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>> sandra: all new at 2:00, parents fight to have a say in their children's classroom. it has reached capitol hill. a hearing on the parental bill of rights slated to begin in moments. >> john: we expect the house will vote on it tomorrow. republicans say it's a no brainer giving transparency to what exactly is taught in classrooms. but democrats say it's a no-go. >> it prioritizes right wing politics over parents. >> it's to sow distrust and to continue to make classrooms ground 0 for the maga culture wars. that's what this bill is about. >> john: we will take you there

live in moment and get reaction from ian pryor, a parent at the center of the fight. >> sandra: energy secretary jen g granholm is also on the hill. explaining the issues with the gas stove, but don't worry, only the expensive ones she's flagging. >> many cases they are very heavy grates and the burners can be an oval shape which causes excess amount of natural gas to be emitted relative to the pot that's on there. so it's just -- it's a wasteful use of natural gas. >> sandra: ah, but is she concerned about our ability to replenish the emergency oil supplies in this country? not so much. we are going to have more on that with phil flynn. she's talking about how difficult it may be to refill those reserves at $70 a barrel as we kick off hour two of "america reports."

sandra smith in new york. >> john: why fill at 26 bucks a barrel when you can fill it at 72. secretary granholm in the hot seat, and pete buttigieg grilled on the airline fiasco. >> and lloyd austin answering questions of military might and lack of recruits. >> john: and janet yellen next hour. but right now, about to testify before the house as two major powers set their sights on shaping a new world order. it's a fox news alert. >> sandra: china's president xi wrapping his power trip to russia putting bluntly what we already knew, beijing's bond with russia's president putin is part of his plan for a new world order that does not include the united states or the rest of the west.

>> john: president biden responding with a meeting of his own heading to canada to meet with prime minister trudeau. they will talk about the china spy ship shootdown from more than a month ago, something critics call too little too late, as china already plots the next move. >> sandra: jacqui heinrich is travelling with the president today in ottawa. jacqui, hello. >> hey, sandra. typically u.s. presidents first foreign leader visit is actually with canada but although trudeau and president biden have met virtually many times, also met on the sidelines of other multi-lateral summits, they have not had an in-person bilateral meeting between the two countries since obama came in 2009 because of covid and other delays. biden will be here about 24 hours about a lot of sticky issues while they pack in a cocktail hour with their spouses, bilateral meeting, address to parliament, gala,

dinner, they are outlining priorities. >> issue of migration, well aware of canadian concerns. we have concerns of our own and it's a shared hemisphere, a shared regional challenge. i have no doubt they will discuss it. and on norad modernization, the issue of the chinese spy balloon was a good reminder for all of us. >> modernizing the norad alliance was a more pressing issue after the spy balloon shootdown, and more of a focus on the arctic area. biden pushed canada to boost defense spending and trudeau is expected to argue canada has already done a lot. canada will want to talk about simmering trade disputes over the buy american push. since usmca went into effect in 2020, 17 disputes filed between the u.s., canada and mexico, and

only 77 filed over the nafta 25 year life-span. and they called averting what they describe as a serious crisis, now the u.s. is bitterly fighting canada's dairy policies. so the visit comes after chinese president xi jinping met with russian president vladimir putin and that meeting is also set to be a big topic of discussion between these two leaders as they seek to especially keep a united front over the issue of ukraine, sandra. >> sandra: jacqui heinrich live in canada, thank you very much, jacqui. john. >> john: and now you know why when i left canada i moved to miami. lloyd austin and mark milley why congress should approve the military budget.

the largest in pentagon history, but critics say it's deceiving and factor inflation and the small percentage to the overall economy, president biden's budget actually represents a cut to defense spending. wall street journal editorial board writing it falls "woefully inadequate meeting the world's growing threats." notes the shrinking navy and the struggle to recruit in the army warning the united states is falling behind even as the nation's enemies build up their forces and are more aggressive with their shows of force. jennifer griffin has more from the pentagon. the staffing problem is a big one, jennifer. >> john, so many issues. $842 billion budget as you mentioned is the largest in pentagon history, and includes the biggest request ever for pacific deterrent, weapons procurement, and largest space budget ever. 3.2% increase over last year,

