movies alone, when you get around people it tends to be annoying. >> aishah: and people are getting into flights, a man in florida got beat up because the guy was sitting in his vip seat. it's dangerous in the movie theaters, too, why i have not gone to see the "barbie" movie yet. >> trace: started with tom cruise. >> aishah: chinese spying across the u.s. is bolder and bolder and hitting america's heartland. >> trying to steal the hybrid seeds out of the field and they wanted to take it to china and every time they steal a seed they are stealing from an iowa or american farmer. >> aishah: hi, trace.

>> trace: trace gallagher in los angeles. sandra and john have the day off. we all remember the chinese spycraft that flew over the u.s. for a week, and chinese citizens suspected of being spies who posed as tourists to infiltrate military bases in alaska and the heart of the city, doj busted communist part for running secret police stations to spy on chinese nationals on u.s. soil. lawmakers warn the ag scheme is one of the worst troubling yet. put china in control of the global food supply. >> a >> aishah: former cia station chief dan hoffman, but first bryan is in iowa and that is where lawmakers met to talk about the theft by the ccp. so, bryan, what did farmers say about this threat?

>> yeah, hi, aishah. farmers are particularly concerned about the secret patented genetically engineered seeds that are the target of china's theft. in 2016, there was a chinese national here in iowa who dug up genetically modified corn seeds and was convicted in 2016, and sent to three years in prison. u.s. agriculture companies spent billions developing seeds that gives america's farmers a competitive advantage, replanted or insect resistent. they have to charge companies more to recoup losses, and line suzanne, sixth generation iowa farmer, she says congress needs to act firm but fair against china, keeping in mind they are america's top soybean and corn customer. >> one out of every three rows of soybeans you see out here

goes to china. so that's how big of a purchaser they are of our soybeans. and if we lose china, there's no way to make it up. china is the market and all the other countries of the world, we can have them all and we still will not match what china purchases. >> yesterday we were at the congressional collect committee on ccp field hearing here in iowa, a roundtable where they also discussed the national security risk china could pose if they use this technology, reverse engineering the seeds to attack our own crops. >> what keeps me up at night is if they are stealing our seeds and reverse engineering to know what makes them hearty, what makes them drought resistant, and pest resistant, what's not to say they couldn't turn it around on us. it's a national security issue. our food supply is sacred.

>> and another issue, china's recent effort to buy up land, up 456% since 2011. a lot of discussion here, obviously about trying to ban china from purchasing land near u.s. military installations. a problem problem, aishah, the government is not even sure how much land china actually has purchased, also a discussion in congress about getting to the bottom of that. aishah. >> aishah: thank you, bryan, in iowa. bring in dan hoffman, former cia station chief and fox news contributor. dan, you know how the chinese work. what's crazy to me is when we think of spying, we think of the chinese spy balloon, think of the chinese stealing our defense secrets. we don't think about corn, soybeans, crops, seeds, things like that. let's pull up the full screen that shows all the way china is spying on us. and you know the ministry of state security is a heck of a

lot bigger than the cia here at home. so, what can you tell us about how it's operating here in the homeland and all the things that they are taking from us. >> well, look. the united states economy, our defense industrial base, we are all in the cross hairs of china's ruthless espionage, and agriculture is just the latest example. and it's because china operates a economy and they don't innovate like we do. we have the free market economy. the only out for them is steal our secrets. that's why the j-31 stealth fighter is a carbon copy of the f-35. so that's what they do. and we need to counter that. we need intelligence collection on what china is doing, we need to legislate from the house and from the senate to prevent china from buying out our farmland. we had a case in devils river,

