>> john: fox news alert to begin new at 2:00, brand-new documents coming into fox on a deadly shooting during a family visit to college. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two. i'm john roberts. such a tragedy, sandra. >> sandra: horrific stuff.

hello to you, john. this father was visiting his child in a quiet town, shot dead in the hotel lobby. courtyard by marriott, parents of students were staying for parents weekend. identifying him as paul coots of long island. >> john: two suspects have been charged and both are no strangers to police, and alarming discovery in the pair's hotel room, finding bomb-making materials and manuals. >> sandra: this senseless killing in moments. alexis mcadams is live here in the new york city newsroom with what more are we learning now about the suspects involved, alexis? >> hi, sandra. what a tragedy for the family who is from long island here in new york. learning about the suspects and they have quite a long rap sheet and that they were homeless. this was an innocent father and a husband, gunned down while visiting his son at a college in down state new york. supposed to be a nice family

weekend and ended in such a tragedy. this is where it happened here on sunday morning in the lobby of the marriott in new york, the gunman got into an argue mrent with a hotel employee about coffee, and then he sprayed bullets around the lobby. he was an accountant in the area, shot at least two times, once in the chest. his murder sent shock through the entire merist college community. the campus was packed with families visiting, and police pledge to pour all resources into the case. >> i want to also express sincere condolences to the family and friends of the victim in this case. this unspeakable violence in the lobby of a hotel shakes the very conscience of a community.

we will spare no resource to bring those involved in this to accountability. >> just minutes after the shooting, you can see heavily armed police units rolling in there to the hotel. inside of the factor's room, investigators found weapons and used to make explosive. more charges could be filed. roy johnson, jr. pulled the trigger, police tell us, he is facing second-degree murder charges. devon taylor, second suspect, criminal weapons charges. they did not release the mug shot. they have lengthy criminal records, both convicted of felonies in the past and are listed as homeless in the court documents but just moments ago we were told they were not clients of social services and not placed at the hotel by the county. so still wondering who was paying for it or how long they were staying there. johnson is being held without bond. taylor, half a million dollar bond. both will be in court on friday, sandra. >> sandra: rough stuff, alexis,

thank you. john. >> john: deroy murdock, i mean, this is not chicago, not new york city, this is quiet po poughkeepsie, stunning, but not surprising. >> in so many cases, things would happen either two gang members who know each other, kill each other, disgruntled spouse or angry employee, there is no connection between the people killed and the killers, not just in the downtown areas, this is a nice little college town, you also find vasser college, and not the first time they have done it. rap sheets, over and over and over again, living in a society without consequences, and a society without consequences

does not remain a society very long. >> sandra: speaking of which, on this morning was a woman who may have lost her eyesight, at least in one eye after she was attacked on the new york city subway systems, and she's calling out the leaders in these cities for just not acknowledging what's really happening. here she was this morning. >> i was waiting for the train like i do every morning and he was just walking back and forth and he came and the train, and before i knew it, he hit me from behind with a bottle. the subway is a very dangerous place. it's hard to get protection. people are throwing each other into the tracks. you are getting sliced in the middle of your ride. >> sandra: just chaos, mother of two. this is just brutal stuff. >> yeah, it's total chaos, and i think people increasingly get the sense the cops would like to intervene but they can't, and the prosecutors in many cases have no interest in locking the people up, they let them out

over and over, the cashless bail idea which democrats cooked up, they relax in a jail cell a couple hours and then back on the street to do it over and over. a woman attacked on the subway early this year and her perp was arrested 44 times, 16 times in one day, means he was released 15 times in one day, and we get the sense people don't care. our leaders should be there to protect us, the first duty, they don't care, they are not motivated by this, and people are getting pepper sprayed, and will be armed, and we will be in vigilante justice. >> john: we were talking about before deroy, this shows it's not a big city problem and what happened there is similar to annapolis, maryland a year ago this past summer, in 2021, a mom was off to the naval college to

