what is it, is it harder with two? >> it is, you know, finding the time with my daughter blake. yesterday i carved out 30 minutes, nash is going to do his thing, we are going to do chalk on the sidewalk and we dilt. got to carve out the time for both. >> it is quality over quantity. >> yes, definitely. >> we watched your career, we have watched you with both of your babies. >> i missed all of you, i love you guys so much. >> we love you, and we love nash, too. thank you to everyone for watching. here is "america reports." >> smuggling organizations to our south are very well organized and resourceful. each and every person crossing through the tucson sector must pay these criminal organizations. >> a lot of times our agents are out there rescuing people being saturated on rescues, abandoning front line areas. >> john: biden administration had previously blocked them from

letting their voices be heard. chief patrol agents in charge of the rio grande valley and tucson sectors in extensive detail why millions have been able to cross the southern border since president biden took office and putting the blame squarely on the policies coming from the white house. >> sandra: will their testimony put more pressure on president biden to secure the border. that is a huge question. brandon judd is here to weigh in. that's coming up. >> china is the most challenging national security threat america has faced in 30 years. >> the prc is a learning machine. xi jinping is watching and learning. >> hopes for a beneficial relationship is misplaced, culminating with the spy balloon over my community. >> john: sounding the alarm over the growing national security threat from the chinese communist party and whether the

u.s. is truly prepared for conflict with our number one foreign adversary. hello, john roberts in washington on this state of the union day. sandra, welcome back. >> sandra: great to be back with you, quite a split screen. another breaking news afternoon for us. this is "america reports." gop house committee on armed services and financial sfgss holding hearings into china after last weeks's big incident with the spycraft across the country. >> john: navy search crews are working to recover all the debris off the coast of south carolina in hopes to learn more about the chinese spycraft, as the pentagon warns the surveillance tools have infiltrated u.s. air space several times in recent years. >> sandra: we have complete coverage now, retired general keith kellogg will be joining us, michael waltz, and retired navy seal commander dave sears are here and standing by.

first jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon for us. what's the latest on recovery efforts? >> well, sandra, the fbi is analyzing the debris from the chinese spyship at the labs in quantico, virginia. they flew planes collecting intelligence on the capabilities, including the transmitting signals. they say the balloon spent minutes, not hours, over u.s. territorial waters near the aleutian islands off alaska and then crossed into canada, and the head of the u.s. northern command explained why he did not order it shot down after it entered alaska. >> it's my responsibility to detect threats to north america. i will tell you that we did not detect those threats and that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. >> these new photos show ongoing rescue efforts.

u.s. navy and coast guard are using unmanned underwater vehicles with side scan sonar to further locate sunken debris. divers are scouring the ocean floor. the debris field is 15 football fields wide, water 47 feet deep. the general admitted the u.s. forces failed to detect previous incursions from chinese spycraft into the united states. >> it was my assessment that this balloon did not present a physical military threat to north america. i could not take immediate action because it was not demonstrating hostile act or hostile intent. >> that was general van herck explaining why he did not order it shot down near or at alaska. admiral harry harris during the trump administration, he told the house armed services committee that recovering these parts will help the u.s. learn

more about china's capabilities. >> we need to understand more fully the prc, the chinese surveillance capabilities and systems. shooting down that drone and then recovering the parts over the atlantic is helpful in that regard. >> the pentagon only learned of the balloons recently and examined them more closely. four months ago, a chinese spy balloon crashed into the ocean near hawaii. u.s. intelligence looked backwards through images and data and realized there had been other chinese balloons that had crossed over u.s. territory, why trump administration officials and senior pentagon leaders did not know about the prior incidents until recently. sandra. >> sandra: jennifer griffin, thank you. john. >> john: president biden is planning to have a conversation with the american people when he delivers his second state of the union address tonight. the speech comes against the backdrop of the chinese airship

