temporarily closed the three person catholic schools department giving him and the parish priests more direct oversight. some catholics are supported but also a widespread backlash. signed a letter supporting transgender students, some teachers and students say they will not be back in the fall and who principals quit, including the one at the madline school where the pastor agreed with the stance. >> the document doesn't affirm the preciousness of every child. it doesn't go hand-in-hand with our mission statement all are welcome. >> but being welcoming through social affirmation is at odds with the church doctrine. here is what pope francis said in march, gender ideology today is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations and blurs differences and value of men and women. church scholars tend to agree with the guidelines. >> we have to draw the line

somewhere, and if people don't want to be a part of the catholic school, they have a choice. they can go someplace else. >> and there's no word yet from the archdiocese in portland how many students they will lose over this issue, john. >> all right. we have you on the story, we'll keep following it. dan springer, thank you. >> sandra: all right, fox news alert breaking this afternoon, "new york post" reporting the white house counsel is ignoring house republicans who are looking for answers about what the president knew about his son's business dealings, a group of republicans sent the white house a letter asking for clarification, any information after the white house shifted its messaging and the president has not spoken about business dealings with his son to he has never been in business with his son. >> john: the group of republicans gave the white house counsel a deadline to answer questions, the deadline has now come and gone. >> and it is friday, and i am

happy to report that, john. great to be with you. welcome to "america reports," i'm sandra smith here in new york. >> john: best news i've heard all day. john roberts in washington, with that unfolding and accusations of a bias justice department, former secretary of state mike pompeo was sounding the alarm, saying it's playing right into our enemy's hands. >> our friends on the world are saying what on earth is going on in the united states, how much chaos can be tolerated from the world's most important country and our adversaries are thinking it might be the moment to press the claim in the south china sea or asia, africa or middle east or well. this has repercussions that go beyond the politics and the set of votes that might take place in 2024, this has global ramifications for those people who are tasked with keeping us safe, soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. it's really troubling. >> john: we will speak toga ret

and carly on how the u.s. should position ourself against our adversaries, jacqui heinrich at the white house. any comment from the president on this. >> no, and heard the unequivocal no from the podium on the question of whether the president would ever pardon his son for the charges that he is facing, but the white house has still refused to answer any questions surrounding the shifting language over whether they still stand by the president's prior claims that he's never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings. that language has shifted among officials to the president was not in business with his son. and earlier this month, four congressional republican leaders, committee chairman james comer, jim jordan, jason smith and elise stephanie, wrote to the white house counsel's office demanding to know why. they said this statement

deviates from previous statements, demanded a response by yesterday and never got one from the white house counsel's office. the press secretary has deflected questions around the shifting language at the podium and from the white house counsel office and she would not say whether the president had been in touch with his son's legal team about the charges that he's facing either. >> do they ever discuss the tax situation? >> i'm not going to get into the specific of the case. i -- i've answered this question over and over again. nothing has changed from the statement i made yesterday, and the few times in the briefing room, this is an independent investigation led by a trump appointed prosecutor that is being led by clearly the department of justice. >> the president is in maine talking about bidenomics, and ignored questions from reporters at two events yesterday and after he's downtown in maine, he

will head to rehobeth, we do not expect to see him again for the next week, john. >> john: one more chance to shout questions at him when he finishes the speech in auburn, we'll see if that happens. we'll be watching. jacqui heinrich, 1600 pennsylvania. jacqui, thank you. >> sandra: garrett is joining us, president of vrg strategies, former chief of staff to john buck, and carley cooperman, adog shone said this about gavin newsom. >> it's not for the white house, and potentially very harmful. a big day potentially for gavin newsom. >> sandra: that made a slash, doug, obviously a democrat, it was unfolding and the plea deal falling apart he made that

statement. that was an interesting moment. >> i think there are a few things going on. first justice is going to play out for hunter biden and you know, the white house is not interfering with that investigation, president biden himself said he's not going to intervene or he's not going to pardon hunter if things get to that point. >> he has not said that but his white house said that. >> his white house has said that. i think what doug is referring to, though, is the fact that there is a clear dissatisfaction among voters in terms of the fact that you know, there's concern over biden's age, concern over the age of a lot of the people who are leading politicians right now and there is this desire to have alternatives and gavin newsom is out there, dean phillips showed satisfaction as well. >> sandra: testimony that's going to be happening next week. is this a game changer to have hunter biden's former business partner, we had a daily mail reporter that said that man has

