dead, another on the run. the manhunt continues this morning. police looking into the possibility that one of the brothers killed the other.

the siblings went on that stabbing spree this weekend in the canadian province of saskatchewan. the brothers charged with murder, attempted murder and breaking and entering. damian sanderson will not face those charges. he was found dead on monday. his injuries were not self-inflicted but haven't said how he died yet. myles still on the run. investigators believe he is hurt and still armed and dangerous. listen. >> even if he is injured, it does not mean see not still dangerous. myles has a lengthy criminal record involving both person and property crimes. >> this is where the attacks happened in saskatchewan on sunday. police say the brothers attacked nearly 30 people in 13 different locations. 10 people were killed and 19 people injured. detectives say some of the people were targeted, others chosen at random. the crime scenes spreading

throughout the korea nation, a rural area more than 3,000 away from tonight. both indigenous people who live on and off the reserve. >> yesterday i was thinking it could have been me. they could have killed me. i don't know why they did this. they took innocent people's lives. >> still no exact motive. the community wants the know why it happened. >> dana: a terrible story. thank you. >> bill: the judge dismissed the lawsuit over the naked baby image on a nirvana album. spencer eldon was four months old when his photograph was selected for the famous cover of never mind in 1991. he filed three versions of his

complaint. the judge's decision prevents him from filing a fourth. it might be over. jimmy failla, hello to you, sir. a bit of a back story. his mom and dad were paid $200 for that photo which was later altered to show the baby chasing a dollar bill that was dangling from a fish hook. >> full disclosure, i rocked out to this album in my 87 chrysler lebaron pretty hard. the lawsuit was always a scam. my parents could get sued for every awkward photo they threw me in i would be a zillion air. this kid created this photo and gone to parties as the nirvana baby. he would show up and say i was the baby and meaning he was okay with the album until he found there was more money in not being okay with the album. it smells like teen laziness. he didn't want to go to work.

i'll sue you. >> dana: i imagine the court was rolling its eyes. this is ridiculous. >> he has brought this motion before and again he was four months old. no one coming up to him on the streets and being like i recognize you, you are the baby. the guy is a lot older. the point is get a job. >> bill: lebaron is a v-8. >> it was an 87, relax. >> bill: from moscow russia's foreign ministry is telling a lot of americans they aren't welcome here. and that list includes sean penn and ben stiller and six u.s. senators. >> if we're being honest banning from russia is like banning them from a new york jets came. doing them a favor at this point. >> dana: that's great. cross it off my list. >> it's fine. they banned sean penn and ben stiller most recently. people attribute that with the meeting to zelenskyy but i think ben stiller was banned

because of meet the fockers. there is a lot of focus on superficial stuff like this on the putin end. this also tells me we're not hurting him enough with our sanctions. if we want the take it to a serious place. if he has time to yell at celebrities i have a hard time buying in. zelenskyy, to be clear, put-in is a thug and dirt bag but i wish i had zelenskyy's work/life balance. he is taking photos with celebrities and award shows. i'm jealous. >> dana: one of the things is keep attention. when the news media tends to lose attention celebrities go and that's one way. russia has a ton of money. sanctions haven't hurt but starting to buy weapons from north korea which seems like something we could maybe stop. >> it seems like the kind of thing we should be more focused on. i see what putin is doing in the sense he is trying to sell himself at home and i think he is almost doing so effectively as the sympathetic party when we all know who he is, a dirt

bag. if they were going to step in. the one thing we keep hearing and jimmy failla hears it on the street, we keep being told this war is the root of all economic evil in our country. i feel like we should be doing more to end it than sending ambassadors and paychecks. >> bill: they said the hostile actions of american authorities that is a russiaphobic course destroying by lat hall ties and confrontation between russia and the u.s. will be rebuffed. we were told fox news digital it is largely symbolic, russia's sanctions aren't really biting that much because few u.s. citizens would want the travel to russia and do business with moscow including jimmy failla. >> i ain't going. we don't want sean penn, either. >> dana: i love how hemmer will grammar check the russians.

