unacceptable, to say nothing of the slavery history of judging especially women based only on their bodies because they would become sex slaves in addition to slaves in general. >> full monty. >> unacceptable. a race to the bottom, this is more. >> i think they have won the race to the bottom. >> objectify, "love is blind," you connect with someone based on their voice before you see them. >> this is "love is nasty." and sending the message to our young people that you don't have to look any deeper than what your hormones are driving you to do. and if you think the divorce rate is high now, try picking people on their bodies. we all change. when we get older. the longer the marriage goes when you are naked, i just -- the show is over. >> don't want to let commander in there. [laughter] >> oh, boy.

that's where we need him. >> entitled to a presumption of innocence and a full trial but i think he should resign. >> he is entitled to have his day in court, but he does not entitled to remain in the senate and he needs to go. >> for that reason probably be a good idea if he did resign. >> john: a live look at the courthouse in lower manhattan where robert menendez pled not guilty. uphill battle for his freedom and keep his seat on capitol hill. i'm john roberts in washington. we climb the top of the hill in terms of the week, sandra. >> sandra: no kidding, more than halfway there, a busy two hours ahead. sandra smith in new york. "america reports." long time democratic senator and his wife appearing before a judge after being formally arraigned on charges of taking bribes of cash, gold bars, and a mercedes benz in exchange for using his political influence to

benefit the egyptian government and others. >> john: the calls for menendez to resign growing, more than two dozen of his democratic colleagues have urged him to quit immediately. >> sandra: fox team coverage is here, marc thiessen moments away how it could affect the balance of power in 2024. but let's get right to bryan, live on the scene outside the courthouse. are we expecting to hear from menendez any time soon, bryan? >> yeah, you know, that is the expectation, just given the fact we have been waiting for the senator to come out of court for the better part of an hour announcement senator bob menendez has been defiant, obviously, but look, earlier today he went in for his arraignment, him and his wife nadine pleading not guilty to -- so he pleaded not guilty. in terms of the bond, the senator was released on $100,000

bond, his wife was released on $250,000 bond, which was more, which is interesting. but in terms of their demeanor, they both walked into court today, actually pretty jovial, chatting with one another and with their attorneys this morning. they are represented by different lawyers. the judge decided senator menendez has to hand over his personal passports but he is allowed to keep his official passport that will allow him to go on official international trips as a senator, as long as it's preapproved by the court. senator menendez is also barred from speaking about this case with any of his staff that may have knowledge of this case. he can speak about it with his wife, obviously, but not any of the other three co-conspirators who allegedly paid him bribes. new jersey businessmen pleaded not guilty in court with the senator and his wife as well. businessman egyptian-born will hannah pleaded not guilty

yesterday, all of their bonds for these businessmen were set at over a million dollars, much higher than for senator menendez. this as the pressure continues to mount for the senator to resign. at least 30 democratic senators are calling for menendez to step down, including whip dick durbin who thought he thought he should have a fair trial first, this morning he changed his tune, posting "leaders in new jersey including the governor and my senate colleague cory booker have made it clear senator menendez can no longer serve." he step down. yesterday menendez reiterated that ain't happening. >> why aren't you resigning? >> i'm innocent. what's wrong with you guys? >> now, durbin indicated to reporters that it was actually menendez' long time friend and colleague cory booker coming out and asking him to resign, that actually pushed him over the

edge. i believe we have some action here, somebody may be coming out, i don't want to miss that. but ultimately that's the latest from here, guys. >> sandra: so we do have a door opening and there is the senator exiting the federal courthouse in lower manhattan. bryan, i don't know if you have the shot, we have it live on the screen, he has departed. >> perfect. yeah, let's see -- >> sandra: it doesn't look like he's going to step up to the microphone. >> there he is. no, it does not. there goes his car with his wife. does not look like he's going to speak, sandra. >> sandra: thank you for that, bryan. keep track of the breaking news and reaction coming up. thank you very much. >> john: i'm sure we have not heard the last from the senator. bring in marc thiessen, former white house speech writer, washington post columnist and fox news contributor. of the 26 democrats and seems to be changing almost by the hour, have said menendez has to go,