see her son, a midship man, start at the academy, sitting having a glass of wine in a patio at the neighborhood hotel and some guys got into a gun fight down the street and she was killed by a stray bullet. i mean, my god! where does it stop, how do we deal with the lawlessness in this country? >> i think the way to do it is on november 8, 5 weeks from today, people go to the polls and throw out the democrats so responsible what's going on and the direct cause are the criminals who perpetrate the mayhem, but aided and abetted, prosecutors don't do their jobs, and laws say if we arrest you we will put you back on the streets, and like aoc who said if we get, if we defund the police it will be like a suburb. well, it's not much like a suburb, i would not think. >> progressives are ripping into the new york city mayor for the

tent cities for the michigans sent from the southern border. aoc in ripping mayor adams, she said she also very much sides with the sentiment of the bronx borough precedent who raised concerns, including for transit access and susceptibility to flooding. this is just another mess. what's going to happen here, deroy? >> a great opportunity for mayor eric adams, elected, we thought he would do something about the crime. he ought to fly to the border and joe biden and kamala harris say the border is secure, it's not secure. mr. president, seal this border. it would show tremendous leadership, electrify the issue, might get something done but instead, gives speeches how new york city is a brand and open up

the tent city, no, close the tent city, a lack of leadership, courage and imagination, and result is chaos, mayhem and death. >> john: i don't know if it's widely known just yet, but eric adams' response to the criticism over the orchard beach location for the tent city was to say oh, you know what, you are right, that's the wrong place to put it. put it on randall's island, a huge park on it, a concert venue on it. people see it when you drive over the bridge between manhattan and laguardia, he has capitulated to them. >> these people have broke into our country, and the way to handle this, close the border. if you want to come to the united states of america, go to the nearest embassy and fill out visa applications. that would settle the entire situation and i don't see anybody on the democrat side stepping up to say this. their view, come on in, come down, enjoy all the goodies we

have to give away, and why -- >> sandra: important to get this in here, tee up the sound of adams, he does go off on the far left deafening silent on the border. listen. >> the far right is doing the wrong thing. the far left is doing nothing. i mean, silence -- i don't believe the silence that i'm hearing. >> sandra: what did you think of that, deroy? >> my question is what is he doing about this. what is he going to do to shut down the border, at least slow down the massive flow, i think at the end of the fiscal year, close to 2 million illegal aliens, 3.2, 3.3 since joe biden came in, pouring across the border, it's not closed, it's not sealed and this is democrat policy. throw the border open and let as many future democrats of america in, deliberate policy having all sorts of disastrous consequences from the rio grande to the hudson river and beyond.

>> john: the shift among hispanics and latinos, maybe not the wisest thing they can do. deroy, great to see you. appreciate it. and you know, sandra, in terms of the left not saying anything, bill's report earlier this weak was masterful, he went to talk to the democrats about the border, cori bush would not talk to him, on benny thompson said didn't you hear me, i have a speak to give, mayorkas would not talk to him. >> sandra: the pressure will grow. it's not just a border state issue, it's all over the country now, and these politicians are going to be forced to respond. they cannot be silent forever. >> john: five weeks until the midterms, a lot to talk about. three more stories all new at 2:00, speaking of things to talk about. republican running for governor now has a new opponent.

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>> sandra: abortion ban in arizona is not stopping some women from ending their pregnancies. one clinic in phoenix is giving patients ultrasounds in the state and then helping them get the abortion pill via telehealth from doctors in california. then mailed to a california border town where the patient then can pick up the pills for free. the clinic says it's not the best solution to the ban, but that it's worth the effort since it saves patients from going on an overnight trip to a neighboring state. john. >> john: planned parenthood is hitting the road. soon open the first mobile abortion clinic. garrett has more live in chicago. what's the latest strategy from planned parenthood look like? >> they want to help as many women who want abortions as possible, they are launching the first of its kind mobile aborg clinic. 37 foot rv expected to be

