fallon said it's not true and idiotic twisting of events. some current staffers have defended fallon while blaming previous leadership and a statement nbc said in part, as in any workplace, we have had employees raise issues, those have been investigated and action has been taken where appropriate. now, reaction has been mixed on social media with some people coming out to support fallon, others saying his apology does not seem sincere. it's one of the several late night shows that have gone dark as the writer's strike. >> sandra: i can tell the music that went by is a peddy cab. the music is so loud in new york city. john. >> john: the biden administration cracking down on yet another industry, all in the name of green energy. trucking companies will now have to follow stricter emissions standards making it even harder

for drivers to carry out the job. >> sandra: and they are pushing back, john, saying it's all happening at the expense of the country's supply chain and potentially the u.s. food supply. >> john: where we begin as "america reports" rolls into hour two, i'm john roberts in washington. as our colleague, shannon bream would say, happy friyay. >> sandra: yay, indeed. one hour to go. the truckers warning the crackdown will not only kill small businesses, but the high costs of climate friendly trucks will be passed down, they say, to the consumer. >> john: right to kelly o'grady at the port of long beach, which has seen its fair share of trucks roll in and out in the last eight hours. when will we see the new rule go into effect? >> so, john, the regulations won't impact trucks until model year 2027, but already there is a lot of discrepancy over how

much this is going to cost truckers. epa is estimating to outfit the trucks with the new required tech would cost 2300 to 2800 per vehicle. there was analysis, that estimate more like $42,000 per truck. the bigger concern for truckers, though, the regulations they feel like are designed to accelerate the adoption of electric big riggs, not just outfit with new tech and that's going to cost the industry 95% mom and pop operations even more. so, of course the first is the actual purchase price. currently electric long haul trucks run nearly 300,000 more than the gas powered alternatives and because of the necessary size of the lithium battery, 8,000 pounds, reduces the capacity a truck has to carry goods. and a full electric charge only gets you up to 500 miles in range, gas about four times that and then you have to wait to charge your electric vehicle.

i'm in a truck stop and filling up, it normally takes a few minutes or so versus a couple hours. and by the way, the truck driver only is paid while the vehicle is moving. so the truckers tell us all the costs i just mentioned the tech is not there yet, and may quit all together. >> the possibility of a great many small business operators being pushed out, it's very much real. you are going to refuel it, recharge it or reenergize at the places that don't exist, and no idea what that's going to cost in terms of dollars or in terms of time. time is critical. >> and time is certainly critical because remember, 70% of the nation's goods, the nation's food supply is transported on trucks. so when it costs more to drive that trickles down and means that everything else costs more. back to you, john. >> john: kelly o'grady live at the port of long beach.

thank you as always. i guess the philosophy of the biden administration is the regulation will drive the texas opposed to the tech driving the tech. >> sandra: we will talk to larry kudlow about this, he has a lot to say on that, the truckers, and also the cancelling of these oil and gas leases in alaska, he is suggesting that the biden administration is breaking the law by cancelling those and we are in a situation and if we are not producing enough energy to meet our own demands, we rely on foreign nations for it. >> john: looking forward to that. >> sandra: oh, man, last night, so many of us saw it, waited through it, the climate protestors, they stood up and

disrupted, this was obviously the u.s. open, women's semifinal was happening when all this went down, it was delayed for 50 minutes as the nypd struggled to remove one of the protestors who decided to glue their feet to the floor of the seat. this is the aftermath of that scene, ok. that's not to the seat, that's to the floor beneath the seat. charlie hurt is moments away on that, but first, bryan has the news live at the tournament. are those protestors facing any consequences for their actions last night? >> sandra, good afternoon. all four environmental activists have been banned from the u.s. open. two of the four protestors have been arrested and criminally charged. they are facing criminal trespassing charges. they'll have to appear in court later this month and that includes, yes, the 50-year-old man who super glued his bare feet to the concrete floor

