>> and 1st john, we love because he loves us. god floods us with unconditional love. >> my partner and i are going to use it as bible study, so many ways to use the book. can't wait. >> congratulations. you have a whole series blessing us. "america reports" now. >> sandra: a fox news alert, we are waiting a white house press briefing at this hour after an american reporter based in moscow was arrested by the russian intelligence service. moscow accusing the wall street journal evan gershkovich of spying on behalf of the united states. the journal strongly denying the allegation. >> john: arrest likely to ramp up tensions even further while the war in ukraine rages on and russia and china strengthen ties

together. live to the white house as soon as the briefing begins moments from now. >> two of our blackhawk helicopters were involved in a crash during a planned training flight in kentucky that resulted in the death of all nine service members aboard the aircraft. the nine individuals we lost are children of god. they will be mourned and missed by their families, by their communities. >> sandra: fox news alert, waiting an update from the pentagon as well this hour after nine u.s. service members were tragically killed in the helicopter collision along the kentucky-tennessee border. sandra smith in new york. hi, john. >> john: john roberts in washington. collision last night around 10:00 local time. >> sandra: as two blackhawk helicopters, part of a routine training mission, we are told, involving a multi-ship formation with night vision goggles

collided around 30 miles from the fort campbell military base where the helicopters took off. >> john: army officials say there will be a full investigation but added the debris from the collision thankfully fell in a partially wooded field area and not by any homes. >> sandra: c.b. cotton is live on the scene at fort campbell, kentucky. what are we learning from authorities there, c.b.? >> sandra, we know the army has sent a specialized team to review the crash site and gather the flight data recorders. this could possibly reveal why this tragedy happened. nine minutes of 101 airborne division killed here at home. the crash happened on the kentucky-tennessee border some 30 miles from the base. four soldiers were in one helicopter, five in the other. they were there to practice the multi-ship formation using night vision goggles running medical evacuation drills. deputy commander of the 101st

airborne says it appears the crash happened around 10:00 p.m. and they finished the exercises. this do have been much worse. listen. >> despite our losses, we were lucky because they were able to land in an open field across from a residential area. so thankfully no additional casualties or injuries as a result of the aircraft crash. >> secretary of defense lloyd austin saying in a statement his heart goes out to the families adding "i am working with army leadership to make sure our troops and their families receive the care that they need in the wake of this accident". we don't know the names of the soldiers who tragically lost their lives, family members are still being notified today. this tragedy comes a little more than a month after two national guardsmen were killed when a blackhawk crashed in huntsville, alabama. sandra. >> sandra: c.b. cotton live at fort campbell for us. we will obviously get an update

shortly. thank you. >> john: another alert now, fiery train derailment prompting evacuations in northern minnesota. 22 cars from a train came off the tracks overnight. 14 were carrying hazardous materials, including ethanol tankers. garrett has more, how are local officials working to contain the scene? >> well, john, the fire is largely contained and a lot of the ethanol has burned off. as things stand, there is no risk of toxic exposure and they can come home without a safety relief. last night nearly two dozen train cars derailed, the small town of raymond, minnesota, two hours west of the twin cities. 14 cars were carried corn syrup and ethanol. ethanol is highly flammable,

dizziness, coughing, burning eyes and unconsciousness. the concern was the tank cars with the ethanol could explode. minnesota's governor said it will likely take a few days before the damaged cars can be removed. >> local command led by the sheriff will make decisions when you can return to your homes. as quickly as possible they will shrink the containment zone based on the best information out there and get you back to home. >> officials said firefighters from more than 50 departments helped respond to the derailment and went door to door to close to 250 homes at 2:00 in the morning to get essentially the town of 800 people evacuated. as to the cause of this derailment, a team of investigators from the national transportation safety board is expected to get to the scene this afternoon to start their work of figuring that out. john. >> john: the latest on what's going on in northern minnesota. thank you. >> sandra: a new report says

president biden will go against his party's opposition to end the covid emergency may 11. world health organization has new vaccination recommendations, saying healthy kids can skip the shot entirely. for more on this, robert redfield, former cdc director and senior medical adviser. thank you for joining us, dr. redfield. big questions how we are going to treat this going forward. if the emergency is over are, why are we still, the cdc, telling families to vaccinate their young children? the world health organization has deemed it unnecessary. >> sandra, i think it's an important point. i think the who recommendations i think are very thoughtful and i think it highlights some of the science that we do know that the current vaccines really don't stop transmission of