and republicans are questioning well, wait a minute, why are they so quick to throw him overboard. in the united states we have a presumption of innocence until proven guilty and the charges against him, they seem pretty serious, are just charges at this point. so why are they so quick to throw him overboard? >> they think he's going to put the senate majority at risk. they have a tilted field into the 2024 senate races, defending 23 seats, seven of those in states trump won or biden barely won. republicans are defending ten seats, so the field is tilted. they have the work cut out for them for the majority, and if menendez is a candidate on the ballot and this stuff keeps going and turns out to be true, then new jersey is in play and they were not expecting to defend new jersey as well. >> john: there were a couple of republican senators appointed

given a vacancy in the garden state. the last time a republican was elected to the senate seat in new jersey was back in 1972, clifford case. that is a long unbroken streak at the ballot box. >> it is. i can think of one republican who has won statewide, chris christie, he's running for president and not doing too well but he could -- >> john: he appointed the republicans too. >> can you imagine if chris christie announced he is running for the senate now? probably do well in new jersey with swing voters, he would be a threat. i would love to see him challenge bob menendez. >> john: establishing a conviction against menendez may be difficult, bob mcdonald was convicted and then went to the supreme court and overturned, and with democrats as well. the way the supreme court looks at the parameters of bribery and corruption is fairly broad, and

then you've got all the allegations against some of the judges who sit on the supreme court as well. so, he beat this once, the jury was deadlocked 10-2 and 10 of those people in favor of acquittal. so, i think a lot of democrats are looking at this as oh, doj has a slam dunk case here, but anything but. >> may not be, and he violated senate ethics rules too. senator cannot accept a ticket to a hockey game and he's got, you know, $250,000 worth of gold bars. [laughter] >> john: his own money. a long way to go. before we go, i want to ask you about this. new revelations in the hunter biden case, including a couple of payments from chinese business partners, july 6, 2019, $10,000 from ms. wang shin. another august 2, 2019, $250,000 from another, also known as

jonathan li. joe biden's delaware home was listed as address of the beneficiary, and turns out according to congressman comer joe biden knows jonathan li. >> look, if i resell my taylor swift tickets the irs is going after me, but he can get a $250,000 transfer to joe biden's home, nothing to see here. the idea it's not a serious case -- and joe biden, october 2020, said on the debate stage my son has not made any money from china. yet in 2019, $250,000 wired to his son to his delaware home. i mean -- joe biden is -- was flat outlying in that debate. >> john: he pointed to donald trump and said the only person who made money off china is this guy over here. but -- i don't understand how you say that when it's clear

that it was something completely different. >> and also, 50-year-old man using his father's address for business -- good lord, i haven't done that since college. >> john: a lot of people have kids living in their basements. hate to break it to you. >> that worries me. >> sandra: thanks to marc, john. a mob of mostly teenagers cau causing problems in philadelphia, looted stores, lululemon, apple, foot locker, among the stores ransacked by looters, arresting 15 to 20 suspects but dozens more managed to get away. eric shawn is following the story for us. how bad was this? >> sandra, it was insane in downtown philadelphia, police call it a mass organized looting attack fueled by social media.

turns out a mob of about 100 looters, some wearing masks and hoodies, ransacked businesses in the heart of the city. broke into the apple store, lululemon, liquor stores and other businesses. police officers arrested some of the looters carrying plastic bags stuffed with items like clothes, sneakers, liquor, iphone and ipads. not everyone seen in the videos on social media were actually taking part in the looting. the rampage came after there was a peaceful protest following a judge's dismissal of murder charges against a philadelphia police officer who fatally shot a man last month. police say that police officer fired in self-defense. officials are saying the rampage was not connected to peaceful protest at city hall but teens saw an opportunity to go out and steal. >> somewhere around 8:00 we start to get multiple calls of

certain businesses starting to essentially have their stores broken into or stores ransacked. >> philadelphia's progressive district attorney's office says it does disagree with the dismissal of the charges against the police officer. they wanted charges reinstated. but now there are new charges against members of that teen mob. the massive shoplifting is the latest example of teenage mobs breaking in and entering stores to just clear out all the merchandise and smash and grab operations. despite that large crowd we said was about 100 people, right now, sandra, about 80 teens have still not been caught. >> sandra: wow, that is remarkable. and something many people watching have probably seen in their own communities. thank you so much, eric. john. >> john: we are talking more about that with leo terrell just ahead. meanwhile, crime causing one major retailer to shutter some

