like this have such range since patrick ewing. he's a great player. if he stays healthy, a hall of famer. >> from patriotism to a full espn report from you. >> who wants to say the title? >> "come on, man". >> buy the book. >> have a great weekend. don't forget to dvr us. here is "america reports." >> sandra: fox news alert, just 32 days to go to the crucial midterm elections. federal investigators believe they have enough evidence to charge hunter biden on numerous tax fraud charges as pressure mounts on attorney general garland to prosecute the president's son. >> will a decision come before election day? new york post is saying enough is enough. time for the feds to "charge him already." miranda divine have been covering the investigation from the beginning. she'll weigh in whether president biden to be implicated

in his son's scandals. >> sandra: september jobs report just out, which is now raising all sorts of new concerns about the direction of the u.s. economy. hello, welcome, everyone, sandra smith in new york. and trace, great to have you again. >> great to see you. i'm trace gallagher in for john roberts. this is "america reports." in a few minutes the president is set to make remarks on the economy at an auto plant in maryland. september jobs report shows a tightening labor market, unemployment unexpectedly falling to 3.5% from 3.7% after 57,000 workers dropped out of the labor force. meantime, 263,000 jobs were added last month, which is down from the 315,000 in august. >> sandra: and while the white house may be celebrating, the dow is tumbling, down 584 points with just a couple hours left in the trading day.

we are watching that for you, still below 30,000, and with gas prices rising for 13 straight days now, and oil surging 14% this week alone, investors are growing more concerned the economic headaches could get worse. >> trace: peter doocy picks things off from the north lawn. what's been the white house's reaction to rising oil prices, peter? good morning. >> good afternoon, trace. some members of the biden cabinet are out here speaking frankly about this. they know there is no quick fix to fill in this 2 million barrels a day of oil that opec says they are going to cut. >> obviously what opec did the other day is not helpful but really it proves we have to be less dependent on foreign energy. >> well, now even some democrats are wondering out loud, what good is it doing the u.s. to

coordinate closely with the saudis on anything. slotkin tweets it reflects low in our relations with the gulf. all diplomatic options should be on the table, including the withholding of american military hardware and security assistance that saudi arabia in particular is so dependent on. but it's complicated and travelling in south america the secretary of state is explaining why. >> when it comes to opec we have made clear our views to opec members. we have a multiplicity with interests with regard to saudi arabia and the president laid those out during his trip and they include everything from regional relationships, including improving relations between our countries and israel, yemen. >> president biden is in maryland and we expect in the next couple minutes to get his

take on the way the economy is looking with just about a month to go ahead of, until the midterms. trace. >> trace: peter, enjoy your afternoon, good to see you. >> i will do. >> trace: you look at the white house and they are scrambling trying to find some way to reassure voters that the gas prices are going to come down again. it's a long shot. >> sandra: you and peter are in the friday state of mind. you need to share with me. frank mcelroll will join us later this hour from the american petroleum institute, we want to pick his brain what is now 90 plus dollar a barrel oil when we were just below 80 a few days ago. this has been a sharp, fast spike in energy prices. obviously big political implications. we'll talk to nikki haley about

that, and thoughts how the administration could turn it around but are not committing to it. a new fbi report showing alarming surge in crime nationwide. numbers could be even worse. that report was missing data from some of the nation's largest departments, including the chicago police department and the nypd. comes as we follow the senseless murder of a long island father. a preliminary hearing is scheduled this afternoon for roy johnson, jr. the alleged gunman who they say shot and killed the man in the lobby of a poughkeepsie, new york hotel while he was visiting his son at college. former u.s. ambassador to the united nations is standing by along with garrett and alexis mcadams. just heartbreaking and i know this community is still reeling after the death of this father, alexis. the alleged killer has quite the rap sheet we are learning. he recently had some serious