gone into hiding, he's receiving threats. that could be the hard evidence that democrats keep saying republicans don't have, garrett. >> absolutely, and the important thing, this is a firsthand witness. hearing from whistleblower and firsthand witness, went from joe biden saying for years he didn't have knowledge of hunter biden's business dealings, to he wasn't in business with hunter. now, we know he had knowledge of hunter biden's business dealings because there is an email that hunter biden in 2015, when joe biden was vice president, set up a dinner with a russian business associate, ukraine business associate in georgetown. the second part is the archer testimony that's going to happen. again, seen pictured with joe biden, known hunter biden for a long time, alleging that joe biden was on speaker phone on dozens of occasions when hunter biden was calling business associates. so clearly the more we are finding out, closer to joe

biden's knowledge and maybe potential involvement. >> sandra: there is growing calls for the impeachment inquiry, and we reported last hour, several high ranking gop officials sent a letter to the white house demanding more information, clarification, what was the president's role. why would the white house so says they have done nothing wrong and one said he never discussed business dealings with his son, now never in business with his son, why wouldn't they offer that clarification? >> look, they have snubbed the gop. they are not answering any questions. >> i think impeachment is going to be a huge distraction, and i think the republicans -- >> sandra: it's a simple question. why not provide more information on a clear discrepancy coming from this white house. >> i think they are going to have to address these claims and things will come out but not in the republican's best interest to spends all their time focusing on that -- >> sandra: they work for the

american people and the american people see something is going on here. from the president when asked about the italian prime minister's spray. just happened yesterday. >> thank you all very much. >> are you disappointed hunter's plea deal fell through? >> thank you, thank you so much, guys. thank you so much, guys. [indiscernible] >> mr. president, have you spoken with our son? >> sandra: and a reporter said why doesn't he come out and address this, why doesn't he talk to reporters who clearly have questions, karine jean-pierre again yesterday stepped out to the briefing room, said he's a private citizen, hunter biden, and this is a personal matter. well, is it? >> it's not a personal matter. again, i think what we need to look at here is this. hunter biden, he's in business using and peddling the vice presidency during that time.

clear statements showing that biden family members received money from china, and hunter admitted that, so joe biden said his son in the 2020 debate did not do any business with china, he did. so this is why kevin mccarthy has asked for the impeachment inquiry is very important. stefanik, jordan and jason smith's letter, they could cut through executive privilege and get the information they need and important republicans do it. >> i think voters care more about a government shutdown in september than joe biden's dealings. i don't think it's advantageous for the republicans to focus all their time on that. >> i think if the president was involved in a bribery scheme which they are ablg alleging -- >> john: newly released documents from the house judiciary committee appear to

show the white house pushed facebook to delete posts that conflicted with its covid guidance and instagram and facebook complied with the request. edward lawrence is live at the white house with the latest on this. does the white house have this type of access to facebook? >> yeah, and that's the question i wanted to know, john, and what's happening, the white house is pushing us off or trying to to the department of justice. i pushed back, listen to this. >> white house still communicating with social media companies? >> look, as i've repeated many times from here we have promoted responsible actions to protect public health, safety and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly pandemic and foreign attacks on our elections and we have consistently made clear we believe social media have a critical responsibility to take account of the effects of their platforms. >> social media source telling me the contact is less but still open lines of communication to

both parties. now, about an hour ago representative jim jordan dropped the second part of what he is calling the facebook files on twitter, this showing an email claiming the surgeon general wanted facebook to remove true information about the side effects of the covid vaccine. in the email, facebook labels all content like this and demots some of it. and asking why facebook removed claims covid was man-made, asking again the pressure, response in the email was because of pressure from the administration. experts say that these tweets show a pattern of pressure from this white house. >> we have kind of heard about this and known something like this was happening behind the scenes since at least the end of last year, but seems this really is probably the best evidence to suggest that meta, in particular, facebook, really felt pressure from the white house to actually take down these posts. >> and thinks there needs to be

