week getting worse. a trio of whistleblowers testifying on their experiences with bias in the bureau, they say all by design using scare tactics to silence opposing points of view. one whistleblower says he was forced to choose what he felt was right and feeding his family. >> i have since had to rely on charity, the fbi stopped paying me. you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. on one hand we want to try to get our jobs back because we are trying to do our patriotic duty. the other hand, we still have families to take care of. it's essentially a death sentence in the modern era. >> sandra: compelling testimony there. ben coming up this hour. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two, i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. always great to have you here in d.c. >> sandra: fun to be here. >> john: kinda way to keep you here, siphon the gas out of your

car. and adidas is selling a women's swimsuit by using a male model. critics say it's about so much more than just a bathing suit. >> sandra: tammy bruce is fired up about this, we begin hour two with another progressive push, the growing green agenda. gas stoves, gas lawn mowers, gas cars, some of the things americans use every single day that democrats nationwide are trying to eliminate with an aggressive green energy push. threat to gas stoves has joe manchin so fired up he's drawing a battle line, he says it's about so much more than those stoves, and overall pattern from this biden white house. >> john: so much more about a lot of things today. catching a theme, and aggressive push to go green is putting one family's dream and entire life

savings in jeopardy. allan is a farmer on the wrong side of the fence when it comes to energy in his back yard, literally. >> when we are looking at here basically almost from this fence all the way up would be in solar panels as part of a solar facility. >> john: cash incentives to go green are putting thousands of acres at farmland at risk. talk with one farmer who is fed up and fired up. mike emmanuel has that story in moments, but start with the manchin-biden feud and jacqui heinrich at the white house this. is intriguing, jacqui. >> jacqui: it sure is, john. in a surprise rebuke to the president, manchin canceled a scheduled committee vote to advance biden's nominee that would oversee energy efficiency regulations and thereby effectively blocked a full floor vote. the democratic senator said i supported the nomination in december, since then the office

has proposed stove efficiency rules i have raised concerns about. i appreciate the rules would only apply to new stoves, my view is it's part of a broader administration-wide effort to eliminate fossil fuels. jeff would have led the energy department's office of energy efficiency and renewable energy, which is tasked with decarbonnizing the u.s. economy. over the last five months, they have tightened regulations for ovens, washing machines, and next year on furnaces, fuel pumps, battery charges, ceiling fans and humidifiers. manchin, who represents coal country west virginia, sees it attack on fossil fuels and vowed to block all of the e.p.a. nominees over new proposed standards for power plants fired by fossil fuels. no word whether the white house reached out afterward. >> look, senator manchin is a friend, we have been able to do really historic, move forward historic pieces of legislation

with senator manchin, including the inflation reduction act and other bipartisan balls and law now and other pieces of legislation. so, we are going to continue to have conversations with him. >> the president has been so focused on climate that before he left for the g7 in japan yesterday he vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have reinstated tariffs on chinese solar panels saying it threatens the transition to solar and the jobs that come with it. and yet he will be talking about g7 allies pushing them to rely less on beijing. john. >> john: strange bed fellows comes to mind. jacqui heinrich at the white house, thank you. >> sandra: the divide over green emergency reaching rural communities. some property owners are latching on to solar farms for income, but a growing number of farmers are afraid crops and livestock, their entire way of life will be affected by that.

mike emmanuel has that for us. what have we learned here? >> sandra, that cash is flowing into rural communities influencing local politicians and businesses and buying up property for major solar and wind projects. allan owns property in johnson county, kansas, now facing a massive solar field 150 feet from his property line taking away from its rural beauty. >> we bought out here, built out here, have our life savings invested in these places and we see it as detrimental to the character of the community, we he see it as detrimental to our property values. >> other places, wind energy on the other side of the issue. some folks find the projects a financial win. >> what farmers see is an opportunity to diversify their business, and a small business owner will perk their ears up whether they see an opportunity

