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>> gillian: days after the plan to ban gas powered vehicles. they face the threat of rolling blackouts. >> john: first, fox news alert on the killing of eliza fletcher in memphis. the suspect now ordered held without bond on charges of first-degree murder and a number of other murder-related charges. john roberts in washington, and good wednesday to you. >> gillian: great to be with you after the labor day weekend. i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith. ex-con cleotha abston is in court the second time for allegedly kidnapping and murdering the mother of two friday. >> john: it shows him cleaning his suv outside an apartment complex three hours after fletcher was abducted. the suspect, no stranger to police. >> gillian: not at all. criminal record back to when he was 11 years old. fox news digital confirms he was

charged with rape at 14, and at 16, kidnapped an memphis lawyer at gunpoint. >> john: former homicide detective pat dias joins us, but first, jonathan is live outside the courthouse. what are we learning about the hearing today, jonathan? >> jonathan: the judge revoked the $500,000 bond for the defendant cleotha abston as a result of the new first-degree murder charges, the new charges coming as a result of the positive i.d. of eliza fletcher's body. the judge pushed the arraignment on the new charges to thursday, while he considers a defense request regarding representation. the defendant is no stranger to courtrooms, recently paroled after serving 20 years of a 24-year sentence for kidnapping and attempting to rob an attorney back when abston was 16 years old. >> our office opposed parole in

this case and i think appropriately so given his extensive record of violent crimes before the conviction for the kidnapping. >> jonathan: police say abston forced fletcher into his suv and surveillance video obtained by wreg, abston is seen cleaning the vehicle outside his brother's apartment just hours after the abduction. investigators searching the area found a body behind an abandoned home on monday and confirmed a positive i.d. yesterday. family members say they are devastated by fletcher's senseless loss but also want to remember and celebrate how special she was. one of those tributes has surfaced in the form of a video fletcher made for her student at st. mary's episcopal school, she taught kindergarten. she sang "this little light of mine" and introduced the class to her dog janie. and a group of female runners

will meet at the spot where she was abducted and complete the route that she would have taken last friday. back to you. >> john: such a sad story. jonathan, thanks. bring in former homicide detective pat dias for more on this. thanks for joining us with your learned analysis and perspective. a lot of questions raised by this tragic case. first and foremost among them, why was cleotha abston ever out on the streets? >> that's the system that we are seeing all over the country, where early parolees are being released, overcrowding in the prison system, and in this case, with his extensive background he probably should have never been paroled from prison at all. >> john: so folks at home understand how familiar police were with this fella, let's put up on the screen his long rap sheet, starts at age 11, when he was arrested for theft. convicted of rape at the age of

14 as a juvenile, age of 16 imagine he was tried as an adult here because he was sentenced to 24 years in prison for abducting a well-known attorney, and forcing that attorney to withdraw money from several atms and then released early on parole in november of 2020 as we saw, above the protestation of the prosecutor. why would the judge not take into account the desires and keep him in jail? >> here we have a system that's broken down. parole board did not look at the aggravating factors of his past history, clearly, and then we have him being paroled and nobody followed up on the parolee, where he was or what he was doing. break down of the system. >> john: you talk about aggravated circumstances or enhancements, we see a lot of the far left prosecutors are refusing to apply those in cases. could we expect more cases like

this, either let out on parole or out of jail on a more minor offense, other to commit a more major offense once they are on the streets. >> that is a problem now in the country. we are not taking the past history of a lot of these offenders and applying them to cases that are involved now. so with that said, yes, i can see that's why i was seeing more and more offenders release frommed jail, not taking into consideration the past history. some have valid history that you cannot, you know, can't hide. >> john: case after case that we have been exploring the last couple of years. clay travis of outkick was on with bill and dana earlier today. here is what he said about the case. >> perfect crystallization of everything going wrong with our inability to put people who are violent behind bars and keep them there and innocent people all over the country that continue to be victims. she is just a metaphor of a

