they have a wonderful superintendent in you. you are a good leader trying to deal with a very tough situation. we wish you the best and hope you will stay in touch and good luck to all those students and parents out there as well. >> thank you, dana. we appreciate it. the man accused of kidnapping and killing kindergarten teacher eliza fletcher appearing in a memphis courtroom for the second time and this time to face murder charges. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. cleotha abston making his first court appearance during our show yesterday. he was arrested on saturday while police were still looking for eliza. her remains were found monday afternoon. abston charged with first degree murder along with prior counts of kidnapping and tampering with evidence. >> dana: he was released from prison in 2020 after serving 20 years from a previous kidnapping and robbery.

he has a violent history dating back to his childhood charged with theft at 11, along with assault and rape when he was 14. >> bill: surveillance images show the suspect attacking eliza forcing her into his s.u.v. and leaving her phone and water bottle behind. police also saying they found a pair of sandals at the scene helping detectives identify and track down abston using dna. cell phone signal placed him near the scene. >> dana: newly revealed video shows him arriving at his brother's apartment later that same morning where he spends more than an hour cleaning out the inside of his car. shelby county d.a. telling us this earlier. >> there clearly are cases where person's individual records are so bad like in this case that parole should not have been granted. we would not be bringing these first degree murder charges unless we were confident that we could prove these charges beyond a reasonable doubt.

>> bill: former assistant d.a. phillip holloway back with us today. good morning. that was an interesting interview we had with the d.a. last hour. profile of john kelly to fox news digital says this. the thing about these sexual predators it seems it doesn't matter how much time they do, when they get out they are back on the hunt, end quote. it appears that he fits that exact profile. >> yeah, good morning, guys. it does seem he fits that profile. a lot of crimenologists like to say that people who repeatedly commit this type of offense, particularly if there is a component of a sex crime, there really is no way to fully rehabilitate. they have a strong case. what they need to do is prove that he had the type of malice that really comes from an abandoned and malignant heart. they will most likely be seeking the death penalty. under tennessee law there are several ways they can get there

in this case. in the end they will have to convince a jury that prison is not enough. part of the argument is we've tried prison and everything and it just doesn't work. he did 20 years, got out and did this just within a couple of years of his release. so that would be the argument that the d.a. makes in court in an effort, i think, to get a jury to sentence this man to death. >> dana: phillip, one of the things i know you mentioned to our producers is do we know that this was opportunistic and not targeted? >> well, that seems to be the messaging coming out of the prosecutor's office in tennessee, that it was -- basically a stranger on stranger. he happened to be there at that time and he basically sprung on her and did what he did so sadly. we kind of don't think that this was something where he was targeting her specifically. but that goes into the entire

argument that look, if this person is capable of doing something this horrible to just a random stranger, then we have no way of rehabilitating this person and the only way that society can exist with this individual is either having him locked away forever or even put to death. >> bill: i thought the concession the d.a. made was quite interesting. had he still be in jail and could have still been behind bars given the sentencing guidelines he was under this woman would be alive. the second point did you see our interview with the d.a. >> i did, yes. >> bill: the thing what struck me is there seems, based on his answers, that there is a strong possibility that the brother is still not fully cooperating and knows more than he has said. would you agree with that? >> yeah, i think from all that i've seen, i think there is somebody else out there, maybe more than one person, perhaps it's the brother, that does know more than they're letting on. this is something investigators

will be looking at going forward. they will interview everybody. they will probably reinterview people if there is a person such as the brother facing unrelated charges there is maybe room to negotiate with other individuals to get that information so that they can use it in the case in chief against this particular defendant. but it certainly stands to reason that there are people out there who know more than they've let on, i do agree. >> dana: phillip, when you think about the family who is grieving and you have the community who is rattled. the d.a. says we're doing all we can. one of the things i want to go back to for a moment is that he was already -- he already served 20 years. and i understand that under the law, that he was going to get out. the prosecutor was against parole but he had another four years. but if the impulse after getting out is to have another

crime committed, should we be changing any of the laws on the books right now? >> well, that is certainly a tough question to answer. 20 years is a very long time in prison. 24 years versus 20 relatively speaking, he served almost all of that sentence and certainly if he served all of it he wouldn't have been in this place at this time to commit this crime. in all likelihood i think he would have committed some other crime. 24 versus 20 years certainly wouldn't have fixed him. a judge once said these people when they get to this point are broken and they cannot be fixed. all society can do is either lock them away forever and throw away the key or in the appropriate case sentence them to death. in either case, dana, you can't take people that are beyond

