>> before i had kids i would laugh at this, now that i have a sweet little boy, i would pay somebody to hug him. >> oh, goodness. >> listen, if you need us, my daughters will know where to find me when they head off to college in a year, don't expect this service to come with it. i'm a military guy, fort bragg connection like you, harris. suck it up airborne. >> i love it. >> i can't -- stop coddling this generation, dropped the oldest off at college, on out you go. >> i believe you, i know that's right. i would drive 1,000 miles to hug them myself but i would not pay somebody else to do it. >> totally. >> i'm the only mom. i mean it. because i said so. "america reports" now. >> sandra: we are beginning with a live look at the white house where a briefing will begin moments from now, and questions

on the nation's migrant crisis are expected to come up as illegal crossings skyrocket at the southern border. cbp sources say agents encountered more than 10,000 migrants at the border yesterday alone. numbers are stunning, john. hello, well come everyone, i'm sandra smith in new york. >> john: certainly are. back to where we were in the spring, i'm john roberts in washington. this is "america reports." the new surge of migrants streaming into the u.s. straining resources from coast to coast, texas, one of the border states, bearing the brunt of the situation. the governor sending more national guard troops to reinstall razor wire used as a deterrent. >> sandra: the biden administration extending temporary protected status for venezuelan migrants already here. the move will expedite work permits for those migrants, but critics are saying it will also lead to more illegal immigration. lieutenant christopher oliveras

is working on the front lines of the border disaster. will join us live in a moment. >> john: bill melugin is live on the border in eagle pass, texas. what does it look like there today, bill? >> bill: john, the activity is absolutely nonstop, pictures tell the story. the live fox news drone, behind me a group of migrants trying to enter into eagle pass illegally but blocked by the texas national guard with rows of razor wire. right behind them, if we can pan the camera around, another group in the water right now as i'm speaking to you trying to cross illegally. pretty close to where that group is, another group of illegal immigrants streaming into the river here in eagle pass, a body was just recovered here a short time ago, you can see more migrants streaming down the mexican side of the shore, down to the river's edge, right in front of the mexican national guard, in front of mexican police who are doing nothing to stop it. this is something i've been mentioning the last two days in a row. the mexicans have law

enforcement posted up at the edge of the river but they are not doing anything. the people show up at the river's edge, walk down to the edge of the river and cross over to the u.s. side. a tug-of-war between texas and the federal government. texas does not want to let any of these migrants in, they are deploying razor wire, not letting people in. border patrol yesterday cut some of the wire to allow some migrants in, sometimes they do that, but when they feel there is safety issues involved, but you can see what's going on with this live drone right now, guys. this has been playing out since sunrise in eagle pass, nonstop groups, nonstop illegal crossings here, and as some try to get into the united states, others on the mexican side are doing the exact same thing. likely run into the razor wire as well. we want to show you what it was like earlier today. take a look at this video on the ground here, i mention started after sunrise, it has been nonstop. more migrants in the water crossing illegally, predominantly single adults from

venezuela, some have been carrying venezuelan flags as they cross illegally into the united states. this has been going on since yesterday when we had over 3,000 people cross at the same time. one of the biggest mass crossing we have seen since two years ago in del rio, texas. they stream into eagle pass, gather under the international bridge here. it's very noncha lant. it's bizarre. people are not running, not going crazy, it's just like a single file line of people walking down and crossing into texas illegally because they expect to be released. and back out here live, to that point, mass catch and release is the policy of the biden administration here at the southern border. the border patrol union just tweeted out an hour ago that in the last three weeks alone, more than 100,000 migrants have been released into the united states. they say that is a huge pull factor and why so many people are deciding to cross illegally. back to you. >> john: bill, when i was

covering the border crisis in 2015, a group of ten people was rare because mostly 1 and 2. and these days, if you see ten people, it's rare, because it's dozens, hundreds or thousands. >> bill: when i first started covering for fox, if i saw a group of 50, my jaw hit the floor. like wow, this is crazy. 50 people? now we see a group of 300 and like oh, do we have to pick up the camera or a group of 500 behind them. the numbers are enormous. and what we saw yesterday with the group of 3,000, i had not seen something like that since two years in del rio with the haitians and the encounter numbers are all time record highs, john. >> john: it's amazing you can get hundreds crossing into the country illegally. that's where we are. bill, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: lieutenant christopher oliveras of the texas department of public safety. lieutenant, thank you very much for joining us. what should we think when we see numbers like this and see pictures and images like we have in recent days?

