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expedition yesterday and failed to return safely last night. >> sandra: operated by oceangate expeditions, a company in the past year has begun taking tourists for $250,000 apiece to explore the wreckage, which is located on the ocean floor of the atlantic around 350 miles south of newfoundland. alexis mcadams has the latest breaking details. >> just having the developments roll in here, it's a small vessel, so an active search and rescue mission hoping to find the five mission specialists on board. oceangate launched it, the size of a minivan, so inside a small vessel from newfoundland,

six-hour tour of the wreckage of the titanic. they reported it missing to the coast guard, the coast guard has also stepped in trying to reach out to the navy and armed force, all hands on deck. we are told it is designed in such a way if it has a problem it automatically floats to the surface. if it happened here, we are waiting to find out. video of the wreckage was taken by oceangate last year, a photo of it as well, and expedition leads tours to the underground wreckage in the smaller submarines and obviously as we know sank in 1912 after it hit an iceberg. oceangate said they are exploring and mobilizing all options to bring the crew back safely and that is their top priority. they did post information about the trips on their twitter page, back from june 1st, the company said that despite being in the middle of the north atlantic, they had internet connection and

they thanked the success to starlink, owned by elon musk. they advertise seven-night voyages, priced at 250,000 a pop. the wreck is more than 12,000 feet down, so they are doing everything they can to try and find the people on board. >> sandra: thank you for the update. keep us posted. thank you. >> john: bring in rear admiral john mauger, coordinating the rescue effort. rear admiral, thanks for being with us. we know the great work the coast guard does in situations like this, pulling out all the stops to try to find people lost at sea. the statistic sheet on this submersible says 96 hours of life support, 24 have gone by. i assume the race is on to try to find this in the open ocean as quickly as possible.

>> john, thoughts are with the crew members and their families, bringing all assets to bear to try and find the submersible and so we were notified yesterday afternoon and we began immediately to mobilize assets to search the surface of the water, search from the air and launch equipment that would enable us to detect any vessels under the water as well. and so we have had a comprehensive approach to trying to find this submersible and the people on board. >> sandra: you mentioned the air search that is ongoing as well, and that is because this particular vessel is designed to surface automatically should there ever be any technical issues. so, for anyone to assume that it was below the ocean surface, that would be -- that it had such technical issues it did not

operate as planned if it had problems to be again with. so, what are you leaning towards where this vessel might be? >> sandra, this is a very complicated problem, it's out there in not quite the middle of the ocean, but near the middle of the ocean, a remote part of the ocean, 900 miles away from our coast here in massachusetts. and we have to assume that, you know, anything is possible at this point and we are bringing to bear a number of different assets. launched coast guard c-130 aircraft, we had an aircraft that was up in the area that is part of a normal international iceberg patrol, that was started after the titanic and so we retasked them to search on the surface for anything that might have surfaced. and then we have launched aircraft out of our air station

in elizabeth city, north carolina, a long way away, but they have been deployed. and coordinated with our canadian coast guard and canadian armed forces partners and they were able to launch two aircraft as well, both the c-130 and the p eight o'rion, it can drop buoys, and it's a large area of water and complicated by local weather conditions as well. >> john: admiral, this vessel is only 22 feet long and a big ocean out there, so, if it did surface and does in the have the ability to communicate with the mother ship, it would be alone out there in an awfully big stretch of sea. do you know in terms of the construction of the vessel, it's designed to surface if it runs

into trouble. does that hold if there were a catastrophic failure, if the hull were breached or something like that at extreme depth, would it come back up or stay down? >> i can't speculate on what type of damage this thing may have incurred or what type of emergency the vessel may have incurred. but that's why we have taken a comprehensive approach to search on the surface, search from the air, and also deploy capability to search underwater as well. >> sandra: obviously it's going to be a massive coordinated search, i mean, when you are talking about air and water, what is the next few hours look like and at what point do you have to start making assumptions? >> right, so our crews are really really hard again, we have air crews that are working this case, actually flying and

using both radar and visual when able to search the surface of the water. we have the polar prince itself, out there on-site that is conducting a surface search, and we are looking to bring in additional vessels operating in the area. there was a research vessel that was conducting research, you know, not exactly nearby but within several hours of transit so we will bring that vessel into the search on the surface as well. and then use all those underwater methods we have from the p8 o'rion and the research vessel. we are bringing all assets to bear, we don't know if it's on the surface or subsurface. good news as you have talked about is that this particular submersible is advertised to