rehabilitation and let them live and roam free in society at large because this is what unfortunately does happen. >> bill: phillip. thank you. we'll wait for the court hearing to get underway there. phillip holloway. the impressive thing the d.a. said the people of memphis deserve the right to be safe and shouldn't have to look over their shoulder walking down the street. very impressive. we've been talking about that in new york city for how long now, dana, two years? i live in a good neighborhood. used to be a great neighborhood. today a good neighborhood. yesterday everyone in our building was given this sheet of paper under their apartment door. this is a lockbox organization. they're raising private funds from the people who live on the block to pay for 24-hour security on the streets. we have a police force in new york of 33,000 officers. we have a mayor who is a former cop and they are raising private money to keep the city safe. that's where we are in america now. >> dana: unfortunately. >> bill: waiting for the

hearing in memphis. there is a delegation from new york city and the mayor's office to go to the southern border today in texas. first time to get an up close look at that as the buses continue to roll into manhattan. garrett tenney live in eagle pass, texas, with more on that visit. good morning. >> bill, good morning to you. important to note this isn't just the first time officials from new york city have come to the border. it is the first time a delegation from any sanctuary city has come down to the border to see this crisis firsthand since president biden took office. new york city mayor eric adams is calling this a fact finding mission to hear directly from folks on the southern border. our cameras were the only ones here as his delegation met with border patrol officials yesterday on the banks of the rio grande where hundreds cross on a daily basis and visited a processing facility in eagle

pass packed with migrants waiting to be processed. the group would not speak to us and so far the mayor's office hasn't said anything about the trip beyond this statement that says in part the texas governor's office has been unresponsive and has turned this matter into a political side show. here in new york we'll continue to welcome asylum seekers with open arms. adams has been fiercely critical of texas governor greg abbott for busing more than 2100 migrants to the big apple in the last month and complained the handful of migrants he has received is strange the city's resources. which is exactly what abbott is hoping to accomplish. his office says the invitation is open for mayor adams to visit the border and see the impacts on border towns smaller than a new york city borough. the small border towns have been overwhelmed beyond capacity for over a year as thousands of migrants come across the border each day and

texas officials hope sanctuaries cities like new york, chicago and d.c. get a taste of that it may prompt the white house to do something about the border. >> bill: garrett tenney live on the border. appreciate that. thank you very much. we mention the buses coming to new york city. >> dana: see them? they are always there shaking a hand. i do think it was significant and should have happened a while ago but when you have a delegation from new york actually go to texas and see what they are dealing with, there might be a way there to at least get two people from other sides of the aisle on the same page to go back to the white house and say we need something to happen. >> bill: come here and see how we see it and maybe you understand what we're going through? >> dana: as we saw with cassie garcia, the woman running to be congresswoman, 29% say it's the top issue in texas.

so you can understand why governor abbott is doing what he is doing. >> bill: new york city, chicago and washington, d.c. >> dana: emails show at an official from the teachers union association spied on parents calling for reopening of the schools during the pandemic. senior national correspondent william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with the latest on this. >> the parents group which sued california to reopen their school claims the union paid an employee to, quote, dig up dirt on the parents. this is according to an internal union email obtained by the group reopen california schools, that the union email which inadvertently sent to a school principal and obtained through a public record records. the union wanted the email deleted. it shows that a union employee sought information about parents and how the group was funded. in the now deleted twitter

account the employee and another had tweeted this is an all too common model. parents who genuinely want to make change for their kids is being used toward a larger goal to disrupt, destabilize public schools. she says it showed the union spied on parents who wanted to reopen the school and the union opposed this. some called it opposition political research. a candidate for state superintendent says the union, quote, dedicated personnel to politically target moms and dads. it is disgusting and startling. the emails show what all of us know, the fight to reopen or close schools in many places was really a political campaign and these parents wanted the best for their kids and the union was working behind the scenes to benefit the outcome that they favored. back to you. >> dana: we'll have more on this with martha later today. thank you. >> bill: you have a far left

prosecutor in the broncos, new york feeling the pressure after downgrading charges against a violent sex offender who nearly killed a man with a sucker punch. he is back behind bars. what the prosecutor is doing now. >> dana: the head of america's largest teachers union responding to claims she flunked the pandemic. martha maccallum is just ahead. >> bill: karl rove on the pennsylvania senate race. it's getting good. democrat john fetterman against his opponent dr. oz. there is no agreement on a debate. >> this is not about health but democracy is built on us asking difficult questions of each other. ave gone up and up. the good news? so has the value of your home. and maybe a lot more than you think. if you need cash to stay ahead, call newday. use your va home loan benefit

