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eight other candidates trying to unseat her. >> john: will the democrat dance her way out of office as chicago's crime crisis puts her celebration on pause? we'll find out soon. we could as "america reports" rolls into a second hour. i'm john roberts in washington. hi, sandra. >> sandra: and it was a busy first hour, here we go. sandra smith in new york. it is not only republicans upset to see chicago's mayor partying up in the streets while the city suffers. raymond lopez, he is not a fan of lori lightfoot's latest moves. also a democrat, and he will be joining us life. but first this fox news alert. >> john: human smuggling and fentanyl busts, texas is bearing the brunt of the biden border crisis. governor greg abbott is taking matters into his own hands, announcing the state's first-ever border czar.>> sandra: retired agent michael

banks. the title border czar may sound familiar, the same one president biden gave his vice president, kamala harris, nearly two years ago. >> john: critics say little has changed under her watch. more than 4.2 million migrants have crossed the border since she got the job. >> sandra: it's actually gotten worse. a lot of people living in texas are not pleased what she have seen from her so far. >> i'm giving her an f. >> c. >> i guess a b. >> she has a lot of things under her plate, not just the border. >> she laughs and jokes around. >> she should do a better job who is coming in. >> she was given the job, she does not take it seriously. >> right to it with bill melugin, live on the ground in mission, texas. what do we know about the state's border czar? >> yesterday texas' new border

czar wants to make it not fun to cross there, but another is making it easier. eagle pass, a group of honduran migrants just allowed into the united states through the cbp1 app. allows them to get an appointment online to fill out an application online, then get an appointment at a port of entry to seek an exemption to title 42 and just be released into the united states. now, that's what happened with this group of migrants, they were let in. biden administration says it's a way of cutting down on illegal crossings in the river and to slow down cartel human smuggling. the flip side of the coin, critics say no, the biden administration arbitrarily and potentially illegally allowing migrants into the united states without any legal basis whatsoever in an effort to cover up the bad border numbers they are dealing with every month.

essentially to mask their p. rfrment problem. the migrants in the middle don't care about the politics of this. they say they are just happy to get into the united states. take a listen. >> $24,000 for the three of us, including my daughter, is what the coyotes wanted to charges. and with the app, i paid five mexican pesos to get across and it was a huge relief. >> follow the steps we took, have patience. make sure you go to the cbp1 app. it's for everybody, have patience and faith in god. >> another series of major fentanyl busts at the port of entry in nogales, arizona. three separate fentanyl busts in 48 hours. one bust nearly 300,000 fentanyl pills found in a car, another bust, 458,000 fentanyl pills found in a car's gas tank and roof, and then a third bust, 14 pounds of fentanyl powder found

in the rear bumper of a car. that is just in two days at a single port of entry on our southern border. lastly, take a look at the mug shot, convicted murderer arrested by border patrol in the tucson, arizona sector after he crossed illegally near tombstone. he has a previous conviction in 2005 for felony second degree murder out of the state of maryland. and back out here live, despite the fabt that january is a slower month, the temperatures are chilly, you can see the fog behind us. federal sources tell us the got-aways numbers are going up. in january alone, border has seen at least 47,000 known got-aways. we'll send it back to you. >> john: troubles abound, no question about that. bill melugin for us in texas, bill, thank you. and i thought that was pretty incredible what the migrant was taking, cost $24,000 through the

coyotes to get to the border and then the cbp app and five pesos to get across. >> sandra: we'll see what this border czar can do amid the surge, but only the situation is worse at the southern border and washington post headline this morning on kamala harris, noting some democrats are worried about harris's political prospects, noting in it that a biden re-election bid seems fairly inevitable at this point but some democrats may want him picking a new running mate. >> john: interesting to talk to the new texas border czar what he would do differently than what the vice president has done. >> sandra: action packed afternoon on capitol hill, closed door interview with lawyers from the national archives as republicans press for answers about classified documents found in president biden's possession. house oversights committee member nancy mace moments away on what she hopes her committee will learn from that meeting.