inside arthur ashe stadium. a dozen officers and emergency responders had to respond and carefully unglue him, using acetone. once freed, it left a pair of footprints in front of the seat. it was a 49-minute delay, started one point into the set of the women's semifinal, four protestors started shouting, and new york tennis fans booed them, chanted kick them out, the long interruption ticked off a lot of fans there to watch coco gauff. now the match stopped at a time coco had momentum and was winning. coco and her opponent eventually walked off the court for 42 minutes, came back, and warmed up. despite the disruption, after the match coco said she believes in climate change and sympathized with the protestors. >> i wasn't pissed at the protestors, i mean, i know the stadium was because it just interrupted entertainment, but

you know, i always speak about preaching, you know, preaching about what you feel and what you believe in, and it was done in a peaceful way, so i can't get too mad of it. >> it certainly helped that she won. she goes on to the final tomorrow, representing u.s.a., sandra. >> sandra: bryan, thank you. coco's reaction was interesting there, thank you for that. >> sandra: let's bring in charlie hurt, "washington times" opinion editor and fox news contributor. the folks at arthur ashe were associated with extinction rebellion, they tweeted this. no tennis on a dead planet. if we don't disrupt, nature will. this is the same group that participated in the blocking of that highway on tribal lands leading to the burning man festival last week in nevada.

it's an organization that is very well funded by some very well-known celebrities and some very rich people. >> what's so frustrating about this, i feel like it's kind of a reflection of how broken the politics are today. it does not matter that they were not overtly violent, what matters is their petty tyrants ruining the lives of the people around them and that's not the way politics is supposed to work. we have a wonderful system, a wonderful republic we can have our debates and have our opinions heard. this is not the way to do it. the good news is, i think they made enough people angry that they lost their point in a pretty significant way, and it's funny what you said, sandra, about coco, i was struck by what coco said as well, and you know, that's the wrong answer. she's almost saying that if it had been interrupted and she had

wound up losing the game, she would have been upset then, she was only fine with it because she went on to win. and that's not the way a republic works. not the way political debate works. these people are petty tyrants, it's tyranny of the minority to allow them to get away with this, and i'm glad they have been arrested and charged and i hope they get the book thrown at them. >> sandra: climate change believer or not, you have to ask, what are they doing to help their cause by disrupting a major sporting event like that. i love to just ask every single one of those protestors, what are you doing at your local level to enact change? how are you actively pursuing your interests in climate change and advancing your cause? i didn't see that happening last night by gluing your feet to the cement in the stadium. >> exactly, and if the objective

is to win over converts, which is how it works in a free society, in a free society of self-governance, they did not win over anybody. if anything, they repelled people, they lost the argument and for better for worse, it's the best system of government that humans have been able to come up with. you have to win people over with arguments, and they -- you know, they repelled them, they didn't win anybody over. the only thing i wish they would have done, put like a soundproof tent around them, give them some oxygen and leave them a couple days with some water and then come back and ask if they are ready to give up. >> john: fans of the "get smart" series will remember the cone of silence. delay was a grand total of 49 minutes and a delay like that, while coco gauff has momentum, could have thrown her off. remember 1994 venus williams and

another, the woman that was losing took a bathroom break and came back and won. and coco said she treated it like a rain delay. >> would i prefer it not happening in my match, 100%, yeah, i'm not going to sit here and lie but it is what it is and i knew, i had a feeling it was going to happen this tournament, it happened in french open, and the u.s. wimbledon, so following the trail, it would happen here. >> happened to serena williams, might have been a different reaction. but if the person who -- if the person who is affected doesn't mind all that much, what's to stop these folks from doing it again? >> well, exactly, and not to be too hard on coco, because you know, she was obviously trying to be generous about it and everything, but it's not -- these people are undeserving of your generosity. this is -- this is a terrible

way to do politics. it is -- it's unlawful and it makes life miserable for everybody, and it doesn't get anything done. and she should -- you know, i get it, she's obviously an elite athlete, she's -- she does what she does magnificently, but the whole thing about self-governance is we are all responsible for it and i wish she had spoken up and said this is an outrage and shouldn't be allowed to happen. >> sandra: all politics aside, i had the chance to walk the grounds and see some of the players warming up, saw her practicing. oh, man, she is a force, she is awesome. also saw al caraz warming up with his brother. what a treat. oh, kudlow is here, kudlow is here. charlie, thank you. >> great to see you. >> john: i would have loved to have seen mcenroe's reaction.