critics say as you note does not account for inflation. defense secretary austin and chairman of the joint chiefs defended the budget. >> i think that we need to be really careful as we go forward to make sure that our military and our capabilities are way stronger than anything china can field. that's fundamental to deterrent, we don't want a war with china, we want to prevent that. >> the editorial board of the wall street journal criticized, a defense put and not fiscal restraint. putting welfare entitlements over national security. the navy would shrink the ships from 297 now to 291 in five years at a time when china's navy is expanding to 400 ships in the next two years. "the biden pentagon wants to retire ships prematurely, such as the cruiser u.s.s. viksburg,"

and pushed back on lawmakers who complained about the money the u.s. is spending to fight ukraine as it fights russia. >> if the rules based order in the 80th year, if that goes out the window, be very careful. we'll be doubling the defense budgets at that point, it will introduce not an era of great power competition, but an era of great power conflict and extraordinarily dangerous for the whole world. >> the testimony followed president xi's vow while in moscow to create a new world order with russia. warning china is moving down the path toward confrontation and conflict with neighbors and the u.s. he said deterring and preparing for war is extraordinarily expensive, but it's not as expensive as fighting a war. john. >> john: all right, jennifer griffin with us, the latest from the pentagon. we do spend, sandra, so much more money on defense than china does, but their rate of increase is more than double ours, and

when you consider how much further the wun goes in china than the dollar here, huge increase. >> sandra: and the number is going in greater numbers, you have to wonder why it's not priority. >> john: we are paying for a lot of what china is doing through the consumer products. switching gears now, the probe into hunter biden picking up steam. the house oversight committee now investigating explosive claims made by an israeli energy expert who claims hunter biden used an fbi mole named one eye to tip off his chinese business partners about any federal investigations. mark, chief communications officer at american first policy institute, and fox news contributor, and richard fowler. gentlemen, good to see you. israeli energy expert accused arms dealer, gal luft, he claims he tried to warn the doj hunter biden was getting $100,000 a

month, and jim biden $65,000 a month from china before the business dealings there. does not appear to be evidence to back up the claims. what do you make of it, richard? >> i think it's an interesting development and woshth pointing out based on the reporting what we know, john, there is a continuing doj probe into hunter biden that has gone on multiple administration's, starting the obama administration, continued under trump, now under his father, his father had the ability to fire said u.s. attorney, he did not, and as the fever heats up on capitol to figure out how they are going to investigate hunter biden, asking if the gop has all the information, they have been talking about this almost now for eight years, come out with it. have a hearing, air this out in the public and let's have a conversation about what is and what isn't. let's not play, you know, where is the smoke and not have any smoke or any fire. >> john: when we interviewed byron donalds a week ago i asked

him, i said there's a lot of information about money going back and forth, influence peddling, whatever, where is the illegality. but it's the fact that joe biden was vice president and now president. >> we have the bank receipts, we know the money has switched hands. don't know what was done for the money, that's a big question. and out of a tom clancy novel, we need additional investigation to see if these allegations stick. but when you start tying in multiple countries, people being arrested, i mean, it's really -- it is a bombshell kind of report but someone who is accused of being an arms dealer through his lawyer. >> john: james comer was asking the same question, what did china get for the money, luft is giving a clue into what it was about, claiming bidens were paid

to represent patrick ho, a chinese national arrested in 2017 on bribery and money laundering charges, and an attorney said congress has the bank records but does not know the reason for the payments. now it does. the whistleblower information is the missing link for the reason behind the china-biden money transfers. clearly this is explosive stuff. again, a lot being said here, richard. but we have not seen the receipts for this particular part. >> i think mark asked an interesting question, additional investigations. where is the additional investigation, question mark. i wonder that, too. what else do republicans want. at this point in time republicans have the gavel in the house of representatives, they can carry on any investigation they would like. they have subpoena power. beyond that, there is also a justice department investigation that happens to be taking place, so what do republicans want in this moment. >> i want the investigators to continue their investigation and if it won't happen at the doj. >> it is happening at the doj,

mark, and also -- also republicans have the gavel on every investigative committee. they also have the ability to subpoena, so why not subpoena and why not get to the bottom of it. >> doj doesn't do its job, people on the hill will do it for them. >> john: james comer says it the tip of the iceberg for him, they have subpoenaed one bank, got records from one bank, 12 other banks that they are getting records from. all the way along here, president biden says nothing to see here. listen to what he was asked and how he responded the other day. >> -- about your family dealings? >> family dealings -- >> hunter biden business associates send over a million dollars to 3 of your family members. >> that's not true. >> john: he says it's not true. comer says it is true. he has not released the bank records, don't know when we will see them but he says he's got them and proves it. where is the president in terms of his position. >> based on the reporting,