debacle, and what appears to be repeated mishandling of classified documents. martha maccallum is the anchor and executive editor of "the story" and joins us now. welcome back to washington. >> martha: good to be here as always. >> john: and we had a meeting, we spent some quality time together. the theme of last year's speech was unity and we know how well that worked out. what do you expect biden is going to do today? >> martha: the theme should be unity, now he has a house that is republican controlled, i think there are some indications that he's going to sort of open the door to a little bit of pivot here. he knows he's got at least we expect a presidential election in 2024, potentially, looks that way right now. but i think we are going to hear a call for higher taxes, higher taxes on the rich, i think we are going to hear him call out republicans for wanting to cut social media and medicare, they swear up and down is not part of their plan, even though

democrats love to say that's what their plan is at this point. so i think it's going to be a little laundry list this evening as the speeches generally are. but i also think you are going to hear him kind of lay out his 2024 early draft of what that would look like for him. >> john: soft launch as it were. >> martha: exactly. >> john: he's going to lean into the economy as he prepares for a possible announcement for 2024 run, seems he has a big hill to climb. 41% of americans say they are worse off now than they were two years ago when he first took office and that is a 37-year low. that is not a good indicator for this president. >> martha: it's a very tough number as you point out, john. and the thing that's interesting, similar numbers did not hurt democrats overall in the midterms. so the question is now that it becomes more about biden and if he decides to run, will these numbers dog him in a way we did

not see them impact the midterm elections. i think people thought with inflation 9% then, and now 6 and change it would have a big impact on the midterms but it didn't. a question whether or not people still separate him out from what's happening in the economy, or they start to join those two things together and take a second look. >> john: what you were saying there reminds me of what they were running on in the midterm elections and issues of abortion and government will come back into play tonight. we mentioned that this could be a soft launch to 2024. and it seems as though, i mean, you obviously when you run for president want to convince independents and persuadeable republicans if you are a democrat, but a lot of persuading of democrats to do as well. this new a.p. poll asked people do you want biden to run again, only 37% said yes. that is down from 52% just a couple months ago. that is another really bad indicator for him.

>> martha: it is, and reminds me of when we saw reporters approach him on this subject several months ago and what do you say, mr. president, people don't want you to run. oh, you are not listening to the right polls jack, or something. i think those are very difficult numbers. and i think some evaluation about whether or not he wants to run and i think it's very interesting that they are pushing south carolina to go first, right. it's also interesting if you look at it through kamala harris's lens, she did terribly in iowa, terribly in new hampshire, so if she is one of several back-up plans, which we would assume she would have to be as the vice president, perhaps the party is thinking about her as well in this decision. >> john: the "new york times" article out yesterday about kamala harris. >> martha: brutal. >> john: that read like it was democrats who wrote -- imagine the writers might be, but it looked like it was the democratic party that wrote that to try to keep her away from the

ballot. >> the writer of the piece says and the people they directed us to to give us favorable quotes about her also told us they did not want her to run. so, that was a devastating piece of reporting and we'll see whether or not it holds to be true. but when you look back, i was reading an article about her dropping out of the presidential race and the same things were said, she's weak, she's not great at retail politics, not the person that we thought she was in terms of being a candidate, so those things that held her back around 2, 3% in the primaries last time around, those are still dogging her. >> john: so south carolina, the dnc voted to make it the first contest in the nation putting iowa way back in the line. a lot of people think this is the dnc putting the fix in for biden, seem to go against a lot of the polling we have been reading. but the wall street journal editorial said be careful what you wish for, the risk for democrats is that by greasing the wheels for mr. biden, the

polls are showing even most democrats prefer another nominee in 2024, but the president is plowing ahead, perhaps they think republicans will have mr. trump, the easiest to beat. what if they don't, what if it's desantis, tim scott and biden decides to run against them. >> martha: i think it's going to be a fascinating and probably rough situation when you look at iowa, new hampshire, real retail politics places, and the last time around this current president did not have to do any retail politics, he spent most of it in his basement. the next time around at the age he will be at, 81, he would have to be getting on the planes, making lots of stops in new hampshire, stops in iowa, people love to do every single county, every voting district in iowa, that's a very tall order. so it's not surprising that they want to jump straight to south carolina but sometimes be careful what you wish more. might have some not great