deployed next month and will travel up to bordering states that have banned abortions to make the procedure more readily available to women in those bordering states who want it. in its announcements on the 100-day mark of the roe decision, planned parenthood says it is not backing down and we promise to innovate and that's what we are doing with the mobile abortion clinic to take it on the road across southern illinois. illinois is an island for abortion rights in the midwest. planned parenthood says wait times for the procedure in the state have skyrocketed since the supreme court decision. in fairview heights across the border from st. louis, missouri, abortion is now banned, wait times for abortion have gone from four days to two and a half weeks, and the number of patients coming from outside missouri and illinois have gone up by more than 340%. national right to life committee is blasting the new effort saying it's like a hidden run or

drive-by killing on the unborn, adding planned parenthood is about killing as many unborn children as they can and mobile abortion is another grotesque demeaning of human life. the first mobile clinic is a test run, and if successful, it could expand the strategy to other states across the country. john. >> john: have they said how long, garrett, it might take to get this plan in place? >> it's a test run here in illinois. next week, surgical abortions and will see over the next year or so how much demand for it and how much of relief it's giving to the other clinics. based on that, they'll be able to make other decisions on other locations and the country. >> john: we'll keep watching and see where it goes. garrett, thank you so much. >> sandra: fox news alert, this happened just moments ago at the white house. white house briefing was taking

place, peter doocy was in the room and perhaps one of the biggest topics of the day in the briefing room is rising gas prices after they had fallen for several weeks and the white house took credit for the fall, karine jean-pierre called on peter doocy a short time ago, play it out for you. >> karine, you said the president was responsible for gas prices coming down. is the president responsible for gas prices going up? >> so it's a lot more nuance than that, right. peter, you know this. there have been global challenges that we have all had to deal with, when i say all, meaning other countries as well have dealt with since the pandemic. there's been pandemic and there's been putin's war, and putin's war has increased gas prices at the pump. we have seen that over the past several months and what the president was able to do, he took some historic steps, when you think about the strategic petroleum reserve and making sure that we were able to do

everything that we can to bring that cost down for american families, give them a little bit more of a breathing room and we saw that, we saw that every day this summer over saving american families over a dollar per gallon, and so that is what the president is going to continue to stay focused on, our american con sierms, how do we continue to keep prices down, that's why we did the inflation reduction act, why we talk about the chips act, all of these things are going to help americans here in this country. >> and there are consumers now in california paying 6.41 a gallon for gas, nevada, 5.51, oregon, 5.46. who can afford that? >> and we understand that. the president worked so hard the past several months to make sure he did everything we can to bring gas prices down. we have seen, i know you are pulling out a couple of areas across the country and i get

that, and we understand that there's more work do. we have never said we were done here. we have always been very clear that there is more work to do but we have seen the reality is we have seen the fastest decline in gasoline prices in over a decade, because of what the president has done. and again, the price is going down by more than a dollar per gallon, and these are real savings. talking about $100 per month in savings for average family with two cars. >> when the president went to saudi arabia he said i'm doing all i can to increase the supply for the united states of america which i expect to happen. what happened? >> so let's, i want to be very clear and we have said that, you know, his trip to the middle east was not about oil. it was about america's position in the middle east and consultation with 12 leaders from across the region on a range of issues similar to his summits in asia or the americas

and later this year with african leaders. the president's trip was crucial, it was critical to u.s. national security, a more peaceful integrated region and for a global security, and there were plenty of examples we laid out to all of you as why this trip was so important. but aside from that, the president took action as i just mentioned, took action the past several months and every day in the summer you saw prices tick down at the pump and, but we did not just stop there, we saw legislative actions, historic actions that the president took to make sure that we are continuing to create jobs in america, we are continuing to lower prices. so there are multiple actions this president has taken. >> sandra: bring in james freeman, ok, it is not more nuanced than that, and this is not political, this is

economics. asked a specific and great question from peter doocy i posed to charles payne at the top of the 1:00 hour and serious and relevant question. a white house on multiple times over the past several months has taken credit for the drop in gas prices, ok. we should note that's a mere drop from record highs, but still they took ownership of it, they took credit for it, they touted it. so is it a perfect market then because when gas prices go up they claim that this is a market that is fixed, that there are oil producers price gouging, that there are mom and pop gas stations colluding to drive prices up for the consumer. which is it? >> yeah, the prices go down, it's biden's credit, prices go up, it's those greedy oil companies and service station owners and we are seeing it again in this cycle, the president last week, the energy secretary blaming industry and this is part of why domestic production is not rising.

