>> congratulations, grandpa. >> grandpa. >> they're having a baby. [cheering and applause] >> have a good weekend. >> bill: everything is going on. good morning, everybody. it is friday and the border crisis has hit another boiling point. the white house now going after the governors for trying to take matters into their own hands. dana has the day off. welcome back to our colleague and office mate sandra. >> sandra: congratulations to the doocys, fantastic news. we have some recipes to cook up tonight. thanks for being here. it is "america's newsroom," president biden and democratic mayors are slamming republican

governors for relocating those migrants to sanctuary areas. the president is accusing republicans of using those asylum seekers as political props. florida governor ron desantis is responding now by calling the president a hypocrite. >> biden would fly people in the middle of the night, dump them all across this country. there was no warning on any of this. the minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go -- their virtual signaling is a fraud. >> bill: the white house is talking about taking legal action. california governor gavin newsom takes it a step further and considering -- he is asking the department of justice to consider kidnapping charges. got it all covered. we action from tom cotton. let's start at the white house

with alexandria hoff. good morning, alex. >> this morning a meeting is reportedly taking place for possible litigation against governors will be discussed. the white house tells fox news these kind of meetings happen regularly and they discuss a range of different issues. not confirming that to us directly. axios reporting that this one was scheduled prior to the migrants arriving in martha's vineyard but expected to include high-level officials including department secretaries. last night the president said this. >> president biden: we're committed to fixing the immigration system. instead of working with us on solutions republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props. what they're doing is simply wrong. unamerican, reckless. >> republicans argue that what is inhumane and reckless is the biden administration treating migrants like they are invisible zbloo. what is happening along with border is making every city in america a border city. the hypocrisy of the democrats,

the vice president to declare that the border is secure. >> vice president harris didn't respond during this meeting when asked about buses arriving from texas to her d.c. residence. when pressed the white house said they agree with the vice president that the border is secure. there was this question. >> isn't there some risk that voters might feel like they are being lied to? >> so again, it is a broken system, the immigration system. and it was decimated by the last administration. >> the white house turned down an opportunity to advise migrants not to cross the border illegally. >> i will leave it to the department of homeland security to speak to that specifically. >> adding there that the justice department is in charge of stopping the buses of migrants from coming up north from the border towns. the white house added that on immigration as a whole, it is congress's job to act. >> bill: nice to see you from

the white house. thank you. >> sandra: democrats claim migrants are being lured onto the buses under false pretenses. our reporters at the border are telling a much different story. bill melugin is live in eagle pass to kick things off from there this morning. bill, what are they getting wrong here? >> sandra, good morning. none of these migrants are being lured or forced against their will when it comes to these texas buses. as i talk about these buses we want to show you the live fox drone. we've had another large group of several hundred cross illegally here into eagle pass this morning. back to the texas buses, all of the migrants sign a voluntary consent waiver form. i've seen the form. do they want to go to new york city or washington, d.c.? when they're on those buses along the way they get food, water, get off wherever they want to go. the migrants themselves have said they are excited to make this journey. a lot have family on the east

coast and getting a free ride and happy about it. the local ngo mission border hope said the same thing. nobody is being forced or nobody is going against their will. they're all happy to make this journey. on the other hand the city of el paso run by democrats has been doing the same thing without any criticism. look at the video. they're overrun dealing with the same thing as eagle pass, hundreds of migrants walking the streets. some camping underneath a bridge. border patrols facility and ngos overwhelmed. el paso has been sending their own buses to new york city. this piece of video here are some of the buses from el paso arriving in the big apple. the city just signed a contract with the bus charter company for up to $2 million to start sending even more buses to new york city. el paso again led by democrats has not gotten any criticism for doing the exact same thing that governor abbott is doing. local media in new york city fox 5 brought on new york

city's commissioner of immigrant affairs. el paso is run by democrats and they're sending more migrants our way. do you consider it to be inhumane like you do with governor abbott? he dodged the question. >> we are bow to seeing more coming from el paso. their mayor, democrat, is this still, you know, wrong, shameful thing political pawns? that what is white house is saying. >> we've condemned governor abbott's treatment on people on buses. he had the bus company signed a non-disclosure agreement and doesn't allows us to communicate with them. >> it's city of el paso doing it on its own with its own money. look at the video we shot with our brand-new fox drone nighttime with thermal imaging. early this morning while it was still pitch black out we saw more sizeable groups crossing in the middle of the riefr and

