border patrol chief tweeted this over the weekend. 1,442 migrants apprehended. five rescues, four gang members arrested. one sex offender, 338 pounds of meth, ten pounds of fentanyl. great job honor first. that's the reality of the situation today. >> yeah, the border is wide open. when you talk about it from just a migrant perspective you lose the fact that the cartel is controlling what crosses our border today. that's because of the policies that the biden administration put in place. if you look at the seizures that operation lone star has made in texas over 300,000 arrests, 300 pounds of fentanyl. the only reason they're there is border patrol isn't there because this administration has them processing asylum seekers most are fraudulent that don't meet the criteria. >> thank you. >> bill: mid-term elections 35

days from today. we're seeing key developments here in the final stretch shaking up the battleground states with power in the senate hanging in the balance. we'll watch day-by-day as we get closer. new hour starts right now. dana is off today. back tomorrow. i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home. >> sandra: cruised through the first hour. i'm sandra smith. election day is now just five weeks away. democrats are losing ground in one key state, pennsylvania, where the senate race is getting tighter there. democrat john fetterman watching his lead slip away as dr. oz gains momentum and closing the gap. it dropped from 11 points in mid-summer to 4.3 in the latest real clear politics average. as that race gets tighter, both sides arguing who is tougher on crime. >> i'm sick of oz talking about john fetterman and crime. the truth. john gave a second chance to those who deserved it. john fetterman has the courage

to do what's right. dr. oz doesn't know a thing about crime. >> they endorsed me because they don't feel supported right now by their lieutenant governor and they are concerned if they are going to run towards this danger, and they are at risk for being criticized for doing it, undermined in efforts to do it. >> bill: bryan llenas starts us off in pennsylvania. you spent a lot of time there. >> good morning. dr. oz is talking about the pennsylvania fraternal order of police. it appears fundraising gap is tightening. dr. oz's campaign released third quarter fundraising numbers showing he raised $17.2 million between july and september including 7 million of oz's own money. we're still waiting on fetterman's third quarter numbers. this is a big jump for oz from the second quarter where he raised just 51/$2 million of

which 3.2 came from his own money. now the oz campaign is making inroads attacking democrat lieutenant governor john fetterman on the issue of crime. this ad attacks fetterman for supporting the decriminalization of drugs. fetterman said in 2015 he was for decriminalizing all drugs. but now his campaign says he is not. on sunday night oz attended a prayer vigil and met with local black clergy in philadelphia where they talked about how fentanyl is easier to get than baby formula. dr. oz spoke to the pennsylvania chamber of commerce last night about fetterman's stance on incarcerating less people and ending life without parole. >> asked if i can wave a imagine ache baton. fetter man said to get rid of life in prison. a lot of focus on people who were put in jail for a reason. >> according to fox news polls,

fetterman continues to poll well especially with women. a majority of oz's supporters dislike the other options. the candidates are set to have the one and only debate three weeks from today. >> bill: must see tv. nice to see you. >> i can tell you right now i never asked any one to get an abortion. never paid for an abortion. it's a lie. i'm going to continue to fight. they want this seat. >> sandra: georgia republican senate nominee herschel walker denying allegations that he paid $700 to an unnamed woman he dated to have an abortion back in 2009. walker calling that report a, quote, flat out lie. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel live with the latest. what impact could this have in battleground georgia? >> potentially quite damaging

five weeks out from election day. what many consider a toss-up race. the unidentified woman showed a get well card and image of a personal check signed by walker to a daily beast reporter. w walker was about the check. >> i send money to a lot of people and that's what is so funny. let's go back to my part. i do scholarship to kids. i'm always help people. god has blessed me and i want to bless others. >> he intends to file suit against the daily beast calling it a huge distraction from issues facing the american people. >> right now they want to address everything except what the problems in this country is going on. you see it, you feel it. high inflation, you see crime. afraid to go to the mall and afraid to pump gas at a gas station at night. >> it didn't end there. then last night walker's son attacked him on twitter writing

