>> that's right. >> the president must have strained his back throwing people under the bus this weekend. [laughter] i love the stats that you recited because now we know, if it's possible and military aircraft, some day that will be the reality in civilian aircraft and i will be in paris in 90 minutes. >> thank you everyone for watching. thank you to our military for keeping us safe and protecting us every day. here is "america reports." >> i find that the jury is entitled to consider whether the apparent desperation of mr. murdaugh because of his dire financial situation resulted in the commission of alleged crimes. >> john: we are monitoring a significant development in the alec murdaugh trial as the judge rules the jury will be allowed to hear testimony about the disbarred south carolina

attorney's alleged financial crimes, a major win for prosecutors who argued murdaugh killed his wife and son as part of a cover-up for stealing millions. >> gillian: despite the victory for the state, they have yet to present any direct evidence that murdaugh committed the murders. will you will the judge's ruling impact the direction this case takes? we have criminal defense attorney jonna spilbor to break it down coming up. >> john: fox news alert to start off this monday, the fbi arresting two people, a man and a woman, accused of trying to attack the power grid in the state of maryland. hello, welcome back to a new week of "america reports." i'm john roberts, hello monday to you. >> gillian: happy, happy monday to you, gillian turner in for sandra smith. sarah beth clendaniel of maryland and brandon clint russell of florida, they have extremist views and pose a real

threat. they are to appear in federal court in the hour. >> john: david spunt is at the justice department following the breaking news. close call, david. >> very close call. the good news is no power grid disruptions in this case. this was a plot thwarted by an fbi informant. this duo, they met in separate prisons by communicating online, they were serving time for other crimes. they had since gotten out and planned to attack power grids across maryland. the plot was thwarted. 34-year-old sarah clendaniel, accused of trying to destroy multiple power stations will appear before the federal judge at 2:00. official charge is conspiracy to destroy an energy facility. she had and brandon russell out of florida, he will face a judge in orlando, florida. she confided in an fbi informant just weeks ago, this comes just

a couple months john after authorities in north carolina reported damage to power grids in the center of the state. per authorities this is not connected but they are continuing to investigate. >> the accused were not just talking, but taking steps to fulfill their threats and further their extremist goals. russell provided instructions and location information. described attacking the power transformers as the greatest thing somebody can do. >> john, gillian, according to the criminal complaint, they had nazi ideology, she wrote with adolf hitler and ted kaczynski, the uni bomber. according to the complaint, brandon russell wanted to, and again wanted to, never happened, take out multiple facilities at the same time for the maximum impact. i want to read a quote from this criminal complaint, according to the complaint, she allegedly

wrote, it would probably permanently lay this city to waste meaning baltimore if we could do that successfully, meaning attack multiple power grids, both could face up to 20 years behind bars. john. >> john: interesting relationship, plotting from jail ways to end up back in jail. david spunt for us, thank you. gillian. >> gillian: there's also this, the white house and pentagon officials are expected to face questioning why they waited nearly a week to shoot down the chinese spy craft flying across the u.s. it crisscrossed u.s. air space for days, they claim they wanted to wait to shoot it down until it was over the atlantic. allowed the u.s. to retrieve surveillance equipment without endangering people on the ground. some senior military experts, though, warn the incident emboldened china's president, xi jinping, plenty of reaction ahead from our all-star guest

line-up. first, fox team coverage, former cia station chief dan hoffman is standing by, but first, jennifer griffin at the pentagon. where are the navy's recovery efforts this hour? >> just got off a call with national security advisor john kirby who said rescue drivers have recovered some remnants from the surface waters, now en route to the fbi labs in quantico. the debris field is about 15 football fields by 15 football fields, according to kirby. faa has issued a new temporary flight restriction banning all aircraft from 100 square mile box off the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. the u.s. navy is leading recovery efforts with the amphibious ship, and a destroyer, and cruiser, along with navy divers. the recovery will be expedited because of the shallow water, we