it is this hostility from the white house where here we are. the white house is basically hoping that russia and saudi arabia don't cut oil production tomorrow to save them from further hikes during the midterm season. >> she was asked about that, too, what they expect from opec tomorrow, what do you anticipate, she would not comment until opec acts. anticipation is opec is going to cut a million barrels a day. basically wipe out what the biden white house says it has done to bring down gas prices, to tap almost the same amount from the strategic petroleum reserve. >> and it's important to know why they are cutting because they see global demand shrinking, they see global economies not performing as well as they thought, and this is exactly why gas prices came down while the president was taking credit as we discussed. it was not because he had suddenly enabled huge new reserves of oil to be produced

in the united states, it was because economists, traders, markets were saying demand is less, economies are shrinking, a lot of it not just in the u.s., china not rebounding as much as thought, the covid lockdown, so you have a global oil market. but when people talk about energy independence, this is exactly why you want it. so that we are not waiting on a decision in saudi arabia or russia on whether we have reliable stable fuel supplies at a good price. >> sandra: and that's the point the wall street journal price, october oil surprise, gasoline prices will rise again, the journal says, if the saudi's slash production, but biden policies mean u.s. production will not bed able to make up the difference. really important point to be made this morning. this is the washington post headline, as gas prices rise, democrats scramble to lay blame

on big oil. they say the complaints about the industry from this administration have been relentless, including the president's warning to oil companies. last week not to engage in price gouging in hurricane-ravaged areas of the southeast, attacking oil companies politically popular using emergency powers over them could backfire. you know, that should really be highlighted. that warning out there to the oil companies not to price gouge and this administration needs to be challenged on that. president biden said a year ago there was growing evidence, his words, that there was price gouging by the major oil producers. is anybody in jail today, nobody is actually -- no evidence was ever found that that was actually happening and that's important. >> yeah, and you have to explain why is this greed they think is behind this spiking during the biden years, never made any sense. but this is why production is not rising more quickly in the united states.

normally high prices attract production. >> sandra: that's the only thing that will fix the problem. >> investors want them to be disciplined but one of the reasons is they get this kind of political reaction, they get a president that doesn't want new leases, that doesn't want new pipelines, and that basically wants to replace oil with other things and then you get the profit grant, why would you want to go into that business. >> sandra: don't increase supply, the prices won't come down. good to see you. john. >> john: a family of four, including a baby, kidnapped. now police are begging for help. plus, concerns that a desperate vladimir putin could go nuclear as ukraine retakes key territory. we'll talk to a former nato secretary general about what the world needs to know coming right up. think he's posting about all that ancient roman coinage? no, he's seizing the moment with merrill. moving his money into his investment account in real time

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>> sandra: developing out west,

an entire family of four kidnapped, including a baby. now police are begging for clues to help save these family members from their abductor. jonathan hunt reporting from los angeles on this for us. so, jonathan, not much we know yet. police have not released many details yet. >> no, and this is one of those stories, sandra, where the police likely know a good deal amount more than they are willing to tell us right now. what we do know is that this family is missing, kidnapped, police say, and no ransom demands made about 24 hours on from the kidnapping itself. 8-month-old girl, her mother and father, as well as her uncle, all abducted from a business in merced in central california. >> so far we have no idea why the kidnapping, we have no

motivation behind it. we just know that they are gone. we have evidence to indicate that the individuals involved in this destroyed evidence in an attempt to cover their tracks. >> now, police are urgently trying to find this man, they believe he is the kidnapper, and they say he is armed and quite clearly dangerous. it's not clear to us at this point whether police believe the man was alone or had accomplices, but they say they want to hear from anyone who might know anything. >> we need your help. we have detectives out canvassing, we have aircraft out looking for evidence. people are going to be working 24 hours on this until we get a break in this. >> and what we don't know at this point, police are not telling us even if they do have a theory, is the motivation behind the kidnapping, whether it may have any relation to the business where the abductions happened, or whether the victims

