industry, maybe the service industry but not the cooking industry to a.i. it can do a lot of things but can't taste. >> that's true, and no one has the dance moves like you did during the break. wow -- >> and cheers to you all. thanks for watching, here is "america reports." >> we are living through one of the most dangerous periods in american foreign policy in a generation. >> on the issue of covid, we have long stated that china needs to do a better job of being transparent. >> do people in india and europe and south america who have lost relatives know that those relatives might be alive if china and its communist party had cooperated with the world in the first few months. the answer to that i'll answer for you is no.

>> sandra: house lawmakers signing off on china, recently uncovered spy program, targeting u.s. military bases as well as beijing alleged cover-up of the origins of the covid pandemic. >> john: is congress finally taking seriously the national security and economic threat that china poses to the united states? nikki haley and ashley hinson are here to weigh in coming up. >> sandra: potentially historic day at the supreme court as justices hear arguments in a pair of challenges to president biden's student loan handout. great to be with you, john. >> john: good to be with you as well, sandra, especially, rather, on this busy tuesday. john roberts in washington. this is "america reports." the court's looming decisions on the two legal challenges to the president's plan will test the limits of presidential power. also have widespread

implications for the tens of millions of americans who could see their loans reduced or completely wiped away. >> sandra: critics of the handout say the education department lacks the legal authority to implement the program, and leaving american taxpayers, including many who did not go to college, footing the bill. but the white house says they take such action to protect americans from a national emergency. david spunt is live on the steps of the supreme court to kick things off for us. david, how is it going so far for the biden administration? >> well, sandra, and john, from what we have heard so far over the past almost three hours, it's clearly going to be an uphill battle for the biden administration to convince a conservative majority supreme court that it's the right move to use $400 billion with a b in taxpayer money to cancel these student loans. that's what we are seeing from the justices, take a listen. >> people who have paid their

loans, people who don't plan their lives around not seeking loans, and people who are not eligible for loans in the first place, and that half a trillion dollars is being diverted to one group of favored persons over others. >> listen to the term, favored persons, according to justice gorsuch. they peppered the solicitor general representing the administration over the plan. people earning less than $125,000 in 2020 or 2021 and married couples making less than a quarter million dollars could see up to $10,000 canceled. now, federal pell grant recipients could see the entirety of the $20,000 in debt wiped clean. there's been a steady flow of people outside the court since yesterday about 3:00 p.m., just starting to leave right now. they were here all through the night and joined by members of congress late into the night and even this morning. >> let me be very clear about

this. we are here today because president biden has the legal authority to cancel student loan debt. >> massachusetts senator warren is talking about a 2003 law, heroes act aimed to waiver or modify student loans following 9/11 and national emergency words are in the law. the administration says covid-19 is a national emergency but six states are suing to end this plan, president donald trump originally instituted it to pause student payments but president biden relayed on the pandemic, relied on the pandemic, rather, to go ahead and further this. the justices will make a final decision by the end of june/early july. sandra, john. >> sandra: david spunt on the steps of the supreme court for us, thank you. and a lot more on that coming up, john. >> john: we have betsy devos, the former education secretary in the trump administration just ahead. would this supreme court decision, if it goes in

president biden's favor, give him more power than the executive office has ever had. dave rubin coming unon this. >> sandra: and what it means down the road for the loans and the precedent it sets. john. >> john: president biden will discuss protecting healthcare during a stop in virginia today as residents in east palestine, ohio worry about getting sick after that train derailment earlier this month. epa administrator will tour the site for a third time and meet with people impacted by it. in a news conference, assured residents epa is in it for the long haul. alexis, are there still health concerns there on the ground? >> john, good afternoon. there are lots of health concerns, depending who you talk to. but residents here say, some of them, have nausea, some rashes, stomach aches, and they want to know how long they could have these health concerns.

