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and not long ago to preview the case and the fight she says not enough people are talking about it. >> it's devastating that there are women out there who are retiring or changing their events because they are forced to compete against biological males. women's sports should be preserved as just women's sports. >> gillian: this military whistleblower has gone public with claims the u.s. has a super secret program to retrieve spacecraft they say is of nonhuman origin. wreckage from ufos. >> john: sending shock waives through the sports world. saudi-backed liv golf now merging with the pga tour, despite some pga players who went over to the tour got grief. all that as "america reports" rolls into a second hour. good to be spending more time

with you. >> gillian: fox news alert from the white house. >> john: president biden will hold a cabinet meeting to discuss his next 100 days in office, and selling his legislative wins at the top of his agenda as he fights to win a second term. >> gillian: that's only half the battle, though. critics right now are pouncing on the issue of the president's age saying it may very well complicate his chances of winning. polling is reflecting those accusations saying he's too old to serve again, according to a recent poll. the white house today has no comment. listen. >> what do you say to anyone who is questioning whether the president would survive a full second term? >> not going to comment on 2024. he has been able to push forward and get done historic pieces of legislation. gotten more done than any other

president. >> john: at least two empty seats, lloyd austin is overseas to mark the anniversary of d-day, and secretary of state antony blinken arriving in saudi arabia, today at the center of an american sports controversy. coverage with alex hogan on the trip to saudi arabia, and jennifer griffin on the ukrainian counteroffensive. >> gillian: first peter doocy live at the white house before the high stakes cabinet meeting. >> we were hoping to top this afternoon's report on your show with a sounds bite of karine jean-pierre talking about the president's re-election effort. unfortunately it has not come up yet and the briefing is about to end. but we can start with this. the biden re-election campaign, wilmington-based, trying to get him a second term by bragging on billboards about the debt deal that he just signed. the campaign manager has a statement, she tells us the

american people elected president biden and vice president harris to provide strong and steady leadership from the white house and this bipartisan budget deal serves as the latest example of how they are cutting through the divisions in washington and bringing people together to deliver results. and democrats at the very highest levels here in washington think whoever the republican nominee winds up being is going to be too extreme to beat biden. >> we'll see what alternative emerges on the other side, it's going to be an extreme alternative. we want to protect and strengthen social security and medicare. the other side wants to end those things as we know them today and will continue to try to do that. >> president biden has the whole cabinet coming, we have seen some secretaries walk up the driveway to the west wing. if the strategy is let voters see the president being the president, then all these secretaries could be his key to a second term or not. gillian. >> gillian: peter doocy at 1600

pennsylvania avenue for us, thank you. john. >> john: ukraine largely remaining silent about any military action but the reports are fueling speculation that kyiv has started its long-awaited counteroffensive against russia. when asked about it, biden crossed his fingers, jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. it seems there was no big announcement about this counteroffensive. what happened with the dam might be an indication that somebody is trying to forestall it, but is it underway, do we think? >> it's a good question, john. there are increasing signs so-called spring counteroffensive to push russian forces back across the border and out of ukraine is quietly underway. this video released in recent days by ukraine's defense minister tells ukrainians and western allies essence that loose lips sinkships.

the u.s. has sent ukraine almost $38 billion in security assistance since russia invaded in february 2022, in order to stop putin from redrawing the map of europe. there is bipartisan support on the hill to send more ammunition and weapons to ensure the ukrainians defend themselves and that russia and vladimir putin lose. the president responded to a shouted question while meeting the danish prime minister, whether the counteroffensive would work with crossed fingers. news that breached the dam on the dnipro river has caused alarm and finger pointing. western intelligence officials are still assessing who is responsible. russia has controlled the dam for over a year. the flooding could affect ukraine's crops, wiping out its