texas where the chinese were trying to buy farmland with overlooking laughlin air force base, that's a big deal for them to collect intelligence there. we also need outreach through state and local law enforcement to the farming communities so they are aware of the threat and they can see something and say something. and then we can do something about it. but this is -- this is china flooding the zone. we saw with their hacking of microsoft, they hacked into opm in 2015, this is how they try to level the playing field against us. >> aishah: what about the private sector, congress is trying to pass legislation ahead of this, but when you think about the white house and pushing electric vehicles on u.s. automakers, at this point with the cost of e.v.s out there, might push them toward china to do business with them,

how much of a threat is that when the u.s. companies are still engaged in business with china. >> it's a very difficult situation economically. we don't have the components and the minerals necessary to drop the cost of the e.v. the average cost is $55,000, more than most americans can afford, and they are looking to expand in europe and the united states. what we need to do is have a better strategy from the biden administration so that we have those components and the minerals needed, drop the prices so the e.v.s congress more competitive with the gas vehicles. if that's what the biden administration wants we want to have the commercial solutions to make it happen. >> aishah: dan, switch gears to ukraine here. a deep divide over our approach with ukraine, even in the republican party some folks feel

the white house is not moving fast enough, not giving enough weapons and some feel we shouldn't give them weapons at all, shouldn't be involved in this war. and you've got presidential chris christie who in kyiv right now, or was there earlier today, and he brought this up. and in his show of support for ukraine. what posture in your mind should the next commander in chief, the next president bring to the white house, not only put america first, but to put our allies first. >> look, i think we have a long way before the next president has to make those sorts of decisions. i would like to hear a strategy from the biden administration. are we in this to win it, if we are, we should have given them long range artillery, we didn't do it, slowed the counteroffensive. we need to stop vladimir putin's brutal invasion of ukraine, not

a good thing for the world economy and in our interest to make sure russia does not take a land grab from its neighbor. i don't think the biden administration has a strategy together and backed up it up with the right military approach. we'll see, vice president mike pence has visited ukraine as well, and i think he's along the same lines of governor chris christie, but it's going to be a debate. i'm sure we will see it on the republican stage this month during the first debate. >> aishah: we will, for sure, we'll be all watching it. dan hoffman, thanks for joining us, have a great weekend. >> trace: democrats are pushing to televise former president trump's trials. david, the former president is back on the campaign trail, what do we know about this story? >> that's right, trace,

campaigning in alabama, making fun of the indictments, i need one more indictment to ensure the election. the four from yesterday could put him behind bars for the rest of his life if he's found guilty. the former president stood up and pled not guilty to chargers stemming from his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. he was fingerprinted but no mug shot and released on his own recognizance. he glanced over at special counsel jack smith sitting maybe 20 feet away. smith did not appear to make eye contact with the former president. conspiracy to defraud the united states, obstruction of a conspiracy and rights. and a few anti-trump and

pro-trump protestors. jack smith did not charge trump with insurrection but said his crimes are not that he said the election was stolen. it's what smith says trump did to use fake electors and fake certificates to try and change the results of the election. >> this persecution of the person leading by very, very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading biden by a lot. >> trace, the case goes to tanya chutkan, 2014 obama appointee, and special counsel jack smith wants it before the 2024 election. trump's team has signalled they will push for afterwards. and a push for cameras in the courtroom. you don't see it in federal court. there is a strong push for it. see what happens there. likely the trial will be many

months away, trace. >> trace: david spunt in d.c., thank you. >> aishah: attorneys for the man accused of killing four college kids in idaho say he couldn't have been the killer and now they are finally filing his alibi. so, is it airtight? you decide next. plus, taylor swift's tour is boosting more than her ticket sales. some are calling it the summer of swift. how much money are we talking about here? ♪ and rosey cheeks ♪ ♪ even if it's just ♪ struggling with the highs and lows of bipolar 1? ask about vraylar. because you are greater than your bipolar 1, and you can help take control of your symptoms - with vraylar. some medicines only treat the lows or highs. vraylar treats depressive, acute manic, and mixed episodes of bipolar 1 in adults. proven, full-spectrum relief for all bipolar 1 symptoms.