are told. let's look back at the timeline of events. the chinese surveillance balloon was launched from the chinese mainland on january 21st. it crossed into alaska on january 28th. a senior u.s. defense official tells me it spent minutes, not hours over the territorial waters near the aleutian islands off alaska and then over canada, and idaho on january 31st. president biden ordered to shoot it down when safe to do so when briefed by the security team. the u.s. military tack one shot with an air to air missile known as a side winder when it left south carolina on saturday. six minutes on the flight over the atlantic ocean it was brought down by an f-22 fighter jet. i'm told they estimated they had approximately 18 minutes to shoot it down after it left the

mainland and remained over territorial waters before it entered international waters 12 miles off the coast. it's illegal to shoot down anything outside of that 12-mile coastal range, that's the reason i'm told they did not shoot it down near the aleutians. they tell me u.s. intelligence was collecting intelligence on the balloon as it floated across the continental u.s. and raised security protections, shields over any sensitive sites. here is john kirby. >> we took steps to mitigate whatever collection capability the balloon would have over sensitive military sites. no, i'm not going to talk about what the measures were but did that, we had the time to do that. >> and we have just confirmed that u-two spy planes were circling the balloon as it crossed across the continental u.s., we have confirmed that

with senior defense officials. >> gillian: jennifer, thank you. >> john: dan hoffman, pick up on what kirby was saying, took mitigation efforts so they could not glean intelligence from the ground. earlier in the week we thought maybe they did something electronically to it, now it sounds like they put signs over everything on the ground that said nothing to see here. move on. >> i think that's wide open to speculation, but also to a lot of intelligence oversight from the senate and the house committees. just how much damage was done for seven days of persistent reconnaissance by the spy balloon, what was china able to vacuum up, and not just that, but also technical collection. what we need is a damage assessment from the intelligence community. i'm sure it will not look good when we read it. >> gillian: in one of the many pentagon briefings reporters got, general ryder said one of the reasons they allowed it to

hang out over u.s. air space was because we were actually conversely collecting on them on the spy craft. what do you think, if anything, the u.s. gleaned from monitoring the spy craft a few days? >> i would have raised the question, is the risk of loss by allowing the spy balloon to enjoy persistent access over let's sigh the nuclear silos in montana worth the potential gain whatever we might glean, i would say it's probably not in our favor and the timeline, what concerns me is president biden was not informed until after the spy balloon had entered our air space. the second issue, a lot of oversight questions about the timeline. when was the president informed and why so late. >> john: when you look at this, the fact they put this thing into our air space and we let it linger, the shear gall, you can almost hear the laughter from the halls in beijing, and some

reaction from lawmakers in d.c. oin on the sunday shows. >> the message what they believe internally, united states once great super power, in decline. >> complete the mission before we shot it down is embarrassment to the united states. >> it makes us look weak and flatfooted on the world stage. it's time to push back before it's too late, before something more dangerous than a balloon is flying over american territory. >> john: like sacking the quarterback after the game is over. what do you make of what they said, this really was an embarrassment for us that we did not see potential invasion of our air space and take it out immediately. >> right, cia we used to talk about detecting threats way out left of boom to preempt them before they cause harm to the nation. and we did not do that. and cia, and reading from

intelligence sources what the host government was thinking about our administration's policy, and in this case i'm sure we'll get reflection froms xi jinping and others to the extent it was not just a public relations victory but more of a message. china mounts incursions of other nation's air space, look what they do to taiwan, and they are trying to normalize this, and it's a probe of our air defenses and they succeeded. >> gillian: this interested me, some experts have told fox that worrying about balloon technology in the age of the very advanced satellites is really silly but other sources have said no, no, no, no, no, the balloons can collect much closer range imagery than chinese satellites that are orbiting in outer space. which of those is true? >> i think the second point that you made there. i think the balloon would augment the capability for collection, particularly technical collection. >> gillian: so it's not laughable --