charges dropped against him. >> yeah, we are learning more and more things if it's possible makes it even more of a tragedy. roy johnson, jr. was wanted in at least two states. he should have been behind bars, when he was out and killed an innocent father visiting his kid at school. this is the gunman here, johnson, jr. a warrant out for his arrest in georgia, wanted on gun and drug charges from july. last year in new york, eight serious charges were dropped against him. those charges range from attempted assault to possession of a weapon. why were the charges dropped? we asked the court, they told us it is sealed, the documents, and no further information can come at this time. so we called the county d.a. where the crime was committed and have not heard back, they have not responded to the request. investigators in the small town where johnson was arrested last year tell me they blame bail reform, calling the governor's policies ridiculous. lee zeldin calling for major

change. >> pandering to pro criminal allies and on the wrong side of the issues, one after another. why would you have somebody who has the prior criminal report who is under investigation be inside of that hotel. >> good question. so, paul was shot while visiting his son for family weekend at marist college, and he was a dad of three, and loving husband, 53-year-old accountant from long island. johnson, jr. walked into the lobby pulled out a gun and sprayed the room with bullets. no altercation before this murder. this tragedy coming as new york state has seen a major spike in murders just over the past four years. from 2018 to 2021, we looked at the data and found the murders in the state of new york gone up by 55%. law enforcement agencies are pointing to the bail reform a problem, enacted t he beginning

of 2020, the massive spike in crime. the suspect expected to be in court later this afternoon and more charges could be filed later in this case. >> trace: alarming new fbi report nationwide paints an incomplete picture. data from some of the largest law enforcement agencies is absent. the report does not include philadelphia, new york and chicago, which are now seeing double digit increases in violent crime. garrett is live in chicago and garrett, what are we learning from the report exactly? >> well, trace, this is the fbi annual crime report and now typically this report gives us the best snapshot of nationwide crime trends. this year, though, it's not clear how reliable these numbers are. the report estimates that overall violent crime dropped last year by 1% while homicides increased by estimated 4%. estimate is the key word there, because according to the bureau,

only half of police departments in the country submitted a full year's worth of data for the report. after the fbi switched to a new more detailed reporting program. and nearly 40% of police departments didn't submit anything which forced the agency to come up with estimates for the data. some of the country's largest and most crime-plagued cities did not provide numbers for the report, including chicago, which in 2021 had an increase in murders, sexual assaults, thefts, and carjackings. also not included are the numbers for new york city where look at these numbers. murders, rape, robbery, assault and car thefts up from the year before. you add in major cities like philadelphia and los angeles that also did not provide data for the report and see where it's not clear how precise and helpful these estimates are. and when you look at the numbers in those cities and other major metros, not much of an improvement and many cases are

doing a whole lot worse. >> trace: garrett, thank you. >> sandra: president biden warning the world could face armageddon if vladimir putin uses a tactical nuclear weapon in the war against ukraine. biden telling an audience that putin is not joking when he talks about using weapons of mass destruction, adding we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the missile crisis. nikki haley "if you want something done, leadership lessons from bold women," new book, and first to the president's comments and welcome, nice to have you on set, ambassador. the president's exact words, i don't think there's any such thing as the ability to easily use a tactical weapon and not end up with armageddon. do you agree with that? >> it's so counterproductive.

you know, as a leader what he should be doing is one you don't rile up americans, you calm them down, you let them know you've got it under control so it makes me worry if he's ready for this. secondly, what does that tell putin? if he's going around calling this armageddon, putin sees that. it's not productive at all. reality is putin dangerous, yes. could he use something, what biden should be saying is you use any nuclear weapons and you will have hell to pay, and that's what we'll do. we won't put troops on the ground but we can send missiles over, he knows what we can destroy and he'll be very conscious. what biden should be doing is talking to china, talking to iran saying you are his partners, are you ok with this language? what are you going to do about it, and put pressure on all of them that way. you don't scare americans and you don't go making putin think you are scared too. you take charge and you handle the situation. >> sandra: he was asked about the comments again as he was leaving the white house and did not answer any new questions after making that statement.

