it is very important to know if you don't ask you may not know. certainly again having those conversations and knowing that a young person is at risk is a first step in terms of getting them the professional support they need. the parent doesn't feel comfortable having that conversation, it's an important time for them to talk to their primary care provider to make sure. >> gillian: sounds like you are telling us the pediatrician is a good place to start if you are concerned about your teen but not sure how to talk to them about what they are going through. dr. abraham, thank you for shedding light on this for us today. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> john: former president trump's legal team in court seeking a delay of new york state's civil fraud lawsuit targeting the family real estate business. the trial is set for october. trump's lawyers want more time to get ready. fox news has learned it is likely president trump will not be arrested today in the case involving the payment of hush

money to an adult film actress. alvin bragg pushing the case using a convoluted legal argument. law enforcement source saying another witness is expected to testify before the grand jury tomorrow and they don't expect trump will be arraigned until perhaps next week if at all. violent chaos rising along the southern border as cartels are paying top dollar to smuggle people from around the world into the u.s. including a growing number of chinese nationals. all of this as the cartels continue to push tons and tons of deadly drugs across the border killing hundreds of americans every day. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i'm john roberts. good to be with you again. >> gillian: i'm gillian turner. the drug cartels are keeping u.s. border patrol agents very busy these days especially over the weekend. agents seized 111 pounds of meth and 99 pounds of fentanyl.

gunmen killed two soldiers in mexico friday. they killed 360,000 people across mexico since 2006. >> john: no let-up with human trafficking. many migrants from china coming through ecuador before sneaking into the united states and paying big sums. >> very lucrative organizations. they are charging anywhere from $35,000 and up. >> gillian: full fox team coverage ahead. senator cornyn has an update on the trip to mexico meeting with the mexican president. griff jenkins joins us in mission, texas first. >> good morning. you are correct. border patrol is busy this

morning. i've been out since 4:00 this morning and they have been busy because it has been raining. the smugglers love the rain because the ground is soft and makes it harder for border patrol's vehicles getting stuck in the mud. we have had more than half a dozen different groups come. we even talked to the smugglers sending the raft across the river. mexican nationals, columbians and a migrant from north africa. in the chinese situation it's unprecedented. we have breaking news but first i want to show you video, gillian. it is heartbreaking. you will see the sergeant here talking to a toddler, a 2-year-old child that smugglers had dropped just at the river as we walked up on him. he was terrified. the sergeant tried to console the child. there was a note around his neck with instructions for officials to send him to some sort of

adult in louisiana. that is part of what we see here every day. it is heartbreaking, the ruthlessness and callousness of these smugglers dropping a 2-year-old. he said he was two years old. dropped by himself. now in that same group just a little bit up the river, seven chinese. you can see here every single day, four straight days, gillian, i have encountered chinese nationals being dropped off and why the border patrol chief here says they are seeing a 920% increase in chinese nationals. so much so we now can show you exclusive video fox news capturing in brownsville, texas, border patrol releasing chinese nationals to a local ngo with notice to appear. they have been processed by border patrol and released to the public. we don't know everything about them and we certainly don't know where they will go.

that's why the border officials are saying this is not only a humanitarian crisis as we showed you with that child, but also a national security crisis now with tons of chinese nationals being set loose in the u.s., gillian. >> gillian: very hard to see that footage of a 2-year-old left stranded at the border. thank you for bringing us these stories. we appreciate it. >> john: our next guest is back from mexico leading a bipartisan delegation to meet with mexico's president seeking cooperation. texas senator john cornyn is a republican on the senate caucus on international narcotics control and other committees. thank you for being with us this morning. you and some of your colleagues went to see president obrador over the weekend. did you get the response you were hoping for? >> this is mainly a fact finding mission. you can tell because we had 12 bipartisan members of the house and senate going.

