have about a third of the country that sees snow, and then once we get the coverage map, go about 60% of the country gets high elevation snow, so it's not at a place where we have populated areas. >> if there is this much snow on the ground i'm making a snowman and drinking hot chocolate. >> sandra: idaho police have yet to reveal a suspect or person of interest in the murder of the four university students, it has been more than three weeks now since they were killed while sleeping in an off campus home. investigators say they are making progress but have not yet released a motive. >> john: live in moscow, idaho, plus former fbi investigator bill daley says police science should not be read as a lack of

progress. >> sandra: fox news alert to kick off "america reports" on this monday afternoon. hello, everyone, sandra smith in new york. great to start another week with you. >> john: good to start another week with you. hope you had a great weekend. supreme court just minutes ago wrapping up oral arguments in a high profile case. it involves a private business owner who says she won't create websites for same sex weddings because doing so goes against her religious beliefs. >> sandra: all of this with a colorado law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. it puts the high court at the center of a critical first amendment battle. >> john: and shannon bream is live outside the supreme court. what happened inside the marble halls today? >> well, john, this was an argument scheduled to go 70 minutes, it went two and a half hours. you can hear the protest from both sides continue outside the court, and the nine justices

really struggled with where to draw the line on this issue. this is a first amendment case. business owner says she has plenty of lgbtq clients, happy to serve them and do business with them. she does not want to put her name on a custom crafted website for a same sex ceremony. soed questions came up where you could draw the line. if you have a business in the stream of commerce, what if you object to interracial marriage, or don't think disabled people should get married, could you object to that. all kinds of back and forth issues and whether a heterosexual relationship, we had an affair and found true love, she's made clear she will not do messages about violence, something that violates her religious beliefs or personally

objectionable. so where do you draw the line. and justice gorsuch said digging down with the attorneys, sounds to me this is more about the what and not the who. this is not about discriminating against specific people, it's about messages. so, where that line ultimately gets drawn will probably take weeks, maybe months before we know a decision by june in this case, a follow-up to the one a few years ago, the cake baker out of colorado says i will sell cakes to anyone, i will not do the custom cake for the same-sex marriage, it suggests the justices are ready to give better guidance and draw that line and now we have to wait. >> john: a lot of time for the noisy demonstrators to stand by for a decision. more on this coming up, too, sandra. >> sandra: jonathan turley will

be joining us. shannon cut through all the noise. >> john: more than three weeks passed since four idaho university students were stabbed to death inside their off campus house and police do not have a suspect, motive, weapon for the killings. one of the fathers is growing frustrated, believes his daughter or her friend were targeted based on how the killer moved through the house. >> they have said the entry point was the slider or the window, the middle floor. so to me he doesn't have to go upstairs. his entry and exit are available without having to go upstairs or downstairs. looks like he probably may have not gone downstairs, we don't know that for sure, obviously went upstairs, so i'm using logic that he chose to go up there when he didn't have to. >> john: complete coverage with

former fbi investigator bill daley says he believes police are making headway in the case but begin with christina coleman, is there any indication that police are getting any closer to solving this case? >> hi, john. idaho state police tell me they are making progress in this case, and they note that moscow police called in additional resources as soon as this horrific crime was reported. >> it's basically all hands on deck, and so the first call, you know, basically went to the chief and the command, but the third call to the idaho state police, so the crime lab was called out. >> but, kaylee's parents are still very frustrated with the lack of information being shared on this investigation. >> seems they are trying to suppress the story. we want to put rewards out, they don't want you to do that.

you are not going to get students if they see those things, but this community will not healed until the guy is pulled off the streets. it ain't going to happen, it's not going to happen, we all are working for the same thing. he has to be off the streets. p>> kaylee's father also says kaylee and her best friend maddy, out of the two of them, one of them had injuries that were much more brutal than the other, which could suggest that one of them was targeted. but again, that is still under investigation. meantime, their friends continue to grieve, they are devastated by their loss. maddy's sorority sisters shared heartfelt stories about her at the last large service honoring the victims. >> maddy was one of my best friends, and inner sorority, that was a bonus. she loved everyone around here,

more than life. she was one of the best people i knew. >> heartbreaking hearing the stories from the family and friends, and we are expecting an update some time today from mos investigation and hopefully will get more answers. >> john: watching and waiting to say they have found a suspect but nothing more. >> sandra: for more, bill, great to have you here. you have been with us throughout this story and three plus weeks now and does feel like there's a degree of lost support, perhaps some skepticism. >> three weeks, and not a-ha moment with the suspect or suspects, round them up and moves forward towards prosecution. this is more complicated, we talked about this before with