stores. target says it will close nine locations in several blue cities october 21st, including three in the san francisco area where president biden just happens to be visiting. the company is citing theft and violence against staff as the reason for the decision. the ceo says target experienced 120% increase in theft involving violence or threats in the first five months of this year. just across america there are so many crazy things that are happening, including in baltimore. this 26-year-old ceo of a tech company bludgeoned to death in her apartment by a guy who the mayor says should have never been on the streets. >> sandra: without question that, is absolutely horrifying, and to the closure of these stores, not just because the employees feel they can't do anything about this theft that is happening, they don't feel safe working in these stores where this theft is happening. and think about the huge disservice this is to the communities who no longer have a

discount store like target to locally shop at, john. >> john: and you saw the people breaking into the apple store, appears there were people inside the store who were trying to keep them out, but they were overwhelmed. >> sandra: yep, and more and more of that happening. we'll keep covering it here, john. the republican primary field set to face off hours from now in tonight's second gop primary debate. which candidate will make the case? they have the strongest plan to reboot america's economy. we'll ask money man charles payne. he'll join us ahead. >> john: spared no expense putting the sign in the reagan library. plus, migrant crossings smashing a new daily record this week. is the massive surge creating an untenable situation for border agents trying to stop the flow of fentanyl into the united states. we are live with a report from the border coming up. >> they cannot be out on patrol looking for things like fentanyl and other hard narcotics,

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thank you. and now on to this. as we wait, the wait is on i should say, hours away from the second republican primary debate. seven candidates will take to the stage at the ronald reagan presidential library looking for a breakthrough moment. charles payne, great to have you here. we know it's a huge debate, there will be a focus on the economy and that could be happening no matter where the debate was because the economy is the number one concern for voters. latest fnc polling shows the economic concerns of the american voter right now is still the sky high prices. inflation number 1, 91% say that they are extremely or very concerned about that. the cost of housing, 79%. being able to pay their bill, 74%. people are feeling this and they want to know where these candidates stand on this. give us your top line thoughts tonight.

>> charles: inflation, i don't think they really did that in the first debate. what is bidenomics, this is how -- listen, the theory that somehow big government can do it all, including pay your bills by pouring trillions of dollars into the economy, it's like going to a party. it felt great, beers are flowing, fantastic, but the hangover is long lasting and painful and don't ever want to go through it again. it's like everyone has been there. so, first like how do we make sure we never have to go through an inflationary period. but economists -- it's been 40 years. so, we never really had to go through. we are going through artificial pain as a political experiment to rechange the donation. secondly on the housing part, if you look at housing, all sides of housing, they are not just making homes, affordable homes. not a lot you can do about the interest rate part of it. but the regulatory part of it, and i speak to bill pulte and others, regulations are

destroying the business. >> sandra: under this administration? >> charles: a lot are exacted under this administration, but blue states, generally across the country too high, too many regulations and by the time the home is built, it's $500,000. >> sandra: the average home price in the country over $400,000. we have never been there before. mortgage rates the highest in 23 years. data this morning showing demand for mortgages is shrinking. what people are saying about the economy, i know you have your ear to the ground, charles, a sampling. >> i'm concerned in a few years when i'm ready to retire we'll have an economy that would allow me to or am i supposed to work until i'm 70, 80 years old. >> paying too much for everything. energy, food, everything. >> it's inconvenient things are more expensive. my grandfather asked me every other week, when are you moving

out, i'm like do you see how much apartments cost? >> sandra: that's really, really telling and the first answer from the woman who said i don't know how long i'm going to have to work to pay for all this. and you look at the polling on americans' financial situations, and it has drastically flipped from where we were in august of 2021 to now. those that say their personal financial situation is excellent or good has fallen to 37%. a couple years ago, it was at 63%. you have a drastic change in how people feel about their current situation. >> the poll that shocked everyone over the weekend, abc washington post poll that gave president trump, former president trump ten-point lead over biden, the key issue is finance. financial. and it's interesting, interviews, the older society worried about their retirement and the younger part of the nation wonder how they are going to get on with life. how do you move out of grandpa's house, how do you marry, have