i mean, we are now looking at 10,000 migrants at the border yesterday alone. this brings us back to the high of may, days before the end of title 42. where is this going? >> seeing those images is shocking, and we have been talking about it for the past two and a half years and the fact the federal government has not put deterrent measures in place or consequences or policies to prevent unauthorized border crossings between ports of entry. all it's doing, encouraging more illegal immigrants to make their way to the united states and that's what we are seeing play out in eagle pass. and influx across texas and also arizona. but most recently, sandra, significant to us as a state is that the mayor of eagle pass, most recently, authorized our state troopers to regain control of that part in eagle pas and that's what we are doing this morning. we have a sustained presence of law enforcement from state troopers to national guard that

are at that part now and we will make arrests today. anyone that violates state crime, cross the concertina wire or damage property around the river, we are going to make arrest. and that will send a message that the state of texas will have deterrent measures in place and if you violate a state crime you will be arrested. >> sandra: we used to only have to cover it as a border state, a border community issue. we well know now this is affecting every state in the nation. here is "new york post" cover today, lieutenant, anarchy, 4,000 illegal migrant cross border in a day, unlawful economy is exploding in new york city, biden still does nothing and here are new york officials, state and local officials on this migrant situation in this city. listen. >> we are not only getting asylum seekers from venezuela, we are getting them from west

africa, getting them from russian-speaking areas, south and central america. >> we don't have capacity so we have to also message properly that we are at our limit. if you are going to leave your country, go somewhere else. >> sandra: remember, these are democrat officials who said we welcome all migrants with open arms, we are a sanctuary city, we will shelter them. now they are saying don't come here, demanding federal resources, calling governor abbott of texas a mad man. i mean, this is how they are responding now, lieutenant, that they are seeing the problems that border state and border communities have been suffering through for a much longer period of time. >> right, sandra. and of course, that's complete hypocrisy. they were so quick to criticize the state of texas and what governor abbott was doing and bussing illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities. let's not forget, they took on the responsibility, declared themselves a sanctuary city but only dealing with a small fraction of texas and arizona deals with, nothing compared to what we are seeing right now.

and not just asylum seekers, but people from over 160 different countries and it's not just asylum seekers. you have bad individuals among the groups trying to sneak into the country to evade capture. over 1.7 known got-aways, that's a threat to national security and a threat to public safety. >> sandra: national security, that is a big, big problem. we may hear a question put to the white house in just a few moments when the briefing is underway. meanwhile, tough questions are being put to democrats. finish off with this. hillary vaughn is grilling house democrats. >> can i ask, is the border out of control? >> what is our immigration system is broken. we need for republicans to stop talking about open borders. >> when you see the cbp officers releasing migrants en mass on the streets, do you think that sends a message to people the border is open? >> the border is not open.

>> what you see is different than what happens in actuality. >> sandra: the border is not open? contrast that with the images on the screen. another democrat there, it's republicans' fault? debbie wasserman schultz, what you see is different than actually happening? quick final response to that. >> you know, sandra, something they wanted from day one. they have not acknowledged the fact we have an open border and yes, a broken immigration system, we have had it for years but not the extent over the past two and a half years. you see the large influx of illegal immigrants coming across with no consequences and on top of that, tens of thousands of americans are dying every year because of fentanyl and they need to explain that to the families, those that have lost loved ones because of fentanyl and at the hands of criminals that snuck across the border.