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drop in reading for 9-year-olds, the biggest since 1990 and the first drop ever this math. schools dealt with shutdowns california enforced some of the strictest covid regulation. talking to parents the test results are no surprise. they've seen it developing and many are sounding the alarm on the impact this will have. >> when they came out for us, the scores, no surprise, we were outraged. we cannot trust that they will do the right thing. we need transparency and accountability. we need to be a part of the conversation. >> parents tell me it isn't a democrat or republican issue the white house put the blame game on the previous administration and touted that money from the american rescue plan. it is impossible to track the funding episcopal fly california. no amount of money will help students catch up. time is the answer for many

parents. >> we figure out ways to creatively give kids more time learning. that might be adding a 13th year of school. it might be adding a month at the beginning of school or the end of school. extended school year. >> they also were telling me about the impact of the mental health crisis. the cyberbullying. the lack of socialization that happened the last couple of years and it won't be felt directly in the test scores but it certainly will be seen for years to come, bill. >> bill: a lot of people will say we told you so. wait for that to come out. kelly, nice to see you today. >> dana: fox news alert. a body found in a heavily wooded area near where eliza fletcher was kidnapped is confirmed to be her. she was found seven miles where she was abducted. the suspect cleotha abston was identified and taken custody on saturday. the hearing has been canceled as additional charges are now

being added for first degree murder. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. sad news indeed. >> bill: good morning to you. i'm bill hemmer. police not releasing an official cause of death. a kindergarten teacher, eliza fletcher went for her morning jog as she does very early. 4:00 a.m. when she was attacked last friday near the university of memphis. detectives saying surveillance video shows the suspect aggressively running toward her, grabbing her off the street and forcing her into his s.u.v. leaving her phone and water battle behind and shoes with d.n.a. matching the suspect. his cell phone signal places him near the scene. >> dana: we'll cover it. criminal defense attorney and former district attorney and d.c. detective join us coming up. charles, we spoke to you an hour ago and now we have this confirmation. >> good morning, dana.

we just got this confirmation from the memphis police. they posted on twitter that the deceased victim that they located in the residential neighborhood in south memphis yesterday evening is, in fact, eliza fletcher. they also said in this statement they put out on twitter that additional charges for 38-year-old suspect in the case cleotha abston have been added for first degree murder and first degree murder in perpetration of kidnapping. last night, dana and bill, i was at the scene in south memphis and you could see the writing on the wall. police weren't saying much about what they were looking for or what they had in this residential neighborhood but the amount of officers that we saw over there, you know, sort of led people to believe that they did find fletcher in this area. again, they have not said what her cause of death is.

police have said all along in an affidavit that they believe that fletcher sustained serious bodily injury when she was running on the campus of university of memphis and this man just came up and aggressively attacked her and pulled her into a vehicle. now, we've been outside of the courthouse this morning. we're hearing that abston's court appearance today has been canceled. we've been inside trying to work some of our sources inside to see if we can get more information on that. those details are scarce right now. we're working to see if the hearing will happen today. but again police have confirmed the body that they found in a residential neighborhood in south memphis yesterday is eliza fletcher. new charges added to the suspect in this case, abston. again, guys, the evidence -- everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty but the evidence police presented in

the affidavit seem to overwhelmingly point to abston in this case. you mentioned it, dana, they pointed to the fact that cell phone belonging to the victim pinged in the area where fletcher was running last friday on the university of memphis campus. also the items that were left behind at the abduction site, cell phone as well as the pair of sandals that were later sent to state investigators who linked them to abston through d.n.a. he, of course, has a history of kidnapping. he was convicted in 2000 to more than 20 years in prison for kidnapping a memphis lawyer and holding him at gun point and driving him around the city for hours until that lawyer was finally able to alert a security guard and get some help. so, you know, again, he has a history of this and it appears after being released from jail