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>> sandra: fox news alert, this just in, carlee russell, the alabama woman who briefly disappeared, 25 years old, now facing criminal charges for what they say is a false report of a kidnapping. her lawyer admitted she was not abducted and lied to police about seeing a child on the side of the road. steve, this all began when we were told this woman called when she was driving her car, saw a toddler walking on the side of the road, she stopped, got out to help that, she was on the phone with her family to help the toddler, she said, and no one ever heard from her after that. she was assumed -- it was assumed she was abducted but the story turned out to be much different. what are we learning, steve? >> that's right, elaborate story which appears now to be completely false. 25-year-old alabama massage therapist began about two weeks

ago on the phone with her family, saying she saw a toddler, 3 or 4-year-old toddler by the side of a highway in diapers alone. she went to help the toddler, called 911, from the highway, and then disappeared for two days. so what this set in motion was really what law enforcement is saying is a sense of panic. felt someone was trying to use a toddler as bait to carry out a kidnapping. she faces two misdemeanor charges, both of which could bring a year in prison and $6,000 fine. charges are for making false statements to police and the press conference in hoover, alabama, how angry law enforcement is about this case, the police chief saying he would give her more time if the laws allowed it. here is the chief of police. >> for her actions, related to faking her kidnapping and subsequently making false statements to detectives as they investigated this case. her decisions that night created

panic and alarm for the citizens of our city and the nation. as the concern grew a kidnapper was on the use, using a small child as bait. >> for two days, a massive manhunt and then she turned up two days later with a really elaborate story, abducted, placed in a car, then moved into a truck and finally escaped on her own on foot through the woods. doubts began she carried out searches about amber alerts and the movie "taken," about an abduction. so police got suspicious quickly. her attorney says there was no toddler, there was no abduction, she apologizes for everything. but law enforcement says this was not a victimless crime, it created panic and they spent more than $100,000 trying to find her in addition to that anxiety and panic. and now she could face up to two years in prison for these false reports, sandra. >> sandra: just remarkable

story, steve. it was a very detailed fabricated story she provided as well. sorry, john. >> john: took away emergency services looking for her that could have gone somewhere else. the police, steve, my understanding, they still don't know where she was for 49 hours and do they have any idea why this whole thing would have come off the way that it did? >> you are putting your finger on the two questions that still remain. what's the motivation behind this false report which created panic for two days and where did she spend those two days. as of yet, no answers to either of those questions, john. >> sandra: and my understanding her lawyer is saying that she did act alone, steve? >> they're making clear she did act alone, no one with her in this case so far. she's had her boyfriend come out online and try and defend her, but the law enforcement is saying they are just hearing a

sense of outrage, not only from alabama but really from across the country. people upset by this, their hearts were touched by this, and now they are angry that they were lied to about such a tragic case. >> sandra: wow, she's apologizing and asking for prayers, so she can attempt to move forward. she had the entire nation on alert, her picture was everywhere, and people were praying for her then too. steve, thank you. >> john: two days after hunter biden's plea deal fell apart. joseph is out with an op-ed in the wall street journal. he calls for attorney general merrick garland to appointment a special counsel for the president's son while kevin mccarthy floats an impeachment inquiry into president biden. let's bring in california republican congressman darrell issa, congressman, good to see

you. >> thank you for having me on and covering this emerging and reoccurring tragedy. >> john: it doesn't show any signs of going away. however, the president saw fit in auburn, maine to joke about it as he was giving a speech about bidenomics. >> may have to find something else to criticize me for, now that inflation is coming down. maybe they'll decide to impeach me because it's coming down, i don't know. i love that one. anyway, that's another story. >> john: well, maybe he was only half joking there. >> maybe only half joking. >> john: this question, more and more talk about launching an impeachment inquiry to get to the bottom of what's going on with the president and the president's son and any business dealings that the two of them may have together, or may have had together. do you support the idea of impeachment inquiry? >> i support the inquiry that would be elevated by that term.

when the speaker says impeachment inquiry, what he's saying is we go from a select committee here and another committee here asking questions about hunter biden to an actual investigation under one chairman that is entitled to expedited discovery, expedited to quick response, because in fact it does have that moniker of impeachment inquiry. it doesn't mean it will lead to impeachment, but it means we'll quickly get to the bottom of whether the president has a connection to the misconduct, admitted misconduct of his son and others. >> john: kevin mccarthy is actively talking about it, don't know if he might pull the trigger on it, but some members of your conference are saying it's not a good idea, one of them is ken buck from colorado. he said this is impeachment theater. i don't think it's responsible for us to talk about impeachment.

