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so many american citizens. >> john: new mexico golf cartel with a handwritten note with the crime and laying out what led up to the bloody attack of american friends. we will tell you what that note says and show you what else the cartel left for the police to find. >> sandra: our bill melugin live working through the breaking details at this hour. senator lindsey graham is also here with his plan to take out the cartels once and for all. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into the second hour. and sandra smith in new york. >> john: here we go for another hour, get to be with you and a lot to impact this hour starting with fox news alert. ♪ ♪ >> sandra: a major update and one states fight for fairness in women's sports. just moments ago, west virginia attorney general announcing he will bring the legal battle to ban transgenders in women's sports all the way to the supreme court.

>> john: this after the fourth circuit court of appeals upheld the state law in 2020 went to a bar transgender participation in sports for middle school all the way up to college. david spunt is live in washington with the story. this will be a test for the supreme court. david, what more came out of the news conference? >> john patrick morrissey the attorney general in charleston, west virginia, said this is not about politics. it is a simple request and he wants to take this directly to the supreme court. he thinks that is his only option. this is a state law signed by governor jim justice in 2021 that stops transgender athletes from participating and women sports. it is all about a fairness issue and parents across the country should watch this, with that they like or not hear of the supreme court and the nine justices are likely involved in a firestorm depending on how they look at this case. it would affect millions of students and parents across the

country. 18 states including west virginia have transgender athlete bands and schools. justice signed this law claiming these transgender students have an unfair competitive advantage. the american civil liberties union and west virginia chapter sued on behalf of an 11-year-old transgender girl who wanted to compete on a cross-country team. the district judge in west virginia upheld the state law but appeals court recently put that ruling on hold giving trans athletes to compete in female sports for now. morrissey is taking his fight to the high court in washington, d.c., but not on the merits of the case. here he is. >> west virginians and the american people know this is a matter of basic common sense and basic fairness. >> so morrissey wants to get this in front of the justices as soon as possible. but the question, can display out in the lower courts as the justices go ahead and debate

this? they are expecting to issue a ruling probably pretty soon in a few weeks given the nature and the weight of this case. there are several other states to dealing with similar legal cases, john. >> john: we will be watching this when no question about that. david spunt, sandra. >> sandra: capitol hill has republicans move to advance bills with biological male trans athletes and a judge ruled transgender women can compete in powerlifting. the next good essay it is unfair women going up against transgender. leo thomas in the ncaa championships where they are tied for fifth place, riley gaines joins us now, riley, thank you for joining us. good to have you back. so jump back into this debate with us on what you see as unfairness for women's sports and transgender athletes who feel they belong where ever they to be.

>> look, the thing is if you believe in science, you know there is man and woman. to deny that is to deny science is to deny logic and to deny reason. quite frankly, common sense peer that is why i am grateful for the leadership for eggs be putting this bill and i know also it has great backing and actually congress member from kentucky and the bar messaged me to let me know he signed on as a cosponsor. virginia foxx, so many powerful people standing up to this nonsense. >> sandra: you say the trans battle in sports is erasure of what a woman is. explain. >> absolutely. first, from my experience i saw it in sports but now the position i'm in i realize it is so much bigger than sports. we are changing the language we use. we are no longer to use terms of motherhood or breastfeeding.

we are eradicating women as a whole. we are changing the dictionary definition and sitting supreme court justice that can't define what it is to be a woman because she claims she is not a biologist. i am also not a biologist, but it doesn't take much to acknowledge what a woman is and we deserve to be celebrated on our own physical limitations. >> sandra: there are 18 states. we can put the map up banting transgender females from competing and women's sports and schools. we know that is happening purity but on the latest decision, the usa powerlifting, transgender women can compete in usa power lifting. this is the ruling for the judge in that case and the same powerlifting's evidence with competitive advantage does not take into account competitive disadvantage a transgender might face, for example increased risk of depression and suicide with practice facilities and other

suppression, to transgender persons peer that is the judge that ruled in favor of transgender athlete in that case. what is your reaction to that in the powerlifting case? >> if there is one sport where the difference between male and female in terms of sheer strength and athleticism, it is powerlifting. we know testosterone has performance outcome and strength. men on average, and this is not opinionated by the fact, men are taller, stronger, more powerful, faster than women. again, to deny that is to deny science. we have so much data and scientific evidence that proves this. you know what i bet it is ironic, the same organization that deemed this extreme strict doping policies for women, which lots of organizations have contradictory policies. i think this is the same case.

