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and save hundreds every month. >> sandra: all new at 2:00, they are catholic priests serving our nation's heroes. now the government serving them a cease and desist. latest examples what critics are calling a coordinate attack on religious liberty in the country, a plan to roll back americans' rights without them even taking notice. we are all happy it's friday around here, sandra smith in new york. bill, great to have you this week. >> bill: great to be with you as well. almost the weekend. i'm bill melugin in for john roberts. the proposal would make it harder for religious groups like the priests to partner with the federal government. most people have not even heard about this yet, but the window for the public to weigh in
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already closed last month. critics say that is by design, a slow motion strategy playing out little by little until it's too far and too late to stop it. >> sandra: shannon bream will be here what's at stake and cases at the supreme court, including the abortion pill. but first this. suspect accused of leaking our nation's secrets in court for the first time. 21-year-old national guardsman jack teixeira seen wearing hands cuffs and a khaki prison jump suit as he stood before a federal judge. >> bill: facing two federal charges for removing and sharing classified information. cameras captured his dad leaving the courtroom just moments after his son was formally charged under the espionage act. >> sandra: questions grow how a low level employee had access to top secret information.
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darrell issa slamming the system last hour. >> secure facilities should not trust everyone that goes in walks out with the briefcase and not looked at. and the system obviously failed at several levels. >> bill: and president biden put out a statement as he is wrapping up the four-day trip in ireland. >> sandra: jacqui heinrich is travelling with the president. what is the president saying about all this? >> good afternoon, the president praised law enforcement for rapidly responding to the leak of those classified materials, saying in a statement while we are still determining the validity of the documents, i have directed the military and intelligence community to take further steps to secure and limit distribution of sensitive information, and our national security team is coordinating with our partners and allies. biden's comment yesterday about the seriousness of the incident stands in contrast to how his own attorney general just
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described it. >> i'm not concerned about the -- i'm concerned that it happened. but there's nothing -- >> taking documents is itself illegal, this is about the transmission, very serious penalties associated with that. >> it's unclear if the president intends to make any mention of this when he arrives here to the final event of his trip. he chose not to talk at all about it in the hours after the arrest happened last night after he was giving remarks at a banquet dinner. but this is one of the last times we are going to see the president before he heads back to the u.s. he's going to rehobeth for the weekend and not set to be back at the white house until monday night. sandra. >> sandra: jacqui heinrich, making her way over the loud music as you travel with the president. appreciate it.
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thanks so much. bill. >> bill: while the arrest of jack teixeira has reassured defense officials at least for now the leak has been plugged, they are facing serious questions why the military would trust top secret info to this suspect in the first place. gillian, what are you hearing about his security clearance here? >> a senior source tells me that access to the intelligence stolen and posted online is surprisingly not that hard to come by internally, and adds as many as tens of thousands of other employees likely had access to the same intelligence on a daily basis. here is how it works. access to classified military intelligence is based on what is called the trifecta, in order to get it you have to have a security clearance, a signed nondisclosure agreement as well as what is known as the need to know. teixeira, we are told, needed access to sensitive intelligence to perform his duties as a
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systems communications official, included managing the flow of intelligence in the u.s. and around the world. >> i understand the need for a clearance in order to work on the equipment that's apparently what he did. he was a communication specialist who set things up, did i.t. work. a need for clearance for that, but not a need to have access to the information on that system. >> we were first to report teixeira held a top secret sci security clearance by his arrest, the highest granted by the federal government and it was revoked just prior to his arrest yesterday. and first to scoop the day before teixeira's arrest. the pentagon issued this to service members about the legal consequences of leaking classified intelligence. >> we entrust our members with a lot of responsibility at a very early age. think about a young combat platoon sergeant and the
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responsibility and trust that we put into those individuals to lead troops into combat. it's called military discipline and in certain cases, especially when it comes to sensitive information, it is also about the law. >> there's been so much criticism of teixeira's age, but thousands of young people lead troops into battle but also as this case highlights, they help military systems run every single day. >> and teixeira apparently thought maybe the government was on to him, they caught him googling on a government computer leak to look for updates about the case. >> sandra: updates in the legal battle over access to abortion pills. could rule as soon as today, tightening access to it. shannon bream, great to see you.
