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general of louisiana and missouri allege the white house worked with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech. how damaging could this be for the white house? constitutional law expert jonathan turley here to weigh in just ahead. >> sandra: begin "america reports" on this monday afternoon with a major wake-up call from our nation's report card. the fed revealing decline in children's test scores in the country, biggest drop we have seen in decades. it follows the devastating closures due to covid that kept millions of children out of the classrooms. hello and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. great to start the week with you, john. >> john: good to start with you too. 15 days to the midterms, on average, fourth grader math dropped five, eighth graders plunged eight. >> sandra: reading scores dropped three points since the pandemic started, the decision to close schools and along with

parents' rights have made education a key issue in the midterm elections. just 15 days away. >> john: right to it now. mark meredith kicks off our coverage this afternoon. if people who advocated for it does not have black eye, this doubles up. >> details in the data and report that came out, and education on the campaign trail. likely will bring the issue to the forefront of voters mind. math and reading comprehension more than 446,000 students in fourth and eighth grade, the results as you mentioned show drops in mat and reading comprehension. education secretary says it's obvious the scores reflect the pandemic impact on kids and calls the results unacceptable. experts say the pandemic is to blame for the changes, the study's author says the drop-offs are not necessarily tied to remote learning. >> there's nothing in this data

that allows us to draw a straight line from remote learning in and of itself to student performance. it's complicated. >> republicans not likely to buy that argument. virginia governor youngkin who campaigned heavily on the education issue, says now is not the time to let up. >> this should be a call to action, moment for us to recognize the path we are on is the right path, we just have to run faster. our kids don't have time. we have to run faster. and so i hope we are all shocked because we should be. >> only one state where math scores did not drop off significantly, and that was utah. it was the one state we saw the scores hold steady but a lot of report here, not a lot of good news, instead showcasing, john, how much catching up americans have. it is a sobering report. >> john: and part of the problem

with this much of decline in the test scores, it will take years to come back. >> carries on and on and on. >> john: more on this later on. >> sandra: and dr. bill bennet was raising flags all the way and the political panel will dig in as well to that and more. juan williams and mercedes coming up. and president biden attending more democratic fundraisers. a more private option for candidates worried about being pictured next to him on the campaign trail. abortion messaging seems to be losing its effect on voters, just days to go. polls showing the economy as the biggest driving influence to vote and republicans have favored, are favored to handle that issue better. fox team covering for you, charles pain will join us in just a moment. begin with jacqui heinrich, live

at the white house. >> in 15 days we will know which way power is swinging in congress and most recent polling she's republicans have the edge in a lot of races. a keep your chin up style messaging game. the president said voters have to be patient because a lot of his legislative achievements will not kick in for a couple of years, but house speaker nancy pelosi, at risk of losing the speaker's gavel, taking sort of a manifestation through optimism approach. listen to this. >> i don't have any time to dwell on our not winning the house. so that is so scary, i agree with you, there's reason to be scared when you hear that. but the fact is, is that we fully intend to win. was i not clear? we are going to win this election. >> other democrats are more inclined to address the elephant

in the room, like bernie sanders. true to form. >> i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting democratic. and what democrats have got to do is contrast their economic plan with the republicans. >> and then the thread the needle approach from the democratic campaign chair talking about crime, a weak spot for democrats, according to the polls. addressing the challenge and then reframing it. >> record of progress and we are doing a lot better than people thought we would and we are in a very competitive election. we know it's going to be a challenge. >> so the president is jumping in today to try to steer the ship, as it were. he's heading to the dnc headquarters for a staff meeting, sandra. >> sandra: and that should be happening any moment, thank you. >> i hear people talk about inflation as -- we have to change that subject. inflation is a global