they need to acknowledge and do something and secure the border. >> sandra: appreciate you joining us. we'll let you get back to work. thank you, sir. >> thank you, sandra. >> we are suffering. there is no middle class. where is the middle class, because we are living paycheck to paycheck. >> shut down more plants, doit, i'm ready. >> keep doing it until we get what we want. >> john: more auto strikes may be coming down the pike as soon as tomorrow if negotiations are stalled, and so far sending ripple effects through other plants. general motors announcing thousands of layoffs over at their kansas plant. jeff flock live in wayne, michigan. are the two sides any closer to a deal? >> i wish i could tell you they were, john. but no, the clock is ticking. deadline tomorrow noon eastern time for a decision on whether this strike is going to expand or whether it is perhaps going to make some progress toward

conclusion. as you can see, a lot of people out on the picket line here at the ford plant in wayne, michigan. put this up, we just got this tweet from the president of the uaw, he says he will make a facebook live appears tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern. maybe then we get an indication of where it's headed. as you point out, layoffs throughout the industry not people striking but people laid off because of the strike. 2,000 at the gm plant in fairfax because of the shutdown of another plant, 600 people at ford because of the strike here, and then another 68 at stellantis. a poll just out says most of america supports the strike. 68 to 32 who oppose it. one of the bigg issues, electri vehicles. and public sentiment is mixed. in the u.k., however, they have just decided that they are going

to take a step back from the goals, the very -- i would say far-reaching goals they set to get to electric vehicles, all electric vehicles for sale by 2030. listen to the prime minister. >> people are already choosing electric vehicles to such an extent that we are registering a new one every 60 seconds. but i also think at least for now it should be you, the consumer that makes that choice, not government forcing you to do it. >> and john, it's worth noting that automakers in the u.k. were planning on meeting the 2030 goal. spent hundreds of millions to reach that goal and now, well, it's up ended. ford u.k. putting out the statement, our business needs three things from the u.k. government. ambition, commitment and consistency. relaxation of 2030 would undermine all of these.

u.k. was way ahead of the u.s. when it comes to electrification but say maybe we were going too fast. i don't know what they think here, but they would like to get a contract some time soon. john. >> john: all right, good to have you following all of this. jeff flock for us. jeff, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: a fox news alert to more new images coming out of the border, you are looking at the bridge there in eagle pass. now these images, john, look at this. this is the razor wire we were just speaking with the lieutenant, bill melugin reporting as well, texas has put it into place, the governor did, to try to stop the illegal crossings. and the razor wire is installed, where the migrants are clearly getting through, a child in the picture, quite something to see this happening in realtime, john. >> john: what was it that debbie wasserman schultz just told hillary vaughn? what you see is not what's actually happening? like don't believe your lying eyes because those pictures you are looking at on the screen

right now do not accurately reflect what the situation on the border actually is. does she say people are not crawling under razor wire, not crossing the rio grande en mass, what is she saying? i don't get it. >> sandra: and congresswoman jiapal said we need republicans to stop talking about the open borders, denying the fact people are pouring over the borders. and the same time yesterday, we were looking at hundreds, if not over 1,000 of those migrants gathering underneath that bridge there, and just clearly easily making their way into the country. >> john: 4,000 of them, 10,000 plus crossed yesterday. but don't believe your lying eyes. apparently that's not what's really happening. >> sandra: and maxwell frost, democrat from florida, the border is not open. it would appear they are the ones living in alternate reality because this is live on the screen right now, john.

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>> john: president biden's re-election campaign to go after misinformation on social media. after the supreme court temporarily froze a ruling that would have blocked the administration from contenting big tech companies, the lower court said the white house likely violated the first amendment in some talks with social media companies. bring in juan williams, fox news senior political analyst and mary katherine ham, columnist at outkick. so rob flaherty will be heading up the new effort to combat information, and what he said. he said the campaign will have to be more aggressive pushing back on misinformation from communications perspective and filling some of the gaps these companies are leaving behind. the concern from the biden administration is that these companies have taken it on the chin so much that they may be not as aggressive in policing political information as they were in the last campaign.

