time when recruiting for the military, they are having a difficult time. i'm glad we are talking about readiness and celebrating who we are as a country and military might. >> as someone who did air force rotc, go air force. thank you for being here and watching us. don't forget to dvr the show. here is "america reports." >> these are confidential documents, high security documents and they shouldn't be in someone's home. >> they should make sure they turn all those in before they leave office. >> happen back-to-back with multiple people, it needs to looked into so it doesn't happen no more. >> i think the public library does a better job at keeping track of their books. >> sandra: more and more americans are voicing concerns over president biden's document scandal. house republicans are ramping up their investigations now and zeroing in on who exactly had access to the president's former office at the penn biden center,

as well as his delaware garage. >> john: oversight committee chairman james comer says he wants to know who met with the president at the penn biden center and what role chinese donors played in funding that think tank, where the classified documents were found. in just moments, comer will give an update what the committee will be looking for as the scandal grows. >> sandra: and here we go, john, as we begin "america reports" with a new mexico district attorney announcing involuntary manslaughter charges against actor alec baldwin for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer of the movie "rust." >> john: john roberts in washington. decision comes 15 months after the initial incident. during a reher sal, he pulled the hammer back on a gun

thinking there were no bullets in it, but it killed halyna hutchins and injured the director. >> sandra: and the armor will also be charged in the incident. michael and mercedes standing by. >> sandra: matt, what are we hearing in terms of reaction from the baldwin camp, matt? >> well, sandra, we are getting strong reaction from all sides in this developing story, including alec baldwin and the film's armorer, hannah guitierrez reed, charged with involuntary manslaughter, face fines and up to 18 months in prison if convicted. baldwin's attorney has responded writing in part this decision distorts halyna hutchins tragic death and represents a terrible m

m miscarriage of justice. he relied on the professionals with whom he worked who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. we will fight these charges and we will win. the film's armorer, hannah reed, is also charged with involuntary manslaughter, her attorney says hannah is and always has been emotional and sad about the tragic accident, the charges of a result of a flawed investigation and inaccurate understanding of the full facts. we intend to bring the full truth to light and believe hannah will be exonerated of wrongdoing by a jury. the assistant director, david hall, signed a plea agreement for neglect use of a deadly weapon. he agreed to six months probation. special prosecutor in the case wrote in today's announcement that if david hall, alec baldwin and reed had done their job,

halyna hutchins would be alive today, it's that simple. that prosecuto writing evidence shows a pattern of criminal disregard for safety on the "rust" film set. in new mexico, no room for film sets that don't take the commitment for gun safety and public seriously and the family of hutchins settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the films producer, and hutchins' husband will be an executive producer on the movie if it resumes, and the hutchins family says it aligns with their own independent investigation and the d.a. said baldwin will not be arrested for his charges. initial appearance could be virtual. >> sandra: big questions about that as well. we are just learning that was said a few moments ago. matt, thank you very much. john. >> thank you.

>> john: mercedes, i want to go with the call fors 2 and 3 here to put the charge breakdown on the screen. the two charges of involuntary manslaughter, the first one just straight involuntary manslaughter, requires proof of underlying negligence, a fourth degree felony, up to 18 months in jail and $5,000 fine. the other charge involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act requires proof of more than simple negligence, it's a fourth degree felony, up to 18 months in jail and $5,000 fine. this potential charge, or this charge carries about it potential firearm enhancement which would take the sentencing up to a mandatory five years in prison. the jury is going to get to decide which way this goes and does look based on the statement from hannah reed's attorneys they will go to trial.

>> great p.r. defense on their part, defense attorneys from the inception, that this -- these actions took place last year. but looking at this, the most critical step in this is the fact that david harris has a plea agreement. basically told the prosecutors that he feels criminally negligent for the circumstances leading up to miss hutchins' death. he wanted involuntary manslaughter off the table. all of us looking at the circumstances knew the prosecutors had to determine whether or not to bring charges. at the end of the day, someone died. so of course they had to step in and look at the standards and practices that were used on the set. we know that there are individuals that left the set days before miss hutchins was killed where they said the safety protocols were inferior, they were very concerned for their own safety, that's why they walked off the set. you had reed felt she was

