escobar, this is hearing the perspective from the two of them, explosive, incredible. part two on thursday and watch on youtube, thank everyone. >> sandra: i can't wait, and i bet their stories are -- >> gripping, yes, yes. >> thank you for watching and when you can't, dvr us. we'll be sitting here no matter what. "america reports" next. >> john: begin with the fox news alert, the pentagon set to hold a briefing amid fresh concerns adversaries are teaming up for a new global order. china brokered a surprising peace deal in the middle east while expanding influence in latin america and africa. minutes ago, russia and china signing an agreement to expand their economic ties. >> sandra: it's a big deal. what does the white house need to do to stop this team of

america's rivals? fred fleitz, ready to go, geared up and we'll be joined shortly. >> john: begin "america reports" with an indictment watch for former president trump as manhattan d.a. alvin bragg's motives are questioned by critics. john roberts in washington. happy tuesday, sandra. >> sandra: and john, you are warmed up yet again. sandra smith in new york city. the former president predicted he would be arrested today, but he is not expected to be arraigned until next week, the grand jury has another witness to hear from. >> john: the manhattan district attorney for the soft on crime approach is taking heat for what critics say is politically motivated. his office is firing back. sal wisenberg in a moment.

>> bryan joins us live in studio. what is the latest from district attorney alvin bragg's office? >> the office has responded to jim jordan and house speaker kevin mccarthy's calls for bragg to testify to congress over the possible indictment of former president trump. they have characterized bragg's investigation as a political witch hunt. a spokesperson for the d.a.'s office telling fox news digital we will not be intimidated by attempts to undermine the justice process, nor let baseless accusations deter us from fairly applying the law. bragg is also being criticized by attorney robert costello, who at the request of trump's lawyers testified to the grand jury yesterday. he said he provided notes and some 330 emails to bragg's office proving that their star witness, trump's former personal attorney, michael cohen, is a

serial liar. costello said only six emails were given to the grand jury. >> i wanted to present this to alvin bragg as i had presented it to the southern district. look me in the eye and assess my credibility. did i have more credibility than michael cohen. because michael cohen in my opinion was lying about just about everything. >> costello, who was cohen's legal adviser, said back in 2018, cohen said he secretly decided on his own to pay off adult film star stormy daniels using his own money. cohen says costello is lying and the payment was coordinated with and the benefit of trump. >> the beauty that i have is i have facts, i have truth, i have the documentation. let me rephrase that. the district attorney has the documentation in order to validate every single statement that i've made. >> in a late night video on truth social, trump denied all wrongdoing, calling it a witch hunt.

trump's defense lawyers for another case entirely just spoke and said, sandra, that trump is not afraid of an indictment and he will be vindicated by the facts. >> sandra: the grand jury will hear from another witness tomorrow. >> there could be an indictment tomato, arraignment next week. >> sandra: we'll watch the developments. thank you. john. >> john: sal, former white water deputy independent counsel in ken starr's office. appreciate your presence. so the point has been made, and the question asked by a bunch of people, is this a legitimate criminal prosecution or a political prosecution, which do you think? >> well, in answering that question, i think you need to ask yourself would anybody else be indicted for this, whether it's a normal citizen or a former president of the united states. keep in mind, john, this is a novel legal theory, never before tried in a new york court. the idea that a misdemeanor

falsification of business records can be elevated to a felony if your motive was to commit another felony. in this case, the other felony would be a federal campaign finance violation that the federal government itself chose not to bring the department of justice. so, it's got a lot of problems, and i think those are the kind of questions you need to ask yourself if you want to determine whether or not it's political. whether it's political or not, and i think a classic political prosecution, all kinds of problems. there are the problems i just mentioned, and there are statute of limitations problems looming. >> john: statute of limitations if it's a misdemeanor, but not elevated to a felony. robert costello -- >> there could even be problems if it's a felony, sorry for interrupting. a lot of untested questions this. >> john: no question.