but first, let's get to aishah hasnie live on the hill. republicans have a long list of questions as we can imagine. >> hey, sandra, yes, of course they do, a long list of questions into what happened here, not clear how many answers they will actually walk out of this room with, but this meeting is a big deal. this is the first time they are sitting down with the general counsel of the national archives, gary stern, and it comes days after nara, the national archives missed a deadline set by oversight chairman james comer to hand over records related to the classified documents. first and foremost, comer wants to find out who triggered the search at mar-a-lago. was it nara or the doj. and why nara did not tell the public about the documents found at president biden's personal office before the midterm election and whether or not the mishandling of these classified

materials was rooted in malice or just being inept. and ask if reforms are perhaps necessary to handle classified materials. comer has actually been pretty open to working with democrats here on a legislative fix. but sandra, what he probably won't get today are any communications he wants between nara and the white house or the penn biden center or clear answers as to who may have had access to the classified documents. >> we just want to know who had access to the documents, who all was involved with the president's personal attorneys and going in and looking for the document, did they have -- did they have security clearance. we don't know who his personal attorneys are, don't know who their clients are. >> also jamie raskin officially requesting visitor logs from the secret service for the homes of former president trump and vice president pence. this is, of course, in response to the same exact request chairman comer made in records

to president biden's wilmington address. the secret service said they will hand over the visitor logs. >> sandra: we'll see where they get with the questions. >> john: south carolina republican congresswoman nancy mace, you've been going into the interview with gary stern from the archives in a few minutes. james comer wants to know if it was malice or inept with the classified documents in president biden's locations. what do you want to know, congresswoman? >> we want the oversight committee to leave no stone unturned when it comes to the document investigation. and if and how any of our federal agencies have been weaponized, whether it's national archives, the fbi, or the doj, sometimes seems like there's one standard for the right and then a totally different standard for the left. the other thing we want to get to the bottom of, the president says he's been transparent about

the documents, but for two months he and his administration, attorneys kept the information from the public days before an election up until a mainstream reporter discovered it, and wrote a story about it. that was the only time that the president or his administration came forward and showed any sort of transparency about what was going on over the last couple of months and then we all know now for five years, we don't know where the documents have been, don't know who has had access to the documents, and so we have a lot of unanswered questions at this juncture. >> john: are you curious whether it was the archives that triggered the raid on president trump's home in florida or whether it came strictly from the doj? >> yeah, i would like to know the answer to that as well. and again, i mean, this is a place where mar-a-lago, the federal government knew about these documents, they knew where they were, and even at some point in their investigation we know that they had access to the room, access to the documents. it's my hope as someone on the oversight committee we get to the bottom of this with the president, and now learn a

former vice president had some classified documents. everyone should be treated equally under the law as well. >> john: and in terms of who might have been in proximity to the documents, access to them, the name hunter biden figures prominently for you? >> it sure does, and the documents have been floating around, where were they, who had them and who had access to them, we don't have the answers to right now. and so from our perspective, to get the answers, they deserve the right to know as well. >> john: a lot of talk whether there needs to be reform in the handling of classified documents and the way things occur when you are vacating the white house or the naval observatory and everything is boxed up. even so, none of that would explain how senator joe biden came to be in possession of these classified documents. >> no, that's right. and we know as members of congress we go to a private

room, private setting behind closed doors and when we have access to classified information we don't leave the room with that classified information and so how it made it into the boxes and made it into a personal residence is still head scratching for many of us. >> john: so many republicans in congress, and even some democrats, senator mark warner among them are accusing the doj and the national intelligence director of stonewalling when it comes to these documents. house intelligence committee wants to see the documents themselves. jim jordan on the judiciary just wants some information on the documents seized from biden's home. here is what the doj said in a letter. disclosing non-public information about ongoing investigations could violate statutory requirements and court orders road maps and interfere with the ability to gather facts, bring witnesses and criminal where warranted.