it sets expectations and says there are more important things for the house to be focused on. and the same sentiment from members of texas saying look, other things we need to be doing here other than launching an impeachment inquiry on the president, particularly if it sets the expectations that is going to lead to an actual impeachment proceeding. what do you say? >> there's 435 of us and plenty of bandwidth to do multiple things. ken buck sits at my side on judiciary and i respect him a great deal. if the speaker were saying impeachment i would be pushing back to. we have not had something in my opinion that rose to that level. but an inquiry has a different purpose. it says we must get quickly through either it is real or isn't real. right now we are in a gray area, we know that hunter biden committed criminal acts, some of which they let the statute of limitations expire. others there was a sweetheart

deal trying to get him off, and one of the aspects of that deal was the government would not look into anything else. that deal is gone now. it is time to find out the ten or so people that benefitted financially from hunter biden's activities, much of which taxes were not paid on. does it lead to the then vice president or now president and if it doesn't, let's clear it up. one of the reasons we talk about special prosecutors is they act in a way in which they cannot only convict but they can also exonerate as you saw in the mueller investigation. >> john: do you think there should be a special prosecutor appointed here? andy mccarthy made the point the other day that if you appoint a special prosecutor now they are starting from scratch and the statute of limitations on some of these charges may run out as the special prosecutor is beginning to dig into this case. better, he thinks, to go with the prosecutor that they have now and see what comes of it.

>> you maim a special prosecutor respected, a retired judge, above the law, above coercion. that person comes in, they take over the entire team, including the existing prosecutor. you are exactly right we shouldn't start over from scratch and if we are determining whether to vindicate or not vindicate the president for wrongdoing when he was vice president, we should not start from scratch and bring in those people. i agree with it. no one is talking impeachment. we are talking the need to elevate and quickly get to the bottom of yes or no, the president deserves to be free of those accusations if he's innocent, and quite frankly, we need to know if he isn't. >> john: this deposition that devon archer is going to give to the house on monday, that will be interesting to see. >> it will be, you know, and these depositions -- what we find is when people talk under oath we learn a lot. when they talk from the white house, we learn nothing.

>> john: congressman, great to see you. i'm heading to your fair city. >> i'll see you at the san diego yacht club for an appropriate drink. >> john: or maybe at the padres game. >> you have to have repeated conversations and you know, we have to get our kids to understand we are trying to save their lives. >> sandra: a stepmother warning parents of the dangers of vaping after her teenage son's death. her story next. known as a loving parent. known for lessons that matter. known for lessons that matter. known for being a free spirit. no one wants to be known for cancer, but a treatment can be. keytruda is known to treat cancer, fda-approved for 16 types of cancer. one of those cancers is advanced nonsquamous, non-small cell lung cancer, where keytruda is approved to be used

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vape. >> did you know he was vaping? >> we had no clue whatsoever. >> sandra: wow, just 15 years old. do you know how he was getting access to it? >> his friends. he admitted that he -- >> sandra: yeah. i know that you want to share a message with other parents out there. we know this is obviously a trend. a lot of kids get into this. and they see other kids doing it, they take it up. what is your message to parents who might have a hunch that some of their kids might be trying this? >> talk to your kids, make sure they understand the dangers. when they are vaping, they are inhaling metal. there are several different types of metals in the vape. there is vitamin d, which when taken in a solid form is healthy but inhaling the liquid form it's dangerous for your body. the nicotine in adolescence --

the effects of the nicotine is different than for an adult. and you don't know what is in the vape. there could be other substances besides the nicotine, and the flavors make it so enticing for the kids. talk to them over and over again. look in their room, are you smelling something you are not used to smelling in your house, look in their backpacks. have constant conversations. >> yeah. that's a good message to get out there. people need to hear that and a lot of times parents like you, you don't -- you can't be with your kid all the time and you just don't know what may be happening. we do know the cdc has warnings out there, we have been covering this for years as it has gained in popularity, sort of a more trendy thing for kids to do. the cdc has been warning about lung illness from these devices

for quite some time. there was concern with covid and that complicated breathing and these vaping devices. do you think there should be stricter rules with them and would that help? >> absolutely, absolutely. the there was a recent article that came out about 60% of the vapes in the united states are illegal vapes. they are not even legally sold in our country. we need to join with australia and new zealand to outlaw vaping. 15-year-olds, 12, 13-year-olds are not using vape as a way to quit smoking, they are taking it up as a habit because it's cool, help them relax, tastes like bubble gum, tastes like fruit loops. they need to get rid of all of it. they need to crack down on people selling it. the schools need to be stricter. in the county where we live, if the county is caught vaping, they get in-school suspension

for a day. and they do an online vaping class. and then they get counseling from a nurse. that's not enough. we got to make the consequences stronger so these kids understand. we need the sports coaches to say if you get caught vaping you are not playing, you are done. >> sandra: charlene, we have been showing pictures of him, he's a beautiful boy, and we are so sorry for your family's loss and obviously it takes a lot for you to get out there and share this message with other parents. thank you for coming on. our best to you. >> thank you. >> john: sandra, former u-penn swimmer spoke out what it was like to have lia thomas as a teammate. the left has labelled her a bigot and transphobe, the former