overworked, asking for a cart to carry the weapons she was trying to manage on set, and you have virtually no oversight but looking at the circumstances right now is that you have a cooperating witness in harris, if you are going to litigate, you are going to have harris be a key focus of that prosecution where he's already pled out and said yes, i was criminally negligent in handing that gun, just to remind everybody, he's the individual that handed the gun and said this is not a live gun, handed it to alec baldwin who then took the gun. another thing to consider for baldwin to think about, he has been on the airwaves, he has given his version of what took place, said he never pulled the trigger. we know there's forensic experts that have said that have virtually impossible. that gun in particular could not have gone off and that bullet could not have struck hutchins,

you had to have pulled the trigger. so if mr. baldwin does decide to litigate this and decides, he's not required to, to take the stand, those statements that he made on the airwaves are going to come back and haunt him and lastly, you have a pretty aggressive prosecutor. the prosecutor is saying no one is above the law, it's a smackdown to hollywood. that's one of the reasons why this is brought about. >> sandra: why will he not be arrested, we learned in the last hour or so, he could appear, we are hearing virtually for the first hearing. is that unusual? >> no i mean, you could certainly, if you have the charges brought, defense attorneys can have a conversation and say we will bring this individual voluntarily to the courthouse, he's going to have to be arraigned. this is the first step of the criminal process after the charges he'll be arraigned and then he can then put in his plea.

presumably we know it's going to be a not guilty plea, or maybe won't respond at all. but it will be up to him and his attorneys. >> john: you talked about david halls who pled not guilty to negligent use of a firearm, the fact he has admitted to criminal act, does that put more pressure on them? >> i mentioned his name, it's david hall. and it's surprising hall is the only one that did the plea deal. usually when you have multiple individuals to be investigated for criminal conduct, it's almost a rush to the courthouse to get to the prosecutor and do a deal. obviously that could have been done by either reed or baldwin,

he wanted the manslaughter charges set aside, he did the plea deal. >> sandra: joining us us is dr. boden, great to have you here. a lot to dig into, and also the idaho murders in a second. alec baldwin charged with involuntary manslaughter in this fatal shooting on the "rust" movie set. i want to ask you, because you sat down and i said what's your immediate take away on all of this, and you said what could be key for the defense here was in some of the preliminary findings after the death took place. what was that? >> the issuance of a death certificate by the medical examiner after the autopsy, after being, all this additional information being available determined that the manner of death was accident, so i think the medical examiner is going to be a witness potentially. >> sandra: how were they able to determine that?

>> the medical examiner did the autopsy, found the findings, got whatever information she or he needed from the police. all of the information available to the police could be made available to the medical examiner and determined accident. now, there's a little bit of a difference between accident and homicide for medical examiners and for prosecutors. but usually if a medical examiner says accident, that becomes, she becomes a witness for the defense if homicide charges are brought, and this is not murder, it's the lowest homicide charge. >> john: dr. baden, we don't know how the live round got into the weapon. there was some talk maybe the guns had been used for target practice at an occasion previous to when they were involved in the filming, and then you have alec baldwin in the interview

with abc definitively said i did not pull the trigger, so we -- the two things we don't know is how did the round get in the gun, and how did the gun go off if he did not pull the trigger? >> well, number one, there shouldn't be a live round on the set to begin with. so that how the live rounds got on the set is going to be an issue which the police have investigated. but also, i've been involved with other cases in which repeated use of a weapon can make it discharge much easier than, and even by itself, by -- without a trigger pull, which would be a testimony from different firearms experts as to whether or not this weapon could have gone off without a trigger pull as the defendant says or as

released to the press they find it could not have gone off by itself, and that will be one of the issues that will come up if there is a trial. >> sandra: you think you'll see any jail time? >> i -- looks like if he does not have to appear in person in arraignment, there may be some kind of a deal made without jail time. >> sandra: that tells you a lot then. >> yeah, that indicates that the prosecution realizes there may be some weakness in the case. >> sandra: got it. can we please transition to what we are now learning about the bryan kohberger, the alleged killer of those four idaho students. the search warrants were unsealed, obviously there were a lot of key things that were found including hair among other things. what was your take away when that was unsealed. it was about this time yesterday we got that. >> my take away, seems the prosecution is doing a very good

job in this case and the defense is doing a good job. prosecution indicated what it had removed, removed all the stuff it should have removed from the scene, from his residence. the defense is looking at it and saying hey, they removed a glove, if that glove shows there's no blood on it, it's good for their side, for the defense. so that how those tests turn out will be important for both sides. what hasn't been released is the warrant for the car which is in pennsylvania, that should be released, the car might have a lot more important evidence, especially if there's any evidence from blood, hair, in the car, which is hard to wipe away. that's a home run. and so it just shows that this could be a very significant trial of expert lawyers on both