the doj -- without cooperation from the doj, how can congress do adequate oversight? >> if i remember correctly, the summer when the former president's home was raided, they came out with a list of how many boxes and roughly how much information was provided to the doj. i have not seen that yet in the biden administration. but we are going to have to call these people in. right now it sounds like it will be a closed door hearing. all we are asking for are answers to some questions on a letter, and they won't even do that much. where is the balance of power here, the whole purpose of the oversight committee to bring the balance of power and use the investigative authority and i hope and i have great confidence ins jamie comer as chairman, we will leave no stone unturned when it comes to investigations, whether it's biden and classified documents, whether it's the illegal immigrants crossing the border, big tech infringing on the privacy and first amendment rights or the

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>> sandra: an out of control crime crisis continues to grip this country from coast to coast. first to oregon, police are hunting down a man accused of holding a woman hostage and torturing her for days as police search for him, investigators say he's using numerous dataing apps to hunt down new victims. likely to repeat his crimes and hold them hostage. down the pacific coast, rage road repeating on a loop. >> john: a tesla driver ticked off after a car bumped into him. stopped in the middle of the freeway, grabbed the metal pipe and went on the attack.

police have linked this fella to 10 similar road rage attacks before they finally caught up with him and made an arrest. >> sandra: and finally in the big apple, police arrested two men for committing six gunpoint robberies in a two-hour span, catching the theiving duo when they crashed their toyota and then were spotted by overnight officers. wow. >> john: as the crime levels spike, police departments across the country struggling to fill out their forces. dealing with major staff shortages, low recruitment. some departments are now lowering their standards to help boost their numbers. grady trimble is following this. >> experts tell us it's partly because of negative rhetoric of politicians about police officers. at the same time departments are struggling to hire, they are also seeing police resignations on the rise up almost 43% from 2019 to 2021.

retirements are up nearly 24% in the same years. several major cities and small cities as well are dealing with major staffing shortages as a result, and san francisco, there are more than 250 open police officer positions. some departments like seattle are offering sign-on bonuses of tens of thousands of dollars. >> people do not want to be police officers now with this, you know, defund the police, anti-police climate. no one is applying, no one is interested, and they might be scraping the barrel getting candidates. >> that's led departments to lower their standards to try to attract more candidates, things like college degree requirements, certain fitness requirements have been lowered or have gone out the window entirely, so these major staffing shortages across the country, john, will be the backdrop if congress picks up

the stalled debate on police reform. john. >> john: grady trimble, thank you, from chicago. >> sandra: chicago mayor lori lightfoot once again puts on her dancing shoes and leaves some residents up in arms. the democrat seen busting moves on a parade route on sunday despite crime spiking. raymond lopez, democrat from chicago. residents are outraged and that's if you still live there. so many residents have fled the city, businesses have fled the city. we just talked about yesterday how 30% of the stores on the magnificent mile are just empty because businesses don't want to work in this crime spike, it's difficult to operate. so why, why is she dancing in the streets when so many people are feeling the challenge of this crime there? >> you know, sandra, she would make nero jealous of the way she's able to ignore the reality on the street while the

citizenry are struggling, under the gang san gun violence on a daily basis. the fact she is so disconnected from reality she thinks it's apropos to dance and sing even badly at a joyous event, while so many neighbors and fellow residents of chicago are struggling shows she does not know or does not care about what people go through on a daily basis. when murders are up, there are thousands of victims across every neighborhood in the city of chicago, and yet she thinks its her right to enjoy the occasion and celebrate her mediocreness of the mayor of chicago. >> sandra: i highlight that you are a democrat, alderman, and wonder if there are more of you speaking up about this. >> there are plenty of democrats in chicago who have had enough. tried to give her the benefit of the doubt, her moment in history and she has failed to meet the