the head of the epa stood behind me in the downtown in east palestine and talked to those residents about their concerns telling them they are here for the long haul and people have many unanswered questions, they opened up the welcome center in the downtown to go in and request to have testing done, both inside and outside of that your homes. listen. >> the people of east palestine will not have to figure out what comes next on their own. we are in this together as i have said from day one, we are holding norfolk southern accountable for putting this community in harm's way. they have since agreed to comply with epa order. i want to remind folks that at any point the company fails to comply with the actions ordered by epa, we will immediately step in, conduct the work that needs to be done and then force norfolk southern to pay triple. >> residents here, john, don't really care who gets the work done, they just want to see the

action immediately either by the epa or norfolk southern. the administrator was back here at the disaster site, touring the site of the crash still covered by dangerous debris in ohio. nearly a month since norfolk southern freight rail derailed in east palestine. the train carrying hazardous material overturned spilling vinyl chloride and other toxic and possibly cancerous chemicals. if they don't comply, they say they will charge them triple. as the company works to clear the hazardous waste, the epa is going door to door to test the air quality in town. right now the agency is insisting the air quality here is normal. residents want the epa to test for dioxins, and it was a lot of kind of getting around the questions so yeah, we are all in this together, we are really working with our federal

partners, maybe it's going to take more time. but people here in the town in ohio want the answers, they want to be back at home with their families and they are scared for health and safety. >> john: maybe the reason they are not getting the answers, there aren't the answers just yet. we'll find out. thank you, alexis. sandra. >> sandra: two house committees are holding hearings to investigate the national security and economic threat to communist china poses to the united states, it comes after the energy department reportedly joined the fbi in concluding the pandemic most likely originated from a lab leak in wuhan, china. a finding china calls in a statement a u.s. smear campaign. let's bring in nikki haley, former u.n. ambassador, and presidential candidate, good to have you. >> great to be here. >> sandra: the press briefing at the white house took place during our hours yesterday, covered it live, and many in

this country who have lived through the pandemic might find it shocking to hear john kirby say this. >> the president made, trying to find the origins of covid a priority when he came into office and has a whole of government effort designed to do that. there is not a consensus right now in the u.s. government about exactly how covid started. there is just not an intelligence community consensus. >> sandra: why are we still hearing no consensus and how does the u.s. department of energy know but the cia does not know or not a consensus. what is going on here? >> can we least have a consensus that when covid broke out, china closed their borders to people coming in and opened the borders to everybody going out. they wanted everyone else to suffer. i think it came from the lab. i don't think it was malicious, i think it was an accident. it's what they did after that. can we have consensus they went to the world health organization and asked them to condemn the

united states for closing the border. can we have consensus on the fact they to this day have never been held accountable for how irresponsible it was to handle it. that's what we need to be talking about. >> sandra: if you were in the white house, you were president biden, how would you respond to china accusing the u.s. in this moment of a smear campaign? >> i've dealt with china before. whenever you call them out, they are very quick to turn the tables. what we need to do is start holding them accountable. enough talking about what they did. let's hold them accountable. focus on the national security aspects of the supply chain and what we are relying on. let's start building up our military because nothing scares china more than that. the universities, you take chinese money or american money, you don't take boblth and get our allies together so we can hold china accountable. the world suffered and china has yet to pay a price. >> sandra: and that's what you are writing about in the new op-ed, i'll cut the billions in foreign aid we send our enemies

and lay out your case exactly how you would plan to do that. i'm curious how you believe china would respond to that. if you are elected president, and if you cut off that funding, how would they respond? >> it would show china we have a focus. we give 46 billion in foreign aid and to countries that say death to america, or countries that hate us, we can't buy friends. china would notice that we were paying attention. why are we giving them money for the environment? it's just ludicrous. we shouldn't be giving them $0.01. and we give money to iraq and dealing with iranian proxies saying death to america, and zimbabwe, and cuba, and we have labelled them a state sponsor of terror. don't do that. i started at the united nations, created a book of all 193 countries. the send column was the percentage of times they voted with the u.s. and against.