sides. >> john: dr. baden, i want to put on the screen, items taken out of the kohberger appointment, the blood glove, eight possible hair strands, one possible animal hair strands, kaylee goncalves had a dog, a red spot, reddish brown stain, mattress scoffers with multiple stains, dust from the vacuum, various receipts. a lot of evidence there, all of it would be circumstantial but seems to be evidence when you compare with what police in massachusetts have against brian walshe. >> well, but part of it right now is remember, one of the neighbors said that she heard a lot of vacuuming at the time, the night of the incident. so there may be blood or hair in the vacuum material that relate

to one of the deceased, and shoes that did not have a diamond imprint on it, there was a diamond imprint of blood at the scene. may be information for both sides. if they find any hair, i'm most impressed with the animal hair they say they found. if they found one animal hair, i've been involved with this in the past, which came from the dog that was at the scene that's a home run also for the prosecution. >> sandra: that would be huge. ok, dr. baden, we learned a lot on that, we continue to learn more on the alec baldwin situation. i'm sure that will develop through the afternoon and we will learn more soon. thank you very much. great to have you here. >> john: thanks, doctor. united states secret service could shed new light on who came and went at president biden's

home. there were no official logs but the secret service keeps a record of its own and the agency is willing to share that information with congress if called upon to do so. oversight committee chairman james comer will join us later this hour, but begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich on the north lawn. how much do we expect to learn, jacqui, from the secret service records? >> it's not a full accounting of who came and went from the biden home in delaware, but it's something, and secret service says they are willing to share it with congress if and when they are asked. secret service officials tell fox they don't have visitor logs like the ones that were managed and maintained by the national archives that give a date and a time that people came in and out. they have a separate system in place to track people for threats, but remember, biden stopped having secret service protection six months after he left the vice presidency and

only got it again when he was the nominee ahead of the 2020 election. a long period of time there may not be available accounts who was in the house where the classified documents were apparently stored. we could get better answers for some of our questions if the white house would answer them, but we were told yesterday they are not going to speak about it citing protocols for an ongoing investigation, repeatedly referring reporters to the doj, not taking questions on this, but the white house has no instructions to keep quiet from the doj. they have not instructed the white house to stay silent and they will not tell them to stay silent. even questions, though, about national security are going unanswered. >> can you tell us if there's any sort of assessment that has been planned or launched to determine if national security has been jeopardized at all. >> again, that's for the department of justice. and it's not your decision to

make what i can or cannot answer. >> if you are not able to talk about this from the podium, would you invite a doj official to take our questions here. >> no, you would have to go to the department of justice. >> a new quinnipiac poll shows 60% of americans believe the president acted inappropriately with apparent mishandling and overall approval rating has now dipped to 36%, that is down from 40% in december, john. >> john: jacqui heinrich with the latest from the white house. now bring in kentucky congressman james comer, chairman of the house oversight committee. congressman, thank you for being with us. you will, when you get going again with regular business, start an investigation in the oversight committee into all of this. what issues are you going to start with and where is this investigation going to go? >> well, the overall investigation is about biden family influence peddling, but

concerned on the return on investment the adversaries around the world would get with the millions of dollars they were transferring into the biden accounts, whether it be hunter's shady business deals or now the biden center for diplomacy, and the documents could play a role in that. obviously the president mishandled classified documents, obviously as you've mentioned earlier they are not being transparent with the american people. as you know, we requested visitor logs to see who had access to those classified documents, they said none existed but now we are figuring out maybe they are playing a game of words with us so we are going to re-ask and ask for any notes, correspondents, anything else. because we know that the secret service provided protection there and they had to have a record of who was going in and out of there because there's a vetting process as to know who gets to go into the president's home. so we are going to continue to stay on this. i'm optimistic that we'll get the answers we are looking for. we just won't get them from the

white house. >> john: as our peter doocy was reporting, secret service packed up and left in january of 2017 when the vice president ceased becoming the vice president and was a private citizen, but he picked up secret service protection during the campaign and don't forget, during the campaign that house, at least the basement, center of operations, a lot of people going in and out of the home. andy mccarthy, our legal consultant says that he does not believe for a second that somebody doesn't know who was in that house. he said let's say the fbi was investigating a threat against the president one relevant line of inquiry who had visited the private homes in delaware over the last 23 months. secret service is responsible for keeping the private residences secure even if the president is not on-site. if the fbi said it was critical to get visitor information, do you think the secret service would respond, gee, sorry, we don't have logs for that?