moment that chicago needs and many residents throughout the city of chicago are anxious for the next 28 days to get by so we can finally boot her from office and set our city on the right path, bring in some common sense leadership to the fifth floor and new generation of city councilmembers to push back to the left of left mentality that thinks we need to cradle criminals in order to build coalitions in chicago. >> sandra: i want to play this sound of diana, a chicago woman, we had her on the program, she was robbed at gunpoint right there in the lincoln park neighborhood of chicago, historically one of the safest neighborhoods there. she vented frustration with the crime crisis saying we feel completely defenseless. and many others say they have been the victims of crime, and she went on "fox & friends" responding to that video of lori lightfoot dancing. >> we have a complete breakdown

of any kind of structure in terms of punishment, enforcing any kind of laws. leadership is completely out of touch. we have a mayor and a state's attorney who don't believe in prosecuting anything. >> sandra: you can sense the emotion there, she's probably still in shock. remember this video, put it on the screen. december 14th, just this past december. there she was walking her dog whether she was robbed at gunpoint, this man gets out of the car, puts his gun up at her and she never thought this was going to happen, nobody else who is a victim of this kind of crime in that city do either. chicago crime year over year, up 61%, raymond. how are you going to fix this? >> and this is what the mayor is dancing and celebrating, so disconnected from the violence that people see.

we enforce common sense laws, holding criminals accountable and demanding better when they go to court. and we have seen lightfoot and kim fox blind eye to the victims of violence in the city, criminals think it's their birthright to be on the offensive in every neighborhood. if we want to restore our city, if we want to make this the most american of american cities, we need to enforce the laws, holding criminals accountable and doing better. we cannot continue with the infatuation of criminality that has taken hold of the democratic party. >> sandra: you took it from a local level to a national level, raymond. >> well it's true, and we see this time and time again. from one coast to the next, we think enabling criminality makes up for something of the past, and it does not. >> sandra: got it. raymond lopez, appreciate you coming back on the program. >> always a pleasure.

>> sandra: john, that's a big statement, and answered the question i was going to ask, talking the local level there, an alderman in chicago, but he's applying what he's seeing there to democrats need to acknowledge this is happening in cities across america. >> john: yeah, it will be interesting to see the results of the upcoming mayoral election. lori lightfoot won because she had a large measure of support from white voters in the windy city and i expect given what's happened during her tenure, a lot of them are looking for somebody else. >> sandra: and a lot of them have left. >> john: moving on now, the biden administration attorney general says 13 is too young, surgeon general, rather, 13 is too young for the risks of social media. but they don't have a problem with kids the same age having radical surgeries that can't be reversed. we'll talk to a woman who decided to transition at a young age, a decision that she now regrets. her message to others about making decisions that might be too mature for young people to

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morgan has more on what we can expect in the coming days. quite a sight in some of the states. how long of an ice storm will this be? >> and this is what, sandra, is so concerning. we are talking through at least thursday. i mean, it's one thing to have cold temperatures, i mean, after all it is january into february, but you mix in a little bit of moisture and the problems that we are seeing through the southern plains, specifically in texas, oklahoma, arkansas, even portions of louisiana and yes, into western tennessee, which includes the city of memphis. we have ice storm warnings in memphis with winter storm warnings farther to the south through parts of the lone star state. ice storm warnings running through tomorrow morning, and we have had a relatively mild winter. this is the second arctic outbreak since december we have experienced. only a couple of these. the warmer temperature, last week in the 50s and the 60s as

the cold air sank south, warm air was lifted. out of fort worth, the national weather service released a weather balloon this morning. a mile high, temperatures, 50 degrees, and that's why we are dealing with ice. at the surface it's 26°. i was just checking at the airport, dallas love field, 26 degrees and freezing rain. it's liquid rain, once it hits the surface it freezes on everything. i-35 out of dallas forward oklahoma city, several accidents reported there. around austin, the capital of texas, dealing with some big time problems early this morning. here is dallas-fort worth, the airport, talking about the scheduled flights, 1700 of them, more than half, 66% of them are disrupted with about 850 canceled. so these problems continuing, sandra, through at least thursday. >> sandra: we will be watching all of that.