>> i don't think it is, and nonstate actor took a lesson from this incursion into ur air space, violation of our integrity and filled an air balloon with something else besides spy gear. what if it was wmd, and so the fact that we -- we have have to have a plan to deal with this on the shelf and i don't think we did. >> john: it would appear we didn't have one, even though the president gave authorization to shoot it down "when safe." as you said, the p.r. value of the ccp floating over the entire united states with the world watching does not look good on us. great to see you. thanks for coming in. we like seeing you here in the studio. >> gillian: we do. horrific scene is unfolding in southern turkey and northern syria this hour after two powerful earthquakes there rocked the region over 2300 people are confirmed dead. you can see from the imagery that the quakes have created mountains of rubble. rescue teams are searching,

digging through them. magnitude 7.8 quake struck early this morning as people slept. another of nearly equal force hit several hours later. hundreds are still trapped inside and underneath collapsed buildings, maybe thousands. hospitals are struggling to keep up with the magnitude of injured people. we'll be tracking this all hour for you. >> john: really is a terrible situation there. former south carolina attorney alec murdaugh is back in court as the double murder trial enters the third week. and what could be a major break for the prosecution was just unveiled in court. what the judge is allowing to be brought into the trial as evidence. >> gillian: also may remember this new york city mom, had to save her 4-year-old son after a man with a rap sheet randomly sucker punched him in new york. "the new york post" dubbed her "the mama bear," she will be talking about moving the family

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attorney alec murdaugh is back in fourth as his double murder trial enters its third week. today the judge ruled that the jury can hear about the defendant's alleged financial crimes which prosecutors say point to motive. criminal defense attorney jonna spilbor is here, but first jonathan is live in atlanta monitoring the trial. what was the judge's reasoning here in allowing this to be entered into evidence, john? >> hi, john. judge clifton newman acknowledged the prosecution is relying on circumstantial evidence. prosecutors allege that the defendant acted out of fear of being exposed and committed the murders to distract from mounting evidence he had misappropriated millions in funds belonging to clients, other attorneys and his law

firm. the judge determined evidence should be admitted as jurors consider a possible motive. >> while motive is not a necessary element, the state must prove malice and evidence of motive may be used to prove it. >> prosecutors say murdaugh's financial problems began catching up with him when the family of 19-year-old mallory beach sued him over her death in a boat crash allegedly caused by his son paul while intoxicated. but three days before a hearing whether murdaugh could be compelled to turn over financial records, paul and his mother maggie were found shot to death on the family's hunting estate. >> quickly i recognized the case against alec, if he were a victim of vigilante would be of -- >> and john, the testimony you

just heard was held this morning before the jury was brought into the room but now that the judge has decided that these allegations of financial impropriety could be brought into the double murder trial it serves as a preview of what jurors are likely to hear in the coming days. john. >> john: jonathan, thank you. gillian. >> gillian: let's bring in now criminal defense attorney jonna spilbor to break down today's developments. jonna, about half a dozen witnesses so far have testified about his alleged financial misdealings. let's take a look at this, put up a full screen so everybody at home can see what we are talking about here. these six witnesses so far have alleged he stole $8.8 million in settlement money from his clients who were injured, 7 million from his own law firm, and that he dodged just under half a million in state income taxes, plus multiple instances of insurance fraud.

this is going to up-end this trial, isn't it? >> today was such a pivotal day for the prosecution. i mean, there is mounting and very compelling evidence that alec murdaugh committed a ton of financial crimes and he's got 99 indictments waiting for him after this trial is over, just on those issues. but the fact that this judge is going to let in that evidence as evidence of "motive," in my opinion is a huge mistake by the judge. if you are trying to claim because he was so financially strapped or his house of cards were going to come falling down that that motivated him to kill his wife and kid -- the state has not brought together that actual connection. if you want to create a distraction, hop on a plane and go to cabo, disappear. you don't off your wife and your kid. once the jury hears the