to see steady, diverse revenue flowing into their business. >> but in some communities, there's a lot of controversy about the green projects and green money dividing neighbors. one project in the works in kansas would be massive and residents are looking at two years of construction in a populated area and plenty of noise and dust. this owner says when he heard green energy was coming to town he was ok with it as long as it was not on his doorstep. now he's worried about his small farming operation where people pick berries. >> now we've got the proposed 3,000 acre solar farm and it's like, you know, six square miles, a quarter of the size of manhattan island, it's going to be huge out here and dominate the landscape. >> soon allan and many of his neighbors may have an industrial view instead of rural beauty. sandra. >> sandra: mike, thank you. >> john: charlie hurt, who

knows, maybe they can make the solar panels look like soybean fields, like they have the cell phone towers that look like trees? >> if anybody can figure out, the chinese can figure that out but i don't want them in my neighborhood. talk about the biden-manchin feud. manchin torpedoed biden's nominee, basically he thought he was going to be assistant secretary for getting rid of gas stove and it's interesting that the senator from west virginia, a democrat, is now in a feud with the president. >> yeah, and i think it's an important one because of course obviously joe manchin is up for re-election, we are not certain what he'll be doing but if he wants to win re-election in west virginia, he has to put up a good fight about this. and politicians never get into more trouble than when they

start clawing into peoples like bathrooms and kitchens and bedrooms, it always ends badly for whoever tries to do that. and i think manchin, to his credit, recognizes that this is the kind of thing that, you know, and obviously we have been told we are conspiracy theorists coming after the gas stoves, no, we are not, and -- but you know, kudos to him, the way this is supposed to work. and you know, it's -- that's why the congress has that sort of authority over the administrative state and god bless 'em for using that authority. >> sandra: all of it, too, you have to think about, just not business friendly. take the case of the gas stoves and this will affect the quality of the cooking and in certain quantities, and in california, they have given this celebrity chef and exception for gas

stoves, he made the case we would not be able to cook the way we were, our quality will suffer. the attorney involved said without a gas connection and appliances, the restaurant would be forced to altar the signature five star menu, it is unwilling to do. xitina cannot compromise the caliber of cuisine and reputation, so you bundle this all together and sort of like act before you think about the consequences of this. not all the restaurants are this lucky. >> no, exactly. every restaurant, you know, that restaurant owner speaks for every restaurant, even if you are not a celebrity chef. here is the thing that snuck under the radar. a lot of this stuff is baked into the cake. localities, who have put in regulations so that new construction doesn't include the ability to put in gas stoves, and when people wake up and realize this is a real thing, it's going to be too late for a lot of them. >> john: this particular building and it is owned by jose

a andres as well, they said oh, the gas line is there. i want to ask you about desantis, we think next week he'll get in the race. one of the latest polls, done up until the 13th, trump at 49, desantis at 21, desantis has not gotten in the race. do you think the number will change if he does? >> it's hard to see it changing a whole lot, at least immediately, he's been running, you know, under the radar he's been running for months now. but i also -- polling is so goofy and especially goofy this early, and so i don't put a whole lot of stock in that. but it's going to be really interesting to see. obviously desantis has a great argument in florida, we saw that in the last election. his problem is how do you convey

that record and enthusiasm outside of florida and we have not seen any major evidence that he can do that on a large scale. people obviously know who trump is and i think this primary, especially, is going to be about who is the best fighter. i think the level of frustration is just at its -- i think it's higher than it was in 2016, and it's a difficult trick to beat trump in the fighting category. >> sandra: and there are questions over whether or not he's going to maneuver farther to the right on trump than some of the issues, leaning into the culture wars ahead of a possible bid. what about abortion? will you see him move farther to the right on abortion? >> i think it's really interesting and a smart strategy by desantis to do that. but of course, you know, when he looks at the resignation in florida, for example, which of course is going to be something that pro life people are going to be very happy with. donald trump can always say this would have never happened if i

hadn't given you the court that overturned roe v. wade so he can sort of take credit for even that, and that's going to be, to me i think it's going to be desantis's biggest challenge. >> john: charlie, great to see you. looking forward to the solar farm on your property. >> it will not happen, i promise you. >> john: more and more migrants arriving and taking up resources in new york city and the cracks beginning to show. why officials appear to be reversing course on some of the most controversial measures and the mayor demanding help from his fellow democrats. >> sandra: and why is one of the biggest names in sportswear using a male model to advertise women's swim wear? critics say the company is erasing women athletes. what does tammy bruce have to say about that? she'll join us next. lomita feed is 101 years old this year and counting. i'm bill lockwood, current caretaker and owner. when covid hit, we had some challenges