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. >> dana: republican pennsylvania candidate oz criticizing fetterman for refusing to debate him. a pittsburgh newspaper op-ed says there are legitimate concerns about fetterman's health. senior national correspondent rich edson is live in washington when that editorial came out yesterday it opened a lot of eyes. >> it did. this is one of the most contentious senate races in the country. a seat republicans need to hold

to take control of the senate in november's mid-term. a tightening race between fetterman, a democrat. and republican dr. mehmet oz. fetterman had a stroke in may and avoided debates. oz and his campaign have ripped him for not debating. >> his campaign says he is doing fine and he says that as well. he doesn't debate because i can only assume he doesn't want to have the answer for the far left radical comments. if he is sick he is lying to us as well. this is not about health, it is about honor, integrity, honesty. >> bill: pat toomey said if he is not up for debate he is not up for serving in the senate. there are legitimate concerns about fetterman's health and oz's campaign is pressing the issue in an adolescent manner.

stroke recovery can take time. if mr. fetterman can speak at rallies he can debate. fetterman has been out on the campaign trail. >> send me to washington, d.c. so i can champion the union way of life in jersey -- excuse me, in d.c. >> his campaign says anyone who has seen john speaks knows he is still recovering he is more capable of fighting for pennsylvania than oz will be. this is about mocking john for having a stroke because they've got nothing else. fetterman's campaign says he is open to debating oz and they're speaking with networks about that. >> dana: we'll see what happens. let's bring in karl rove, former white house deputy chief of staff and fox news contributor. one of the issues is fetterman's health. another way that dr. oz talked about it last night.

call for two. >> i think he is insulting the voters of pennsylvania by dodging the debate. he is dodging their questions and dodging questions from the press. his campaign says he is doing fine and he said that as well. yet he doesn't debate. i can only assume because he wants to avoid answering for some of the far left radical comments he has made. >> dana: there was some controversy before when the health issue first came up criticizing dr. oz for bringing it up. now you have the "pittsburgh post-gazette" also saying something similar, karl. >> absolutely. look, anybody who saw the first campaign appearance that fetterman made in pennsylvania following his weeks off the campaign trail after his stroke would have questions about it. he faltered. he couldn't put sentences together. it was very awkward and painful to watch. he even today four months after

the stroke continues to display problems of being able to speak coherently and ascertain what's going on around him. he had an appearance where the comment to the people in the meeting with him had to be put on closed caption for him to be able to read because he had problems processing what they were saying. look, he hasn't shot straight with people. turned out he had a serious pre-condition that put him at risk for this. he misled people about the nature of the stroke, that it was a minor one. he is saying he is willing to debate today and in conversations with networks about it but yet to accept a single debate. my suspicion is we're not likely to see him debate and as senator toomey said if you go to the senate you have to be able to speak, argue, contemplate, hear and discuss. he is not in that place right now. >> bill: you mentioned a lot

there. newt gingrich is talking about his energy policy saying it could cost 600,000 jobs in pennsylvania and maybe that's the reason why he doesn't want to go head-to-head on the issues. the point you are making. tuomie. he is a moderate senator saying i have my doubts whether or not fetterman is up to the job. then you have rich lowry writing fetterman should have to show, not tell. very effective line. now dr. oz comes out with with an ad today. fetterman was a small-town mayor. you could argue that's how he began his political career, small town southeast of pittsburgh with a population of not more than 2,000. there was an incident while mayor where he had a shotgun in the yard or on the street and he was chasing down an african-american man. part of the ad out as of now. >> as a mayor with a shotgun