>> sandra: riley the the pew reactions, what have you lived with speaking out on this issues we have as an athlete and as a woman? >> there is so much support, which shows me how the true majority of this country feels. i have parents, athletic directors and people within the ncaa and so many good athletes young and old messaging me constantly, thanking me and telling me their stories and letting me know my story is not unique and telling me to fight on peer that is how the overwhelming majority of people that are directly impacted by this feel. >> sandra: riley gaines, i appreciate your story and sharing your thoughts on this debate which seems to be raging across the country. >> of course, thank you. >> sandra: we will check back in with her, john, as this continues. state-by-state, they were dealing with this in the country right now. it is a debate so many are having. i asked that final question because so many athletes that live through this as she very

clearly did swimming against lia thomas, you do wonder if you hesitate to speak up. you feel sort of retaliation or criticism that you may receive for doing so. you heard from riley, she is getting a lot of support. >> john: the last time she was in the studio, she talked about the locker room issue because before did not have transgender surgery. so, he had male anatomy in the women's locker room and that through a lot of the swimmers. the other thing we were talking to katie pavlik about this yesterday. this is a real one-way street pure doodle here male athletes to fight for equal opportunity to participate in sports. what you hear his female athletes fighting for equal opportunity to compete in women's sports. this goes one way but not the other. >> sandra: they want a level playing ground for sure. >> john: trouble off the green for tiger woods and again his former girlfriend asking a judge to release her from nondisclosure agreement so she can spill the beans.

how she said tiger tricked her into leaving their home so that while she was gone, he could change the locks. >> sandra: house lawmakers getting an ear full from two journalist responsible for the twitter files as republicans take a look at social media evidence to silence evidence. and shaun mccarthy is up in one of the several fiery hearings we hear today. dave rubin on that next. >> they were saying things like the hunter laptop or getting too particular about the kind of things they were looking for. ♪ ♪

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governor gavin newsom making it official. he says the state will not renew $54 million contract with walgreens out of the pharmacy reported it will not ship or sell abortion pills in 20 republican-led states. the pharmacy chainpossible laws. gavin newsom said lawmakers will not provide medicine to california inmates but that is a first step in an exhaustive review of the states ties with the pharmacy. a lot whether this will impact californians on the medicaid system and use walgreen as their pharmacy. >> today american taxpayers unwittingly financing the growth and power of censorship industrial complex run by america's scientific and technological leaps. if there is anything twitter file shows, we are in danger of losing this precious right which all democratic rights were impossible. >> john: granted access to internal communications with a

stern warning about big tick censorship during a house hearing today. the federal trade commission wants twitter to identify the journalist they have been in contact with with the so-called twitter files. something critics say the government has no business demanding from a private business can meet them before you factor in freedom of the press. one of the journalists matt taibbi digging in deep on that. >> what we found in the files was a sweeping effort to reverse that promise and use machine learning and other tools to turn the internet into an insurmountable amount of censorship and control. unfortunately, our government plays a lead role. >> john: we learned twitter book, facebook and other compane a formal system for taking in moderation request from every corner of government, from the fbi, dhs, hhs, dod, global engagement center and even the

caa. the focus of this network as mike noted is making a list of people whose opinions, beliefs and associations or sympathies team to misinformation, disinformation or mall information. that last term is just euphemism for true or inconvenient. undeniably the making of such list is a digital mccarthyism. spill in the report, he is in his written testimony and shellenberger said lawsuits have revealed "a large and growt agencies academic institutions and nongovernmental organizations actively censoring american citizens without their knowledge on a range of issues including covid vaccines, business dealings, climate change, renewable energy, fossil fuels and many, many other issues." he and matt taibbi referred to the censorship industrial complex. and it is frightening.