covid-19 and so the purpose of using them and the reason they were approved is they can impact the disease that occurs as a consequence of infection, but since most of us under the age of 50 that don't have a significant comorbidity, i'm one who believes the vaccines should be prioritized for the vulnerable, those of us over age 60, 65, those of us that have significant comorbidity, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, so i concur with what who has done just to emphasize there is not strong public health scientific rationale behind broad vaccination of individuals that are not vulnerable. >> sandra: we know the cdc group last fall voted unanimously for kids to be vaccinated as part of their regular school vaccination process in this country and many doctors in the moment, including

dr. saphier, she questioned whether or not that is going to further complicate this growing, you know, group of people in this country that are anti-vaccine, right, or that they fear there are too many vaccines for children, and to add one to the list is a major concern to have more parents back off of what are necessary vaccines in this country. >> yeah, i think it's a very important point, sandra, and we are seeing that, that adding covid to the routine panel for pediatric vaccines i don't think was a wise decision and i think as you pointed out it had a potential negative consequences of having parents that were on the fence about vaccination programs to actually even move away some of the critical vaccines that we think all children should get. so i think hopefully the united states, cdc and other groups will reconsider, particularly in light of the who recommendations

that these vaccines if they did prevent against infection, that would be a different story. but they don't. modified the disease course and it is something we should focus on making sure the vulnerable people get vaccinated. i will say that, you know, we still do have somewhere between 3 and 500 americans die every day of covid, although i do firmly agree with the decision that the emergency is over, we need to do a reset right now and learn how to live with this virus for probably to the end of time, it's going to be with us, but i do think we shouldn't be -- we should remain cognizant it's still a major cause of death in the united states and not only vaccination can help prevent that death in the vulnerable, but the prudent use of antivirals. >> sandra: based on what you just said, do you find it necessary for any mandates when it comes to the vaccine. >> absolutely not, i've always been against the mandates.

they promote vaccine hesitancy. i think we in the public health community should have confidence we can make rational arguments to individuals why it's in their best interest to get vaccinated if we believe it is, but i think we have to leave it to individuals. all you do is by mandating somebody to do something they don't want to do is you have them dig their heels in to hesitancy. i think it's a big mistake. i think it was a real big mistake that people lost their jobs for not getting vaccinated. enormous mistake that we didn't appreciate the importance of natural immunity from previous infection, so hopefully this will help sort of the whole reset on the role of vaccines. very important, they saved a lot of lives, we need to focus on making sure people in nursing homes, assisted living, those of us over age 65 are vaccinated, keep immunization status up to date and probably means getting vaccinated 2 or 3 times a yeah

for those of us highly vulnerable, but not for people that have no significant risk of significant disease. >> sandra: and that's where the world health organization came down on that, and discussing this morning a big part of the decision at the world health organization why some countries are ignoring the natural immunity, specifically with kids and so many people have gotten this virus by now, to count that out and the decision as to whether or not to get the vaccine is not doing the children any service. but really interesting discussion and thanks to you for joining us, dr. redfield. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me, god bless. >> sandra: you too. we saw the headline saying the kids don't need it, cdc says parents have to get it for the kids in the country, that's a predicament, especially to return to school, serious discussion needs to be had. what is the science, how can it

be so different. world health organization to the cdc. >> john: makes you wonder and also in reviewing this rationale for vaccine, world health organization took into account acquired immunity from previous infection and that's not recognized in the united states, now the who is saying the reason why teens and younger children may not need it, because of community immunity because of previous infection. >> sandra: interesting stuff. >> john: changes day-by-day, it seems. a live look at the tennessee state capitol, protestors clearing out after chanting ban assault weapons, following this week's tragic shooting at a catholic school in nashville, the covenant school, three children and three adults were killed. the shooter brought two assault weapons as well as a handgun. the scene right now is calm, calmer than from moments ago,

protestors flooding into the building chanting that assault weapons should be banned, at times swarming security officers as well, but it appears they have stood down and many of them have departed the building. sandra. >> sandra: apparently they were organizing on social media, a post they outlined plans to gather ahead of the 9:00 a.m. session, and the crowd formed a narrow gap that forced house members to walk through there. we are going to turn some video to see what that was like for ourselves, but obviously the scene throughout the morning. they began gathering around 8:00 a.m. local time and the demonstration did draw a large crowd. but it's starting to wind down at this moment, john. ok, we'll continue to monitor the situation there. meanwhile, russia taking another step to escalate tensions with the u.s.