next up, midterm voters keying in on crime. this is emerging as one of the stop issues in this election. here is a sampling of what we are hearing from americans on this issue. >> soft crime policies, with the way the situation is, people are forced to make certain decisions and when there's no accountability for these actions people are more likely to commit them. >> there needs to be a path to rehabilitation, but when they are repeat offenders, when they do break that, then that's when i am for, you know, harsher sentencing. >> sandra: i mean, it's everywhere. you look at these great american cities, once great american cities like chicago that are dealing with double digit increases in violent crime, street racing happening in some of the business district areas there and you've got democratic leaders in these cities unwilling to buckle down. is this going to be a bigger issue than even many are predicting for the midterm elections? >> sandra, i've been in 12

states in the last few weeks and it does not matter where we go. everyone is worried about crime. this is the highest crime we have seen in decades. people shouldn't have to worry about whether their child can ride their bike down the street. shouldn't have to worry if they are going to get mugged or carjacked going to a restaurant and that's what people are feeling. they feel very unsafe. >> sandra: can't even take the subway in new york. unbelievable spike in crime happening right on our mass transit system. >> it's the second top thing i hear from voters that they are concerned about next to inflation. >> sandra: it is some, speaking of inflation, another big problem for voters. here they are on those rising gas prices. they went down for a bit, but they are on the way back up, so is oil, here is what voters are saying on that. >> spending so much on gas now, way more than i was like, say, six months ago or something. >> i just buy enough to go to work and home and so i don't really -- i don't want to plan anything. >> right now everything is really volatile and inflation is really high. i want to make sure they have a

good plan of lowering, making it easier to live in america. >> sandra: man, talk about something you hear from everybody on the street. i don't care their party, nobody likes the high gas prices. i was going to show you, cutting through times square, i had to ask my colleagues, is this a thing? i saw a gas tank had the cap bolted on that you could only access with a key. i guess this is a new thing, because gas is being siphoned because it's so expensive, or has been at least? this is a major, major issue and every day americans are seeing more of their dollars leave their family's pockets to go forwards inflation. >> and they have to get that gas because that's how they go to work. you know what's amazing to me, biden is so upset over the opec decision, there's no shock there. you go and you call the head of saudi arabia a pariah, and you

are shocked when we can do it here in this country. he wants to buy people off, the reserves are the lowest since the 1980s, all he has to do is work with the producers instead of vilify them. >> sandra: you worry when there will be a real major emergency when we have seriously depleted the stockpiles. your new book, i've had a chance to read it. i love the focus on margaret thatcher in the beginning of the book and if you want something done, the ending to that is ask a woman. >> the reason i wrote it, the publisher said there were a lot of books about men, there were not that many about women and i remembered when i was growing up i didn't see a lot of things on women so i go to the library in 2nd grade, only books were about first ladies and i love the fact

they were partners to their husbands and so i wanted this book to remind women that when you work hard and prove you deserve to be in the room, good things happen. and every parent for their daughters, for their grandchildren, professionals, for women, we should be getting this book to inspire us to know that we can make america better but we all have to get together, we have to do what we do best and work. >> sandra: i'm out of time. every time i say nikki haley is joining me, the question, what is she going to do? are you going to run for president? >> i don't have to decide until january. right now i will make sure we get everybody elected in november. but if i do run, i've never lost a race, i'm not going to start now, we'll put 1,000% in and finish it. >> trace: the white house taking heat on high gas prices and now the biden administration is considering a plan that could completely cut off new leases

for offshore drilling. the decision coming at a critical time for u.s. energy. we will hear from an expert in the oil and gas industry coming up. >> sandra: looking forward to that. the president's son could soon face federal charges with agents reportedly saying they have enough evidence now to take the next step. critics fear hunter will walk away with just a slap on the wrist. miranda divine have been on this since the beginning. >> the more that comes out the worst it sounds. the reason we are investigating hunter biden, we believe he's a national security threat and concerned hunter biden's shady business dealings have compromised joe biden. when pain says, “i'm here,” i say, “so are they.” ♪ aleve - who do you take it for?