children, how do you seize the american dream. both ends of the spectrum are fearful where the economy is going to be, it's not a good place to be right now. >> sandra: a good opportunity for the candidates to explain away their pitches. >> and has to be more than drill baby drill. >> sandra: as you say that, oil is topping $90 a barrel. >> charles: we know drill baby drill. we have the check. the older woman worried about retirement and the young lady wanted to get on with her life. >> sandra: great point. great to have you. don't miss the second republican debate tonight 9:00 eastern time on fox business and simulcast here. and i'll be joining jesse watters, and on fbn kicking off coverage as well. tune in.

>> john: all out manhunt in baltimore for a man suspected of murdering a prominent tech ceo in her own apartment. the suspect had been in prison but was let out. how did that happen? leo terrell is here. >> sandra: a crazy story. plus, large groups of looters terrifying the city of philadelphia. footage shows retail stores like lululemon and the apple store absolutely ravaged, out of control. what will it take to put an end to that chaos? we'll ask civil rights attorney leo terrell. he'll join us live next. >> this had nothing to do with the protest. what we had tonight was a bunch of criminal opportunists take advantage of the situation.

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tonight's debate at the reagan library in simi valley where it's sure that immigration is going to be a big topic of conversation. so, we'll keep watching this for you. meantime, this. >> we have now seized more than 60 million fake fentanyl pills. those pills are more deadly than ever, so the cartels are not only making more, they are making them more deadly and they are putting them on the streets of america in every single community. >> sandra: dea administrator putting a sharp spotlight on the deadly drug crisis as the cartels push tons of fentanyl into the country across our borders. this as sources confirmed to fox there were more than 11,000 migrant encounters along the southern border in just the last 24 hours. marking the second time in a week to hit that staggering number. griff jenkins has an executive interview with the border patrol jeff jason owens. hi, griff. >> good afternoon. you are right, a staggering number of migrants continuing to

arrive to our southern border and you look back at that fox fly team drone in the sky, you can see right where we are is ground 0 where the migrants are coming to turn themselves in. unmanned miles, 60 more miles of unpatroled border and that's where the narcotics and the people that don't want to be apprehended, criminal migrants coming through. you are looking along the border here, you can see the wire that stretches for miles. dramatic moment when the dps and national guard had been holding migrants behind the wire but border patrol had no choice but to come in, cut the wire, let the migrants through, national guard helping them because it's a humanitarian crisis. all the while when chief owens was here and we spoke to him, i asked him about the unmanned miles and whether it's an opportunity for the cartels. here is his answer, listen. >> not just an opportunity, they

are profiting off of this. they are profiting because they are charging these migrants to come across. millions of dollars a week in revenue across each sector on the southwest border going directly into the hands of those cartels and the smugglers. added to that, they are using it as a distraction to pull us off of task to cross other things like the narcotics. >> so the large group creating this distraction. meanwhile, the capacities here over 5,000 in their capacity, over 400% beyond their capacity. nationwide, more than 25,000 migrants in custody, far beyond the 20,000 mark they say, border patrol officials say that is a breaking point and there's no signs of this slowing down. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: wow, griff. thank you for your reporting from there. john. >> john: all right, sandra. there was an all-out manhunt underway for a suspected murderer after a 26-year-old tech ceo was found dead in her

apartment in baltimore. police found she had signs of blunt force trauma and are investigating her death as a homicide. the 32-year-old suspect is still at large, he's got a lengthy rap sheet dating back to 2009 and was in prison on a 30-year sentence. let's bring in leo terrell, fox news contributor and civil rights attorney. let me get the 30,000 foot view here with this headline on red state this morning, "mayhem in america, the new normal under dems. parolee murders young tech executive, mobs ransack philly." she was on the 30 under 30 list in forbes magazine, prominent young tech executive. the suspect, jason billingsly who they are looking for, lengthy rap sheet. first-degree assault, second