larger issue of crime in the country and people cannot seem to get enough of it. >> john: sorry, that was fox and friends, not america's newsroom. but clay crystallizes the argument about what the far left prosecutors are doing, they are letting out into society through a revolving door of justice people who are potentially lethally dangerous, and we have seen this in so many cities across america, pat. >> what they are doing, tying the hands of the judges, not being able to use past history of offenders and having to release them sometimes without even bail. and in this case, a parole commission did not take into consideration his past history, he never should have been paroled. >> john: tennessee law, three possible outcomes if convicted, one, on the screen, death, imprisonment for life without possibility of parole or imprisonment for life. given his past history and the

heinous nature of the crime, which way do you think prosecutors will go? >> the memphis police department did an absolute great job in this case and still building evidence and i think it's clearly going to be a death penalty case based on his past history, his, and what he did now and all the evidence able to come up with. without a doubt, death penalty case. >> john: pat, good to talk to you. thanks for kicking us off today. >> thank you. >> john: so sad, but so many examples across the united states of people who get out of jail, whether they are paroled or just go through the revolving door of justice and they kill somebody. >> gillian: i heard one criminal analyst tell fox digital yesterday that most violent criminals follow the specific pattern where they escalate over time, crimes become more violent. he certainly fits that profile. >> john: yeah, and again, there's this idea, too, of leave no witnesses, right. that's what might have been the

case. >> gillian: impetus to keep going at that point, terrible. now we turn to the midterms and the crucial pennsylvania senate race. republican candidate dr. mehmet oz is accusing john fetterman of dodging tough questions ahead of the midterms. fetterman says oz is desperate because he's behind. rich is covering the race. rich, are we going to see the candidates debate, do you think? >> rich: john fetterman says his campaign is coordinateing with tv networks to secure a debate. oz says he's ready to debate but says fetterman is ducking questions. debates or the absence of them has become a major issue in this campaign. >> john fetterman should be to educate the people of pennsylvania and he's unable to move forward and debating me and does not want to answer questions from the press or the voters and democracy is built on us asking difficult questions of

each other to figure out where the truth lies. >> in may, fetterman had a stroke. the pittsburgh post gazette editorial board said mr. oz has raised legitimate concerns. many voters will have concerns about the ability to represent them effectively in washington, the post gazette editorial board also wrote oz's campaign is pressing the issue in an adolescent manner, like when it offered to pay for medical personnel for fetterman during any debate. fetterman has been on the campaign trail, had at times had trouble speaking. and said he's still recovering, he's more capable of fitting for pa than dr. oz will be, and this is about mocking john for having a stroke because they have nothing else. fetterman's campaign says they are using it to distract talking about issues like abortion.

as for whether there is going to be a debate, nothing scheduled thus far. gillian. >> gillian: rich here in washington, thank you. >> john: fetterman still has a lead in most recent polls, up by five. oz was up in at least one poll, so the race maybe outside the margin of error in terms of the average, but getting closer. >> gillian: maybe part of the reason fetterman does not feel the urge to get to the debate stage now. >> john: joe biden sort of set the precedent, doing his campaign from the basement, not really get out there a lot, and managed to beat donald trump. >> gillian: everybody likes to make their own rules these days in politics. >> john: no question. explosive allegations out of a california school district. a teachers' union operative accused of trying to spy on parents who wanted classrooms to reopen last year. what the parents are now doing to fight back. >> gillian: republican lawmakers slamming what they say is the suppression of a whistleblower

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>> john: pressure growing for congress with allegations that the fbi could have interfered in the investigation into hunter biden. republican tennessee senator marsha blackburn sounds out, but first. a california teachers' union accused of spying parents who fought to reopen schools during the pandemic last year. a researcher from the california teachers association questioning the parents' motives and suggesting they were bank rolled

by special interest groups. william is live in los angeles with all of this. how did this come out? >> john, it was actually an email that the union rep had sent out internally that was accidentally went to a principal who refused to delete it and the parents got it through a public records request. those parents claimed the email is evidence that the teachers' union tried to "dig up dirt on them," while they fought to reopen schools during the pandemic, something the yawn i don't know opposed. the email shows the union researcher sought information about the parents themselves and if their association had obtained money from conservative interest groups. in a new deleted twitter account, said this is an all too common model where parents who want to make systemic changing for their kids being used for a larger goal to disrupt, stabilize and burn down public schools. so parents say the emails