might know the kidnapper. but whatever the motive, sandra, the welfare of an 8-month-old girl caught up in all this is obviously a prime concern. sandra. >> sandra: we'll keep following it, jonathan, thank you. john. >> john: ukraine's recent battlefield gains have many experts concerned the war could expand into a larger conflict. >> sandra: let's bring in anders, former secretary general of nato. thank you very much for joining us. so, can you give us some sense of where you believe this war is as of today? >> we have seen incredible ukraine progress underground, not least thanks to massive weapons deliveries from the united states, but also from european countries, and the ukrainians have demonstrated high efficiency in using the

weapons they need. so one thing to do, continue the weapons deliveries and deliver even more heavy and sophisticated weapons to ukrainians. >> john: the ukrainians are committed in their defense of the country, no question about that, and now vladimir putin is getting his back up against the wall and we see that he's implemented the draft there, he's bringing conscripts up that he wants to send to the front, threatening the use of nuclear weapons. do you believe that he is serious about using nuclear weapons? do you think it's a bluff, and if he ever were to deploy a nuclear weapon, whether it be in ukraine or somewhere else, what should the response from nato be? >> yeah, firstly we always have to take seriously statements from putin. maybe one of the mistakes of the past was that we didn't take him seriously. we should do that. his nuclear threat is serious. however, i think the risk of

putin really using nuclear weapons is minimal because he knows that that would initiate a determined response from nato and that would not be in the interest of russia. never ever tell your adversary how you would react, but i have no doubt nato will react in a very strong way and it would be catastrophic for russia. >> sandra: the wall street journal, sir, is writing about putin's nuclear threat calling it very real, and talking about extracting significant concessions from the west, vladimir putin, by nuclear blackmail, and there are warnings about that, saying none of this is good news for the biden administration, yielding to russian blackmail over ukraine would be a massive blow to american credibility and power overseas and would look weak to americans who have cleared ukraine on. to that you say what? >> i say we should never ever

give in to nuclear blackmail. if we give concessions to putin just because he's threatening with using nuclear weapons, that would send a very dangerous signal to autocrats across the world. leadership in china is following the conflict in ukraine closely, and they would take concessions to putin as an invitation to attack taiwan. so i fully agree we should not give in to nuclear blackmail. >> john: so in order for ukraine to fully defend itself now and in the future, you are pushing ahead with the kyiv security compact, four broad pieces to it. ukraine capable of repelling russian attack, joint military exercises, and development of robust ukrainian military industry, in the compact it says kyiv security compact will fulfill this purpose by

mobilizing the necessary political, financial, diplomatic resources for ukraine's self-defense. what does that look like in practical terms? the united states, nato and the e.u. have stayed out of committing any boots on the ground in ukraine. in the future, would it look very much like it does now, or would there be a greater security cooperation that might include forces from other nations fighting alongside ukrainians? >> first of all, let me stress the kyiv security compact does not entail putting boots on the ground. it is about making ukraine capable of defending itself by itself. but, do that we need to build the capacities you just mentioned. so what the idea is that a group of international states with the u.s. as the leading state should provide those capabilities, it

could be the u.s., u.k., germany, france, italy, turkey, poland, just to mention some of those countries. that would be in the national self-interest of the u.s. to have a strong and stable eastern european partner like ukraine against russian aggression. that will create a stable and more permanent stability in europe and give the u.s. more room to maneuver to address the real long-term challenge, china and the indopacific. >> john: china could use some stability, no question about that. thanks for coming in. thank you. >> sandra: it's not the opposition one candidate expected this close to the midterm elections. why an nfl team is going after a republican candidate in washington state. >> john: plus, the college where kids got their teacher fired because, well, the course was

just too hard. i mean, it was organic chemistry. veterans get more at newday.