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where is the pill debate and where does it go next? >> i am looking at my phone every five seconds, if i look down, waiting to see if the court will rule in on this this afternoon. it's a tight deadline. a little about what the doj argued making sure the pill is widely available without the restrictions. they said if allowed to take effect, the lower court's orders limiting access would up end the regulatory regime with mifepristone with sweeping consequences to the pharmaceutical industry, women who need access, they say there is going to be chaos if you allow the restrictions to continue as they are, and now it sits with the court. we stand by and see how they will vote and maybe when they release an order we'll find out who voted how. >> sandra: remarkable. also a big test happening with some of the candidates, obviously, on this debate, and this case involving the abortion pill. ron desantis, politico writes
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could be walking into a general election trap on abortion. ary fleischer basically making the case he needs to stop playing the roll of candidate, or just make the announcement. ari last hour. >> if you are going to run, run. and if you really need to make up your minds and come out in june as a candidate then don't good through al the preliminary exercises until june. he's trying to have it both ways, that's hard to do in politics. >> sandra: interesting analysis, if you are going to run, run. when is he going to announce? >> visiting new hampshire, coming to d.c. to meet with congressional delegations as numerous members of congress have started to endorse former president trump, and he's making sure he builds up a foundation of support he wants when he makes the initial announcement. we know infrastructure and pacs
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are saying we will have the infrastructure ready for him, but he is making the motions for somebody running for president. there have been a lot of thought they wanted to get through the legislative session in florida to give him a chance to get that business behind him but the clock is ticking, and the poll lead for president trump is growing over the governor. >> sandra: so many of the candidates and expected candidates are already getting those tests out there, especially on the federal abortion ban which we know the six-week ban in those states so far. florida, georgia, idaho, iowa, kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, north dakota, ohio, oklahoma, south carolina, tennessee, texas, that is a major test so far on the campaign trail. finish off shannon by asking you about the mailman, gerald groth on the supreme court fight. u.s. postal service worker who refused to work on sundays because he observes the sabbath, here he is in his own words, we'll get your take on where
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this stands today. listen. >> for me it's not about just going to church, it's about obeying the lord and putting the entire day aside to honor and glorify him. i really just hope that we win and that the supreme court reinforces the law in the sense it would protect people who are in my position or similar positions that they would be able to maintain their personal convictions in this country while not living in fear of losing their job. >> sandra: incredibly important case, shannon, of particular interest to you, writing so many books about faith. faith in the workplace and the place that it has in the workplace, the supreme court is debating these employer accommodations for worker religion. >> they hear arguments on tuesday, and i expect one of the big blockbuster cases, late june, early july, but the plaintiff was told when he took
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the original job there were not going to be sunday hours for him. then as we all know, the postal service started working with amazon to deliver on sunday. for a while he was told, if you get someone to cover the shift you can be off on sundays and he tried to do that. some sundays did not work, so essentially the postal service was like we can't have you missing the sundays and not filling the shifts and he walked away believing he was about to be fired, felt he was essentially forced out of the job. the supreme court will have to see where does that line come for an employer, when does it become an undue burden to accommodate somebody who like this gentleman wants to observe the sabbath on sunday. i expect interesting arguments on tuesday, and reporting all day so you know what happened in the courtroom. >> builds up to your big show on sunday. what do you have coming up? >> representative nancy mace with us, she says she's pro life and they are not getting the nuance, and what she has to say about the florida law, and general keane, about the leak,
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how it happened, why so many have classified information access, and hot spots around the world foreign policy interests and issues and ro khanna to talk to us about a.i. and tech and the debt ceiling that no one is negotiating over currently. >> sandra: that gives you a lot to talk good, and great guests. fox news sunday. thank you so much. checking her phone for the update on the abortion pill case, of course. and by the way, i don't know if you saw it over the weekend, wall street journal, or earlier today, op-ed biden administration regulatory war on religion, fascinating talking about the religious liberty frog, a series of innocuous afront to the american faithful. a lot of people are taking notice. biden administration shows no sign the editorial board writes, actions have thus far gone unnoticed. religious believers should not have to turn to courts saying