seeking information about them are evidence that the union spied on them. candidate for the top education job in california calls it startling, disgusting that the union would "dedicate personnel to politically target moms and dads". the email showed what we new, the school board meetings were a battlefield during the pandemic and a concerted effort to keep schools closed and basically going after the parents or parents groups was really just part of the campaign. no response from the cta. >> john: as we saw in the state of virginia, such things have consequences at the ballot box. see how it plays out in november. william, in los angeles, where it's very hot. thanks so much, appreciate it. question remains, how much of an issue is this going to be, but when stories like this come out, parents feel it's them against the teachers' union, and the parents want to do the right things and get the kids back to school.

teachers' unions are questioning motives. >> gillian: and in all of this, whether we are talking about california or the east coast in virginia, is there an off ramp to all of this, the relationship between the union as n the parents is so vitrile, so toxic, must be resolution and a way forward. we cannot persist like this indefinitely. >> john: and the kids caught in the middle. >> gillian: that's my point. educational deficits are tremendous, we owe it to the kids to solve the problems. >> john: we will keep watching the stories. >> gillian: and president biden says if xi jinping goes to the g20 summit, he will see him face-to-face. and the fbi is accused of suppressing a whistleblower claim in the hunter biden investigation. one month before the 2020 election that joe biden was

involved with his son's dealings with chinese energy company cefc, reportedly paid the bidens $4.8 million in 2017 and 201. bring in republican tennessee senator marsha blackburn. thanks for joining us today. what is your feeling as we stand here right now about where this investigation stands and where it's headed, and how it's likely to impact the midterms. >> and indeed, when i talked to tennesseean, what they want to do, have a thorough investigation. we know that tim thibault have been fired, and others involved with him. >> gillian: i want to stop you there, tim insists that he resigned. >> i understand that, he is no longer there. he was involved with this. we know there are others that were involved with him.

we know there needs to be a thorough investigation of this. we know from other whistleblowers who are -- who have come to senator grassley and senator johnson and have talked about the political issue inside the fbi and that this is something people want to see, they don't want two tiers of justice. they want to make certain that the fbi is apolitical, and that they are going to do their job, and i think when you talk about joe biden and his meeting that he seems to be entertaining and welcoming xi jinping at the g20, people are curious what he's going to say. is he going to talk about hunter, is he going to talk about biden incorporated. is he going to give away more u.s. business. is he going to make it harder for companies like some in tennessee, people that are in

the poly silica business, people making electric batteries, and people that are working on electronic components that need semiconductor chips because this has not been a u.s.a. business friendly administration. so, people would be very curious to know what president biden is going to talk to xi jinping about. >> senator, you say we need an investigation into how the fbi managed the investigation into hunter biden. we know that christopher wray and the attorney generals have both insisted it has been a fair and independent and thorough and very scrupulous investigation. my question to you, so as a sitting senator, how do you go about investigating the fbi's moves in this particular case? >> well, yes, and you know, gillian, we had recently an oversight hearing with

christopher wray but he was short on time that day, he needed to leave early, he didn't have time for a full round of questions. we want to have him back because we would like to know everything that surrounds this. who decided to go to facebook and say you needed to suppress this information n and of course we got that tidbit from mark zuckerberg himself. who else did they go to? did they go to twitter, did they go to youtube, who else were they going to in the big media platforms to say suppress this information. we also want to know how many people were involved with the russia collusion hoax and how they decided they were going to push this information forward and continue that. >> gillian: that's a separate issue. >> well, they are all related,