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>> trace: taylor swift on pace to be the first billion dollar concert tour ever, and is giving cities an economic boost. kelly is in new yorkd places. how much does a night concert bring in? >> oh, my gosh, trace. she brings in about $13 million every night. what he is wild, what fans are willing to spend outside the tickets. a merchandise is the example. finishing up her first u.s. leg in l.a. over the next few days. folks in line at 6:30 a.m. to make sure they could actually get her merch, by the way makes her $2 million a night. and the average fan spends 1300 bucks all in. talking tickets, hotels, restaurants, the merch of course, if it sounds crazy, very well may be. but 71% said it was worth it,

91% said they would go again and the spending is having a broader economic impact. tour could generate $5 billion for cities all together. if the tour were an economy, swift would be bigger than 50 countries. she's also announced some new tour dates. the next cities in the u.s. to see the economic impact are miami, new orleans, indianapolis as well and an economic analysis recently that showed there was an increase in hotel revenue per every available room in every city that swift has stopped at so far. and of course, you know, it's not just the cities benefitting, swift herself, her net worth has spiked 30% from last-year to this year. if she were a company, value of her brand has increased on par with the likes of costco and apple. so, trace, she -- swift-mania is pretty crazy and one specific example, two tour dates in denver.

that combined revenue made up two-thirds of what red rocks, the concert venue sees all year. >> trace: kelly, thank you. aishah. >> aishah: the desperate fans of taylor swift are finding creative ways to see her live. a super fan unable to get tickets says she managed to get hired as a security guard for the nashville show in atlanta, a vendor says they have had an overwhelming amount of people to work at swift's performs to see it. i remember the story early on, trace, right when the concert kicked off, there was a young man, not even a girl, a female swiftie, who worked as a security guard and there's videos of him mouthing all the lyrics throughout the entire show. he's like having the time of his life. >> trace: and my daughter is going again to the final show in los angeles on i think tuesday

night. i saw her when she was 18 years old, aishah, in a restaurant, it was a corporate dinner across from grand central station, she was 18 and said hi, i'm taylor swift, and i said kid, you are never gonna make it. no, sweet and great and has done great things. >> she has. >> put your [bleep] [bleep]. >> trace: new report shows how common bad behavior is on flights is becoming. what can passengers do about it? >> aishah: not fly, i guess. plus, attorneys have a new alibi for the idaho murder suspect. what they say he did the night of the murders.

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>> you are going to jail. yes, you are. yes, you are. you are going to jail. >> [bleep]. [bleep]. you gave me one [bleep] warning, one warning, that's it. you gave me one [bleep]. >> trace: passenger disruptions are all too familiar, making air travel unpredictable. even when the flight is on time. police arrested a man for assaulting a delta flight attendant on a plane headed to new orleans. a similar situation on a flight to miami where an american airlines passenger is said to have pinned a flight attendant against the cockpit doors. douglas kin is executive director for the national association of airline passengers joins us now. thank you, sir, for coming on. i want to put this on the screen, from the international air transport saying 2021-2022, unruly passengers are up 47%.

why are we so angry, fed up with flying? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me. the -- what we are facing is a situation where air travel is stressful enough even for the average passenger, airports are full and stress is now to test anybody's patience. add to that things like people when have had too much to drink, stress of having to wear their mask for a while, and you have really a recipe for the situation where as an engineer might put it, heavily stressed objects have a way of unstressing themselves. i'm glad they did away with the mask rule because it caused problems, but the airlines can and should do more. they make a lot of problems by

putting too many people into an aircraft when they done have to. and if you gave people a little more leg room, a little more shoulder room, and didn't fill the cabin quite so full, they might find they had a lot fewer problems. >> trace: but it would cost money, that's the problem. if you are costing the airlines money, what happens is they are not going to do it, so they cram them in. the whole joke is it's that every flight, every time i've flown the plane has been delayed 20, 15, 30 minutes, that's the least. and then you see the flights canceled, so people are frustrated, the airports are crowded, planes are packed and crowded. i have a buddy who is an airline pilot, the joke is, if you have the time, fly. this is the american airline pilot who went viral because he said -- reminding passengers not to be selfish and rude on the announcement thing, that's kind of unheard of and you have a lot