>> are you kidding? >> we'll chat with him. >> you cannot be serious. >> sandra: we have gone off the rails. we'll chat in a second. a democrat who once vowed to dismantle the minneapolis police department, a carjacking left her beaten and bloody. what she has to say. >> disgruntled about the inflation. >> john: bidenomics not resonating too well with middle class americans and president biden's green energy push may make things even worse. larry kudlow says it's not only sheer insanity, but the president's latest move is breaking the law. he is up next with that, and commentary about the u.s. open.

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>> sandra: back to the top story, trucking companies now bearing the brunt of the biden administration's green energy push. they say the stricter rules will crush our supply chain and could have a "catastrophic impact" on our nation's food supply. let's bring in larry kudlow, host of kudlow on fox business. larry, do you see this being the case? could this really lead to a supply chain crunch down the road? these -- if we go all electric with our trucking fleet? >> 75% of goods transported in this country are done by trucks. 75%. people don't understand how important trucking is. so, if you look at what the trade association is saying, or what some -- most are small business trucks, these new greenie regulations and

emissions standards perhaps cost as much as $45,000 per truck and they can't afford it. and they will go down, and if they go down, then you are not going to have deliveries. so yes, this could be a massive supply -- >> sandra: what about the logistics, too, once you have the electric fleet. stopping to charge your truck. what do you do about paying your truck drivers while they are stopping to charge, and is there enough supply of the chargers? >> changing batteries, for example. batteries are a fortune. what's so bizarre about this, and hopefully talk about the crazy thing in alaska, too. there's a story, sandra, this is not being reported. i don't know what it is. you see it in some conservative journals, i have reported it on kudlow, but us see the federalist talked about it, john solomon's group has talked about it. there are 1600 scientists, ok, scientists, a couple of nobel prize winners who are saying two

things. number one, there is no immediate climate emergency. it doesn't exist, ok. you are looking out 50, 100 years. the second point they say is they are not climate deniers, they acknowledge climate is an issue. but this story is unreported. >> sandra: one of the truckers at the center of the story we have been running on our .com, one of the top-read stories, he was on "fox & friends" this morning. >> i support green energy but it's frustrating they are trying to jam it down trucker's throats. we are overregulated, it's not practical and almost impossible, and the american people will pay for all the new trucks. >> i'm not a climate denier. what i am, is an existential emergency climate denier, ok.

>> sandra: let's not legislate before we innovate around this. >> there is going to be a green transition, it ought to be over 50, 100 years to be honest with you and shouldn't be knocking out most of our current source of energy. 75% is fossil fuels. this is crazy. >> sandra: we have the administration putting a freeze on the alaskan oil supply. >> here they go again. >> sandra: relies on indigenous knowledge as a legal justification to blocking drilling, no joke, that's really important because we have had reporters on the story. the groups of indigenous people who do support this, they want it. >> i know they do, and she ran into the same problem in her home state of new mexico. put all this land off, you know, off the reservation, if you will, no drilling, and the tribes themselves wanted to drill on the land that she fenced off. they want the jobs. it's good work and by the way, it's high-pay work. this particular thing, though, is really bizarre from a

national security as well as economic security, because look, almost the same day, within the same 36 hours or something, saudi arabia and russia have another cutback in production, or they extend their current cutback, so that jacks up world oil prices which will affect gasoline. what is the biden response? he takes away all of the leases up in alaska and then they rule out most of the wildlife. now, look at, this breaks the law. i want to make this point. it has not been made enough. mike summers from the api come on the show, they should sue. the tax cut bill of 2017, ok, they mandated two lease sales within the coastal plane of anwar. so the bidens are taking that

out. you can't do this. imperial regulatory overreach, what the supreme court did when they ruled against the epa. you can't exercise executive authority, tough have law. so happens, congress passed a law and mandated these lease sales and they are breaking it. >> sandra: you are going to dig into this on your show at 4:00. >> we talked about it last night and again tonight because it's so damn important. >> sandra: and you reference biden's apocalypse scenario. >> sheer insanity. why are we letting russia and venezuela and iran and saudi arabia. >> sandra: dictate our policy. finishing your sentences, larry. tennis superstar he is, played for princeton. you are hilarious. >> we are going to go at it. you have to hit it near me, i'm