herein lies the problem the gop has. clearly understand there might be some wrongdoing connected to hunter biden based on the fact there is an ongoing doj investigation. >> did you just say that? >> multi-year doj investigation happening here. with that being said, what republicans are trying to do in this moment is make some sort of connection to the white house. and make some sort of connection to the sitting president of the united states. at this point they don't have that evidence, and as a result of that, that's why you are not seeing blockbuster testimony on capitol hill, they don't have it. >> john: ten seconds to you. >> connect the bank records with the laptop files. >> then connect them and have the hearing. >> it's not the current white house, it's the obama white house. >> john: we know there is a fourth biden that apparently got money, don't have a first name yet. great to see you. >> sandra: thank you very much, gentlemen, for the discussion. growing focus on the threat from china as it buddies up with russia against the united states. but senator ted cruz is focusing

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>> john: more pictures in france and they have lit the torches yet again there in, looks like the protestors are taking to the streets to express their displeasure with emmanuel macron unilaterally proposing to raise

the retirement age from 62 to 64. right now french workers enjoy a nice retirement at the age of 62, but macron says it's not going to remain solvent unless they up the age and have french workers contribute over the course of 43 years instead of the current 42. the workers are trying to put pressure on macron to rescind the order and keep it back where it was. if this continues, sandra, this could bleed into the first official overseas visit of king charles who is supposed to be meeting with macron beginning this coming sunday and as we mentioned before, the french love to protest and we have seen it so many different times for so many different social safety net issues and here they are back on the streets again with the fires lit, chanting in the streets against macron. >> sandra: wow, these are some incredible live images out of paris. interesting to know this is a conversation that has started by some back here in this country,

you've heard nikki haley bring up raising the retirement age. we'll ask ted cruz about that as well in a few moments. we'll continue to monitor this. this is live in paris, night has fallen. 7:30 at night, and the police are obviously confronting the protestors that have taken all over to the streets there and for many nights in a row now, john. >> john: i'm sorry, it's not a fire like last week, that appears to be just some sort of flare they have going there, just the way the camera is picking it up. so this will continue until one side or the other wins. the french protestors have a way of making the government back down, in this case it's the president alone, not the french parliament. he's trying to go around them to get the changes made to the nation's retirement system. we'll keep watching this to see where it goes. >> sandra: and the police have showed up in body armor, using tear gas to fight back protestors in the streets, incredible scene. we'll keep our eye on it, john. a republican single mother of

two is so fed up with soaring crime and poorly performing schools in her new york city neighborhood she's looking to oust the democratic socialist councilmember who represents her. kelly klingman is exploring a run for office with crime fighting and education as her top issues. kelly klingman joins us now. thank you for joining us. >> thank for having me. >> sandra: a mother of 9-year-old twins, they quote you, i'm not a politician, not a stepping stone but i'm tired of sitting on the sidelines. what is your inspiration to run for public office. >> so many people feel like they cannot speak up, can't say anything, don't have a voice, the democratic socialist party has taken over with aoc and they are seeing the crime and the change and they have quietly come up to me and talk to me, would you ever explore trying to do something like this, you share viewpoints and have

allegation more courage and i said why not. why not get out there and see what we can do. >> sandra: and now here you are on tv. it's an incredible story. so many are saying and politicians from both sides of the aisle, they talk to moms, just fed up with what's happening in their neighborhoods right now, whether it's crime, whether it's inflation and struggling to pay for groceries, getting a second job to fund the kids activities. there is so much happening right now in this country i don't like to say angry moms, but they are, they are fed up. you are one of them. so, you say you are hearing from other parents. what are you hearing? >> i'm hearing from other parents, you know, the same thing everybody is seeing. people think it's sensationalized on the news, the crime, dirty streets, unsafe subways, schools that are deteriorating and we need to reverse education in this city and that's -- >> sandra: and i should mention the same turf as alexandria ocasio-cortez, her old stomping grounds. >> correct, correct. and i believe our messaging