ramifications in the end. >> john: we may find out what he's going to do in the coming days. 3:00 for "the story" and tonight at 8:55 with your colleague bret baier for the full coverage of the state of the union address. >> martha: looking forward to it. great to see you, john. >> sandra: a race against the clock overseas after the powerful earthquake rattled turkey and syria, killing more than 6,000 people. the massive quake and aftershocks collapsed buildings, trapping residents and time is of the essence, of course, to find survivors as freezing temperatures there are complicating search efforts. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live near the epicenter of the quake. greg, what is the situation where you are right now? >> i think you've nailed it, sandra. freezing cold temperatures and absolute desperate search for anybody alive. i'll step back and show you,

rescue workers with construction machines working on the site that used to be an apartment building, now it's completely collapsed. there have been a couple of people who have been found alive in the rubble today, sandra, but sadly, others who have been found passed away. again, what you noted is absolutely correct. the new number, over 6200 people killed, tens of thousands have been injured and homeless, and about 400,000 are seeking shelter and yes, the weather is incredibly harsh right now, just making things worse. and that's why, in fact, it is a race against time. they call this period after a hurricane, the golden hours, that is between one day, two day and three days, that's about the time you have to save people. after that, the weather is so bitterly cold, it gets very,

very, very dicey. we must say, though, president biden erdogan of turkey has declared a three-month state of emergency for the ten provinces in the south of turkey hit bad by the double earthquakes and getting a lot of help, more than 70 countries, including the united states, sending workers, as we came in and we have come in today and seen at least part of this country, we have seen people from all over the world joining in, joining in with the first responders here, but i've got to tell you, sandra, i've been in a lot of situations for fox over the years, but this is one of the most brutal because you also have in this town, for example, no -- a lot of missing heat, missing electricity, missing fuel, very, very difficult situations and problematic landscape, just a

little more than two days now after these terrible earthquakes, sandra. >> sandra: greg palkot, absolutely heartbreaking stories there and search and rescue efforts ongoing. we will check back in with you soon, greg. thank you very much. >> john: top border officials setting the record straight on capitol hill after dhs stopped them from sharing their stories with the american people. what they say the white house has to do to secure the border. national border patrol council president brandon judd on some of the biggest moments in the testimony so far. he joins us live. >> sandra: president biden is set to tout his handling of the economy in the state of the union, despite a growing number of americans say they are struggling to make ends meet. with his message resonate with voters. live on set, dagen and sean will

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>> inflation rate is ridiculous right now. i have friends, we were just talking about retail and how everything is up at least 30,

40%. >> cost of everything has gone up so much, especially here in austin. >> we are still dealing with rampant inflation, gas prices have been skyrocketing since he canceled the pipeline. >> sandra: president biden is getting ready to tout his economic progress in the state of the union address, will his message resonate with voters who feel they are falling behind financially. dagen, give us the bottom line. sean, can the president in his role tonight tout success when it comes to the economy? >> don't believe your lying eyes, american people. since the last state of the union, what happened with joe biden, 1, 40-year high inflation, record high gas prices, migrant crisis off the hook. >> sandra: he's going to say it came down. >> baby formula crisis, classified documents in his home, and committed a crime, and things are not getting better,

they are worse. it's going to be hard for him if he does not acknowledge and say no, no, a rosy picture, it's all great, the american people go you are a liar, i don't believe you. >> sandra: the polls on the screen, the latest polling on the condition of the economy, he's going to tout success, this is the way people are feeling about the condition of the economy. a growing number of people feel it is in fair or poor condition. compared to april of 2021, the number has grown, those who think it's in great condition it has come down. >> is joe biden going to stand up there and say be optimistic as a woman, we love being told how to feel. right? and -- so to sean's point, he went through all of the numbers, like inflation, it was at over 9%, now it's at 6.5%. so, it looks like this, joe

comes into your house and wrecks, breaks up, busts up all of your best stuff, like your favorite furniture, and then he duct tapes it back together and he wants some recognition and you to be grateful that he has taped the stuff back together even though it's still wrecked. so your busted up coffee table and lamp and tv set are inflation and your financial livelihood and the wide open border. and he's going to stand up there and expect you to be excited and grateful that it isn't as bad as it was six months ago. >> sandra: for some reason i have images of chris farley in my head falling on the coffee table. >> just less than a week ago he was asked do you take any blame