less than two years later he has done it again allegedly at least. >> dana: charles watson, thank you. our condolences to the family as they get this news. >> bill: gentlemen, good morning to you. phil, if there was one item you passed to our producers last night. there was apparently someone who was stalking the women's cross-country team in that city. what can you add to that? >> when it comes to major case investigations like this, bill, it is really hard to believe in coincidences. i think they said previously they didn't think it might be him. i don't want to rule that out yet and i don't think police are ruling it out because where there is smoke, there is fire. this is just too big of a coincidence to ignore. this right now is going to be about pursuing the death penalty against this defendant. that's why you heard charles tell us a minute ago about the charges of murder in furtherans

of kidnapping. that's what triggers the death penalty being a possibility. they have to piece together his motive. they got the who, how and where, now they have to figure out the why. they'll look at his cell phone and browser history and going to piece together his movements in the hours, minutes or even maybe the days leading up to this and see why he would have done this. was it something where she was stalked? did he plan to do this? was the premeditated or something that happened like just in the spur of the moment based on some type of impulse that he had? was she in the wrong place at the wrong time? right now it could go either way. i think they're looking at building a death penalty prosecution here. >> dana: ted, they found the suspect relatively quickly. not quickly enough as we'll find out what happens in the four minutes she was in his car when he first took her in it. what else did you pick up from watching this over the weekend?

>> you know, i've covered this case, unfortunately, since its inception. i can tell you, i think there is overwhelming evidence that cleotha abston actually committed this offense. this d.n.a. found in the sandals put him right there on the scene. his cell phone pinged in that area. you know, dana and bill, this just breaks my heart because i unfortunately anticipated these results. but i was hoping that this woman would be brought back home to her family, to her two children. i can tell you the reason that the authorities were not willing to make a deal with abston to get any information because they wanted the death penalty on the table. and i really believe that this

is a death penalty case, and i am hoping that they will apply the death penalty to abston and that if he is convicted i hope he goes to death in this. this is just so horrible. a mother, just jogging, 4:30 in the morning, something she always did. this woman was an heiress. she was -- she had a billion -- the heiress of a $4 billion estate and she was a pre-kindergarten teacher. she was just trying to help and serve her community. it is just so heartbreaking, guys, so heartbreaking. >> bill: we may see him in a moment here. we'll wait on what the judge decides in memphis. phillip, there was a court document that stated that gmc terrain that she was forcibly

put into when she was abducted sat in a parking lot for four minutes before driving off. and some people are suggesting that that's the critical four minutes. what do you take from that? >> i agree, bill. you know, i think that when she fought back, that may have caught him off guard and the vehicle sat stationary for four minutes. the police probably thought it was a murder investigation. they stated she had received a serious injury and i believe they pieced it together and have been building a murder case from almost the very beginning of this. it is almost like during that four minutes there was a struggle. it happened in the back of that vehicle, and it caught him offguard. i don't know. we'll have to see what the evidence is. i don't know if it was a situation where he was planning to commit murder or that because she fought back he went ahead and committed a murder because she may have caught him

offguard. it will go either way. i think that's something the police are looking at very carefully at this time. >> dana: one of the things we know call for number three we can put up. cleotha abston served 20 years for kidnapping a prosecutor and charged with assault and rape at age 12. so he was definitely on the radar but unfortunately not behind bars when this happened. >> what we are seeing a picture of is a person with no social redeeming qualities. and those kind of people i don't believe need to be on this earth. when you don't have or cannot have the sensitivity for the actions that you've taken, as you said, as a teenager he has -- as a juvenile he was charged with rape and assault as a juvenile. then as an adult to kidnap a lawyer and to be put in jail for over 20 years and to get

out and for this to happen, i can tell you, bill and dana, that for 24 minutes they got surveillance tapes. 24 minutes before the actual abduction they could see that that gmc vehicle they've been able to associate with abston was on the scene there, stalking perhaps this woman. all of that will be part of the investigation. what they have to do now is to find out the manner and the cause of death. i'm sure that the autopsy is in the process of being performed or will be performed shortly. but what the authorities were doing, we were racing for time. he had been charged with aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence. and he was under a $500,000 bail and could have gotten out if he could have come up with $50,000 if they had not found