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>> john: a professor learning a hard lesson after challenging

his students to learn chemistry got him canned from his job. mollie hemingway to sound off on that. but first, the biggest hit on monday night football had nothing to do with the actual game. a ram star linebacker took action when a protestor stormed the field, you can see the guy running around the field with the pink smoke bomb, running across the field and then bobby wagner put a stop to it, boom. he says he was just trying to help security. >> sandra: i mean, i don't like when people run on the field, to be clear. oh, man. that's one way to take care of it. ok. the seattle seahawks won a thrilling game over the weekend but now the team is making headlines off the field. threatening to sue a republican nominee giving her an ultimatum over a campaign ad. senior national correspondent is on this for us, so, what is the

team, william, so upset about? >> well, the team says that what you are about to see is a copyright infringement. the tiffany smiley campaign says the ad is protected under the first amendment but the back story making a lot of people angry and many see as a double standard. so the seahawks say this ad spot illegally shows smiley's husband wearing a seahawks jersey for all of about two seconds. >> hot dogs, up 26%. eggs almost 40%. even beer. >> are you kidding me? >> the team says the logo implied an endorsement to recut the ad and they removed it. but look at where that jersey came from. it was given to smiley's husband scott by the team celebrated after he lost his eyesight from a car bomb in iraq, becoming the army's first blind active duty soldier. >> what the seahawks are doing

for the veterans is what we all need to do, it's an honor, i by no means deserve it. there are so many that have given so much more than i. >> smiley is a republican, but look at these democratic candidates using the seahawk logo, no problem. so we asked the team twice this morning. why the double standard and no cease and desist here? no response. smiley is also getting hit by the seattle times and starbucks for using their logos in this ad, but the sign is back where you can barely see it, and the times allowed the opponent to use a similar banner here in her ads. >> i don't think it's any coincidence the seahawks, starbucks and seattle times had the coordinated attack against me, because i'm talking about issues that are actually affecting washington families. >> the bottom line is critics say it's a coordinated effort by three woke companies to

undermine a republican campaign because she might actually win. sandra. >> sandra: william, thank you. john. >> john: we could talk more about that, but we have something else that we want to share with you. award-winning and respected professor at one of the most pricey colleges in the country has been ousted from his job. that's after dozens of students in new york university signed a petition against him complaining his class was too hard and blaming him for poor test scores. professor mateland jones says the pandemic exacerbated poor study habits among the students. so, mollie hemingway, jones is an organic chemistry professor at nyu, 82 out of 350 students said the course is too hard and they got him booted from the college. news flash, organic chemistry is

hard. >> yes, organic chemistry weeds out people who are not up for the demands of getting a medical education that will enable you to be a doctor. doctors always joke about how tough their professors were. they say their professors said their job is to fail you in this course, meaning if you can fail you should be failed. >> john: like seal training. >> rigors are so much when you are practicing on people. so, this is, you know this is a very big problem the students could not handle it but their response to it suggests something about how college has changed from being a place you receive an education into being a place where you just receive a credential. and so i think the students understand that you don't actually get much of an education at many schools, even if you pay a lot of money for one, you just get a credential, and they feel they have been denied a credential, probably seeing more of this. >> john: and jones did not go quietly into that good night, he made a lot of noise out the

door, including saying this about his students, they weren't coming to class, that's for sure, because i could count the house, dr. jones said in an interview, they were not watching the videos that he made and he made extensive lectures on video, and they weren't able to answer the questions. he says the test scores fell off the cliff during the pandemic and he says not only did his students not study, they didn't know how to study. >> there is some truth in the fact that learning in a virtual environment is very difficult. it's particularly difficult for certain types of students. we actually had this happen not just in colleges but throughout the educational system and you are seeing people did not learn. whether that's younger children needing to learn phonics to read or college students to grasp difficult concepts. another reminder education should be in person. it's hard to look at a screen and absorb information. so the school should move away

from virtual learning as much as possible but certainly not fire professors who have standards that everybody should employ. >> john: what's interesting, a lot of the students who signed the petition complaining about mateland jones were surprised he got fired. what the dean of science who terminated jones' contract said about him. said he did not rise to the standards we require from our teaching facility. this is a guy who is legendary organic chem professor, wrote a textbook about it and only the best passed. who is not living up to it, the students or the professor, the students saying no, we are going to set our own bar and may be lower than what you want it to be. >> and moved from the faculty focus with students to having the large administrative teams. that's what you are paying for at so many schools. i teach at hillsdale college in