this is a group that is trying to figure some way to address the problems that have been caused by the border crisis, the flow of drugs, the millions of people coming across, many of them claiming asylum only to be released like the chinese nationals that you just mentioned into the interior of the country and many of them don't appear for their court date which could be years down the road. mexico is important to the united states because we share a common border. they are the largest trading partner. millions of jobs in america depend on that trade so we're trying to figure out where can we do better, where is common ground and we made -- we sent the message loud and clear to president obrador and his cabinet meeting with them for four hours saying the status quo was unacceptable. >> john: he appears to be gas lateing claiming mexico doesn't produce fentanyl. he said here we do not produce

fentanyl and we do not have consumption of fentanyl. we deeply lament what is happening in the united states. why don't they fight the problem and more importantly why don't they take care of their youth? how do you deal with a guy who says stuff like that? >> it's not easy. not easy. he knows that's not the case. as we had frank discussions with president obrador and his cabinet there was none of that sort of denial of reality. that's what we need to deal with, the reality of what's happening at the border. the drugs, the people, and we need to also hold the biden administration's feet to the fire because the status quo, as my democratic colleagues now understand clearly, is unsustainable particularly when title 42 goes away in may. we have to come up with a different answer and that's why we went to try to figure out. >> john: when you look at the number of americans that die from fentanyl every year.

2021 it was 706,016,789 it keeps going up year after year after year. 70,000 is more than all the u.s. combat deaths in vietnam, iraq and afghanistan put together. this would, senator, appear to be, if nothing else, a war. should we respond to it as such? >> well, we know that precursors, original chemicals that make up the drugs are imported mainly from china to mexico where the cartels find this to be the most lucrative product they can possibly produce. as we've learned, these cartels are commodity agnostic. they will sell people or drugs and anything to make money. that's all they care about. what we are trying to do is figure out what the best way to gain the cooperation of the mexican government. this is honestly, i think they would admit their problem, too, despite what president obrador said.

we are connected by a common border. we can't get a divorce. we can't separate ourselves from the problem. we need to figure out how to solve the problem hopefully together. if we can't do it together how does the united states protect the american people? >> john: we got the mexican's attention when we sent in the military back in the 1800s. thank you for joining us. your message got through loud and clear here today. >> thank you very much. >> gillian: the house judiciary committee wants to hear from new york district attorney alvin bragg about his potential prosecution of former president trump and the allegations he paid hush money to adult film star stormy daniels. it would mark the first criminal case against a former u.s. president. chad pergram joins us from capitol hill with breaking details. >> good morning. alvin bragg is the latest

targets of a probe. they demand answers from him by thursday. they want to know if there was communication between the d.o.j. and bragg. >> this is just in manhattan, a the d.a. understand the person you are defending. do you want to defend a small d.a. taking up a case of a person who is a nominee for president? >> some republicans say the privately needs a clean break from the president. missouri republican met with former president trump twice last week at mar-a-lago. >> we need a president back behind that resolute desk going to take control and steer us to greatness. i think president trump is prepared to do that. i think this is going to be a minor distraction.

it is a long road, two years to go but he seems to be calm, resolute and ready to go. >> the potential indictment of a former president is consuming most cubic centimeters of news oxygen. republicans are trying to redirect attention to policy issues. >> this will be the kind of thing that gobbles up the headlines for a month or longer. i will be more focused on securing the border, balancing the budget and getting ready for competition with china. >> an indictment could rally trump loyalists but democrats believe there trump is toxic. the more the gop talks about trump the less time they spend talking about the economy. >> gillian: chad pergram on capitol hill for us this morning. thank you. >> i saw a car flying and all of

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>> gillian: two people are dead and several injured after a car crashed onto the curb in brooklyn yesterday afternoon. it was caught on surveillance video. a white sedan was speeding and t-boned and s.u.v. the car jumps the curb and slams into another car and hits several pedestrians along the way. the driver of the second vehicle and pedestrian were killed. police say one injured victim is still in critical condition. four others are stable. the driver of the out of control car was taken into custody >> the nation's capital starting to look like a wild west. new data finds 67% of suspects arrested there are not even prosecuted adding to the breakdown of law and order in d.c. as an outdated crime laboratory. david spunt has the details.