of passengers saying all the flight attendants do now, douglas, is scold them. all they are doing is kind of calling people out throughout the entire flight. you have to sit down, you can't do that -- one of those things people are like i'm done. >> well, and that's quite right. but at the same time, we have to remember that the flight attendants, the maximum amount of rest they get between flights is ten hours. that's like asking a person who works 9-5 to quit work at 5:00 and back on the job at 3:00 in the morning. and we need to give a little slack into the system so flight attendants can get the rest they need so passengers can get the room they need so 90% of these problems can go away, simply by giving people a little more space and if you have to pay more for a ticket, ok. so be it. i would rather pay a little more

for a ticket and have a peaceful flight rather than face this kind of commotion. >> trace: agreed, totally agreed. thank you, sir. great to have you on. that's the whole thing, flying, i've been covering aviation for this network for a long time. flying has never been safer, never in the history of this -- of aviation has it been safer and never been more chaotic. and that's the problem here is that people are just frustrated because something always goes wrong en route to your flight. >> aishah: i'm not travelling as much as i did last year for the midterm cycle, but you are right, something goes wrong. whether the flight is delayed or canceled and the frustration mounts and mounts and mounts so i think douglas is on to something about, you know, give us something for our money, our hard-earned money, give us a little more space or something. >> trace: we'll see, we shall

see. >> aishah: attorneys for bryan kohberger are releasing his alibi. they claim kohberger was driving by himself on the night of the murder and that he was not at the home of those four murdered students. dan springer is live with more details on this latest development. so dan, what are we making out of this alibi today? >> well, aishah, there are two major problems with that alibi for bryan kohberger. the first obvious one, he doesn't have a witness to testify that he couldn't have committed the murders because he was somewhere else and secondly, admission of sorts that he was driving around basically at the time the murders took place. this is what his lawyer filed as his alibi. mr. kohberger has a long habit of going for drives alone, often he would go for drives late at night. he did so on late november 12th and into november 13, 2022. mr. kohberger is not claiming to be at a specific location at a

specific time. at this time there is not a specific witness to say precisely where mr. kohberger was. unlike a lot of states, idaho requires defendants to provide the prosecution with a very detailed alibi during pretrial discovery. it has to include specifically where they were at the time of the crime. and the names and addresses of any witnesses who can corroborate that alibi. this gives the prosecution a chance to poke holes in the alibi before the trial begins. what the defense has done is apparently concede it will not challenge all the surveillance video and self-evidence that the prosecution says it has, putting kohberger in his car driving around before and after the murders. >> i'm somewhat shocked that they would make that kind of an admission. so that tells me clear that kohberger does not have an alibi.

>> prosecutors say the murders of the four students took place between 4 and 4:25 a.m. november 13th. notably the alibi does not say kohberger was at his apartment asleep, and the trial is scheduled to start on october 2nd, but most people i'm talking to expect it to get delayed. the death penalty is still on the table. >> aishah: they were drumming up the anticipation over the alibi and to hear it is surprising. >> trace: facebook files, jim jordan says messages showed the white house tried to push to change the algorithm. >> aishah: and our panel weighs in.