michigan and we have a different model focused on the faculty and students and not so much on administration. >> john: mollie, i always love our conversations. good to he sue. sandra, lsu, they let you skate or hold your feet to the fire? >> sandra: i was talking to deroy about this, and we have all had hard teachers. never considered banding together to get them fired -- times have changed, i guess. >> john: i'm not sure that's the right way to go about it. >> sandra: i would not recommend it. >> john: i think buckling down and studying is the better way to do it. don't hire the professor because they have high standards, good lord. >> sandra: rise to the occasion. >> john: by the way, that's $60,000 a year. >> sandra: we are also watching this story, we talked about it yesterday, a follow-up to it. doctors in california are pushing back on a law they say threatens their free speech. under the law, doctors in the golden state could end up getting suspended or even lose their licenses for spreading

covid misinformation. kelly o'grady live in los angeles on this. you are talking to people in the medical community, kelly. what are you hearing? >> yeah, sandra, i'm hearing a lot of frustration and deep concern around how misinformation is even going to be defined. so the bill text is pretty broad, misinformation means false information contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care. it's nearly impossible to carve out, as the information keeps changing. and the cdc even had some information that was wrong, so the efficacy of vaccines or masks today could lead to accusations of malicious intent but may change tomorrow, so we are seeing bipartisan criticism here, never this type of restriction on the doctor/patient relationship and numerous folks are telling us the potential chilling effect it could have on patient care. the governor has yet to respond

but emphasized in the announcement, this is about preventing deviation from the required standard but some frustration around who sets the standard. we spoke to a healthcare lawyer representing a number of doctors in a suit against the state and further concern about what precedent we are setting. >> why can't they tell them what to speak about about abortions, about any kind of therapy. the whole slippery slope type thing, you are interfering with a physician's ability to discuss, to give candid information to a patient. >> just add this, sandra, those criticizing texas social media bill that's being called the censorship bill are praising newsom, so it's a core debate not just around medical advice but what you are allowed to say anymore. >> sandra: kelly o'grady, thank you. >> john: georgia republican senate nominee herschel walker says no truth that he paid for a

girlfriend's abortion in 2009. he is promising to sue the outlet that made the allegation. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel is here with more. >> the unidentified woman showed a get well card and image of a personal check allegedly signed by herschel walker, he denied the report with sean hannity. >> i never asked anyone to get abortion, or paid for abortion, it's a lie. i will continue to fight -- they want this seat. >> walker says he intends to file suit against the "daily beast" for the story, and hannity asked the former football star about the check. >> well, i send money to a lot of people and that's what he is so funny, and go back to my par, you know, i do scholarship for kids, i give money to people all the time, i'm always helping people. i believe in being generous. god has blessed me, i want to bless others.

>> walker's adult son christian accused him of making a mockery of the family and even threatening to kill them and continued the hypocrisy attack on camera. >> my intention is don't lie about your lifer at the expense of me, my mom, and the people you have affected throughout your life. you don't get to pretend you are a moral family guy, talk policy, talk normal, do not lie. >> rick scott doubled down on his support for walker saying when the democrats are losing as they are right now, they lie and cheat and smear their opponents. walker responded that he loves his son christian no matter what. >> john: the son has said he wished he had not run, he knew there was a lot of stuff that would come out that would be detrimental to the family and wished he would not do it. >> timing is rough, five weeks out from election day. >> john: politics is not bean bag, no question about that. mike, great to see you. all right, sandra.

a busy two hours here. >> sandra: and i was going to pop the big board up, the rally continues, big two-day game and tomorrow the opec decision on oil production and output, how much will they cut, will they cut, we'll be watching that. thanks for joining us, everyone. i'm sandra smith. >> john: and i'm john roberts. could be deeper to fill up your car. the story with martha starts right >> martha: thanks, john and sandra. election day five weeks away. bret baier is here. also here today, joe concha and general jack keane. also congressman lee zelden. joe biden speaks out on 2024. north korea sends the japanese in to shelters and a dad in a hotel for parents weekend is