degree assault, sex offense, sentenced to 30 years in prison. 2022, released in prison on mandatory supervision as required by the statute and yet now police are looking for him in connection with this murder. leo, what the heck? >> yeah, those are kind words, john, as far as what the heck. >> john: couldn't say the other word, i would get fired. >> this is tragic. baltimore is a man-made democratic disaster. why was this guy released? oh, by guess who, the former soft on crime prosecutor mosby. she released him. he was in jail for a first-degree forcible sex offense for 30 years. what did he demonstrate to show good behavior? i submit to you, nothing. and the mayor, the mayor says no way in hell this guy should be released, he suffers from eric adams' disease. talks a good game and does nothing. they are allowing criminals to roam the streets with the soft

on crime, george soros' backed prosecution. this guy was also arrested for first-degree assault. so i'm telling you, john, that this murder should never have happened because they released this hard core criminal to roam the streets and kill this innocent beautiful 27-year-old woman. >> john: you mentioned the mayor. here he is and the acting police commissioner talking about this. listen here. >> we are working with every law enforcement partner to -- that we have to make sure that we bring this individual who quite frankly shouldn't have been out on the streets in the first place into custody. >> this individual will kill and he will rape. he will do anything he can to cause harm. so please be aware of your surroundings. >> john: this individual will kill and he will rape. again, what the word i can't say on television was he doing on the streets? >> yeah. you and i need to go to a bar and we need to really discuss

this case. that mayor, those were talking points. i want america to understand, that mayor means none of that. he is just talking, those are just typical talking points. and when you hear the police chief say hey, this man will rape and kill, why do they release him. he only served, what, eight years of his sentence? he was in there for 30 years? and he's had two first-degree charges, convictions, it makes no sense. but, he fits the profile of the identity politics let's release him and let's put him back on the street. ridiculous and america is in -- is under siege by soft on crime democratic prosecutors, governors and mayors. i live in the state of california i should know. >> john: our giano caldwell lost his brother gunned down on the streets in chicago. he participated in the field hearing in chicago the other day. here is how he summed up what was going on. >> where we are in chicago right

now, you can be downtown chicago, robbed, killed, whatever the case may be, we are entering gothom city. >> john: the word i can't say on television is batman, we need somebody. >> yeah. yeah. and we do need somebody and we need -- we are not going to expect any results from the democratic district attorney. we need a republican president, replace the u.s. attorneys and go into the democratic cities. >> john: leo, always good to get your take on things. the thing in baltimore shakes you to the core. >> sandra: we are watching this live event right now, senator lindsey graham and senate judiciary republicans are speaking, this is on the border and venezuelans getting temporary protected status. dip in and listen to the senator. >> the house will insist upon it

and we are going to insist upon it. the supplemental sent over by president biden made things worse, not better. this was his chance to work with us to fix the problem. what's in his supplemental? not a dime for the things that really matter. as a matter of fact, if they are supplemental, they didn't put any money for enforcement, detaining violent criminals, or fighting cartels. they allowed money for enforcement, the ice money to be reprogrammed to community residential facilities to help with the cost of housing illegal immigrants. let me say that again. they had a chance to fix the problem. their solution is to defund ice and put more money into community facilities. they have just announced 460,000 venezuelans will be given temporary protective status. i project in about two months

we'll have a lot more venezuelans. if you think it's just a bunch of republicans complaining, you are wrong. this is the mayor of new york. september 10th, just a few days ago, new york city will experience a financial tsunami. the migrant crisis will destroy new york city. here is the biden answer. leave them all in texas. they have a remain in texas policy. well, texas ain't gonna accept that, i don't think. the national guard is being called out in massachusetts and new york. why, because texas is not gonna bear this burden by themselves. to our two senator from texas, we've got your back. your governor is doing the right thing. so, we got a chance to fix this problem, and we are going to take advantage of it. there will be an effort to keep

the government open, probably to november, and in november we'll have a chance to do things more thorough but i promise you this, there's not gonna be a solution to keeping the government open and fully funded until there's a solution to our border crisis. to my democratic friends, you've had a chance to do this and you've done nothing. i want to keep the government open but i want to close the border to illegal immigration. so my colleagues on the democratic side tweeted out we need solutions, not grandstanding p.r. events. we have been around since the election, name one bill that's being proposed in the judiciary committee that fixes this problem. so, here is our commitment to the american people. we are going to work to not only fund our government, keep the government open, deal with the real emergencies, but we are not going to allow the border to continue to be chaotic. we are going to bring solutions