see those answered or maybe not going forward. robert costello appeared yesterday before the grand jury, what he said on "tucker." >> how do you assess the case? >> weak, to say the least. two hours testifying before the grand jury in downtown manhattan, and i got my point across, although it was clear to me that the manhattan d.a.'s office did not want to get to the truth. >> john: costello seems to indicate bragg is only interested in bagging the former president and not the trut of the situation. what do you think? >> another question to ask in that regard. i think that is a reasonable conclusion from the facts. they are going to have another problem. let's assume they can prove their case, everything else they say is true. the motive has to be to violate campaign finance law for this to be a felony. what if the motive is to protect your wife or to protect your reputation because of

infidelity. there are a lot of problems here and let me ask you something else, john. when you think about the importance of this, right, one of the things prosecutor is supposed to think about, is the public interest really served by very stale prosecution of what is in essence a misdemeanor. how do you compare this in importance, this alleged falsification, with the clinton campaign hiding the fees paid to christopher steele and fusion gps and calling them legal expenses. they were fined for this. the clinton campaign, got buried, fined for this in 2022 because the federal election commission said it was a lie. which is more important do you think to the country, hiding that, or what trump is alleged to have done here? >> john: and going back to your previous point, this idea of paying the money to shield your marriage is a defense that john

edwards effectively employed when he was popped for illegal campaign contributions, got off of one count, deadlocked jury on the other five and then the doj declined to go back and reprosecute him. for its part, alvin bragg's office saying it's not going to bow to what it calls intimidation from the house judiciary committee which wants to haul alvin bragg before the members there, saying we will not be intimidated by attempts to undermine the justice process nor let baseless accusations deter us, in every prosecution we uphold the law, and lawyers are hard at work. 15 seconds. >> well, john, he's already been in intimidated, he decided they were not going to go forward with it, and intimidated by the parties. the statement is preposterous.

>> john: good to catch up with you. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> sandra: president biden officially signing a bipartisan covid origins act into law. ordered the national intelligence director to declassify all information relating to the wuhan lab of virology. it comes after the energy department and the fbi both concluded the once dismissed lab leak theory is most likely what caused the pandemic. we'll speak with kentucky senator rand paul on what he hopes to learn from the declassified documents. but first, to jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn for us. now that the president has signed the bill, what comes next? >> sandra, the big question is when we might, excuse me, actually get something out of this. the director of national intelligence was also directed to declassify relevant information related to the trump and biden classified documents. we have not seen anything come of that yet. members of congress generally say they don't really have a timeline on when they might see

something here and the last line of the president's statement yesterday said that if it violates somehow or jeopardizes u.s. national security it would not be released in the first place. but this is, of course, a start, especially after the department of energy sided with the fbi in their assessment that the pandemic most likely sparked from a lab leak. >> we need to stop all gain of function research right now, we need to stop all funding right now, we are still funding ecohealth. and what our research has shown is that preponderance of evidence shows it started in wuhan, china. >> last month dr. fauci said the world may never know the true origin of covid, but china said it's open and shut saying it was extremely unlikely it came from

a lab leak. the w.h.o. chief raised doubts about the report in a highly unusual step. china has been using it to swat down findings from the biden administration probe, and what nexus the chinese lab may have had with the u.s. entities. >> gain of function research was prohibited in the nih, rescinded the prohibition, trying to hide this because there was indirect funding of the research, do they feel complicit, led to the virus becoming more contagious. >> when the department of energy sided with the fbi in determining this most likely stemmed from a lab leak, members of congress were frustrated the biden administration was not openly welcoming and embracing

the lab leak theory, and the reason, four agencies think natural transmission was the cause, and two are undecided. so hopefully new information with the new law will tell us why that is, sandra. >> sandra: jacqui, thank you. john. >> john: labor strike shutting down the nation's second largest school system. los angeles. union representing teachers aides, support staff are demanding higher wages and more full-time work. teachers are also walking off the job in solidarity, to cancel classes for more than 500,000 students for what could be three days. los angeles mayor has announced support for affected families, including grab and go lunch

sites and student supervision in more than 150 schools. i understand they are fighting for better working conditions and more work, but ultimately the kids who pay the price. >> sandra: and they are paying the price. we are going to dig into this with the panel coming up, dagen and sean will be here. illinois, a group there just released report cards for the top 20 biggest school districts in that state. and it is not a good picture what is happening with the nation's children. talking about grade levels and this is an average, 44% of kids are meeting grade level reading standards and math level stands. 95% graduation rate a lot of the high schools, but graduating with a 45% reading at grade level rate so just passing the kids through. they are lowering the bar, john. and that is going to leave these kids in a really tough position for their futures and we should

