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billionaire heiress in memphis. police confirming a short time ago the body found monday afternoon is that of missing kindergarten teacher and mother of two eliza fletcher. the suspect in the disappearance is now charged with first-degree murder. great to be back with you, john. >> john: good to see you as well, sandra. this is "america reports." sad news to start us off. fletcher had been missing since going on a jog early friday morning. surveillance video shows a man believed to be cleotha abston henderson exit his truck and aggressively run toward fletcher. the man then forces fletcher into his car. >> sandra: court documents say he was seen cleaning his truck and acting strange before the attack. he is a convicted kidnapper, spending nearly 20 years in prin for a similar crime carried out back in 2001. >> john: criminal defense

attorney with more on this in moments, but charles watson is in memphis. what's the latest, charles, and the charges against the suspect? >> good afternoon, unfortunately the memphis police department confirming the human remains that was found in south memphis monday evening is that of memphis school teacher and mother of two, and cleotha abston henderson charged with first-degree murder and first-degree murder in interptration of murder and tampering charges. >> outcome of this investigation is not what we hoped for, we are nonetheless pleased to remove this dangerous predator off the streets of memphis. >> so in court this morning prosecutors asked the judge to revoke abston henderson's $500,000 bond, but because the

new murder and kidnapping charges were not on the docket today, the judge kept his bond in place telling prosecutors to submit a formal motion to be taken up at another hearing. all of this unfolding after police say they discovered fletcher's body in a residential neighborhood in south memphis monday evening. her body was located in an abandoned home less than a mile away from the apartment collection where abston henderson was seen cleaning the floors of a gmc terrain, the same black suv they say fletcher was forced into on security footage as a man aggressively rushed here during an early morning jog on the university of memphis campus last friday. guys, i mention abston henderson is in prison right now on a $500,000 bond. he is not expected to post bond. he said in court this morning that he was unable to afford the 50 -- the 10% that he's expected to put up for that bond. again, the judge asking the

prosecution to file a formal motion that is expected to be heard at a hearing some time wednesday morning. guys. >> john: we'll keep following that, thanks very much. appreciate it. sandra. >> sandra: criminal defense attorney, tragic ending to the story although the investigation is ongoing. what do the authorities do next as far as determining a motive, why this man decided to kill this amazing mother of two and teacher to many? >> my heart goes out to the family, it is just the worst allegations involved. they don't have to establish a motive, to answer the question. good news is you don't always know and so the law then says you don't ever have to have a motive. a guy who allegedly did this has been to prison for 20 years. he may just like to do stuff like this, he may be that

tormented, that disturbed that that's his thing. prosecutors don't have to prove motive. >> sandra: the ladies on "outnumbered," the moms take the kids to school, and they try to get in workouts, and her case early in the morning, any sort of habit or trail that you do on a continual basis, five days a week, someone could see you doing that. he do have been lurking and know she did runs early in the morning. we know he was lurking the 20, 25 minutes before she entered sort of his web, if you will. the surveillance video did show that he was wandering in that area for quite some time before she ran through. >> that's correct. and if you believe what the police are saying, no reason to doubt them, this guy is a

predator and so predators get out there and they look for people who may be vulnerable, and it would not surprise me if he studied her movement and then acted on it. >> sandra: he had a rap sheet, he went to jail, he was serving 20 years for already a similar crime, aggravated kidnapping. you look back as a juvenile he had a long record. should this man have ever been walking freely in the streets? >> in theory, no. but 20 years is a pretty long sentence. i would defer to the prosecutors and the judge who signed off on that agreement. but what i don't like is that he currently has a bond. i don't think that that's appropriate. and while he's indigent, there could be somebody out there who somehow sees that this is a high profile case, decides to put down the 10% on the $500,000 bond and he gets out. that to me would be a miscarriage of justice.

i think the judge needs to revoke bond immediately. >> sandra: we know he as far as his representation is concerned, he's been issued a court appointed attorney, has been enlisted to represent him. the judge scheduled a second court date now that is expected wednesday, tomorrow. september 7, 9:00 a.m. what happens next here, mark? >> he enters a not guilty plea, not saying i'm innocent, he's saying ok, not guilty is also equal to not proven because we don't have any evidence now and he does enjoy the presumption of innocence in a court of law and then the court appointed attorneys will work the case as i do i on all of my homicide evidence, make sure everything was seized constitutionally and prove the case, and then go to trial or plea bargain down the road. >> sandra: we will be watching it all, sad, tragic story that

we have been watching for quite some time and we know that after his arrest he did not help authorities find her body. they had to do it on their own. we'll be watching all of it. thank you very much for joining us on that. >> my pleasure. >> john: heartbreaking story. president biden set to hold a cabinet meeting nine weeks ahead of the midterm elections, this comes after days of trying to rally his base by stepping up his attacks against so-called maga republicans. >> i want to be very clear, very clear up front. not every republican, not even the majority of republicans are maga republicans. not every republican embraces their extreme ideology. i know, i've been able to work with these mainstream republicans. the extreme maga republicans in congress have chosen to go backwards full of anger, violence, hate and division.