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>> sandra: new york city officials still scrambling to deal with a growing number of migrant arrivals, school gyms -- how long can this continue? >> that's the question everybody, including the mayor are asking here in new york city. the 41,500 migrants currently in the city's care is way too much for the resources that we have. we are learning today the mayor's office is in talks with the owners of a red roof inn in duchess county to possibly start bussing migrants there, starting on sunday. that's to the northeast of orange county. this comes as more and more busses arrive in new york city. take a look at this new video from 8:00 a.m. this morning. a group of 38 migrants arrived at the port authority, a mixture of men, women and children. the mayor says between 40 and 50% of hotels in new york city

that can and will house migrants are full and with a lack of help from the biden administration, the mayor said it's a losing issue for democrats. >> the numbers are just unbelievable when you think about it. our goal is to make sure that we have a decompression strategy at the border and decompression strategy in the state and really the democrats, we are losing this argument. >> and sandra, as you mentioned, this comes after the city moved migrants out yesterday from an elementary school gym in brooklyn and that happened after parents protested for two straight days. the parents that i spoke with say they feel like their voices were heard but the mayor's office denies the change has anything to do with the protests. >> the school was always going to be what we have called a respite site, short-term, and the reason we had to do it was because of the influx that we have gotten. >> sandra, the city did not rule out the possibility of using

school gyms again if numbers continue to spike and the mayor's office is expecting a busy weekend with 13 to 15 migrant busses expected in the next couple days. we'll send it back to you. >> sandra: nate foy live in new york city, i'm in washington today. >> john: the capitol building behind her tells the story. texas, the latest to take a firm stance against transgender medical care for children. passing a bill banning minors from getting gender altering procedures and hormone therapy. and would require minors receiving the care to be weaned off it gradually. greg abbott is expected to soon sign it into law. transgender advocate condemn it saying it's vital for the treatment of youth. >> sandra: a new ad from adidas

appears to show a biological male modelling swimsuits designed for women. the company is facing serious backlash. tammy bruce, we teed it up. what's your reaction to this? >> you know, we have been seeing so much of this, and i don't know clearly bud light did not seem to send messages to adidas at this point but i think what's important here, pride month is coming up and there is this effort by marginalized individuals who are extremists, even in the gay community, this is about political activism, and this really has nothing to do with pride or transgenderism. this is about politics infusing everything. but as a feminist and also as a gay woman, i look at this and you think was the feminist movement for the last 50 years supposed to manifest into women being pushed out of advertising, biological women having issues with sororities, able to compete in sports in a fair fashion and

i can tell you also the transgender individuals i know, which is many, are worried, in fact, that these -- the extremist frameworks like this where you have sexual predators trying to get into spas to look at women, getting into perhaps sororities or men who don't compete as well against other men taking advantage of certain rules to compete against women where they do better. this is giving transgender people a bad name, that this is making their community look bad, they do not agree with what this is, this is not the reason why someone goes through a transgender surgery which is a huge issue and a huge decision to make, and this becomes more, sandra, almost like a fetish by corporate america. it's -- as i think bud light found out, somebody coming out of college or somebody who only has a certain kind of world view is not necessarily going to be making decisions that are about

your entire customer base or what's best for a company, that this is not the place to, i guess, virtue signal where your politics are. so it hurts transgender community, certainly it's hurting women, and it's not homophobic or transphobic to say look, everybody is fine there, is a place for everyone. we all live in this world but there's no reason why it has to be a 0 sum gain where it is men, you know, wearing women's swimsuits to somehow appeal to i don't know whom, and erasing women and who women are as biological females, none of that is necessary for the transgender community to have their lives and enjoy their lives, and that's what i'm hearing from transgender people. so i think it's important for the audience to know that this is an extremist framework, that it's political, and that this is not a reflection of corporation should know, this is not what's