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>> sandra: fox news alert, back to the scene there at the nashville state capitol in the wake of the school shooting there at covenant elementary.

hundreds of people had gathered earlier this morning throughout the morning. they were growing in numbers, starting at 8:00 a.m. this morning. this was a moment that got tense where protestors were obviously confronting security. we can listen in here for a moment. [yelling] >> do something! >> sandra: you hear the crowd chanting do something, do something. they -- there were hundreds of them, largely younger, it is described several students from nashville high schools, hillwood high, martin luther king, jr. high, hume fogg academic high, 16 years old, differing views how to address the issue at hand. security and police obviously trying to handle this on the

scene there. apparently there were varying signs, some at one time two kids holding up a sign, and several people ripped up the sign. obviously a really big debate and a protest that has happened there. it has since -- i think it wound down a short time ago but did play out at the capitol, john. >> john: you can understand the students are obviously upset about what happened at the covenant school, you know, we learned on monday in the horrific shooting it can happen virtually anywhere in america. but this crowd definitely was very boisterous at times as you pointed out a moment ago as you were going to break, forcing representatives to run the gauntlet as they got into a lobby area of the building. one protestors grabbing on to

the jacket of a state representative, then crowded into the chamber as well. red flag laws, one of the things the young students are demanding. in addition to a ban on assault weapons, which would put them in line with president biden. now again, just pointing out these are not "assault weapons," they look like them but they are semi-automatic rifles. >> sandra: we'll continue to monitor this as this has just happened a short time ago. >> mr. taibbi was testifying, the internal revenue service paid a visit to his home. left a note on his door saying we'll be back in touch with you next week. we still do not have the answers from the irs about that unlikely coincidence. >> the irs showed up at his house, something that the sent of treasury admitted only happens so far as she knows when someone is under investigation for fraud. >> john: the white house set to brief next hour as karine jean-pierre is expected to face

questions over why the irs made a surprise visit to twitter files journalist matt taibbi's home, the same day he was testifying before congress on the weaponization of the federal government. this is house republicans slammed the agency at the latest weaponization hearing and warning that president biden's beefed up irs will only further target democrats' political opponents. florida republican senator rick scott. let me ask you for your thoughts on this irs agent who apparently is named james nelson. going to the home of matt taibbi the same day he's up there testifying in congress. is the senate interested in looking into this? >> absolutely. first off, americans are now worried about their federal government, worried they are being surveilled, politicized, biden has the 87,000 new irs agents, what do you think they are going to do. we have to get to the bottom of

this. americans need to know if they are going to be targeted. i was in a meeting yesterday where i was talking about how people need to be more interested in what's going on politically, the pushback, hey, we are worried about being targeted by the irs, doj, something like that. so, we have to get to the bottom of this, get the facts and when people do things wrong in the federal government they have to be reprimanded, and let go, and that does not happen. >> john: janet yellen was testifying before the house yesterday, asked if she heard about the incident, she said no. and asked by congressman chris stewart if she had heard of the irs knocking on someone's door, he had not heard about it unless the person was under investigation. >> i need to ask you, direct oversight of the irs does that bother you? >> it's certainly something that i would want to look into. i'm not aware that irs agents do that except as you said in cases

where there's an investigation for law breaking that's underway. >> john: no indication that matt taibbi was under investigation, why would this agent show up there? >> but this is what the federal government does. you know, we don't trust them anymore, the american public has lost the trust of the federal government and the biden administration says i'll look into it and nothing happens. no accountability. like the federal reserve did not do their job in the california bank, nobody held accountable, we'll look into it, and nothing happens. and i can tell you, being a u.s. senator we ask for information, it's a black hole up here. think what the american public thinks. we don't get information and the agencies are weaponized. this is a significant problem in this country right now. >> john: white house spokesman john kirby was asked about this yesterday during the press briefing. >> i was wondering if under respond to the taibbi visit by the irs, a campaign to harass or

intimidate him related to his journalingism. >> i have to refer you to the irs. >> john: the irs is not talking about this except to direct people to the irs, how to know if it's an agent, there are circumstances in which the irs will call or come to a home or business. these include when a taxpayer has an overdue tax bill, taibbi apparently didn't, delinquent, unfiled tax return, i don't know about that. or has not made an employment tax deposit. doesn't seem to be immediate justification for the fella to knock on his door. >> if they can't tell us, all of us because his tax return, then tell the reporter, let him tell us. i mean, but this is why we don't trust the federal government, it's a black hole. they don't give us information whether it's doj, fbi, and what they are doing, they are losing the trust of the american public. name all these agencies now, do