the unfortunate body of eliza. so as we reported here, they are now looking at upping the charges. so this man certainly will not be getting out. by way, his brother, mario, where this body was found was not far from his brother's home. his brother has also now been arrested, mario, abston's brother has been charged with some narcotics charges. >> bill: apparently there was reporting over the weekend that the brother described what you call tampering with evidence and cleaning out that s.u.v. we'll see how that enters into this case, if it goes forward. just so our audience knows here, last friday morning, friday of labor day weekend, september 2. she heads out for a morning run. apparently typical for her to go out at 4:00 in the morning. long distance runner. trains for marathons.

reported missing by her family 4 hours later. 7:45 a.m. in the afternoon on friday suspect seen on surveillance video attacking eliza. ted, you just described that. the suspect is arrested on saturday and then as of late yesterday the 5th of september the unidentified body had been found at 5:00 in the afternoon. verification a moment ago. phillip, on this recording video, is this just a regular security camera? does this come from a ring camera? is this some -- is this run by the city, do we know where it comes from? >> i don't know if it's been report evidence where it came from. it has been described as security surveillance video. that's not uncommon. good police work involves looking to all available sources. in this day and age there are security cameras everywhere. the police did absolutely the right thing. they went to businesses to see what was out there in that area. all they have to do is drive to

the scene and look around. is there a bank or school or traffic camera, maybe a city crime camera? that's what they used to show that he was in that area a few minutes after this abduction allegedly took place. so that's why i say they need to determine what this actual premeditation and deliberation, was he there stalking this specific victim? or was he acting on some type of impulse and was this a crime of opportunity? we don't know if he was normally driving around at 4:00 in the morning or not. but because he is a billionaire heiress it is a fair question that needs to be answered. was this something there was a kidnapping intended for maybe ran some sew and when she fought back or was it for some other reason that we haven't yet even considered? >> dana: when phillip first answered about all the questions that need to be

asked, i feel like we'll get the answers to the how and when and the what. but the answer to the question of the why, that's going to be very difficult. we understand that a member of the eliza fletcher family is now in the courtroom and we're waiting any moment. here you are. this is cleotha abston walking into the courtroom. he is the suspect. we want to hear the charges. let's listen in. >> speak as clearly as you can through your mask there. we have two cases on the docket today and in one case listed here, cleotha abston, second case they have listed cleotha abston henderson. which is correct? which name is correct? abston-henderson? sir?

where does the abston come in? >> [inaudible] >> social security? i'll address you that way. mr. abston your first case you are charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with or fabricating evidence in a criminal case. your bond is set in that case in the amount of $500,000. your second case you are charged with a misdemeanor offense. value of $1,000 or less. identity theft, and possession of a credit card. your bond is set in that case in the amount of $10,000 by the judicial commissioner. you are presumed to be innocent of the charges. you have a right to have a lawyer represent you on these

charges. that is why you are asked to fill out some information for me for each case in an affidavit. raise your right hand, sir. do you swear or affirm that the facts and the information that you are submitting to each of your affidavits concerning whether you can make bond and hire an attorney is true and correct information, sir? lift your hand up. in each of your affidavits for each case you state at this time you are not able to make bond, have no one to help you, and you are not able to afford a lawyer, is that correct? your affidavits will be filed in each of the court jackets and based upon your affidavits i will appoint an attorney to represent you. you will be assigned a lawyer,

counsel, by the office of the shelby county public defender. i'm referring your cases today to the office and holding your cases over for a short continuance so they can assign a lawyer to represent you. who will review your cases and the facts. >> [inaudible] >> if you will sign on both jackets. step over and sign the jacket for me, please. >> we're filing a motion for extra judicial statements from the prosecution -- [inaudible] >> file the motions you need to at this time. >> we'll ask the court for -- >> i understand there are additional charges still coming. how do you want to handle this