going on in the gay community, in the transgender community, this is not what we are thinking about, or what we want, and in the meantime, for gay men and lesbians, our lives in fact are different from transgenders. lastly, thank you for letting me go on, is that forever, gay women like myself, we have been smeared, being told that we just want to be men. well, no we don't. and that has been a long time smear of misogyny, i like being a woman, i like being a gay woman. this is not gender disforeya, what we are seeing with adidas and other companies, audiences know it's not widespread, not what we want and not reflection what the transgender community actually wants. >> sandra: swimmer riley gaines who often joins us on the

program, demanding athletes boycott adidas, and also olympic swimmer sharon davies is screaming stop gaslighting women, she's slamming the company for assault on being female, tammy. >> this is what -- it's very strange because none of this has anything to do with minorities, sexual minorities, it's about dividing people. the gay community had terrific successes like with gay marriage and acceptance by the american people and it's almost as though they've got to find some new dynamic that they can make people victims of, and raise money on, and you know, the feminist movement in this country is dead, but women deserve to have advocacy and we see why. we see what's going on here, and people have been afraid to say something because they don't want to be called another name,

but the fact is, women are losing here, there's no winner when girls are not being able to compete in sports, and that is still a new thing to have women be athletes, right, and still have as many scholarships as, or trying to match the scholarships men have, we are not quite there yet. but this is a bizarre erasure of the value and importance of women, of biological females in our culture, certainly in sports. it is misogyny, and i would argue that's the trans phobia, position transgender individuals in a manner that evokes a sense of danger or a predatory framework, it's not true, and it harms everybody in there. >> sandra: tammy, appreciate you speaking your mind on a subject.

>> thanks for having me. >> sandra: thanks for joining us with your take. >> john: tammy never holds back, why we love her. i have to say, i don't get this. i try to get everything, i just don't get this. i get putting martha stewart on "sports illustrated," she looks fantastic. but this, i don't get. i just don't get it. >> sandra: i mean, an openly hairy chest, a bulge, it's shocking, the images for sure. bud light got a lot of press, but no -- >> john: most expensive can of beer in the history of the planet. >> sandra: so many rock star athletes coast to coast, middle of america, we want to feature them, too, and the awesome athletes out there. wall street journal said the high school phenom who beat her prom date, it was boys and girls in this race, it's a fascinating story and there are people working so hard and training to hard, trying to get scholarships

to college. she's going to join us tomorrow. >> john: excellent, i love that. fantastic. >> sandra: good story. great way to put a positive spin on everything that's going on now, but i just don't get this adidas. the mayor of new york city looking to get a hold on out of control shoplifting with a brand-new plan. but it involves kiosks, not cops. does it go far enough? >> sandra: three whistleblowers testifying to congress that the bureau held bias on pro life groups and catholics. the only way we can get our baby to sleep, so when our windshield cracked, we needed it fixed right. we went to safelite.com. there's no one else we'd trust. their experts replaced our windshield, and recalibrated our car's advanced safety system. they focus on our safety...

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>> sandra: the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of natalee holloway says he will not oppose his looming extradition to the united states. the 35-year-old is currently

serving 28 years in peru for a separate murder. he is facing federal charges stemming from an alleged plot to extort money from holloway's mother. an attorney says he maintains his innocence. >> john: a feud between marjorie taylor greene and jamal bowman intensifying, they erupted into a shouting match over embattled congressman george santos. chad pergram is live on capitol hill covering the realtime drama. what are they saying to each other now? >> it's rare fo a spat for lawmakers to spew into a public view but that was the case outside the capitol. >> come on now, save the party, save america, save the children, do something about -- >> the altercation continued separately today. greene had harsh words for

bowman and his approach. >> what concerns me about jamal bowman is he has a history of aggression, not just towards others but towards me in particular. i think there's a lot of concern about jamal bowman, so, and i am concerned about it. i feel threatened by him. >> when asked to characterize last nights's donny brook, he called it friendly banter. but after learning what greene said about him, bowman sought out reporters, turned the issue to race. >> unfortunately this country has a history of characterizing black men who are outspoken, who stand their ground and who push back as being threatening or intimidating. so, she's not even using a dog whistle, she's using a bull horn. this is the same reason why mike brown was killed, one of the reasons why emmitt till was killed and throughout history black men have been characterized as aggressive. >> this is the second time bowman has engaged in a public