dangerous conditions in some areas right now. download the fox weather app or stream on your favorite connected tv device. john. >> john: minnesota the land of 10,000 skating rinks. utah the latest state to restrict hormone replacement therapy and gender affirming surgery for transgender youth. also requires the state's health department to look at hormonal trans treatments and the impact they might have on young children. president biden's health department is supportive of the treatments and focusing more on the dangers of social media. our guest had a double mastectomy, so-called top surgery at a young age, but since detransitioned. thanks for joining us. i want to put up what the new law in utah does. it bans sex change surgeries under the age of 18 and prohibits puberty blockers without formal diagnosis of ge

gender disforeya. do you believe america at large needs to put the brakes on? >> 4,000% increase in trans identifying youth in america and i mean, the numbers don't add up. looks like a social contagion. >> john: let's take a look broadly across the country where we stand. utah joining texas and florida for bans on transgender surgeries for minors, a ban in arizona, suspended in arkansas and alabama, the remainder of the states, overwhelming majority have no bans and are moving full steam ahead with this. >> yes. it's quite frightening. i'm hoping that bans, even if temporary, will give children more time to think and find actual helpful therapy for root issues and not be rushed into medicalization. >> john: i want to jump ahead to

call fours number 5 and 4. recently we had nina power, she says she was a tomboy as a child and included a tweet of a photograph what she looked liked as a child. even though she was a tom boy, nobody pressured her into transgender treatments. she now says that society is going backwards, which is very concerning to her. listen to what she told sandra. >> people are worried about a situation young children might be put on a particular course, either through puberty blockers or through drugs or surgery. that doesn't really address the problem, and that actually will lead to a lot more harm, a lot more unhappiness. >> john: she says going down the road to transition might lead to more harm, more unhappiness. you traveled that road. what did it lead to for you? >> it has been harrowing, honestly. my body is very difficult.

my endocrine system is messed up. i have sexual dysfunction. i suffered hair loss on my head and hair growth on my body, and years later i'm still experiencing numbness and pain in my chest after my top surgery. >> john: wow. i mean, that's got to be awfully difficult to deal with, why a lot of european countries are pulling back on all of this, countries like austria, czech republic, denmark, sweden, portugal, spain, countries seen as far more progressive as the united states are dialing back on all of this and to a large degree a lot more experience with it than the united states has. what do these countries know that we don't know here in the united states? >> i think because they have had more time with this, they can see the actual results.

you know, we are not studying detrans people actually here in the states there are not even medical codes for detrans people. i'm still coded as a transgender person, so there is just not research and they have not found out the devastating side effects of hormones and surgery. even if you remain trans and don't detransition, you are on the medical leash for life and will have severe complications. >> john: we appreciate you being with us and we are thinking about you all the time. >> thank you. >> sandra: all right, john. now to this, fox news has obtained video that gives us our first look at former president donald trump's deposition and the new york attorney fraud investigation. deposition took place in august, for several hours. repeatedly invoked the fifth amendment as letitia james questions him about his financing. attorney general james filed the lawsuit against trump, some of

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>> sandra: and chad giving us a head's up, he head with boris johnson, the former u.k. prime minister. >> john: and santos is not resigning but will not be on the committees he was assigned. he is telling republican colleagues to recuse himself from those committees. he's facing an ethics investigation for misleading voters about his past, and state and federal investigations about misstatements he made during his campaign and financial issues as well. >> sandra: biden 2024 run is likely but some may want him to pick a new running mate. several democrats admitting to "the washinton post" they are worried about the prospect of kamala harris leading the democratic party or even returning as vice president. here to talk about that is kellyanne conway, former counselor to the president, to president trump. good to have you here,