today? >> a couple of things. first in regards to this motion i think she said subject to the order. the state will intend as we always do the ethical rules about what we can say and what we can't say. i don't understand a request for any sort of gag order at this time because it's the first court date. >> there is nothing in the record now. i haven't seen a written motion. if a written motion is filed i'll review it and rule on it. you will have the opportunity to be heard. >> second thing additional charges were filed this morning for murder, premeditated murder and murder in the perp traition of a kidnapping. i would expect the judicial commissioner to send those cases here as your honor stated and expect them to to refer to your honor with a bond setting on those cases. i think it would normally come to this court with no bond set. i think it would make the most

sense record keeping and everything else right now to go ahead and show no bond set for this matter as well so we get everything straight in the record. >> if there will be any motion filed to reduce bond or set no bond or revoke bond, i want it in writing in the record. bond has been set by the judicial commissioner at this time. if there will be any request by the defense to reduce or change the bond it might be in writing per the statute. it needs to change the bond or increase it or revoke it, it must be in writing. if you'll file your motion, the case is not in front of me and it requires a written motion by counsel for the defense, for the state, to file a written motion if there will be a

change in bail. i'm assuming -- we can assume the clerk's office to assign the case to this courtroom. ly have to ask them to do this. the person is charged with a third it is who is next on the assignment. i will call down to the clerk's office and request they set the case in front of me for the new charges in this court. if you can hold this to the morning. >> [inaudible] >> i will take it up if and when it is filed and give the state a chance to look at it and read it and respond to it in writing. let's not do all our motions on the first day. let's not do that. let's get the proper status to consider the motions, okay?

we'll take this up and i assume the other case will be on the docket. it is not before me. this is all hearsay. i want it on the record and before me before making any rulings on anything like that. all right? we'll hold this for tomorrow morning at 9:00. september 7th, i understand there are other charges and we'll be in this court tomorrow morning at 9:00 and we'll check it out at that time. thank you. >> dana: you are watching the hearing in the courtroom there in memphis, tennessee. we know eliza fletcher, her body has been confirmed to be the one that they found at 507

p.m. last night. she had at least one family member in the courtroom there. the suspect, cleotha abston, has appeared. he is there -- very difficult to hear, one, because of the audio quality but also because of the masks. we're trying our best to figure it out. phillip. can you help us understand what just happened in regards to the bond? >> sure. dana. this appears to be the parties, the prosecutor and now the public defender's office appointed to this. appears they are clearly up housekeeping matters. as best as i can tell and the audio was a little poor but i think i could tell the murder charge is not actually before this court at this time. the judge has said he didn't want to take up any kind of oral motions. he wanted everything to be in writing. so the prosecutor wanted maybe there to be no bond on both charges. the judge said we'll leave things the way they are right now and i'll wait until the

other case gets properly before me and make sure the clerk of court sends both cases to the same judge. it doesn't make sense to have the things separated. ultimately everything will get consolidated together. this was a fairly typical and normal kind of first appearance situation. there may be another court date. i couldn't tell if the judge set one. there may be another court date similar to this with respect to the murder charge that is not yet formally before this particular judge. this is all housekeeping. nothing earth shattering is what was to be expected. of note, the defendant did indicate under oath to this judge he was not able to afford to hire his own lawyer and so the public defender's office was appointed to formally represent him. the p.d. wanted some kind of a gag order and the judge said i won't get into that right now. i will take up any motions after they're properly filed in writing by the parties. >> bill: i heard september 7th,

tomorrow. which means they're back in court, ted. i heard two counts especially aggravated kidnapping, i don't know how that is defined in tennessee. and then tampering with evidence which is what we talked about moment ago. the prosecutor trying to revoke his bond or increase the bond and the judge said i can't do it based on state law. come back and put it in writing and we'll consider it. i would assume that is what will be considered tomorrow when they are back in court. >> yeah. what they were dealing here today with was the fact that he was the aggravated kidnapping and the tampering, there was a $500,000 bond that had been in place and again, as i said earlier, it would take $50,000 to get out. what they were dealing with was the fact that he could not even