i know my mom and i would really appreciate if my father herschel walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us. you are not a family man when you left us to bang a bunch of women. threatened to kill us and had us move over six times in six months running from your violence. walker responded that he loves his son no matter what. sandra. >> sandra: mike emanuel reporting live in washington. >> bill: you have these election watchers handicapping what they expect in the house. "wall street journal." republicans are likely to gain closer to 20 than 25. it's partly because the g.o.p. got a head start in 2020 by picking up 14 house seats. a net gain of 20 seats this fall would give republicans 233. the g.o.p. had 230 in 1995 when gingrich was speaker. karl rove joins us now. you have a white board today. number one, abortion against the other issues how do you see it

playing, karl? >> democrats are making a big bet that abortion will drive the election and there was a september 21st abc poll. what was the important issue. inflation. 61% said that's the republican agenda. that's what is important to me. abortion and climate were 22 and 13. 35% said the democratic agenda is my agenda. independents will settle the election. september 14th "new york times" poll economic issues, would you be voting on economic issues like jobs and cost of living? 54%. societal issues abortion, guns and democracy, 27%. so democrats among independents agenda is down 2-1. >> sandra: second white board. you want to highlight what you see as the g.o.p. advantages

versus some of the issues that democrats five weeks out are embracing. >> that's the other thing that gets me is take a look. nbc poll, which party is better on economic issues, 47% republican. 28% democrat. crime 45-22. border security. abc asked abortion, 32 said republicans, 52% said democrats. so they got democrats a 20-point advantage on an issue not as central as the economy and crime and advantage on it less than the 36 point advantage the republicans have on the issue of border security. >> bill: following that up. everyone has a poll. monmouth has a poll. top issue inflation, 82%, abortion checks in all the way down the line well past immigration, infray structure. abortion at 56%. nancy pelosi was on with stephen

colbert last night. >> i believe we'll hold the house. we will hold the house. [cheers and applause] by winning more seats. we won the 40 seats, then we lost some when trump was on the ballot. we lost some nft trump districts but held enough seats to hold the house. with him on the ballot. he is not on the ballot now. >> bill: it went from there. right now everybody is right. we have no vote results. go ahead, karl. >> since the creation of the modern party system in 1818. two elections where the party in the white house gained seats. 2002 in the after math of 9/11 with george bush. 1 of 2 things is happening here. either nancy pelosi is suggesting that joe biden's performance in office has been

akin to franklin roosevelt or george w. bush and it will be the third occasion since the creation of the two-party sits team where the white house party will gain seats in the house or just simply cheerleading. i think the first border lines of delusional. i can see the second one she wants to keep everybody's spirits up, raise more money. keep a couple seats from falling that might otherwise fall. the idea the democrats will take the house is, i think, very suspect. it does say wonders about the kind of audience colbert, when she says that the crowd starts cheering. >> all the best. >> sandra: new york democrat dismissing a vicious subway attack as a quote one in a million event. the victim is pushing back. we'll hear from her directly. >> bill: president biden sparking backlash for telling puerto rican hurricane victim he was sort of raised in their

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>> bill: tony bobulinski, you might remember the name. speaking out in an exclusive interview with tucker carlson. the former associate of hunter biden saying that the president's son committed fraud against his business partners. bobulinski also went after the media saying he offered to go on cnn to expose the facts on what he considers biden's corruption. >> variety of people reached out to me. nobody that was willing to actually go through a detailed interview of the facts and jake tapper i guess well respected by many people at cnn, you know, i appealed to him and chris licked. i'll come foran interview. be as aggressive as you want to be. i have thousands of documents, whatsapp conversations, recordings of the sitting president of the united states in his own voice and i would love to have that debate.