old. i don't have the mobility. strokes are good, the mobility is not. >> john: pickleball is the answer. migrants continue to pour across the southern border in record numbers. could the biden administration also be ignoring the illegal crossings along the border with canada. >> sandra: kelly is here to discuss how bad things have gotten there, and why the white house needs to act now. veterans, if you're applying for a home loan to get cash...surprise. some lenders charge hundreds upfront for your appraisal and other fees. not at newday. a veteran shouldn't have to come up with money to get money.

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facebook shows her bleeding from the head, claims that she has cuts, bruises and a broken leg. now, despite the claim of a broken leg, no record police or ambulance took her to the hospital. she says she was attacked right in the driveway to her house by four young men with guns, happened in front of her children. attackers knew what they were doing, had clearly done this before, so, she called for gun control and stiffer penalties. part of her post reads, catch these young people who are running wild, creating chaos across our city and hold them in custody and prosecute them, period. now, this is a dramatic change of perspective from the liberal activist three years ago was part of the movement to defund and dismantle the minneapolis police department. from june 2020, dismantle the police department, say it with me, dismantle the police department.

systemically failed the black community. the car was recovered abandoned a short time after the incident. sandra. >> sandra: mike tobin from chicago, thank you. john. >> john: the southern border may not be the only source of the migrant crisis that's plaguing the biden administration. officials are now warning america's northern border with canada is being flooded with illegal crossings, with more migrants apprehended there in the last 11 months than the last ten years combined. bring in new hampshire gubernatorial candidate and former senate from the granite state, good to talk to you. >> nice to talk to you, john. >> john: last week there was a mexican national in the u.s. illegally who was arrested for smuggling in people to new hampshire, came through vermont, from canada. again, this person should not have been in the country. yet this person also had a washington state driver's license that was presented to the police. you argue, as a gubernatorial

candidate, that not enough attention is being paid to the northern border. make the case. >> there's not enough attention being paid there. biden administration's open border policies are causing a surge over the northern border. you just talked about the statistics. over the last 11 months, they have had thousands of illegal immigrants arrested from 76 different countries, john, over our northern border, more than in the last ten years, and recently we had indicted on new hampshire's northern border what you've talked about, a mexican immigrant who was trafficking people illegally into new hampshire and also before that i visited pittsburgh, new hampshire, a farm up there, idyllic farm, the farmers intercepted drugs on the property and are worried about illegal immigrants that are coming on their property and they should be able to live in peace. so, this is what you get with the open border policies.

so that's why our governor sununu has called for more resources but he's being ignored. law enforcement wants the help and they need the help. >> john: they do, and you take a look at the statistics in that swanton sector, encompasses part of new york state, vermont and new hampshire. the statistics all the way across the border, from the washington state all the way to maine. 2023, so far, 150,743 people have been intercepted. compare it to 109,000 last year, and just 27,000 in 2021. you mentioned that you toured the border, put up a picture of something that you tweeted out here, where you went on the property with those folks who have been dealing with this. we hear about ranchers in texas dealing with people who are smuggling drugs across the border.

you don't really associate that with our neighbor to the north. i grew up in canada, and cross border smuggling was never a big thing when i was a kid. >> well, unfortunately it is now because the law is not being enforced, and you know, the farmer you showed the picture of me standing with the atv. wonderful people. their family has had that farm for many decades, and they have never had to worry about this before but now they are worried for their children, they are worried that they have already intercepted drugs on their property and illegal immigrants coming over, and they shouldn't have to worry about that, and that's why there needs to be additional resources for law enforcement at the border and we need to enforce our laws. so this impact is impacting new hampshire from the south, because the drugs are being trafficked in, and now drugs are trafficked in from the north, too. it's very untenable situation. the>> john: speaking of enforcing the law, there is a provision in the new hampshire constitution that you have to