kellyanne. what about this washington post, very interesting, right, that they are making the point that it's almost inevitable another biden run here, but maybe they want to pump the brakes on kamala harris as his running mate. >> well, too little too late. they can't get rid of her, obviously. delicious to have the entire democratic party, beginning with the old liberal white guy in washington for over 50 years to call them all racist and sexist if they dump kamala from the ticket. i think it's a big tell, sandra, kamala harris, she does not inspire or inform us. i don't know why she doesn't just memorize 5 or 6 big things so that when she speaks we can all feel a little bit better. i would feel better about her as the vice president -- sometimes she's on air force 2 for 14 hours, she can have state department briefers filling her head with something smart and she can repeat it the way your

children and my children memory's mommy's cell phone number and the pledge of allegiance and the home address. she does not seem to want to do the work. every friday an announcement what the president and the vice president's public schedule is for the weekend. hers often says "nothing on the vice president's public schedule this weekend." so the most telling quote of all came from a democratic official or representative who met behind closed doors with the vice president last week, and he said she "said absolutely nothing, i don't know what the point of the meeting was." so they can't get rid of her. i think it's fascinating elizabeth warren is making noise -- >> sandra: you said it, cue the sound. these are democrats who are -- she doesn't even want to touch it. listen. >> kamala harris his choice the second time around? >> you know, i really want to defer to what makes biden comfortable on his team. but they need -- they have to be

a team and my sense is they are. i don't mean that by suggesting there are problems, i think they are. >> sandra: and she was pressed again repeatedly in the interview and she did not want to say that kamala harris should indeed be his running mate. >> hardly a ringing endorsement from a former fellow sister senator. they served together, they campaigned for each other in 2012 and 2015 when each was run running for the senate. elizabeth warren knows how smart she, elizabeth warren is. i don't agree with her policies at all, but she is super smart. she basically took down mike bloomberg for 42 seconds, in the debate, and a lot of cause for pause. warren, sanders, and pete

buttigieg are above kamala harris in new hampshire, and when she cackles, its cringe-worthy. when she speaks, they roll her eyes. it's hard to know who her constituency is, and what's in her portfolio. if you ask people in polling, complete the following sentence, my favorite accomplishment by kamala harris is? >> sandra: and that's a few point. >> you cue the "jeopardy" clock. >> sandra: "the washinton post" pointing out an issue not just republican with her, it's democrats in general, her tenure is underwhelming, article says, marked by struggles as a communicator and near invisibility, leaving many rank and file democrats unpersuaded she has the force, charisma and skill to run a vice president

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>> john: eight whales beached and stranded in the last two months. some people are blaming and eco friendly culprit. alexis mcadams has more. what are you seeing on the scene, alexis? >> you can see behind me, this whale is massive. it's a hump back whale that just watched up. they had to use a crane to remove it. this is the video that we just gathered. the whale washing ashore on long island. it's 1 of 18 since december 1.

its also mostly been hump back whales ands will the endangered sperm whale that have been warming up here. the crew says the whale didn't have obvious signs of trauma. officials are trying to see what happened. it's part of a trend after noaa says those strandings kicked offer. a month ago, we saw 30 foot whale on the beach in rockaway. lawmakers and activists believe there could be a connection with whale deaths and offshore wind pro project. they're calling for a hold in the wind preps. environmental crews fired back saying there's no connection. it's a story that we'll continue to follow. >> thanks, alexis. sandra? >> sandra: wow. nba star steph curry and his wife are objecting to affordable housing units near their

mansion. the social justice activists say they support the housing but they want them built somewhere else because it could pose a threat to their safety and privacy. >> the property literally is in their back yard. >> sandra: i'm still thinking about the whale. wow, that was big, a jam packed two hours. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. the story with trace in for martha starts now. >> thanks. good afternoon. i'm trace gallagher in for martha maccallum. the attorney for the family of madison brooks that was struck by a car ahid on "the story." why he says the family is blown away by new developments in the case. as the clock winds down on the covid public health emergency, the probe in the pandemic-era fraud is ramping up. a federal watch dog now revealing questionable social security numbers were used t