>> john: bidens continuing the theme of railing against his political opponents, he has not received additional campaign invitation to say come out and stump for various democratic candidates, we'll be talking more about all of this as we get closer and closer to the midterms this afternoon, sandra. >> sandra: looking forward to that, and bret baier will be joining us, and a look back at last week and that big moment with the president on thursday night that so many are still talking about, easy to roll back the tape, right, john, on the many times candidate joe biden, newly elected president joe biden, committed to uniting the country on what we heard on thursday night was not that. >> john: and wind the clock back to 2012, as well, for similar statements. so, all of this headed your way in the next, oh, two hours, i

guess. >> sandra: an hour and 50, all right. thanks, john. meanwhile, customs agents finding more than 200,000 fentanyl pills in a massive drug bust in arizona. 47,000 of them as we mentioned, colors of the rainbow, looking again like candy or colored chalk, making them look more like candy even than deadly poison. here is a live look at the border for you. eagle pass, texas as the migrant surge is weighing heavily on border patrol agents there, recent heavy rain is making the trek across the rio grande even more dangerous. garrett tenney is live in eagle pass, texas. garrett, what are you seeing today, what's happening now? >> sandra, now that the water levels are starting to go back down we are starting to see more migrants crossing the river today. a lot of them have been waiting for just that to happen after 13 migrants drown late last week in what is now the deadliest mass

drowning event here in years. this morning our cameras caught several large groups of more than 200 that had just come across and were being processed by border patrol. most large groups are coming from venezuela, mostly adult men and women with a handful of families, but in the last three days alone, despite the slower than normal traffic, nearly 2700 migrants have crossed the southern border, including ten sex offenders, four gang members, and one murderer who were taken into custody by border patrol. over the weekend, cbp officers had a huge drug bust at the port of nogales in arizona, found 47,000 colored rainbow fentanyl pills along with 186,000 blue fentanyl pills and 6.5 pounds of meth, all hidden below the floor board of a car coming across the border. as we have record, cartels are using the rainbow fentanyl to drive drug addiction in america's children, and a former

special agent with ice says what agents are able to recover is likely just a fraction of what's making it through. >> when we see the increase in seizures of this type, it's not a good thing. that means that we are getting swamped with fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin continuing to pour into this country. >> late last week we learned that troopers in arizona uncovered 46 pounds of fentanyl pills that were being smuggled from nogales across the border into phoenix. sandra. >> sandra: it is just becoming all too common. live in eagle pass for us, thank you. john. >> john: more on this with tom homan coming up as well. >> sandra: indeed, a lot of questions for him and how we can tackle this, it is a growing crisis in this country, john. >> john: what a tragedy, 13 people drown trying to get across the river. a federal judge approves a special master and tells the doj to hit the pause button on the

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from the fbi raid on mar-a-lago and the decision marks a win for trump's legal team but some experts warn it's irrelevant as they have likely reviewed the documents already. jonathan turley is standing by, but david spunt is live at the justice department. how long could it take for a special master to get through all the documents? >> david: it's going to be a while, sandra. 11,000 documents taken from mar-a-lago, a special master will go through the majority of those documents in simple terms, this movement to have a special master appointed will slow down the department of justice investigation. no question this is a legal victory for the trump team for his attorneys, even if a temporary victory. this order yesterday on labor day by the judge, a federal judge in south florida appointed by donald trump in 2020, she says a special master is in order. she heard oral arguments last

week in person from trump's attorneys and federal prosecutors and after nearly a two-hour court session and a long weekend to think about it made her decision. wrote a special master will be appointed to review seized property, and continued, the government is tempo temporarily enjoined from further review and looking for criminal investigative purposes, pending resolution of the special master services, and however the director of national intelligence to determine the classification levels of the documents will not stop that continues. the justice department is working alongside haynes, the actual investigation into donald trump, no question, slows down with the appointment of a special master. if the department of justice appeals, we have a live picture

right now of the 11th circuit court of appeals in atlanta, georgia, a three-judge panel would hear the case if doj appeals. at this point there's no indication doj will appeal, that could come at any point. of the 11 judges on the court, six were appointed by president trump, the government is looking over the judge's order. they expect the department of justice to appeal john and sandra because it's so high stakes, back to you. >> sandra: you've been on it since the beginning, you'll keep us posted. david spunt, thank you very much. >> john: see what the doj does. jonathan turley, george washington law professor and fox news contributor. in the arguments, doj said the appointment of the special master was too late but you said it still has a lot of value. >> i think it does, and for all

the people making both these arguments, a little conflicted. some say it does not matter and then others but it's going to destroy the investigation. and she's well beyond her limits. the attacks on this judge are really astounding, i mean -- it is part and parcel what we have seen the last six years. but this judge is taking a modest step, in my view, to reassure the public, to address the constitutional questions. the fact is that the doj was unlikely to issue any indictment before the midterm elections. in 60 days. this does not prevent them from continuing their investigation. they can't use the documents. but they can interview witnesses, as to what was known, the contents of the boxes, whether there was efforts to move any contents, whether there was any efforts to conceal, they can continue those lines of questioning with witnesses which go to the elements of crimes like obstruction, and what's --

what's astonishing about the heat and the rhetoric against this judge is that the special master is an extension of her authority. they are used all the time. now, it is extremely rare to see it at this point, but she is allowed to look at documents in camera, she's also allowed to have someone else look at documents in order to create a record upon which she can rule. one of the big issues here, john, a major victory for the trump team is that she said i don't believe that it is a settled law that trump had no executive privilege arguments that he could make. you know, the justice department put forward some very extreme statements, and she said in my view, the supreme court has never answered that question. >> john: and the department of justice suggesting that it's not going to give back any of the documents because it was all part and parcel of retrieving the classified top secret sci documents, so you are not getting them back.

you mentioned criticism of the judge, you pointed out in a column that you wrote that some of that came from norm ornsteen, tweeted reminder that judge canon should never have taken this case. it was in the hands of the magistrate judge. she was picked by trump's lawyers solely because she was a trumpist in a jurisdiction nowhere near mar-a-lago. she has and it should be in effect engaged herself in obstruction of justice. i've known norm for years, he's typically a reasonable fellow, but that's pretty strong language. >> that was really jaw dropping. i don't expect the judge's chambers are going to be raided next. the fact is these arguments are saying how dare you countermaned the reputations made by the department of justice. and the magistrate assists the

article 3 judge. she's the article 3 judge. many people felt they should have had an article 3 judge sign off on the warrant. it's perfectly breathtaking to see the attacks saying she's a part of a crime of obstruction. all of these figures, including many liberals, are saying just absolutely outrageous anyone would doubt the fbi and would question the representations of the doj. the judge said look, the record already shows that you made mistakes, your team did not function as intended, it's clear you have material here not in the scope of the warrant, you have admitted you likely picked up privileged information, and then also says you have other things like medical records. and the department of justice's position is we don't have to give anything back, it's all evidence of the mix of material. well, that's a pretty extreme argument and yet many of these people are just waiving it by.