phenomenon. e.u., european union, u.k., the british have higher inflation rate than we do here. it's not -- the fight is not about inflation, it's about the cost of living. >> sandra: so as we have been reporting, what is now months of reporting on this issue, polls showing inflation and the economy are the top of the list for voters concerns, only two weeks to go, you saw it there, nancy pelosi urging her party to focus on something else other than inflation, and instead to change the subject. you just heard it there. charles payne joining us now. if anything it paints the picture of how out of touch these democrats are. i mean, nancy pelosi, one of the leader of her party. marc thiessen was on this morning and he said this is the -- the best example yet at just how out of touch they are with voters. listen. >> so when biden says the economy is strong as hell most people look at him and say what

planet are you living on. i choose between gas and food, heating my home and paying my rent. >> sandra: sadly it's a reality for too many americans today. >> nancy pelosi has been pretty brazen about the way she talks of these things outloud, a few years ago talking about giving people more food stamps and multiplier effect. a poor person $2 in food stamps, they would spend 2.50, so if we can get them out to the stores they'll spend even more and be even poorer and she has gotten away with it. to marc's point, last week the federal reserve has 12 regions and all go up, and for years month of the -- mostly to businesses. now they go to communities. he i found this fascinating. new york, community perspective, many residents have difficult affording heat and other utilities as winter approaches, sorry.

housing affordability and food insecurity is the ongoing concern. in cleveland, one-third of respondents said inflation contributed to a decline in the financial well-being, one saying higher prices cause family to make different decisions regarding expenses, particularly food. >> for that reason alone, that's why democrats messaging, if they don't have anything to run on that they say is going to fix the problem, they are saying change the subject, this is just -- >> you can't -- maybe you can get away with it. but how does president biden go on tv and say these are not problems when they are problems. how do you have confidence in your government that keeps telling you to shut up because, stop complaining about what you are complaining about. >> sandra: marc pointed out that does not work, you can't ignore voters' top concerns. this is just a little sampling of what we heard over the weekend of more and more, not just democrats, but those in the media downplaying this very real

inflation that so many are living through right now. listen to this. >> republican criticism of democrats for high inflation simply does not add up. there is no economic evidence or mathematical evidence or any other kind of evidence that it's true. >> it's not the democrats having a problem, the media is not reporting this. >> 1930s germany there was a candidate and party that said they were going to do something about inflation and they did, it went away, so did the democracy in germany. >> sandra: does not add up, not true, democrats are not the problem, media -- >> the most sound bite was the most despicable peace of garbage you could imagine. to suggest that, you know, this whole naziism bull has got to stop, you know, i recognize -- i don't know who the hell that was, but that person is a despicable piece of you know what to put that out there. this democrats run on division,

highway dread, anger, fear. america used to be about prosperity, hope, that's what we were always about. we always have, oh, if you elect republicans in the midterm it's returned to naziism, and not only velshi he started out as an economic reporter. he knows damn well inflation is a 40-year high. >> sandra: the numbers speak for themselves. >> this guy is despicable, whoever spewed that. >> sandra: we will watch you at 2:00, making money with charles payne. it's a tough environment for everyone, and for investing as well. i know that you are trying to help. >> we will discuss today. >> sandra: thank you very much. john, the reality of the situation, the numbers speak for themselves. inflation sky high, 40-year high inflation, 15 days out from a very important midterm election and it's going to have consequences.

when you've got people in the northeast, we have had on this program here saying that they are having to decide between putting food on the table or heating their homes, in some cases a second or third job to pay for the inflation, that's a very real inflationary environment people are suffering through. >> john: and the point charles was making, hopefully it was not a written talking point that somebody had thought about and just a spur of the moment piece of verbal vomit that came out. moving on, a fox news alert. deadly shooting at a high school in st. louis. police say a gunman opened fire and killed two people, one an adult, the other a teenage girl. several others were wounded in the shooting and rushed to the hospital. shooter was a 20-year-old man who was shot and killed by officers on the scene. central visual and performing arts school in st. louis. video shows students leaving the school single file with their hands above their head. images that are familiar since

columbine. students were in front of doors and huddling in classrooms. this is a magnet school in st. louis. apparently, according to police, or at least a school spokeswoman, there was a massive police response. this gunman was confronted by police the moment he entered the school and was quickly neutralized. so unlike some other incidents recently, this involved massive police response to the threat against the school. we are waiting for more details from police. we'll continue to monitor that story for you. >> alarming new data showing an evidence of a nationwide classroom crisis. reading and math scores dropping across all grade levels. did the lengthy school closures backed by democrats and teachers' unions play a role in the decline. >> sandra: and new records at the southern border. will the numbers play a role in