quarrel with a fellow member. he did so with thomas massy over guns a few months ago. bowman says he will stay away from marjorie taylor greene. >> john: chad pergram, thank you. we'll keep watching it. >> sandra: new york city attempting to declare a war on shoplifters. mayor eric adams unveiling a new plan. how bad has shoplifting become? c.b. cotton on that. >> sandra, good afternoon. the mayor says fewer than 400 repeat offenders are responsible for 30% of the city's retail theft. now the city plans to keep a list of its repeat shoplifters and create diversion programs for the nonviolent ones to possibly avoid prosecution or jail time. the city says it wants to stop the shoplifting spin cycle. >> 327 individuals were arrested

more than 666 times for an average of 20 times each. and we can't just continue to allow the behavior to harm our city, it doesn't matter if it's retail theft or if it's violent crimes. >> now here in new york city shoplifting has increased year over year since 2018. 2020 the only exception. the largest increase was 44% from 2021 to 2022. a retired nypd officer working as a security guard here in the city now filing a lawsuit after this scuffle with what he calls a repeat shoplifter. he says the man clocked him in the head with a bag of food, but he was later hit with criminal charges by the manhattan d.a.'s office for assault after he held the man down until police arrived. the issue plaguing other major metro areas, too, philadelphia and miami-dade county showing

year to date increases in shoplifting or retail theft. videos from across the country highlight the toll this is taking on retailers and customers from violent smash and grabs to attacks on the people who try and stop the thieves. now of course retailers are concerned about their bottom lines. a spokesperson for target saying the losses fueled in part by retail theft expect the profitability to be reduced by a billion dollars this year, sandra. >> sandra: and it is tough on everyone, having come from a law enforcement family yourself, this is tough on everybody who is trying to fix a really bad situation in that city. c.b., thank you. john. >> john: several fbi whistleblowers coming forward and detailing the shocking consequences, three employees accusing the fbi of retaliation and abusing power over issues. >> see what becomes of

whistleblowers, the fbi destroys their careers, suspends them, no true options for recourse or remedy. this is by design. creates an orwellian atmosphere that silences discussion. too often refuse to do what is right because the difficulty and suffering it incurs. >> sandra: let's bring in ben, editor at large for the spectator and fox news contributor. so, where does all this go? obviously a lot of the credibility of the fbi is called into question here. what do you think? >> i think that the fbi unfortunately over the past several years, including all of the activities during the trump era, essentially has done a suicide mission when it comes to their own credibility and undermined themselves in so many different ways totally unnecessary. whether you believe the collection of bad apples in the barrel is a small number or a large number, they clearly do

exist and the assurances that christopher wray has offered in terms of the changes they have made internally are not going to be enough i think to convince the american people that the fbi is not capable of once again invading and altering election metrics in certain ways. essentially determining the kind of stories that are, you know, that are alayed against various candidates in ways that could event the track elections take. we don't want them to do that, we want them to protect us engaged in law enforcement and protecting from foreign threats and the like, and in the wake of the durham report and the whistleblowers coming forward we can have a lot of confidence in the fbi to be focused on that mission. >> john: cited in the last hour, mpr editor in d.c. wrote an essay back in 2018 which

suggested none of this should be a surprise. headline was the massive case of collective amnesia, the fbi has been political from the start. long history of politically motivated investigations and activities going all the way back to the founding, so why should we be surprised? >> i think a lot of americans thought we had left that in the past, we didn't have the kind of fbi targeting as what it viewed as politically difficult opponents to the agenda it wanted to advance. we are familiar with the activities during the civil rights era and the like, and now we are dealing with an fbi that is not really willing to fess up to the different things it's been doing over the past several years and you have all of these very recently exited fbi officials, you know, including people like peter struck, like andrew mccabe, saying there is nothing to see here, everything is fine, the durham report was a waste of time and i think responsible people can understand, regardless of your