>> bill: you might remember two years ago when tucker sat down for the first time with bobulinski. now you can see the entire interview done recently on the alleged biden family corruption later tonight at 8:00 eastern only on tucker carlson tonight. >> sandra: the parents of the fdny paramedic stabbed to death in queens confronting the city's mayor at their daughter's wake yesterday. she was stabbed 19 times just a block away from her ems station while she was out grabbing her lunch. a legislator said that mom asked the mayor weren't you a police officer for 30 years? he replied yes. she then said you know what to do, please give me my city back. prosecutors say the suspect in the attack is incustody charged with second degree murder adding he confessed to that crime.

>> bill: so it's happening so often it is hard to keep track. that woman from huntington, new york in long island. stunning stuff. people have had it. it is enough. you wonder if they are doing enough. the answer clearly is not enough now. you have rampant crime in new york city subway system. this shocking attack caught on camera two weeks ago today. a homeless man who killed his own grandmother years ago suspected of brutally beating a 33-year-old mother of two at a station stop next to jfk airport. she was on her way the work at the airport and has not regained full vision if her eye and she may not ever. that woman is here. elizabeth joins me now. how are you doing? i think that's the best first question. how are you? >> i'm trying. i'm sill a little bit of headaches and stuff like that. life goes on and trying the best

i can every day. >> you were on your way to work. i'm not sure how long you have been working at the airport. just give me a sense of where this man came from and what you thought at that moment. >> well, you know, i've been in the airport for ten years working there. and this guy just came from off the train station. i was waiting for the train like i do every morning and he was just walking back and forth and he came and the before i knew it this guy hit me from behind with a bottle. >> bill: out of nowhere. we've got some crime statistics on the subway system. they aren't good. i don't need to explain that to you. for our audience the percentage change between 2021 and 2022 is already up almost 50%. a w078 woman who represents your district in queens. she shot out a tweet a week ago on september 26th saying subway

violence is a one in a million event. as a believer in a violence-free new york city i think it's one too many. let's not let fear mongering politicians and corporate media outlets scare us into thinking we have a dangerous, scary public transit system. based on your experience, how would you respond to that? >> i would say it's ridiculous for her to say that. 99% of these violence are coming from the subways. there is no help there. there is hardly any kind of cameras or anything there. so how could she even say that making these things up. the subway is a dangerous place. people are throwing each other into the tracks. you are getting sliced in the middle of your ride. how could they even say something like that? subways are one of the most dangerous places in new york city and we need lots of cameras in it. even inside the trains we need the cameras. >> bill: more on the way based

on my understanding of the budget. it will take time to get them installed. thousands are out there. a lot of stuff we're seeing. your incident was caught on camera. without it we would just have a conversation here. but because we have the video, we can show viewers. and i think the point to be made elizabeth is that what new yorkers have noticed is that the mentally unstable are significant in numbers today. would you agree with that? >> yes, i would agree with that. >> bill: we saw a video filed online overnight of a man who was naked at union station, which is very common. all kinds of trains come in and out of there in lower manhattan. he was a mess. the officers working that subway, it took them a long time to get him under control. the point is that this is so common now, unfortunately, in your city. do you see it that way,

elizabeth? >> i do, sir. there are a lot of them walking around every where. a lot of them in the airports that they are hiding away. they are every where and we really need to come down and put them somewhere. they are the ones that's really harming this city. they have no self-structure. when you try to get them help they don't want the help. we really need to figure out a way to remove them. it's dangerous out there. we are scared going to the store. >> bill: what have your doctors told you about your eyesight, elizabeth? >> well, so far they are saying i wouldn't be able to see in my right eye. but tomorrow i have another visit with the retinal expert so they will let me know some updates on what is going on. >> bill: are you hopeful? >> yes, i am. i'm praying every day. >> bill: yeah. we will, too. >> a big part of me has gone.

you know? >> bill: how are your kids? >> they're doing well, thank you. they're trying to cope with it. they don't really understand. my son is three. he doesn't understand what's going on. the 9-year-old knows but she is there for me and she comforts me. >> bill: what is her name? >> her name? >> bill: yes. >> her name is isabella. >> bill: sweet. you give isabella our best. the gofundme page is scrolling on the screen and we hope to get you help as well. our best of luck to you and our prayers to you tomorrow when you go back and see your doctor. >> thank you very much, sir. thank you so much, sir for listening to my story. thank you. >> bill: you're welcome. >> i've only got six deputies. they get their fair share of smuggling cases, pursuits, seizing firearms, narcotics.