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>> sandra: fox news alert, moments ago president biden wrapped his bidenomics remarks in maine. he left the podium but apparently he forgot to sign the executive order he was there to sign until a few minutes after he walked away. here was that moment. >> i'm coming back to shake your hand, i forgot i didn't sign the order. all that talk and no action. >> sandra: so, that executive order was a push for manufacturing here at home, john. obviously that was something that happened, we are showing that. it's interesting because larry summers just made some really strong comments about exactly that, warning of the dangers of that economic policy and ending those trade agreements with foreign countries to bring it all back here at home. his warning is that that could be dangerous and actually serve to raise inflation even higher

than it is today, john. and that's an economist from the obama era. so, this is a president who is touting those economic policies and says they are working. >> john: this idea of bringing all manufacturing back home, it's one that a lot of people support, clearly, labor costs in the united states are higher than in places like china or vietnam, so it would add something to the cost. there are a lot of people who say look, with china doing what it's doing now in terms of competing with the united states, building up its military, our biggest lever against them is our economic lever. it could cause some pain to move a lot of those manufacturing processes out of china but there are folks who say that long-term it would be a better idea than pinning so much of our manufacturing on a company -- on a country, rather, that has become such a strong adversary. >> sandra: that's a really important point and when we have spoken with those manufacturers in the past who say we would love to bring our manufacturing home, that would be a perfect

scenario. what their struggle is if you talk to them, john, and not -- the administration is not providing details on the push for this, is getting workers and labor into those manufacturing facilities in america. you've got to staff them up. and that is a major obstacle for them. >> john: i see all these ads of christie noem doing manufacturing jobs because the labor force is too small. so, i think that is -- >> sandra: great idea but you have to -- yeah, all right. we'll have more on that. >> john: kentucky senator rand paul says the state department has agreed to hand over documents related to u.s.-funded research in wuhan. could this crack the investigation into how covid got out open, bringing dr. marty makary, johns hopkins school of medicine. if the state department and usaid release documents, what made be learn from them. >> suspicion one of the grants

the wuhan scientists applied for at the state department was exactly the blueprint of how to make covid. supposedly they said very specifically they want to insert a faren clevage site gene, and senator paul has been talking about it for a long time, i talked to him this week, tony blinken has refused and said he would brief him, and now we will get to see. >> john: on the subject of where covid came from, there was an article that was published in nature and medicine back in the spring of 2020, which pretty definitively said that covid came from natural origins, the article was called "the proximal origin of sars-cov-two, and that our analysis said it was not a laboratory construct or purposefully manipulated virus.

one of the authors from edinburgh university wrote i swivel day-by-day thinking it's a lab mistake or natural. even some of the people that authored this paper and signed off on it weren't convinced, which brings us back around to this idea of was pressure put on these scientists by top u.s. scientists in the government to say we've got to quash this idea of a lab leak, we have to prove its natural origin. >> one of the authors has come out, email has come out showing they were basically celebrating the article when it came out and acknowledged there was pressure to rush the article from so-called higher-ups. the lead author of the article put in his cover letter to nature medicine this was commissioned by fauci and collins and the right-hand man of dr. fauci talked to scientists and said in one email dr. fauci doesn't want his

fingerprints on this. so, some people say it doesn't matter where it came from, we'll never know. others say the preventability is a big issue, we just lost a lot of people and shut down the country. >> john: another tantalizing medical advance, a company out of florida called fountain life, selling people on the idea of you do ct angiogram and rather than having a radiologist look at it and analyze it, you run it through a.i. and they claim they can predict latent heart disease as much as ten years before you have a cardiac event. what do you think of this? >> i think these in the study people at risk of heart disease and it's interesting, look. a.i. is going to first move into medicine in three basic areas. radiology tests, interpretation, cardiology and tests and interpretation, cardiology is a lot of diagnostic tests, and customer service or explaining things to procedures for patients. i think it's going to have a