have 96 hours of survival time, based on the amount of oxygen that's available in the capsule, and so that gives us some time to continue searching and continue to use all means to try and locate the crew members. >> john: admiral, as we look at video taken from oceangate expeditions of the titanic resting there in nearly 13,000 feet of water, the question arises, you say you have the capability to search underwater. do you have the capability to search the bottom of the ocean if this submersible got stuck or somehow experienced a power failure and could not come back up. do you have eyes on the bottom? >> so, john, let me clarify. right now we have the ability to detect sonar noises, returns in, you know, with the equipment that we have deployed out there. we don't have equipment on-site yet that can do a comprehensive

sonar survey of the bottom but we are working closely with our partners, both in the federal government and in the canadian armed forces and with private resources that are there to provide that capability. as you noted, this is on the site of a wreckage, the wreckage of the titanic, and so there is a lot of debris on the bottom and locating the object on the bottom will be difficult but we will bring all assets to bear that we can to try and find the submersible and rescue the crew members. >> sandra: admiral, for those who may just be learning of this story, this is tour, it's a ten-day trip those folks were embarking on. 18 dives off a larger boat to a maximum depth of almost 13,000 feet. this includes scientific research, observation that will be conducted on the trips, all according to the company

website. and they are charging $250,000 a person to take this trip. they say that includes underwriting the mission, participation of the science team and their own training. is this something you support in general? does the coast guard support this sort of private travel in this way? >> sandra, our focus right now is on the search-and-rescue operation so we have report of an overdue vessel, we have lives that are potentially at risk, and so we are going to do our best to put all of our capabilities to bear to try and find and locate and rescue any people that might be at risk here. >> john: admiral, one more question for you, in terms of if this thing is having a problem on the bottom and it's trying to get back up, in terms of time for decompression on the way

back up, any idea how long the ascent will take? >> so john, if we were to find this vessel submerged, we would need additional technical expertise from u.s. navy, from the canadian armed forces or from the private industry to be able to effect an underwater rescue. i don't have those details at this time, but we are reaching out to all parties to make sure that we have capabilities if we come to that phase of search-and-rescue operations. right now we are really just focused on trying to locate the vessel. again by saturating the air with aerial assets, by tasking surface assets in the area and then using the underwater sonar and sound detection means that we have available to us right

now to try and locate. >> sandra: admiral, we'll get you back to that, that hefty task and keep us posted on any developments, please. thank you. >> john: admiral, thanks so much. really appreciate you joining us. >> appreciate the chance. >> sandra: michael zinzer is joining us, a diver for 20 years, what are your thoughts in this moment as the search is ongoing? >> sandra, how you doing, john. being an ongoing search, the focus needs to be pay attention to the information that you obtain from the surface. last known positions where the submarine was identified, to gather as much data about the submarine, maintenance, any issues with the maintenance of the submarine, any telltale signs, by gathering as much information where the submarine was, the condition of the

submarine prior to going down and the direction where it was headed gives you kind of a focus point of the area you need to search. because the location where the submarine did go down makes it very difficult for any program other than military or extreme science research facility to go and search it. and one of the most difficult areas is not so much identifying the location because we have assets, military has assets to be able to identify location pretty well. it's identify exactly where on the bottom it is. it's a huge area and the ocean has different thermal, so as you go deeper the temperature changes dramatically, down to about 100, 200 meters, and there is the zone goes from 200 meters to 1,000 meters, and that's an area typically where the

submarines sort of would hide, because sonar and sound cannot penetrate it. so, if the submarine is sitting on the bottom, then it would be very difficult to be able to penetrate that area unless you have resources to go through it and unfortunately the titanic sits right at the zone. so to get the asset to penetrate and locate it, you have to be in the zone, the military would probably be the best resource. >> john: the coast guard is in touch with the u.s. navy and they have the facilities to locate submarines and submersibles on the ocean floor but we remember when robert ballard undertook the expedition in the 1980s to find the titanic what an effort it was to scour the area. he had to 0 in on where the

titanic was. and it's easy to find now, but a 22-foot submersible something has gone wrong, it's a lot of ocean to find something that small. >> it is huge. and sonar, sound devices would make it very difficult. one of the topics you brought up with the admiral was the interior of the submarine pressure. this is typically -- submarines are typically one atmosphere. so decompression typically is not an issue unless -- unless there was some type of pressure breach where the interior appreciate increased, and that point they would have a decompression situation where they have to bring the vessel back up to the surface. other than that, if they are able to locate it and get to the submarine, they can bring it directly to the surface. and the other thing that you need to focus on, not only the oxygen that's in it, but the scrubbers because our body