for inflation, no, because remember when i got here, man, jobs were hemorrhaging. inflation was rising. those -- that is just utter balderdash. >> sandra: something like that, bleep. these are the hard numbers, maybe you need them, maybe you don't, if you are living paycheck to paycheck and making over $100,000 a year, 5% of the country, you are realizing it's a pretty tough economic environment. 64% of the population says they are living paycheck to paycheck. this is inflation under joe biden, inflation in america today overall, up 14%, rents up, food, new cars, gasoline prices, overall talking about significant inflation people are still suffering through. >> and some middle income families have had to dip into the savings to pay the bills or

save less. it's getting worse for average americans. joe biden said i'm going to be a unifier after donald trump, and 81% of americans think america is a dysfunctional society ready to break apart. 71% two years ago, so it's worse under joe biden. his main pitch was i'm a unifier, he made it worse. tonight he's going to say that he has a strategy to reassert america's leadership around the world, which is admission that he has not asserted himself. america is weaker in the two years of joe biden than they were under donald trump. people don't respect us in america, but they don't respect the presidency around the world. >> sandra: put up the big word, some reaction to jay powell the federal reserve chair just spoke live and there was a reaction. when he began speaking, that's the green area, there was -- it's come back down, by the way, still up a little bit, but the rally sort of came to an end a couple minutes ago.

he basically said that inflation, getting inflation down has begun, but says the u.s. is on an unsustainable fiscal path. ok, so kind of like good news/bad news. >> unsustainable fiscal path means that spending needs to be cut. so maybe joe biden has put his listening ears on to "judge judy." pain from inflation for the american people and to tame inflation the federal reserve has had to hike interest rates, from 0 to 4 and 3-quarters percent. but all of this spending that was passed in two years, that money has not even gone to the economy, like the almost $400 billion in the green energy slush fund that john pedesta is sitting on. that will continue to fuel inflation for months and years to come. so these interest rates have to go higher and higher and higher, and recession is coming in the second half the year, mark my words. that's more pain.

>> sandra: will the u.s. go recession, yes 74% believe we are going to enter recession in 2023, a large number of people. >> jim kramer thinks it's a soft landing. that's a sure bet that it will be a recession because he is -- dead wrong. >> sandra: if biden is going all in on the economy, he is going to campaign, as karl rove said this morning that is a big beto make when there's a lot of time left and if that indeed happens, that many people are predicting it will -- we will see you tonight on fbn. >> john: jurors in the double murder trial of alec murdaugh hearing more about his alleged financial crimes. testimony from one key witness is raising new questions about where all of murdaugh's wealth came from. >> sandra: and after last week's china spy flight over the u.s., we are learning about more such incidents that went up reported. so, how does the u.s. prevent it from happening again and when can we learn from the debris

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>> john: new photos show navy crews recovering part of the chinese spy flight. at least ten sightings, six during the trump administration and four during the biden administration. pentagon confirming at least five so far with the top general saying the past incursions went undetected. why didn't u.s. military sensors pick them up. that's a question to get an answer to. bring in our panel, retired general keith kellogg and former under secretary of the army patrick murphy. you were here for three hours over the weekend as they were going after the balloon. >> i think my nickname now is balloon boy. >> john: well, at least you are not inside, and it's not colorado. so, general glen vanherck is the norad commander that gave us the stunning news the other incursions went undetected by norad, may in many people's minds raise the question what the -- word you can't say on

television. >> yeah, surprised when he made the comments because i know for a fact when you look at what mike pompeo said on tv and robert o'brien, john bolton, none of us ever heard about the balloons. >> john: and you were in the daily briefings. >> i was in every single presidential daily briefing, either there, or got the written report. i don't know where they are getting the information from or digging the information up. but it's clearly a lack of something going on and -- >> john: it's a lack of something. >> where the president needs to call in mark milley and lloyd austin and explain how was this missed. when you look at the sensor packages the balloon that happened this last weekend, it's kind of hard to miss the sensor package, and i've heard two stories. >> john: size of a regional jet or school bus.