do you believe they know who was there? >> i do believe they know who was there, and i believe they want to tell us. look, the positive thing i'm seeing about our oversight, we all knew all along that the white house would do everything in their ability to obstruct republican oversight. but what i'm seeing now, you have agencies like the national archives, agencies like the fbi who are concerned about the lack of transparency in this white house and they don't want to be ping the for potential wrongdoing. i'm optimistic based on whistleblowers, and we will see what the house oversight committee is suggesting. >> john: take you back to 2021, president biden said it would be the most transparent in history.

and again six months later. >> vice president and i and the administration will be honest and transparent about the good news and the bad. >> as long as i'm president we are going to stick to the notion that we are open, accountable, and transparent. and i think that's important message to send the world. >> john: when you look at how the white house has been handling this since the story broke, how would you compare that with what the president said about transparency? >> well, his pledge to be the most transparent president in the history of america could go down as the second biggest lie joe biden has told behind his first pledge he said he never had any knowledge of hunter's business dealings. so, either way, i could make a strong argument that this administration is the least transparent in the history of america. we have a job on the oversight committee, to root out waste,

fraud in the government. every request we have requested from the white house they have obstructed and replied back with personal attacks. it's uncharacteristic of any president to treat basic house oversight committee the way that they have treated. so, we are going to continue to try to do our job but i'm optimistic now we are going to see some of these agencies that are sitting back saying look, enough is enough, we are going to work with the oversight committee, that's their job, if they ask for reasonable information we are going to supply that reasonable information. >> john: we'll be watching to see how it all unfolds. congressman james comer from the great state of kentucky. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> sandra: now that republicans are in control of the house, the dhs secretary is facing the possibility of an impeachment inquiry over his handling of the migrant surge. the del rio sector is once again

ground 0 for the border crisis where we find our own griff jenkins, live in eagle pass, texas for us. griff, what are people there saying about the ongoing border situation? >> hey, good afternoon, sandra. they have had enough. let me show you literally as we stand here seconds ago, we can go to our live sky drone, show you migrants that just crossed the river and walked up. it's three adults and one child, i asked them where they are from, they said colombia. the child is two years old and just as we were watching them cross going across the bridge back into mexico, were half a dozen migrants title 42. it's a revolving door here, that is why our colleague, bill melugin, doing great work asking dhs secretary mayorkas earlier a few questions but yet the secretary had nothing to say. watch this. >> excuse me, mr. secretary. any comments to republicans calling for your impeachment,

sir? >> good morning. >> they have announced an oversight hearing for the border next month. will you cooperate, sir? sir, any comment for republicans calling for your impeachment? we'll let you go. >> no comment from the secretary. we can show you more drone footage from the groups that come all day long every day like clockwork. the sector chief for the border patrol here, jason owens, a notice saying in the last six days nearly 7,000 apprehensions and sandra, over 3400 got aways, along with 74 smuggling cases, speaking of, take a look at this last piece of video i want to show you, exclusive texas dps troopers in a high speed chase with two juvenile migrants that were on the road. we also have, in addition to that, i want to show you this video and that is the migrant on the road, a migrant was killed crossing the road, he was going

to be one of the got aways, he did not want to surrender to the officials but yet you had this migrant sadly being killed. we are told from officials the migrant that died was a 17-year-old from guatemala, that's what documents on his person showed. although there was no picture i.d., so that matter is under investigation. but it is just a snapshot of why this crisis has had a toll on the community here for more than two years, and they simply don't feel very safe here either because of the number of criminal aliens that they are seeing and the number of smuggling cases on a daily basis. >> sandra: thanks for your reporting there. you were showing us live drone footage, we have some live pictures, eagle pass, the drone is flying overhead and a second ago we did see the migrants being apprehended, and it is just -- it is really amazing, too, to point out, griff, as we have been bringing our viewers this almost daily, new pictures