make the $50,000 bond. what will happen, i think, tomorrow is that they will elevate the charges. the charges will be before this judge as my co-host that's with me said. that was not before the judge today and the judge will take that up when the charges are formally before him in writing. this is the way things are clearly done in court. but still, they've got to deal with the manner and the cause of death in this case. i think that the authorities clearly knew a lot more than they had let on to the public about whether this woman, eliza, was still alive. and they were just waiting to find unfortunately body if she was dead. that was very necessary because this guy could very well have

gotten out today if he would have come up with $50,000 and that was all they had to work with, with a $500,000 bond. >> bill: good clarification. thank you for that ted and phillip. we'll call on you again. eliza fletcher, 34 years old, school teacher, granddaughter of a prominent business family in memphis, her body has been found. thank you, men. >> dana: also news overseas, new leader in the u.k., liz truss taking over at prime minister replacing boris johnson after a meeting with queen elizabeth. a heated senate race in colorado. republican o'day running against democrat bennett. we're 62 days away from the election. >> republicans need to focus on gasoline, groceries and god and stick to it. don't deviate. inflation buzz wo.

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>> dana: liz truss is the new british p.m. she met with queen el elizabeth in scotland. former prime minister boris johnson met with the queen and resigned. he announced his intent to resign two months ago because of multiple controversies and lack of confidence. >> bill: she has a lot of challenges. economy being issue one. >> dana: energy prices to come this winter are really uneveryone's mind. that is happening. >> bill: see how it goes. abortion rights a major mid-term issue. 60 days voters go to the poll and many democrats making the dobbs decision a central part of the campaigns. republicans have their focus on other priorities. aishah hosni is running that

down for us today. good morning. >> good morning to you, bill. that's right. republicans are still talking about high inflation, high climb, security, pocketbook issues. meanwhile democrats are really seeing voters be energized over the abortion issue. so according to a new quinnipiac poll abortion is the most urgent issue for democrats. in fact, dccc chair maloney says the scotus ruling has a wakened millions of voters. house ranking member jim jordan telling fox this morning that republicans should lean into the dobbs decision. >> lean into. we're the pro-life party and protect the sanctity of human life. democrats have the radical position who think you should be able to take the unborn child's life until their birthday. this was a huge win for the precious nature of human life. i don't think we should shy away from it. >> republican national

committee chair ronna mcdaniel recently told the a.p. the g.o.p. needs to narrow its message on abortion pointing out the past four republican presidents after the roe decision believed in the exception but also limitations, bill, adding the g.o.p. cannot allow the democrats out there to basically shape this abortion narrative. >> bill: aishah hosni with a preview. with more here is dana. >> dana: democrats spent millions promoting a far right republican in the colorado senate candidate hoping for an easy win in november. it backfired and incumbent democrat michael bennett is facing the next guest, republican businessman joe o'day. now you have bennett's campaign trying to paint you as a right wing trump maga extremist even though they tried to do the opposite during the primary. what is your biggest challenge 62 days out from the election.

>> thanks for having me on this morning. it is about resources. our message is clear. it is clean. this is a referendum on joe biden and michael bennett and the economy they have collapsed here in the united states. inflation at a record high, gas prices over the roof, crime at an all-time high. those are the things that working americans here in colorado are talking about. he is well resourced and will outspend me 8-1 but i'm used to being a underdog. i enjoy it. we'll come from behind. we got within the margins now. this is a race and we're excited about it. >> dana: i understand you have internal polling say you are within the margin of error. the race is tightening and now see a ton of ads running both for you and against you and michael bennett will have the same. here is one of his ads. this is what he said about you. watch this. >> michael bennett has always

fought to protect a woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions. joe o-dea opposes the law. he would have voted to confirm trump's supreme court justices who overturned roe v. wade. >> dana: what is your response to that ad? >> it paints me as as an absolute pro-life. that's not where i'm at. i've already been consistent through my message since i got in this race that protecting women's right to choose up through five months. i'll vote that way. so he is just trying to push me to the far right. they are trying to make this contest about something it's not. i won't change the abortion law here and so we're going to move forward. we are talking about gas, we're talking about inflation, we're talking about crime. those are the things that are resonating now with working americans here in colorado. >> dana: one other topic. you did not finish college. you have gone on to create an