bread baskets and the nuclear plant, now off-line and not in immediate danger. and also make it more difficult for ukraine's forces to conduct a river crossing. experts are calling it a terrorist act. the reservoir is one of the largest in the world and calling it one of the largest man-made disasters in decades. >> gillian: secretary of state antony blinken is set to arrive in saudi arabia days after they announced more voluntary oil cuts. alex, talk to us about the significance of the meeting. >> it's very significant. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is not only going to meet with his counterparts, but will meet with salman, after years of rifts, and some of the

topics will include finding common ground when it comes to topics like prices of oil, regional security, and economic cooperation. potentially on the line is also the prospects of the saudis joining the abraham accords. it's a series of peace agreements between israel and several arab countries and blinken addressed the subject, calling for the normalization of relations between saudi arabia and israel which benjamin netanyahu calls one of the top priorities. >> more integrated, prosperous stable region, serves israel, the partners, and the united states. >> he traveled to saudi arabia and met with the prince and faced some backlash after a fist bump taken on video, and during blinken's three--day visit this week, he will join the gulf council to talk about security

and stability in the region as well as co-hosting a meeting of the global coalition to defeat isis. jake sullivan recently traveled to saudi, makes it the second high level visit to saudi arabia from the u.s. in the last month. really showcasing, gillian, just how crucial and how much of an effort is underway t stabilize this relationship. gillian. >> gillian: alex hogan in the london newsroom, thank you. >> john: bret baier, jacqui heinrich asked karine jean-pierre about nikki haley's comment as to whether or not biden might make it through a second term should he be re-elected. >> what do you say to anyone who is questioning whether the president would survive a full four-year term. >> so, let me just say this. i'm not going to comment on the 2024, she is a candidate, i want

to be very careful here and we do follow the hatch act, so i want to be really, really mindful here. >> john: so no comment about that, what about he's in great shape, the president is out there, robust, does things nobody else could do. kayleigh said by not answering that question, she left a lot of questions yet to be asked. >> and the overall feeling of the stories that continue to pop up in both republican and democratic circles and the news media questioning his ability to withstand a campaign that will be much more rigorous than the campaign during covid that obviously he campaigned in the basement a lot using zoom. it's going to be different and i think a lot of questions are popping up and there are real folks who are saying can he do it. now, questions about whether you are campaigning against vice president kamala harris, that's a little different. the democratic party is united behind, it seems, president

biden at this point. >> gillian: you just mentioned, there was -- there is a sense now what was once a kind of a fringe concern, the president's age and his fitness is now in the media spotlight. what is driving that concern now, do you think? >> i think just what we are seeing. what we are seeing, witnessing. obviously, you know, how he talks about things, his communication, the lack of one-on-one interviews, we continue to ask time and time again for a one-on-one interview with the president. he didn't do the interview before the super bowl which is traditional. and he doesn't do a lot of press conferences. and so that's noticeable. and obviously his physical, a lot has been made about the falls, but you know, he is a guy who goes into office older than reagan was when he left. so it's a concern. >> john: much older. i mean, donald trump is the age that reagan was when he left. so, new entries in the race,

christie tonight, pence on wednesday, bergham as well, and foreign policy is rising on the radar screen. vivek ramaswamy was with us yesterday what he thought was the most important foreign policy problem that would need to be addressed, the growing relationship between russia and china. listen to what he said. >> i think we need to focus on driving a wedge between that alliance, because i think that is the single greatest military threat we will face and what gives xi jinping the confidence he needs to risk war with the u.s. over taiwan. the bet the u.s. won't want to actually go after two different nuclear superpowers at the same time. that's the foreign policy. >> john: polls would suggest biden is -- approve 38%, disapproved 57%, so with the former vice president getting in, could that open up a new

lane for republicans? >> there could be, and i think there are a lot of questions about foreign policy, specifically on china. and is this administration tough enough on china. these recent incidents about the ships and the crossing of the shipping lanes, the aircraft, it is very aggressive. more aggressive than china has been recently and just talking to people in the national security realm they wonder whether we, as the u.s., have sent a stern enough message. you heard kirby from the podium, i want wouldn't happen, wouldn't be unanswered in some administration's and you wonder whether it's being answered now. >> gillian: you want to talk about the pga and liv? >> i thought we were going to lead with that. >> john: this falls into the realm. >> gillian: eat your broccoli, now we can have the dessert. >> ok, let me take off the news