information it's going to go directly to alec murdaugh's character, it's going to paint him as a very bad guy, which is not the purpose of this evidence, and the jury is not going to be able to parse that out. it's a very pivotal and bad day for the defense. >> john: but the defense attorneys, jonna will say might be a bad guy and guilty of financial crimes but that did not lead him to kill his wife and son. jim griffin, his attorneys say they have a whole lot more evidence about financial misconduct than they do about evidence of guilt in a murder case and that's what this is all about. what evidence do they have, call for number three here, of his involvement in a murder case, a video where a voice said to be alec murdaugh's is heard just before the murders took place, video of alec murdaugh in the morning of the murders wearing different clothes and audio of an interview police did with murdaugh saying maybe he said i

did it so bad, they did it so bad, there's no dna, no gunpowder residue, no witnesses, this would be thread bare circumstantial evidence they need a way of convincing the jury points to his guilt. >> there is -- you are absolutely right. there is no direct evidence connecting alec murdaugh to these actual murders. but put yourself in the jury box. when people hear how he was in ripping off his law firm and clients, and that evidence is more compelling than murder evidence they will sit back in the chairs and say hmm, if he's capable of that, what else is he capable of, and that's going to be fatal for this defense. up until now, if you imagine the scales of justice you either had to believe alec murdaugh was the ult ultimate victim, losing his wife and kid and he's accused of them, or a monster killing his family to get out of a financial

hole. no in between. after the testimony today the scales are heavily leaning for the state. i don't know how the defense is going to create good character for him, but i'll tell you this much, alec murdaugh now has to testify. he has to. before i would have said there's no way. he must. >> gillian: let's talk about the infamous boat crash, the 2019 boat crash, we have a timeline of the events related to that i want to show our viewers at home. i'm asking you about this, murdaugh's defense says it's the heart and soul of this case, the origins of threats the entire family started receiving after his son paul was involved in this boat crash back in 2019. where are they going to go with that? >> so that's interesting. that's like the straw that broke the camel's back, right. the state is going to say look, he was three days away from a hearing where his whole financial picture was going,

maybe going to be brought to light because a judge could have ordered that, and that's why, you know, he basically had no choice but to do what he did. so i think it is going to play a large part, plus there is such a sympathy factor here. what his son did -- keep in mind, this is his son's crime, not alex's crime, it's his son's crime, but what he did was horrific by ending the life of an innocent teenager, that's going to play at the heart strings of this jury and it's coming in. >> john: we will keep watching the trial, more interesting by the moment. >> can't stop. >> john: january jobs report shows unemployment hitting a 53-year low as president biden touts his policies as the reasons why that happened. but a record number of americans say they are worse off now financially since the president got elected. what is behind that disconnect? art laffer is here with an economic reality check. >> gillian: human smuggling is

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>> john: new york post is reporting some migrants are leaving new york city and headed to canada courtesy of new york taxpayers. news comes as migrants staying at a luxury motel were transferred to a cruise ship terminal. some migrants say they wanted to get away from the city's crime and homelessness. too much for even people who came to this country illegally, allegedly seeking asylum, and you know what, we are going to greener pastures, or whiter pastures in canada. >> gillian: most people who come undocumented have a wide range of choice where to be, and -- >> john: they came for a better life only to find it did not

meet their expectations. >> gillian: it is interesting, note worthy. kamala harris is going to address root causes of the border crisis. this comes as human smuggling cases are surging at the southern border. fox news was embedded with texas dps and recorded this video of a hot pursuit. led to the apprehension of a human smuggling vehicle crammed full of people, the back seat and the trunk. bill melugin joins us from mission, texas with the latest. looked like a really dangerous situation. >> gillian, it was, and it happens every day, sometimes multiple times and this was texas law enforcement who stopped these guys, not border patrol. they had already gotten past border patrol. take a look at the video embedded with texas dps they go after the smuggler, the illegal