talk to anyone in san francisco and they'll tell you now is not the time to make our city even more expensive by raising taxes. san francisco has one of the largest city budgets in america. yet when it comes to homelessness and public safety, we're not getting results.

what we really need are better policies, more accountability, and safer neighborhoods. vote no on propositions m and o. the last thing we need are higher taxes, especially right now. now is not the time to raise taxes in san francisco. vote no on m and o. >> trace: breaking news, uvalde

school district is laying off the entire police force, remember back in may, may 24, when a gunman went into the school and was inside that school alone with children and teachers for 77 minutes because the police did not go in. the police at one point wanted to go in and they were told to stand back. 19 children and two teachers were killed. there were parents outside begging police to go in and they refused. it was not until a special unit swat team came and broke into that building and killed the shooter. the district, by the way, releasing in a statement, the district has made the decision to suspend all activities of the uvalde cisd police department for a period of time. officers currently employed will fill other roles in the district. the policy to go in and go after a shooter has been in place since after columbine.

they failed to follow that policy. this is the result. we will keep you up to speed on what happens next, sandra. >> sandra: feds have enough evidence to bring charges against hunter biden for tax violations and a false statement regarding a gun purchase. a source telling fox news the matter remains in a sensitive critical phase as u.s. attorney on the case weighs whether to charge the president's son. the cover of today's new york post with this headline, charge him already. fox news team coverage, miranda divine will join us in a moment, but david spunt is live at the justice department on this. david, what are you hearing about the people involved in the hunter biden investigation? >> sandra, i'm hearing there is a palpable sense of frustration from people who have been on this case for four years. the investigation began in 2018. the investigation has officially

shifted from across the street from the fbi to up the road in wilmington, delaware a few hours, where u.s. attorney david weiss is. his team has the ability to make the decision if he wants to go down that path. after all, agents, fbi agents are not the ones that make the charging decisions, but the washington post is reporting that agents believe prosecutors have enough to charge the younger biden with tax crimes and i say crimes with plural and a false statement related to a gun charge. the justice department policy typically stays away from sensitive charges in the two months or so before a federal election. but hunter biden is not on the ballot, neither is his father. so, that rule may not apply, it's not clear if investigators are weighing that. the grand jury in this investigation finished over the summer. doj has declined to comment about this case. we have previously reported that hunter was being investigated for possible federal tax and gun paperwork violations, as well as

foreign lobbying crimes. the post is saying federal agents believe it's the tax and gun registration aspects that could actually be chargeable here. the latest article does not mention those potential foreign lobbying violations. fox news reviewed a 2018 firearm report where biden answered no to a question asking if he was an unlawful user or was addicted to drugs. now, his attorney, chris clark, pushing back on the post saying it's a federal felony for a federal agent to leak information about a grand jury investigation such as this one. any agent you cite as a source has committed a felony. diligently prosecute such bad actors, from hunter biden's attorney. what's not clear is the laptop in fbi custody possibly longer, if that's playing into any charging decisions. also possible that david weiss,

u.s. attorney appointed by president trump, kept on by president joe biden, will possibly work out some sort of plea deal with hunter biden. as of now, he has not been charged with any crimes. sandra. >> sandra: david, thank you. >> trace: miranda divine, new york post columnist and fox news contributor followed the story from the beginning. sound from tony and followed by kentucky congressman james comer. >> i spent five plus hours in the room with as much as six federal agents walking through all the facts of my knowledge of the biden family. >> i can tell you this. we have been probing hunter biden for many months as you know, todd. and everything he has said about hunting we have fact checked and found to be true. >> trace: as you have repeatedly noted, miranda, going on for