be taking note of that. >> john: you think dagen will have something to say about this for a change? >> sandra: nothing at all, i can't imagine. meanwhile, watching for developments on this. gwyneth paltrow may soon take the stand to defend herself in a utah courtroom. why she's a -- what she's accused of doing to a man on the ski slopes and this happened years ago. but she's just now taking the stand. we'll be watching for the courtroom in salt lake city. >> jerome powell's stewardship of the events as at all a risk to his position as chairman of the federal reserve? >> no, not at all. >> john: the white house says president biden supports how fed chairman jerome powell is handling the u.s. banking crisis. will it slip if the fed pushes ahead with another rate hike? if so, what would it mean for

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>> john: city commissioners in miami beach voting against plans to renew an overnight curfew following a pair of deadly shootings over the past weekend. the mayor said he backed the curfew but the city commission voted 4-3 against closing down the city again at midnight thursday. police say a shooting in the south beach area during celebrations friday left one dead, another injured. another person was fatally shot on sunday in the early morning. the mayor calls the decision to not renew the curfew "dangerous mistake." >> sandra: here i am chatting away with charles already.

federal reserve meeting this week and the question is, will chairman powell hike rates or leave them alone after all the turmoil in the u.s. banking system. that is the question heading into all this. charles payne, host of fbn "making money." we were chatting with the housing market, very closely tied. but jerome powell had been tasked with bringing down historic prices, ok. as jackie pointed out on the program yesterday we didn't have to be here, ok. this was the result of massive amounts of government spending continued in the face of prices already going up. but here we are, and then mix in a little banking turmoil, what does jerome powell do next? >> it is so, so tough to figure this one out, and just to give you an example, the counterpart in europe, the ecb went ahead with a rate hike, 50 basis points. they promised they were going to do that, and they felt if they

didn't do it it would have sent a signal of we are panicking. you know, sometimes, though, sandra, there is fire in a crowded movie theater, sometimes there really is a fire and sometimes you need to say there's a fire here, and i think jerome powell is back into a corner in that respect. they already have done the most aggressive rate hiking cycle in history. and all of that is going to keep working in on the economy, and most has not even hit the economy yet. they call it the lag effect. so you can imagine this boulder coming down, it's on its way down, nothing will start that. >> sandra: starting to scare me, charles. >> banking crisis, banks will be not lending money to small businesses, so the economy on its own is tightening up, it's seizing up, it's going to seize up more as the lag effect goes in. great opportunity to stand back and say hey, a lay of the land, pause right now. >> sandra: ok, you think he's

going to pause. >> i think he's -- i think -- >> sandra: had we not had the svb meltdown. >> 50 basis points tomorrow. >> sandra: so i ask the question i asked larry kudlow, do you have a bank gone rogue and mismanagement dictating the federal reserve policy? i think you have to say yes, that's the case. >> it was not one bank, it was the epiphany the banks are in trouble. and we saw this last year, bank deposits started to go negative for the first time. december 1st, fdic put out a report about the first quarter, 670 billion in unrealized losses and said it's going to get worse. >> sandra: there have a real life consequence to the fed action to tame inflation, look at home prices, these are existing home prices. they did drop for the first time in over a decade since february 2012, average home

price high, 363,000, but did come down. and [ding ding ding], the more the federal reserve has to raise interest rates to get the prices down, inflicts pain on the american economy and now you are seeing it hit the housing market. >> and those numbers would have been down a lot more. 2.6 months of supply, it's very, very limited supply out there. some of the other parts that are worrisome, first time home buyers, 27%, and healthy economy, 40%. the folks with cash, the big time, the hedge fund and those guys are able to buy the homes but first time home buyers, people who want the american dream, the house with the white picket fence, it's beyond their grasp and then you know, forget i just mentioned the loans are going to be tough. you are not going to be able to get a loan. even as the prices come down, the average person will not be able to take advantage. >> sandra: explained the surge we saw in home sales in the month of february as possibly a

