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 you.

>> bill: 10:00 in new york. early voting starts on monday in pennsylvania. there is a hotly contested senate race there. dr. mehmet oz and lieutenant governor john fetterman going head-to-head. it is one of the biggest toss-up battles in the battle for power on capitol hill as we say. brand-new hour starts today. it is friday, i'm bill hemmer. >> sandra: nice to spend friday morning with you, mr. hemmer. here we go. hour to. i'm sandra smith. nearly 40% of pennsylvania voters cast their ballots by mail in 2020. early voters now will have to make their choice without a single debate as fetterman faces growing questions about his health, of course, after suffering a stroke back in may. dr. oz says fetterman is cheating voters by waiting to debate until the end of october and by using closed captioning at his request, which is not allowed on the senate floor.

>> bill: some voters in philadelphia say fetterman's health problems are less important to them than his policy platform. >> i'm not as concerned about his health as his policies and history. he is soft on crime. >> there have been plenty of people in office that have had medical issues that have served. >> look at joe biden. he is an older guy. he is still able to run the country. if fetterman gets elected i'm sure he will represent pennsylvania. >> bill: set the table for rich edson live in washington, d.c. what are pennsylvania voters looking forward to on this? >> good morning, bill and sandra. there is one debate scheduled two weeks before election day. editorial boards from the "pittsburgh post-gazette" to "washington post" have pushed lieutenant governor john fetterman to debate mehmet oz. the post said their one debate isn't enough. fetterman is recovering from a stroke in may. >> it's the lingering issue of

auditory processing. sometimes i may not be able to hear things or miss a word and now i just want to make sure that i'm able to know exactly the question that's being put to me. >> fetterman's campaign told "the new york times" said he took cognitive tests with scores in the normal for his range. fetterman's campaigns did not make his doctors available for interview. oz says if fetterman can speak in front of thousands of supporters he should be ready to debate now. >> he is dodging all questions but those from the press and voters, which is insulting in a democracy. i think he is doing it to avoid this radical left ideology he has and he doesn't want to defend it. >> voters in pennsylvania will start receiving absentee ballots as early as monday. >> bill: speaking of absentee ballots, a big fight over those in north carolina. what's happening there? >> there is. republican lawsuit against the state board of elections for

extending the date election officials can receive absentee ballots. the original deadline is on veterans day so the board will count absentee ballots received six days after election day. north carolina republican party claims the board has no authority to do this. the board of elections says state law requires election officials to delay the vote if the deadline falls on a federal holiday and they applied the same rule in 2016. republican party is suing over restrictions how often election observers can move across different polling places. let the lawsuits begin, bill. >> bill: right on. thank you, rich. nice to see you in d.c. shannon bream, anchor of "fox news sunday" is in washington good morning. feels like deja vu all over again, doesn't it? >> it does. listen, when we talk about the early votes, they stack up. weeks and weeks of voting before you get to the debate. that's a serious conversation to have.

this is a very careful needle the doctor is going to have to thread. he understands probably the stroke recovery and limitations better than any of us do but also has to go in there as somebody who can show compassion and who can be respectful of what the lieutenant governor is going through. at the same time making his case that he may not yet be able to fulfill the duties of a six-year senate term. i think there are some tricky optics for him going in and debate over the closed captioning and all those other things. much of it won't matter because so many people will have cast their votes by the time we get to the debate. >> sandra: great to see you, shannon. put the latest monmouth polling on the screen on the pennsylvania senate race. fetterman pulling 10 points over dr. oz 49 to 39%. here is fetterman in his own words on his health. listen. >> the recovery has been really kind of like a miracle. it could have ended my life with the stroke. i have been making a recovery

that has now left me able to run the kind of campaign, do rallies, do interviews, and be evaluated by doctors and everyone who all agreed i'm absolutely up to run this race. >> questions over the closed captioning and waiting until the end of the month, whether it cheats voters. where do you think it all goes, shannon? >> well, it does look at the bigger conversation about the questions that people often have about candidates whether it's a physical fitness test, a mental agility and fitness test. we've seen people throw these things around and seen a number of doctors over the last few years. you remember during the trump administration saying i think there is something wrong with him. i never examined him and cognitively there are issues. you get into a lot of dangerous territory for people who aren't physicians for the person in question raising concerns about their ability to move forward. most people if you take the partisanship and names out of