immigrants run off in all directions, troopers tackle them to the ground. they arrest the driver, open up the trunk, find several more migrants crammed on top of each other, stacked up in the back. we were told there were eight mexican nationals smuggled in the car, and one from cuba. the driver charged with human smuggling. it did not stop there. last night just up i-35, p.d. stopped another vehicle, five illegal immigrants in the trunk. four american teenagers from the san antonio area, we are told a group of buddies who wanted to make some quick, easy cash. well, did not work out for them. they are facing, all of them, felony human smuggling charges from the state of texas. then take a look at these images. three alleged smuggling guides arrested by texas dps here in the brush in the rgv. they help guide migrants through

the brush into waiting vehicles after they have crossed illegally. texas dps tells us all three of them have on their records multiple border patrol apprehensions but 0 federal prosecutions. so now texas has them in their custody and they are going to prosecute them for violating texas law. they are all charged with human smuggling. lastly, these images, we see an influx of chinese nationals showing up here in the rio grande valley. this video from just the past several days, we have seen 5 or 6 chinese nationals showing up here. contacts with eagle pastels me they have had five chinese nationals as well, and three from yemen and four more from africa, they come here from all around the world. back out here live, del rio sector, they arrested two convicted sex offenders in five hours of each other after they crossed the border illegally. it never stops down here, back to you. >> gillian: quite some video you

tracked down there. bill, thank you. >> john: president biden says his economic policies are working, but an abc news poll shows many americans are not feeling that sentiment. 41% say their financial situation is worse since biden took office, the highest number in the poll's 37-year history. art laffer, former economic adviser to president reagan. put the poll on the screen. are you worse off than you were four years ago, 41% say yes, 16% say no, i'm better off. that's a huge disconnect, art, from the rosy economic picture president biden has been portraying here and likely will again at tomorrow night's state of the union. >> yeah, in it's a real connect, if i may. the one month numbers were spectacular, one establishment report over 500,000 new jobs,

and then you had on the household report, 800,000 new jobs. you had an increase in average hours, participation rate went up, all of those numbers are great for one month. if you look at the u.s., the real problem is the secular decline in the u.s. economy, and that is what your poll reflects. we should have been growing much, much faster than we have been, and now you are seeing the consequences and the population there with those numbers. >> john: so biden is going to be leaning into the economy mere for the state of the union tomorrow night and potentially in the re-elect announcement, could come soon after. if you take a look at the other finding in the abc news poll, a big hill to crime. 62% asked said they would have a negative reaction if president biden were elected to a second term. what do you expect he will try to say tomorrow night, or sorry, i guess a freudian slip, or what

do you think he will say tomorrow night to try to turn the numbers around? >> oh, i don't think he's going to have anything to try -- he'll try everything he has to turn them around, but what you are seeing is a very short run -- take inflation, john. it's been coming down and will for the next five months. all numbers are dropping off. drop inflation numbers but the reason they are dropping is because they rose so much for the past two years. total picture for the last two years i think is prices are up over 13, 15%, that's huge. now, they are coming down now, but over the whole term of biden in office, same thing is true with employment. we are having very good numbers this month and something should jump around about. over the last two years, a very tepid recovery. a very poor period. i think, didn't he even say

there were three balloons that came over trump that he didn't see. there's nothing he won't say to get the upper hand and frankly, it's just not a good economy under biden, but the last month has been spectacular. >> john: three more balloons does not seem to be proof actually existed. employment numbers, you mentioned them. for january, 517,000 jobs created, expected were 187,000, a huge beat. 3.4% unemployment, the lowest in 54 years. janet yellen talking about the potential for recession said this this morning. listen here. >> you don't have a recession when you have 500,000 jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years. so what i see is a path in which inflation is declining significantly and the economy is remaining strong and really that's a path i believe is

possible. >> john: art, is she right? >> she's right on the recent thing. they caused the inflation and now it's falling. they caused the slow recovery and now it's recovering. over biden's term it has been a bad economy and they have caused the bad economy. >> john: her saying there won't be recession when you have these numbers, right or wrong? >> i have no idea, we are just having a secular decline in the u.s. i would doubt very much if he gets re-elected, we would have growth that would be come peran to the past. we need a reagan, john, a reagan, badly. >> john: i don't think he's available, art, good to talk to you. >> ouiji board, maybe. >> gillian: a violent crime surge is spurring some long time residents to flee. we'll speak with a new york city