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hour by a property owner that it was an orchard farm behind us. you can see the road blocked by texas dps and the wall here just about 300 yards in the distance is the rio grande where the crossings happened. we were notified by a property owner the national guardsman has been shot. we've reached out to the governor's office in texas dps officials for confirmation. you can see we have a camera that's inside this perimeter, bill, that sees even more of the law enforcement investigation underway right now. our cameraman was in there. every morning we see these large groups coming there and he was in position for that. he doesn't actually know. our cameraman, the details on that. a fluid situation here. we're trying to get more details. we were up about 45 miles north of here early this morning in kinney county. yesterday we reported on that tragic smuggling car crash that claimed three lives. we spoke to the sheriff there who says he used to see 1 or 2

smuggling cases a month. now he sees 3 or 4 a day. unfortunately he is seeing a lot of weapons seized from smugglers to include an ak-47. here is what he had to say. >> he had a full magazine and one in the chamber. so ak-47 is very unique sound and everybody in the world is familiar what it can and will do. >> this comes as the groups continue to come. yesterday we can show you video. take a look here. a group of 250 plus that crossed on monday afternoon. it is like clockwork coming here, 1500 migrants a day here in eagle pass, particularly part of the del rio sector, the heaviest hit now heading into the new fiscal year. meanwhile we're trying to get more details again the property owner beyond that roadblock

telling us, calling us saying she is very upset that she learned a guardsman, national guardsman had been shot. to give you a sense for the guards' role. texas dps and border patrol are here and the national guard positions. some down on the river and some down towards the entrance of the property and really the coordination between the national guard as authorized under governor abbott along with texas dps supplementing the border patrol has allowed for a more efficient and safe processing of the unbelievable numbers of migrants coming on a daily basis. now, there are no indications that this national guardsman that has been shot was the result of what was coming across the border. we simply don't know. it just happened in the last hour and trying to find out more details and we'll bring them to you as soon as we get them. >> bill: is that the border wall behind you?

i'm trying to get a sense of it. >> that's right. lets orient you a little bit. that's the border wall that you can see. in the distance a bridge which is a bridge that goes into mexico, are river less than a quarter mile beyond it and under the bridge you see us all doing live shots in the last month there. this is really ground 0 where the migrants choose to cross on a daily basis and why we have these outposts of national guard along with road and entrances. they sit on post and watch for traffic and help coordinate the efforts. all a part of it. our hearts going out right now as that very upset property owner to learn that these guardsmen that she sees every day, one has been injured. we'll get more details. >> bill: one more question, griff. we look at a camera shot that shows a road that winds its way

around. i don't know if you can see that from where you are. there are several white vehicles on the left side of the road and then i guess it's bottom right-hand corner. that's a different line on the road. where is that from where you are? >> so that's just about half a mile, if even, beyond where we are here. those white trucks you see, by the way, are most often national guard trucks. that's what the troops are driving around in in the pickup trucks. they have to go off-road, too. the property in the distance along that road is largely a pecan orchard and why we got the call from the property owner that we talk to a lot. you see texas dps and texas military department in the lead in this investigation. but what we do have confirmed by sources and from the property owner is one guardsman has been shot. his status unknown.