produces carbon dioxide as we breathe in and out. so if the scrubbers are not functioning properly they are unable to scrub the carbon dioxide out of the system, which even though you may have plenty of oxygen in it, the carbon dioxide can become an issue as well. so there's a lot -- >> sandra: sorry about that, we are having a connection issue. can you give some idea what it feels like, looks like for the passengers that are in that vessel, especially, you know, if they are in some way getting thrown around in the ocean. what does it feel like in there? >> well, i can't particularly say because i haven't been in this vessel. so i think the description that's been talked about, being a minivan down the road is pretty unique. unless you have high tide, currents and pushed around by the ocean, it's probably a pretty smooth ride.

another issue you have to worry about is the pressure that's surrounding a vessel like this. if there was a breach in the hull, then that could be a serious problem. so at that depth, at the depth of the titanic, over 5,000 pounds per square inch on the vessel. so if there is an issue with the structural soundness of the vessel, that would make it very difficult. >> john: you pray for the folks who are in there and you hope that they are bobbing around on the surface of the ocean and have lost communications, and lost contact with the mother ship. but remembering back to the ballard expeditions and i don't know if they still do it that way, but basically you had the ship on the surface and then the submersible would sort of spiral down right underneath the ship to the bottom and then would basically come back up again. there was not any long travel that would take it some distance away from the mother ship.

so, if this did run into trouble and it surfaced by itself as it is designed to do, should that bring it up close to its tender ship or could the currents take it further away? >> the currents go different direction under the ocean. it could move it away to another location. but then again, go back to the military resources that are out there, being i definitely, being retired military myself, retired navy, i can tell you the military is outstanding at search and locating and recovering vessels that were on the surface. so if it's on the surface that they will be able to find it. i'm very confident in that. and i can tell you -- me and my colleagues, our prayers are with the family and definitely hoping that it's on the surface. >> sandra: michael, a quick follow-up before we let you go. if you were on board knowing as much as we know right now, i mean, what would you be doing to try to communicate?

do you believe -- what abilities do they have to communicate? >> i'm assuming, i don't know for sure, it's assumption with most vessels that go under the water as they do in the air, there is a pinger, the vessel is on the bottom a locating pinger that might bring it to the vessel. i'm assuming the submarine has one, where is the pinger, how long does it last and what depth is it good for. >> john: michael zinszer, thank you for joining us. hopefully they will come back ok. >> sandra: thank you, michael. >> john: ian oliver for details on the weather conditions that searchers are facing. the admiral, john mauger, said they had some difficulties in

terms of the search and rescue. what was he talking about? >> particularly over the past few days, related to the storm system that we saw here on the east coast going back to the first half the weekend. as you have been pointing out, the biggest complicated factor is where it is, way out in the atlantic, 900 miles off to the east of cape cod, more than 350 miles to the southeast of newfoundland, but a depth of almost two and a half miles. you mentioned the disturbed weather, numerous challenges facing the search and rescue crews, thankfully things do get better. we have seen over the past few days wave heights up to ten feet. it has been choppy across the north atlantic, rain not much of a concern. what's left of that system continuing to progress up to the east there, is the great news, as we move through the next several days beyond that weather

system. rain not much of a concern and as those winds throttle back with the system progressing off to the north and east, so, too, do the wave heights. they'll be in the 1 to 2 foot range. time is of the greatest concern. we will see improving weather conditions moving forward. >> sandra: something important to watch there as the hours go on, john. >> john: we hope that that will happen. thank you for the update, appreciate it. gosh, you know, the thing is the size of the back end of a minivan, bigger than a phone booth and five people in there, and gosh knows what's happened to the submersible, but hopefully with all the resources, the coast guard, private enterprise and the navy and canadians adding assets as well, if it's out there bobbing on the ocean they'll find it. if it's below the surface it

will be more difficult. unless there was some catastrophic failure, another 72 hours to find them. >> sandra: the discussion with the admiral, you would think there was something on board to alert the coast guard if they entered into a chaotic situation that would challenge their lives. i mean, you think about sailboats under distress, they send a message to the coast guard to let them know the precise location. it could happen any moment now or in the next couple of hours, john. >> john: eperg, emergency position emergency radio beacon, it goes off automatically. >> sandra: we'll monitor that for developments. john durham is set to testify on capitol hill this week, just over a month after he released a scathing report exposing the fbi and their mishandling of the