to the table and there are solutions out there. if you don't change policy, you are not going to fix this. why do we have so much illegal immigration? the biden administration took every trump policy at work and replaced it with magnets for illegal immigration. we are going to shut those magnets down. with that, we'll go with senator cornyn. >> senator graham mentioned a number of numbers. let me mention three. 7 million border encounters since president biden has become president. that includes people who literally turned themselves in because they then claimed amnesty knowing that they could exploit our broken asylum policies in order to permanently reside in the united states. it also included one and a half million got-aways. these are people evading law enforcement and frankly i think you can surmise they are

probably up to no good and it could be that maybe they are carrying some of the fentanyl that took the lives of 71,000 americans last year alone. second number, i mentioned a few others, but the second number is 108,000. that's how many americans died from drugs smuggled across the u.s.-mexico border last year alone. that includes 71,000 dead from fentanyl. and then there's a number 300,000. that's the number of unaccompanied children who were placed with sponsors in the united states. the "new york times" did a great series of trying to find out what was happening to these children, and they documented the fact 85 phone calls to the sponsor 30 days after the child was placed with the sponsor, there was no answer. and unfortunately they were also able to document forced labor. the biden administration has

simply lost these children and does not consider it their responsibility. they can't tell you where they are going to school, can't tell you whether they are being exploited, sex trafficked, whether they are being neglected, they can't tell you and frankly, they don't care. so to me that's the message that the biden administration has sent for the last almost three years now. they don't care. if they did care, they would do something about it. we are here to work with them, if they will work with us, to try to create a lawful humane and safe, lawful, humane and safe legal immigration system. that's what our country needs. that's what we do not have now. >> senator cornyn mentioned the 85,000 children that the federal government, hhs and the office of refugee resettlement, that is there in hhs.

they have lost these children. now, i have the second letter that i have sent to secretary becera asking for information on this. i asked about it in finance committee. i could not get an answer. he refused to answer the question where are 85,000 children, he said he was not aware of that number and these children being lost. so i sent him a letter. and the response i got was a non-response. so again, i'm asking for clarification on this. senator cornyn laid out for you how they have tried to follow on with these children what we have found out is that they loosened the vetting requirements. now, think about this. there were requirements on vetting these sponsors.

well, that was taking too much time, just like they say dna testing at the border takes too much time. so that you are certain children are not being trafficked. so they loosened these vetting standards. then you have people that may not be qualified that are applying to be a sponsor so the children can be into labor gangs, into gangs, into sex trafficking, but the issue is all of this has come up with 85,000 children out of the 300,000 children that they cannot locate at this point in time. it is so important that we secure this border, that we make certain the american people know that we know who is coming into this country and their reason for coming, and that the unaccompanied alien children,

the uacs, who come here are placed with someone who is going to actually take care of them, and not use them for profit or for other motives. >> we are facing an unmitigated disaster at our southern border. illegal immigration is the worst in our nation's history and it's not defensible. we brought 19 senators to see firsthand. you cannot see what is happening there and defend it. one of my recent trips to the border a reporter asked me, said aren't the policies of democrats more compassionate, more humane than you mean republicans? and i just started laughing. i said you know who doesn't believe that anymore, democrats. where is joe biden? where is kamala harris? where is even a single democrat

senator, where is aoc, i assume she still has her white pant suit. she just can't be bothered to cry in front of the biden cages. because with trump no longer in the white house, suddenly the suffering of those kids doesn't matter. you cannot see what is happening and defend it. and by the way, the reason biden doesn't go to the border, the reason kamala harris and other democrats don't go to the border, because if they did, y'all would follow. the press would follow. and their only defense, they cannot defend what they are doing, karine jean-pierre stands at the white house podium and says people are not just walking across the border, it's not happening. there is a technical legal term for what that is. that's called bull [bleep]. it is an utter and complete lie. it is a deliberate lie, it is a known lie, and she is lying on

behalf of the president of the united states. in the white house, now why does she lie, she lies because she counts on the press not to call her out. was there a plitifact, pants on fire, no. i've invited the white house press secretary come with me to the border any hour, and i guarantee we will encounter group after group after group. you want to know how bad it is, we are now seeing democrat mayors, democrat governors like eric adams in new york, says illegal immigration is destroying new york city. 110,000 illegal immigrants in new york city. if 110,000 is destroying new york city, what in the hell do you think 7.6 million is doing to the state of texas and the other states along our southern border. now, these democrats who are saying this, they can't quite muster up the strength to put the blame where it lies.