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officers encountered nearly 2.5 million migrants in the fiscal year that ended last year. reaction to that, but first bill is live in eagle pass, texas. bill, cbp released these numbers at a time that races eyebrows, didn't they. >> sandra, it certainly did. look, we have been waiting weeks

for the federal government to release these september border numbers and they finally did it on friday night at 11:00 p.m. eastern time and the numbers are pretty remarkable. let's take a look at this graphic right here. number of known or suspected terrorists arrested in september, 20 here at our southern border. that brings the total for fiscal year 2022 to 98 people on the fbi terror watch list arrested by border patrol here at our southern border. just to put that number in perspective for you, that is nearly quadruple the previous five years combined. when president trump was in office, the most he had was six in 2018. we had 98 in fiscal year 2022. then take a look at the video earlier this morning on the north side of eagle pass as the record numbers continue. this is the large group that crossed illegally this morning, mostly single adults as you can see, but cbp sources are telling us fiscal year 2023 off to a hot start. the first three weeks of october

here in the del rio sector, more than 29,000 illegal crossings already. that is up 50% over the same time period last year. then take a look at this remarkable footage by a source out of the rio grand valley, several shirtless drug smugglers, they are running up to a waiting vehicle in broad daylight where they load that vehicle up with those bundles of drugs, they then go back into mexico and the car drives away. well, texas dps tells us they got into a pursuit with that driver and they eventually arrested him. take a look at these photos here, they pop open the trunk, ten bundles of drugs, it was marijuana, more than 240 pounds of marijuana. the driver of the vehicle, 18-year-old u.s. citizen as you can see is smirking at the camera. and back out here live, law enforcement tell us they are

starting to see more of that, u.s. citizens caught up in both human smuggling and drug smuggling, promise of easy cash by cartels. and another record broken in 2022, sources telling us 856 migrant deaths at the border here in fiscal year 2022. that is an all-time record. back to you. >> thank you, john. >> john: going to get reaction of the border crisis in just a moment, but first back to the top story and the nation's report card, comes after school closures caused severe negative impacts on learning nationwide. mercedes schlapp, former white house senior advisor and also juan williams. put up the test scores on the screen to you can see them. national test scores, 4th grade math down five points, reading down three points, and eighth

grade math down eight points, reading down three points. mercedes, who are parents going to blame for the decline and how might it be manifest on november 8th? >> the fact the children are not able to recuperate from what we have seen happening due to the covid lockdowns. i think they are going to blame the teachers' unions, blame the democrats and we talk about inflation and crime being top issues but education and the parents who were never involved politically have been standing up, being more vocal and saying wait a second, democrats and the teachers unions have not taken us in the right direction. i think they went way too far when it came to shutting down these schools and not opening them up on time. especially when you had catholic schools, my daughter's schools, they were actually open during the covid lockdown, they still had to lower their standards, but at the end of the day we knew there was a way to get the kids back to school safely yet

the government became too draconian. >> i think the blame game is fruitless. i am worried about the children, but i think it's important to understand here, john, and mercedes, that this is a nationwide decline. it's not as if you say oh, yeah, we can isolate it and look at democratic areas or areas where schools were kept closed, no. you look at california, a democratic-controlled area, and look at texas, look at florida, the same thing. the decline is nationwide. there is not one state where the test scores went up. so, what we are dealing with is, there was a pandemic in our country, and the kids were out of school. people were worried not only about the kids, but if you are in the teachers' union, you are about the teachers, the bus drivers, the crossing guards, everybody. there is a legitimate reason for concern and legitimate reason now to say we have do something to help our children.