role, but still the role of judgment and skill. >> john: is there a reason to believe that a.i. analysis would be more accurate than a radiologist? >> we memorize so much stuff in medical school, so computers can do better on pattern detection. an a.i. program can perfectly read a normal chest x-ray with 100% accuracy, better in humanities. and close in dermatology. a role for a.i. probably in the diagnostic space but be cautious if we detect something early then we have solved our problems. we can tell who is going to have problems with medical issues, look at people who are obese and warn them. >> john: the person smoking two packs of cigarettes and five cheeseburger probably will have a problem. >> sandra: alerts, the heat wave smothering the south spreads

across the country. national weather service says more than 180 million people are under heat alerts today. grady trimble is live in washington. the biggest thing we are going to dread is blackouts, of course. how concerned are officials about that? >> we talked to one expert who tells us blackouts are not out of the question. whether we actually see them or not, there is no doubt this extreme heat is putting power grids across the country to the test. the good news is, being so farther holding up. but with so many people staying inside cranking those a.c.s to stay cool, several grid operators are putting out alerts and in some cases they are asking customers to conserve electricity during peak hours. the largest grid operator in the country, pgm interconnection has issued an emergency energy alert, calling on all power plants to operate at full capacity.

some in the industry say heat waves like this one highlight problems with president biden's energy policies. the biden administration as you know is introducing policies that could limit coal and gas-fired power plants in order to speed up the transition to green energy. but it comes at a time when we are using more electricity, whether it's to power our air-conditioners, our cars, our appliances, you name it. the head of the industry group, electric power supply association tells me that could lead to higher prices for electricity that is less reliable. >> we see coal and natural gas units that are retiring off the system that are not being replaced fast enough in order to ensure that system integrity can be maintained. consumers are the ones who will pay the price for bad policy decisions and that's going to result in blackouts. >> again, fortunately we have not seen the blackouts yet. grid operators have enough electricity to meet demand but customers, sandra, are on

notice. sandra. >> sandra: ok, grady trimble, thank you. john. >> john: actors dak shepard and kristin bell found themselves stuck in a too familiar flightmare, and far from the only ones facing airport troubles these days.

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not having to worry about the future makes it possible to make the present as best as it can be for everybody. . >> john: bad weather in the northeast causing flightmares for thousands of flyers including a few celebrities. >> don't enter your bedroom. >> actors dax shepherd and kristin bell said after delays, their family was ready to spend the night at the airport. more than 7,500 flights were delayed and 900 cancelled.

casey stegall has more. what does it look like compared to previous years? >> the cancellations are up 27% of all scheduled domestic flights for the month of july. in some form or fashion when you look at the data. you compare that to 17% for last july or july 2019, which is before the pandemic. that's a 10% jump. even though there were more than 219,000 fewer flights in operation. cancellations are around 2%. staffing shortages, air traffic controllers are largely to blame as carriers have cut their operations. the u.s. department of transportation confirms its investigating what they call unrealistic scheduling of flights. in other words, carriers selling tickets for flights despite a high probability that they will be cancelled or delays. pilots says that leaves little wiggle room for when stuff goes

wrong. >> bottom line, is if one thing is off, it causes a ripple effect. that effect becomes a wave a tidal wave and a tsunami throughout the system and spreads. >> a lot of people have been caught up in the tsunamis before. the industry looks to hire additional pilots and fast. a wave of upcoming retirements has people worried. if action is not taken now, by 2032, the united states could face a shortage of up to 30,000 commercial air line pilots. that wouldn't be good, john. >> john: wouldn't that be just dandy. casey stegall in dallas. thank you. sandra? >> sandra: that does it for us. i think we just approached the 3:00 hour on a friday, a good thing. >> john: it is a good thing. i'm taking off for my last week of summer vacation. so i will see you in a week.

>> sandra: excellent. enjoy. >> john: i'm going to california. talking with congressman isa about that. it's high 70s there. he says the humidity is bad. catch a padres game, see friends. it will be fun. >> sandra: enjoy. hope you relax. great to be with you. see you next time. never miss us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. see you in a little white. "the story" with gillian turner in for martha starts right now. >> thank you, john and sandra. good afternoon from washington. i'm gillian turner for martha. hunter biden allegedly admitted to making money from a chinese company. something that president biden has denied in the past. and more from the delaware court hearing. the judge says 664,000 from a chinese infrastructure investment company, is that one of the