>> john, what people need to understand about this beyond what matt taibbi and shellenberger are laying out and i happen to know shellenberger personally. these guys are liberals. they are lefties. i would go out on a limb and i can't swear to this but neither one of them have ever voted for republican. and certainly don't consider themselves right-leaning or conservative or anything like that. so a lot of their motives have been in fumed by congress today and it is shameful and embarrassing. as for the content they are talking about my wish this was surprising but those paying attention to this for a couple of years, we all sort of knew something was going on now. now we are finding out basically our worst fears have become true. i think you know, john, i was up with elon and i met a few engineers there. after i met with elon at the end of the meeting, there was no intention i would release any information or anything. i said to him quite honestly,

"hey, do you mind if i tell people what i saw today?" his exact words without hesitating for as long as it is true. the idea that this guy has a political bent or somehow manipulating information or manipulating the reporters, the legitimate journalist showing up there is just crazy. i think we are still at the beginning of pulling the string on this thing. we are probably going to find out way more pure the question is, is anything going to happen? that come i don't know. >> john: that may put you in the crosshairs of the federal trade information that wants information from twitter which journalist it discussed the twitter files with. with the nature of the information exchange was, which might seem to run up against the first amendment. i'm not sure, but i think it gets close. >> well i'm if you have the government pressuring a private organization to center to make sense or free speech, that is as close as you get to the

first amendment violation with the government doing it so. the question is i spoke to some lawyers on this. you as a private citizen don't have much recourse against the government. it is not as if they will suddenly pay you out, sorry, we stepped on your first amendment rights, here is $1 million. you might get a letter saying we are sorry about it or something like that. in essence what we need more than apologies or anything else is just for some honesty from the government and say, we are not going to do this anymore. because as matt taibbi pointed out, most of what was accused of being misinformation often turned out to be true, whether it was reporting on hunter biden's laptop whether it was covid related, vaccine related, mandated related to, russian collusion, et cetera. not all of it was done by journalists. i tell people what i think for a living and people can agree or disagree but the average citizen who is out there on twitter sharing information. that is what we thought the promise of social media was.

unfortunately can make it became something much more. >> john: i wanted to put this out from shellenberger's written testimony. in terms of who gets to spend it, you do not represent a threat anymore but the government no longer needs a predicate of calling you a terrorist or extremist to deploy government resources to counter your political activity. the only predicate it needs is the assertion the opinion you expressed on social media is wrong. dave, always good to catch up with you. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> john, that is not why i stand by way opinions. everything i say has nothing to do with dave rubin. >> john: you fall like a cheap suit, sandra. >> sandra: fox news alert, live in pennsylvania where president biden is in philadelphia at this hour rolling out his $6.8 trillion budget to make the rich, he says, pay their fair share. picking a fight with republicans

who say this will be dead on arrival, taking issue obviously with imposing more spending and this country at a time sky-high inflation and picking a fight with republicans, he's anchoring democrats along the way. a growing number of democrats who are hinting they do not want him to run for reelection as the crises mount under this presidency. so, he is laying out his plan right now which includes $2 trillion in new tax hikes for the american people. we will take this on with the panel in just a few a few minutes. >> john: looking forward to that. breaking news, mexico reporting on a handwritten note from the infamous cartel left for the police to find in the wake of the deadly kidnapping of those four american friends, two murdered during the ordeal. the lengthy note explains what happen and the killer cartel's own words. we go live to the southern border to film aleutian reporting on what that note says and what the cartel left for the