and the third column was the amount of foreign aid we gave them and i gave it to president trump and i said we need to start being smart. we need to start being strategic. he started that by stopping the 2 billion in aid we were giving to pakistan that were harboring terrorists trying to kill our soldiers. it sends the world a message we are paying attention. that's the focus cutting the aid would do. >> sandra: at home, many voters are wondering if the administration is paying attention to the historic inflation we are living through and a lot of smart people, ambassador, tasked with bringing those prices down. the federal reserve, the administration, economists coast to coast saying do this, do that. it could fall in your lap if you were elected president. how do you bring prices down for the american people without inflicting too much pain on them. >> look at the fact that washington, d.c., spending like drunken sailors, they need to go on a diet.

the federal budget, 15% is interest. quit borrowing money you don't have, start there. look at the supply chain and say why don't we start building more things in america. that's what we did in south carolina, that's what we can do across this country and then let's say ok, what are these other programs we need to take a look at. and focus on that, but start somewhere. the idea that republicans and democrats started earmarks again really, are you going to pay 12 million for a baseball stadium in new york when we have families who can't afford groceries? it's tone deaf. >> sandra: fox news polling revealing this about the 2024 presidential republican nominee preference among republican primary voters, donald trump 43%, ron desantis 28%, and you, ambassador, haley, 7%, mike pence 7%, greg abbott 2% and cheney at 2%. what was your response when you saw that? is that where you thought you were, or where you think you are?

>> we are just getting started, we are just getting started. we had standing room only, hundreds of people came out in iowa and new hampshire. great progress there. we had thousands show up in south carolina. people want someone who is going to take the country in a new direction. they don't want the old status quo and don't want the drama. >> sandra: let me follow up on that, this was among republican primary voters. how do you think you can win over potential republican voters? >> talking about what real families are going through. my daughter is getting married and i see how hard it is for her to buy a home, my son is in college, and he has to write papers he doesn't believe to get an a. we need to go back to the basics on spending, our education back on track and get rid of the woke stuff in there. close the borders, make sure that we are starting to have street crime handled again. and look at the foreign policy situation and don't ever allow americans to look at the sky and see a chinese spy balloon looking back at them. time to get focused, get to work, i did it as governor over

a hurting state, at the u.n. and took the kick me sign off our backs, and ready to do it for the country. >> sandra: ambassador hayley, good to have you here today. feels like you are full on in. >> nikkihaley.com. that's where it's at. >> sandra: john, a lot of news there looking at the origins of the covid pandemic, still no consensus, her reaction to that, and her plans to cut off funding to china. but the latest fox news polling on the 2024 race, a lot of eyeballs watching, but a long way to go. >> john: a lot can change, this time in 2015, everybody thought jeb bush was going to be the president of the united states, turned out quite different than that, and things can swap around a little bit or who knows, maybe they won't change much at all. the interesting part will be watching it all unfold. meantime -- as all eyes are on the supreme court in the cases against the president's student

loan handout, our nation's colleges and universities continue to increase costs, causing student loan debt to more than triple in recent years. former education secretary betsy devos joins us how we can lower the cost of higher education, plus this. >> i promise you no mother or father or aunt or uncle should ever have to see and do what i did that day. >> sandra: great, that was fantastic. all right. the jury in the alec murdaugh murder trial will soon get a first land look at the crime scene. what impact could that have on their upcoming deliberations. criminal defense attorney jonna spilbor will be here on that. na? no. he's making real-time money moves with merrill. so no matter what the market's doing, he's ready. and that's... how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company.