which is at the feet of democrats who are doing this deliberately, instead mayor adams blames "that mad man down in texas." by which he means greg abbott. i was kind of offended he was not referring to me. but he blames greg abbott for putting a few thousand illegal immigrants on busses and sending them to new york city. the person who caused crisis, his name is joseph biden, and if eric adams wants help fixing the problem, he can pick up the phone and call charles schumer, a now york resident, i believe he lives in manhattan. we can give him chuck schumer's cell phone. chuck schumer is responsible in the words of the new york mayor for destroying new york city. look, some of y'all may have seen when alejandra mayorkas testified in front of the senate judiciary committee. i asked him mr. secretary, how

many migrants died last year crossing illegally. he said i have no idea. the official numbers are 853, but you don't care about the dead bodies that appear in texas every single day. i asked him how many children were brutalized by human traffickers, he said i don't know. how many women were sexual assaulted, i don't know. how many people died of drug overdoses, john cornyn told you more than 100,000. you want to talk about something stunning, i put up a photograph with pictures of colored wristbands. i said mr. secretary, what are the wristbands, and he said i have no idea what they are. now look, any good lawyer will tell you you don't ask a question you don't know the answer to, that was one answer that left me flabbergasted. because just about every single illegal immigrant who crosses the border wears a wristband. they are color coded for how many thousands of dollars they owe the cartels and if you stand on the banks of the rio grande

river, you see hundreds of thousands of these wristbands. these are picked up from the banks of the rio grande river, and the little boys, the teenagers that come in, owe thousands of dollars to the cartels, sent to every city in america and they are working for the cartels to pay off those thousands of dollars. they are committing crimes in washington, d.c. and new york and every city in america. and if they don't pay off the cartels, their families will be murdered. and as bad as the boys have it, the girls have it even worse. literally thousands upon thousands of girls trapped in sex slavery to pay off their debts to the cartels. when i look at these, these are modern day leg irons. this is human slavery. and it is caused by the democrats not giving a damn about the people being abused. i want to make a plea to the press. the reason the democrats can do this, can look the other way is

because they are confident the corporate media will not report on it, never have to answer questions about it, they'll never be confronted with the dead bodies, with the people being brutalized by these policies. i want to make a plea to you, if you are not writing on it, if you are not running stories on it, if you are not telling what's happening, you are complicit in modern day slavery. this is not defensible, it's evil. >> senator graham, thank you for putting this together, thank you for your leadership. one of the things that you touched on at the very beginning, democrats say we have no solutions. i guarantee you, if you take a look at this group up here, we have put forth solution after solution after solution after solution. hr2 and what you are trying to move in the senate, guys, i would have never seen the border firsthand if this woman didn't know that i needed to see it

immediately upon entering the united states senate. i followed up with a trip with john cornyn, because they care. these people down there, senator blackburn would talk to them, she knew them. women would tell us their stories and they are brutalizing. and if you are not telling it that's on you. when a woman sits there and tells you not just about being raped but how many times a day she's raped. when she tells you about having to lay in that bed while they come in and out and in and out it's disgusting and it's despicable. folks, you look at the number of people that have died at the border because joe biden has made it more and more enticing to come here. make no mistake, this is a result of failed policies. we could fix this. we can't throw money at this and fix it. we have to actually change the

policies. i looked in the eyes of cbp agents who said we are exhausted. we are not only having to be paper pushers, we are also trying to do what we took an oath of office to do, protect the border. when they tell you about finding small children who have drown in that river or pulling a lifeless body of a woman who was pregnant with twins, it changes the way you think about what's happening. drug cartels, guys, they have their tentacles all over this country. we need you to start telling that story. to senator cruz's point, they will tell you how much they paid to get here and where they are going, what their job will be and how much more they owe. got it? and guess what. just the other day in alabama, a gentleman told me if you will come back here with me in this neighborhood behind you, you