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a photo of the litter box with the person's name on it and email the picture to them. i have an even better idea. personalized doggy poop bags with your ex's name on it. >> gillian: oh, lovely. but don't lie to us, you have never been jilted. who would jilt john roberts? nobody. >> john: you would be surprised. >> gillian: also this, something more serious. new york's governor says her state needs to reverse the trend of residents leaving the big apple in droves, but that may be difficult if career criminals are allowed to terrorize civilians like this famous incident, infamous incident in times square. a bronx mother had to jump in and save her 4-year-old son after someone sucker punched him in broad daylight. she says she's moving her family to flee the crime ridden city,

from her new home in myrtle beach, south carolina. rafaela, talk to us about how the family is settling in before we get into your story. >> my son is happy he's making now friends in his new school. >> gillian: that's excellent. very glad to hear that. you guys just moved january 27th, is that right? tell us about your family's experience over the past year, nearly a year new since that guy with the pretty long rap sheet tried to assault your son. what has your experience been like living in new york city in the bronx? >> you have to keep watching your surroundings, keeping an eye out, you know, seeing how people react or are acting towards everybody, and just keep your eyes open, which you shouldn't have to do that.

you should just be enjoying the time of being out with your family and not worrying about anything happening seriously to anybody. >> gillian: so what happened, if anything, rafaela, that finally spurred you guys to call it and say you know what, we are not staying here anymore, we have to get out of the city, we are going to myrtle beach? >> waking up every morning, turning on the news and hearing about murder and robbery and shooting and just violence. it's -- violence very bad and the homelessness is not helping either. >> if you had the ear of city officials, what would you tell them needs to change? what would be your advice or recommendations how to get a handle on this so people don't have to go through what you and your family have been through? >> they need to step up their game and start doing for the

people and not just giving the criminals a slap on the hand, you know. what they need -- come up and do something, i mean, it's a lot of mental problems as well, they need to help the people that have that mental problem, and the homelessness and just let them pay for what they do as their crime. >> gillian: a lot of law enforcement officials we have on the program tell us a good place to start in these cities would be to enforce laws that are already on the books. rafaela, thanks for taking the time with us. we wish you and the family the best going forward in south carolina. stay in touch with us, please. >> john: we wish her a lot of luck. major scare on the tarmac in texas, gillian. two planes narrowly miss one another on the same runway. what led to this latest close call. >> gillian: plus, awaiting the first white house press briefing

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close call on the tarmac in austin, texas. a fedex cargo plane forced to

abort a landing to avoid hitting a passenger jet that was about to take off on the same runway. casey stegall is live in dallas. one of several startling incidents in recent weeks. >> it is. and some aviation experts are telling us this could be one of the closest near misses ever. here is animation from flight radar 24, you can see the southwest airlines plane rolling right down the runway beginning to take off early saturday morning, but right behind it the fedex cargo plane came and almost landed on top of the passenger jet. quick thinking fedex pilots aborted the landing and did a rapid climb out, banking to the left, the airliner made it safely to cancun. now, the ntsb and faa are trying to figure out why austin air traffic controllers cleared the southwest 737 for takeoff after

clearing the fedex 767 to land on the exact same runway. visibility at the time was greatly reduced and preliminary reports indicate the planes could have come as close as 700 feet from one another. one day prior a united airlines plane was damaged at newark liberty airport after it was clipped by another aircraft's wing at the gate. nobody was hurt and passengers were able to safely deplane. and remember this one on january 13th, trouble at new york jfk airport. a delta airlines flight had to suddenly abort takeoff after an american airlines jet crossed in front of it on the runway. certainly a close call we followed at the time. all of these incidents are still under federal investigation. mighty scary, john. >> john: thankfully the fedex plane went up and around. thanks. gillian. >> gillian: white house press briefing is set to begin any

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