>> and transmitting, and we think it had directed movement, to not like it was free floating out there and it was not caught by the military, it was some civilians in billings, montana. and call them in and if you can't give me an answer. >> john: the general explained this way. >> i will tell you that we did not detect those threats and that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. >> john: domain awareness gap. i'm not quite sure what that means. maybe another word for extraordinary failure. >> no doubt it's a violation of american sovereignty, john. be very clear, this should not have happened, should never happen again. they have these balloons down in latin america right now, we have allies across the world, let our allies know what's going on and take care of it. >> john: not only invasion of

american sovereign air space but it's a complete -- another word you cannot say on television -- up that they didn't see these things. >> the general and i were talking, the reality is this. we are in a competition with a peer in china, they are three times our size, not just geographically, but population-wise, they are coming at us and we are neck and neck, we need to make sure we remain the number one country in the world. coming after us militarily, economically, technology, we have to stop as americans fighting with each other, democrats, republicans, and we need to come together and understand what the true threat is. >> john: one of the other problems that we have with china is if it comes to a shooting war, all the stuff that we get from china right now, they shut the door on that. this is not the point, but the latest balloon, the general took a moment to explain why they didn't blow it out of the sky the moment they detected it.

>> i could not take immediate action because it was not demonstrating hostile act or hostile intent. we utilized multiple capabilities to ensure we collected and utilized the opportunity to close intel gaps. >> john: seems they took some time to surveil this thing and learn something about it as it was floating across the united states, but the idea we didn't take it out, it did not seem to have hostile intent, was not posing a threat, it's a chinese spycraft flying over the united states. i mean, the soviet union shot gary powers out of the sky for doing the same thing. >> we have a different definition of hostile act and intent than the general does. a spy balloon over the united states is a hostile act, hostile intent. and my concern and patrick and i were talking about it. >> john: they were not doing it to watch the super bowl. >> no, my question now is okay, what kind of action are we going to take now, no harm, no foul,

don't do it again, the united states needs to take some type of concrete action that shows we are not going to tolerate this, and it is, in fact, an invasion of our sovereignty, so what are you going to do about it. we need to do something other than say no harm, no foul. >> john: one quick point to you, patrick, you know that china probes and sees how far it can get and then goes further. like the old give the mouse a cookie. >> i think we are losing the bubble here. they are already surveiling our citizens, they are on tiktok, they own tiktok, and that's why i'm not on tiktok, and most folks in the military cannot be on it, that's where they are getting more information than the balloon. we need to wise up and getting after it. >> john: patrick murphy, general kellogg, always good to talk to you. >> sandra: an nypd officer ambushed and shot in the head now clinging for his life. the suspect, a violent career criminal with a lengthy rap sheet. so, why was he out on the streets in the first place?

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grande valley, mayorkas had previously blocked them from sharing their perspectives on the causes of the migrant surge. what did the biden administration not want the american people to hear? brandon judge, national border patrol council president and now their voices can be heard, brandon. first chief maudlin from the tucson sector. >> my experience in tucson sector, last year seized about 700 pounds of fentanyl to give you an idea, based on the lethality, enough to kill everyone in arizona 21 times or basically half the population of the united states. >> sandra: and that, brandon, is just the tucson sector. 700 pounds of fentanyl. >> yeah, and it's crazy when you look at what the liberal talking points are. they are going to tell you all the drugs are coming through the

ports of entry. they wanted to deflect what the cartels are doing with illegal immigrants or crossers. 700 pounds is more than what's getting across, we don't have the resources in the field to actually properly patrol the border and he touched on that as well. that is what is so scary about border security and why border security is so important and that's why it's got to stop being politicized. democrats have to come together with republicans to give us the proper policies, programs and operations because we could stop it. when we put the uniform on, we can do what's necessary, we just have to be able to do it. >> sandra: and their voices have to be heard, right? why would you fathom the administration would not want to hear their perspectives? >> two schools of thought. they didn't want anybody to hear what they have to say, they know these are career employees, supposed to be nonpolitical, so supposed to go and testify to the truth. and that's exactly what we saw

today. we saw chief modlin touch on many different aspects of border security in the tucson sector that affects us every single day and damaging to the administration. the truth of the matter is, they don't care. they say do your darnest. they don't get to know what's going on unless watching fox news, and that's what they are betting on. >> sandra: we are covering it and chief chavez on the agents from the rio grande sector that, is, on the agents having to rescue so many migrants that they have to leave their posts, listen to this. >> many times especially during the summer months there is a lot of migrants out there out there requiring rescue. so a lot of times our agents are out there rescuing people being saturated on rescues, abandoning front line operations. cartels have taken advantage of the area. >> sandra: this is a serious wake-up call.