the crime scene, the evidence collected needs to be processed. i do say that the fact that police have not been communicating, not good for the family or the community. but from an investigative standpoint, a, does not provide information to the killer or killers or does not provide information to people who are potentially interviewed where they could be polluted, and when they catch the person, i believe they will, hopefully sooner than later, make sure nothing is tainted or to reverse the prosecution. >> sandra: you sound optimistic or hopeful the investigation is progressing and hopefully we will learn more soon. bill, learning a bit more about the possible point of entry for this suspect, put up sort of this diagram that shows the idaho home off campus home floor

levels, the first floor, second floor, third floor, appears kaylee goncalves father believes the suspect chose to go upstairs. he believes that the girls upstairs were targeted because of the point of entry on the second floor, the second chose to go upstairs. >> and certainly this has merit, and something around, we have discussed from the beginning of this case there may have been some targeting, that this was not just a random crime because two other people were not victimized, and the fact that the father pointed out the access on the second floor, those jibe with what believes have said. we have seen them on the hillside behind the home, examining the point of entry, and a hypothesis, leads credence to it. and i don't say the -- the

police do need to and have kept an open mind. it can put blinders on. and look at it as a broad spectrum of potential suspects and reasons why these four young people were killed. >> sandra: this is so brutal for a father to even imagine this, but kaylee's father appeared on lawrence jones cross country and he hints his daughter's wounds were significantly more brutal, also indicating to him, he says, that perhaps she or her friend upstairs were targeted. listen. >> their means of death don't match. >> maddie's and kaylee's cause of death, based on the autopsy report. >> they don't match. >> points of damage don't match, i'm just going to say, it wasn't leaked to me, i earned that, i paid for that funeral. >> sandra: just so heartbreaking the parents who they are going

through. but he seems to be drawing some conclusions based on what he has been told from police so far. what did you make of that? >> i would concur, it was a personal type of attack, and where stabbings are up close and personal type of assaults, and the fact no one will reveal themselves so far as being potentially the person going after, means maybe there was something that went on some time ago, it does not mean it happened that night or a week or two before, but cases post my fbi experience, two years some one has come back and felt dised and harbored the feeling and came back and committed killing. it is possible it's something -- it may be more difficult for police to find out who the suspect is.

nuanced in the killer's mind. >> and the suspect could be anywhere, walking among the kids on campus or friends of the survivors. >> or may not from the area, home front. don't know. >> sandra: exactly, so much we don't know. john, you just have to imagine the more we hear from the parents they are absolutely exhausted, heart broken and how horrible they just don't have any more information at this point. >> john: as a parent, it's hard enough to get your head around what happened, let alone the fact you are not getting answers about what happened. the pursuit of justice in a situation like this is something that at least brings some degree of comfort to grieving parents, not a whole lot, but a little bit. and if you don't even know who the suspect is, the poor parents are twisting in the wind. more on this coming up in the next hour with phil holloway, by the way. >> sandra: look forward to that.

>> john: in ukraine, 40% of kyiv is without power after a russian missile hits an energy facility. 1 of 3 regions targeted today in a massive airstrike. the ukrainian prime minister says nationwide power system remains intact despite the attacks but clearly are doing a lot of damage. >> sandra: john, republican congressman kevin mccarthy looking to claim the speaker's gavel. will a handful of members from his own party stop that from happening. >> john: and less than 24 hours to go, election day part two in georgia. who will win the hearts and minds of independent voters. juan and mercedes will debate that, plus the mccarthy issue. >> i love american heros who answer the call. one of the reasons why i love herschel walker. >> you know what i like best about mr. walker? he knows who he is.

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>> sandra: more than 37,000 people are without heat or electricity in north carolina after the moore county power grid was intentionally attacked over the weekend. fbi is on the scene. firearms were used to shoot and disable equipment at two subtations there. meanwhile, utility companies say they might not be able to bring power back online until at least thursday. >> we have already had the primary, made the decision, 85% of the conference. i'm hopeful everybody comes together. >> john: kevin mccarthy urging unity to make the most of the party's majority in the new congress. at least five republicans have signalled they are planning to vote against mccarthy in his bid