>> i think that's exactly right. in fact, what we have, youtube is said they are not policing. they are not going to do anything with regard to prove false claims put on youtube and i think you have seen from elon musk the very same attitude and obviously it has gotten him in some trouble with the anti-semitism and retweeting. the larger point, with the advent of a.i., artificial intelligence, chatgpt, there's more opportunity for misleading people going into an intense political season 2024 than there has ever been. >> john: mary katherine ham, part of the information deemed misinformation in 2020 happened to have the added benefit of being true. >> true information, formerly known as conspiracy theories, vaccine efficacy and blocked by the government. >> john: and a certain person. >> they want to be more aggressive n rob flaherty's name is all over two first amendment

losses at federal court level, he was bullying in the name of the government social media platforms to take out disfavored information by free americans on free spaces and you are not allowed to do that as the government. social media companies can do that, you are not allowed to jaw bone and bully them into doing it for us, to overtaking people's first amendment rights and that happened many times over and did not allow us to have full and real conversation about real issues. >> john: the article in politico wrote biden's campaign legal team plans to use the traditional playbook of reaching out to social media and flagging contents that violates the policies, but campaign staff say the better strategy to publicly shame companies for not enforcing their own misinformation policies. >> well, i don't know if it's effective as mary katherine pointed out, the courts have something to say and are raising

the first amendment issue, we all have to think wait a second, what if people like the russians and chinese are trying to influence the outcome of the election. currently, according to the court order, biden administration and fbi, homeland security, should not talk to these agencies. well, it can even go beyond politics. what about child exploitation, child pornography -- done talk to them. i think that's reckless in this age of, you know, internet communication. >> so the latest injunction gives them strict boundaries and they would not have the strict boundaries if they would not have overstepped them in the first place. i'm in the business of publicly shaming the government for wanting to shut up normal americans when they are talking on social media. and i think a lot of the misinformation label and some of the foreign interactions on our social media, although they are real, are often a trojan horse for getting things eliminated, and the government does not know the truth.

>> let mary katherine talk, there's no stopping her, america. so let her happen. what i will say, when people say evil and awful things and damage kids, you got to wonder, how do we protect ourselves? >> john: the same time, when 51 ex-intelligence officials say it's russian disinformation and it's not, that needs to be called, too. mary katherine to talk more here, and you as well, juan, now polling in iowa shows a huge bump for nikki haley. still way back of president trump, he's at 46% in the h hawkeye state, desantis at 15, she was 5% and now 11%. i was iowa is all about expectations. >> i think a bit of stasis here. numbers that trump is polling are so large and the gap is so large, that changing the fundamentals of the race becomes very tricky. i think you are right. there's an opportunity to have a

surprisingly good win in a place like iowa and give yourself fuel for moving forward. the question is, does the field get any smaller because even if you are showing promise, until you can sort of almost go head to head with trump, shaving off the numbers is hard. i think some of his comments about abortion policy might be a little bit of an issue with him in iowa, with some of those voters who would normally stick with him. they might be willing to listen more to other folks. >> john: we have a lot of iowa caucuses that have shown it's not about winning, it's finishing a strong second. >> right, look, the big story here is donald trump. he has a massive lead. i mean, you can finish second but you are -- he's now leading in new hampshire. so, i mean, that's big story. nikki haley is fascinating. >> john: and south carolina too. >> nikki haley is really awesome in the sense her performance in the first debate proves it can have positive effects on her poll numbers. everybody is looking to be the alternative to trump and trump is putting more distance between

himself and anybody else. >> john: and until that field narrows, he's going to remain way out in front. great to talk to you folks. >> no stopping her, john. no stopping here. >> john: never try. >> sandra: back to the border now, the live images, once again, we have been continuously seeing immigrants through the razor wire, cut through, crawled through as you can see, obviously some border officials have shown up at the scene there. this is happening every time we look back at these live images, john, as cbp sources say they encountered over 10,000 migrants at the border yesterday alone bringing us back to the all time record highs we saw of 10,000 plus in may. those were the days, of course, before the end of title 42. and john, these numbers include over 8500 border patrol apprehensions, 1600 cbp encounters at ports of entry,