it and say if the candidate was representing your state and had suffered a serious medical problem and wasn't yet fully recovered, would you feel comfortable voting for them? the fetterman campaign, i think, is smart and wise to stay away from a debate. when you have a 10-point lead why would you want to chance that? >> bill: i think oz is throwing a little skepticism whether or not it happens. we'll see if it happens. end of october. our fox polling this week went out and found two things. what are you extremely concerned about and what are the issues? on extremely concerned about we found inflation and higher prices at almost 60%. democracy checks in half at 50%. we asked what is motivating you, inflation number one at 19%. closely behind is abortion at 16%. you could say that if this election is about the economy and inflation, republicans will do well. if this election is about abortion, democrats will do

well. in a nutshell you could frame it that way as of today. >> you could because when you dig into the numbers and look at who is motivated by what you're right? the people most concerned about the economy they favor republican candidates. for those most concerned about abortion they have a big advantage to the democrats. to their candidate. that is the question about why now when it's not polling well for republicans and they had hoped to retake both houses and it will be a dog fight in the senate, why now senator lindsey graham would come forward with a 15-week federal ban on abortion after arguing as republicans had that this was a state issue, roe should be overturned to go back to the states? i have to tell you there are a lot of people scratching their heads wondering about what the timing is about on this. even within republican conferences and leadership and within the pro-life community people are saying we support this idea but we're really confused by the timing. he is our guest on "fox news sunday".

i have a lot of questions as i'm sure a lot of other folks do. frjs you got the man of the hour sunday. "fox news sunday" lindsey graham will be your guest, shannon. >> he will. foreign policy and economy and all kinds of other things. we should be able to tell you about our guests on the other side of the aisle shortly. we're working to lock that in and have a legal panel. i'm always going to defer to legal issues. i love that part of my background and so many legal issues bubbling out there. attorneys with us and along with our sunday panel to develop into all the politics. see you then. >> bill: we'll see you on sunday. thank you. >> have a good weekend. >> sandra: florida judge eileen cannon dealing the department of justice a setback in the mar-a-lago search. last night she rejected its demand to let federal prosecutors continue reviewing records marked classified that were recovered during that raid. the d.o.j. says those records could damage national security if released. cannon disagreed. she also appointed a special

master to review the evidence. david spunt on this for us live at the justice department. hello, david. >> hello, sandra, good morning. that judge, the special master is federal judge raymond deary. he has his work cut out for him. he has to go through 11,000 plus documents seized from mar-a-lago on august 8 in this unprecedented case. he has senior status on the eastern district of new york federal court. he was suggested by the trump team to serve as special master and see if some of the documents should be returned to the president. as he goes through thousands of documents attorney general merrick garland and his department of justice are getting ready to appeal to the 11th circuit court of appeals in atlanta, georgia. the reason. the district judge in the trump case, eileen cannon, told federal prosecutors she

wouldn't reverse her previous order that told doj to stop using 100 classified documents until deary is done with his investigation. d.o.j. argues time is ticking and about national security. they promise to appeal to the 11th circuit. it could be risky. the reason six of the 11 judges on that court are donald trump appointees. the former president claimed the documents seized from mar-a-lago were declassified when he left office and can't imagine being indicted. listen. >> i think if it happened, i think you would have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we've never seen before. i don't think the people of the united states would stand for it. >> hours later swift reaction from democrats on capitol hill. listen here. >> inviting the mob to return to the streets is exactly what happened here january 6, 2021. his careless and inflammatory

rhetoric has its consequences. >> i want to read a new fox news poll out last night talking about polls with shannon. by a 39-point margin more voters believe it was inappropriate. 65% than appropriate 26% for donald trump to remove those documents when he left the white house in january 2021. >> sandra: david spunt live at the d.o.j. thank you very much. >> i have to tell her sister that her big sister is not going to come back. she is a 7-year-old. how do you tell a 7-year-old that your sister is not going to come back. >> bill: america's drug crisis taking another life. she was only 15 years old. tragic details on that coming up. >> sandra: democrats venting their fury at texas governor greg abbott after he sent two migrant buses to vice president kamala harris's doorstep. he will join us live here just ahead. >> bill: they want the royal perks but not the responsibilities. why the prince, harry and