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me. this is a war. act like it. do something. >> john: emotional testimony as the house homeland security committee held its first full hearing on immigration since joe biden took office. the hearing which highlighted the financial and criminal costs at the border featured testimony from a mother who lost two sons to fentanyl poisoning as well as a hospital ceo who is fed up with taking care of migrants for free. all of this as criticism of homeland security secretary mayorkas handling of the border crisis grows. >> remember her name. i'm going to see to it that you have plenty of time in the course of your remaining life to remember the names, the 200,000 americans who are dead because of fentanyl coming across the border that you have blown wide open. >> john: today's hearing follows two weeks of field hearings across the southern border, none

attended by a single democrat. you can just -- imagine -- >> sandra: heartbreaking. >> john: it is, and i mean the anguish of that mother losing two of her sons to fentanyl poisoning? and -- >> at the point the parents feel you cannot protect from this. >> john: and a huge bust in orange county that bill has been pointing on, enough fentanyl to kill 50 million people in one car and democrats say oh, that proves everything is working, we are catching the fentanyl coming into the country. how many times have we spoken with a border official or sheriff in a border state who has said we are only catching a fraction of what's actually coming through. >> sandra: the parents need to wake up, country needs to wake up, listen to the parents who have gone through this and voices for sure. heart breaks for them. day 26 in the alec murdaugh

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be in the run-off. what do you think? >> she may not. it's going to be the top two vote getters, nobody is expected to crack 50% and there's been some skepticism even from her camp she may not make it and the reason is very clear. crime is up 52% on her watch. record number of homicides, so you've got one pillar of crime. the other pillar is education, john. 55 schools said they had no proficiency in math and english. that's on her watch. you can only blame everybody else for so long until voters lay it at your feet as the chief executive. one of her major opponents, competitors here is somebody who came in ninth or so last time but he's surging in the polls now, paul balas, and he's very focused on the fact that criminals are running chicago. he said crime is in every corner of our great city, so you -- we have all seen it on tape but also making the point about the blighted store fronts, the lack

of safety that people in the suburbs feel. when you see the crime and education, lori lightfoot is in big trouble. one last point, crime and education were very much on voter's minds in the midterm elections a few months ago, john, but it's very difficult to nationalize those types of issues. lee zeldin, and lori lightfoot is in for quite a surprise. >> john: you mentioned the crime statistics going up more than 50% under her watch. let's put the figures up on the screen here because i mean, there's been a steady increase. look at this, 2019, the year she took office, 60% it was up, 64% in 2020, 2021, 102%. 2022, 52% increase, and you mentioned paul valas, he and

chewy garcia, her top competitors, have put forward an anti-crime platform saying they would increase the number of chicago police, paul has been endorsed by the chicago fraternal order of police. when it comes to law and order, she has a big hill to climb if she wants to convince voters she's the way to go. >> yes, and if it cracks, if the facade cracks in chicago i think other city's mayors and the soros' backed d.a.'s should be worried about their electoral prospects. these cities are blue politically, vote overwhelmingly for democrats. we are a long way away from rudy giuliani, and 1993 for the first time as a republican since 1965, it does not seem to happen anymore. but people have had enough and the democrats are saying believe what i say and what i stand for on the first this, i'm the first that, they are saying believe what i say and not what you see

with your own two eyes, and people feel unsafe, they feel the criminals are being rewarded, the citizens are being penalized, and lori lightfoot, i believe, has done very little course correction. she could say look, this is my ten-point crime fighting agenda, she could have police around her, but i think it's mr. valas, she has not backed the blue, but people like jussie smollett lied, and chicago, i looked at her platform from 2019 when she ran the first time. you are not going to find anti-crime measures in her platform. in that way she has kept her promise on crime, and out of control. look at the great companies that left chicago. tyson went back to arkansas, ceo of mcdonald's saying we cannot stay here, crime is everywhere, even the businesses that loved

being in chicago and supporting the city and employing people locally feel they have no choice but to get out of there, and they are citing crime as much as taxes. >> john: one last contrast, kellyanne, the right side of the screen you point out what people are afraid of and what was mayor lightfoot doing famously earlier this winter, taking a page out of the martha and the van dellas, dancing in the street, a tone deafness on her part yet back to 2019 she was in a run-off, she won every ward in the city. so, she's been there before and she pulled out. she's got the experience behind her to win in a run-off. >> in 2019 ran as the outsider, and that was attractive to make her the mayor, but now she's running as the experienced steady hand and stay the course with her. the question for chicago is

simple. are you happy with how things are going. and back to education, her lockdowns were a let down to the students there and the declining test scores, the lack of math and english proficiency, they are reporting the statistics. what we have done to the school children of chicago, what she has done to them, aunts, uncles, neighbors, friends, they will remember that when they go to the poll. they deserve quality affordable education. she's against school choice and charter schools. has promised in this campaign to stop the expansion of charter schools, which are rescuing a lot of kids who otherwise would be in failing schools. >> john: we have to run. appreciate your thoughts. >> thank you. >> john: going old school there, a lot of people remember "dancing in the streets" from david bowie and mick jager.