from the border showing the situation is ongoing. i mean, this is 24 hours a day that you can see this happening, griff. >> john: what's interesting about all of this, sandra, we are seeing things that president biden didn't see when he went down to the border, and you know who else saw them as well was eric adams, the mayor of new york city, he went to el paso and saw a different situation than the president did. we'll talk with charlie herd about that later, by the way. >> sandra: we'll bring that back when we have that discussion with charlie. >> john: meantime, as you mentioned, the virginia merit scholarship scandal, deeper by the day with even more schools involved now, and at least 1,000 students affected. we will talk with one of the parents who are demanding accountability of the school board. >> sandra: did you catch al

gore? he really went for it. al gore raising a few eyebrows with some comments that he just made in davos on the environment. >> that's what's boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers and the rain bombs. >> sandra: we are going to ask charles payne, i'm already talking to him about some of gore's claims he made that some critics are calling unhinged. so what does charles have to say about that? a felt anything but normal. ♪ ♪ it was time for a nunormal with nucala. nucala is a once-monthly add-on treatment for severe eosinophilic asthma that can mean less oral steroids. not for sudden breathing problems. allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. infections that can cause shingles have occurred. don't stop steroids unless told by your doctor. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. may cause headache, injection site reactions, back pain, and fatigue. ask your asthma specialist about a nunormal with nucala. >> tech: cracked windshield? make it easy

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guitierrez reed, the armorer on the movie, and also charged, this case is going to go to trial. we expect some time in the near future baldwin will make a preliminary appearance, it may be virtual. we are outside the apartment building in the off chance that alec baldwin decides he would come out and say something about the charges he's facing. sandra, i would expect his attorney is advising him to keep it zipped. >> and he's been pretty quiet, he has shut down his twitter to only specific followers, it happened a long time ago. he's got seven children, and that's their place down on 10th street here in manhattan. she was seen this morning leaving with four of her kids before the charges were announced, but there is a lot of coming and goings. when you have seven kids together, he has the eighth, ireland, his 27-year-old daughter, he's about to become a

grandfather. she's expecting right now, so you never know. so we are going to keep our eyes on the doors, anything could happen, john. >> we'll keep watching. >> sandra: meantime, treasury secretary janet yellen says the u.s. will reach its borrowing limit, deadline is today, to take extraordinary measures to keep the federal government from defaulting. and clock is ticking to increase the debt ceiling to avoid what economists say could be a financial crisis. bring in charles payne, ok, debt ceiling. i feel like our viewers have had this put in front of them so many times and they see the theater in washington and know it's going to get taken care of. we have not defaulted, there was one exception, it was an accident, i believe 1979, they cleaned it quickly, did not affect a lot of people but if we were to allow this to happen, what are the implications of that, charles? >> well, implications are, if

you don't pay your debts, no one buys your debt and sort of a spiral after that. but it's a debt ceiling. this would be close now to 80 times we have raised the debt ceiling, it was put in there so we would have self-control, some sort of restraint instead of $32 trillion, 1 of the greater questions a lot of people are asking is at what point does, do we get past the rubicon, to the point it's going to implode in such a way maybe we'll look back and say we should have stopped and maybe missed one of these things instead of coming up another grand bargain, going to increase the spending. >> sandra: hold on, you are suggesting we default on the debt? >> not default on the debt but do we have to spend the money we are spending. we have to wake up. if the government takes in $4 trillion and spends $6 trillion, a few years later, takes in six and spends 8, and then 8 and 10.

>> sandra: compare it to an american family, credit card debt and using the debt to pay off their bills but because they are paying it off every time the money, you know, they are able to do that, they keep spending more and it's more than they are bringing in, but then they say ok, we are spending more, can you keep raising our credit card limit, ok. because it's pretty much the same thing. >> it is the same thing except at some point we don't, you know, the lender says no, at some point the lender says no. and here is the thing. interest rates are going through the roof right now. so we are paying $400 billion right now, just to pay the interest on that. what could we do with that kinds of money in this country? it's just mind boggling and it's only going to get higher and higher and higher. >> sandra: who is paying for that, the american taxpayer. >> absolutely. and the things that don't get done, probably should get done, growth, corporations, everyone pays for this and it's malfeasance. it's irresponsible.

it was a ceiling put in there because we don't have the restraint. >> sandra: if you think it does not upset you, but you are upset about the inflation, economists say it will lead to higher inflation, and inflation is up 13.7% since president biden took office, that is government data and if you can picture a worst case scenario, it could mean higher prices for the american people. >> higher and higher and higher prices. >> sandra: i know how to really push your buttons, charles. here is al gore at davos. >> emissions are still going up, all these promises of the last few years to cut emission, emissions are still going up. that's what's boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers and the rain bombs, and causing these waves of climate refugees. look at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends from just a few million refugees.