momentary blip. people running out to take advantage what is historically low interest rates, but on their way up. 14.5% for the month, i have five seconds. >> the last few months, every time it has dipped buyers jump in. a lot of people believe it's going to take off and not come back for a long time. listen, it gets back to the free money. a couple trillion dollars in free money. >> sandra: it was there for way too long. see you at 2:00, fbn. >> john: just what parents did not want to hear, another scandal for fairfax county public schools, a lawsuit now accusing the direct covering up a gang rape a decade ago. could the educators still be working with a new generation of kids in virginia. we have a fairfax county parent ahead. >> sandra: and pentagon briefing as vladimir putin continues his summit with xi jinping. can america do anything to stop

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>> sandra: we are waiting a pentagon update top of the hour as america's top foreign adversaries, including russia and china build stronger ties amid the war in ukraine, comes after a warning from beijing of possible conflict and confrontation with the united states. chinese president xi is now inviting russian president putin for a state visit to china later this year as they meet this week in moscow. general anthony tata joining us for more on all of that, but first senior correspondent mike tobin is live in kyiv. are the ukrainians taking the

fight into areas controlled by russia, mike? >> sandra, for the first time since the invasion a year ago, ukrainian forces are claiming a strike on the crimean peninsula, land russia has controlled since 2014. what they hit was a load of caliber cruise missiles shipped by rail, destined for russia's black sea fleet. the missiles had been used repeatedly during the war, often fired from ships in the black sea. another reason the strike is remarkable, vladimir putin was in the area a day and a half earlier, ukrainian spokesman says the strike is a signal for the invaders to leave. and as ukraine holds ground in south and east of the country, ukraine is getting a controversial shipment of weapons. british ministry says they will get depleted uranium rounds. it's effective at penetrating

armor but the rounds increase the tension as russia has equated depleted uranium with the use of a dirty bomb. it's not true. epa says it's only a radiation risk if taken internally. the u.s. has announced shipment of $350 million worth of ammo. president xi is in moscow, the japanese prime minister is here in kyiv. it's not anticipated the japanese will kick in any lethal weapons. thus far, provided only things like body armor. back to you in new york. >> sandra: thank you for the update on the ground in kyiv for us. >> john: joining us for more on this, author of "total empire," retired u.s. army general anthony tata. general, great to see you. so, putin and xi spent hours more together. >> great to see you all as well.

>> john: more hours together today, four hours yesterday, an awful lot of quality time with each other. what do you think, general, is going to come out of all this? >> well, i'm very concerned about this. it's a strategic victory for russia and china to sign this deal. you think about a depleted russian military and a weakening russian economy backed and supported by the powerful chinese economy. that's what we are facing here. the and it's a real strategic victory for china in particular to be here on the world stage acting as the diplomat and they know that in our national defense strategy we identify china as our primary threat and russia right behind them and so this alliance is very concerning and i'm sure the biden administration is very concerned. rather breathtaking to watch our two main adversaries come together in this fashion and the information messaging happening today is significant.

>> john: does seem to be a tremendous amount of weight to it. here is what the "new york times" observed about all of this, the partnership is fueled by a shared goal of trying to weaken u.s. power and influence. china and russia are not formal allies, meaning they have not committed to defend each other with military support but the two countries are close strategic partners. relationship that deepened during the war in ukraine as russia became increasingly isolated from many other countries. putin does not have a whole lot of friends, why he's probably embracing xi so tightly. but do these two countries, do you think, general, see weakness on the part of the biden administration and they are filling that vacuum? >> absolutely. this all began with the fumbled withdrawal from afghanistan with when i performed duties as under secretary of defense we had this mantra we came in together in afghanistan with nato, modified together and we were leaving together, and the rush to get out of afghanistan without lateral coordination with the

nato nations, that fractured nato in a way that has not been examined or talked about and beyond that, when you look at the nato nations still relying on russian oil, we have a real fractured nato alliance right now, and china and russia saw that opening, russia moved to the border immediately after the afghanistan withdrawal, and then obviously invaded ukraine and attempt to grandise themselves and china has come in a year later and offered support to them. and you think about the ramifications on our allies that are thinking about pitching in on this as you just mentioned, and the endless stream of chinese money coming into russian military equipment, that's -- that's a daunting task, i'm sure that's the message that russia wanted to send today and we have some serious thinking to do about how