>> john: crime is a big issue in the midterms as well and affecting the governor's race in the state of new york. from a quinnipiac poll, 4% between kathy hochul and the challenger lee zeldin. hochul just started talking about crime, is she a day late and a dollar short? >> i think people have to talk about crime effectively. it has been used by zeldin and others to try to gain politically. and i don't know if you can say it's somebody's fault. i think when you look at violent crime, violent crime is up in new york state, especially new york city, but guns are often seen as a republican issue because republicans back erosion of gun control, so i think it can play both ways. but she has not addressed it as aggressively as lee has -- as congressman zeldin. >> could it cost her the governorship? >> it could. new york is a tough state, like

new jersey, but what was the last time -- pataki in 1994. we don't have a great track record when it comes to new york republican governors. however, i think lee zeldin has been very focused on this message of crime, which i think has obviously helped him. you are seeing the democrats and hochul, they have miscalculated on the messaging strategy. they made the decision it was about abortion and hone in on. guess what, not everyone there are women, not everyone there are child bearing age, that is not going to work for the democrats, and so that's why you are seeing the last minute shift from the hochul campaign team. and zeldin, and a shooting in front of his house, and his daughter, and he almost got hurt as well, there is a reality happening in new york and independent voters are saying wait a second here, i think lee zeldin could be the one to deal with the crime issue, especially pushing bail reform and weak on

prosecuting the crimes. >> quick final thought from you. could democrats lose some democrats over this issue? >> yeah, i mean, if you look at the most recent polling, swing voters are pushing a lot of the republican momentum that we are witnessing at this moment. i don't know that they are independents, a lot of time people say they lean, they lean republican. but in action to your question, right now republican messaging on the economy, what i think is a little bit of halloween fright on the economy and it's working for them. >> john: big turn around from the summertime, 15 days to go, a lot to talk about. >> good to see you. >> sandra: president xi of china making big moves to lock in his spot leading the communist country years to come. is he more likely to move forward with an invasion of taiwan. >> john: and vladimir putin

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>> sandra: fox news alert, you are looking at dnc headquarters in washington where the president has just arrived a few moments ago. the white house saying that he expects to discuss jobs, the economy, crime, obviously looking at 8.2% inflation in this country. this is a president who is trying to address his own party in a moment of many crisis and challenging, and nancy pelosi changes the subject. democrats 15 days out, the president arrived there, dip in

here and listen right off the top. >> first and maybe most important to say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. if we get people out to vote we win. we get people out to vote we win, and you are getting them out to vote. [cheering] >> ok, so we are going to monitor the president's remarks, he is addressing staffers in the room as he has just arrived. 15 days out, democrats have a huge task, where voters say inflation is their top issue, and this is an administration that has struggled to rein in 40-year high inflation. >> john: we'll see what the president has to say about the state of the economy as well. by most measures, the economy is in trouble and people at home trying to make ends meet are having a difficult time doing it, yet no shortage of rose colored glasses among the

administration. >> sandra: ukraine, russian forces are targeting energy facilities. putin's massive strikes knocking out the power for nearly 1.5 million households over the weekend. keith kellogg is standing by. trey yingst is live in kyiv for us. hi, trey. >> good afternoon. we spoke with the defense minister about the latest developments in the war and allegations by russia claiming without evidence that ukraine plans to use a dirty bomb. >> it's absurd and absolutely fake. it's next stage of russia information against the civilized world because they are trying to stop the delivering to ukraine of any kind of packages of support or help. and also they are trying to organize next kind of pretext

for using by their side some kind of nuclear threats. >> the types of threats against ukraine are changing. we have seen now iranian-made weapons on the battlefield. what do you need in order to stop these drones from targeting ukrainian cities? >> the priority number one for ukraine is air defense systems. with the different types, short range, middle range and long range. >> there are reports that iran has military personnel in crimea. >> yes, it's true. >> what about belarus? >> i'm sure that they have also in belarus because iranian drones they use from two main direction, from the south, from the crimea, and from the north, from the belarus. they use belarus like -- >> do you know how many? are we talking dozens? >> it's an issue of our intelligence. it doesn't matter, 10 or 20. just one is enough.