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♪ ♪ >> sa>> sandra: stunning new development and abduction of four americans at the u.s. mexican border that ended up with two dead pure the cartel behind it is apologizing for the act with a handwritten letter. bill melugin in brownsville, texas, for us. we are learning who exactly wrote this letter? >> sandra, good afternoon. that is right. it is somebody claiming to be from the scorpions fashion of the golf cartel. what happened is they tied up five men and left them at a truck in matamoros and an apology letter that essentially says that the golf carts do my cartel would like to apologize last friday march when an

innocent woman was killed in the shooting. they go on to blame for five men they left there essentially saying these were five undisciplined men who were not following orders from cartel leadership but essentially they did this on their own. they were doing so without the cartels permission. the cartel letter says in part, we have decided to turn over those directly responsible in the offense who at all times acted under their own decision. and the letter goes on to say these men violated cartel rules, which is you do not harm the innocent. again, the cartel stresses these men never got any orders to conduct this attack from cartel leadership. they are essentially trying to say these five guys went rogue. it is all there are a fault. here you go, authorities appeared in the meantime, mexican media outlets say mexican law enforcement is

investigating and he is a leader of the mexican cartel that runs the model morris area and he suspiciously involved in this attack. the mexican government trying to find him since last year. they have $140,000 bounty on his head placed on him in the spring of last year. mexico media authority is looking into him as well. lastly, look at that shed that the american citizens were found in after kidnapped. two of them were killed. this is a tiny little wooden shed in the outskirts in the middle of nowhere where the americans were eventually taken to and held. we reported yesterday the mexican authorities have arrested one man who is found regarding that shed where those americans were being held. you can see what those conditions were like. and circling back to that letter come i talked to several sources about the letter. it is obvious the cartel if it

was them are trying to do some p.r. work essentially. they feel like they have a lot of heat on them right now and in an effort to divert the heat essentially by using these five guys that they say basically are going to be sacrificial lambs. maybe they were involved, maybe not. it is clear the cartel knows they crossed a line bike killing americans and they are trying to do cleanup. we send it back to you. >> sandra: bill melugin live in brownsville forest, john. >> john: republican senator lindsey graham is with us in this letter, this particular clause, "don't harm the innocent." i will offer a rare opinion, that is crap. >> they are drugs killed 110,000 people in this country. speak with the four american south carolinians went to new mexico for a surgery. this is what i would say to the

cartels, last year, 70,000 americans died from fentanyl poisoning coming from your business model. you are a bunch of terrorists. you need to be treated as terrorists. you are killing more americans in a single year than we lost in vietnam losing 200 today to fentanyl poisoning coming from drug cartels in mexico. they are the enemy of the united states. they declare war on the american people through the use of fentanyl in terrorist tactics. i want to declare war on them. >> sandra: senator, thank you very much for joining us. i'm trying to wrap my mind around when you start about who said what i would say to the cartels. are we at that point? do we have open lines of communications? who is the face of these cartels? are we tracking them for sure? we talked to attorney general bill barr. we know we have sophisticated ways of tracking them both in this country and mexico. but what are we doing about this? i know we are talking a lot about to cut off the drug

cartels in mexico but they have infiltrated in the united states. they were almost in every state. >> they are a terrorist organization and not just criminal enterprise. they get a lot of terrorists from china. why do i want to make them a foreign terrorist organization under u.s. law? if you provide support to a terrorist organization, you can be prosecuted in the u.s. court. so you need china linked to the drug cartel would have the ability to take them to court. we can write the fdo so it doesn't change immigration law for individual applicant. i want to call them terrorists. then i want to do the second thing, allow military force to be used. not to invade mexico or not to take down the mexican government but to break the backs of cartel's killings killing 70,000 americans every year. we need all three soon to surgically strike the drug cartels that are terrorist organizations into the mexican government.

here is what i want you to understand from of the policy is not working for your own people. they are not working for the united states. the mexican president needs to stop hugging these people and work with the united states to take down these drug cartels. he suggested that people in america not vote for republican that is not what i'm trying to do. i'm trying to work with mexico, but i want to let the mexican government note that if you don't change your policies, we will take things into her own hands. we will start killing people in mexico for killing americans because they are terrorists. we do it all over the world every night. we have all of the legal authority we need to go after these drug cartels if we change our laws. >> john: a number of things in there, senator. let's break those down. first of all, breaking the backs of the cartels. it seems to me that you would have to have buy-in from the mexican government to do that. otherwise, you could be accused of committing an act of war on