>> good morning. these numbers are for fiscal year 2022. the numbers are eye opening. the headline 2/3 of those arrested weren't charged. 67%. 15,315 arrests reviewed in total in fiscal year 2022. 10,261 declined. 8,238 were disdemeanors and 2,000 felonies. sources inside the u.s. attorneys office in washington, they blame the fact that d.c. forensic crime lab lost its accreditation in 2021. staffing is low, equipment outdated and the lab cannot process evidence as it should. right now the u.s. attorneys office has to outsource to private labs for help and causes a delay on the system. the u.s. attorneys office provided this statement to fox news. we continue to prosecute violent crime in the district of columbia as aggressively as ever. in 2022 we charged roughly 90%

of the most serious violent crime arrests and continued to investigate the small percentage we weren't able to immediately charge. this data comes out not long after president biden bucked members of his own party and came out against the first big change to d.c's criminal code in more than 120 years lowering penalties and opponents dubbed it soft on crime. >> there are a lot of experiments out there that some cities are struggling. look at the crime rates. proportionate to some of the changes made in those cities. let's sit down and have meaningful discussions who you to improve the criminal justice system. >> the most violent crimes are still being prosecuted is what officials say. >> john: david, thank you. gillian. >> gillian: take a look at this. alex murdaugh's son record has gone on the record in the death of a classmate that he says, quote, he says i've tried my

best to ignore the vicious rumors about my involvement in smith's debt. i haven't spoken up until now because i want to live in private. steven smith's family is vowing justice over his death and putting the murdaugh family once again into the national spotlight. let's bring in nancy grace. thanks for being with us. take a listen to the smith family's attorney on this new investigation they are demanding. i want to get your response. >> there were no skid marks around his body. no vehicle debris found. his loosely tied shoes were still on his feet. it is our job and honor today to launch a new investigation into this death in the hopes of finding real answers. >> gillian: what do you think, nancy? >> i think the exhumation of this teen boy steven smith is a long time coming. first responders that appeared

that night at the scene after a stranger calls 911 to report a body in the very middle of the road, which i find very unusual. as if it is staged there back on july 18, 2015. the first responders said it looks like he was shot in the head. they thought it was the cause of death. according to the autopsy we've been told it was changed to vehicular homicide because the body was found on the road. i have driven that road at night in the pitch dark. let me tell you something, if a car was coming, you could see the headlights. there are no street lights or no lights whatsoever, nothing. you can see a car coming with headlights on miles away against the stark contrast of the dark. his mother, who knows him, says no way he would have walked down the road at night.

three miles away from his car. he had a cell phone. he would have called his sister and said i ran out of gas and come get me. i find the first responders' observation very interesting. the mom had to raise nearly $70,000 on a gofundme to get the body exhumed. now i believe there will be a private autopsy of steven smith once there is a court order. you can't go and start digging in a cemetery. you need a court order. regarding buster, buster murdaugh is mourning the murder of his brother and brother and yes, he thinks his father didn't do it and probably can't accept the jury decision. but he feels like he has to defend himself. i hate that for buster murdaugh. let's not put that -- have a private autopsy and then decide. >> gillian: you know better than

anyone else. not the first time that folks in south carolina are accusing this family of using their influence and power to try and get family members out of trouble. you might call it a pattern. what do you think? >> well, i know this, when you don't know a horse, look at his track record. it has happened over and over and over and over. i saw it in the mallory beach case where she was thrown off the murdaugh boat with paul murdaugh at the wheel. alex was hovering like a vampire over the other boat goers trying to get them not talk to police. the housekeeper falling down the steps at the hunting dodge and is this any different? i'm not saying it is buster at all. i don't think it would be buster murdaugh. if anyone trying to shape a case, it would be alex murdaugh. that's something for him to think about while he is sitting in jail wondering what

correctional institute he is headed to. >> gillian: i always learn something from talking to you. thank you for taking time with us this morning. >> thank you for inviting me. i want justice for this boy's mother. >> gillian: thank you. john. >> if you're somebody that wants to earn a paycheck and contribute to the greater good in the countries working in the crafts, there is nothing more rewarding than that. >> john: a drop in skilled worker. why it is becoming harder and harder to find a plumber or electrician. it is not just you, it's true. a massive teachers union laying down the gauntlet against ron desantis and how the fight could offer a preview of 2024. >> democrats believe government and they are better deciding of your family and children than you. you want to best for your children in this country. ployed and how much we want to put down roots when we come home.