have the first in the nation presidential primary. republicans are going to do it next year. democrats say no, we are changing and we are going to do south carolina first. new hampshire democrats say they are going to defy the dnc and they are going to go ahead and be first in the nation. rfk, jr. supports this, i support the new hampshire century old status of the first primary state everyone knows the real reason the dnc made the change. the people of south carolina did not ask for it. it's another undemocratic attempt to rig the primary process in favor of their anointed candidate, joe biden. governor sununu was insensed by it. they take the first in the nation very seriously, whether you are republican or democrat. >> we do, and play an important

role vetting the candidates. and what i think unfortunately is happening is that joe biden doesn't want to campaign in new hampshire, he's afraid to answer hard questions that new hampshire voters ask, whether it's in the diners, at the town halls, and you know, he wants the system to be rigged for him in this primary. and yes, it's a bipartisan issue, it's important if you are running for president that you actually have to talk to voters, answer the tough questions you shouldn't pick the states that you are going to appear in. governor sununu is fighting hard on this issue, we all agree and i'm so glad to see the republican presidential candidates in new hampshire. they are here every day. they are working hard. they are shaking the hands, answering the tough questions, they are doing the town halls, and showing that our party is one that is going to reach out to voters that understands the importance of the new hampshire primary, to making sure we have a presidential candidate that

can appeal to the entire country. >> john: well, if memory serves, then candidate joe biden did not fair very well in the new hampshire primary back in 2016. so probably the reason for the change. senator, good to catch up with you, thanks. >> great to catch up, john. >> john: and rfk, jr. will be joining martha in a few minutes on "the story." sandra. >> sandra: thank you, john. parents in a california school district fighting back after a judge blocked a policy that required schools to tell parents when their children identified as transgender. the school district president on mom and dad being left out. >> john: plus, virginia saw the worst learning loss of any state in the nation during the pandemic. governor glenn youngkin has a plan to fix it. shannon bream will talk to the governor about the plan in an exclusive interview. she joins us coming up next.

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>> john: chaos unfolding in america's schools from learning setbacks to fights over parental rights. in virginia, the governor has a plan for the learning loss, as push for parents' rights faces a setback in southern california. a judge is claiming some parents could be a danger to their kids. talk with the school board district president there in just a moment, but first, team coverage with shannon bream and gillian turner on governor youngkin's plan to curb his state's learning losses. gillian, what can you tell us about the learning loss that american students are suffering generally? >> gillian: well, john, there is a new crisis now that is plaguing the nation's schools, might not be on your radar but

it is chronic absenteeism. more than a quarter of students missed more than 10% of the school years, during the pandemic when kids were shut out of classrooms and got in the habit of not actually showing up. >> you get the schools back by going back to teaching what you are supposed to teach involving parents and welcoming them, and that's got to be the beginning. but we are in bad shape. don't forget the bottom line, math scores, reading scores, down. this is very bad for the future of the country. let's get it together. >> gillian: u.s. students will need four months of extra full-time school to overcome the post covid achievement gap, with the absenteeism crisis hurting black, hispanic and poor students. >> virginia suffered the worst learning loss in the nation during the pandemic, stemming from schools being closed and --

>> gillian: virginia's governor led the charge to reopening shuttered public schools but still finds his state in crisis now. listen. >> one in five students are chronically absent, meaning they miss more than 18 days of school. total absenteeism as you have seen, particularly in third and eighth grade, nearly doubled. >> gillian: teachers' unions say the pandemic changed things permanently. >> members went door knocking to get kids back to school and we heard from people who said, and kids who said, well, i have to work. high school kids. and others who said well, i really don't want to take tests anymore. >> gillian: long-term far-reaching impacts of this absenteeism crisis. the more learning loss students suffer, the lower their income is likely to be according to the data their entire lifetime,

that's what governor youngkin's program called "all in" is trying to rectify. >> john: see if he can do it. how do you make up for the deficit so far, that's the big question. gillian, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: parents in southern california are fighting back after a judge stopped the chino valley unified school district from telling parents when their children were transgender. the judge suggesting some parents posed a "clear and present danger" to lgbtq students. let's bring in sonia shaw, chino valley unified school district president. thank you for joining us here. first, set this up for us. why did the judge halt the transgender notification policy to begin with. >> yeah, thank you for having me. it's very interesting. in his comments he also mentioned he didn't even read our document. so here you have him making a pretty impactful judgment on something that he wasn't even