incredible business and have several hundred employees. the student loan bail-out that president biden announced, what do you hear about that or how do you personally feel about that on a principled level? >> what i'm hearing is it's a transfer of debt. i have guys that have been with me for 30 years, they paid for their education, some of them chose not to go to college and they don't want the pay for someone else's education. it is a transfer, a tax on working americans. i'm hearing it will cost the average american $2,000 a year the pay for somebody else's tuition. it is disingenuous and they're trying to buy votes. will they do that every year? >> dana: all right, well, i don't know. that is a good question indeed. this is going to be one of the races to watch and we'll be no doubt following a lot of what's happening in colorado. you have a heat wave going on out there i heard from my mom. >> it has been pretty hot. thanks again. >> bill: president biden

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>> president biden: no more drilling on federal lands or no more drilling including offshore. no ability for the oil industry to control to drill, end, number one. >> bill: president biden making good on that promise. "wall street journal" analysis reveals the white house so far has leased fewer acres for drilling both offshore and on federal land than any other administration going back to the end of the second world war. we barely drove cars back then. fox business anchor david asman is here. >> we were all driving horses and buggies. what's the deal? >> it's very interesting. the deal is what he was saying. he was telling democrats that. of course, when he became president oil prices went sky high because we weren't giving out more leases and we weren't

increasing oil production. he changed his tune. now what they've been saying for the past year is that oh, we've never had more leases than we have now. we've never had more oil drilling than we have now. it is not true. this "wall street journal" piece is excellent. i would advise anybody that has a chance to look at it. based on bureau of land management and ocean emergency management data. you have to go back to harry truman in 1945 to find somebody that has provided fewer leaseings than what we have now. it is extraordinary. even president obama had more, 7.25,000 oil leases. under biden is 0.13. it is pathetic. i see 0.13. it is still pretty small. >> bill: these are the acres leased. it's in the millions, by the way. >> dana: the other thing is it's very frustrating to wake up this morning and see opec

they will ratchet back production in september. >> going in the opposite direction where the president asked them to go. we're continuing to do everything we can to get the iranians to sign the nuke deal that would provide us with all the iranian oil. they are trying to flood the nation with oil from our enemies and stop oil production in the united states. it makes no sense. we can't forget about natural gas, either. they are doing the same with natural gas pipelines and dreiling. making it very difficult to drill for natural gas. you look what's happening in europe right now. they are in a crisis, a real crisis. yes, a lot has to do with the war but if we hadn't slowed down our natural gas production in the united states to the extent that we have, we would be able to supply them with l and g. we had plans during the final part of the trump administration to provide port

facilities for liquid national gas all over. russians would be begging people if not for what the biden administration has been doing in cutting drilling, cutting pipelines and leases. >> bill: a lot has to do with climate change and the commitment to the left. i would venture to guess, i don't know if the piece covered it or not, but they are raising a lot of money in political donations based on the issue itself. >> you mention climate change. the interesting thing is what the europeans are being forced to do and us are relying on coal to fill the gap. all of our energy grids are weak now because we have this tremendous gap in oil and natural gas. the same is happening in europe. they haven't supplied -- europe was much further along in their green plans than we were. if you want to see our future look what is happening in europe now. they are opening all kinds of coal production plants closed down because they have no