to counter that, how to deter china, and how to help the ukrainians defend themselves. >> john: speaking of money coming in, a lot of american money that flows into china as well. trade deficit last year, $382.9 billion. that will build a lot of aircraft carriers, a lot of ammunition in guns as well. it seems to me, general, maybe i'm wrong about this, the u.s. has a lot of economic leverage over china. that if we just stopped making everything that we sell in this country over there, or most everything, that we could basically shut them down, but u.s. companies seem to be so addicted to chinese manufacturing they cannot get out. >> that's exactly right. the leverage that we once had with the robust economy has diminished somewhat, but as you mentioned, we still have good leverage and the unwillingness of this administration to pull

that economic lever of power with respect to china is very interesting to me because it was really what president trump did very well with regard to the tariffs and the messaging with respect to china to keep them off balance, to promise that if they did anything untoward that we would do exactly what you are talking about, and tighten the noose so that they didn't -- couldn't get the in-flow of cash that they need to pump up their economy and when you really look at china now, they have projected a declining growth in gdp, not decline, but declining growth but in the face of that, they are increasing by a significant amount their military spending, so china has put the world on notice that they are a power and we need to figure out how to deter them and make sure that we can remain the super power in the world. >> john: china, 7.1% year offer

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>> sandra: looks like roger goodell and the nfl staying together. long time executive is set to finalize a multi-year contract extension at next week's league owners' meeting. and expected to receive a bump in pay to his $63 million salary. he has held the job since 2006. since then, the value of nfl teams has skyrocketed. the denver broncos fetched 4.5 billion with a b dollars when they were sold last year. ro ro roger has been there, spy gate,

deflate-gate, the controversy over brain damage in players, concussions, a lot on his plate in his tenure. >> john: the amount of money in football is staggering. the fact he makes $63 million, makes more money than tom brady was making, at least in salary, and i've never seen goodell throw a football. what do i know. gwyneth paltrow is in court, a lawsuit claiming she injured a man skiing. she says he caused the accident, hitting her from behind. it is a he said/she said epic proportions, alicia ocuna in denver is watching the back and forth. and this could come down to one witness? >> yeah, that's right, john. we did learn that today in the opening statements. the jury is likely going to hear from this one witness who terry

sanderson's attorney says saw paltrow hit his client on the slopes. sanderson's attorney also described in detail traumatic brain injuries that sanderson suffered after the actress allegedly crashed into him on the slopes in utah in 2016. he was on a beginner's run at the deer valley resort, paltrow, on a family ski trip came barrelling down the mountain and hit him from behind. sanderson's attorney said they will hear from neurological experts who will explain the damage was so severe his client continues to suffer to this day. >> so what happened to terry? >> the day after the crash he goes to the v.a. hospital. they x-ray his ribs, yes, four broken ribs, two broken completely, and then a few days later they confirm terry suffered a concussion in this ski crash.

>> paltrow was in court today. she denies not only that she caused sanderson's injuries, but that she says he is the one who crashed into her, and not only does she contradict his events, she is counter suing for $1 in damages plus attorney's fees. >> i would suggest that sword is being used to defend the claim of false allegation. really kind of an offensive one. that she somehow left him, an unconscious man and bolted and it's -- i can tell you we believe that to be utter b.s. >> objection, your honor, argument. supposed to present what he's going to show, not argue it. >> we believe it to be. it's a fair -- >> "the new york post" is reporting paltrow is expected to take the stand in her own defense and reminder to everyone, it's not a criminal

trial. sanderson is suing her for $300,000. john. >> the latest on all of that, i know you are a skier and accidents do happen. >> sandra: and bad accidents can happen. and if you do plow into somebody, usually exchange of words, are you ok, and this particular case to your point about he said/she said. >> john: exchange of blows. >> her legal team has made the case he actually apologized to her after the run-in. who knows. >> john: did you see "the new york post" article on her wellness routine? >> sandra: what do i need -- she's the green juice drinker. goop. >> john: not only that, intravenous, 30 minutes of dry brushing in her infrared sauna, bone broth. >> sandra: every article she's talking her own book, in my opinion, she sells so many of