>> but you can confirm there are iranian military personnel in both crimea and belarus. >> according to our intelligence, yes, it's true. >> defense minister also discussed recent reports that the israelis are sharing intelligence about iranian-made drones with the ukrainians. he says those reports are not true. sandra. >> sandra: trey, thank you. >> john: a lot to unpack from trey's fine report. retired lieutenant general keith kellogg, fox news contributor, so the idea that russia is floating that ukraine could set off a dirty bomb on its own territory and blame russia, is this a pretext to escalation for russia, could it be that maybe russia is planning to set off a dirty bomb and blame it on the ukrainians. >> the only people with a dirty bomb, when they talk about the dirty bomb, a nuclear weapon that is initiated on the ground because that's where the fallout comes from. dirty bomb, small nuke, the only

people that have it are the russians. ukrainians don't have one. and when you see what their defense secretary was calling to other nato defense secretaries, and lloyd austin, talked about the potential of a nuclear weapon, i think it's delaying tactics. we are in drift right now. i think they are trying to delay until they get to the winter. the russians are having major problems on the ground fighting, units have been mauled badly, ukrainians are fighting good especially in the south and the russians are hoping for a delay. and if they can prevent more arms coming in by using the dirty bomb scenario, they can delay into the wintertime to reinforce, reengage, get ready to go. both sides have to slow down during the winter. it's terrible to fight in the winter, especially in that part of the world. >> john: the ukrainians are getting better to shoot down the drones, they are targeting

infrastructure and civilians, you are not allowed to in a war deliberately target civilians. could it be that russia and iran could be hauled before the tribunal at the hague on war crimes? >> do i think that's going to happen, probably not. but what they are doing is clearly in violation of the laws of war. they are using them against civilian targets, deliberately, not infrastructure, they keep saying infrastructure but it's not. to me an apartment building is not, you know, economic infrastructure. and they are using them as primarily a terror weapon and we know the iranians have given them incredible amount of drones and advisors as well are doing that. >> john: talk about china, an interesting scene yesterday at the chinese communist party congress in which tao, the premier of china, just prior to xi jinping was led out of the party of congress there, the official reason was he was not feeling with, needed to leave,

but it kind of looks like xi jinping was sweeping away all vestiges of the past because tao was more into opening up china, global trade, that sort of thing. but along with sweeping out him, does xi jinping sweep out the last remaining vestiges of reason and what does that mean about taiwan? >> i think -- when they took out president tao, two terms, now xi has his third term and i think he's been very, very hard core now, he's basically replaced everybody that he had and with his own people. so what i think it means for the future, you are going to see a china that's much more strident, and hard core, and in 2024, it's going to come to a head. >> i was in beijing with president george w. bush when he was visiting, the man was not a

pushover but a lot more moderate than xi jinping. we'll monitor this and see where it goes. probably nowhere good. >> no, not at all, john. >> thanks for coming. >> thank you, john. a dream vacation turns into a nightmare for one family after their pick-up is stolen along with a lot of their very important stuff inside. what they were doing when that happened, and how you can help. they'll join us live in just a moment. >> john: plus a common virus now sending alarming number of young children to the hospital filling up beds nationwide and the urgent warning for parents. and for veteran homeowners, it's as easy as one, two, three. one: call newday. two: talk to our team to see how much cash you can get. three: borrow up to 100% of your home's value with the newday 100 va loan. with home values near all-time highs, use your va benefit to turn the equity