anchor hat and as a golfer, it's good for golf overall, good for the game of golf and golf will expand. now back to the news anchor hat. just talked to a lot of people who have contact with pga pros who stayed on the tour, who are really disappointed and feel like they were abandoned. a lot of these guys remained loyal to the tour, did not take the liv tour money which was substantial and now surprised, learned on twitter or a press release the merger happened. >> john: they also took a moral stand against saudi arabia, people were talking about blood money some of the golfers were taking. what happened to all that. >> right. a lot of questions about how physically this goes forward, how it looks, what it does. the big winners here, obviously, the pros who took the liv money, went, left the tour, got the big

payout, and now probably are going to be welcome back in. there may be some fine they have to pay or something to get back on the pga tour, but overall, this had to happen in the big picture. the question is, whether the leadership has felt the backlash of the hypocrisy of the things they said all along leading up to here. >> gillian: and they just asked john kirby at the briefing and he said i have to refer you to the saudi government. no comment from the white house. >> there was litigation and all heading to depositions in august and this seems -- they have dropped all litigation. >> john: i thought it was because brooks koepka won the pga. >> gillian: california's governor is taking aim at florida's governor after migrants arrive in sexual misconduct. but california is allegedly a

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>> gillian: atlanta city council voted to approve $31 million police training center but opponents were there fighting against it late into the night. this is so-called cop city. it sparked protests and vandalism earlier this year.

ended up passing through the city council, though, 11-4. >> john: california governor gavin newsom is squaring or with his florida counterpart, ron desantis, after two plane loads of migrants arrived in the golden state over four days. claudia, is governor newsom threatening legal action here against desantis? >> well, john, he is certainly floating that possibility, and now the newly arrived migrants are at the center of a political fire storm and a mystery. we don't know who was behind these flights, but state leaders quickly blamed ron desantis. california governor gavin newsom lashed out at the florida governor and republican presidential candidate after the first plane arrived on friday with 16 colombian and venezuelan nationals. 20 more asylum seekers arrived yesterday. the chartered flights came from

texas but the attorney general said the migrants had papers indicating the flights were arranged out of florida, he did not provide any explanation as to what the papers were but newsom fired off a tweet calling desantis a small pathetic man. added kidnapping charges but offered 0 evidence. he says the california department of justice will look to hold anyone criminally accountable for misleading, and transporting individuals under false pretenses. >> it might be illegal. we are investigating ron desantis. we are investigating the state of florida. we are investigating their vendor who implements this so-called state of florida voluntary transportation program for potential criminal and civil liability. >> last year desantis famously flew about 50 migrants to martha's vineyard because he

said it offered sanctuary protections. but he did not say anything about the flights to sacramento, and no confirmation of who was behind them. the 36 migrants and we understand a dog are now getting assistant from immigration and faith-based groups as the rivalry just explodes between the two state leaders who both have national ambitions. john. >> john: claudia, thank you. gillian. >> gillian: the big apple, mayor eric adams says further on down the line he might one day call on new yorkers to open up their homes and businesses to migrants once shelters hit capacity again. suggesting homeowners let migrants move into spare rooms, for example. bring in new york city councilman joe borelli. the first step, calling it a partnership with faith-based organizations.