trump russia lawmakers, gop lawmakers say the bureau is weaponized and they are reining it in. rep turner why the committee needs to hear from durham. >> when the government opens an investigation over uncorroborated information they take from a political campaign, you have to be concerned. when your government is lying to you, your government is telling you something has happened that has not happen, that's what our committee has to be involved. >> sandra: he's touting the special testimony, the closed door testimony tomorrow, katie. what do you expect we will learn. >> purposes for the hearing. accountability, they can refer people to the department of justice for prosecution, but can't prosecute themselves. and reform, they can reform the fbi through funding cuts,

figuring out what happened here to try and make sure it does not happen again. when it comes to the fbi and the response they had to durham's report, put out the defensive statement saying we have had reforms in place for years, since the 2016 problem with the spying on the trump campaign based on information that campaign from the clinton campaign not corroborated at all, and the operation to look into that and use fisa court to go after trump associates. and another thing said, despite the fbi saying they put the reforms in, unless they get back to change in the atmosphere or the culture of the fbi and a dedicate to the fidelity of the law, u.s. constitution rather than politics, what they have done over the course of the past couple of years to change that atmosphere will be "fruitless" what he said. they will ask a lot of tough

questions how the situation got open in the first place, and the final thing is at the end of the year there, is a reauthorization from congress on section 7, spy on foreigners and wrapped up a lot of american citizens in that and that was used during the 2016 election to spy on the trump campaign. so lawmakers are going to have to put their goal on the table and see if they are willing to re-authorize that without a number of reforms. >> sandra: no small issues you point out, and the durham report slams the fbi handling of this, but here is james comey and andrew mccabe defending it. >> there was a basis for investigating, meaning there were facts to support an investigation. >> do you still believe the president could be a russian assets? >> i think it's possible. >> they were last month, katie, play this out and hear this as well. >> nothing new in his report

about the fbi. he thinks it should have been a prelim investigation, not a full and it would be boring to the listeners and viewers. >> the report stands as an anomaly. i have my own theories, i don't think the investigation was legitimate. >> sandra: remarkable to hear comey and mccabe, do you think the president could be a russian asset, i think it's possible. >> mccabe was fired and then sued and got his money back, and you had an fiza court judge saying the way the fbi went about getting the warrant, essentially lying to the court to get information on carter page was illegal, and the durham report backs that up, and so of course the people who were not held accountable, james comey, andrew mccabe, went on from the

bureau will defend the agency and what john durham talked about, when you don't have a difference in the way you think about the ethos of the fbi, the culture there, justifying that behavior, it seems like those former executives at the fbi are not interested in the health of the bureau and getting the trust of the american back, they are interested in promoting themselves. >> sandra: and this is comer last night with mark levine. all right, there is a pattern here, says comer, where the federal government, deep state bureaucracies have turned a blind eye to joe biden. quick final thought on that. >> i think that's the biggest question moving forward with the hearing this week. there does seem to be a double standard of justice, lady justice is supposed to be blind with the scales she has, and the bureau has a huge problem with the credibility of what they have been doing and you have all the new information coming out about the biden family and not

just hunter biden, but joe biden, now the president of the united states and questions, why the fbi redacted information about phone calls allegedly between president biden when he was the vice president with a burisma executive, hunter biden was on the board there, whether bribery payments were made in changes in u.s. policy, all the questions are legitimate and does not seem the fbi or the department of justice have given the same amount of time as on the other side of the aisle. >> sandra: comer said they are going to follow the money and the witnesses. all right, john. >> john: now this, a california woman is suing the hospital that removed her breasts when she was just 13 years old. the 18-year-old now, referred to as layla jane, says doctors be began pushing her when she was