and we continue to see scenes like this. and per cbp sources, numbers are expected to surge even higher with the biden administration's announcement of extended tps, and work authorization for venezuelans. temporarily protected status. administration announced it will offer hundreds of thousands of venezuelan migrants that are already here in the united states, including those in the country illegally, work permits and protections from deportations as these numbers are skyrocketing at the southern border, john. >> john: what's interesting to me, dhs was quick to put out the numbers for june when it showed a substantial decrease in cross border traffic from the month of may. i think they put those out the first week of july. we are getting into the last weeks of september and have not put out the numbers for august, suspected to be about 230,000. and if that number for september is similar, and there's no indication that it won't be, based on the number of people

across the border, we will have, and is just a rough projection, more than 2,400,000 people who have crossed into the country illegally in the last 12 months. that would set a new all time record. that would beat last year. >> sandra: and put it in context, happening as the administration is facing growing pressure from the sanctuary jurisdictions like here in new york city, john, demanding more federal help to help them deal with the migrant crisis. it is growing in this city for sure, john. we see the pictures every day. including the expedited work permits. new york city has declared itself overwhelmed by the more than 110,000 migrants that have come to the city. bill melugin puts it in context this morning, john, when he said the new york city mayor said new york city can't handle 10,000 migrants a month? the border just had 10,000 in a day.

think about that. it is really something. >> john: when you take a look at that, 10,000 was the daily record set back in early may, just before title 42 came off, then there was the lull, after title 42 was rescinded, and the biden administration declared victory, saying the new protocols that we put in place for venezuelans, haitians and others, have taken care of the problem, but it may have been just a lull. people waiting to see what was going to go on. bill says weather is not a factor because it's just as hot now as it was in july. but suddenly more and more people have decided to come across the border. he says because they have found out that it has no consequences. and clearly, and we want to play this again, this was extraordinary, intrepid correspondent on the hill, hillary vaughn is great at bird dogging members of congress. and she put the question to democrats about the situation on the border and to say that some

folks have their head in the very plentiful sands of the rio grande valley is an understatement. >> is the border out of control? >> what is our immigration system is broken. >> we need for republicans to stop talking about open borders. >> when you see the cbp officers releasing migrants en mass on the street, do you think that sends a message to people that the border is open? >> the border is not open. >> what you see is different than what happens in actuality. >> john: i can't make head or tail of that last one. what you see is what's different than what happens in actuality. and the border is not open? clearly the border is open, and clearly what you are seeing with your own eyes from a live camera in eagle pass, texas, is in fact what he is happening. what's different is how it's being perceived here in washington. >> sandra: also different the way the story has been covered. obviously you have seen us covering it --

>> john: or not covered. >> sandra: here at the fox news channel, but no, to go back to what we are hearing from the new york city officials and new york state officials, jake sullivan is talking at the white house right now. he's not getting questions on this, not that we have heard yet. we'll get to the white house as soon as they do, but mayor adams here in new york city, he says we are not just getting asylum seekers from venezuela, but getting them from west africa, russian-speaking areas, south to central america, kathy hochul, the governor of the state, we don't have the capacity. so we have to also message properly that we are at our limit. well, these border states and border communities, they have been saying that for quite a long time and they have certainly felt like no one is listening. and now that it's affecting all these other areas of the united states, you are starting to see it covered more and starting to hear the democrats leading up the cities and states they declared sanctuary status say we

cannot handle anymore. >> john: you want to know how many people are forecast to come across illegally this year? if forecasts hold, more than the population of houston, slightly less by about 200,000 the population of chicago, more than the population of philadelphia, dallas, jacksonville, charlotte, seattle, denver, nashville, washington, d.c., boston, 2,400,000 people probably will come across the border illegally by the time the fiscal year ends on september 30th. and that is -- that is greater than the population of every city in the united states with the exception of new york, los angeles, and just barely chicago. so, can you imagine? >> sandra: yeah. and just to highlight the white house briefing ongoing right now, jake sullivan and karine jean-pierre, we have peter doocy in the room, so you can likely expect a question on that. if he is able to get one in. but you look at how this city is