for speaker. juan williams, fox news senior political analyst and mercedes schlapp, and former white house senior adviser for strategic communications. mccarthy is appealing to the house republican conference saying look, if you want results we have to have unity. what else he's saying. >> if people don't come along, that's going to delay our ability to secure the border. that's going to delay our ability to become energy independent. to hold government accountable. no subpoena that can go out until that gets done. >> john: and the line of his was not a bar graph on the chances of becoming speaker, but what purpose does this fracture in the republican party serve? >> i think it's unfortunate. i think the party, republican party should come together and back kevin mccarthy. he's done a lot of work to recruit a lot of the candidates that ran in the house, he did a

lot of campaigning for the candidates, and in essence, if he's got jim jordan on his side, the conservative favorite for speaker of the house and he really wants to stay as chairman of the judiciary committee, and backing kevin mccarthy, with it, that being said, some of these conservative members are going to ask for chairman schiff, put pressure on him. but we have to get to a point where the republican party unites and kevin mccarthy is going to be held to task to say look, i'm going to have to be tough against joe biden and push back against the democrat's radical agenda. >> john: does this play into the democrat's hand, republican majority much smaller than anticipated, now all of this in-fighting as well, they got control of the congress but can not control their conference.

>> i think it's partly kevin mccarthy. he did not get it the last time he sought the post, at that point it went to paul ryan, and what you see here i think is a radical elements in the party and sometimes people are slow to acknowledge this, but don't want to get along and see their advantage, leverage saying i'm more conservative or trumpian than you are, and mccarthy has gone out of his way to bring peace but evident what the conference will not be able to do even with the slim majority you referenced. are they going to pass a deal that continues the budget, i don't have it. they are literally as mccarthy said squandering an opportunity, they prefer the performance, the kind of radical right behavior that they think gives them

traction and clicks. >> john: what a republican from new york said. >> the reality is kevin mccarthy worked hard, he delivered the majority. that was his promise and he did it so the nonsense has to stop, say enough is enough, the charade is over, he earned the speakership and he will have the gavel january 3rd. >> john: a new member of congress coming up, congressman elect, he said look, doesn't matter what your differences are, he earned it. >> i do think mccarthy has earned it to become speaker of the house. at the same time, i think the house freedom caucus and many conservative members are gonna put pressure on mccarthy to deliver. one thing republicans and democrats are slightly different is that pelosi was able to keep the coalition together, progressives and moderates. this is going to be a bigger challenge for republicans where they are more individualistic and like to make a point. but who does he have on his

side? marjorie taylor greene, outspoken conservative and you would never think would support mccarthy but he brought her along and i think you will see him spend a lot of time with these members to say let's work out a deal, we know where we have to push back on, they are going to hold him accountable, want to make sure that mccarthy basically leads strong, more of a fighter as opposed to caving into the democrats. >> john: put on his best car salesman hat. no offense to them. >> i think it's the american people will want to know what republicans are actually going to get done as the majority in the house. all hunter biden, a tax on joe biden, on dr. fauci, do something about the economy, the stand in ukraine, do something about the chinese. >> it's very difficult when you only have one chamber of congress to get something done.

when you have one chamber of commerce you are trying to stop the bleeding. >> john: she's lowering expectations. >> is that what she is doing? >> john: we are already over time. how does georgia shape up tomorrow? >> it's going to be tough for herschel walker to win. democrats are dominating, a lot of the black voters are coming out, tough for walker. >> i think you are seeing republicans, including governor kemp, holding the line and saying vote on party lines as opposed to the guy you think is the best. >> john: we'll see. sounds like you are both worried. usual. >> sandra: great discussion there. elon musk meanwhile vowing to release more of the so-called twitter files. do they show a concerted effort by the government to censor free

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seems to indicate a lot more depth here. >> suggesting a drip drip drip of new material, gave access to the full documentation inside of twitter to railway bari weiss, access to the complete collection. she's expected to do some reporting as is matt tiabi. he laid out what he learned, he wrote twitter's posts and users were routinely moved, and political election of staff, and revealed more to review from the biden team. another twitter employee resp responded handled these. musk was asked if twitter colluted with the democratic party and biden's team before the 2020 election. >> clearly if twitter is doing one team's bidding before an

election, shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election, that is a very definition of election interference and what the hell -- like yes. >> this comes as prominent republicans are pledging oversight and big tech, says likely more to come. >> we are pretty confident that this was not an isolated incident. what we have seen thus far are emails from the biden campaign telling twitter that you know, that was not a true story, that was a lie. >> prominent republicans say it shows why the white house did not want elon musk to own twitter because now he is putting out the truth. >> john: there is that part of it. all sort of casting this idea of a threat to free speech and everything else, maybe they didn't want the truth to come out. >> a little daylight on things. >> john: very sanitizing, isn't