years. the grand jury wrapped in june. the question becomes, if this investigation is legit and robust, wouldn't somebody pick up the phone and call tony bobalinski and figure aut who he has to say? >> absolutely. tony went to the fbi before the 2020 election. the fbi had the laptop since december 2019. so there's absolutely no excuse for not subpoenaington i. he's the number one star witness. he knows who the big guy is. it's joe biden, and the grand jury apparently was asking at least one witness who is the big guy. it just seems the washington post, these leaks, you have to understand the purpose of the leaks. they are strategic, and they are to shape public opinion on this grave problem that the biden family has with both hunter

biden and the president's brother jim biden under federal investigation and with the numerous revelations coming out over the last two years from the laptop, from tony bobulinski about a scheme overseas during joe biden's vice presidency. but on top of that, sinister revelations from whistleblowers in the fbi which show the extent of the cover-up and the collusion. >> trace: and listening to david spunt's reporting on this, is the working theory here that the delaware u.s. attorney, david weiss, cut hunter biden a deal and he won't take it, is that what we are thinking is in the process here? >> that's certainly what we are hearing from the delaware side. but from the hunter biden side, they tell me there has been no

plea deal. sources close to hunter biden say he has not been offered any plea, and not only that, they are claiming they are outraged about these leaks and they are also trying to say that look, the delaware u.s. attorney has spent four years investigating hunter biden and come up with nothing and now they are desperately trying to seize on taxes. i don't think that's the true story because there's a lot more than taxes or a gun charge, albeit a felony, that's come out in the laptop. i mean, there's enormous numbers that were supposed to be looking at foreign agent registration act violations and so on. >> trace: we have to go with breaking news, appreciate it. >> sandra: fox news alert, head to the president and dip in here for a few minutes to listen as he's talking manufacturing. backdrop of the new jobs report spiking oil and gas prices and a

dow that is right now off about 550 points. we are going to dip in here, he's at a volvo plant in maryland. >> companies want to build that product, build that product, a billion 700 million, meaning hundreds of thousands of new jobs, not a joke, not a joke. made in america, a reality. best days are ahead of us, not behind us. look at today's job report. our economy created 263,000 jobs last month. that's 10 million jobs since i have come into office. fastest job growth in all of american history. historic progress. unemployment rate remains at historic low, 3.5% unemployment. lowest unemployment among hispanic americans ever in the history of the country, and second lowest of black teenagers ever. and this recovery is the fastest

increase of people re-entering the workforce of any modern economic recovery. but there's something else. our job market continues to show resilience as we navigate through this economic transition we are in. for some time i've been saying that what we need to do in this transition, we have to move from historically strong economic recovery to a more steady stable recovery. we need to bring inflation down without giving up all of historic economic progress that working class and middle class people have made. that's exactly what we are seeing. over the past four months we have created an average of 350,000 jobs a month. that's down from the 450,000 jobs a month over the prior four months and down from the 600,000 jobs a month the four months before that. the pace of job growth is cooling while still powering our recovery forward. wage growth for workers remain solid, down from historic high pace months ago, but still

growing for workers who deserve a raise, and this is the progress we need to see. in the short-term, transition to a more stable growth to continue to deliver for workers and families while bringing inflation down. the long-term, the economy building on a firmer foundation. we still have a lot of work to do. we are building a different economy than before. a better one, a stronger one. not trickle down economy, that never helped my family very much, trickle down. this is an economy built on building from the middle out and the bottom up, not from the top down. and when that happens, everyone does well. the poor have a ladder up, the middle class do well, and the wealthy do very well. they are not hurt at all. that's what i offered to america when i ran and i'm pushing on it. that's what i want to talk about today and how we have our republican colleagues have a very different view. and i know many of you are probably republicans, but many

of my republican friends are basically arguing that good news for the economy is bad news, is bad news for america. if they are rooting for fewer jobs and lower wages. it's all part of this trickle down mentality that says it doesn't matter what's happening on main street, what really matters is what's happening on wall street. if wall street is doing well, everybody is doing well. i noticed the last, the previous four years we were not doing that well and wall street was doing well and then that took a tumble. we can build on an economy that works for everyone. today we are going to do something that our republican colleagues in the congress don't want, don't want us to do. they love to attack the democrats, they say we -- for what we have done. but they really don't want to see what their plan is. i doubt any of you could tell me what the republican re-election