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sharping the anti-maga attacks going toward the mid-term elections. what intel do some democrats know that has them still keeping their distance from biden, even as he is boasting about recent policy victories? plus a top republican now accusing the treasury department of running cover for hunter biden. jason chaffetz, pete hegseth, art laffer, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: oklahoma city police releasing footage of a police chase last month. check this out showing the suspect fleeing his home in a truck with a boat behind. moments after he shot and killed a deputy. serving him with an eviction notice. watch this. deputies arrested the suspect after a high-speed chase and he is facing charges including first degree murder. the shooting victim is deputy bobby schwartz, the first deputy shot and killed in the

county since 1935. >> bill: border patrol reports two more major drug seizures at the border at the port of entry in arizona. victor avila is a special agent. the author of the book called agent under fire, his partner was killed by a drug cartel. sir, thank you for your time and good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. >> bill: we know it's a problem and we're not doing much to stop it. how can we effect the drug cartels in mexico from killing americans? >> well, we have to first of all recognize, bill, the imminent threat these cartels bring to the united states. it is the fentanyl, methamphetamine, human trafficking. now the cartels work in all of these illicit activities. it used to be drug cartels. they should be designated as foreign terrorist

organizations, which is now the new way i think that we approach them to finally take them out. by designating them as ftos we would bring new resources like the department of defense resources, freeze their assets. we know the cartels are -- their motive is power and money. let's freeze their assets. take them out by taking away their money and power. >> bill: what are we waiting on? >> well, having this administration doesn't help, bill. we see the deaths. i have a friend of mine who lost his 16-year-old son who fentanyl poisoning and you know what he told me the other day? we're suffering about three 9/11 attacks per month in the country and no one is paying attention. that's how serious this problem is with the cartels with the help of china, the precursor, the chemicals. mexico is not being held accountable so there is a lot of ways to attack this and it

is just not coming forth, not even from our own government. it is a big issue. they are a threat to the whole country. >> bill: the seizures year-to-date. we've already beaten the record. once again we're number one, right? fiscal year-to-date through july, 10,000 pounds seized. that's just about more than last year and the year before and the year before that. here is your major bust in the month of august. on the 24th of august. pounds of fentanyl pills. day before that 2 1/2 pounds fentanyl powder, two weeks prior to that 41 pounds of fentanyl powder. all of that goes into -- they lace it in drugs. you don't know what you are taking. before you know, just a speck of that can kill you. >> not only will it kill you. those it doesn't kill. fentanyl is a highly addictive drug. one time of use you will be

hooked on this drug. so we have that issue on top of that. the methamphetamine also that accompanies a lot of these counterfeit pills have a huge impact on law enforcement across the country. the people committing crimes to get their hands on these type of drugs. it is a big issue and, you know, the cartels don't care what and who they affect. they have no regard for human life. i know that firsthand. they killed my partner next to me. i was shot three times and survaifd by the grace of god. they continue to face the threat not just in the border states but everywhere in our country. like i mentioned, it's the other human elements they don't care about. using a lot of the illegal aliens is not just at the port of entry where they bring in the drugs but between the port of entry utilizing the migrants to bring in the drugs themselves. >> bill: tell me about your partner. >> we were ambushed back in

2011 by a cartel while we were driving on the main corridor from monterey back to mexico city. we were assigned to the u.s. embassy there and ambushed by eight shooters and tragically the agent was legally wounded and lost him in the line of duty. i survived being shot three times. this is personal to me. i want to be able to bring the awareness of how these cartels have grown and how the power, how the influence. they have taken over the country of mexico, bill. they have influenced not just in the police but political spectrum as well. journalists. mexico is the most dangerous country for a journalist to work in right now. not the middle east, not over there. it is in mexico. they have killed officially 15. but the official number is up to 30. this is what we have -- we get impacted with the ripple effect what is happening in mexico in you are country because it is

coming to every corner. it is not just illegal immigration. it is everything else that accompanies it. >> bill: you bring a very important message to this. thank you, victor, for joining us today. good luck on your book called "agent under fire." >> dana: i'm sorry for that agent who didn't make it. it's a terrible outcome. good to have you back. >> bill: a little bit of beach brain. >> dana: "the faulkner focus" is next. here is harris. >> harris: why is the president of the united states attacking half the country? the name calling, the nasty words all meant to motivate his democrat base. the voters and to bully anybody who doesn't agree with him. so what does that make him? maybe desperate to help democrats in this final sprint to the critical mid-term elections. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". i'm glad to be back