partisanship, which candidate you favor, we should not have a weaponized intelligence agency operating in america in a way that could undermine candidates of either party. >> sandra: when it comes to the durham report and the damning indictment of the fbi, marc thiessen writes damning indictment of the media, too, and says this, lays bare why trust in the media lays in tatter, if 2024 americans decide journalists are a greater threat to the democracy than a second trump term, no one to blame but themself. what about accountability? >> we have seen the decline in faith institutions in america, including the politicians, leadship on the law enforcement, even our, essentially our military is the last thing standing. pretty much everything else, people have a being la of faith in it. and i think the media is, you know, part and parcel of that. they did so much interference on

behalf of the agents, the fbi leakers who went to them, gave them information they ran with wholesale without ever questioning whether there was something else going on here. >> john: and now dismissing durham as a nothing burger, i mean -- >> it's absolutely, no, it's absolutely an example of how our leadership needs to have a holistic approach to change and reform if we are ever going to have the kind of faith again in these institutions we ought to have as americans, they operate without the bias that can undermine everything we expect. >> sandra: going to hold your breath? >> john: great to see you, best to megan and the kids. >> sandra: world leaders gather in japan for g7, a group of allies are pushing to send f-16s to ukraine. >> john: and beijing seeks to make inroads with other nations

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>> john: russia launching a fresh round of cruise missiles toward kyiv, the ninth attack on

the capital this month along. >> sandra: some u.s. allies are pushing for f-16s for ukraine, but biden administration is worried about the cost. russia's war on ukraine one of the biggest topics at the g7. >> john: lieutenant general keith kellogg is here, so england, denmark -- sorry, holland want to give f-16s to ukraine and saying we will give you ours, but biden, who needs to sign off on it, is balking. any reason you can see not to give f-16s to ukraine? we hear the threats from vladimir putin but they seem hollow so far. >> i think it's a mistake to give them f-16s. to get the pilots training, there is a year training and we are heading toward a culmination phase, the offensive will kick off, ukraine will win the fight or lose the fight, and then endless war and negotiation. a simple solution, and it's

really quite easy. nda, the war hawk, air to ground system design today beat the russian, soviet union years ago, it's really good. 30 millimeter gun on it, effective in the iraq war, and let's just transfer them. just transfer those aircraft right now, they are going out of the inventory, air to ground systems out there, easy-to-use, the o.r. rate, the operation readiness rate is 90% compared to 50% on the f-16. f-16 is not real air to ground coverage out there, and the fight will be on the ground, not the air. how do you fly it? another thing we could have done and should have done long ago. in world war ii we had the eagle squadron, american volunteers, and the raf, the royal air force that flew for the brits against

the germans. in the pacific, flying tigers flying against the japanese. you can take american volunteers. americans are fighting ukraine as volunteers. and man the aircraft. i bet a lot of men and women out there willing to fight the fight and you don't need to send all 144 or 288 we have left in inventory. give them about 30. so the f-16 sounds good, it's a shiny lure, you can't train up to it in time to get it ready, it does not give you the advantage on a huge maneuver fight on the grounds so they are actually looking at it wrong, all of them are, sounds good but not going to help you. >> sandra: really interesting. final thought on china, john kirby was in the briefing room with edward lawrence on china and whether or not the president is going to talk tough on china during his trip. listen. >> will the president specifically call out china, push back against everything? >> the president has been nothing but clear every time he talks about the prc about the fact that we are in a strategic

competition. it's a competition that the united states is poised and able to win, and he means to do that. he means for us to be successful in that competition. not shy one bit laying bare his concerns about prc activities, whether it's in the security realm or the economic realm. >> sandra: interview on the ground with john kirby, not shy one bit. you agree with that? >> john kirby said china is a competitor -- france is a competitor. china is an adversary. they want to push us out of the western pacific and trying to take global dominance and we should understand that and if we don't, we will make a huge mistake and pay for it later on. >> john: call up martha mcsally, asked if she wants to get back to the cockpit. >> she might. >> sandra: a major court decision in a messy dispute

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