but you have to go back to martha and the van dellas. >> sandra: i care deeply about chicago, born and raised there, and it is not the same place it once was and so many believe it can be, that ship can be righted. it's going to take the right people, the right person, and lori lightfoot has disappointed a lot of even her own voters. >> john: let's not forget chicago has been through tough times before, remember a guy named al capone, and it came back from that. so, maybe there's a possibility with strong leadership it could come back from where it is now. >> sandra: it will take a lot. the son of billionaire mega donor carving out a name of his own, running elbows with some prominent democrats, including the biden white house. we'll dig into the life and finances of alex soros. >> john: plus the alec murdaugh murder trial closing in on the four-week mark.

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alec murdaugh, not just the testimony but the frequent crying episodes whenever they mention the deaths of his wife and son. a former law party said he was a theatrical presence in the courtroom who could get very emotional presenting closing arguments to the jury. and defense asked him whether he was angry at murdaugh over money he lost. >> you are dead wrong if you think i've come in here and told this jury something because of money, when we -- we are talking about two people who were brutally murdered, then you -- you are headed in the wrong direction. >> prosecutors also tried to discredit murdaugh's testimony that he had asked permission from sheriffs of multiple counties in his region to install blue lights on a vehicle he was driving for personal use. one of those sheriffs he named, now retired, testified the conversation never happened. >> as a matter of fact, i never had a conversation with anyone

in my 39 years about installing blue lights in a personal vehicle. >> that's not something that's done, is it, sir? >> no, no. >> and before closing arguments take place, the jury is actually going to be given a tour of moselle, the 1700 acre hunting estate that the murdaugh family owned and also where maggie and paul murdaugh were fatally shot. john. >> john: jonathan, thank you, from south carolina. >> sandra: criminal defense attorney jonna spilbor, i feel like the country is captivated this, and if you were not into it a while ago, you are now because of the twists and turns. where are you, did he do it? >> i surprised you a little bit. i don't think the prosecution has proven that he's guilty. the evidence doesn't support that he's guilty of murder. my opinion, the evidence supports he's guilty of a liar, a cheat, took down his entire law firm, cheated his clients, a

bad guy but far cry to being a double murderer in the way the two people were murdered. >> sandra: why are there no other suspects then? >> good question. that's because the prosecution never bothered to look. and that's been a theme in the defense case all along. they put their sights on alec murdaugh, they never ever investigated any other potential suspects, even though alec murdaugh was kind of handing them to them like hey, my son has been the victim of harassment because of this boat accident, they thumbed their nose at that. admits to having an opioid addiction, that he is spending thousands and thousands of dollars a week, they never investigated that. so, while there are other third parties that could be the culprit, prosecution never investigated, and it's not the defense's job to find them for us. so, there you have reasonable doubt. >> sandra: he's already conflicted with his own statements in this trial and here is a clip that has murdaugh's voice in it, at the dog kennels, being in the trial admitting to lying about his

whereabouts. watch all this. >> come here. >> and you have lied to law enforcement about not going down to the kennels after dinner but eating dinner and taking a nap, did you not? >> i did. >> sandra: how key is that moment? >> it took the wind out of the prosecution's sails. once he admitted to being a liar and falling on the sword, he was -- he gave the jury permission to believe him when he says i didn't kill my wife and family because he became sympathetic and the jury had sympathy or empathy and flat out said look, i've lied to everybody in my life, everybody i've ever loved and i'm admitting to that. the reason i'm not admitting to killing my wife and son is because i didn't kill my wife and son. and that may resonate with the jury. >> sandra: and this is the