>> john: including framed "time" magazine covers as well. jonathan turley, glad you understand and make sense of it, appreciate it. >> sandra: i don't know what we would do without him. our own peter doocy pressing white house press secretary karine jean-pierre on what appears to be a double standard when it comes to accusations of stolen elections. the exchange just happened at the white house. we will have that for you. >> john: gavin newsom's plan to ban gas powered cars is not off to a great start, people across the state are asked not to charge their cars. is the golden state's power grid up to the challenge of the 2035 mandate. charles payne here to react next. >> gavin newsom is about himself. d minus. >> i like his new policies about reacting to the climate crisis. >> i don't know, probably c, just because i don't think he's done anything particularly outstanding. >> 4.5.

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>> john: president biden has been slamming republicans on what he calls attacks on elections. but the white house press secretary called into question the outcome of elections that went south for democrats. take a listen to this exchange with our peter doocy just moments ago. >> you tweeted trump stole election, brian kemp stole election. if denying is extreme now, why isn't it then? >> let's be really clear the comparison you made is ridiculous. i have been -- you are asking me a question, let me answer it. >> and you said it was ridiculous. >> i was talking about voting rights and in danger of voting rights. >> john: karine jean-pierre and

peter doocy head to head at the white house, and the internet, it lives forever and you can go back and you can find these examples that some people might prescribe a double standard. >> sandra: peter doocy pressing the press secretary and holding them accountable f. there is a double standard, people want to know. the state of california forging ahead with the plan to eliminate gas powered cars by 2035, all while calling on residents to conserve energy as extreme heat strechtes the power grid and now at least 17 states are weighing whether they are going to follow the golden state lead in all of this but is this the right time to make the transition to all green energy? charles payne, all right, i should have saved it for tv, i always ask you the questions at break. i mean, you sat down, i said charles, where do you stand on this. you are a cutting edge guy, you have the latest

vehicles. do you have an e.v., by the way? >> no, i got the latest truck, the badest truck out there. a gas guzzler, 12 miles to the gallon, over 700 horse power, the hell cat engine, it is an absolute beast i love it. here is the beautiful thing. to get the gasoline for it we drill a hole in the ground and crack a few rocks under the earth. now if i had the e.v. version of it, you would have to scrape the entire planet, maybe the size of a state. you should see how many minerals go into one e.v. battery, absolutely amazing and same week you say hey, it's going to be illegal to buy a gas, internal combustion engine and a few days later, by the way, don't plug in the electric car, if you don't mind. >> sandra: you can't make this up. no matter whether you are for this and the push to green energy happen -- somebody who sees it happening

in the future. the push to do so when we are not ready for it, it's cost prohibitive, we always pull the latest kelley blue book, right now still $67,000 for the average new electric vehicle in this country. and then there's the lithium battery problem, and we are highly dependent on china for lithium. this is -- i want to play this out and your response. piedmont lithium ceo keith phillips warning on what the industry can really handle. listen. >> yes, we'll have enough but not by that time. a real crunch to get the material. we don't have enough in the world to turn that much production in the world by 2035. >> sandra: can the other states follow suit if this transition is just not ready? >> no, it's ridiculous. it is the most mind boggling economic suicide you can imagine. look in europe, example of what

is happening in europe, won't be able to pay the electricity price, write billions in checks out, i've seen receipts in germany, 700 euros a month, now almost 3,000 a month. it's all self-inflicted. by the way, in california, they import so much of their electricity now from alberta, idaho, south dakota, washington state, arizona, colorado, from mexico, from new mexico, texas, to utah. what they have to import already on top of a fragile grid system. are they nuts? are they crazy? i mean, people are going to be walking -- listen, if they go through with this, if they go through with this, it will be unfortunate for the people who live there. and it's -- >> sandra: it's going to be -- you've dug into the numbers here, it's going to be economic pain, not on those who can weather that storm, it's going to be the lower income, middle

class americans in these states that take this on prematurely, if that is the case, who are ultimately going to pay for it. >> i think they want to force the masses to take busses and things like that, i think they do. the 67,000, even with the extra money you get from the government, the same elites have their college loans paid for, childcare paid for, administration is taking care of one class of people in the country and i don't have to, luckily, but the rest of the american public will have to take busses, and that's the game plan, by the way. that is the game plan to usher everyone thomas transit. >> sandra: that story is much bigger than what you are making it out to be, right now you have a lot of people avoiding public transportation because of lack of safety in the big american cities. how about we get our streets safer and mass transportation safer so people get back on the trains and busses. >> it's madness all around. plastic bag, we have gotten rid

of plastic bags, how many times do you have to use the organic cotton bag to get the same environmental impact. 20,000, 20,000. this is madness this is crazy, slow it down, please. >> sandra: oh, man, we have charles fired up. glad to have you here today, in your pin stripes. john, it's not every day that charles gets that fired up but talk about pushing the transition prematurely, especially the average e.v., i was putting it in front of me, $66,645. until that price comes down, how can you tell people who in large part annual income is less than this in some of these states, how can you tell them that thief got to go buy one of these evs or else. >> it's a tough sale. may by 2035, there will be more affordable cars. charles always gets fired up when talking about his truck.

and michael shellenburger, the author of "san fransicko," california has to build equivalent of 20 new full size nuclear power plants the size of the diablo canyon plant. build 20 nuclear power plants in the next 13 years? there you go. lots to talk about regarding this. as more students head back to school, there is mounting evidence of how much remote learning has hurt kids academically, a lot to talk about this as well. one major school district, happens to be in california, is warning that lower scores should be expected when testing data is released later this year. kelly o'grady is live in los angeles and some pretty sharp words for what they are seeing there in california regarding test scores. >> yeah, you are right, john. this is something that we have suspected for a while, but now we are getting the data to prove

the impact of these covid closures on education, and california, l.a. the district you were mentioning, we will get the results later this year. but districts remaining the longest in california, it could be worse than the national average. what is known as the nation's report card, showing a five-point drop in reading for 9-year-olds, biggest since 1990 and black students math scores dropped 13 points, widening the gap between white students and another frustration is more kids falling through the cracks because of their zip code. they say it's no surprise, it's a reality they have seen in their living rooms. >> created the system that is addicted to a status quo, we don't care about the outcomes for kids, it's secondary. we now have data to quantify it. now we hold them accountable because we are mad as hell.