will see my grunts here illegally and tell you about the drug cartels coming around every other week to collect. guys, that's not the american dream. that's an american nightmare. we know what policies work, president trump had secured the border. we know what to do, we just have to have a leader who has the courage to do it and i am so sick of joe biden lecturing us about the soul of america. let me tell you. he needs to have the heart to actually listen to people, he needs to have the compassion to actually hear those stories, the willingness to work with people, and joe biden needs the courage to take decisive action. we are standing here ready to do this, and what he put forth in the supplemental is an absolutely joke. it will only facilitate this

crisis more and more every day. by the end of his tenure, over 10 million people here, make that, if you put everybody in one place, the what, 11th largest state in the united states of america, folks, this is out of control. we've got to do something. we would not allow this to happen in a third world country. we certainly should not allow it to happen in the united states of america. >> and finally, we seized enough fentanyl this fiscal year to kill everybody in the country and isis smugglers are now getting people into the united states. we'll take questions. but finally, there's an opportunity to fix this. don't you think? fund the government, sit down and do what's right by our military, we got a lot of needs, this to me is at the top of the list. so to my democratic colleagues, it's an opportunity to fix this problem. work with us. >> senator, when you say that you would insist on border

provisions in this government c.r., are you saying you would vote no on it in its current form? >> the c.r. that gets us to november will probably be a smaller version of what we need. in november, whatever the time period, we are going to need some funding and some policy changes for the border, and that will give us about six weeks to work out a package. >> so you are saying you are ok on it in the short-term. >> i'm speaking for myself. >> just to clarify on that. you are looking for border security on not just appropriations but c.r., so are you willing to shut down the government, if there's no border security in the c.r.? >> what i'm saying is we are not going to leave this issue unattended and unaddressed. the house is going to insist that there be border security fixes. i think we are all saying we agree with the house. getting the government open until, let's say, november 17th is one exercise, a smaller exercise, but come november 17th, whatever date they pick, i expect we'll have

substantial fixes to a broken border. >> you are not trying to do something in the c.r. on this, senator graham? >> let me suggest something also, which is y'all asked that same question of democrats and here is the simple question to ask. chuck schumer, are you willing to shut the government down in order to stop any effort to secure the border? are you so committed to this chaos at the southern border that's destroying new york city, that you are willing to shut the border down, and this is where they count on the press ask to ask questions, why are republicans shutting the border down? no, the democrats could do something about it, they don't want to. i would encourage you ask every single democratic senator, are you willing to shut the government down in order to keep joe biden's open border. because they'll be flabbergasted, never gotten questions like this from the press and that's exactly where they are and what they are insisting on. >> senator cruz -- senator graham, would you vote no on

this current c.r.? >> i did vote no on the current c.r. yes, i would. >> senator cruz, quickly, india, as you know, prime minister justin trudeau announced canada has credible information suggesting that -- >> that's an important question but we are going to stay focused on the border and immigration. i'll be happy to talk another time. >> republicans in the house had a c.r. plan that has border provisions involved in it. the only problem, they might not have the votes to get it passed. is there a need for them to get that bill passed so that you have some type of leverage when we get to negotiating time with the house and the senate? >> well, look at it this way. this is an opportunity to do something about a problem that's way out of hand. to my democratic colleagues, do not consider this a burden, consider this an opportunity. i want to keep the government open. i think we'll have to do a

supplemental in november if we can't pass the appropriation bills. i guess what the house is saying makes sense to me. there will be no legislation without strong border security. and if the democrats will not work with us to fix the border, then i will be not only incredibly disappointed, they will accept the blame, which i think will lead to a wipeout in november of next year. so, here is the message. we are going to work on illegal immigration with democrats for decades. i'm not going to let this pass. i agree with the house republicans that we should have strong border security measures. i'm looking to senator cruz and cornyn to help us fashion that. they live this problem. is it too much to ask of the democrat president and the democratic senate majority leader to work with us and the house to start making down payments and put solutions on the table to fix a border that's leading to enough people