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>> gillian: as trillions of federal money starts flowing into infrastructures across the country there might not be enough workers to fill the jobs. older workers are retiring quickly. not enough young people are being trained to take their place as construction workers, plumbers and electricians to name a few trades. mike emanuel joins us with what is being done to try to help fill this glaring gap. hi, mike. >> bill: it's become a very competitive environment trying to attract skilled trade workers. associated general contractors of america reports 93% of construction firms report open positions. 91% are having trouble filling some of the positions. 77% think they don't have the skills or can't pass a drug test. 66% of firms have delayed projects because of labor

shortages. we talked to a family-owned business going back to 1938 and told us at a time when college is so expensive his industry offers young workers a great opportunity. >> something that we're very proud of in the construction industry is you start off without debt and you never go into debt. you start off with the american dream from the beginning creating mortgage, family, everything else and then you just continue to build from there. >> to address the problem experts say there needs to be a paradigm shift promoting the benefits of the skilled trades to parents and counselor. not every person needs to go to college. with supply and demand challenges those who go this route can make a good living. >> you thought you started an apprentice at $13 an hour. that's just the beginning. i have a former student of mine right now making $35 to $50 an hour and he is 22 years old. depends on what job.

>> across the industry pay is going up in many places. some companies are offering incentives and bonuses, too. gillian. >> gillian: mike emanuel, thank you so much. john. >> john: the national teachers union going after florida governor ron desantis. the group's president lambasted the governor's education policies saying we are disgusted and outraged. we can't just be angry. we have to channel the angry into a comprehensive action to beat back the laws having this chilling effect on what we can teach and what our students can learn. woke laws that don't allow students to study the way race and racism impacted america's legal and social systems. don't say gay bills that have our students afraid to be themselves and educators afraid to support them. karl rove. this illuminates that education will be a key issue in 2024.

>> congratulations to governor desantis in the choice of his opponents that i can't imagine anything more dumb than what the national education association union president did by going after him. think about this. we've had a referendum on this. the law that florida that says you can't have sex education for kindergartner, first and second graders was an issue in the campaign and ron desantis won by the biggest margin in the history of the state of florida by 20 points. if i were ron desantis, i don't know how he got himself in a place where he has this kind of enemy, congratulations to him. she will go after him for opposing courses that say that america is racist and has been such since the beginning of the country. that's a sure winner as well for him. congratulations on the choice of his adversary here. it will do nothing but benefit him both during the republican primary and if he were to be the

nominee in a general election. >> john: gallup took on the poll of importance of education to voters in 2020. 83% of voters in that gallup poll felt that education would be extremely or very important in terms of how it would influence their vote for president. it seems to have only grown since then. desantis, you remember, karl, the other day did the press conference with a videotape he ran of all of the concerns that he had with books that were in school libraries across the state. >> right. and look, he is emphasized the importance of giving every child a quality education teaching them to read, write, add, subtract. the essentials. so what he has been doing is pushing the buttons that cause people to say he cares about our kids as well as opposing policies that most parents are in agreement with. we've seen how this drama plays out not only in his election but some of the same issues came up

in the virginia governor's race a state joe biden won by ten points and youngkin got elected as a republican governor on the issue of education. big mistake by the nea to pick out an early and so say ugly things and pick some of the most vulnerable points they have, not him. >> john: virginia election was going to go mccaul i have's way. parents across the state stood up and i'm not going to tell you who i voted for but parents across the state stood up and said wait a second. if anybody should have a say in what their kids are being taught, it is parents. >> absolutely. the idea of defending teaching kindergartners, first, second and third graders sex education. how nutty can you be? that ought to be the responsibility of the family.