crossing illegally into a private orchard. we get groups several hundred in size all over the place in eagle pass every morning. you are seeing one of those groups now. back out here live because we get inundated here you can be certain a lot more buses are heading the way of the east coast. send it back to you. >> sandra: thank you. >> bill: let's get reaction. senator tom cotton. welcome back to our program and good morning today. here are the numbers along the southern border to date in fiscal year-to-date, 1.9 million. we will top 2 million easily. bused to washington 9400, new york city 1100, chicago 500. now a few dozen in martha's vineyard. your reaction to the back and forth now. >> the hypocrisy of these liberals is just amazing. joe biden has presided over a slow motion invasion of our country since he took office. almost 4 million illegal

migrants have crossed into our country and there are border towns including el paso as we heard from bill melugin who have thousands of illegal migrants arriving every single day. yet when a few thousand arrive in washington, d.c. they declare a state of emergency. when they get to chicago they call out the national guard. when 50 get to martha's vineyard the liberal media goes into a five alarm fire. these communities are so hypocritical because they are not willing to bear the brunt of joe biden's immigration failures. remember, joe biden is doing the exact same thing. he is transporting migrants all around the country. just liberals want to decide where illegal migrants go. apparently all the ritchie leets on martha's vineyard don't want them in their communities. why should communities in arizona and text vast to bear that burden? more fundamentally what i would

say is that doug ducey and greg abbott and the people of arizona and texas would much rather than sending buses and planes to the north that joe biden do his job and protect our border and send the buses and planes to the south because these illegal migrants should be going back to their home countries. they shouldn't be going anywhere in america. >> sandra: yesterday we took it live the white house press briefing happened following the vice president's comments over the weekend that the border is secure. obviously republicans are directly responding to those comments. the press secretary was given a chance to walk those words back. she instead chose to double down. listen. she backed up the claim that the border is indeed secure. so i'll ask you they are touting these numbers that they are apprehending and removing or expelling more migrants than ever at the southern border, senator. but put that in context for us.

one needs to point out there are more migrants than ever pouring over our border. so they're having to expel or remove more migrants than ever. >> that's exactly right, sandra. we have had almost 4 million illegal migrants cross into our country since joe biden. it is not the result of incompetence or bad luck for the biden administration. this is their deliberate policy and what they wanted and what joe biden and kamala harris campaigned on. the press secretary wouldn't even say migrants shouldn't come to this country. wouldn't send a message you shouldn't make the journey to get to our borders because they're inviting illegal migrants from all across the world to come to our country. this is the exact result the biden administration wanted. when it imposes hardship on democratic communities like washington, d.c. they go to death com one about it when

they are doing the same thing to cities across the country. >> bill: immediate reaction to what's happening in eagle pass, texas. the drone is live in the air. this has been like a drumbeat for bill melugin every time we talk to him there are another group of hundreds as he showed us there. this channel has been reporting from the border every day for the past year and a half. and he makes a point about the media making a bee line to martha's vineyard. they couldn't get there fast enough. hillary clinton was on msnbc earlier today. she went after governor greg abbott in texas with this. >> some politicians would rather not only have an issue but exacerbate it to the extent of literally human trafficking. some people like the governor of texas, would rather have an issue than be part of a solution. >> bill: that brings us to governor greg abbott, the

republican governor in texas will join us later today. first time he has spoken, i do believe, publicly since we had the martha's vineyard story and more because he sent migrants to the doorstep of kamala harris, the vice president in washington, d.c. >> sandra: big interview coming up. >> bill: 12 past the hour. >> anything i can do to help get fentanyl off the streets, out of the hands of people and hard working communities like west virginia i'll do everything i can to support. >> bill: why some are now urging the president to declare the drug a weapons of mass destruction. >> sandra: new signs hispanic voters are abandoning the democratic party in droves. the effect that could have on the mid-terms. >> bill: inflation continues to outpace wages. no bueno for your paycheck. what will it take to finally reverse a wicked trend? the friday money team is here.