plan is this time out. what -- what's their platform. if they take control of congress. let's start with inflation. let me tell you how i think about it. i think about it the way my dad used to talk about it, my dad was a well-read guy, his greatest regret, never went to college, had to leave scranton. when coal died, everything died with it and moved down to claymont, delaware, a steel town at the time, the way most people at home deal with these things. you talk about it around the kitchen table. do we have enough money to cover all the bills for the month. and all necessities that are not regular bills. and if we do that, do we have a little bit of breathing room, my dad used to say. just a little bit of breathing room after that's done. we don't have to worry. that's what we are trying to do. give families a little breathing room. and that's what we have done. we passed the inflation reduction act, the name does not

matter a lot to people but will give medicare, a lot of us are fighting for, the power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. we pay the highest drug prices of any developed nation in the world. limit out of pocket costs for people on medicare, no matter what the drug, as you know, some who have cancer, the drug costs are 14, $15,000 a year. literally. the drugs they need. well, prescription -- >> sandra: president biden speaking at a volvo plant in maryland, talking manufacturing and the latest jobs report and his efforts to bring down inflation in a moment the dow is down 575 points. oil is skyrocketing right now, it's up 4.5% in today's trading session. it is now nearing $93 a barrel. it's up 14% in the past week. gas prices are on the rise yet again. wholesale gasoline up 3% today. while he's talking about

bringing down inflation, the prices continue to move higher, and the washington post today writing about the democrats' gas price problem, and also he's putting the pressure on republicans to detail their plans to bring down prices, and of course we ask republicans when they come on for their plan and of course in most cases it's to pump more oil here at home domestically to bring down oil and gas and therefore bring down inflation. >> yeah, it's one of those things, sandra, when you drive down the street, you get the visceral feeling, 25 foot sign in the air and gas at 6.50, or $7 in california and the president is talking about breathing room and saying he's giving americans breathing room, i think a lot of people would beg to differ. a lot of people are struggling because of inflation and gas and energy prices overall and so there's a debate to be had on that. >> sandra: final thought and the dallas federal reserve just did

a study and found that americans are enduring "the most severe pay cut in decades," thanks to this inflation, noting that real wages have fallen for most workers over the past 12 months. so, something to keep in mind on a day where we got the jobs report. >> trace: i think you could only say the economy is good, border is secure and crime is down so many times before people start -- >> sandra: we will continue to monitor the president's comments live in maryland and now this. >> it's clear that opec+ is aligning with today's announcement. >> the president has issued thousands more leases for drilling here in the continental united states that oil producing companies have not taken advantage of fully. >> sandra: the white house blaming everyone but themselves for the rising gas prices.

they claim the pain at the pump is not their fault, the administration is considering a plan to block all offshore drilling, the industry is saying it will send prices higher as we head into the winter. frank, great timing to have you on, the president was there speaking in maryland about our economy, about manufacturing, about jobs on a day we did get the latest jobs report from the labor department. you are looking at this side of things that includes inflation on the gas and oil front. he keeps talking about these leases, that there is an untapped resource there, and that those sitting on the leases are not tapping into them, and questioning why they are not. what is the answer to that, frank? >> yeah, thanks for having me on, sandra. look, the facts are simple. at this point in the obama administration they had held 60 lease sales for oil and gas

development on federal lands and waters. in the biden administration, they have held six. current leases, we actually have the most productive percentage of leases in 25 years, so the administration says one thing and does another. they talk about the need for more supply but they don't offer oil and gas leases. they talk about the need for infrastructure, but they cancel pipelines. they talk about reducing costs, and then they raise taxes, and finally, they talk about promoting energy development and exports for our allies overseas, and then they talk on the other hand, they threaten an export ban. the administration needs to change its policies. >> sandra: a lot of that you keep, every time you and i have a discussion, you keep talking about a lot of it is the rhetoric coming from this white house, and you question why a lot of the oil and gas businesses would do more when they are being told they are being shut down, the end of the