what about a billion? we would lose our capacity for self-governance on this world. we have to act. >> sandra: whoa, whoa. >> i don't know where to begin with that crazy ass rant. let's talk about co2 emissions and where they come from. china is here on a chart, india is here, and america is here. if we -- it's just the dumbest thing we are talking about, it's making people suffer because of this. by the way, this whole thing in davos, you know, they fly in there with their private jets. 80% of the people on this planet have never been in an airplane, and yet what he is saying we make some sort of global sacrifice so those who are the most wealthy of the wealthy at this moment stay there and everyone else in the world you never got a shot. wherever you are right now in life, that is your place forever, forever. i mean, so -- this is what he's talking about is nonsense kal, and they want to strip mine the

planet. 7-year-old kids wading through filthy water looking for copper and cobalt and this other stuff. they want women with babies strapped to their backs waiting for their precious metals to make their batteries that are going to pollute the world. by the way, these are -- >> sandra: the fact we are dependent on china for a lot of the -- >> china, the rest of the world. >> sandra: finish with this, al gore is getting rich through all this. when he left the vice presidency, he had $1.7 million reportedly. currently net worth is $300 million. >> he's got the climate footprint of a small nation. have you ever seen his house? one of his homes? i mean, there are countries that don't emit more co2 than this guy. this davos crowd -- by the way, microsoft, firing 10,000 people this week, right before they gave a concert with sting over there. how much did he cost? >> sandra: did i say i was going to push your buttons? see you at 2:00.

love the now shrine-up, by the way. >> john: ordered to remain behind bars after allegedly masterminding attacks at the homes of four elected democrats. live in denver, the suspect taken into custody by a swat team. >> yeah, that's right. it happened on monday. the suspect made a brief court appearance yesterday and albuquerque police say 39-year-old solomon pena hired four men to assist in a plan of vengeance against new mexico democratic lawmakers after the suspect's landslide election loss in november. according to police, between december 4th and january 3rd, pena and his alleged accomplices fired gunshots at the homes of two state legislators and two county commissioners. no one was hurt but linda lopez says one bullet traveled so

close to her 10-year-old daughter debris from a wall fell on to her. pena is facing 15 criminal charges. >> after the election in november solomon pena reached out and contracted someone for an amount of cash money to commit at least two of these shootings. addresses of the shootings were communicated over phone. within hours in one case, the shooting took place. >> he describes himself as the maga king and is a fervent supporter of former president trump and when trump's future presidential campaign was announced pena tweeted trump just announced for 2024, i stand with him. i will never, i never conceded my house district 14 race, now researching my options. pena's near 50% loss to democrat miguel garcia left him with the option to move on but instead he chose to orchestrate what could have been deadly attacks on those he believed rigged the

outcome. >> that is why this is so terrible. this type of radicalism is a threat to our nation and has made its way to our doorstep right here in albuquerque, new mexico. >> the suspect's next hearing is set for next month. >> john: alicia, thank you. >> sandra: soft on criminals, happening in so many great american cities. and justice reforms are forcing prosecutors to toss out a whopping 70% of new york city criminal cases. what are the implications of that? tyrus will join us with live reaction. >> john: but first, vice president harris heads to arizona but will not make a stop at the border. why are democratic mayors like new york's eric adams offering up solutions to fix the crisis while the white house apparently whistles past the grave wyard.

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>> john: vnz vice president kamala harris is accused of turning a blind eye by skipping a trip to the border after visiting arizona today. and more leaders are following greg abbott's footsteps to draw up their own actions for the border instead of waiting for the white house reaction. charlie hurt, it's great to see you. so kamala harris is going to be in arizona today to break ground on the 10 west link, a new transmission line that will carry a lot of electricity produced by solar panels, wind power, etc. it's all about the green energy agenda and no plans