>> the administration has been blaming its predecessor and touting the rescue plan, parents say it's more time, extra year, summer classes, tutoring. that's due to the lack of transparency how education relief has been spent. of the rescue plan, california received 15 billion, 20% earmarked for learning loss. a new analysis showing 4% has been spent since last year on additional summer catch-up programs. >> these billions of dollars that have gone out across the country, these school districts in planning their budgets should have made sure that they implemented tutoring for all of the children. >> it's heartbreaking talking to these parents, john, they feel helpless having to blindly trust institutions, our future leaders and future voters. if they are not learning it does not work. >> john: we'll talk more with

dave reuben and randi weingarten firing back at the "wall street journal" which called her out last week. kelly, thank you as always. sandra. >> sandra: the children are our future and the head of one of the nation's largest teachers' unions, as you mention, john, is trying to rewrite history over the covid lockdowns in our schools. find out who she is blaming now. >> john: while you spent the labor day weekend barbecuing, president biden spent the weekend name calling. the president doubling down on his attacks against republicans as we inch closer to the midterms. reaction from a republican member of congress. byron donalds from the great state of florida coming right up. develop their passion for learning. and now we're providing 88 billion dollars to support underserved communities... ...helping us all move forward financially. pnc bank: see how we can make a difference for you. the tenth pick is in the new all-american club. that's a “club” i want to join!

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they urged a nuclear safety zone. alex hogan is live in kyiv, ukraine. what else have we learned from the report, alex? >> hi, sandra. the international atomic energy creates a list of the most imperative safety protocols, roughly 50-page report said every single one of them had been violated. attacks that happened nearly every day, including today, have severely damaged important information and military equipment inside the facility. this facility is one of the ten largest nuclear power plants in the entire w0r8d -- in the world, and raising the risk of dangerous decision making. nuclear watchdog dances around the causation of the nuclear threat. it never specifically condemns the actions by one country or the other. ukraine has demanded a

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>> sandra: update to the story we brought you at the top of the hour eliza fletcher, 34-year-old mother of two, she was abducted while out for an early morning run, her family has released this statement, saying we are heart broken and devastated by this senseless loss. she was a joy to so many, parents, students, members of the church, and everyone who knew her. now it's time to remember and celebrate how special she was and to support those who cared

so much for her. we appreciate all the expressions of love and concern we have received. we are grateful beyond measure to local, state and federal law enforcement for their tireless efforts to find liza and to bring justice to the person responsible for the horrible crime. that statement just in from her family. john. >> john: such a sad ending to all of this, sandra. border agents confirm last week 13 migrants died trying to cross the rio grande into the united states, heavy rains are now warning people to not cross the board. tom homan joins us now. it illustrates the risk they engage in every time they cross the border and yet the biden administration does not seem to be doing a lot to address the

situation other than customs and border protection warning against people crossing in the high heat and extreme weather. >> and this is the only network talking about it. right now we are closing in on 1300 migrant deaths since joe biden became president, 1300, and that's what we know about. i was in brooks county a few weeks ago and did a ride along with a sheriff down there, and in, excuse me, in four hours we found two dead bodies. i asked him, i said how often? and he said tom, we are happy we find one in five. they have either been eaten by animals or are never found in the brush. many in the river we'll never find. 1300 what we know about. and that's not including like the tragedy in san antonio, 53 died in the tractor-trailer. the numbers are historic high and the administration does not talk about it. and they want to talk about how humane the policies are, it's

not humane when you have over 1300 dying on u.s. soil because you have an open border, causes the most vulnerable people to put themselves in the hands of criminal cartels and the journey. >> first you admit there is a problem and the white house seems to deny there is a problem with people coming across the border. let's go back to last monday and peter doocy's exchange. >> somebody walks into texas or arizona unvaccinated, they are allowed to stay? why? >> but that's not how it works. >> i know that's not what you want to happen but that is happening. >> it's not like somebody walks over and, that's not -- that's not how -- >> that's exactly what's happening. thousands of people are walking in a day, some of them turn themselves over, some are caught, tens of thousands a week are not. that is what is happening. >> john: a lot of people walking across are also carrying drugs with them, and a big drug bust

in a car in nogales, arizona, 47,000 rainbow fentanyl pills designed to attract children and 187,000 blue fentanyl pills. this is a huge problem. how much are they catching versus how much is getting in? >> they are catching just a fraction. and most of what they are catching is at a port of entry, where every car is stopped. the officers make a determination if they search and not find it. what's happening between the ports of entry, because of what she's ignoring, she says they don't walk across the border. 1.7 million did last year, and this year, mark my word, we'll be at 2.4, almost 2.5, 700,000 more than last year was a record. and that many people come across, up to 70% the agents are processing. 70% of the border is wide open and that's when they move the fentanyl across and record number of fentanyl deaths. >> john: we have a big problem,

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>> john: brabd brand-new at 2:00, think it like the onion, leaves some in tears. >> sandra: a satire site. >> john: the editor and chief of the babylon b, the real joke might be the news sources we are

instructed to trust. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour. i'm john roberts in washington. hi sandra. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith in new york. the bee in a bit, but breaking news in washington. >> john: summer in the rearview mirror and the midterms nine weeks from today. >> sandra: president biden, the president once again going after the maga republicans doubling down on his midterm messaging. >> clear which way the new maga republicans are, they are extreme. >> extreme maga republicans don't just threaten our personal rights and our economic security, they embrace political violence. >> john: while the president labels trump supporters as a threat, critics point out his own party has been spending tens of millions to help trump-backed candidates to win primaries.