gillian, and that's the issue. they are all related in how they have decided to pick and choose and have two tiers of justice. there should be one. there should be one. and when it comes to china, we would like to see a president who would go in there and would say you are not going to run over u.s. companies. we would like to have a president who was going to go in there and defend u.s. manufacturers who have their intellectual property stolen by china. we would like to know that there is somebody who is going to stand up to them and say you cannot treat our u.s. farmers as you are. we also would like to have a president who would say to the ccp we are not going to let you buy farmland in the united states and by the way, we are not going to let you purchase farmland that is in close proximity to our military bases

or our critical infrastructure. >> gillian: senator, quite a laundry list for the president to raise with xi jinping, i think a lot of americans hope he has the opportunity to do that, they both attend the g20 and meet face-to-face. thanks for your time this afternoon, appreciate it. >> glad to join you, thank you. >> john: alarm bells over a potential catastrophe as shelling continues near the nuclear plant in ukraine. they say russia is playing with fire. >> gillian: and the threat of rolling blackouts. residents are pushed to conserve power, including not charging their electric cars during peak hours, what it could mean for the state's plan to ban gas powered vehicles all over.

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>> john: the risk of rolling blackouts rising in california, a stage three alert level due to a historic heat wave. soaring temperatures are pushing the electricity demands to all time highs and raising questions about the state's ability to sustain an influx of electric vehicles amid plans to phase out gas cars. michael shellenburger is from the group environmental progress, and ran for california governor in 2018 and here to join us now. i'm looking forward to this. any time there's a mandate you need to look at the numbers behind the plan, and what california is planning between now and 2035. as of 2026, 30% of all new vehicles must be electric cars.

68% in 2030, the phase-incomplete in 2035, 100% of new vehicles have to be electric. and people don't know this, california will need a lot more electricity between now and then if it hopes to fulfill the mandate or keep the cars running. >> yeah, that's right. the message that gets sent when you have -- when you are on the verge of blackout, when you have electricity shortages, you better not buy an electric car if you want to get to work or go to the grocery store. this is very serious, people die during blackouts, you don't have enough air-conditioning, potentially catastrophic failures of essential parts of the electrical grid, so incompetence on idiotology, you don't have reliable electricity, the cost of electricity went up seven times more than the rest of the united states and still

cannot maintain the power grid. it's a very dire situation, very serious and the most disturbing part, california has been held up as the model for the rest of the united states by president biden. >> john: in terms of whether or not there will be enough electricity in california to power the new electric vehicle fleet, in recent days you tweeted out some estimates. you wrote if we need 5.5 gigawatts for the electric vehicles, we would need it to power 29 million more e.v.s. in order for california to have sufficient electricity to power 30 million electrical vehicles, you write, it will need to build 20 new full size nuclear power plants. they've only got one nuclear power plant and that is extended, you are saying they need 20 more? >> well, that's right. my colleagues and i have been arguing for maintaining our last

nuclear power plant rather than shutting it down, which had been the plan of the current governor. he reversed his position because of the risk of blackouts at any moment but you would need 20 more nuclear reactors, the size of diablo canyon, or ten full power plants in order to generate sufficient electricity to power 30 million cars and trucks. it's not like the energy to power electric vehicles comes out of the sky, it has to be produced by power plants. we normally get our energy for our transportation from petroleum. that's very energy dense, it's a major source of our energy in the country, so to suddenly switch to electricity, you are talking about a huge expansion. we already shut down one of the plants in northern california, they wanted to shut down diablo

canyon, they say they are going to shut it down in 2030 which is bonkers. >> supposed to be shut down in 2025, now extending to 2030, but takes on average a decade to build a new nuclear power plant and i don't know how they are going to build 10 or 20 nuclear reactors between now and 2025. call four number six, people at home think california is running on the famous sunshine, it's not. power generation here, electrical generation, 37.9% from natural gas, 3% from coal, 9.3% from the one nuclear plant. hydro electric, 9.2, california compared to other states has a lot of renewable energy. but you also contends that you can't meet the demands of the electric vehicle mandate with solar and wind. >> well, that's right. look at what's happening. between 2019 and 2021 the