you trust the cdc with good information, do you trust justice or fbi, and i know there are good people at all these places but what they have to start doing is giving us information. i can't get information and i'm a sitting u.s. senator. >> john: a decade ago, we all remember when the irs commissioner lois lerner acknowledged groups with tea party or patriot were held to greater scrutiny by the irs and seemed political. does this seem to fall along those lines? >> absolutely, and by the way, nobody was held accountable in this case. nobody in the federal government ever gets held accountable for doing the wrong thing and why do you think the government doesn't care. why don't they just tell us what happened, be honest. if they can't tell us, it's about taxes, tell the reporter and let him tell us. i've told the federal agencies,

you are losing the trust of the american people but not being direct and honest and telling us what's going on. tell us what's going on. >> john: we'll keep following this senator to see if anything develops. thank you for your time, appreciate it. you know, you would have to think, sandra, that unless this irs agent, james nelson, acted on his own volition, which i would doubt, that means somebody had to say why don't you go pay him a visit, and i wonder who that person was and the reason for it. >> sandra: big questions over whether there was a directive. we'll ask jim jordan, he will be joining us top of the hour. we'll talk to him about that and more, john. a live look at the pentagon, in just moments officials will be holding a briefing following that deadly blackhawk crash that killed nine u.s. service members in kentucky. we'll monitor that, and we'll get to that as soon as it

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charges. they say he was trying to get classified information, the journal denying that. and white house has been in contact with evan's family and pledging support. greg, what is moscow saying about the circumstances behind this arrest? >> john, moscow is making some very serious accusations, authorities there say that that reporter for our sister newspaper, the wall street journal, 31-year-old american evan gershkovich was arrested by the intelligence agency, successor of the old kgb and charged with spying. he is expected of espionage in the interest of the american government. collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the russian military industrial complex. journal quick to knock that down. saying the wall street journal denies the allegations from the fsb and seeks immediate release of our dedicated and trusted

reporter evan gershkovich. we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. he was taken 900 miles east of moscow, said to be working on stories. he appeared at a closed hearing today before being taken to prison. he has been formally charged, pled not guilty and in pretile detention until the end of may. increasing already high tensions between the u.s. and russia as the war in ukraine continues. gershkovich is the first american journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in russia since the cold war, he faces up to 20 years in jail. and the white house came out with a statement adding to that, deeply concerned, calling it unacceptable. in touch with the russians,

family, and bottom line is another american is stuck in russia. john. >> john: the detention very troubling, like the other ones, greg palkot in london. thank you. >> i don't worry about evil robots taking over the world with their red laser eyes, that's not what keeps me up at night. but what does keep me up at night, implementation of a surveillance state like china is attempting to do. we need to understand the technology to protect our national security. >> sandra: not only concerns of artificial concerns overtaking humans, fears it could lead to an orwellian surveillance state or even worse. a major question right now, dagen mcdowell is here, sean duffy, co-hosts of the bottom line. can i start off with something, i said this to my team.

do you think everybody understands this at this point? people want to understand it more. stuart varney in the elevator, how are you covering it? >> internet in 1991, no one knew what it was, how it would change our lives. same thing with a.i. other concerns, absolutely. i think this could change the way our economy works, how we interact with one another, what jobs we have. >> sandra: now you have my attention. >> now tv hosts, like a.i., so how the government rolls this out and impacts our lives and the surveillance state is part of it. huge implications and congress has to think through that, on what rules they want around a.i. >> if we call for a moratorium we are not competitive. >> deeply bothered by the fear

that has come in the way this is discussed. broadly speaking, artificial intelligence is technology that allows computers to make intelligent decisions and recommendations far greater than we have been able to achieve before but it's giving guidance that humans can choose to use or ignore. bing, the new version of microsoft search engine, you can use it, it is a.i.-driven and you can use it to get a flavor of -- uses the new -- the new broad kind of language, gpt4, i'm going to throw that out there. take a step back. didn't covid teach us to beware the his ter -- hysteria -- >> sandra: hold that thought. to the pentagon.