fossil fuel industry as we heard candidate and now president biden say. gas pricis under this president are up 63%, 2.39 when biden took office, now 3.89 and climbing, as i watch wholesale gasoline prices in today's trading session. frank, we are heading into winter and the energy prices are on the rise and could inflict a lot of pain on american families already suffering through sky high, 40-year high inflation. home heating costs are expected to surge. we are looking at some unprecedented levels of some of these prices for people to heat their homes, frank. >> there's no question about it, sandra. and the administration had warning. in fact, a year ago they began tapping into the strategic petroleum reserve and now we are at the lowest levels of that reserve since the 1980s. they also instead of adding supply and increasing production in the united states, they

focused on investigations through the ftc for price gouging. over the years that's been done several times, and they have never found any price gouging. and so the administration really needs to focus on policies, long-term policies, not short-term election cycle policies. >> sandra: by the way, here is the strategic petroleum reserve, which you talk a lot about, and this is meant for emergencies. right-hand side of the screen you'll see that serious decline in our reserves, our energy reserves because this administration has gone about trying to bring gas prices down by tapping into that, and now we are looking at it going back to levels not seen since the early 1980s. i want to play this out for you because this is the administration while gas prices were going down in recent weeks, they have since turned around, taking credit for that drop. listen. >> it is the fastest decline in gas prices that we have seen in over a decade.

>> saw the president act so aggressively to bring gas prices down. >> in the month prior, gas prices had come down by a very significant amount. >> gas prices are down 1.30 a gallon. >> yes, we are seeing gas prices down over a dollar 30. >> sandra: now that gas and oil are going back up, they are already going back to blaming vladimir putin. >> look, sandra. if your policy on gas prices or on energy is to take credit for a day-to-day drop in prices and shift blame for a day-to-day increase in prices, you have no policy at all. the fact is, we need a long-term strategy in this country that focuses on supply, that focuses on american production of oil and natural gas. the strategic resource that we have is actually right under our feet. it's in the permean basin, the

bakken in dakota. >> sandra: the president just said republicans don't have a plan to bring down inflation, to bring down oil and gas prices. are you seeing republicans lay out a clear plan if they are able to gain back control of congress in november? >> well, we, at api, we have a plan for democrats and democrats, the 10 and 22 plan. it promotes energy development for oil and gas, it promotes pipeline infrastructure, it knocks down tariffs, these are the types of things that the administration and republicans ought to do to lower gas prices and provide relief for the american people. >> sandra: appreciate you joining us from the american petroleum institute. >> trace: people in florida try to pick up the pieces from hurricane ian. there is a new concern.

electric cars watching fire after being water logged from the flooding, posing a new concern for first responders. >> sandra: and military suicide rates are at an all-time high among active members and veterans. what can be done to help the men and women fighting for this country. >> you add all of that moral injury on top of what we are already a lot of effects from the longest war, and i really think we are about to see, we are on the front end of a tsunami of mental health for the post 9/11 generation.

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jennifer griffin is at the pentagon on this for us. jennifer, a year since the withdrawal. what impact has it had on u.s. veterans? >> well, sandra, 73% of veterans who fought in afghanistan say they feel betrayed by the afghan withdrawal, according to a survey by the brookings institution. retired lieutenant colonel scott mann, a former green beret to get his interpreter and 1,000 other afghans out authored a book "operation pineapple express," says the beginning, not end, of the suicide spike. >> we are on the front end of a tsunami of mental health for the post-9/11 generation. >> i heard you and other veterans talk about the withdrawal as a moral stain. >> devastating to watch 20 years of work and bloodshed and a war we gave our youth to and a lot of people gave more than that, to just see it handed back to the very organization that had