dealing with this, and you've got sort of this illegal, as "the new york post" put it. unlawful economy now exploding in new york city. we have been showing those images outside the roosevelt hotel, it's lined with scooters. we have stopped and asked police about that. many of those scooters are unregistered, in some cases stolen. they don't have the resources to deal with it or track all of these down. but we are told a lot of those immigrants who are there in the roosevelt hotel, they are using the scooters to deliver food through uber eats and some of these other food delivery services to make money while they can. this is just a small portion of the story, but that is happening here in new york city. >> john: now, can you imagine, sandra, the illegal migrants who have been arriving in new york city have been arriving by bus, whether or not they are transported there by the governor of texas, or as we saw in the past, the former governor of arizona, or they are arriving

via bus that has been sponsored by the federal government or they are flying in to the airport up there in white plains in the middle of the night on an aircraft and bussed to locations and the city. they are arriving, you know, by traditional conveyance. can you imagine if you had a scene like what you are seeing before your eyes right now in new york city, imagine that this was the banks of the hudson river, and people were coming across the border between new jersey and new york city, obviously you can't walk across the hudson river, it's a very deep river. but can you imagine if what we are seeing on border is what we were seeing in new york city. this is what texas deals with every day to the tune of almost a million people so far this fiscal year. it will be well over a million people by the time the fiscal year ends later on this month. we are seeing more than a half a million people forecast to come across the border in arizona. probably about 300,000 people in

california. so, city leaders in new york and in new york state are dealing with people arriving by bus, but can you imagine what they would be saying if people were arriving the way we are seeing them now in the five boroughs of new york? >> sandra: and i mentioned how "the new york post" is covering the new york city newcomers, the migrants in the city taking illegal gig jobs that then don't pay taxes, john. the councilman is scoffing the 140 million from the feds, a current burn rate of $10 billion per day, -- 10 million a day, it would pay for two weeks. that's a huge problem. resources are drying up. we are watching the border, and the white house briefing, jake sullivan is there, karine jean-pierre will take questions soon, peter is in the room. meanwhile, new york city

officials reigniting the debate over historical statues. weighing whether to remove statues like george washington and christopher columbus for their controversial past. our next guest says his town will gladly welcome the pieces of art and pay and pack them up to bring them to their new home. brookhaven town supervisor ed romaine. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> sandra: so, you are on now, what's your message about these statues, many of which are being torn down? >> i guess people want to forget history or rewrite history. george washington led our troops for eight years in the revolution. some of the darkest hours. we would not have a country if not for his leadership. thomas jefferson wrote our declaration of independence. christopher columbus lived over 500 years ago but he was brave enough to sail west and discover a new continent. these are part of our history.

every human being has flaws, but should we apply today's standards to people who lived more than 500 years ago? or should we remember the deeds they accomplished to help us build a great civilization and country. i am prepared to move these statues to the town of brookhaven, half a million people. we have like 25 parks throughout the town. we have port jefferson would be a great statue for thomas jefferson to land. george washington, we take him where he visited row tavern and to inspire, and join the revolution. and christopher columbus, a lot of italian americans here in brookhaven and the knights of columbus would welcome an opportunity to maintain a statue to christopher columbus. >> sandra: there is some outrage over it, there was a public hearing before the cultural affairs committee, the author of

the bill to remove the statues, councilwoman sandy nurse, a democrat from brooklyn bridge, insisting she is attempting to correct history, not cancel it. you can respond to that while i put up on the screen, george washington, thomas jefferson, christopher columbus, these are just some of the statues -- you wrote a letter to mayor adams saying you will take these statues, you will pay to bring them to your town, you'll even pack them up. have you gotten a response? >> haven't got a response but i'm very hopeful. there are people that want to forget history, because they don't like it, because it doesn't fit in with their narrative of what history should be today. but these people lived some time ago, these are the founders of our country, of our civilization. we want to remember them for their flaws and for their accomplishments. we want to remember what history teaches us. and if we start trying to decide how we should edit history, we