he's asking houses of worship to step in and help support migrants. what do you think -- let's start there. what do you think of that? >> well, that's somewhat bizarre to begin with, i mean, many of these institutions are doing a fine job taking new york homeless people off the streets and trying to solve some of the problems that he have with. here we have a scenario where some of these same churches would be causing a problem in exchange for a couple of dollars they can make for stockpiling migrants in the basement. i think new yorkers will get frustrated by this and see this as a problem when these folks are occupying places really close to home. >> gillian: so let's turn now to the future plan touched on in public comments yesterday, which is he might ask new yorkers to actually take folks into their homes and businesses, this is what he said as justification for that idea. >> it is my vision to take the

next step to this go to the faith-based locales and then move to private residents. we can take the $4.2 billion, 4.3 may be now that we have to spend and put it back into the pockets of everyday new yorkers, houses of worship instead of corporations. >> gillian: a financial argument essentially, what do you think? >> look, i don't know what more has to happen in order to prove that the train finally went off the track on this migrant situation. i don't know what more joe biden needs before he acts. now we are talking about actually putting migrants, people who have come here illegally, homeless, inside of private residences. as you know, new yorkers live in pretty dense high rise apartments, many of us, and imagine your own building where you live every day being turned into a de facto homeless shelter for people who have come here illegally. that's the real proposition that

new yorkers are facing and it is almost absurd. i would love to say it's absurd but more and more becoming like the realm of possibility. i don't know when enough is enough, when we can finally end the crisis, i don't know what the off ramp is, when we hit the 100,000 person, the millionth person, the mayor needs to come up with the answer. >> gillian: i grew up in new york city, i know how crowded it is. what do you propose the mayor do, he's trying to deal with new york and the problem there, what would you have him do? >> i would have him be in court tomorrow to challenge this callahan decree, basically upheld our state constitutional right to shelter law. that would start it first and foremost. if we can eliminate the constitutional requirement to house people, basically turning us into the world's refugee

camp, it would give more leverage to not feel legally obligated to house the folks. i wish the mayor would do that, and also turn up the pressure on joe biden. you saw governor desantis versus governor newsom, look at the state of the country that we are in. we have governor versus governor simply because of a major failure by the federal government. i have not seen this in my lifetime. >> gillian: joe, we have to leave it there. love talking to you as always. thanks for your time. >> john: democrats have been quick to try to discredit the infamous whistleblower complaint alleging then vice president biden took a bribe. is it just a repeat of what they tried to do with the hunter biden laptop story. bill mcgurn is here to explain. >> gillian: a federal appeals court is listening to a challenge to allow transgender

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>> john: right now a federal appeals court is rehearing a plea from four young women, all former high school track runners who say they were unfairly forced to race against biological males, costing them opportunities. live outside the federal courthouse in lower manhattan. the case was heard late last year. why is it back in court now? >> well, john, oral arguments are underway, that started at 2:00. to answer your question, this case is back before the court because the full court of 15 judges has decided to reconsider the decision by a panel of three

judges, speaking to them an hour and a half ago, they feel confident about their case. the four women are suing the connecticut association of schools. they want their high school records amended to reflect what they would have been had they not had to compete against two transgender athletes. one of those runners, chelsea mitchell, says she lost four state championships to these two transgender athletes and today the four runners tell me they want to protect other girls from unfair competition. >> the change isn't made soon we will be sidelined in our own sport. i'm hoping after today people will realize a level playing field needs to be returned to our sport and all women's sports. >> john, an attorney for the aclu, which represents the two transgender athletes, writes in part, the court's previous decision affirmed that our clients made by the rules and that all girls, trans and cisgender, have a right to play under title nine.

transgender participation in sports is a big focus in california. the past two weeks, two transgender runners pulled out of a state competition citing backlash. they took qualifying spots ahead of other runners. and 21 states across the country have protections in place for female sports recording transgender participation. as for this hearing, we are not expecting a decision from the judges. a written decision is expected at a later time and we are expecting an opportunity to speak to the lawyers once today's hearing wraps up. back to you. >> john: nate, thank you. >> this whistleblower report alleging that the u.s. military has been retrieving craft of nonhuman origin for several decades, are we alone, and if we were not, would you even tell us? >> i would refer that question to the department of defense and let them answer that question for you. >> that's the white house

weighing in last hour on new bombshell claims from a military whistleblower. says the government has been recovering ufos for decades and keeping them secret. chad pergram, our resident ufo expert, he joins us from capitol hill. what are lawmakers saying? >> well, gillian, officials are mostly quiet. a spokesperson for intelligence committee chairman mark warner said they would have no comment. a former senior u.s. military officer tells fox i have never seen any evidence of any alien anything. but former intelligence officer david rush contends the government has out of this world. >> retrieving nonhuman origin technical vehicles, call it spacecraft if you will, probably not the right parlance but no kidding, nonhuman, exotic origin, vehicles that have either landed or crashed. >> we have spacecraft from another species. >> we do?