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selling what authorities believe to be fentanyl-laced pills to the teenage girl who overdosed and found dead in a bathroom at bernstein high school tuesday night. the young suspect was arrested at his grandmother's house and they found additional pills laced with fentanyl in that home. >> our work does not stop because these two individuals, 15 and 16 years of age are simply transferring and soldiering this distribution. there is a drug organization behind this. these are not overdoses, these are people who have been poisoned. these are murders. if you prey on our children, it will not end well for you. >> police say the victim, a 15-year-old and her friend overdosed on fentanyl laced pills that they allegedly bought from the 15-year-old suspect at the high school. they thought they were buying percocet. the friend is recovering in the

hospital. as for the 16 who was arrested he is facing charges for selling drugs to another student at lexington park, located just a few blocks from the high school. now like so many families across the u.s., tragically impacted by this fentanyl crisis ramos's family is mourning her sudden loss. >> i have to tell her sister that her big sister is not going to come back. she is a 7-year-old. how do you tell a 7-year-old that your sister is not going to come back? >> at least six students have overdosed in the last three weeks alone from drugs at this hollywood area park near the high school. fortunately they were able to recover. >> bill: tough story. thanks from l.a. today. >> sandra: new york city soft on crime policies under fire again. another robbery suspect back on the streets after robbing the owner of a store. the same bodega where the d.a.

charged all bow with murder for killing an attacker in self-defense. the charges were later dropped. let's bring if fox news contributor kat timpf. you hate to see it happen. >> criminal justice reform is what i supported but this is wrong. treating property crimes like they are victimless crimes. i believe the government has very few functions, one of those most basic functions is to protect property, to protect people's personal property. when you are treating this as if it's something if you violate that there is no consequence of course people will continue to do this. >> the revolving door continues. no change in policy. >> no change in policy. apart from not treating property crimes as if they're crimes they show lenience to violent criminals. if you assault somebody you can get back on the street. this is not what anybody was talking about when they

advocated for criminal justice. this is totally insane and completely different. >> sandra: i think it's important to highlight this every time we have this conversation. you live in new york, kat. new york crime stats through the roof. double digit percentage increases. 7,409. we've surpassed 2021 by 35%. >> if you walk around you don't feel as safe as you used to walking around new york city. you see the stories and you see i have a reason to be concerned. >> bill: you have to keep the money here. a lot of loot. they found 346,000 millionaires living in new york. almost 60 billionaires. if they grow unhappy with the state of living here they're gone. >> i don't know why are you still living here, guys? i think they have properties here probably.

that's why when i complain about paying taxes or how high taxes are living in new york, sometimes people will say it's not sensitive. don't you want to help people who need it. you have to say how good of a job do you think the government is really doing at using this money to go to people who need it? where does it go? everyone who lives here pays so much in taxes. you walk outside and you say where is the money going? >> sandra: we've -- all american big cities have lost a lot of that money. a lot of people. look at ken griffin and the city of chicago. his and his company's tax money has fled including boeing as well. on to patagonia. big company. "l. a. times" saying he is giving it away to save the

climate. cnbc gave away his company to fight climate change. earth is our only shareholder. the real king, he gives away company to fight climate crisis. many are wondering what's really going on here, kat? >> when you see a headline like this you know there is always something more. he will be able to avoid paying a lot of taxes by doing it this way. he is still going to be able to have huge influence over u.s. politics by doing it this way. control the company by doing it this way. nobody ever just gives away all their money for no reason. >> bill: he found a loophole. >> that's exactly right. >> bill: saving his family over $700 million at minimum. >> people aren't digging deeper. so many headlines are saying look at this wonderful man who loves the earth so much he will be poor now. that's not what is going on. >> bill: i didn't know it was possible. he has really good lawyers.

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own griff jenkins in washington, d.c. now apparently in martha's vineyard many migrants told reporters there. the media has flocked there in the last two days saying they were misled the entire time. here is one individual speaking with our own griff jenkins. >> it is open to us. the border is open. it is open because we enter, we come in free. no problem. we come in. >> the righting on the screen the border is open. we came illegally, not legal and these other migrants apparently have shown up in other areas say they were misled. have they been in order to get them moving? >> i can tell you for an absolute fact that everybody that texas has moved they sign an authorization to go to the destination that we drove them to. and so there has been zero people that texas has misled. also what he said, he said what