resonates with most of the community. everybody in new york wants the city back, we want safe streets, we want to fund the police, not defund the police and we want to focus on school choice for the children and make the children be successful and it's scary when you see high school students getting shot in manhattan recently as we had a couple days ago on 66 and amsterdam and the crime is spreading throughout the city. >> sandra: and very scary when you have two young children that have to get to school, have to walk the streets. i want to put up on the screen some tweets from the left wing defund the police democratic councilwoman that you would be running up against, tiffany cobin, highlighted by "the new york post," slamming the nypd in post after post. publicly still calling to defund the police in an era of high crime. she says what else could curb nypd overtime, reducing their bloated budget and the

infrastructure proven to make us safer. reduce the number of inefficient uses of police and shift to the proper workforce. she's welcome to come on and explain these, open invitation there. but how in this environment of record high crime in the city, how can you go on slamming the police department? >> it's a shame. subways are actually starting to feel a little bit better, i've been taking the train all through covid and finally there's police presence on the train and there's less activity, you feel a little bit safer, more people taking transit, and now she wants to remove the police from the train? it's -- it's not the right move. >> sandra: only a few seconds left. i know you made a school change as well. you are about school choice, a big issue as well and you recently took your kids out of the public school. >> i took my kids out of the public schools. parochial schools went back to full-time in-person much quicker, and online is not as

easy for kids. i feel every parent should not feel trapped or feel they have to move to make decisions for their children or their families and we all want to see new york back to the way it was. >> sandra: very interesting, and on the record, you are for funding the police, correct? >> funding the police, school choice, yes. >> sandra: big issues you are taking on there, we'll watch your journey and what happens next with you, kelly. our best to you. john. >> john: when it comes to schools, we have a lot more coming up with ian prior. the virginia dad who first helped organize fed up parents when all the crazy stuff started coming out of loudoun and fairfax public schools. where does the fight go next and does he have any hope that this will actually become law? >> sandra: plus, have you noticed more and more airplanes are having more and more close calls on our nation's runways? well, you are not just imagining that. transportation secretary pete buttigieg confirmed that is actually happening. so, what's he doing about it?

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>> sandra: senator ted cruz joining us live in moments to talk about the threat under the radar during the meeting between china and russia. he's fired up about iran and says the biden administration is doing nothing to stop the threat from them. he'll tell us in his words in a moment. >> john: expecting a potentially explosive hearing on capitol hill in parents right, expecting it this hour, it's running 30 minutes late, maybe a little more. part of a push for legislation to require parental access from school curriculum to safety. parents have been asking this right for many years with many protesting policies at school board meetings as they look for answers and did not get them. the push by parents to access information about their children's education led the doj and attorney general merrick garland to label them as domestic terrorists. the bill is expected to pass in

the republican-controlled house, some on the left are calling the bill a complete waste of time. joining us is a parent on the forefront of the fight, ian prior, and executive director of fight for schools. talking off camera about this. likely to pass the house after a rigorous debate but not likely to go in the senate. is this more of taking positions for 2024? >> well, look, i think clearly house republicans have been listening to parents over the past two years, and clearly democrats have not been. i mean, what does this bill do, right? more transparency on classroom lessons, classroom curriculum, books in the library, books in the classroom library. more accountability on safety issues. if a child goes to school and wants to identify as another sex, they have to get consent from the parents. the fact that democrats are opposing this while you have rachel levine saying we are going to escalate the push for

puberty blockers, and europe is going the other way, democrats are anti-science, anti-children, anti-parent and anti-family. >> a congresswoman from louisiana is the main sponsor, said the pandemic brought to light for a lot of us moms and dads, we sat down and saw what our children were being taught through the virtual classroom, and when we saw that, so many of us were disheartened with what we were viewing. however, the national parents union, which you and i were talking about off camera, seems to be a liberal leaning organization, not to the far left, said this is a solution that's being created for us without us. so not all parents it would seem are being represented here. >> well, you know, i can tell you in my experiences that these are the kinds of things i've been hearing for two years. so i'm happy to give their phone number to the parents that have been communicating us with some of these problems. i mean, what you are seeing in schools, instead of them focusing on academics, they are