the cause or reason not known as well. >> bill: thank you for that reporting on scene there on the border. griff jenkins and get back to us when we get a bit more information. thank you, griff. breaking news there. keeping our fingers crossed. >> sandra: we'll get there when we have more news. filling up your tank is getting more expensive. the national average for a gallon of gas is up to $3.80 after rising for two straight weeks. connell mcshane, great to see you. the administration liked to tout gas prices have been coming down. they are turning around. what's driving it? >> there is a short term and longer term story here. short-term prices at the pump is largely regional. bigger problem out west, particularly in california. the average price there was $6.40. they always have higher gas prices than other states. refinery issues. maintenance being done on six

refineries in california. that might be skewing the national average a little bit. but there is reason to believe that even though seasonally we might not always see it higher oil prices might lead to higher gas prices going into the rest of fall and winter. opec or opec plus meeting tomorrow may cut production out of vie -- vienna. we have sanctions that could come in on russian supplies in early december. european officials finalizing how that might look. the near and short term outlook aren't great for prices at the pump. >> bill: the american west. washington up $0.41, oregon 45, alaska 45 on down the line. california $0.55. opec meets tomorrow. rumor is they'll cut a million barrels a day. see whether or not it happens. what's important about that is opec considers vladimir putin to be a partner now, okay?

putin wants to stick it to the united states. we've been allowing a million barrels a day to come out of our strategic petroleum reserve for many months now. and i don't think -- the irony is not lost if opec cuts a million barrels a day. >> the second time we've seen a production cut out of opec. a good bet whether they'll stand pat or cut. some reports have said it will be more than a million barrels a day. opec wants to maintain a certain price. that's how these countries make their money. it is always debate in the market what that price for them is now that oil has gone up. we're talking about prices at the pump. oil price went back into the mid 80s almost $90 a barrel. we could easily be talking about $100 oil in the not so distant future. the other thing interesting about this. if oil prices do come down, what

would be the reason for that. >> sandra: it would help the stock market if they came back down. >> the reason they would come down in the near term would be great. it would be because the economy was slowing or a deep recession. >> sandra: higher interest rates. look at the dow. holy cow, another rally. >> another big bounce like we saw yesterday. there is so much doubt, i think. i don't know -- from people you talk to as well you hear from traders and investors whether this is for real. but we had such a rough quarter. oil prices were down 20 plus% in the third quarter. stocks had a terrible quarter and a terrible start to the year. the worst first nine months of the year since 2002. to see a bit of a bounce at the fourth quarter is encouraging. but again there is doubting thomas aspects to it. >> bill: five points in eight hours of trading. that's insane. >> things move fast these days, hemmer. that they do. >> bill: thanks for coming on.

catch you later. breaking news right now from the world of country music. the legend loretta lynn has died at the age of 90. she died today outside of her -- at her home outside nashville. launched her career in the 1960s. biggest hit coming on the auto biographical coal miner's daughter and the book made into a movie. loretta lynn had six kids, 17 grandkids, four stepchildren. she lived a life and she sang in country music at a time, smitty, i would argue when country music was the real deal. >> sandra: in its prime. >> bill: we lost a ledgeed. loretta lynn dead at age 90.

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kidding. >> the blockchain. decentralized ledger. >> bill: they went after her and she said she was relieved after resolving this. >> it is interesting, if you remember when martha stewart was convicted she went right to federal prison. she didn't want the long, drawn-out process. kim kardashian knows while she may not admit guilt what she did was wrong and could get her in a lot of deep trouble. repu reputational. the charge may put her in deep yogurt. she wanted this done. >> bill: it's a lot of money. >> 1.6 million. it is on the higher side. what we are not talking about. when you are taking a risk and investing your money this is not lash serum.

this is not shape wear. this is essentially your retirement money. whenever you are ingesting financial advice do so using a great deal of personal responsibility because that is really is up to every individual investors. for people hoodwinked into buying the coin, which, the token which is different than an actual coin. >> sandra: if i was just somebody who came across i would think it looks like an ad and red flagged she is definitely involved that she sent to instagram followers. >> 328 million. 95% of people who invested after the ad last money. >> sandra: the -- >> america's newspaper there. >> sandra: kennedy. puerto rican comment by joe biden yesterday.