aware of both sides. so, it just to me shows the parents and california where we stand. we are failing. we are failing our kids. we are failing in our system, we are failing even how we process things and how they should be. i'm embarrassed for our system, embarrassed for our attorney general to put so much focus on this when we have criminals destroying california right now. >> sandra: the california attorney general, a democrat, says children would be the losers in this policy, why i'm moving in to protect children from being hurt, being harmed, being abused. in that statement alone, it would be the suggestion that parents would be trying to hurt their own children, sonia, bill bennett, you heard from a moment ago, former education secretary joined us on the program yesterday and said this about that. >> the notion that parents should not be involved when a child says i want to change my sex is just insane.

it's just ludicrous. schools have to inform parents if a child is sick, wants to get a tattoo, other things, but not to inform them of this, this is real madness. >> sandra: that's at the heart of this, school districts, the judge in this case basically saying that parents should not be involved in such serious decisions as a child wanting to change their gender. >> absolutely. and you know, our kids can't even take a tylenol without our permission, but yet he's picking and choosing what he wants us parents to know, and i think that sends the message down that they have a clear agenda, they want control of our children, they've already caused confusion. our kids are failing at reading, writing and math, department of ed is a mess, focusing on social justice and sexualization of our kids and everything in place is sending the message down, we want control, we are going to do everything possible, allow your

permission on some things but other things we want the control and we are going to take over. and i think -- i think the message is loud and clear. >> sandra: a quick follow-up to that. do you think as a parent you want to just move the kids out of that district somewhere else, if you feel like you can't bring about the appropriate change y? >> here is what i say. they picked the wrong fight. parents like me have linked up with parents all over. i'm sitting on the school board as a school board president because the community voted me in because i promised them i would push back on things like this. we are not going to give up. i believe in a lot of our great amazing staff and educators all through california. but their hands are tied. at one point if we do not win this battle and parents don't start coming to the table and fighting the fight, i would say pull your kids out right away. the only reason my kids are in the system is because right now i can ensure that we are doing everything possible to ensure their safety along with the others. >> sandra: sonja thank you for

joining us. a lot of people following this and obviously a lot of parents are standing up, speaking out about their kids. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> sandra: john. >> john: bring in shannon bream, so whether it's the chino valley district in california, whether it's three school districts in new jersey, elsewhere across the country, the divide is growing wider and the passions are getting more intense around this. >> shannon: they are. this is a dividing issue. it was a good thing for some who capitalized on it like governor glenn youngkin, that education issue, people think put him over the top in virginia. but a lot of parents being able to see what's going on in the classroom and curriculum and failings during covid, that has opened their eyes to other issues they want to talk about. you are right, several legal issues, we will talk about those, new jersey, california, and here in our area, just in d.c., a district where they are fighting over whether parents can opt out of lessons that disagree with their religious

beliefs, not just christians but muslims and others as well. >> john: i think terry will rue the day if parents are not involved with what the kids are learning. department of education report in the state of virginia paint add bleak picture on learning loss because of covid. nearly two-thirds of students 3-8 failed or at risk of failing math standard of learnings and more than 50% of 3-8 at risk or failing reading standards of learning. your interview of the governor on fox news sunday this weekend, our kids go to school in fairfax county. this is horrible. >> shannon: they are not great numbers and the governor is meeting them head on, not where we want to be. and the program, $400 million of funding from the general assembly to do things like very intense tutoring private one-on-one with kids really having a struggle and getting to

some of the basic competencies, and you know, like he says, if you are in the 3rd to 8th grade range and have not nailed down reading, it will stop you from doing other things, and the chronic absenteeism, kids went home during covid and have not come back to school. >> john: a graphic to show the increase in lingering absenteeism. look how much it's up. >> shannon: stunning. >> john: 30% in california, 32% florida, 33% in new york, 39% in michigan. how do you learn if you are away from school that much? >> shannon: and the testing and numbers and the data shows the more you in the classroom the better you do on the scoring, that makes sense to us. but teachers have talked about if they are not in class and in there sporadically, it's chaos trying to get them on the same page. >> john: and focusing almost your entire program, and i love,