and six other cops surrounding me. >> i believe i did the right thing. i may have broken the law during the course of it. >> fetterman, risky, wrong for pennsylvania. >> bill: you got it out there. i believe i did the right thing but may have broken the law. his words from several years ago. how does it all mix in the stew right now when our poll in late july showed oz trailing by double digits. >> well, the race has tightened as your reporter pointed out. the public polling shows a race a lot closer than that and it's primarily because dr. oz came through a bitter primary and republicans were divided and now starting to unite behind him. a lot of people in pennsylvania know about this incident. the then mayor saw a black man on the street, thought he was engaged in some kind of nefarious activity. got his shotgun and chased him down. the guy wasn't involved in any nefarious activity and

fetterman was widely criticized at the time. remind people he has bad judgment and reckless. you put your finger on it. a guy against fracking. most people don't understand pennsylvania is one of the great producers of natural gas because of the fracking revolution. one of the great reasons why america had a moment of energy independence and fetterman is opposed to fracking. here is a guy who said one of my colleagues said we could get rid of a third of the people in state prisons. let them out and it wouldn't affect the safety our community and a profound idea he supported and believes in the abolition of private health insurance and the green new deal. on and on. every liberal, progressive thing fetterman is in favor of to the degree dr. oz is able to get a sharp distinction his views and values of fetterman's for better winning.

>> i think fetterman tries to avoid it at all costs. better to go into a debate where they have some control on short questions, short answers. not a lot of dialogue between them. he will try to avoid it at any way he can. i think it will be problematic for him. >> dana: always good to see you. thank you so much. >> great to see the two of you. >> dana: i pointment of a special master seen as a major victory for former president trump. the next guest calls the ruling deeply flawed. here to discuss it is former attorney general bill barr.

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>> good morning. >> dana: one thing that is interesting about all of this. the special master gets announced, the leaks are constant and you have to wonder what is going on there while all the investigation has to continue, the leaks through the "washington post" and "new york times" almost every morning you can wake up to one. >> that's one of the problems with the department of justice and people with agendas in the department. and it has been increase in leaking geometricly over the years. tremendous leaking when i was a.g. and it's very hard to stop. you also don't know how much of that is really people who know what is going on and how much of that will prove accurate at the end of the day. >> bill: you can influence public opinion, though, when you deliver a leak as we've seen for the past six years. >> right. >> bill: marco rubio was on "fox & friends" part of the eight members of congress entitled to the special intel briefings. he said this has never come up

before. you made the case yesterday with martha about getting special assignment arbiter to come in and look independently at this material. sort out what's relevant and what's not. i understand your argument. you are arguing against a special master. i get it if you want to go in and take this amount of classified material but if you are also going in taking all this other stuff about stuff not relevant it might be appropriate to bring in a special master and discern what is relevant and what is not. what's wrong with that? >> well, let's look at the different categories of documents. attorney/client privilege documents. everyone agrees that those should be returned to the president. it wasn't necessarily bad to pick them up because you don't go into someone's house and look document by document. you take what you think will be responsive and then you sort it out through a team. no one disputes that goes back,

okay? the classified stuff are government documents and they go to the government. there is no scenario legally under which the president gets to keep the government documents classified or unclassified. if it's government stuff. >> bill: i grant you that based on. >> the only things would be personal items and clearly personal stuff. the reason that was included to be seized, the issue here is not who ends up with it. the question is could they have seized it. they could seize it and keep it if it is evidence of the way the documents, the classified documents and the government documents were stored. if you find very sensitive documents in trump's desk along with his passports, that ties trump to those documents. the passports are things that the government -- they are personal stuff to trump. the fact they're found with the classified documents is evidentiary. the government decides whether

it's relevant. he will get that stuff back. the problem i have with the special master and what she has done with executive privilege documents. she didn't address the only question that's in dispute, which is can the former president have standing to say that the investigators don't even get to look at the documents, the classified documents that he wrongfully had at mar-a-lago? and that's the only question. she dodges it and says she is bringing in a special master to see if it's executive privilege or not. if the government came today and said we'll stipulate everything deliberative classified or not would be subject to executive privilege it begs the question. that's not what the issue is and why i think that opinion was a mistake. >> bill: you think it will be appealed and overruled. >> yes. >> dana: do you have a view how it ends?