biden and kamala harris are not admitting, that is the border is open. the biden administration needs to recognize not only is the border open but they are not following the laws of the united states of america. >> bill: yesterday the white house said all these moves were reckless, called them shameful. what is next, governor? and where? >> well, first let me respond to that comment. what biden did before we began busing people to new york and washington, d.c., etc., biden himself was doing that very same thing. the only difference is he was moving people in the darkness of night and dropping them off in communities across the united states of america without the public being able to see it. what we've done is we've done it in the light of day and so they are just hypocritical in criticizing us. what's coming next is listen, the pressure continues to build because of the number of people crossing the border. and to relieve our communities, we have to continue these

busing operations. >> bill: you want to give us an idea as to how this operation expands? >> one way it will expand is in volume to the current locations that we're sending it to. and only time will tell if there will be other areas that we'll be sending people by bus to. >> bill: final question, do you have a plan to stop this process at the moment or not? >> we do have a plan to stop this process and the plan begins with the biden administration finally securing the border. remember this. it was just two years ago we had the fewest border crossings in decades because the trump administration was enforcing the immigration laws. all biden has to do is replicate what trump did and that would lead to a reduction in border crossings and the elimination of us busing people to regions across the country. >> bill: we'll get reaction from washington later today. thank you for your time. governor, in texas today. thank you for your time.

>> sandra: great interview. i think he just told us they are going to increase the volume that they are sending those migrants to the current destination they're already sending them. the "new york post" this morning with martha's vineyard meltdown. maybe democratics will finally recognize immigration problems. an important point. when you look at the community leaders standing on the steps at martha's vineyard saying we can't handle this and she said they are sending them with no advance notice, not even local authorities know these migrants are coming. important to remind folks what happens just north of new york city, rochester county to the governor's point a moment ago he is doing this in broad daylight. they were sending migrants north of new york city in the dark of night. when we sent reporters up there local police weren't aware it was happening and they were not prepared for this. >> bill: i would say very few people in the media followed our story back then, right? >> sandra: we were telling it. >> bill: now you have a

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>> sandra: a fierce congressional battle is underway just north of new york city where republican mike lawler is running against sean patrick maloney for a seat currently held by a far left democrat. the district leans democrat. republican candidate mike lawler joins us now. great to have you here. we invited your opponent and he is also welcome to join. first up, what will it come down to here? >> voters across the hudson valley understand the campaign is about inflation and crime. we are the immediate suburbs north of new york city and pay the highest taxes in america. the cap an salt had a big impact on folks in rockland and westchester counties and many of our folks live north of the city but work in new york city.

crime factor is a major. >> sandra: they used to work in new york city. >> a lot of people moved out of new york city because of what's going on. the district is a d plus 3 district. joe biden won it by 10 points and we're up four in the polls. i feel very good about this district. i represent rockland county in the state assembly. 42% of the district. maloney only represents 25% of the new district currently. so we're both representing a very similar population. >> bill: a couple things from 2020 joe biden won the district easily by five points. >> bill: 56 to 43 on screen here. that is a lot of democrats who live there. >> 70,000 more democrats than republicans. what people need to take away from this is a lot of blue collar working class people. a lot of cops, firefighters. sean maloney said his top

priority when he ran for attorney general was enacting cashless bail. we've seen what a disaster it has been in new york state. 40% of people released on non-man tear bail for felonies have been reassessed and a major problem and at the feet of sean maloney. >> sandra: things got personal the last time around speaking as abortion as one of the top issues. what was the story there? >> well, you know, they sent protestors outside of my fundraiser attacking my wife. we recently had a baby about five months ago on monday and on the issue of abortion i'm personally pro-life. i do believe in exceptions. sean maloney is lying about my record saying i don't believe in that and i would support a national ban on abortion.

i wouldn't. maloney supports abortion up to the day of birth. 80% of americans don't support partial birth abortion. >> bill: there was a special election in the same part of new york only 3 1/2 weeks ago and republicans lost. so for all the issues that you are talking about that we cover on a daily basis, that apparently did not ring true for those who live in that district. >> i think that's an oversimplification of that. in truth. >> bill: cashless bail was on the ballot. crime was on the ballot. inflation was on the ballot and abortion was on the ballot. >> you had two democratic primaries on the same day overlapping the entirety of the current 19th congressional district. for the new 18th and new 19th district. kathy hochul purposely made delgato wait three weeks to resign from congress so she could make the special election