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the executive branch is bound by the constitution, and people are watching and the actions on the religious rights in the country. an even at the top of the show with the policy they are trying to implement with the priests, they put it on for public comment, they don't tell anybody bit, public comment passes by and the policy is done. classic government, right? it's a story that few seem to agree on but one that has pretty much everybody out there talking about. can artificial intelligence bring people closure with their loved ones after they die using memories beyond the grave? some would like a chance to connect to those they mourn for. other say it gives them the creeps. coming up. >> sandra: days away from title 42 end as you know, bill, the borders are already flooding with migrants attempting to get in this country. is the biden white house setting the broken border up for a bigger disaster. art del cueto is here. veteran homeowners. if you need cash, the last thing you want to do is spend cash
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>> sandra: by now you have heard a lot of the warnings about the growing use of artificial intelligence, a new one, reuniting people with the dead and how realistic can a virtual bot be. the answer might keep you up tonight. what do we need to know, mark? >> realistic for one, and creates ethical and moral questions, others are likely to celebrate where all the technology is heading. talk about a california-based company, deep brain a.i., record their face, voice, mannerisms over a period of a month. the data is then turned into an avatar, can mimic what the person was like when they were alive. there are limits to what it can
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say and do and earlier this week one a.i. scientist generated quite a bit of controversy by tweeting this, start regularly regarding your parents, elder, loved ones, with another transcript data, new vice synthesis, 100% chance they will live with you for you after leaving the physical body. a.i. reunification is a growing trend. captured worldwide attention in 2020 when a south korean woman reunited with her deceased 7-year-old daughter over a.i. take a look at the heartbreaking moment. [crying] >> the moment is chilling and stirs up a lot of emotion. psychiatrists are also wondering
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if this kind of material could backfire. >> the potential for it to come up with sort of wildly inappropriate or inaccurate behaviors and images even i think is quite high, and that could be extremely disturbing, i think. >> there's a research group out west that studied how humans handled loss by conversing with a chatbot, like typing as opposed to a video format, and people were more self-confident after working with the chatbots but sandra, the tech is so new, nobody knows the long-term consequences, for a lot of people they want to see what they can do to connect with those that are lost. >> sandra: we are all still trying to figure it out. thank you, bill. >> bill: chaos at the southern border shows no signs of ending whatsoever, weeks away from it potentially getting worse. title 42 set to end in a month,
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to fast track migrants expulsions. and some 40,000 are amassing at the border in anticipation of the rule change. art del cueto, good to see you, my friend. in the last few weeks alone, we have seen repeat, repeat, repeat, huge surges of migrants, primarily in el paso, just like 1,000 of them at once crossing into the u.s. because they think title 42 is already over. on may 11 it is over. is the administration ready? >> they are not close to ready. we have seen it before when you have covered the caravans coming. the only thing they are going to respond with is moving even more agents left on the field to work and put them in the processing centers to pretty much process faster. we are seeing it across the entire border, we are seeing it everywhere, where groups are coming across and waiting hours before there is an agent or
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somebody agent to respond to be able to apprehend the people, bring them to the processing center and release them. and that's part of the problem. you need to have the right policies in place regardless of just title 42, in order so they can have some consequence, and the real asylum claims, they should be looked at. right now it's complete chaos. when title 42 goes away, i don't think they have invented the word of how chaotic it's going to be. >> bill: when i'm at the border talking to the agents, they feel they have been turned into essentially glorified social workers. explain what the agents mean by that. >> instead of doing the work they wanted to do, working on the field, what they are doing, sitting in the processing center waiting for groups upon groups to come in, fingerprint them, and essentially get released. all the while the cartels
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continue to bring in drugs. cartels know what they are doing. no one comes through without going through the cartel. whether it's the cartel directing the traffic or receiving a quota on the border when the groups are coming through, they know how to send the groups in knowing full well there are less agents on the border, that way they can bring the drugs in and that fromustras the nations. they signed up to protect the border but instead they are in the processing center. >> title 42 was initially to end a year ago, and now it's going to happen on may 11. art, we know for a fact, there are tens of thousands of migrants in mexico waiting for title 42 to drop. the morning of may 11, what do you realistically think we are going to see happening at the border? >> complete chaos again, you