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grady, what else are we learning from the documents? >> trace, what they show us, the white house was in pretty regular communication with facebook trying to control messaging around covid, vaccines, and what the white house considered to be dis or misinformation about those topics. the latest batch of documents shows the white house asked about changing the facebook algorithm so that people were more likely to see the "new york times," "wall street journal," any authoritative news source over polarizing people and sources the administration apparently did not consider authoritative or credible. here is a preview of tonight. >> you had one of the executives at facebook say this is encroaching on first amendment free expression. they knew it was wrong, did it

anyway because the white house was pushing them and wanted to keep the relationship with the biden administration. that's how bad this was. >> according to the documents, it was president biden's director of digital strategy, rob flaherty, who asked that question about changing facebook's algorithm. he helped orchestrate the white house collaboration with celebrities like olivia rodrigo, the cast of "ted lasso" to push messages, and he is stepping down to help on the releaning campaign. they have invited him to testify before the committee of censorship, but that has not happened. no comment from meta or any of the facebook files releases. >> trace: grady, thank you. aishah. >> aishah: let's bring in sean duffy, former wisconsin republican congressman and co-host of "the bottom line" on fox business and carrie

cooperman, welcome to you both. thanks for being here with us. i think one of the most damning parts of this facebook files you could call it is that the white house was really directly asking facebook to change its algorithm so that certain organizations, ne ne newses -- news organizations would be propped up and some propped down. do you think it's appropriate fr any white house to reach out to a private company and ask them to change their algorithms? >> look, this is exactly why lindsey graham and elizabeth warren have put forward bipartisan legislation to provide oversight of big tech because there needs to be some oversight or regulation and meta should not be selectively putting out information to favor one party or another, regardless

of the fact. >> aishah: sean, during one of the calls, the head of strategic communication for the covid response said something almost mocking middle america here, pull up the tweet from chairman jordan, and she says if someone in rural arkansas sees something on facebook it's the truth, as if someone from michigan or new york wouldn't possibly think that. and chairman jordan responds why did they do that? they did not think you were smart enough to decide for yourself. on top of that, the white house was getting upset over memes about the covid vaccine not to be taken seriously. how much effort they were putting on things kind of benign, what else they were doing? >> i'm from rural wisconsin and they think we are deplorable and stupid. people want t see all the

information and make decisions for themselves, why our founders gave us the first amendment, not so we could just communicate freely but criticize our government and that joe biden would step in and say i want to curtail the information americans see. they might make wrong information decisions on covid vaccines, on masks on the covid leak theory and if you want to step in and get facebook and instagram and twitter to censor conservatives or even liberals with regard to the vaccine, i look forward to the next election and put the same pressure on social media platforms, what kind of censorship for joe biden in a campaign race. what donald trump or desantis says is misinformation you should censor it, are they going to comply with that, and we all should have a right to discuss and communicate and debate but they are not that platform, they are an operative of the democrat party or the white house.

they are not what we think they are so i don't think you need oversight over facebook, you need oversight over joe biden and the white house breaking norms we have had for almost 250 years. >> aishah: i'm wondering how the white house does damage control on this, you have karine jean-pierre almost every day on the podium and say the white house does not meddle, whether it's the doj investigations, health policies and now the receipts are out on a second social media site that shows they are meddling. what does the white house do now? >> yeah, look, donald trump was in office when there were issues over censorship and the covid theory in terms of the lab leak. i think we are seeing both parties in power want to have their content promoted and other content that they don't want coming out there not promoted, and this is a problem. i mean, there needs to be some kind of oversight around this,

because it's -- it's not something that one party or the other should be able to do when they are in the white house. and furthermore, to have regulation and oversight with big tech, it extends to other issues. like there's teen mental health crisis that's happening as well as of the social media and there needs to be more attention to. >> aishah: they have not gotten around to doing anything about that just yet. have a great weekend. >> trace: more than five years after a shooter killed 17 people at marjory stoneman high school, they are reenacting the shooting. >> aishah: they say it will help the civil case against a former school deputy, next. r people like sam, who make- everyday products, designed smarter. like a smart coffee grinder, that orders fresh beans for you. oh, genius! for more breakthroughs like that- i need a breakthrough card. like ours! with 2.5% cash back on purchases of $5,000 or more.