foreign soil. columbia in 1980s, we have the cooperation of the colombian government. and then you mention this when we first sat down is, challenge the mexican government to hand over the five people that they tied up and left of apology letter. >> does the united states have the ability to defend the people against the threats and abroad? the answer is yes. do we ask taliban to have permission to kill al qaeda leader? it doesn't matter where the threat comes from. we have the ability to go after terrorist organizations doing harm to our country. is it fair to say the drug cartels in mexico are a bunch of terrorists? that is the way they do business. they use terrorism to live large. they are creating an environment in america where we are losing more citizens based on their activity than the taliban and al qaeda complained by 50 times

a year. we do have the legal ability to strike terrorists wherever they reside and rock syria in new mexico. so the mexican government, the best thing that can happen to you and us is to work together to take these cartels down. the hug approach is not working. as you allow to become a norco's terrorist state the united states has the legal ability and moral right to strike to every parent out there who has lost a child to fentanyl poisoning. my goal is to go after the people who kill your children, drive them out of business, blow up their labs, put them in jail and kill them to break their backs. >> sandra: are we doing enough to cut them off here? >> no. >> john: we know there is a huge financial network. we know they are massively profiting off human trafficking off of drug trade. you can look almost everyday and somebody is caught up in the money laundering scheme in the united states. before we talk about this and

new mexico but why aren't we cutting off this infiltration, senator? >> number one the biden administration has failed and the mexican government has failed to deal with this narco terrorist state that has emerged in new mexico. in columbia, south carolina, we had a cartel connection connection in columbia, south carolina. we had the ability to prosecute columbia, south carolina. i don't want to make an fto of these groups purity of china is supplying precursors to a foreign terrorist organization, you can prosecute people in china. so no, we are not doing enough you are to where not doing enough to stop it at the border. the main thing to break the backs of these drug cartels is to go to war against them. surgically attacked their infrastructure. use the u.s. military to destroy the backbone of these networks that are poisoning america. you have all the legal authority you need to do it. do we have the will question marks me when do you think you could get this to congress?

>> i would hate to be a member of congress due take off the table to destroyed drug cartels of the southern border poisoning 70,000 americans to death. we are losing more americans every two weeks then 9/11 due to fentanyl poisoning coming out of mexico. to the mexican government, let's work together, but if you do not work with us, we will be forced to protect america by using military force. we have the right, no matter where the threat comes from, to protect american spirits be when we are watching your bill. >> sandra: thank you, senator, thank you for joining us. fox news alert, president biden rolling out 2024 budget and the state of pennsylvania at this hour. here he is live in philadelphia. he is speaking right now unveiling his new budget, proposing tax hikes on the wealthy, he says. he will make corporations, as he said moments ago, pay their fair

share, his words. "the new york times" headlining dead on arrival as republicans gear up for a physical bringing taylor riggs, ryan brandenburg and thanks to both of you for being here. we have been monitoring the president's remarks there and it appears the plan is to once again target the rich and the successful and the wealthy in this country. make them pay their fair share while calling for more spending at a time when inflation that didn't have to happen the first place, the federal reserve, taylor is admitting, a hard time getting those prices down. why is he picking this fight with republicans, and have the risk of upsetting more democrats that don't like these problems falling on the american people? >> i'm not a thing because brian and i got off of the show talking about the spirit of physical -- i'm so glad you brought up this aspect. the thing that we are in right now. i think exactly contradicts with the federal reserve and what they are trying to do. they are raising rates to slow down economy because inflation

is at the highest in 40 years. you have the federal government counteracting that on the physical side. so, they are offsetting each other. with the federal service is trying to do is being offset by the fiscal stimulus. it is so inflationary. so, i always look at brian and say, we don't have a revenue problem but we have a spending problem. that spending is inflationary. >> sandra: i want to play this out. this was a conference call so forgive us, you will see her, hear her and the words on her screen. she is the omp director and she was this morning touting this new budget, getting challenges from reporters. listen. >> republicans will work at $5.5 trillion in tax increases in this plan and say those will hurt growth. what would your response be? >> this is a start of a healthy dialogue. when you look at this president,