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know, and also this, what this administration is causing, it's causing these groups to turn themselves over to the cartels. children are being turned over to the cartels because the lack of immigration policies and now detained even longer, wait in the middle of the desert, the hot summer months are coming, you'll have more people waiting in the hot summer months. they will wait for hours, we'll see more people going to the hospital, it is going to be complete chaos. >> bill: and the administration has a few more weeks to prepare, i plan to be there on may 11 when it finally drops to report on whatever happens. art del cueto, appreciate your time. i anticipate i'll see you down there as well. >> thank you. >> sandra: we are learning a prisoner swap may be on the table for the american reporter held in russia as a hostage. his family is speaking out for the very first time. what they are saying, we will
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on charges of espionage, and the word from a russian official yesterday is he could be considered for release by way of a prisoner swap. the hitch is, it could only happen after he is tried and that experts say could take at least a year. the u.s. this week also classified gershkovich seizure as an unlawful try for his release. he is said to be in good spirits, aside from his lawyer he has not seen anyone, including embassy staffers and his family. wall street journal interviewed his mother, father and sister. >> he was really passionate about showing other sides of russian the nuance and the beauty of it. >> i trusted him, i trusted his judgment. of course it makes things more difficult for me now because i feel that i've failed in some way as a father.
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>> be optimistic, believe in happy ending, and that's where we stand right now. but i am not stupid. i understand what's involved. but that's what i choose to believe. >> i'm not stupid, i understand what's involved, that's what i choose to believe. some very strong words from evan's mother. and remember, his parents were jewish exiles to america from then soviet union, so all doubly hard for them. you can see the full interview on the journal's website. for now, hopes and prayers. >> understandably emotional parents there. greg, thank you very much. >> bill: chicago taking yet another hit, this time to the economy. walmart announcing that half, yes, half of their chicago stores will be closing this sunday, and that's because of citywide theft rising exponentially over the last couple years. walmart says it can no longer be
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viable to operate locations that lose tens of millions of dollars per year. lydia hu is outside of one of the stores closing in chicago. hi, lydia. >> hi there, bill. walmart is closing four retail locations across the city of chicago after this weekend. as you said, it comes as walmart says it's not making a profit on any of its chicago locations, in fact in a statement it says since it opened the very first store 17 years ago, the stores have never been profitable, those losses totaling tens of millions every year, they say in the past five years they have nearly doubled. some like mayor-elect brandon johnson says it's part of a larger trend. 12 states and d.c., 20 walmart stores are closing this year. listen. >> something that walmart has
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been doing around the country, it's certainly some reflection of the way business is shifting and changing throughout the country. >> but there are local business analysts who say the closures in chicago reflect the local economy and economic environment, point to high taxes and rising crime. watch this. >> property taxes can be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands for businesses. also one of the most cumbersome regulatory environments in the city of chicago. >> so bill, add walmart to the list of businesses shrinking their presence or leaving all together, tyson foods, boeing, citadel among them, mixed reaction as they talk about walmart closing. some say good riddance, but others it means a less sort of
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food and products for them. >> bill: hard to eat a lot of millions, and kevin o'leary was saying rampant crime is making investment unrealistic. >> sandra: huge impact on the communities around the stores dependent to get in expensive goods locally and that goes away, and large part happening because of crime, other reasons as well. the big cities are taking an economic hit. blame it on a weakening economic picture for walmart and the stores there and you say it's not crime, the economy is weaker now, people don't want to live there. tied together. >> bill: people don't want to live there or go inside, they don't spend money. snowball effect around the country. >> sandra: americans have just a couple more days to file their taxes before the april 18th deadline and many are raising concerns about the beefed up irs as it gears up to hire thousands
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of new agents, that may be a big boost to the employee union, the group gives nearly 100% of pac contributions to the democratic party. grover, what's your warning about the beefed up irs, grover? >> well, there's a lot to worry about. $80 billion will flow in the agency, grow in terms of outrage. $14 for more audits and going after people for every dollar that goes into services, getting the phones answered. at present, if you call into the irs for advice or solve a problem, they pick up the phone one out of five times. 20% of the time they pick up the phone. they are going to hire more phone people. the real money is going after people and they have told us what the targets are, and they are not billionaires. >> sandra: and that's just it.