make a terrible mistake. >> sandra: really interesting. this is just some of what we are hearing from new yorkers who support the removal of the statues, your response to it. >> i would rather see a statue there that reflects loving everyone or something like that. >> i think if it's a work depicting somebody like actively being enslaved or something, that seems like an obvious thing to remove. >> sandra: as councilwoman who heads up the bill to remove them, reckoning with the historical injustices that continue to haunt our cities. a final response to the new yorkers and her. >> well, everyone is entitled to their opinion. we are americans, after all. but our opinion is that they are part of our history, we want to remember their accomplishments, we want to remember their service to the long line of history and george washington in particular, father of our country, led our troops, who was

our first president. >> sandra: is your town for it, sir? are you getting support in your town? are you getting support in your town to bring -- >> absolutely. >> sandra: ok, very interesting. >> absolutely. obviously the town of brookhaven, 70 miles east of new york city has a different point of view. i don't want to denigrate other points of view. i just don't agree with them and we are prepared to act on that and we are prepared to remember our history and our heroes and those who made this country what it is today despite their flaws. >> sandra: ed, we appreciate you joining us. we will watch to see how this all turns out. thanks for coming on. >> thank you so much, thank you. >> john: looking at the extraordinary pictures from the border, bill melugin is live in eagle pass, texas. bill, from our hillary vaughn, maxwell frost, democrat of florida said the border is not open, congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz also of florida, what you see is

different than what happens in actuality. what do you make of those two statements based on what you are seeing? >> to be quite honest, those statements are just an alternate reality, and you talk to any of the migrants here, ask them is the border open or closed, they tell you open, it's open, and told us on camera multiple times. fox news drone 100 yards behind me, a sizeable group crossed illegally here in eagle pass, texas. our viewers have been watching on the drone. they crossed the river and then they encountered the texas razor wire that has been deployed at the edge of the river. they were waiting for almost an hour, not sure what to do, hoping border patrol would let them in. texas did not open it or cut it, so all those people crawled through that razor wire, called concertina wire, designed to snag on clothing. saw little children, parents, the whole group crawl through the wire and enter into texas illegally.

so it goes to say the razor wire is not just a sure-all at stopping illegal immigration as are these shipping containers here as well, they can't stop everything. and real quick, if we can turn the drone around, what we would like to show you is on the other side of the river in mexico, i've been mentioning this the last day or so, the mexican government has placed mexican soldiers and mexican police dotted along the river. sometimes they are a little hard to see, they are dressed in tan, tan uniforms, and they are there to be this supposed show of force to tell the migrants, you know, you are not going t cross illegally. about you all the migrants cross in front of them. half the time we don't see them get out of their vehicles to try to stop them. so the mexican government obviously could be going more but are deciding not to for whatever reason, john. >> john: we'll get back to you. extraordinary pictures, thank you so much. >> sandra: thank you john and to bill. we will check back in shortly. young americans pursuing tiktok may have come across political ads touting president biden's

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theory is growing, with a new billboard declaring free karen reed. molly line is live with details. what exactly is happening with the duelling stories? >> well, prosecutors say that karen reed rammed her boyfriend, a boston police officer, with her suv and then left him to die in the cold, but defense attorneys say this massachusetts woman is being framed. >> when karen reed arrives at court, supporters rally around. >> i tried to save his life at 6:00 in the morning, i was -- i was the only one trying to save his life. >> reed is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, and leaving the scene of a collision in the death of 46-year-old john o'keefe. the off duty boston police officer was found severely injured outside the home of another boston police officer in canton, massachusetts, january 29, 2022. the couple had argued, they say reed hit o'keefe with the vehicle only returning to the

scene at daylight. reed claims she dropped him off to attend a late night party inside the home, defense attorneys claim others caused his death and conspired with investigators to make reed the scapegoat. >> we know who spearheaded the cover-up. you all know. >> the defense team claims evidence was planted, including pieces of her suv taillight. >> if you wondered what corruption looks like, that's what corruption looks like. >> prosecutors have pushed back against defense claims that evidence is being withheld. >> any suggestion that we are withholding evidence from the defense afraid of what it might show is patently ridiculous. >> a recently erected free karen reed billboard to bring in money for the defense fund. she is slated for trial in march of 2024. >> sandra: molly line on that story, a lot of twists and turns. thank you so much. john. >> john: we are monitoring the