started the whole thing. >> scenes like these of afghans so desperate they threw their babies over the barbed wire fence at the kabul airport served as triggers for some. a marine captain and artillery officer, deployed twice to afghanistan and now runs a brewery in north carolina. he was emotional and he has called veterans suicide hotline since the withdrawal. >> it was like a devastating blow to the gut. it's tough all around on everybody. having spent that much time there and putting that much effort into something. >> groups like the independence fund have helped kyle. wall street journal reporter has a new book about bravo company, the infantry regiment. half received purple hearts, two soldiers have died by suicide,

more than a dozen have tried since leaving afghanistan in 2010. >> a lot of those guys spent their entire careers in iraq and afghanistan or even just afghanistan, and they wondered what was all this deployment for? what were the injuries for? there was an uptick in people needing to talk to mental health professionals. >> the department of veterans affairs told fox news "in the aftermath of the war in afghanistan, v.a. has reached out to every veteran in our network with one message, we are here for you." and again, sandra, there are other groups like the independence fund also helping with those who might need help. we have put the hotline up throughout this piece for anyone who needs help. >> sandra: we want the best for every single one of them. jennifer griffin on an incredibly important story for the men and women of our military. thank you. >> trace: a new report revealing

democrats have launched several news websites in the last year, they include the milwaukee metro times and the mecklenburg herald. set up by operatives with content aligned with their party's goals. ari, always great to see you. the saying, all politics is local, they go into the cities and towns and start news sites and cover things like the football team, a nice article about the football team and best pizza joint and then start the fake news, and we had some of the headlines up there, we can put a few more, my favorite is the bottom, adam laxalt, his communication director spotted alongside fringe militia group. it's going on all over the

country and seems to be no consequences, ari. >> you said all politics is local, and that's true, and you could add politics is fake. it's important to have real reporters blow the whistle on this thing, and it not restricted to any one party. the democrats are doing this, people in politics push buttons and go too far. it's history trend. 1800, when thomas jefferson was president, he brought a reporter at that time, a journalist as there was in that era, put him on the state department payroll to write nasty anonymous things about john adams. communication and politics have always been rough, tumble and nasty in this country, probably around the world in democracies. you see it now in the internet era, unbelievable steroids. >> you noted both sides can do this, republicans, democrats, go in and spew this out there. the question is, how do you

police this? is this something the social media companies should be looking for? we don't like to advocate those companies shutting down any kind of discussion or robust debate. how do you police this? >> i think it's really important for reporters to police it before it gets to social media. the axios story blew the whistle on left wing misinformation, and that's good to see mainstream media blow in the leftward direction. usually only blow it to the right. that's where it has to start. it has to be vigorous and local reporters, too, you hope get in on the act, even as much as journalism has declined, so many fewer reporters in local markets. there are still local tv news, they need to blow the whistle, too. >> trace: lastly, ari, do you have the sense this is working, the planting of fake news is

effective? >> you know, the problem that you have is i think so many americans roll their eyes and separate the wheat from the chaff, especially when they see an anonymous source. we wait and say ok, until somebody is on the record i'm not going to pay a lot of attention to this. it tends to reinforce existing story lines, i just have to hope for a form of citizenry, but it can be effective on the margins and clearly now we have evidence the democrats are doing it. i would like to see national democrats condemn it. that's the one thing that's missing from the story. where is the mini feeding frenzy reporters go to the dnc and chuck schumer and other leading democrats and say will you condemn this, or the white house press secretary, that would help, too. >> trace: great to see you. thank you, sir. >> sandra: new at 2:00, a brutal beating during a store robbery in wilmington, delaware, leaving the 68-year-old owner on the

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>> then the sirens scream. the school children are well-trained and do themselves proud. and strange was the silence as the city stood still. at the all clear, the city reverts to normalcy, but not smugingly. the thoughts of a real atom bombing has a sobering effect. >> sandra: new at 2:00, duck and cover. flashback to a time most americans cannot remember when the nuclear threat had kids crouched under desks in case the soviets stru