>> yeah. >> but not everyone is sold on russia's allegation. studies the cosmos at harvard. says the information is credible but he needs something concrete. >> we have seen the evidence without seeing the materials or the data that supports the claim that some craft from an alien civilization was identified. we can't really tell. without the evidence, any claim is not worth much. >> per policy, the intelligence community inspector general will not comment on russia's allegation. nor will the i.g. confirm there was a complaint. the house held a hearing last year on ufos. lawmakers received a commitment from the pentagon that they would take reports of unidentified aerial phenomena seriously. >> it's why there are laws in place to protect whistleblowers and one of the purposes of the committee that i serve on and the hearing i held, the first

hearing in 50 years since project blue book was to encourage folks in the i.c. and outside the intel community to come forward with their stories. >> congress approved language in last year's defense policy bill requiring investigations of uaps. previously lawmakers said the military dismissed ufo reports as kooky. >> gillian: you are not going to tell us either whether we are or not alone. >> i'm in congress, there are 535 members here. we are not alone on capitol hill. >> gillian: thanks for nothing, chad. talk to you soon. >> try to imply that it was either rudy giuliani or somebody else as the human informant and the fbi saying this is a valuable human informant. the reason we are in this situation is because the fbi has not been truthful and we don't have confidence in the fbi. >> john: house oversight chairman james comer defending his criticism of the fbi and plans to hold christopher wray

in contempt of congress. kevin mccarthy says he plans to back that once it get out of committee. bill mcgurn, former speech writer to president bush and fox news contributor. you write in the wall street journal, about the media ignoring it, hunter's laptop all over again. the house oversight committee seeks an fbi document that joe biden took a bribe and to undermine it is already underway. you suggest the media is complicit. >> they didn't want to know about it. from what we know, a credible source outlined details of the criminal scheme to bribe joe biden for $5 million in exchange for his influence on policy. we don't know if it's true. but you would think people would want to find out if it's true and what mr. comer wants to know

is what the fbi did in response. and the first, what document, what 1023. we don't know if it really exists. last wednesday we learned it exists. fbi admitted it and then yesterday the fbi brought it up to the hill and said you can take the quick look see but that's it. so two separate issues. one is the contempt finding against wray. i think he's going to lose that one. i think the house is not -- not in the mood to take this kind of gamesmanship from the fbi director. congressman raskin, the ranking member, came out of the same meeting and said this has been looked into and the investigation was closed. mr. comer says no, it's an ongoing investigation because the fbi. i think they are talking about two different things. >> john: so in talking about how the media is trying to discredit

or even dismiss this, you point out that cnn talked about this form 1023, saying it was among a pile of documents that rudy giuliani turned over to the doj in 2020. you write in the op-ed, remember when "the new york post" on october 14, 2020, first published some incriminating emails from hunter biden's laptop. it was suppressed with the active assistance with the fbi, and that hunter biden's lawyer refused to comment on the specifics but instead attacked giuliani. some things never change. seems if you want to discredit something, you claim it came from rudy giuliani or associated with it. >> right, and we want know if it's true. what we really want to know, did the fbi take steps to find out if it's true or not.

i think the trust is gone, the fbi does not have the trust. we know what they did under james comey, and people are wondering, are there -- is there one standard for people named biden, clinton, and one for everyone else? and i think the fight has just begun over this. also, what i think had happened is there was original accusation in like 2017, and that was put in a 1023 as well. then giuliani found some information that either repeated the allegation or was related to it. and they investigated that. then they reinterviewed the informant and that gave us the 1023 from june 2020. so if it's still an investigation, the fbi obviously thinks it's credible, not necessarily true.