>> yeah, as i've said all along there are two questions. will the government be able to make out a technical case, will they have evidence by which that they could indict somebody on including him? that's the first question. i think they are getting very close to that point, frankly. but i think at the end of the day there is another question. do you indict a former president? what will that do to the country? what kind of precedent will it set? will the people really understand this is not failing to return a library book. that it was serious. you have to worry about those things. i hope that those kinds of factors will incline the administration not to indict him. i don't want to see him indicted, the former president. but i also think they will be under a lot of pressure to indict him. if anyone else would have gotten indicted why not indict him? >> bill: more to come on this. we have more questions about it. can i make a 180 degree turn. you have a piece today that goes to the investing of billions if not trillions of

dollars. the headline is esg can't square with fiduciary duty. it stands for environmental, social and -- they put money into companies that they believe are working for the social good, let's characterize it that way. you point out they also invest in communist china. how do we square this right now in the investment world? what's the argument >> the argument i'm making is this is tremendous concentration of wealth that is using it in an abusive way. abusive and circumventing the whole democratic process. when little investors go funds and other things, as you say, the ownership is technically in the hands of mainly of three big companies, black rock, vanguard and state street and some others but those are the big three. technically these people own a high percentage of stock in these companies and dictating

to the companies policies like energy policy and things like that. so when they tell a big company stop producing oil or we'll vote against you essentially, that is setting national policy and they are using other people's money to throw their weight around. >> bill: can you stop or change it or just bring attention to it? >> one thing as the article says, there are some legal doctrines that can be used such as this is a breach of fiduciary duty. >> that is their initial responsibility? >> that's their only responsibility. okay? and they are pursuing their political preferences and using other people's money to have their way to do it. there are legal attacks that can be made. there is also the possibility of companies emerging that just focus on what they should be focused on, return to the owner

and i think we have to look at this politically because this means a handful of companies can decide our energy policy, our equity policy, and stuff like that. just by going and hammering the big companies over the head and saying we own 10% of your company and we are going to throw you out. >> dana: an important issue and affects everyone in the country. >> it does. >> bill: bill barr, nice to see you again. students in some schools across the country going back to zoom lessons again this time because it's too hot for in-person classes. we're not making that up. >> we should have our office buildings set in the 70s, right? and we don't have that same expectation of our classroom? it is mind-boggling.

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>> dana: right now in memphis you have the arraignment of cleotha abston who is going to be charged with murder as well as the kidnapping. he has a lengthy rap sheet and we'll keep an eye on this. he asked for a public defender and that's what you see there with the ponytail there. she will be the public defender assigned to this case and we'll bring you more as we get the

details. >> bill: a new poll showing public confidence in grade school teachers is down 11% from 2020 as schools struggle the staff the classroom, student test scores are in freefall. martha maccallum is anchor of "the story" at 3:00 eastern time. good morning. down 11% is no bueno. i expected the number to be lower. >> all of the numbers of weak. one of the things i find the most interesting in this data is the confidence level that parents and communities have in their teachers. obviously it's a sensitive subject. everybody -- i'm the child of a teacher, i have a long lineage of teachers in my family. my sister is a teacher and we have great respect for what they do. however in many cases and in many districts the quality has deteriorated and the big question of what they are focusing on whether it's reading and writing and math.

the scores have dropped dramatically. these numbers were already in bad shape before the pandemic. the decline is greater after the pandemic but we were already in a sorry state before that. >> dana: randi weingarten wrote this. no teacher i know enjoyed hybrid learning and remote learning. it was championed by betsy devos. 20 of them in a classroom and 20 at home. former president donald trump and hissed indication secretary ms. devos ranted and raved. they put safety measures in place to get reopening done. the "wall street journal" headline basically saying she belongs with the pandemic. >> she was upset about that headline. wrote a scathing letter back to explain her side of the story. the fact is, you don't have to take it from me.

we can show many sound bytes. i did several interviews with her where she talked about the fact they needed the resources. they needed resources, resources, of course, means money, cash, $190 billion went to the covid reopening schools fund to get them up to speed whether it be in the facilities at the school, everything that they needed, testing, all of that. 85% of that fund has been spent. 85% of the $190 billion not spent, not spent, thank you. 27% of it has been spent. you know what they're saying now? can't go back to school now because air conditioning doesn't work. what have they been doing with this money? cardona was interviewed by peter doocy the other day and he asked him a question that i had been asking to be asked, what happened to all the money to get kids up to snuff ready for school over the summer?