>> sandra: byron donalds calls it rich with hypocrisy, but first peter doocy is live on the north lawn for us. quite an exchange at the white house a short time ago with the press secretary. the white house in this case is standing by the president's attacks, right? >> they are, and we spent some time on the campaign trail over labor day weekend, focused there a lot on the so-called maga republicans, but back here a few minutes ago at a cabinet meeting he was trying to keep the attention on his economic policy. listen to this. >> and so this economy that works for the country from the bottom up and the middle out as i said from the beginning, i'm not a big fan of trickle down economics, i find the trickle stops fairly quickly coming down. >> a few minutes before that the white house kept walking back president biden's suggestion in philadelphia that trump supporters are a threat to democracy. something the president himself did friday, and the press secretary continued with today.

>> so he was, has been very clear that he's talking about office holders, talking about elected officials who have these maga, ultra maga republican agenda and he's been very clear about that. look, here's the thing. the point that we are making is majority of americans support medicare. >> when she says republicans are trying to take away social security and medicare, referring to a plan by rick scott to make congress vote to re-authorize every program, every year. so they can try to cut out government waste. now rick scott is challenging the premise of those claims. >> yeah, of course he's going to lie about it. what i believe is we have to do everything we can to preserve medicare, preserve social security, make sure these are lasting programs. that's why i believe congress every year ought to tell the american public what they are going to do to make sure the programs survive. the democrats won't have any

conversation. >> and this week will say a lot about how much democrats think joe biden can either help or hurt them in the midterms. over the weekend, the democrat for senate in wisconsin did not appear with the president but in pennsylvania the candidate did, the president has trips in the next week and a half to ohio and michigan. we will see how cozy people want to get with him, sandra. >> sandra: and we are getting closer and closer to that election day. thank you very much, peter. john. >> john: bring in florida republican congressman byron donalds. good to see you. president biden had a speech yesterday where he ripped so-called maga republicans but is being careful, dialing it back a little bit not to paint all republicans with the same brush. >> i've been able to work with mainstream republicans my whole career but the extreme maga republicans in congress have chosen to go backwards full of anger, violence, hate and division. but together we can and we must

choose a different path. >> john: also said in the speech that america has been able to overcome challenges because it is a nation of unity, of hope, of optimism. and that's something he pledged during his inaugural address, i'm wondering in the last 18 months, where has the unity, hope and the optimism been for a united america. >> there is no unity, joe biden does not want unity. he wants to bend the knee to his agenda. the senate democrats want you to do the same. they don't want competition, they don't want debate, they want to actually skwelch and put down free speech. they are working with social security companies to stop americans from communicating on a myriad of topics, including covid-19. so this is where we are. people need to understand this. joe biden's idea of unity is you do it his way, and then you don't challenge him. because everybody sees it any time he's challenged by a member of the press or even a citizen in the audience, what does he

start doing, he starts yelling, pointing fingers. that's not leadership. that's -- and the actions, student loans or he ignores immigration law or anything else in between, this man does not care about the constitution or the rule of law. actually republicans do, that's why us maga republicans, we are the ones fighting for the soul of america, we are the ones having to save america from joe biden and the democrats. >> john: the president is trying to make this election all about president trump, and not about him. and while he is leading the charge in terms of rhetoric on the ground floor level, democrats are spending millions of dollars trying to get elected in the primaries. candidates who have donald trump as opposed to candidates they think might be able to beat the democrat in november. you say it's ripe for hypocrisy. >> of course it is.

because they are telling the american people oh, these republicans are dangerous, but the same time who are they trying to support, america first republicans, people who are committed conservatives, who are not interested in the games of washington, d.c., but getting the job done for the american people. what the democrats believe, i think it's wrong, but what they believe is that if you make donald trump the center of the ballot, they win and republicans lose and they get to keep their majority, but they are going to be flat wrong. what the american people have seen in 19 months with joe biden at the helm is that the democrat agenda has failed all americans and people really want in the country, they want to go back to 2019 america. when our economy was growing, our streets were safe, our border was secure, our standing around the globe was number one, and we actually had a president who was doing the job. you might have disagreed with something he tweeted here or there but you knew the job was

done by the american president. nobody has confidence in joe biden right now. >> john: what president biden is doing is certainly not precedent setting because he has a long and rich history of divisive language, let's go back to 2012, this is from august 14th. listen here. >> romney wants to let -- he said in the first 100 days, let the big banks once again write their own rules. unchain wall street. they are going to put y'all back in chains. >> john: infamous comment, put y'all back in chains, something he tries to demonize the other side. >> more gas lighting from joe biden, and frankly from a lot of the democrats running for senate, john fetterman does the same thing as opposed to debate his opponent, debate dr. oz.

run for the united states senate, debating the ideas is part of the job. going back to joe biden. listen, the deal with him. he always does this when he's not getting his way. because the man is not terribly bright, he's obviously wrong when it comes to all the issues facing america and never had to hold a job in the real world and live up to the consequences of what he has done. time to turn the page, that starts this november. >> john: good of you to join us, thanks so much. >> any time. >> john: sandra, it should be said, though, that some of what the democrats are saying, particularly regarding the dobbs decision on abortion is getting a lot of traction, particularly with suburban women in the color counties around big urban areas and the democrats have narrowed the divide between themselves and the republicans in terms of preference for who controls congress. republicans are still forecasted to win, but it's going to be a lot tighter than people thought.