will this white house wake up to this growing crisis? >> no, i seriously doubt they are going to. when you look at what chief chavez said, every time we get deployed to the field, we are responding to a specific area, but a crisis taking place we have to leave that area, that's what she's talking about, creates the gaps in our coverage and if the white house truly cared about the american people, if they cared what's best for the united states, they would give us the border security measures we need. they just aren't going to do it. i'm not holding my breath. >> sandra: you think it will get a mention in the state of union tonight? >> no, nothing more than deflection, saying root causes are other countries, and that's not true. we have to control what we can control in the united states, not other countries. >> sandra: the numbers don't lie. since february 2021, over 4.5 million encounter, 1400 migrant deaths and drugs seized,

over 620,000 pounds and the numbers are growing. brandon judd, glad to have you here, thank you very much. >> thank you very much, sandra. >> john: don't forget our coverage of the state of the union tonight at 8:55 with bret and martha. president biden expected to paint a rosy picture in the state of the union address and push what critics say is an overly optimistic spin on the economy. what about the record number of americans who don't feel the same, people living paycheck to paycheck. larry kudlow, never one to shy away from the tough questions, will be here live. >> sandra: and in washington today. all right. back to the basics, why faith-based colleges may be reaping the benefits of woke ideologies at other schools around the country. re: gas, groceries, cars. we all need cash in the bank to stay ahead. well here's great news for veterans who own a home. home values have climbed to near all-time highs, too. that means the cash you need is right there in your home. newday can unlock it with the newday 100 va cash out loan.

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>> john: critics slamming colleges and universities saying they are getting more and more woke in their lessons. now it looks like that ideology is contributing to a surge in applications for faith-based colleges. mike emmanuel is here with the story. what does this look like? >> theology, philosophy, classic books and hard sciences, biology, chemistry and physics. two years of these required courses, hillsdale college in michigan is known for the core

curriculum, it considers the great books and timeless ideas of western tradition. hillsdale says they are seeing a surge in applicants, and huge increase in those accepted attending the school. >> about 59% increase in total applications for spring and fall semesters, the more interesting note is the statistic on the yield rate, fascinating for us here at hillsdale. last year it was 62% for a full class, tells us at hillsdale that students are obviously interested in hillsdale enough to say yeah, i want to come. >> critics say recent changes in content and courses, appears to be a political agenda. >> story of american higher ed is one college after another really trashing any kind of a serious core curriculum. >> contrast may be growing.

the state university of new york, 64 campuses has announced it will be infusing elementaries of diversity, equity and inclusion into its curriculum, seeking to close racial equity gaps, eliminate academic barriers and recommit to its mission. much is expected to start this coming fall. >> john: interesting people are turning away from this on many occasions. >> a split, you have your choice. >> sandra: all new at 2:00, john, officials at the pentagon admitting they have been slow to catch on to the chinese spycrafts infiltrating u.s. air space. will the biden administration wake up to president xi's aggressive tactics. will it even be a mention in the state of the union tonight. we'll ask congressman michael waltz. plus, mill mcgurn, bret baier, and more as "america reports" rolls on. we'll be right back. all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future.

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>> sandra: all new at 2:00, president biden about to address the nation, congress, and all of the american voters in tonight's state of the union expected to lean in on the economy claiming americans are better off under his watch. so, why are so few of them buying what the biden administration is selling? we'll ask larry kudlow, he's got some ideas, and gone all the way to sit next to john roberts in d.c. to sound off on that. "america reports" rolls into hour two, i'm sandra smith in new york. hi, john. >> john: had a chance to spend some time with larry earlier, good to reconnect. larry, along with bret baier and bill mcgurn here with a reality check on the current state of the union. the top story is something we likely will not hear a lot about tonight, china's spy flight. it's a fox news alert. >> sandra: so here's the