if the school system is going to touch on those issues, it should do so at an age appropriate level which is what the florida law says. let the nea defend these crazy positions. ron desantis will have an advantage every single day that they do. >> john: fox news poll also took a look at this and asked who is doing a better job at education? the results are surprising. democrats 49% are doing a better job. republicans just five points behind. historically the gap is much wider. >> look, this is one. issues the republicans have that they don't seem to understand. confidence at the state level. i was talking yesterday to a fellow from california. he said when he grew up in california, the schools were among the best in the country and now they are ranked 47th, 48th and spend a large amount of money and part of the reason that people that he knows are moving to texas is because quality of life is better, cost of housing is less, and the

schools are better. and we're likely to see this issue continue to play out. the gap between the two parties on education has historically been double digits advantage for the democrats. for it to shrink to this place is a sign that across the country republicans are starting to win on the education issue by emphasizing quality, access, choice, and putting the child first. >> john: we'll watch to see how it all plays out. great to see you. appreciate it. >> gillian: opening arguments are set to begin in a ski crash lawsuit involving actress paltrow. as the trial gets underway what both sides are saying. president biden issues the first veto of his presidency rejecting a bill that puts profits ahead of wokeness. we'll ask senator braun. >> democrats and republicans come together in the house and senate to send a clear message we need to go back to the old

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>> gillian: virginia school teacher shot by a 6-year-old student in her classroom now is speaking out about her recovery. take a look. >> going through what i've gone through, i try to stay positive. i just will never forget the look on his face that he gave me while he pointed the gun directly at me. it changed my life. >> how do you make sense of something like this? >> you can't. you can't. >> gillian: that teacher is suing the school district for inaction. the little boy who shot her will not be charged. there is a chance his parents could face prosecution. police say the first grader used his mother's gun. questions whether it was

secured. >> john: opening arguments in a lawsuit against actress gwyneth paltrow claiming she injured a man while skiing in utah in 2016. she says he caused the accident hitting her from behind. we are live in snow country in denver. what's this all about? >> terry sanderson says on that day in 2016 that gwyneth paltrow was skiing out of control at deer valley resort in utah claiming she slammed into him and took off. the 76-year-old retired man said the blow was so hard he suffers from a permanent traumatic brain injury and disfigurement. his attorney in 2019. >> ms. paltrow hit terry sanderson at a very good rate of speed. a very high clip and then knocked him forward, knocked him

over, broke four ribs, broke four ribs, caused his head to go into the snow and stop suddenly. he had a closed head organic brain injury from that. >> sanderson sued the actress for $3.1 million but that was dropped. >> friends helped me and stayed with me in some cases. i sat in a chair and i couldn't do anything. i couldn't function. so i get so tired i go to bed. >> paltrow filed a counterclaim against sanderson seeking $1 from the plaintiff plus attorneys fees. her attorney writing plaintiff admits he does not remember what happened, ms. paltrow what happened clearly. she was enjoying skiing with her family on vacation in utah when

plaintiff up hill from her plowed into her back. she sustained a full body blows plaintife "new york post" is sa paltrow will testify. >> john: that's a he said/she said. >> gillian: president biden rejected a measure that bans the government from making investment decisions based on factors other than profits or loss such as what republicans call woke agenda issues. the president tweeted i vetoed my first bill. it would risk your retirement savings by making it illegal to consider risk factors, maga house republicans don't like. the plan manager should be able to protect your hard-earned savings whether marjorie taylor green likes it or not. mike braun is the co-author of the bill the president vetoed.