it? ultraviolet light. >> sandra: jonathan turley, great to see you. thought of you this weekend when all this was pouring out, what is jonathan's take on the big reveal. >> much confirms what we suspected, back channels between biden campaign officials and democratic officials with twitter. we also know there were people on twitter that threw a flag on the play. what evidence do we have, one employee said this was just freelancing censorship and that essentially the biden campaign outsourced this function to twitter. much of what many of us have been writing about for two years. but much more that we need to know. first of all, it's bad enough if there is a back channel between

the biden campaign and twitter, but though likely continued when it became the biden administration, and then you have a stronger nexus for what i've called censorship by surrogate, that you can have government officials who are encouraging corporations to do something they couldn't do directly, and we also know that twitter did reach out to democratic members in congress and reported that they were pleased with this action. >> sandra: interesting. elon musk explaining his decision to release these files on twitter, this was saturday, listen. >> we are just going to put all the information out there, try to get a clean slate. >> twitter was acting like an arm of the democratic national committee, absurd. >> i think there will be more smoking guns. what happened after the election? >> sandra: and not just talking about censorship of the hunter biden laptop story, right,

jonathan. covid origins, trump's 2020 campaign, discussion about transgender people and pronouns, the list goes on, including anti-crt groups being suspend ed and banned project veritas. so, a lot more censorship than just one story here, jonathan. >> we are, and that's what a lot of pundits want to talk about. attacking musk, attacking tiabi, anyone who is trying to discuss this new evidence. it's very serious. what we are talking about is not just a media company that is showing favoritism. that's nothing new. this is a social media company, this is a social media company keeping others from discussing a scandal that had great relevance to the election. and what's interesting, one of the things that came out before this leak was that there were contacts with the cdc about that back channel of the suspending

and barring people questioning the mask policy, questioning some covid policies and one of the emails had a twitter person say look, the timing is tricky this week. that week was a hearing with the twitter ceo and he was actually asked about censorship by surrogate, they quoted my testimony earlier to that same committee, and he said there is no censorship department. you don't need a department, if the entire committee is censoring on issues. >> sandra: and wall street journal on the twitter censorship files, says the release of the 2020 censorship is news by any definition, even if the mainstream media dismisses it, that is the case. this is the media coverage of the new documents, and networks, some absolutely no coverage at

all, and then a matter of just minutes on other networks. jonathan. so, even if the news is out there, nobody is there to cover it. does this stay alive? >> that's absolutely right. you have these censorship a apollo -- apologyists, no, they have officials talking about how they don't have evidence of hacking. preventing the story from being shared, not the pictures and said it was a mistake. but it's like an alternative universe when you go to some other sites, and the one thing they don't want to talk about is what's on the computer. some are admitting it's authentic, but that means the emails are authentic, means there was a multi-million dollar influence scam by the biden family, the one thing washington does not want to discuss.

>> sandra: wow, that's a big statement. jonathan turley, appreciate you joining us on that. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> john: sandra, the holiday shopping season is in full swing and shoppers are seeing higher prices than in years past. what may be making inflation worse is the spike in crime many retailers across the country are seeing, further driving up costs. and it's not just the big brands impacted, small businesses are dealing with crime while trying to convince shoppers to come inside and shop. jeff flock is live at a store in philadelphia, he has details and we should point out that store faced another robbery just last week. what's the owner doing to combat organized retail crime? >> how about $18,000 worth of security equipment like a big heavy steel screen that comes down on his windows. because they kick the windows out. three different times, in fact, one time after he put the screen in, he said somebody put a jack

in there and jacked the screen up. pretty crazy. also have to get buzzed in, if he buzzes me in, maybe we can get in here. this is a place called mizzo boutique, high end street wear. you never had a problem here, you've been here three years, but this year three break-ins in the last what, six months? >> yeah, the last six months, three break-ins and two extra attempted break-ins overall. >> we have pictures you made available from your security camera that show they broke in overnight in the dark, their own lights and they are stealing stuff, this is high end street wear, pretty expensive stuff. >> it is, it is, and they were sophisticated, able to break in even with the gates, extra security, alarm system and it's been constant. >> costing you thousands of dollars, not only in lost stuff, $47,000 worth of product and 18 proubt for the security stuff.