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>> sandra: a trip to the happiest place on earth turning out pretty lousy for one georgia family. they planned a surprise vacation to disney world for their children's birthdays, but on the

second day somebody stole their pickup truck from a parking lot. ryan, what happened? you planned this big trip for your kids and two days in, what happens? >> well, we actually, we drove up and we had our truck and trailer. we unhooked the truck and actually the first night was actually stolen from the parking lot. no more than probably half an hour from us being back into the room. so really kind of shut us down pretty good. it was our business truck. in more ways than one, kind of dead in the water. so, it was a good vacation, i'll tell you that much. >> well, seems like you are able to keep your spirits up. cassidy, nobody wants to see this happen. so many families watching can sympathize with what happened here, simply because you were trying to provide a great birthday for your two kids, but then this happened. how did the kids manage through it? i assume your older ones as

well. >> yeah, our 9-year-old, she, it hit her the most. she kind of knew what was going on. the 4-year-old, he doesn't really understand. he thinks it's just, you know, he talks about, like oh the truck got stolen, he does not get it. but definitely the 9-year-old, she's very upset. she missed the whole day at disney, she did not like that, she's like this is a great birthday but it was out of our control. we just tried to keep her as happy as possible. >> so you still don't have the truck back and you are asking people to help. keep a look out on for your truck. the white f-250, i believe, pictured here, it's up on the screen, ryan and cassidy and we asked for a statement from the police department there who said they are actively still investigating this case, they are in contact with you, they say, but they are also offering tips to our viewers. keep your doors locked, windows closed, secure your cars, remove your valuables, you had a lot

taken in the truck at the time as most people do when they are on a road trip, protect your wheels, activate the car alarm, safety devices and properly insure your vehicle. it's an example of how crime has hit the happiest place on earth and your family. >> yeah, we are usually really good about keeping things out of the vehicle. the vehicle was locked, we had the keys in the hotel room. it was underneath a light, like a bright light, so everybody could see it. and then we had gotten in late that night, so the kids, both the older ones were very fussy. baby was screaming, so we made it up to the hotel as fast as we could and kind of fell asleep so did not get the two like the ipads out and everything, we are usually good about it, but it was locked up and in an area where it could be seen, so -- >> sandra: ryan, at the end of the day, as parents do, we are all in one piece, we are safe, but still without your truck and

belongings. are you going to keep looking for it? what's your next step here? >> still love to have my truck back, but just even if i get it back, it's not going to be the same. so -- >> yeah, it was our -- we own and operate a small business so it was our business truck and he's a mobile -- so all his tools and everything that ran that side of the business, everything is gone. so that's -- to be honest. >> sandra: i didn't catch the last part. >> it's harder than the truck being missing, really, to be honest. that puts our business, you know -- >> sandra: we had it up on the screen and we, people can contact the local police there if they have any tips on what happened to that truck. but we are glad you were able to go on and at least enjoy part of your vacation, and thank you very much for joining us. >> all right. thank you. >> sandra: hope it doesn't happen to anybody else. john. >> john: sandra, back now to the

dnc headquarters where president trump continues his pep rally, 15 days left until the midterm elections. the president making the point that the economy is doing well under his administration, saying that the economy under trump was a disaster, which may not exactly hold up to scrutiny, although after covid hit the economy went down for a while. and the president saying that we have got here in the united states the lowest inflation rate of any nation in the world at 8.2%. i'm not sure that americans are finding it hard to make ends meet, sandra, are saying well, thank god we are not germany, or the u.k. i think they are saying prices are doing what in this country? >> sandra: indeed. the so he's been going for quite a time here and he started out by labelling the gop as fiscally dangerous. the reason he provided, they want to cut corporate taxes. he referenced what he said was

10 million jobs created so far, obviously he came into office at a time when the economy was snapping back from the pandemic, and he also talked about the infrastructure bill. said we are just getting started. so this is the message he is putting out to his party and to staffers there in that building, 15 days from election day, john. >> john: it's a message that focuses heavily on the economy because democrats are realizing that the economic woes of this country are forefront in voter's minds and that is probably what they are going to consider when they mark on their ballot who they want to take over leadership in the house and senate. >> sandra: the comparison to other countries and somehow it's going to make americans feel better, that's a tough one i think for a lot of folks to hear that because other people have inflation, that makes this not as important. we are going to dip in here and listen to the president's message here. >> cap on insulin for seniors,