focusing on the social issues, academics are failing and parents are trying to catch the kids up in the academic realm. whether sending them to tutors or working at home. it's flipped on its head. >> john: democrats say it's the politics over parents act, and one, creates unnecessary and burdensome reporting requirements on schools, two, diverts essential resources and personnel away from meeting family's real needs, three, opens the doors to dictate what students can or cannot read and learn. argue number three, maybe one is up for debate, two is curious. diverts essential resources and personnel away from meeting family's new needs. how many have diverted to dei and equal outcomes in schools which is impossible. >> i got into the fight when i sent a freedom of information request and our school system hired an equity consultant to do

an equity audit and half a million dollars over the course of a few months and then kept them on two years to implement it at the cost of $625 an hour. let's not talk about spending and resources unless you are ready to address the absurd amount of money that schools are spending on this kind of stuff. >> john: we'll watch how it goes in the house and in the senate, talk to you soon. good to have you. sandra. >> sandra: china's president xi declaring beijing's bond with putin is part of the plan for a new world order. today president biden responding with a meeting of his own, meeting with justin trudeau. ted cruz joins us now. great to have you on the program today. so, you are sort of looking at something that perhaps the focus is not on in this moment of world leaders. what are you watching? >> well, sandra, it's great to be with you. i've got to say, we look at the

last two and a half years of the biden administration's foreign policy, and it's been an absolute disaster. we have seen every enemy of america getting stronger. seen the biden administration alienating our friends and allies pushing them away, and putin and xi coming together, russia and china, the two most formidable adversaries coming together because of the biden administration weakness. antony blinken was testifying yesterday and i asked him about the biden administration's incoherent foreign policy on the ukraine war, which is specifically that the biden administration has gone incredibly soft on iran. it has waived sanctions on iran, just in the last few days waived sanctions allowed a $500 million payment to go to the government of iran. it's allowing the ayatollah to sell a million barrels a day of oil in defiance of u.s.

sanctions and the money going to iran, they're putting into drones that russia is using to attack ukrainian citizens, civilians, and soldiers. you have the biden administration literally funding both sides of this war. it makes no sense. it's all political, and it is endangering the united states as a result of it. >> john: senator cruz, one of the big questions people have been rightly asking about this new bromance between xi and putin, what does it mean from the world, what are the ramifications of the new axis, peter doocy tried to ask yesterday. >> xi told putin at their meeting change is coming, that has not happened in 100 years and we are driving this change together. what do you think that means? >> you would have to ask them. >> john: you would have to ask them is the response. you would think that the white house would have some sort of recent foreign policy analysis what the potential ramifications

of the new alliance are. >> well, unfortunately a lot of us have been pointing out that this was a likely consequence of biden's foreign policy mistakes. you look at russia, what caused the war in ukraine is biden came into office and one of the very first things he did, he waived sanctions on nord stream 2, i was the author of the sanctions, president trump signed into law, we shut the pipeline down. biden gave multi-billion dollar gift to putin and russia, that weakness prompted putin to invade ukraine. likewise in china. this administration is fundamentally soft on china. you look at the biggest stakeholders behind democrats

today, big business, big tech, big hollywood, big universities, all of them are in bed with china and i'll tell you, last year there was a vote i forced on the floor of the senate that was incredibly clarifying. i forced a very simple vote that said the united states government should not purchase electric vehicles or batteries manufactured using slave labor in concentration camps in china. every single democrat except one, every democrat except joe manchin voted no, and today the biden white house is the largest customer in the world purchasing the forced slave labor from those chinese concentration camps. >> sandra: that is incredibly important to continue to highlight. meanwhile as we discuss all of this, senator, president biden's approval rating is falling to nearly the lowest of the presidency, 38% approve of biden, the lowest point was 36%

in july of 2022. this is happening as the american people are watching how this administration is reacting to these growing threats. >> unfortunately we have a president not up to the task. he is not -- his mental decline has been precipitous and the white house is essentially being run by the children. it's being run by left wing activists. i've been astonished. 11 years ago when i first arrived in the senate, joe biden was president, joe biden swore me in. all of us in the senate know joe. the guy we know, i have no idea where he is. i think they have the old joe biden tied up in the basement of the white house. because now he is unfortunately checked out and they have handed the agenda over to the radicals, the people driving the agenda right now are elizabeth warren and bernie sanders and aoc, and there used to be such a thing as a moderate democrat. sadly today, there aren't any left. they have chased them out of

their party and the country's paying the price with a disastrous foreign policy and economic policy we are seeing right now. >> john: elizabeth warren is not driving the bus on economic policy, jerome powell has a job. good to spend time with you, thank you. >> sandra: good to have you, senator, thank you. >> john: remember back when gas prices were so sky high, the biden administration started draining the strategic oil reserves and the president promised to buy back oil when it was cheap. even framed it as a good deal for american taxpayers. >> sandra: today lawmakers are asking energy secretary jen granholm how that's going. her response had phil flynn all riled up. what she had to say on that and china.