11 years old, she said she never got a proper psychological evaluation before the surgery. we have reached out to the hospital and have a response which we'll give you in a little while. mark tramel, center for american liberty and one of the attorneys for layla jane. what you say in the lawsuit against kaiser foundation, handed layla the prescription pad and allowed her childish roller coaster of feelings to dictate the so-called treatment she would receive. this began when she was 11 years old. >> that's right. that's right. you know, she was suffering from several comorbidity from the age of 6 to 11. went to the doctor's office at 12 and after 75 minute evaluation, one of the defendant doctors in the case decided yes, she's transgender, and should be on cross sex hormones, puberty

blockers, and six months rushed into the operating room to have a radical double mastectomy. >> sandra: remarkable. i was going to get in here. this morning on this network on the conveyor belt system to get kids surgery, your reaction out of this. >> we have a plethora of young girls and boys, but girls especially that are having identity issues, normal issues through puberty or more severe issues with autism, trauma, mental health issues, and they are going into clinics and saying i need help with my gender and they are fast tracked on the conveyor belt system to get surgery and hormones which create permanent damages instead of addressing their mental health concerns. >> sandra: 18-year-old california woman now suing after having her breasts removed at 13. why are the serious life changing decisions being made so

quickly? >> that's a great question. i think there's a lot of financial profit to be made and having the decisions made at an early age. vanderbilt hospital had to shut down the gender transition clinic after a physician was caught on camera saying it was a cash cow for them. the challenge here, if you get a child on puberty blockers at a young age, they are going to be on those for the rest of their lives. it's profitable for big pharma. >> john: another young woman, 25 years old, transgender, went through surgery and is now detransitioning, what she said about this idea that society is pushing that helping a child transition through gender surgery is helpful to them. what she says. >> it is only harmful. whatever you are going through that caused the gender issues is still going to be going on after you undergo gender reassignment, traumatized or struggling or

mentally ill, whatever it is, but in a mutilated body. everyone is uncomfortable during puberty, and doctors are find -- >> john: ideological and medical abuse, and pricha points out, four out of five cases adolescents eventually grow out of it. >> that's right, they do. on top of that, we are seeing this lie being shared with young patients and their parents that they have a choice as layla's parents were told, the choice being a dead daughter or live son. it's coercive and it's told to several -- two of my clients individually but told to young people across the country and told to them in the way that denies them informed consent in these types of procedures.

>> sandra: kaiser's side of the story, a statement they have issued in response saying when adolescent patients with parental consent seek gender affirming care, the patient's care team carefully evaluates their treatment options and a multidisciplinary team of physicians and other professionals are available to provide the patient and their family with information, counseling and other support. care decisions always rest with the patient and their parents or guardians and we respect -- my page is blanked out here, the families and the informed decisions about personal health. they are saying they are doing everything to let them make the life changing decisions. what about their side? >> if they were truly doing that, they would not be concealing less invasive treatment options, or concealing

counseling options, and not concealing medical science tisk research that would dissuade them from transitioning. the best study out there is a study out of sweden, it's a 30-year study, shows that young people, especially women who transition, actually have a greater -- 40 fold increase in suicide risk so when they are telling parents and telling young people you really have no choice, suicide is inevitable, it's not true. and so if we are talking about informed consent, you have to give the patient all the information so they can make a well-informed decision before going into this. and i would just also add, you know, she was -- she was 12 years old. that's a child. we don't allow children to get behind the wheel of a car, we don't allow them to buy a cigarette, don't allow them to sign a check but yet we have doctors at kaiser who are giving them a prescription pad to amputate parts of their body.

that has to stop. >> john: we know kaiser has not responded to your lawsuit yet. when it does, please let us know. mark, great to see you. thank you for coming in. >> sandra: thank you. latest entry into the 2024 presidential election, the primary at least, is grabbing headlines in the early days of his campaign as republicans and some in the media are casting doubt on miami mayor francis suarez bid for the white house. some skeptical or hostile. miami mayor, francis suarez, thank you for joining us. good to have you here today. >> thanks for having me. i find it as a badge of honor. >> sandra: badge of honor, those who are skeptical of your run? >> if i was not someone who was a serious candidate, a real chance at changing the momentum to lead the country, they are trying out kill me in the crib before i get the sort of

national attention that could allow people to fall in love with our message, and that's actually a badge of honor. something i lean into as an opportunity to talk about our vision more. >> john: so mayor, if you go back to your two mayoral elections in the city of miami, and i was a resident of miami when your father was the mayor, he's probably envious of the numbers you pulled off. in 2017, you won with 86% of the vote, 2021, re-elected with 79% of the vote. the question is you head toward the republican primary is how do you beat trump? he's got more than 50% support among republican voters. >> first i think the other numbers, the year before i got elected in 2016, trump lost miami-dade county to hillary clinton by 30 points and last year after my re-election, the republicans won in the midterm, by ten points it's a 40-point