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>> aishah: for the first time in history two branches of the military are without senate confirmed leaders, after one retired relinquishing his command. and lloyd austin says it reaches far beyond the ability to fight. >> the failure to confirm the

qualified leaders undermines our military readiness. under minds retention of some very best officers and up ending the lives of far too many spouses, children and loved ones. >> aishah: alabama senator has been holding senior military promotions in protest of the pentagon's new protest of reimbursing troops who travel to seek abortions. >> trace: 2018 parkland mass shooting will be reenacted today, the assigned deputy scott peterson was found not guilty of criminal negligence in a trial this summer. lawyers for the victims' families say it will improve that he intentionally chose not top protect their children.

nicole, do you agree with the reenactment and what's the goal, what do they hope to learn? >> i do agree with it. i've been in contact with some of the victims' families, it's not a civil lawsuit, that all are participating in but everyone is supporting the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. to get the proper reenactment, live fire, they are saying is the best approach and is necessary, according to the ballistic experts. so, that is what is going to happen. the school resource officer, scott peterson, he was derelict in his duty, where 17 were killed, 17 additional individuals were shot. you know, he took cover for 48 minutes, totally inappropriate. when you are the school resource officer, that is your sole job and response about it to protect those inside the school. they have no way to defend themselves. he arrived at building 12, where the shooting had occurred within 1:39 when the first firing began

and he stood outside and then he went to another building near building 7 and he stood there for 48 minutes and nine people had already been killed by the time he had arrived at building 12. but you know what, there were additional lives that could have potentially been saved but we will never know, never know. >> trace: and i'm curious, nicole, he told other officers to stay back 500 feet, thankfully some officers, well, you know, turned out they went inside anyway. i want to know when they reenact the thing, what are they looking for. sound, direction of bullets, looking for precisely what? >> so in this instance, there are -- he had conflicting statements where obviously he had reported over the radio that i believe that -- he thought there had been a shooting or firecrackers, he was not sure where it was coming from. inside the building, outside the building, not particularly certain, but when you do the shooting from exactly where the firing was actually coming from, they are going to record that from outside of the building 7

and 12 where he was standing to determine could he hear that firing. another officer's body warn camera, he was there for the end of the shooting, and underneath the ballistic vest was able to capture sound for the gunfire. so for the resource officer to say i did not hear anything, another was able to capture gunfire. we had vision test, hearing test for the fbi, you have to hear when you are responding. but you are expected to run for the gunfire. if you are not prepared to do that you are not in the right job. he had been a school resource at marjory stoneman douglas nine years. you know when there is an active shooter you go toward the shooting and you stop the killing immediately. >> trace: and wondering why he was found not guilty in the criminal trial. you go back to the trial of o.j. simpson, a different bar. what do you think happens in the

civil trial? >> like you said, it is a lower burden of proof and i can tell you the families, they went through the death penalty trial, no death penalty. and scott peterson, acquitted. there's not one day i go without thinking of these families and these victims. 17 lives were taken and they deserve to have closure, they deserve to have justice, they deserve to have accountability, and they deserve to have peace and my prayers continue to go out to them every single day. >> trace: yeah, and we covered this extensively and does appear scott peterson decided he was not going to go in. nicole parker, great to have you on as always. >> thank you. >> trace: we'll be right back.

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>> okay. we're in the midst of the summer beach season. popular tourist areas are looking to crack down on bad beach behavior. officials in ocean city, maryland are considering a ban on tents an canopies on the beach. no, say it ain't so. only traditional umbrellas will be allowed in long beach township, new jersey. beach goers saw only single pole umbrellas are allowed on the sand. the intention is to leave more rules for guests and open a line of sight for lifeguards to do their job. trace, why so many rules when you just want to relax? you want to let go. >> i got to say, i'm yes for the umbrellas. umbrellas. no for a tents. looks like you're moving in and going to be there for a while. it's not festive and summery. why are they putting up a tent on the beach? there's a good argument in that

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