you and the world with what this budget puts forward. so, absolutely we will see tax policies here that say to the richest americans large corporations until some bill is passed with reflation reduction act pays no taxes. that you have to began to pay your fair share of. >> sandra: i didn't hear an answer to the question. the question from the reporter, what would your response be to this eventually hurting growth, raising taxes on the american people at a time of economic conservative. >> you will see what the president values in this budget and you absolutely do. he wants a much bigger government. and he doesn't care how much more in taxes the american people have to pay to fund that government, which is why it is all about tax increases and all about spending. we have record tax revenues in this country. we have no revenue problem. we have record spending and that

is the problem, and it gets worse the longer this president makes plans over the next ten years. >> sandra: talk about the corporate tax rate. a small think take and so telling when he said democrats would not want to raise the economic environment so certain. when you think about corporations and the job creators. don't get me started on the billionaires where he said democrats would not want to raise taxes on billionaires because those are the biggest political campaign donors. so, i think the $2 trillion on the screen is putting it lightly. we are actually talking about $5.5 trillion in tax increases over the next decade. a massive 5.2% federal worker pay raise, larry kudlow was on the program yesterday. >> we saw that. >> sandra: to the point why are we raising interest rates? to impose on the american people. that is what it is tasked with so we spend less and the prices

come down. larry kudlow is saying we get this all wrong. if we promote growth in this country, naturally prices will eventually calm down. this is not a growth friendly plan. >> not at all. this president doesn't care about economic growth one bit. what he cares about is more of the economy in the hands of his government. you look at all of the spending going on in this bill, it is to centralize power to him. in the meantime, by the way, he is proposing 15% increase for the irs. not only is he going to tax you more, but they are even more people on top of the 80 billion we are already spending in order to take more of your money hear the president's values are clear. the rnp director was honest about that. it is not that he just doesn't valued your growth and opportunity but he values his opportunity to do more. >> sandra: he's had a few moments ago, "i will not lay out the entire budget because that

would take the rest of the day." we will pass it and see what is in it, remember that? final thoughts on this not affecting lower middle-class americans. you just can't say that. look what happened with inflation. that is the ultimate tax on the hardworking american family right now. if he is pushing a plan that imposes more spending, you are looking at more inflation down the road and eventually everyone pays for that spirit speak with it and the lower class and minorities have the biggest wage gain which is a huge win and all of that wiped out by inflation. >> i promise you this corporate tax increase will hit lower and middle class is the hardest. >> sandra: it can be bipartisan easy and busy friendly environment come a lot of support for that and a lot of democrats right now that are running away from these type of ideas because it's out there. thank you so much. the show was going great, by the way. loving it.

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>> sandra: an apex predator has invaded the florida everglades. when they move, they're deadly. phil keating is live in the everglades. i'm scared for you, phil. how are they tackling this problem? i hope you're safe. >> yeah, better safe than constricted. the problem is the burmese python is well-camouflaged, very hard to find and they could grow to 20 feet long. now, once they get to adult side, they have no predators here in florida, unless you're a human with a machete or a gun. florida does their annual python challenge where hunters fly in from across the country to

catch, kill for prize money. but that is barely making a debt in the florida python problem. 231 were captured last year. 100 to 300,000 pythons are estimated to be living in florida. >> this is a 14 footer that was 105 pounds. she was a monster. >> amy is a one-time homecoming queen and python huntress. she's a professional python guide taking touring to hunt and kill the reptiles. based on u.s. geological survey data and the university of georgia, since 2, the python invasion has gone from the southern tip of everglades national park all the way north up to fort myers, lake okeechobee and west palm beach. >> we have to do something. we can't let them whip. who knows in 20 years from now, maybe we will have made a difference.