>> sandra: certainly the margin of expected victory for republicans has narrowed recently. still a long way to go, when it comes to politics, john, a lot could change. and we'll have more on that coming up. meanwhile, the man accused of murdering the memphis heiress has a troubling history and his family is speaking out. charles watson is live in memphis, tennessee. so what are we learning about this suspect? >> well, sandra, cleotha abston henderson, the man accused of murdering eliza fletcher has an extensive criminal history, and juvenile record, and he was charged in 2000 with kidnapping, he along with two others kidnapped a memphis lawyer at gunpoint, forced him into the trunk of the 1992 mercedes benz and drove around memphis with the lawyer for several hours, during the course abston

henderson drove to several atm machines, he forced the lawyer to withdraw money until he was able to break free with the help of a security guard. then he was 17 or 18 at the time pled guilty to the offense in 2001 and ultimately sentenced to 24 years in prison. less than two years ago, he was put back on the streets after serving 85% of his sentence. a male who says he is his uncle said my whole f-ing family is whacky, they always have been. they are not beloved to me because they are nuts. memphis police say they are happy to have him off the streets. >> by the outcome of this investigation is not what we hoped for, we are nonetheless pleased to remove this dangerous predator off the streets of memphis. >> and you can see abston henderson's uncle not mincing words in the interview, a lot of people say if abston henderson

was forced to serve the full term of that first kidnapping conviction, then possibly fletcher would still be here today. it's unfortunate, guys. back to you. >> sandra: just a horrific story and we will have more on that. charles watson, thank you. >> john: so sad. a top teachers' union boss continuing her attempt to rewrite history about covid lockdowns and who is really to blame. wait until you hear where randi weingarten is pointing the finger now and what about her own role keeping teachers at home and kids in the dark. they struggled to learn. david rubin minutes away on this. >> sandra: the white house is pushing for media companies to crack down on misinformation. companies like the big tech firms that banned the hunter biden story. and the mainstream media that branded our next guest misinformation, editor and chief of the conservative satire site

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♪ wish we all could be california ♪ ♪ i wish we all could leave california now ♪ >> sandra: babylon bee saying the california dream ain't what it used to be, one of their recent parodies blowing up the internet. >> john: brains between joke headlines like these, new report indicates biden quiet quit the presidency months ago. >> sandra: also the cdc warns of

new stealth covid variant where you test negative and get no symptoms. >> john: trump diligently working to help dems hold senate so people will miss him more. and biden warns democracy in danger, while many find the s satire funny, others don't get the punch lines. >> sandra: the author of the book, kyle, welcome to the program. a laugh during the commercial break, one of the latest posts was a man out grilling, a woman hanging over them, saying women invented the grill to get them to do the cooking. and you warn a scary thing for democracy in a serious way. in the meantime, a little fun

with poking at washington through all of this. what is your take? >> yeah, censorship is obviously a big issue for us at the babylon bee, which is crazy, we want to tell jokes and somehow we fight the culture war thing where we have to find ourselves on the front lines of the fight for the first amendment. we got banned from twitter for a joke and are still locked out of twitter for that joke, so woe found a lot of times the left does not like when you make fun of them. but we try to have a good sense of humor, we have to try to be the xhed -- comedians poking fun of those in power. >> john: headline in today's babylon bee, after using fbi to suppress son's crime and raid

political's homes, it's satire but louisiana says the administration had a program to pressure social media companies to suppress and censor misinformation even though it was in fact truth. >> mark zuckerberg just went on joe rogan and admitted that. so you got to understand that's pretty vindicating for us at the babylon bee when we got banned for twitter and screaming in a lot of ways social media companies are the arm of the government and the government is using them to censor people and now it's coming out, and zuckerberg is saying that. the fbi picks up a phone and says can you please censor this story and fbi, you know, they got the red phone and they just answer at facebook and go ahead and censor whatever the

government doesn't like. that's really frightening and a new dimension to the fight for the first amendment, not just private companies they can do whatever they want, they are companies that are doing every whim of the government. so, that's a scary thing for us when we now see the government could be censoring comedy or any other website out there that's publishing stuff they don't like. >> sandra: it is frightening for many americans out there. from your view, kyle, do you see space for government when it comes to social media and the spreading of what is deemed by some as misinformation? obviously this is going to come back in the spotlight with another election just nine weeks away, and obviously we all just went through this pandemic where you had the cdc and others deeming the spreading of misinformation a danger to the public. is there any role for

government? >> is there any role for government, no. and also with misinformation, there is no role for government. i mean, when you look at what -- when you look at what they have deemed to be misinformation, you know, it's just things that are inconvenient for those people in power. so, no, i don't really see any situation in which i would trust almost anyone, you know, especially the government, to label things misinformation or not. you know, the things that we say are true now we get called conspiracy theory for and labelled misinformation and whether it's two weeks, two months or two years later it comes out those things are true, and you never get an apology or walkbacks of those things from the guys in power. look at the hunter biden laptop story, which was labelled misinformation and america's oldest newspaper was locked out of twitter for posting about it. i don't trust the government when it comes to any kind of

misinformation labelling or censorship. >> john: alexander hamilton founded the new york post, it goes back a long way. on the point of being labelled misinformation, so happens the case of the "new york times" labelling you "a far right misinformation site that trafficked in misinformation." "new york times" was forced to make a correction which the bee covered in the following way. we are sorry we call the babylon bee misinformation, after further review it's clear they are reporting real news just a few days ahead of time. the stories just keep coming true. i mean, that's satire but it is true. i mean -- you know, how many people suggested that covid came out of the wuhan laboratory and now ample evidence to suggest that might have been the case, and the hunter biden laptop, you've been banned from twitter, yet turns out to be true.