and a report from the special grand jury in the state of florida that recommended charges for lindsey graham, david pursue and kelly lefler. >> shannon: out of georgia, and he said yes, i had phone calls with the secretary of state and asking questions about what was happening. all of these allegations, he says ultimately, look, i voted to certify the votes out of georgia, i didn't put any blockades or barriers to that actually happening but i have a duty as a senator to go ask questions and there are people across the political spectrum saying all right, we have to figure out where this dividing line is. if someone can go to jail or threatened with jail because they asked questions about an election, all of us should be worried about that no matter how you vote. >> john: a lot of democrats who ask questions about other elections. >> sandra: we can think of a few. >> john: looking forward to the program. always good to see you. >> sandra: we will be watching,

thank you, shannon. exclusive with fox, retired central command general says he is haunted by the withdrawal of afghanistan. the move left 13 u.s. service members dead in a suicide bombing attack. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon on that for us. hi, jennifer. >> hi, sandra. newsy interview with a marine general who oversaw the withdrawal from afghanistan. >> do you have any regrets? >> i have a lot of regrets about how it ended in afghanistan. a regret with the basic decision, the wrong decision and we did not choose to evacuate our people, embassy personnel, american citizens and our at risk afghans at the time we made the decision to bring in our combat forces. i think that was a serious mistake and led to the events of august 2021 directly. >> in march we heard system from sergeant tyler vargas andrews, a

marine sniper at abbey gate, now a double amputee. >> asked engagement authority when my team leader was ready on the sniper system. response, leadership did not have the engagement authority for us, do not engage. >> is that true? >> i honor his sacrifice and everybody else injured or killed as a result of the attack. but i can tell you, there was no be on the lookout for a person meeting that description on that day or prior to that day in afghanistan. there was no description of a bomber meeting the description that you just played that day or the day prior in and around kabul. >> so there was no attempt to stop sergeant vargas andrews from targeting a suicide bomber. >> there was no intelligence to support the assertion that we knew what the bomber looked like, that he was carrying a backpack with three yellow stripes, there was none of that, we didn't have that

intelligence. >> how do you think the history will treat the withdrawal and the president's decision to bring all troops home from afghanistan? >> i think the decision in the way we did and the manner we were directed to come as a fatal flaw and i think history will be hard on that. >> more on the exclusive interview tonight on "special report" with bret baier. >> sandra: we will certainly be watching. jen, thank you. >> john: important interview, looking forward to that. the pope no stranger to meeting high profile people. what did the holiness do when he got to meet one of hollywood's biggest movie stars? we'll show you, coming up next. ! uuuhhhh... here, i'll take that! woohoo! ensure max protein, 30 grams of protein, 1 gram of sugar. enter the $10,000 powered by protein max challenge. ♪ ♪

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sylvester stallone pretending to spar often with the pontiff. the italian stallian got the last laugh. okay. this is quite the moment. ready for it? have we shown it? it's coming. john, are you there? >> john: i'm here, yes. i'm waiting for the tape. is it a separate roll or is it -- >> sandra: it gets there. the conversation goes back and forth. here we go. >> john: the pope hits back. yay! >> sandra: he knows the movies. >> john: the pope can bring him back for this moment. >> sandra: that was kind of fun. a nice moment. >> john: very nice.

sylvester dresses up well. last time i saw him, he was dressed as a -- what are the characters of guardians of the galaxy? why am i forgetting? >> sandra: great to have you back. glad it went well. >> john: yeah, good to be back. i had a cataract removed. i'm seeing the world from a different light. >> sandra: a clean spot. thanks, everybody, for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha and glenn youngkin starts right now. >> martha: hi, guys. thanks very much. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. a busy hour ahead on "the story." robert f. kennedy jr. joins us in a short moment here. he has a gripe with the democrat party over what he calls a rigged primary process that starts with the shakeup of what's going on in new hampshire. first, new details about the scope of the special grand jury investigation into election interference in georgia. the grand jury tha