what is your reaction to what the president said there? >> didn't surprise me at all. since he has been around and the congress when it was controlled by democrats been an enterprising operation. they are going to do anything through their agencies if they can't get it done legislatively. that won't happen on anything going forward. on this particular case they are setting new ground here in terms of from the clinton years through bush, through obama, through trump, one criteria. get the best investment based upon the numbers, not woke agenda. so this is emblematic of what they've been doing. if they can't get it done legislatively they'll go through rulings and executive orders. a heavy handed government and who would want if they see their monthly statement to see that bloomberg looked at it 2 1/2%

nearly more poor return if you would follow these kind of investment approaches. this is kind of an under the -- sneaky way to get the woke agenda in their even on your retirement funds. that should be the best return only. that's what we did, biden vetoed it. >> gillian: there are legislative options available to you and your colleagues. have you surveyed the scene and looked at the chances for overturning the president's veto? >> same thing here. that's not going to happen because you would need too many votes. it went through in bipartisan support in both chambers but not enough to overturn a veto. and this is just another way that they can push forward on an agenda that i don't think syncs

with most of america. they push this agenda and i think you will have upset folks saying why didn't you go after the best return? it doesn't eliminate this from being something you can invest it. it says the main criteria is goth the best rate of return. >> gillian: look at this. global assets projected to rise, investments in esg. in 2021 there were about 18 1/2 trillion dollars. by 2026, $33.9 trillion. that's a big increase. i wonder why you can't have both. why somebody can't have a financially responsible retirement portfolio that earns them money but also pays attention to important social issues? >> if it's a better return.

if you push -- if you had done that avoiding oil and gas stocks, it would have cost -- that difference in 2.6% actually on 8.9% being where it would be, that's nearly a 30% difference. i think you have a lot of people in the fiduciary relationship that won't be aware of it and they will wonder what happened. if, in fact, you make those investments and the returns are there and you get it, that's fine. but that should be ancillary, not primary. >> gillian: thank you for joining us today and laying it on the line. we appreciate it. >> you bet. >> john: another chinese app related to tiktok raising national security concerns. why that app has been going viral and why some people are saying you should get rid of it.

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>> gillian: tiktok ceo set to testify congress thursday over data collection and national security concerns. another popular app is also it turns out owned by tiktok's chinese parent company bytedance. the video editing tool. madison is live in the new york city newsroom with new details. hi. >> this app is rising in popularity but as you mentioned it has avoided scrutiny by washington and american users because of its function. cap cut can edit videos east lie. because it's a tool app and not a social media platform, there has not been as much focus on how they handle data. they continue to collect more and more of it as the app grows in popularity. it is number two on the top

chart for the apple app store with tiktok in fourth. it collects the data in line with other video editing tools and says it stores data in the u.s. and sing poor similar to tiktok. when we asked if data is shared with china the company did not comment. how much this app was grown in popularity, it has 302 million active users. thats a 35% increase year-over-year. security experts warn that the multitude of chinese-pavesed apps should be examined for the data and power of their algorithms to sway public sentiment. >> we need to be really sure if somehow the chinese company owned 100 newspapers or a vast number of our tv stations we would be like wait a second. what's going on here? here you've got a technology where the decisions about what so many of us see is determined

by. >> the tiktok ceo will testify later this week. reality is it's not just the app garnering attention for data and security. the whole multitude of apps under bytedance. >> gillian: a lot to worry about whether you heard of these apps or not. thank you. >> john: city of miami beach is not going to renew a curfew after all following a pair of deadly shootings over the weekend. city's mayor told us yesterday he backed the curfew. late last night the commission voted 4-3 against closing down the city at midnight beginning thursday. a shooting in the south beach area during spring break celebrations friday left one person dead and another injured and sunday another person was fatally shot prompting the city to declare enact an emergency. the mayor calls the decision to not renew the curfew a dangerous mistake. i would imagine that a lot of people will be there this coming

thursday. >> gillian: not the first time we've seen this kind of incident. check out dana perino's podcast. >> john: dana will be back tomorrow and i will fill in for bill again. see you all tomorrow. >> gillian: great to be with you today. thank you for joining us. >> john: "the faulkner focus" coming up. >> harris: the backlash over president biden's first veto is causing a lot of talk today and he used it to block a bill that would protect your retirement investments from a woke financial and-or political agenda. i'm harris falkier and you are in "the faulkner focus." it was a republican-led measure to overturn regulation of esg guidelines. you know the acronym