how do make money? >> it's really been hard. >> if not for family support i would have been out of business a long time ago. >> thanks for telling us this tale. as you point out, we have been reporting on the big box stores, they have been hit, too, but mom and pop and here is pop right here, and taking it on the chin. >> nobody is immune from it, there's no question about that. jeff flock, thank you. it's hard enough for big box stores but when you get down to the mom and pop stores, that amount of money to have to invest in security really cuts into the bottom line. >> sandra: that really hurts the small shop owners. and pull up the news, mid november, john, when target, target stores reported earnings and they blamed organized crime for $400 million loss in profits, saying the organized

gangs of shoplifters have hurt them. some of the smaller mom and pops, that's really expensive to deal with. >> john: unless the elected leaders step in and decide they are going do something about this, nothing will get better. >> sandra: some democrats are pushing for a spending blowout in the last few weeks of the lame duck term. one republican who flipped a blue district red says democrats need a come to jesus moments. that's congressman elect mike lawler. he'll join us live. >> john: a top iranian official says the morality police have been disbanded in the wake of protests. are the winds are change blowing or is it a distraction? morgan ortagus coming right up. >> so if the regime has now responded in some fashion to the protests, that could be a positive thing, but we have to

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or to curb their behavior. we know a member of iran's judiciary made this comment, this comes as for the next three days there are strikes around iran and continuing protest. and listen, no matter what they do with the morality police, even if they change their name, they still have things like the hijab law, women required to cover their hair, that is still on the books. you see a regime which terrorizes and kills. >> john: throwing spaghetti against the wall on see if it sticks, and they say the regime is in the thinking and problems stages, they know what problems are, don't know what the answers

are, but they feel if they make the wrong move they could be emboldened. it's not a shah overthrow but could be the beginning. >> regime is getting ready to execute up to 80 prisoners, people who were peacefully protesting, ten reportedly are minors, so the regime is still trying to crack down. i was at the u.s. iran game in doha, i went live from there, and one of the players on the iran team, his best friends was killed, shot in the head point blank for honking his horn, he was excited the u.s. team won and not celebrating the down fall of the iran team but celebrating the fact the united states had a win against this awful regime, which i said is terrorizing their citizens. so executing at point blank

range does not show me they know how to handle the crisis or to deal with it. >> john: china briefly, that came up at the reagan national defense forum. happened at the same time the u.s. air force revealed the new b-21 bomber, latest version of the stealth bomber, a symbol to china we can get behind your lines if we need to. and what lloyd austin said at the forum about the coming threat from china. >> prc is the only country with both the will and increasingly the power to reshape its region and the international order to suit its authoritarian preferences. so let me be clear. we will not let that happen. >> john: so lloyd austin is saying the u.s. military needs to stay strong, but the reason why china can build up the military because u.s. consumers are giving china so much money in the stuff we build and buy from there. it would be simple to dry up

that flow of cash, wouldn't it? >> it would be. i have my frequent flyer miles, i was in doha to the audience what you just showed, i was encouraged by the tone set by secretary austin, but unfortunately, i have talked about this on your show, i worry the u.s. has a lot of bravado in the way we talk but still the biden administration is putting forth a defense budget that does not meet inflation. so listen, china is focused, pla, people's liberation army is focused on the indo-pacific and we are talking a very good game. even recently we saw the solomon islands in the south pacific go to china, signal this they were going to be with them on the military ventures. those small things that happen in the region add up over time, the pla is getting wins and we are not. >> john: apple is diversifying the supply chain, moving tom

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>> sandra: new video shows a woman confronting a masked man as he fishes for mail in a manhattan mailbox. the post office warning americans not to mail checks this holiday season because of a recent wave of mail fishing. eric has the story for us. who is at risk? >> well, you know, sandra, this christmas season, the grinch could be stealing your christmas checks out of your mailboxes because criminals are engaged in what's called mailbox fishing. >> stop doing whatever you are doing. i'm video taping you right now. >> i don't care. >> it's clear you don't. >> you see this video, one woman

confronting a man allegedly mailbox fishing, sticking his belt with some sticky slot, trying to pull out the envelopes inside. nypd has plastered signs on some boxes warning about this, earlier a ring was busted believed to have stolen more than $100,000 of checks out of mailboxes. one victim told us two checks she once mailed were fished out of a mailbox, altered and cashed for more than $1,500. the postal service says mail theft is a nationwide problem. santa monica, boxes were bashed to steal mail. they say the best advice, see what time the mail is picked up, dropped it near that time so it does not stay in the box overnight or go to the post office to make sure no one grabs your checks. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: avoid the ones with the full drawer that opens,

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