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we had strong consumer >> with all that being said you are spot on. inflation is real, impacts being felt each and every day. i personally think the fed has been behind the 8 ball and the whole debate now will be how fast and how high and how many times do they raise rates and whether they can have a soft landing or not. i think that's going to be the debate over the next 12 months because i think inflation is going to have a long tale. >> bill: steve moore. >> i don't think it was time for joe biden to spike the football in the end zone as he did the other day when the inflation numbers were going through the roof. robert is right that the job market is still pretty strong out there, bill. there are jobs out there but the big problem has been people's wages just are not keeping up with the inflation

rate. the big story yesterday, bill, about the settlement between the rail workers and rail companies and the workers are getting 24% pay raise. i was thinking i'm having deja vu. that's what happened in the 1970s when you had the double digit inflation and the unions were getting these huge pay raises but they weren't keeping up with inflation. so you are right, the people are getting poorer. the only reason those income numbers from the census bureau reported weren't worse is there is so much government money going into people's pockets. if you took out all the government welfare payments and all that people would have lost a lot more income. >> bill: fair points there. this is the number that stuns me. 30-year mortgage rate right now 6%. a year ago it was less than 3%. that goes back to the whole point about people every month now, robert, they're paying more for their home to live in. the white house is still blaming putin. this from just yesterday.

>> the global challenge of a war in ukraine started by the kremlin that has hurt food prices, oil prices, which is why we have done the work that we have done to lower gas prices over the last couple of weeks. this is why the president has made this top of mind and continues to make his priority tackling inflation his number one economic priority. >> bill: robert, you should work at the white house. your first answer was much more believable than that answer. don't you agree? >> well, i will agree that i shouldn't work at the white house, how is that? i would say. there is no question that ukraine has had a huge impact on inflation and commodity prices that has been passed immediately to the consumer. there is no question that steve is right on, you know, inflation that is going to

happen and spike in the services sector and passed on to the consumer. where steve and i have agreed is we think inflation was going to be a lot longer and that rates had to go up a lot faster. i think with housing prices, bill, i think it's unfortunate that we're in a situation that, because of where we were during covid where so much construction did not happen, we're actually still at around home prices huge up year-on-year still over $400,000 average and what's incredible even with rates at 6% the listings are being sold at the price. so we're not seeing the impact on housing. you know who that hurts? it hurts everyday common people that will have the variable priceings get reset. well have a real issue with the housing market going forward. >> look, for the white house to say that gee, they are doing everything they can to fight inflation is sort of like al

capone saying where did all the crime come from? we've said week after week the reason we have the out of control inflation so persistent now. by the way, people on the street, main street america think inflation is worse than 8 1/2%. people come up to me it's up more than that because of the groceries. i will give you this one number, bill. $4 trillion. that's how much money -- extra money biden has spent and borrowed and printed in terms of money and obviously it will cause inflation. you have to have -- the fed has to take action but we need action in congress to cut back on this massive multi-trillions of dollars of debt and spending. >> bill: gentleman, thank you. we'll get capone on the phone very soon. steve, first crack next time. have a good weekend. thank you. >> sandra: a republican looking to win a district that hospital

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>> bill: the latino vote is looming charge and appears to be moving from the democratic party. here is why we say that. in the 2020 election president biden got 63% of the latino vote in america. that was 8% lower than four years prior in 2016. from virginia the a.g., his mother is from cuba. good morning to you. >> great to be with you. thank you for having me. >> bill: we saw this piece. latino voters are split along economic lines. working class latino voters in particular are moving toward republicans. an interesting piece. what do you make of this trend and does it last? >> well, we saw this last year in virginia with governor youngkin and myself. we got over 50%, 55% of the latino vote. there is one party right now

that talks about the american dream. that's the republican party. there is one party right now that talks about supporting law enforcement and safe streets. that's our party. economic empowerment. parents matter. empowering parents that they have the right to the education of their children. those values aligned with latino voters. the democratic right now is going woke and weird. they are using terms like latinx, nobody in the latino community uses those. policies that are the opposite of what you find in the latino community that values faith and family. they're on a similar trajectory to the old reagan democrats, the grandchildren of irish and italian immigrants. that's where the latino community is now. what party is speaking to their dreams and aspirations? right now it's the republican party. i'm excited about the trends we're seeing now and going forward. >> bill: the last point you

were making. working class latinos seem to have this draw toward the republican party. they went to the state of nevada and all these communities around las vegas to do their research there and that's what they discovered. so then we asked how do they feel about president biden? right now quinnipiac, approve 48%. disapprove 46. a bit of a split there. when asked how motivated they are to vote in the mid-terms look what we found here. 46% say they are more motivated. what's driving that, economic or more? >> well, listen, they are. working class americans of every background are seeing every time they go to the grocery store and every time they go to the gas pump they are paying more. they understand intuitively that washington has a spending problem. they are spending our nation into bankruptcy and creating inflation crisis. inflation is a regressive tax.