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>> john: an army of in -- influencers crucial to next year's election. according to "the new york post," george soros is bank rolling a big part of the effort on tiktok. charlie hurt, the "new york times" wrote about this as well, charlie. what the times said, the social media influencer and microinfluencers, noncelebrity users, attracted a moderately large following, paid hundreds and sometimes thousands per posts, content aimed at influencing the midterm elections. they are being called george soros tiktok army.

parents have a lot of concerns about tiktok s. this reason to -- is this reason for concern to an even greater degree? >> oh, sure. i think without a doubt. but i think it's kind of interesting because all along i've been wondering who it is online that supports joe biden or any of his policies. and now we know, a bunch of people in their parents' basements paid by george soros, $100, $1,000, whatever, you know, and i assume they would not be great contributors to the economy anyway. the real shock here is when you dig down and you start looking at what these people are promoting, what they are promoting are things like open borders and a ban on voter i.d. laws to make our elections more honest and things like that. which of course if you good and you look at polling, these are not like 50/50 issues or even like 60/40 issues these are like 70, 80, 90% issues, nobody in america wants open borders,

polls show that. nobody is against having responsible safeguards to make sure that people who vote are supposed to be voting. and so i do think it's really interesting that you have this entire organized effort designed to thwart the will of the people and kind of override the debate and you know, granted it's on tiktok, and i don't know how influential that is with a lot of voters, but it's clearly influential with a lot of young voters. >> john: with a lot of voters, no question about that. the "new york times" also suggests that this is a way of getting around the rules regarding political ads, they write the federal election commission, which oversees campaign finance law, including political advertising, does not have specific regulations for influencers, meaning they are not subject to the rules like tv and radio ads which mandate disclosure of who paid for the content. so, your kid or you are watching

something on tiktok, you have no idea where it came. it doesn't have the little paid for by blah blah blah at the end of the ad. >> yeah, what people like to call dark money, or dark web. this is where all that stuff resides and i think it's really interesting that you have a guy like george soros, you know, on the left, who has mastered the domain of this area that is completely unregulated and yet democrats claim to be the party that is all in favor of regulating political speech. >> john: yeah, hey, ask you about the big controversy in the senate when it comes to the dress code. rules have been relaxed chuck schumer, a lot of people believe it's so fetterman can wear his

sneakers and hoodie, and if them in the house -- i will save democracy by wearing a suit on the senate floor next week, i've never seen the word jagoff in an official senate statement. what do you think of the whole thing? >> extraordinary, extraordinary, i think it's really interesting that you know, you have the united states senate, you've got all these huge massive pressing issues facing our country, and this is the issue they decide to focus on? this is the problem that chuck schumer decides to solve? talk about being completely out of step with the american people. and then you take a guy like john fetterman who you know, i'm sorry he's unhappy, i'm sorry he's depressed, i'm sorry he doesn't have sort of a mission in life, but you know, taking it out on the rest of us by walking around in gym shorts and tennis shoes without socks and a hoodie in the united states senate, it's not our problem. go find something in life to stand for but if this is your statement in life, this right

here, that picture, that's your statement in life? you've got big problems. go solve them on your own time because we need serious people in the united states senate who dress properly who are solving our problems and it's not getting done with a clown show like this going on. >> john: it's interesting even the "washington post" in an editorial came out against the change. we'll see if it lasts or if it doesn't. charlie, great to see you. thank you. >> great to see you. >> not just a robbery, but a horrific assault that changed his life and our family forever. >> john: a family coming to terms with a brutal attack, a delaware business owner pistol whipped and then bashed in the head with a hammer. it was all caught on camera. >> sandra: the victim's injuries are so severe, even one year later he is still undergoing rehabilitation. >> john: the