>> yeah, it seems like sometimes we fill the roll of prophets in society, comedians cracking jokes ten years ago are finding out it's not jokes, it's actually true. we write the things and the democrats end up doing those things in real life. so we found ourselves called misinformation many times, hey, we are not misinformation, we are just tomorrow's news today the way we look at it. >> sandra: why is it so important to keep a sense of humor and comedy, even when it comes to politics? >> humor gets us through dark times, in short. we really do need to laugh at the darkness, i think. that is the way that we kind of defy the darkness by laughing at it and i think it's so important, it's a great gift from god and no matter if there are crazy things in the society, a lot of things we are concerned about, we need to be able to laugh so we can criticize power and retain humor and humility

about ourselves. >> john: good to talk to you. appreciate it. don't forget the book, either. a lot of fun. >> sandra: great conversation. good to have kyle join us. >> john: whether it's the babylon bee on the right, or the onions on the left, it's an integral part of america and a necessary pressure relief valve. >> sandra: a lot of people want to cancel them. >> john: yeah, i know. don't cancel the comedians. >> sandra: we need a laugh. >> john: a lot more to coming, including the bus battle between the chicago mayor and the governor of texas even uglier now. lori lightfoot now questioning greg abbott's faith. >> sandra: the union boss who says don't blame her for keeping the schools closed. >> john: and tom brady looking for another super bowl. could trouble at home derail his plans? gas, groceries, everything's costing more.

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>> john: not far from here in washington, d.c., teenagers must be off the streets less than eight hours from now. prince george's county in maryland strictly enforcing a 10:00 p.m. curfew the first time in nearly 30 years, this after a spike in violent crime among teens. a senior national correspondent rich edson is here. >> worst violent crime month they have seen really ever. deadliest month in history, according to the county executive, she says there have been 430 child arrests this year, 84 for carjacking, 34 of those kids have prior arrests for violent crime. so the government there is promising strict enforcement of a curfew designed to keep children younger than 17 off the streets. 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 in the morning during the week, and

midnight to 5:00 on the weekend. >> we can make arrest, arrest after arrest after arrest. but after that, it's out of the police department's hands. again, where are the parents of kids who are out carjacking at 3:00 a.m. in the morning? we don't need just hugs, just warnings but the people committing these acts of violence in our community need to be held accountable. >> the government could fine parents up to $250 for failing to keep their kids off the streets, john. >> john: we saw lot of the kids had priors. how is it they are let back out on the streets? >> they are blaming the judges. county executive wants to meet with the department of juvenile services and determine how the system is holding the kids accountable. and that said all the youths are placed and released by the

courts. we must work together to help our children. judges decide the penalties and her office will hold the offsiders accountable, no mention of what it means in a situation where children are committing violent crimes, john. >> john: see how the curfew goes, i would think it's probably going to be a little more difficult than they think it will be. thank you. sandra. >> sandra: staggering numbers there. no holiday weekend for the u.s. border patrol as the migrant crisis continues nonstop at the nation's southern border. the chief tweeting over the labor day weekend, processed, close to, wait for it, 2700 migrants trying to illegally enter the u.s. some of them with rap sheets. among them, arresting ten sex offenders and one murderer and that was just in three days. as the flow of migrants flows nonstop over the border, busses

continue to take many of those migrants to democrat-led sanctuary cities across the u.s., and now not just greg abbott sending them, dozens of mig migrants dropped off in new york city were sent by the city of el paso. new york post reporting that hundreds of families are about to move into a luxury time square hotel where room with double beds averages about $500 a night. and in chicago, another bus dropped off 50 more migrants in the windy city on sunday. mayor lightfoot is slamming the texas governor over the migrant busses, going so far to knock his christian religion. deroy murdock is a contributing editor, and joins us now. what is happening now, deroy? well -- welcome. >> achieving chaos. and we hear in chicago, sanctuary cities, illegal aliens

are welcome, open arms. what are lightfoot's open arms, you would think she would be applauding, welcome to chicago, and instead she screams chaos and crisis, a small fraction in chicago compared to the rio grande on a daily basis. in lori fight foot and eric adams are getting a small taste of what they are experiencing on the southern border. >> sandra: we were talking about chicago on the break, we know it so well, so many having to leave if they are capable of leaving. those that cannot afford to leave or job ties them down or family, they are stuck dealing with the effects of the policies in her city. but meanwhile she goes as far as to blame the texas governor, greg abbott, for his faith. here she is on sunday in chicago. >> he professes to be a

christian, this is not the christianity and the teachings of the bible that i know. and i think religious leaders across the country are standing up and denouncing exactly this. >> sandra: greg abbott's office has responded with this message, after hearing it, saying attacking the governor's commitment to his faith is a pathetic political ploy to change the conversation away from mayor lightfoot's unwillingness to uphold the self-declared sanctuary status. you have to wonder if they put themselves out there as a sanctuary city, why don't they show greg abbott we will welcome the migrants with open arms. >> this is what they did, roll out the welcome mat, and now with the hundreds coming in oh, my god, we can't take it, and what's un-christian is the

situation joe biden has created, over the border, 13 people drown in the rio grand, like 500 plus have either drown or dehydrated to death in the deserts. do what my parents did from costa rica, go to the embassy, get your visa application, and then you come to the united states and you will not drown in a river or dehydrate in the desert if you are going through and being met by people at the customs and border protection, they stamp the passport and be part of the american dream. that's how you do without drowning, that strikes me as un-christian, the sooner it ends and the human rights disaster on the board will go away. >> sandra: so many that make the journey end tragically and yet they keep coming because they see so many crossing over and staying here. appreciate having you, deroy. thank you very much. >> john: good to see deroy.