swing based on my policies that have made people change their mind. for me, what i look at, is there a platform that i can articulate on the major issues of this country like the deficit, immigration, the rising threat of china, that can inspire people to vote for someone who articulates what they are for instead of what often times they are hearing what they are against. >> sandra: interesting. that address is 535, and he's not very trumpy, and mayor struggles to gain national recognition. how can you overcome that? >> we have to make the national debate on august 23rd. millions of people, millions of eyeballs on the debate, that's our focus, getting the 40,000 contributions, the 200 from 20 states and getting enough in the polling to make that stage. i visited new hampshire, iowa,

south carolina, nevada, what i learned is that the more people get to know me and hear my vision, the more they want to know about me and what i think about the future of this country, and so that is important because that is the first opportunity that you have to amplify the story, to tell it in front of millions of people and that's my next goal. >> john: so we have to ask you about this clearly, because this is something that's hanging over your campaign, an fbi investigation of a florida real estate development corporation, the allegation is that money that they paid to you for consulting, $170,000 is what they are alleging, was -- amounts to a bribe in order for them to get expedited permits. you have denied any wrongdoing. how do you explain this. did you receive money for them and if so, what was it for? >> to push permits -- >> john: i'm sorry, you bleeped

out at the beginning. >> i said it certainly wasn't to push permits, it was to raise capital for the company, nothing to do with my duties as mayor. i've been a mayor for 13 years -- sorry, five years and a public official for 13 years and a working public official, 31 out of 34 mayors in dade county work for a living and i have never had an ethical issue and i find it ironic that just a couple weeks before i announce my presidential candidate the liberal newspaper starts a calculated hit job on me and smear campaign which has tried to deviate the conversation from my vision for this country. and i think you know, like i said, i have to sort of take it as a badge of honor. look, i'm not beyond criticism, i have no problem with scrutiny, and this is things to come. i want to talk clearly to the american people how i'm going to bring prosperity to them and their children, solve generational issues like immigration and how we are going to confront china. >> sandra: you've never had an

ethical issue, you say. is this one? >> that's right, i mean, in 13 years -- never had any -- >> sandra: is this one, the bribery allegations. >> well, i -- you know, i have no idea. these allegations were made by the miami herald and what i've said is in no circumstance have i ever used my public position for the private gain of anyone, and that's what i've always done and always do in the future. >> sandra: are you still receiving your salary via cryptocurrency? out of curiosity. >> yeah, my mayoral salary, i do receive it in bitcoin, i've been doing that about a year and a half and i think i'm the only public official in america probably doing that. >> sandra: interesting. >> john: how is that working out for you so far? >> actually very well. actually very well. it's been good. >> sandra: got it. >> john: goes up and down, just like the market. mayor francis suarez, good to catch up with you.

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♪ ♪ ♪ >> john: a brown bear in colorado caught on camera trying to make a daring escape out of a second floor window after breaking into a home and stealing a man's pork chops that he left out for dinner. the homeowner was at work at the time and says the hungry bear clawed through a downstairs window. in addition to the pork chops, the bear also grabbed some snacks from the cabinet before ultimately fleeing from the same spot that it got in. neighbor called the police but the brazen thief got away, the bear was heard to remark these pork chops are just right. >> sandra: amazed at the climbing, i know they can climb trees but scaling up vertical the side of the house.

>> john: the bear is a second story man. >> sandra: the bear knew what he wanted, that's for sure. >> john: he gets out, oh, oh, what am i going to do now, oh, this not working. ok, back inside, i'm not dropping down. >> sandra: my gosh, imagine coming home and finding that. >> john: the bear is about as smart as our golden retriever. >> sandra: aaah. amazing video. meanwhile this story. talk about unwelcome visitors, squatters are posing a bigger and bigger problem for homeowners in this country who just want their property back but are forced to pay thousands in court costs and jump through miles of red tape to get access back to their own home. garrett is live in chicago. garrett, how exactly is this happening? >> sandra, say you have a vacant property that's between renters or getting ready to sell. what's happening more and more is that squatters are just moving into these homes and when police show up, the professional

squatters have fake leases and elaborate stories about how they are there legally. and often times cops don't know what to believe and they tell the homeowner they have to go to court to sort things out. lieutenant colonel durae, found a man she had never met, a convicted criminal living inside her house for sale outside atlanta. >> i was very angry. being away from home, had i not been on duty, i would have been in my home. and to know a career criminal could just move in and did not want to leave. >> she was eventually able to get the criminal removed under an obscure state law but a lot of other homeowners have to go