we don't know yet. >> john: seemed like a pretty big deal, the fbi director came to capitol hill, went into a scif, he and comer and raskin, reviewed the document. both came out and gave news conferences ance yet when you take a look at how many play it got on the nightly network news, abc, 0 minutes. nbc, 0 minutes. cbs, 0 minutes, according to the research center. why is the mainstream media so quick to discredit the story and keep it off the front page? >> look, they have taken sides in these things for a long time. they shouted russia collusion for four years, they are taking sides. the best way to kill the story is to ignore it. they know they can't argue details, then they get into whether they are true or not. they just say oh, it came from giuliani or something and hope it goes away. and remember, the post scoop on

the hunter laptop was the press on twitter and facebook with the fbi's help, so people want t know, you know, has christopher wray really changed things there, or just rearranged the furniture. >> john: it's a very interesting op-ed you have in the wall street journal, people should give it a look. bill, good to talk to you. >> gillian: developing, oncologists are flagging a disturbing surge of colon cancer among young people. kasey kahnes -->> cases are expected to double by the end of the decade. dr. nesheiwat will break it down. ter risk of stroke, heart attack, or death. even at your a1c goal, you're still at risk ...which if ignored could bring you here... ...may put you in one of those... ...or even worse. too much? that's the point.

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are astonishing. we have about 150,000 cases of colon cancer diagnosed every year, and about 20,000 of them are in those under the age of 50, and you know, traditionally we associate colon cancer with those in the older population or obesity, smoker, sedentary lifestyle, drink too much alcohol or consume too much red meat but now we are seeing it under the age of 45, and scientists and researchers are still investigating the exact cause of this, starting all the way from birth, whether you were born via c-section or spontaneous vaginal delivery, which set of bacteria you were exposed to early on in life. and scientists are looking at if you have chronic antibiotic exposure for prolonged periods of time could disrupt the gut microbiom. we carry around 3 or 4 pounds of

microbes every day and if you disrupt it, possibility this could lead to cancer later in life, that's what's being studied. one thing i found interesting that scientists have been looking at, when they looked at the cancer tissue in the younger population under 45, a fungus, and they did not see it in the older population, so looking to see, does this fungus perhaps damage the dna in the cells of your intestines, possibly leading to this early onset colon cancer. >> john: in 2021, the guidelines for colonoscopy changed, it was the age of 50, they moved it up to 45. based on this new research, should it be moved up earlier than that? >> that's a great question. we need more data to show earlier testing and screening could save more lives. what we know now, if you double the screening, you will save 50% more lives.

a recent study in the journal of gastroenterology, it saved more lives under the age of 50. early detection usually for most people leads to better prognosis. if you have symptoms, no matter your age, abdominal pain or blood in the stool or fatigue, or change in the bowel habits, constipation or diarrhea, and unintentional weight loss, lost their appetite, see your doctor right away. it's treatable, preventable and again, if catch it early, a better prognosis. >> gillian: a lot to chew over there, but it's important to note the new guidelines when you should start cancer screenings. thanks for sharing your expertise with us. we will track the story closely. >> yes, thank you, gillian. >> john: before we go, i want to take a moment to address

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fans, the pop star has no concerts scheduled in miami. so guess who will take it all? >> gillian: what do you think, buying it or not buying it? >> john: taylor swift could not curse anybody. she's too sweet. >> gillian: but sports fans are superstitious about their teams. >> john: don't cut your hair or shave your mustache. a >> gillian: thanks for joining us at home, i am gillian turner. >> john: and i am john r john roberts. "the story" starts now. >> martha: good afternoon, everybody. i am martha maccallum and this is "the story," jim jordan from capitol hill, andy mccarthy on the reported grand jury now looking at the mar-a-lago document case. weighing in on his take on that case and whether or not an indictment is coming for the former president. also chairman mike gallagher with his take on the latest aggression from china as he oversees the commission looking