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are you saying that with all the new employees they are coming for mom and pop, grover? >> yes, actually. because while biden and the democrats who voted for this money give speeches about going after billionaires, when you look at what the irs is doing, and they are going after money that goes in and out of venmo and paypal, and ebay. this is not what makes billionaires. this is people getting together and selling stuff from their home and if you don't have the receipts for what you bought a motorcycle for and you sell it years later, they are now -- the government will get from paypal the money you sold your bike for, unless you have those receipts, that's income you are going to be taxed on. there is some very serious privacy problems here, nothing here will help with privacy and the irs we have seen has been giving out the tax returns and audits of thousands of people to
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left wing groups, and irs refuses to punish anyone. >> sandra: or open secrets, you can put the irs union contributions by party on the screen for the viewers to see for themselves. those contributions to the pac or 2022, 133,000, 0 to republicans. irs employee contributions to political candidates revealed by opensecrets.org, a lot more to the democratic house candidates and senate candidates. people should take notice of that. meanwhile, kevin o'leary joined us. >> keep saying it over and over again. i don't have to put money here anymore. i'm going to put it where it's wanted, desired, where the policy is pro business, and where young people want to grow their families feel safe.
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it's not new york, not san francisco, not massachusetts, it's not red or blue, it's policy. >> sandra: that's what it comes down to, right, grover. and you and i have had this conversation many, many times over the years, creating a business friendly environment in this country, and you can weave in this story, the irs, the small businesses feel they are coming for them with the beefed up irs business. what do you say to that? what are we doing as a country to create a more business friendly environment for people to thrive, grow businesses, feed their families and prosper in this country. >> at the federal level, unfortunately, nothing. making things worse with the regulations, cost of energy, taxes that biden put in. all of these things and the new audit on independent contractors, self-employed people, and as the irs warns us,
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people who make a living with tips, like waitresses and waiters, all the billionaires that are waitresses and waiters. at the state level, there are 12 states looking to have the states income tax to 0. and the corporate rates down at the state level and the individual rates and the educational savings accounts where parents will have money to take to the school of their choice. the division between state speeding up businesses and states welcoming new jobs is getting wider. the gap is getting more dramatic. >> sandra: those lower tax rights, 0% tax rates, states that employ that, people want to flock to the states. kevin o'leary, he says it's
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uninvestable, new york, new jersey, laid out california, a brutal reality. the states are losing population, taking their money and businesses elsewhere. great to have you. and we were looking at the irs tax deadline, it's already april 14th. can't even believe it. it's going so fast. thank you, grover. >> bill: update to the story from yesterday, the city of l.a. apparently not happy after that video of arnold schwarzenegger filling what he called a pothole the city wouldn't lift a finger to fix. well, the city of l.a. is clapping back that it actually wasn't a pothole at all. is this just a case of the pothole calling the kettle -- >> sandra: you know who is fired up about that? dagen mcdowell. she'll join us after the break. - two - when the national debt was larger than gross domestic product? world war ii - and right now. that's a deep hole.
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right now, 88° in new york city, half the country today hotter than normal. the northeast that is really sweating it out. cities shattering heat records yesterday that went back 46 years. relief coming in the form of a confident over the weekend, sure, just in time for us to enjoy. that relief is happening all over the country but not the northeast, still steaming through sunday in some parts. download the fox weather app to stay on top of the weather where you live any time you want. temperatures are expected to drop here in new york city. >> bill: i brought the border heat with me, sorry. can't get away from it. >> sandra: bill. >> you are welcome, you are welcome. you have to do it yourself. it's crazy. three weeks i've been waiting for the hole to be closed. >> bill: we told you how arnold schwarzenegger took matters into his own hands to try to fix a
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pothole he says the city has been too incompetent to fix. but instead of saying thanks for improving the quality of life in his neighborhood, the city of l.a. is reprimanding the hollywood legend. they claim a part of the road he paved is not a pothole but a service trench where pipeline work was being completed, and a rep fired back with true life, saying the facts. dagen, i understand you were just telling us, you have an update on this controversy. what is it? >> i have the facts and i am not going to do my arnold schwarzenegger voice, i promise you. the city of los angeles said this location is not a pothole, it's a service trench that as active work being done to it by socal gas and the work will be completed by the end of may.