$27 billion was in that fund. it got dispersed and do you know if they actually used it to ramp up learning over the summer? our accountability on that isn't what it should be. the money is going out the door. they don't know what happens to it once it goes to the states and local jurisdictions that have the money. it wasn't spent for these things. they're all to blame for that. >> bill: she came on tv often pushing for better ventilation in the classroom. i had assumed that the $190 billion was going to improve the ventilation in the classroom and you are saying it did not. >> no, it didn't. now some schools are saying now that we can go back to school. we aren't coming back to school we'll stay remote because we don't have the facilities in place, we need. air conditioning and otherwise. it is so -- betsy devos is not opposed to remote learning

because we need to do what's right for each kid. she is talking about this before, school choice, let the parents have portability with the dollars. if they want to do smaller groups and create learning communities let the needs and money follow what the students and parents feel is best for those students. she is not talking about keeping schools in lockdown and not bringing kids back. we lost so many kids from the system. 50,000 kids didn't show up for school in los angeles on first day of school. today is the first day of school in our city and we'll see what that looks like. >> dana: we'll hear more on "the story". >> great to see you guys. >> dana: we'll be right back. are you a veteran, own a home, and need cash? you need to know about the va cash out loan from newday usa.

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didn't get that message. a teachers union was caught spying on parents. plus in the important pennsylvania senate race, the democrat refusing to debate republican rival dr. oz. "the faulkner focus" is top of the hour. >> i'm trying to order a two-piece dinner for them. may i speak with the manager? >> no, ma'am. >> why, he asking for food. >> you can't do it. >> they called the cops on me. >> i can't order for this homeless man here who asked for food? >> dana: atlanta popeye's calling the cops on a college student trying to buy food for a homeless man. joe ortega is joining us now. what happened when you pulled up to the drive-thru? >> thank you again for having me on.

pretty much when i went to the popeye's, i went to pick up a door dash order because i am a college student and it is expensive being a college student so i waited in line for some time and i get to the drive-thru window and i proceeded to ask her i'm picking up a door dash order. she said i wasn't able to get it. it was all wrong. i said okay. i noticed a homeless guy in the distance and i asked him -- i thought to myself maybe he might just want money to buy drugs but maybe i could just give it a try and so i kept -- i decided to do, while i'm here at the intercom i will go ahead and ask him did he want anything to eat? i purchased him food. i called for him and said sir, sir, to my surprise he was very, very humble and very grateful. yes, i'm hungry. i just want food. he was telling me to be quiet.

i didn't know why he was doing that. i wanted him to place his order. after that everything went left. the manager got irate and employees got upset. i was in disbelief and thinking she didn't hear me right. when i got to the drive-thru window i proceeded to ask i said hey, i wanted to just purchase some food. i wasn't going to buy anything originally was hearing picking up the door dash order and i want to order food. you can't do it. i said okay. that's when i pulled out my phone and started recording and i said maybe if i buy it for myself. the manager came in and said you aren't going to be able to get it for him. >> bill: it is nighttime. how does it all end? >> so pretty much the police were called. she called the police on me and she thought it described me to law enforcement calling the

cops and i was just surprised and i had to mentally prepare myself well, maybe i will go to jail tonight but i knew i had to stand up for him. no one else was. i knew i had to do what was right. i waited for the law enforcement to come and if i get arrested, that's fine. which i did not want that to be the outcome so one of the other employees that was also working that night ended up calling the general manager and the general manager i spoke on the phone with her understood my side of the story and she allowed us to be able to get food. the homeless man, i started a gofundme for him and the night that he was able to -- i was able to get the food for him he shared his food with another nearby homeless person actually witnessing everything. it was an amazing story. i was so grateful. >> bill: thanks for sharing your story, jo. it all ended okay, though.

and that's what we like to hear. >> dana: you have a big heart. thank you for coming on the show today. we appreciate it. >> i appreciate it. thank you so much. >> bill: our best to you. thanks for coming on. >> dana: it is tough. your heart is full. you can imagine the employees were thinking we have to deal with this situation. no one went to jail and hopefully everybody can get the help they need. "the faulkner focus" is up next. here is harris. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. if anyone thought texas was messing around they were wrong. democrat-led cities are definitely getting a bitter taste of what texas has been dealing with on the southern border with mexico. new york city mayor eric adams just sent his staff to the lone star state to finally witness the crisis firsthand. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". yesterday that so-called fact finding delegation met with border patrol and saw river crossings along the rio grande. the first time new york city