percentage from 0 carbon sources declined from 51 to 49%. we have not had as much rain and so our hydro electric dams have not been producing as much electricity. so, we often will refer to solar and wind as weather dependent renewables, but it actually turns out that hydro electric dams are also weather dependent. why you have to have nuclear power if you want to deal with climate change or reduce air pollution, it is the only scalable and reliable weather independent source of energy and yet our establishment in california from the governor on down has an allergy to nuclear power based on some really bad ideas from the 1960s, a lot of scary tv movies, but really nuclear has turned out to be one of the most important sources of energy. it's really going to end up saving europe this winter when it goes into energy crisis, so we need a lot more nuclear power. the right way to do it, add more

reactors. diablo canyon has two of them operating, it could have six, but instead going down the path of just more solar. >> john: we'll see what california can do. the next 13 years is going to go by pretty fast, no question about that. michael, author of "san fransicko." >> gillian: u.n. nuclear watchdog says they found extensive damage and is calling for a safety and protection zone at europe's largest nuclear power plant in ukraine. intense shelling nearby the plant is sparking fears of a major catastrophe. jeff paul is on the ground in kyiv. what does this mean for security in the region. >> gillian, inspectors who have been to the power plant say russian forces are playing with fire. they are urging both sides, both

ukrainian and russian to stop fighting near the power plant in order to avoid a potential catastrophe that could happen in this region as a result of this fighting. the u.n. watchdog found severe evidence that shelling is happening in the area. and the international atomic agency also found beyond the implications of fighting near the nuclear facility, ukrainian workers are extremely stressed and it's not sustainable at this moment. so the ucht n. secretary general says if things don't change the impact could be felt beyond the borders of ukraine. >> let's tell it like it is. any damage whether intentional or not to europe's largest nuclear power plant in zaporizhzhia or to any other nuclear facility in ukraine could spell catastrophe, not only for the immediate vicinity,

but for the region and beyond. >> fighting continues in the east where ukrainian force seemingly push on their counter offensive near kharkiv, as they move. they are reportedly targeting critical russian supply routes. the soldiers are also taking back some smaller towns once occupied by russian forces and in some cases, ukrainian forces are reportedly isolating some russian troops, cutting them off from the desperate supplies they need now during the war. >> gillian: jeff paul on the ground in kyiv, thank you. john. >> john: in the market for a new home? if the mortgage rates are too high, good luck finding cheap rent. live at a new jersey apartment complex with sticker shock. >> gillian: the ex-con accused of killing eliza fletcher is in court today. he has a history of rape and

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>> gillian: hillary clinton says she has come to the end of her political road. see what we did there? confirmed she's not going to run for president again in 2008 and 2016, failed bids. >> would you ever run for president again? >> no, no, but do everything i can to make sure we have a president who respects our democracy and the rule of law. >> gillian: growing speculation over a third shot at the white house for clinton as democrats weigh their 2024 options. >> john: you know, that boys' two men song, come to the end of the road, i can't let go. do we think if joe biden says i'm not going to run again, hillary will say i'm getting behind pete or will she throw her hat in the ring? >> gillian: doesn't she always say she's not going to run again but sometimes she does. if history is our guide, it does not matter she said that.

>> john: it is the prudent thing to say, when the current president says he is not going to run again. high gas, food and energy prices making wallets emptier. a rental market, pricing many out, especially younger americans. median rent in the u.s. is going to make your eyes pop outside of newark, new jersey. >> hit a median rent of $2,000 a month. and so that's obviously aggregated across the country. when you look at the city centers or major metropolitan areas, it's obviously higher than that. we are in newark, new jersey. if you wanted a one bedroom here and allocate a responsible amount of your income to rent, you should be making around $71,000 a year. the one bedrooms, often filled by millennials, gen z, the

median wage is $25,000 below that. we are seeing them move outside of cities and look to go elsewhere so that they can afford rent in this current market. we spoke to one representer in new york city, kelly, who moved to the big apple. the issue, her income is not allowing her to keep up with her rent which is around $3,500 a month. so now she's trying to desperately get out of her lease and move to texas. >> i kind of fell victim to the mindset i have to live here and i'm realizing once me accountants go through everything, i only have this much left over to invest and put into retirement. i don't have an emergency fund now, i spent it here. >> a big part of the problem is inventory. the housing market remains tight, so people who would have moved into homes that they own are instead signing rental leases again. mortgage rates rising could eventually bring down the