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trying to shame this good deed being done by arnold schwarzenegger in his brentwood neighborhood, mandeville canyon, if you are interested. turns out the work on said area on this trench was finished in late january and they just didn't bother to fill the trench and fill the hole and just left it unpaved. the so people were driving through it and it was damaging their cars and causing a ruckus in the neighborhood. they are supposed to, socal gas and the city, fill the hole after about 30 days. well, it was early april, still wasn't fixed, arnold schwarzenegger jumps in and takes care of it. so his -- his representative said it's always important to take bureaucratic damage control with a grain of salt because first they imply arnold schwarzenegger paved over an
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active gas work, that they would finish at the end of may and then the truth comes out, the gas work was finished in january, and then they sped up timeline for repaving and then, of course, they blamed the rain that they had to wait, couldn't fill the trench because it had been raining. what happened was, though, they did go where governor arnold schwarzenegger filled it, they did leave some of the work the governor had done. >> sandra: apparently it's the second pothole, he put out a tweet and said so everyone knows, sorry, do you have a better voice, bill? >> bill: i'm not going to try i on national tv. >> there was a second pothole, i did try to do some investigative work, could not figure out where the second pothole was. but socal gas. >> sandra: i'll take his word for it. >> bill: are you sure it was not
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a service trench? >> apparently not, the city has not thrown a little snit fit about that. but the governor's work is still in fact until they can do a permanent repaving of the area. but these potholes are serious business, service trench, whatever the heck you want to call it. it does -- los angeles people drive everywhere. i have a story, there was a gigantic pothole in front of my building years ago the city of new york would not fix, would not fill. and it was so deep, certain automobiles, volvos and audis, when they would hit it, the air bags would go off because the oil pan would burst, and finally enough cars' air bags went off, huge repair, the city came and filled it. but i witnessed myself at least
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five air bags go off when they hit that pothole. >> bill: i've worked as a local reporter in l.a. four years and it's unsurprising the city took the time to do the p.r. massaging here, not like they have anything else to deal with, pothole -- excuse me, a service trench is worthy of their attention. >> tried to shame the former governor of the state, arnold's pump club, positivity and trying to make the world a better place. >> sandra: and bill has to bounce after the awesome week he has spent with us, but viewers want to know what is next for you and where you are heading next, and we will ask you after the break. >> bill: sounds good, let's do it. loan from newday usa and save hundreds of dollars every month. ♪ i like to move it, move it ♪
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usually we see you at the border and i know you're going back down there for the lifting of title 42. and then application of that the first there is moments. one that happened right here on this show with you covering the border back in 2021. watch this. >> -- there's no sound there but it's hard to believe there was almost two years ago. when those 20,000 patient showed up under the bridge. i was live on they are with you and john for almost 40 minutes we were showing these live images. i remembered the reason why we were up there if the faa had granted our fox news syndrome. we've been down there for two years before they fit grounded out got drunk to put up a temporary flight restriction sites reached out and said hey can we get up there? and they said let's do it tomorrow morning. >> there was a picture of you is that video? >> yeah. we will live in you guys on "america reports," and it was
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the first time we got to see these images of what was happening there in their video. by far the craziest moment of my border coverage so far. >> i know i speak for our colleagues in a network and the viewers thank you so much for covering the southern border and beyond. >> big stories. it was my pleasure it and look forward to join you live at the border with again. >> thank you all for joining us everyone have a great wee weekend. and "the story with martha maccallum" starts right now. >> martha: good afternoon everyone i am martha maccallum and new york and breaking right now on the story there is no details this hour. the 21-year-old jack teixeira, and the charges that he is now facing that could put this young man impression for ten years. and that is for taking and disseminating, that is a crucial part here, top-secret u.s. intelligence. but it is also looking more and more like a tale of sloppiness in our systems

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