>> president biden: very irrelevant term large puerto rican population in delaware. i was raised in the port wreckian community. we came here both for business and pleasure. >> mr. president, you were not raised in the puerto rican community. that's cultural appropriation. stop it right there. he has a history of this, overinflating his biography and very disingenuous and condescending. .39% of the population in delaware, when he ran for office for the first time, were either puerto rican migrants or descent. that is an impossible claim to uphold once again. >> bill: politicians have a way of doing that. >> they love the spin a yarn, old corn cobs. >> i can really relate to you.

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to correct another wrong by vice president kamala harris who said the government would prioritize hurricane aid by equity. what did she mean? congresswoman kat kam yak, ari fleischer and raymond arroyo at the top of the hour. ♪ >> bill: that sweet sound is gone forever. loretta lynn has died at the age of 90. her family said she passed away peacefully at her ranch outside of nashville and delivered this statement we wanted to share with you. our precious mom, loretta lynn, passed away peacefully this morning in her sleep at home at her beloved ranch in hurricane mill. she had six kids, 17 grandkids, four stepchildren, and a lifetime of stories and songs.

loretta lynn has left us at the age of 90. >> sandra: i can promise you this. all her songs and music are rising to the top of the charts right now. i played louisiana woman, mississippi man. everybody is remembering their favorites from loretta lynn. >> bill: as it should be. >> sandra: a strong woman. she will be missed. portland, oregon's homeland crisis is no laughing matter. one woman says the city's democratic mayor seemed to treat it like it was some sort of joke when she confronted him about it during a city council meeting. watch. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you, you made your point emphatically clear. >> sandra: that woman gillian rose said she moved to portland for its progressive values and joins us now. thank you very much for joining us today, gillian. why did you feel like it was important to respond to what appeared to be the mayor laughing off a really serious

problem? >> well, first of all, sandra, thank you for having me. i don't think this is funny. people are scared and his policies, the policies, all of them, are not working. >> sandra: you moved there four years ago this july. what has been your experience as a resident living there over the past several years? >> it has just gotten worse and worse. i am completely mind blown every day to go through and see what has happened to the city. it was once beautiful and it is not any more. >> sandra: the numbers show it. we can put up the homeless crisis on the screen. the number of homeless, the population of homeless people in that city is rising as a percentage of the overall population in that city. obviously this is something many residents, including yourself are dealing with. why do you believe city

officials there are not taking this seriously? >> great question. i think they just don't want to change course. good leaders pivot when things don't work out. they can confess up to a mistake and change directions. they aren't doing that. they are sticking to one narrative and that this is all due to the pandemic and rising housing costs. that's not true. >> sandra: one can make the case if you don't feel safe walking down the street in your own town, your own city, there could be serious political consequences as a result of that. do you believe voters will vote for change? >> i sure hope they do. i believe there is enough of us that feel the same way. i have had tons of people -- i don't even know reach out to me who have seen that city council meeting and say thank you. tons of my friends and family, they feel the same way.

>> sandra: it says a lot. thank you very much for joining us, it's a problem we hear far too much about and thank you for telling your side of the story. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> bill: good luck to you. a lot of people think oregon could be a surprise in the mid-terms. a governor's race and house races as well. could be a surprise. we've been reporting on portland for three years and the mess. before we go. i know you are a big football fan. a run on the field of an nfl game. animal rights activist found it out the hard way. last night's game in san francisco, linebacker slammed the guy to the ground. >> sandra: i like seeing that. >> bill: he ripped this guy in half. he survived and the spray went

every where. >> sandra: the bears lost over the weekend. >> bill: bengals won. >> sandra: okay. >> bill: that was a rocking two hours. we're landing the plane right now. dana is back tomorrow. sandra, thanks for being with us. harris takes over for the next hour on "the faulkner focus." >> harris: breaking news at narc is getting the world's attention. what is it ready to do next. ballistic missile over the nation of japan with potential to reach the united states territory. tension in the region and with america now. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." sirens blasting. leaders in japan urging citizens to take cover as