the same day as the court ordered primary day. in addition, because of covid, a lot of democrats moved out of new york city to other counties over the last two years so when john faso won the district in 2016 to when he lost it in 2018, the enrollment disparity shifted quite a bit. he only lost by 3,000 votes in a heavy democratic leaning district. republicans are coming out to vote in november. special elections are just that. special. >> bill: sean patrick maloney invited to come on. we hope he does. for you to beat him would be a major upset. he is a democratic leader trying to help all the other house democrats win reelection. for you to beat him do you need a red wave or not so much? >> no. he is the chair of the dccc and nancy pelosi's campaign manager no question. we are going to upset him on

november 8th. the voters in this district understand the challenges we're facing. sean maloney, who has been in congress for 10 years has voted 100% with joe biden and nancy pelosi. he voted to increase taxes on middle class families, voted to create 87,000 new i.r.s. agents to go after hard working families in the hudson valley. he has championed cashless bail. he has been a total train wreck. we'll win on november 8th and the voters will send a shock wave across the country. >> bill: that would be if true. mike lawler, thank you for your time today. we'll remember this conversation. tough story here. suicides in america taking a devastating toll on those who served our country. the heartbreaking numbers among our nation's veterans are next. >> veterans take their life at twice the rate of non-veterans by suicide, by suicide. veterans die from overdose at a

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driver may have hit the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal. >> there was a way out. through family, through proper counseling and that makes it more heartbreaking. why didn't you call us? >> bill: the father of an air force veteran who died by suicide. he hopes that sharing his own daughter's story will help save the lives of others. the month of september is suicide prevention month. it comes as suicides have spiked among our veterans. recent numbers show 10 per day commit suicide without ever interacting with the veteran health administration. fox report anchor jon scott takes us inside some of these heartbreaking statistics to bring it to our attention today. a tough story to cover. what did you learn? >> it is a tough story and i hope people will watch. it is a national tragedy. that number you quoted is low. the official number from the

v.a. is 17 suicides per day. america's warrior partnership and the ceo, you played sound from him before the commercial break, they have crunched the numbers. duke university is compiling statistics from eight states across the country. they say the v.a. is under counting by about 40%. the real number, if you include self-injury mortality it's called, like drug overdoses and accidental issues that border on suicide, 50 a day. 50 of our veterans we're losing. >> sandra: absolutely heartbreaking. we have the veterans hotline on the screen. for those that want to chat and there is a link to the veterans crisis line. for anyone who needs help, reach out. here is a mother who -- her marine son died by suicide. >> he would say things to us

like you guys -- people don't understand me. i don't understand you. i'm like how do we get through this? how do we help each other understand each other? and then he would shut down. i think he tried very hard to fit in to civilian life and it just didn't make sense to him anymore. >> sandra: there are a lot of folks and organizations trying to reach out to families just like that to prevent this from happening. >> her son is on the screen there. she thinks he took his own life because he thought he was a burden on his family. that he was constanting bombarding them with phone calls. they would like nothing better than to have him around the dinner table still but -- she touches on something that is common to a lot of veterans. it is hard to put suicide into a box and say this is why it happens. it is common to a lot of veterans, they are in the military, in a unit with a mission. they are told when to get up,

where to go, what to do. then they come back to civilian life and that structure isn't there anymore. for a good number of them, not all of them. but a good number of them it's hard to take. >> bill: last question for you. i don't know how you answer this or even if you can. did you find why the ravages of war are so debilitating to the mind when that structure is gone? >> i don't think you can say that -- well, you are exactly right but some of these people who we're losing didn't even see combat. >> bill: is that right? >> it's not just combat veterans who are taking their own lives. >> bill: very important point. >> right. nobody in this whole situation is really blaming the v.a., for instance. only about half the veterans -- 18 million veterans in the country. only 9 million are enrolled in the v.a.. so the v.a. can't reach out and

help everybody. another factor, the national guard and reservists who have been carrying so much of the load in our recent battles, their suicide rate i believe reservists are taking their life at a 40% higher rate than active duty. >> bill: it is really important stuff. check it out this weekend on fox reports at 6:00 eastern time. we'll run it throughout the week as well. great to see you. jon scott. we have to run. smitty, great to be with you at 1:00. here is dagen in today for harris. bye-bye. >> this fox news alert. the situation at our southern border spinning out of control. blue states are finally feeling the heat. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm dagen mcdowell in for harris. massachusetts now moving illegal migrants sent there to a shelter set up on joint base cape cod. they are expected to arrive