those things through her company. maybe she is that dedicated, i don't know. >> john: interesting article. a good read. she got a little criticism for the wellness routine. >> sandra: we'll be watching the courtroom. it could be something to see her take the stand. a virginia school district hit with a lawsuit for allegedly covering up the gang rape of a young student and the accusation is raising new worries for parents. we'll hear from one of them. asra nomani will be joining us next. >> john: los angeles schools closed after the school district and union failed to reach a deal on a contract. will it be students who pay the price? dagen mcdowell and sean duffy, co-host of "the bottom line" on fox business are here coming up. >> we have some of our most underpaid workers doing some of the most challenging jobs on the campuses. >> i feel they are probably being left behind. what play is that? ♪

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>> sandra: a developing story out of fairfax county, virginia, accusations that school district employees downplayed the sexual assault and harassment suffered by a 12-year-old girl. a lawsuit claims school leadership dismissed allegations of bullying against the victim and even sympathized with the

boys accused of repeatedly raping her between 2011 and 2012. asra nomani is a parent of a fairfax county student and senior fellow for the independent women's network, also author of "woke army." asra, thank you very much for joining us. i know you are here today because as a parent you want to share your concerns about what is happening there, what has happened there, and how do you protect your child? >> yeah, this is such a serious story, sandra. i've been following it for some years now because this brave young woman has been fighting the school system in fairfax county public schools for years. she has been anonymous. her name is b.r. i consider her brave, b.r. for brave. she's taking on a system, a machine, and this is a machine in which indeed, sandra, just like you said, there are school administrators, teachers and officials still in the system.

we don't know who they are publicly right now because fairfax county public schools lawyers went to court to make anonymous the names of those faculty and staff but i have them right here. there is a document that they did not redact that is still in the court documents and i just while we were on break went through the names. there are still four people at least on staff in fairfax county public schools, two assistant principals, a counselor and a technology specialist, who let this girl just suffer so deeply years ago and parents don't know where they are, but i'll tell you where they are. at rachel carson middle school, at another middle school called frost middle school, and they are still in the system and the school board is protecting them right now. >> sandra: that is a pretty remarkable development and fairfax schools are being sued in this alleged rape cover-up

that you are detailing asra. this is the plaintiff's attorney on what happened to her client. >> my client as a victim is moving forward with a pseudonym. so b.r. in the filings. the court gave the people who are the perpetrator, turned the blind eye pseudonyms in this case. these are individuals more than likely still teaching at fairfax county schools. still administrators, and parents, they have no idea. >> sandra: and that is -- that is a very scary thing that she points out there at the end that parents have no idea, to your point, asra, that some of those that were involved in this alleged cover-up are still in the system. this is a 76-page lawsuit and first viewed for us by our fox news digital team. it alleges the school was aware this girl, then aged 12, asra, had been experiencing increasing

menacing sexual harassment at her locker for months and allegedly had been sexual assaulted in a secluded area by her bus stop several times, including at knife point. the suit also alleged three unknown male students forced the girl into a hallway closet and raped her in between classes. the filing described the assault as consistent with the m.o. of human and sexual traffickers in the fairfax community. why would officials there want to cover this up? >> all they care about is their public image. and i have added up here on the document right here how much the school board has paid since it went into office in 2019 to the law firm that has tried to make anonymous these staffers, and $11.4 million, sandra. this lawsuit is the effort of a young woman to get justice and

you know what happens right now is that this young woman's stand is inspiring so many others. they are coming forward and it was a machine that was up against her, why did they keep it silent, because they wanted to save face and that's what the school system continues to do, as you know, sandra, and so many stories that you report so thank you so much for giving voice to this young woman because she's going to get justice one day. >> sandra: we will continue to cover it. asra, thank you for joining us on it. thank you. >> john: president biden signing off a bill to disclose "as much as possible about the origins of covid." but will that actually help us get to the bottom of what happened in wuhan? senator rand paul has been leading the charge on this for years now. he's going to join us to react and also new at 2:00, some common sense from the hosts of "the view," say it ain't so. even they are now slamming the stanford law students who got into a shouting match with a conservative just. carol says it's a trend in the

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