>> aircraft safety team from fort rutger, alabama will arrive and begin the investigation. thoughts and prayers for the families and those involved in the tragedy. separately, earlier today, secretary austin met with his romanian counterpart to affirm our enduring bilateral defense relationship. secretary austin thanked romania for hosting thousands of u.s. and allied forces to defend nato's eastern flank and romania's leadership roll in the black sea region, and the 30th anniversary of the state partnership program with the alabama national guard. secretary looks forward to future meetings and opportunities to work with our romanian allies. a full read-out to defense.gov later today. on the training front, since

russia's unprovoked invasion of ukraine in 2022, trained more than 7,000 members of the ukrainian armed forces, just this week 65 ukrainian air defenders completed patriot training at fort sill, oklahoma, and have now arrived back in europe. integrating with other ukrainian air defenders along with donated patriot air defense equipment from the united states, germany and the netherlands. the air defense system will add to the air defenses to provide protection and shield from russia's wanton brutal attacks on innocent civilians and infrastructure. in germany at the close of this month, more than 4,000 ukrainian soldiers in two brigades, one equipped with m2 bradleys and one strikers, will have completed training and return today ukraine. and there is training underway in germany with two motorized

infantry battalions, 1200 ukrainian armed forces personnel. and donated platform training is ongoing, more than 3,000 ukrainian soldiers having completed platform training and 40 different programs of instruction on more than 20 systems since april of 2022. training for ukrainian forces is an international effort being conducted in partnership with our coalition partners who are currently training more than 11,000 ukrainian soldiers across 26 nations. u.s. will continue to provide training and ensure the ukrainian people have the security assistance they need to defend their country and repel russian aggression -- >> sandra: we are going to monitor the news conference at the pentagon. back in as soon as he starts taking questions on the blackhawk helicopter collision there in kentucky. right back to your thought there, dagen, discussing artificial intelligence.

and there is a growing fear that this is going to take over human jobs. goldman sachs is warning the a.i. potential impact on our american jobs market 300 million full-time jobs could be automated. people get. >> and john kerry said the arctic ocean would be melted by 2013. so the fear should be not pursuing artificial intelligence, which will lift up the lives of particularly people in rural america and developing nations, where a doctor can increase his ability to treat patients ten times to 100 times. i worry about -- that letter from elon musk and those tech mucky-mucks, oh, six-month pause on a.i. development, that empowers and emboldens china. they are telling the west and the united states, oh, you need

to take a break and pump the brakes, that's insane. what is their motive to empower china? and to tell the united states to not pursue a.i. development. everybody needs to ask that question about what they are up to. >> sandra: i'll ask sean that question. elon musk says should we automate away all the jobs, including fulfilling ones, develop nonhuman minds that might outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us, lose control of our civilization? >> do i think we stop the development, no. china to beat us, no, i had don't. but the problem is when -- you can have a benefit to rural doctors and rural america, beautiful. if i give joe biden this technology, afraid how he will use this to censor us.

>> who are they to say what is a fulfilling job? they are worried about their own jobs. an>> sandra: back to the pentagon. >> additional u.s. injuries or anything else that's happened, any other strikes that have happened and then i have a question. >> sure. so no additional strikes than the ones that we have announced. and that is correct. eight militants were killed as a result of the airstrikes. in addition to the seven injured service members i highlighted, there were additional six u.s. service members that have subsequently been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury as a result of the attacks, four u.s. service members at the coalition base during the march 23rd attack, and two at mission support site green village on the march 24 attack. standard procedure, all personnel in the vicinity of a

blast are screened for traumatic brain injury, so these were identified during post attack medical screenings. >> are all the screenings complete? >> those will be ongoing as a matter of standard procedure. always the possibility there could be additional. that's where we are at right now. >> one quick thing, the white house announced russia has reached out again to north korea for some additional weapons, etc., support for the war. has the pentagon seen indication that additional military support is either preparing or moving from north korea to russia? >> we have not at this time beyond which had been previously announced, beyond the shipment that wagner group had arranged for, something we keep a close eye on. all right, go ahead and janie and then -- >> thank you, general. i have two questions.

do you as the senate foreign relations complete has mentioned review of deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in south korea. what is the pentagon's position on that? >> i'm sorry, i did not understand that. >> u.s. senate foreign relations committee has mentioned review of redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons in south korea. >> well, of course we'll always continue to work closely with the congress. our current policy is the denuclearization of the korean peninsula, so at this time that -- >> sandra: we'll monitor the update from the pentagon as our hearts ache as a country for the loss of these nine service members are the 101 airborne division, blackhawk helicopters colliding last night at fort campbell, kentucky.

we'll continue to monitor that. >> john: the question is going a different direction than anticipated. inching closer to a possible 2024 re-election announcement from president biden, but 52% of voters say they would like someone else on the ballot. what does it mean if someone does jump in the race? let's bring in our panel. let's put this up on the screen so everybody can see it. fox news poll, would you like to see biden or somebody else now, 52% of democrats say somebody else, 53% a month ago, about the same, but he's improved in the keep biden category, 37% in february, now 44%. jonathan, what do you ascribe that to. still underwater but the top of his nose is beginning to peek out.