>> despite this seemingly unstoppable invasion, which is decimated the state's small mammal population by 90% in some parts of the everglades, florida fish and wildlife says they don't believe this is yet a lost cause. the animals being decimated include deer, raccoons and even alligators. a big part of the problem is females pregnant will lay 70 eggs per hatch. that's a lot of snakes being added to the mix. now these pythons are being spotted in suburban neighborhoods from coast to toast. sandra? >> sandra: is this your protection, phil? >> i'm ready to wield it if needed i'm like it's necessary. we're leaning into our screens watching out behind you. be safe. it's a huge problem. i mean, you hear about it all the time. you're prepared. >> like the snake, it's

enormous, the problem. >> sandra: indeed. phil keating on that for us. thank you. >> sandra: . >> john: tiger woods wants to get involved in an off-the-course drama. his girlfriend says she's suing after she was kicked out of their home. let's bring in mark eiglarsh with more on this. he had to give his ex-wife $100 million. erica herman wants $30 million. you've been looking through this. do you think she's got a case? >> generally, no. because ndas are enforceable. they're contracts made between two adults. there's consideration. each party gets something of value. the exception is this speak-out law that was passed in to law in

2022 where if allegations of sexual assault or sexual harassment can be proven to have occurred after the nondisclosure agreement was entered into, then there you go. the courts can't enforce the nondisclosure agreement. that's what they're going after. >> john: she's not alleging sexual abuse. just that he kicked her out of their house. >> oh, no, no. in the latest lawsuit when the attorney filed the complaint and there's a separated sheet that you must check-off, does this lawsuit involve sexual assault? he checked off yes. the only way that she's going to be able the disclose anything occurred, which is parentally what she's seeking relief for. she wants to disclose what it is that occurred. the only way she can do so is to allege sexual assault or sexual harassment. absent that, she can't say anything. friends, family, other sources that want to share photographs

and some of their testimony about what tiger did during their relationship. >> john: love talking to you, mark. you're always one step ahead of me. the other part of the case, she says he kicked her out of his home through trickery. she says it in her filing, specifically by trickery, agents of the defendant convinced the plaintiff to pack a suitcase for a short vacation. when she arrived at the airport, she said she was locked out of the resident and in violation of florida law. she's going after a trust associated with tiger woods property on this, not tiger himself. >> yeah, i read that she's seeking $30 million. here's the problem. that's why we have to talk about the other thing that i'm talking about that keeps me a step ahead of you. she can't say much about what really happened because it would be in violation allegedly of this nondisclosure agreement. so she's asking for guidance from the court.

i want to go big timeboth in this lawsuit and in the court of public opinion by sharing with everybody details that only i and some of my friend and family know. what can i do? that's what i think is the significance of this lawsuit. that's what it about. >> interesting to note the two of them were together for six years. always good to get your thoughts and the update on you. appreciate it. >> sandra: fox news alert. we'll get to president biden in philadelphia. he's laying out this budget as the big battle looms with the gop. he's making the case they're going to take away your social benefits, he's going to preserve them. he's been attacking the gop the past few minutes. we'll dip in here and listen to how he's laying out his budget. here's biden. >> i introduced legislation to make sure that they had to pay a minimum of 15%. that's less than any of you pay.

guess what? we did those things to grow the economy. create jobs. working class next have a fighting chance. that paid for everything and still allowed me to reduce the deficit. just begin your fair share. that's why i'm fighting for another proposal. i got elected there were roughly -- don't hold me to the exact number about 650 billionaires in america. now there's over 1,000. you know what the average tax that they pay, federal tax? 3%. three, 3%. no billionaire should be paying a lower tax than somebody working as a school teacher or firefighter or any of you in this room. so my plan is to make sure that the corporations begin to pay their fair share. used to be 35%. we cut it down to 21%. i think we should be paying 28%.

it's going to be a real fight in that. >> sandra: all right. this is the case the president is making, laying out the tax hikes, $2 trillion of them. we'll see where he gets with this. >> john: $2 trillion over ten years, a lot of revenue. >> sandra: thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. see you tomorrow. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks, john and sandra. good afternoon. sandra will be here later this hour with congressman jim jordan who is also joining us today and general jack keane on the mounting tensions that exist now between the united states and china in what is called the great power struggle of our time. chinese president xi who tomorrow signs on for another five years in leadership making history as the longest serving head of state since the communist revoluon