overall price but for now house prices are still strong and rising mortgage rates just makes buying that house even more expensive. further keeping people out. also why you are seeing a majority of young adults who moved back with their parents during the pandemic, unable to move into rentals or their own homes. there is some good signs in the rental market, a rental site says some of the pandemic boom towns like nashville, fort lauderdale and st. petersburg, florida, saw month over month decreases in one bedroom prices, indication that in those cities we are seeing supply meet demand. overall, it's a tight market so the landlords can charge what they want and renters have to either pay up or move out. >> john: i know so many people who have moved to nashville in the last couple years. no wonder rents there were on the rise. good to see them coming back down a little bit.

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>> gillian: turning back to one of our top stories this hour, a new york post columnist is digging deeper into hunter biden's foreign business ventures. miranda divine is alleging a former fbi agent interfered with the bureau's investigation into the president's son by suppressing information he was given one month prior to the 2020 presidential election. byron york is a correspondent for the washington examiner and a fox news contributor. he joins us now. so, this latest, byron, miranda is alleging there was an fbi cover-up. but tim thibault's attorney said he did not supervise the investigation of hunter biden, handled by the baltimore field office, in particular he was not

involved in any decision related to any laptop that may be at issue in this investigation and did not seek to close the investigation. >> well, we just have a factual conflict here. miranda divine describes a meeting, october 23, 2022, 11 days before the election, the fbi -- >> gillian: five-hour long meeting. >> the fbi interviews tony, the former hunter biden business partner who knows a lot about biden's business dealings and her allegation here is that agent thibault basically memory holed the whole thing, kind of went away, after the new york post had published its account of some of what was on his laptop. and it's also after the big social media companies, especially facebook and twitter had suppressed that information. so now if you have the two media companies doing this, and you have the fbi kind of suppressing

this whole story, it stays quiet until after the election. >> john: so you talk about suppression, and now we are talking about leaks to get information out there in terms of the latest in the washington post what the fbi took when they raided donald trump's home. washington post said material on former nations nuclear capabilities seized at trump's mar-a-lago, some seized documents were so closely held only the president, a cabinet level or near cabinet level official could authorize others to know. if that's not leaks from either the doj or the fbi trying to frame a narrative, i don't know what is. >> it seems that way. i would caution with leaks in washington, especially with investigations, you never can completely tell who the source of the leak is. sometimes defense lawyers know things. i know during the russia matter investigation --

>> john: you are suggesting not the doj. >> trying to think where it's not the doj but certainly looks like it's come out of people who are familiar with that very tightly held bunch of information. these boxes, which were taken up to, and brought to an information facility in the washington area and have been assessed and examined all this time. they have very tight controls on who gets to see these things and know about it. did somebody tell somebody who told the washington post, it's just hard to say exactly who but looks like it's coming from the government. >> gillian: if you take a step back a moment with the mar-a-lago raid, byron, i think most americans can agree that it's the interest of the nation that needs to be put forward here, not the interest of the former president versus the interest of the doj. what is in the country's best interest? is it -- but i'm serious, if you think about the crux of the issue, right. is it the danger of

investigating a former president or is it, and possibly indicting him, or is it the danger of allowing that president to mismanage classified information? >> it's incredibly important and hard to answer question. i'm going to punt it by saying the problem here is what it's been from the beginning is what which we don't know what the documents are about. we have told their the nations is most super secrets and yet we don't know. >> john: watching the white house, as a portrait of president obama and the former first lady are being unveiled. we'll be right back. one: call newday. two: talk to our team to see how much cash you can get. three: borrow up to 100% of your home's value with the newday 100 va loan. with home values near all-time highs, use your va benefit to turn the equity in your home into cash in the bank.

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