particularly for middle class and working class americans it is devastating for them. i know a lot of people on the coast maybe that are wealthy don't deal with a family budget. if you grew up like i did where you have to watch what you spend every month and what happens every week, your grocery budget is a set amount of money you can spend and set amount of money to spend to fill up your gas tank it matters. to the economic message you have now with a democratic party wrecking our economy and the republican party, they remember how good it was prior to the administration. they see that but i can't emphasize enough the democratic party messaging right now is so out of touch with working class latinos of all stripes. they're seeing this and it may be messaging that works with upper educated and wealthy liberals, but for your average individual working either at a shipyard or working a day-to-day or minimum wage drop they are seeing this messaging and totally against what they believe and what their values

are. faith and family is so critical in the latino community and they see one party that emphasizes and says parents matter, another party doesn't. you are seeing that right here in virginia. vega, latina in law enforcement running for congress in a contested seat. one of the things she got drawn to the g.o.p. is our position on standing with the police and law enforcement. that is attractive. they want safe streets. i know our message is the one that lifts the most people out of poverty and gives the best dreams for the most americans and the bottom line is for a lot of latinos they know it is an amazing country. one party runs america down and one party that talks about the american dream, the republican party. and why you are seeing such a rapid shift. >> bill: whoever captures them will have a heck of a political slight for sometime upward. jason, thank you in virginia. we'll watch from your state and states like nevada and southern texas. nice to see you.

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months. arrested on the columbian border while on vacation. he and fellow american detainees in venezuela are losing hope in the biden administration. >> i don't think u.s. americans here feel like they've dismissed us and they don't care about us. two people have already tried to commit suicide and one is on the brink with daily mental health breakdowns and if you don't get us out soon, there might not be anyone left to save. >> sandra: his brother and colleague join us now. thank you to you both for being here. drew, i know you are integral trying to secure his release. first to his brother, henry. for people who don't know your brother's story, how did his detainment come about? >> he was simply taking a vacation from his overwhelming position as the dep see public defender at the los angeles

county department and it was a well-deserved vacation. accompanying a friend and unfortunately got detained in a very traumatic manner and now being held by the venezuelan government. >> sandra: we just heard your brother and his plea for help. he feels like he has been abandoned, otheresque detained there, other americans also feel the same. what has led him in your communications with him to that conclusion that they are being left behind? >> the lack of urgency within the administration. i pled to the biden administration, the white house and haven't had any type of response. and that's very -- he can feel that from where he is at, the abandonment and i'm trying to do everything in my possibility

to get his situation, to most important. >> sandra: reading a little bit about him, drew, a colleague of yours, you call him a friend. this is somebody who has spent his life, his career trying to help others less fortunate. he takes great pride in that. you met him on the job. what role are you playing in trying to secure his release? >> we're working with a team of his friends and family to bring as much awareness about the incredible injustice of his detainment. we are contacting politicians in washington, just bringing as much awareness as we can. unfortunately, we've reached out to the white house to have a meeting with the president. we've had no response since may. and there has just been limited communication, even from the state department. we very much -- we need to

bring him home. >> sandra: we know this meeting is going to be taking place at the white house we're told today, henry, we haven't got specific details on it. but watching these two americans who have been detained overseas britteny griner and mr. whalen. they too felt like they were being left behind. henry, have you had any communication with them on working with the administration? >> we're part of bring our families home campaign and collectively we're trying to do everything in our possible situation to bring the administration to move more quickly and with aggression to get our family members home. >> we have been in touch with -- >> sandra: i was going to ask you finally how is he doing in the last communication you had

with him? >> he is struggling. i mean, he is, you know, he sees the other detainees on the verge of daily mental health breakdowns. he is locked in a cell for 23 hours a day with no sunlight. it is taking its toll. it is an intended consequence by his captors. and time is of the essence. we keep stressing that to the state department and the white house. and we've seen this, you know, historically with other americans who have been detained like james foley and robert leavenson where this time is of the essence. the administration needs to act now to bring americans around the world home. >> sandra: it's an incredibly important story. we'll continue following his story with you. thank you for joining us. >> thank