>> i think what happens, democrats are a spunky bunch. 12 or 14 people running the last time. i'm sure there are a lot of people who supported the candidates like elizabeth warren or cory booker would love to see them again. i'm in the democratic camp that likes to win, i'm in the 44% that can't wait to see the president announce and run for re-election, but a lot of democrats from the left to the center, we have a big ten coalition that might be more interested in somebody else. once the president announces he's going to run and is the nominee, i think all those people are going to come back around him like in 2020. >> john: do you buy that, not knowing if joe is going to jump in but back him if he does? or saying we have to go a different direction. >> i was with the rnc for most of the trump administration, and they would call and say are you concerned about this, over a dozen candidates in the race i don't think is typical.

another poll out that said 50% of people want someone other than biden but don't know who it is. and it's not just the democrat candidates -- but the policies that people are not happy with and cannot figure out how to -- how to square that out. >> john: and we asked republicans, 54% want trump, as compared to 53 in february. desantis slipping four points and the rest way behind. what do you attribute the rise to, jonathan. could it be backlash because of the alvin bragg investigation or something else? >> it could be, he's back on the campaign trail. he announced and did not do anything and now holding rallies in waco, texas on the 30th anniversary, i think was a horrible thing to do, but it got him a lot of press attention. yes, manhattan d.a. investigating him put him back on the front page and all the people who did love the

president back supporting him. you can put me in the 54%. i hope to god donald trump is the nominee, i'll do anything he needs to be the nominee. >> john: maybe desantis numbers have slipped, he has not announced an election campaign yet and may not do it until may. do you expect the numbers may change or -- we are only 19 months out, i guess. >> the clock is ticking. >> john: and trump has it locked in. >> i think to your earlier point, there were some people waiting to see who jumps in and when does desantis jump in. you neglected to mention when president trump, former president trump went to east palestine, ohio, when our president was overseas. yeah, this is the guy who shows up, the guy that my mortgage rate was lower when he was in office, i could afford milk and eggs when he was in office, people say my life was a little better four years ago than it is right now, and i think that's

where you are seeing republicans who had been a little bit cold are saying well, he's better than the alternative because the alternative being joe biden or any democrat means worse for my family. >> john: we still have a lot to talk about, i think it's 20 months, actually. good to see you. >> sandra: the ski crash trial of gwyneth paltrow nearing the end. closing arguments underway, the jury will get the case soon. the latest from the utah courtroom, it's been interesting, next. >> john: plus, a man convicted of attacking a mother on mother's day could soon be moving to a community near you, or maybe even your community. it's all thanks to a new york state progressive parole board. brian kilmeade reacts on the latest example of soft on crime policies potentially putting americans' safety at risk. will only be virtual. but firefighters entering a burning house... will one day save time when lives are on the line.

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>> yes, sandra, the case will soon be at the hands of the jury but prior to this last day in court the defense called the man suing paltrow back to the stand, they questioned terry on his travel after the crash despite him saying it changed his life forever. >> did you go to peru. >> yes. >> all of these are ar the collision. >> yes. >> costa rica, yes. >> walk the golden trail. >> yes. >> machu picu is in peru. floated down the amazon? >> why did you travel? after the ski accident, why did you travel? >> it was part of the healing process. i was told by several neurologists and cognitive therapists get back to your routine. >> as soon as closing arguments wrap up, going on right now, the

jury in utah will then start their deliberations. sandra. >> sandra: apparently part of his routine was going to machu picu. very interesting. >> john: new at 2:00, the white house and state department are set to give briefings as a journalist is being held by russia. and front and center on capitol hill. hear from subcommittee jim jordan, he'll be here. brian kilmeade, vivek ramaswamy, as "america reports" rolls on. their own ingredients, on their own land. mowing every blade, getting ready to entertain, at the only local farm to pint experience around. and that's just a friday.

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