to go 100 miles south of where she is and visit the border. you almost get the sense this idea that this job of border czar, doesn't want anything to to with it. >> you get the sense maybe they don't care, they care about the green energy agenda and not the border. her first trip to arizona, a natural time especially after president biden made his first trip to the border for her to go, for the border czar to take a look, and i have to say, i was kind of hopeful when president biden made the decision to go to the border because to me it indicated, first of all, i thought he was going to run again because obviously you don't change, you know, you don't change your central tenet of your policy platform so dramatically as he did unless you are intending to run again. and then you know, maybe think maybe he's going to take it seriously. when he got down there and they air brushed the whole thing, moved the migrants out and nothing to see, you think maybe they are just doing it for

optics, and this is, i think, proves that, that they don't really -- they are not really serious about addressing the problem. they just want to look like they are. >> john: the president went to el paso, did not really see a thing. mayor eric adams of new york city went to el paso over the weekend and apparently saw a lot, he wrote what i found in el paso exactly what i feared. the national crisis has left local governments and grassroots organizations along the border struggling to adequately care for the migrants coming into their communities. how did he see an el paso so completely different than what the president saw. secondly, in the op-ed, unveiled a six point plan to fix the problem, included the appointment of a border czar. >> isn't that amazing? >> john: apparently we already have. >> solely overseeing the migrant response, known as a border

czar. >> mayor adams may not have seen the results but we have a border czar. >> and interesting about the op-ed he wrote, you know, when governors first started shipping migrants to new york he accused them of being racist and xenophobes, he is still calling them that, but not talking about the governors. in the op-ed he acknowledges that they face the same, you know, he's facing the same problem that they face. >> john: he still rips them. >> he's still ripping them. as you point out, you get down into the nitty gritty of this, what he wants, more money. >> john: yeah, yeah, he knows he has to deal with the problem, it's not going to go away and now he's thinking of shipping some migrants further north into upstate new york. >> he mainly wants more money. >> john: he did not get anything from kathy hochul, but she wants to take his gas stove. great to see you. >> what does the american flag mean to you? >> it's a tricky subject. >> it represents a country that

has a lot of issues right now. >> who was america's first president? >> um -- >> sandra: america's youth appear to be the least patriotic generation ever, according to a new survey, only 16% of gen-zers are proud to live in the united states of america. great to see you, carol, i should note you are a new yorker transplanted to florida, i know you are happy with your move there, you've been writing about that. but carol, this piece really caught our eye. you are asking a really important question based on what we just heard there in some of the sound bites. why does so much of gen-z hate america? >> yeah, i have to tell you, it's not an accident. it has been a deliberate attempt by the left to force this generation to see america in a

very negative light. you know, you have these kids on the street saying things like this is a country that has a lot of problems, i would love for them to point to one country in the world that doesn't have a lot of problems and it's an issue to me. a very myopic view, they don't know what's going on in the rest of the world. they think the problems are limited to the u.s. but you have to see the rest of the world has far worse problems than we have and patriotism should not be tied to these problems. >> sandra: you make the really important point also in the headline, here is why we can't give up on them. young people must be educated about the miracle that is america, first generation raised with cancel culture, and with that, a force conformity of thought to break with the pack, with your teachers and say america is not just great but the greatest is simply not allowed. wrong think can lead to bad

grades or harassment even by their peers, carol. >> yeah. well, look, i'm an immigrant, i was born in the soviet union. i have not had one day i did not feel lucky and blessed to be. even if through the accident of birth you've been lucky enough to be born in america and live your whole life and never know struggle in other countries or forefathers know that kind of struggle, you should still explain to your children what a miracle this country is, and what an incredible american experience they are living through. experiment of freedom does not happen by accident and should not take it for granted. i think you need to focus on your kids, make sure they know they are allowed to have their own opinion, should not let anybody coerce them into having this group think where they all think the same way and fight for the kids. they deserve us to fight for them. >> sandra: and the country deserves it as well. carol, you say that at a time where we all understand, you are

preaching to the choir, parental responsibility and so many parents out there are saying yeah, i want to be responsible for what my kid is growing up learning, believing in, where they put their values, but unfortunately to your point about what's happening in the schools, parents learned during covid they were able to look over their kids shoulder while they were virtual learning and realizing they cannot really control all aspect of what their child is learning and what they are being taught in the classroom. >> yeah, that's absolutely right. parents also learn they can fight, they can go to the school board meetings, fight for the curriculum in the schools and that they have the most influence on their children when the kids come home. don't be shy to tell your kids the truth about america. they deserve to know it. >> sandra: such a great point. carol, good to see you. thank you. >> john: a great hour so far. coming up new at 2:00, backlash over allegations that at least 17 virginia schools, that they

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