head of one of the largest teachers' unions in america firing back at critics who say she is trying to rewrite history when she closed schools because of covid. randi weingarten taking on the wall street journal, in a letter in response, she wrote as a union leader and the public eye, i'm used to enduring the attacks from your editorial page, flunks the pandemic, but i suggest you also listen to the teachers who gave their all to help students and families weather a global epidemic that killed a million americans and orphaned 200,000 kids. many teachers did go above and beyond, but the unions were at the tip of the spear in keeping the schools closed as long as they were closed. >> yes, absolutely. she's not really addressing the point that the wall street

journal was making there, she's just using the sort of platitude, ok, the teachers tried hard. yes, many teachers did all good things, nurses and doctors did too, known as the essential workers until they were nonessential or if they didn't get the shot, the vaccine or the booster, etc., etc., this shouldn't surprise anybody. look, randi weingarten, she's a leftist politician, they would like to think they are a non-partisan organization that wants kids in school to get the best education possible, but she was all about lockdowns, we know what forcing kids in masks does and the amount of kids that now have delayed speech and learning defects and all sort of stuff. we know a certain amount of that now, but over the next couple of years, we will find out more about it as the kids -- as they get older, as we find out about social anxiety that they have, if you sit a kid in front of the zoom on the computer, all day

long, what it's going to do to their social adaptation and everything else. so she's lying but that's all she's done. i would recommend, although i don't like to tell people to go to twitter. look at her twitter account, it's full of leftist lies, that's it. >> john: you mentioned the effects of the lockdowns, the progress report we saw last week really told alarming tale, black students down 13 points in math, hispanic down eight points, and down in reading, same thing. huge problem in california, the los angeles unified superintendent has reviewed unreleased test scores that we'll see in the next couple months, show a devastating loss in terms of student achievement levels in reading and mathematics. randi weingarten is talking about the american rescue plan is designed to bring the kids back. this is a lack of progress, this is going backwards, the recovery

could be measured not in months or years but decades. >> it's a complete dereliction of her duty as the head of the teachers' union. and the states that kept open and kept the kids in school, the education system and the level of education the kids are doing well. i fled california during covid and now i live in the free state of florida. florida, used to be mocked for public education, right, no state income tax, the education is wonderful in florida, a great public education and look what's going on in california where you have high taxes. so the proof is in the pudding. >> john: florida has so much revenue from tourism they don't need the state income tax. always good having you on. thanks for joining us today. >> good to be with you. >> sandra: from the classroom to the campaign trail, the midterms here before you know it. bret baier up next on what could be the most important group of

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edge, bret? >> bret: good afternoon, sandra. i think most republicans and democrats agree that in the house republicans still have the edge despite all of the recent developments and we have seen a lot of movement in different polls and some political pundits and different organizations shifting races to more likely democratic races, but overall, republicans have the advantage to take over control of the house and if they won by single digits, most experts really on both sides say that would be a win for democrats who were facing a big wave at one point. in the senate, it really is up for grabs, individual races are going to make the difference across the country. we have seen a focus on suburban white women voters who may have shifted a bit after the overturning of roe v. wade, dobbs case in the supreme court. but it's important to realize this after labor day is really the start of the sprint, and

this is when all of the ads start, when all the money starts, when all the get out the vote begins, and now we are in a full-court press until the first week of november. >> sandra: very interesting, and the politico headline is writing about what could be the most important group of voters come the midterm elections, saying they are getting killed among women, skeptical female voters stand in the way of gop senate, saying republicans this election cycle thought they had achieved a breakthrough with suburban women after years of losing support now as the primary season has all but ended, gop is back where it once was, appealing directly to skeptical female voters. the women whose support will make or break the party's drive to retake the senate majority. bret, i want to ask you about the pittsburgh post gazette, the newspaper writing about dr. oz raising legitimate concerns, it says, about john fetterman's health. i know you have dr. oz coming nt

to. the paper says john fetterman has not fully recovered from the serious stroke in may, auditory processing and speech, but the persistence of the struggles is contrasted with the campaign rosier predictions, mr. fetterman if he's not well enough to debate his opponent, that raises serious concerns, it writes, about his ability to serve as a u.s. senator. give us a preview what we will see tonight. >> bret: the editorial was pointed and also went after dr. oz's campaign, how they have handled the issue to date, not taking it head on but a spokesperson saying something about fetterman's health and the candidate stepping away from it. today you had senator pat toomey of pennsylvania saying essentially what the editorial is saying, he has to be able to debate otherwise he cannot

debate on the senate floor. that will be among the questions i'll be asking dr. oz tonight on "special report" and policy questions, i think you will see a lot in the race, less about where the houses are and policy differences on the two candidates. education, inflation, taxes, crime, abortion in that order, the most searched on the internet. >> sandra: 6:00 tonight "special report" and dr. oz will be joining us. thank you, bret. >> john: could tom brady be about to lose a ring? no, not a super bowl ring. reports giselle could be putting the goat out to pasture. what? coming up next.

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of year the nfl season kicking up thursday night appearance before one of the big stories as tom brady. some reported drama off of the field. jonathan hunt on why tom brady is very sad. what is happening, jonathan? >> sandra, he is really lycos. tom brady the greatest quarterback of all time. he is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and has 360 super bowl rings, not quite getting close. he is a beautiful family, a successful wife who happens to be a supermodel. and yet tom is struggling to find that elusive work/life balance as he admitted on the podcast this week. >> you can't stop your life even though sports is happening. even though i'm playing in my 23rd year, i have a freshman in high school playing football too. i have a 12-year-old that is going through his life. i have a 9-year-old going through her life. and i have parents. >> tom famously retired at the end of last season.

anton's wife, the greatest supermodel of all time was reportedly not happy about that and reportedly made that perfectly clear. then the greatest quarterback in the history of quarterbacks, the lead from being the greatest quarterback and the greatest supermodel felt tom needed work on being the greatest out of all time. for that, he needs to ask advice from john roberts. [laughter] sp's before we wish you well. >> john: i will never be the goat anything. a "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thank you very much john and sandra. i am martha maccallum and a big show today, former attorney general bill barr, trey gowdy, pierce morgan on deck as we kick off this midterms to the tuesday, 90 days to go, folks, nine weeks i should say and that is when americans will go to the polls and decide who gets the power on capitol hill? this is a huge question as