prosecution, the exchange with murdaugh when they are picking apart his claim that someone else could have killed his wife and son. two people. listen. an what you are telling this jury is that it's a random vigilante. >> that's your term. >> the 12-year-old 52 people that just happened to know paul and maggie were both at moselle on june 7th, that knew they would be at the kennels alone on june 7th, knew you would not be there, but only between the times of 8:49 and 9:02, they show up without a weapon, assuming they will find weapons and ammunition there, they commit the crime during the short time window and travel the same exact route you do around the same time to almeda. that's who you are trying to tell the jury? >> you have a lot of factors mr. waters, all of which i do not agree with, but some of which i do. >> sandra: do you buy any of it? >> i think the field trip that the jury is going to take will help answer some of those

questions. they are going to see firsthand where the kennels were compared to the woods. >> sandra: so good idea, you think the jury going to the crime scene? >> good idea for the defense. and see how far the kennel is from the house. if alec murdaugh was getting ready to leave and two people getting killed, is it possible as he's claimed he heard nothing, the field trip is going to prove it. to give it some perspective, where we sit on 48th street, the kennels would be at 53rd. so, we are that far away. is it possible that somebody could get shot on 53th street right now and we don't hear it, it's an interesting perspective. but the field trip will answer those questions. >> sandra: wow, if you were not into it you probably are now. we'll watch where it goes. you never know. great to see you. john. >> john: sandra, former u.s. swimming champion mysteriously found dead in her caribbean home last week. do police suspect foul play? the latest on the investigation

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>> sandra: fox news alert as we come in with this news. president biden is expected to nominate julie su, we are learning and can confirm, to be his next labor secretary. she is currently the deputy labor secretary and will be nominated to replace marty walsh who is departing the administration to run the professional hockey players union. tested and experienced leader will continue to build a stronger, resilient economy, fair return for work and equal chance to get ahead. so nominate julie su as the next labor secretary of the united states. >> john: she was only confirmed 50-47 for the current position, may have a tough time getting the job, we'll see. police in the u.s. virgin islands launching a criminal investigation into the death of jamie cail.

she was found unresponsive in the home she shared with her boyfriends. have authorities determined how she died? >> autopsy is still pending. but news in the past half hour, cail's boyfriend previously served time for beating a man to death in 2007. they did not confirm the man is cail's boyfriend. police will not give us a name but say the boyfriend left a bar shortly after midnight the morning of her death, one week ago today and found cail unresponsive on the floor. police say he brought her to a hospital with a friend where staff indicated she was suffering from cardiac arrest. u.s. virgin islands police department released a statement, hospital staff rendered cpr but the female succumbed. she was originally from new hampshire. swam college at the university of maine, and multiple swimming championships, and won a gold medal in the 1997 pan pacific

championships. u.s.a. swimming said they are saddened to hear of jamie cail's passing. a proud member of our national teams in the late 19a to jamie friends and family. some friends tell fox news she were in contact with her as recently as one day before her death. multiple questions to police but so far they will not answer any of them. >> john: tragic mystery going on there. >> sandra: liberal los angeles d.a. george gascon suspending an attorney for misgendering a person. and the threat to the u.s. and betsy devos, whether the

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>> john: new at 2:00, a child molestor charged with murder acaused of conning his way of a jail cell filled with under age girls posing as a woman. >> sandra: one prosecutor says his boss refuses to believe the pedophile on the screen is in reality a man as he tries, says trying to sound the alarm got him suspended by that boss. l.a. county district attorney george gascon. >> john: we are going to talk live with the prosecutor who says gascon is putting woke politics ahead of protecting people and putting the feelings of a child molestor ahead of the truth. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour. good tuesday to you, sandra. >> sandra: and here we go, hour two. prosecutor joins us just ahead. but first, a busy day down in washington, john.