to court, and thousands of dollars and months to get them out. and another says this is happening in cities and states across the country, and many cases, housing laws are protecting the criminals and putting police in a tough spot. >> split second decision, they can't just arrest people without the reasonable suspicion a crime has been committed, so they are having to tell the owner you have to go to court through the eviction process. >> there are some small scattered efforts to change local and state laws to address this, but so far victims have not had a whole lot of success on that front. but the number of victims is growing. he says he used to see cases once or twice a year, now a monthly basis. sandra. >> sandra: unbelievable. garrett, thank you. john. >> john: some california lawmakers have begun to downplay black residents' expectations that cash money is imminent as part of the state's reparations push. this as the reparations task

force is expected to issue their report any day, likely suggest dozens of measures that could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. let's bring in leo terrell, civil rights attorney and fox news contributor. what one of the task force members, steven bradford said i'm not going to sit here and make the promise everybody is going to get a check. i want people have a broader view on what reparations could be and greater acceptance that it might take a little time. whether it's cash money or something else, leo, where do you come down on this? >> as a citizen of california i come down with on the position, john, that reparations are illegal, and should not occur. and honestly believe as a civil rights attorney it's not gonna happen. there's no legal justification for it in the state that was never a slave state. and this reparation committee, john, they want compensation for red lining, bad policing, i don't think that has anything to do slaverly.

this was a political gimmick on the part of gavin newsom and black voters with the democratic party. >> john: you say it has nothing to do with slavery but slavery was the ground work for decades upon decades of racism that still goes on today. could it not be said that reparations for racism are essentially falling out of slavery? >> i would submit to you, john, that it would be very difficult for anyone living in this country today to show that they are a direct individual harmed by slavery. i don't think that exists. i think what is happening between, john, you have the 13th amendment, civil rights act, black americans thriving in every aspect of our society.

we had a black president, we have black millionaires, billionaires. this is nothing more than a political gimmick on the part of gavin newsom developed out of the summer of 2020 riots when it was politically advantageous to promote this reparations argument. >> john: there are blacks in the nation that are thriving, no question about that, but many are trapped in the cycle of poverty they see no way out of. >> excellent point, the response. democratic cities, democratic unions, poor schools, lawlessness in democratic cities. john, the craziness about this is the people who are complaining about systemic racism, in my opinion does not exist, they are in control of the system. chicago, l.a., new york, they are controlled by black people and yet you have the highest problem of crime, lawlessness and poor schools. explain that to me.

i don't understand it as a civil rights attorney. >> john: the task force will come out with 1,000 page report some time very soon. what do you expect california governor gavin newsom will do about it. >> i think he's going to acknowledge receipt of it, talk a good game. but i don't believe anything is going to happen as far as reparations and any form of the compensation, direct cash, indirect benefits, it's not going to happen, john, it's illegal. >> john: final question to you, leo, today is juneteenth. your thoughts on that. >> thank you for that question. as a black american, as a civil rights attorney who believes in racial equality, i appreciate there is a holiday to acknowledge the historical sins of slavery. the country has made tremendous progress and basically what the united states of america is saying with this holiday and the 13th amendment, we believe in racial equality and we are not a

perfect union but making a move towards it. and this holiday is a remembrance of the united states commitment to ensure racial equality. i'm very proud to be an american, an african american, more importantly a civil rights attorney for 30 years who believes in racial equality. a great holiday. >> john: and leo, we are proud to have you as a fox news contributor. thanks for joining us, see you soon. >> sandra: secretary of state blinken holding a high stakes meeting with president xi, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers is insisting president biden use a trump-era deal to rein in china's growing sphere of influence. morgan ortagus whether the president will abide by demands. plus, jonathan turley, and a football player who inspired a young fan to succeed in school. all that and more as "america

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>> john: all new at 2:00, they say you shouldn't meet your heroes, but in this case it may have helped turn a young boy's life around. >> you looked at them and said how are your grades? honestly, he kind of looked back, he has struggled, so he put his head down and he worked, he made straight as for the entire school year. >> that mom's sixth grade son challenged by a duke football player after telling him he wanted to be just like him when he got older. and now he's gone from c student one remarkable grades to honor roll member. >> john: how a simple message from his idol inspired the boy to tackle his studies the same way he tackles his opponents on the gridiron. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into