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>> sandra: biden's energy secretary on the hot seat as lawmakers press her on issues on everything from china to the debate over gas stoves. but a big focus on the outlook for oil prices. analysts warning drivers may face a repeat of the sky high gas prices with stockpiles heading towards multi-year lows in the country. phil flynn, oil trader and fox news contributor. great to have you here today.

>> thank you, sandra. >> sandra: let's play out the sound. you and i chatted, and she's making the case it's going to be really hard to replenish the reserves that we have depleted as an administration to bring down gas prices for political implications before the midterm elections, it's going to be hard to fill them at $70 a barrel. listen. ok, sot's not good, but granholm says this year it will be difficult to take advantage of the low price but we continue to look for the low price in the future, she says. she's challenged by a lawmaker, you expect to get back to the 2020-2021 levels, she says we'll get back to it, it will take us a few years, phil flynn. >> years or decades, right. you can never say never. as you know, sandra, when it comes to gasoline prices.

another epic failure by the biden administration. this was an administration that just a few months ago was bragging that they were able to sell oil from the strategic reserve during the war at higher prices, they were going to buy it back at below 70 at lower prices, but yet they have failed to be able to do that. and the reason is because the market won't stay below $70 a barrel, even with a big banking scare when every hedge fund in the world dumped their oil position, refining good support. as you know, it's not a good trade until you can get out of it. >> sandra: unbelievable, gas prices under joe biden we can put them on the screen, took office, 2.39 a gallon, today over a dollar higher still, although the administration touts they have come down and they have but still over a dollar higher than when he took office, up 43%. gas stockpiles, this is the problem, though. we don't have any more energy reserves.

gas stockpiles have fallen, 229 million barrels, lowest since mid march of 2015. ok, now here is granholm doubling down on her praise, phil, for china. listen. >> at the time the made the comment, are you aware 30% of the world's co2 emissions came from china? >> oh, yes. >> at the time you made the comment, that china emits more than the u.s., the entire e.u. and japan combined? >> oh, yes. >> would you like to retract your praise for china? >> praise for china, what they are going to invest in clean energy, even as they are the largest emitter. >> sandra: she doubled down on her praise for china. >> yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous, especially when you take in the context which senator ted cruz just said, china is one of the biggest sellers of electric batteries to the united states using slave labor. where is the outrage.

really is, and to compare the u.s. ability to rein in climate concerns more than china is ridiculous, because it's been the united states, not china, that has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by more than any industrialized country in the world because of the u.s. energy producers because they produce cheaper, cleaner, natural gas. it would have never been possible with all the billions of dollars they have spent on solar panels and wind panels because of the u.s. energy producer. >> sandra: i have to get this in here, don't have time to ask you about it, gavin newsom in the state senate passed funding, $7 million to staff an independent commission to go after those price gougers and hold the oil companies accountable. phil, we have to have you back on that soon. pretty amazing to see what is going on on high gas prices out there in california. thank you so much, phil. >> thanks, sandra. >> john: urgent safety alert,

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>> john: an urgent warning from the cdc that is making people go blind if they even survive at all. laura ingle has the details. i never heard of eye drops that can kill you. >> this is a dire warning from health officials. people that use artificial tears eye drops are now checking their medicine cabinets to making sure what they're putting in their eyes won't cause them to lose their eyesight or even dye. 16 states have a rare strain of bacteria linked to contaminated eye drops. while more than 10 different

brands of artificial tears have been recalled, most cases have been linked to ezricare manufactured by global pharma healthcare in india. patients that use the artificial materials and have signs and symptoms of eye infections like eye pain or discomfort or blurry vision should seek medical care right away. something to check for for sure. >> john: thanks for the warning. sandra, good to with with you. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thank you very much. good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. so chinese-owned tik tok on the hot seat today. they've got 150 million american users. almost half the country. it's now ground zero for the influence and purchase