pass the inflation reduction act, gone. savings of healthcare premiums, $800 for millions of americans gone, and still determined to repeal the affordable care act. that means an end to the protections for tens of millions of people who can't afford health insurance because of a preexisting condition. that's gone as well if the republicans get their way. most aggressive action to deal with global warming, gone. corporate minimum tax i just signed into law, gone. look, democrats are called big spenders and they claim they are for less government spending. well, give me a little break here, just look at the facts. federal deficit went up every single solitary year in the trump administration, went up every year. and went up before the pandemic, it went up during the pandemic, it went up every single year on

his watch. one big reason for that, voted for a 2 trillion trump tax cut overwhelmingly benefitted the biggest corporations and the most wealthy americans and it racked up significant debt, not a penny was paid for. now republicans in congress are doubling down on the mega maga commitment to implode the deficit again, just last week republicans leaders said if they get their way they are going to extend the trump tax cuts which go out of existence in two years. folks, put the entire republican plan all together and they would add $3 trillion to the deficit. 3 trillion. that's their plan. massive deficit reckless and irresponsible. >> sandra: there is the message he is delivering to voters 15 days from election day, and he's been going for quite some time there, and john, no mention of the crisis at our southern

border. >> john: no mention of crime, either. he did talk about abortion, and he also talked about the right to vote saying that the gop is a threat to your right to vote, ignoring the fact that in the state of georgia where they recently passed new laws, that drew fire from the democrats, caused major league baseball to pull the all-star game out and move it to denver, there is a record number of people who have cast early ballots in the midterm elections. >> sandra: and don't forget that he is delivering this speech at a time where nancy pelosi in an interview over the weekend suggested changing the subject from what has been for months now the number one concern of voters, and that is inflation and the economy, and the very tough winter that may be for many americans. she also compared it to being a global phenomenon, saying other countries have inflation as well. she says the fight is not about inflation, it's about the cost of living. so this is in the middle of an

attempt to change the subject. bernie sanders doesn't even think it's a good idea. >> john: yeah, well, voters do think it's a good idea, they want to hear from candidates what they are going to do to fix the economy, no question people are going to vote bread and butter issues. >> sandra: we are monitoring that. we'll dip back into the heade news warrants and now this. horrific new video showing a subway rider, screen left, pushed on to the tracks, friday this happened in new york city. as the city's mayor adams and governor kathy hochul promise there is help on the way. announcing a program to make the subways safer. alexis mcadams has more on the plans two weeks ahead of election day. alexis, i don't know if people think it's too little too late. how many victims have we seen and heard from, those that at least lived to tell about it. >> i know, it's horrible, they

are attacked out of the blue, not like a warning or anything. and this guy has a broken collarbone after he was shoved in the video. he does not want to ride the subway anymore, he's 32-year-old david martin, afraid for his safety after the random attack and physical and emotional pain because of this. you can see the guy on the right, he's wearing the yellow hoodie, he sizes up the guy with the blue bag, pushes him, i mean pushes him down, zeroed in on him before he charged at him. martin ended up in the hospital, grateful to be alive. >> i was in too much pain, my face was on fire, my shoulder was on fire but at least i'm able to talk bit. people pushed in the train ke i able to talk about it. >> now the governor and the mayor adding more cops and more cameras to subway cars and platforms and programs to help the mentally ill who ride the subway all hours of the day and

night. add 1,000 extra overtime shifts, the incumbent, a new ad focused on the surge in crime. >> a safe walk home at night, subway ride free of fear, a safer new york for every child. that's what kathy hochul is working for as governor. >> that's the message that lee zeldin has been hammering home for months, saying this is just a last ditch effort for hochul to try to fix the problem. if he's elected, he will declare a statewide crime crisis. >> so new yorkers, regardless of what party you are from and a red or blue county, basically have all just decided that we are all going to take control of our destiny. >> the police union is criticizing hochul's plan saying it's not going to fix anything, they have to increase the pay for cops and more cops, they don't have the people to monitor

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