>> brian: ten seconds. give me a grade for tom brady's week one. >> i will give him a passing grade, b plus. he did well. he is a rookie out there and keep getting better every week. >> brian: i'm wearing your vest. >> ainsley: is this an a or f? >> a plus right there. 99.9. >> steve: we'll watch you this weekend on fox nfl. >> ainsley: gronk gave brian this a few years ago. >> it looks so good. >> ainsley: thank you so much. can i wear it on "outnumbered" today? >> brian: you can wear it at noon. >> ainsley: brian's show saturday night at 00. see you monday. have a good weekend. >> steve: off we go to "america's newsroom," i think. >> bill: good morning. we're here and good morning to you at home.

the battleground now coming into focus, the battlegrounds we should say. kamala harris and donald trump will hone in on about half a dozen states for the next 53 days that could make or break their campaigns. in all likelihood that's the case. good morning on a friday. dana has the day off. martha maccallum, my colleague and friend has had one doozy of a week. >> martha: quite a week for everybody. great to be with you. i'm martha maccallum and this is "america's newsroom." we're gearing up for an action-packed day. no stopping between now and november 5th. former president trump kicks things off doing a news conference in california. that should be interesting. that will happen at noon eastern. you will want to tune in for that. reminder, we haven't had one of these at all from vice president harris, 54 days, 0 press conferences from the v.p. >> bill: do you think she rides

out the string? we don't know. trump heads to nevada for a rally in vegas. the vice president will return to pennsylvania. p.a. is one of six states in the toss-up category according to the power rankings. right now it's still anybody's game, martha. >> martha: byron donalds is on deck but first let's go to bryan llenas from pennsylvania today. hi, brian. >> vice president kamala harris has spent more time in pennsylvania than any other battleground this campaign. it is a must-win. yesterday in north carolina while campaigning there, she made clear that having another presidential debate, she thinks, will help her chances in the commonwealth which polls show is a neck-and-neck tied race.

president trump says he doesn't need another debate. he won anyway. >> i believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate. >> we've done two debates. because they were successful there will be no third debate. it is too late, anyway. the voting has already begun. >> in their first post debate campaign stops, harris and her running mate tim walz mocked former president trump's debate performance. >> do you remember? he has quote concepts of a plan. concepts of a plan. which means no actual plan. >> tell me you have this on your bingo card and they're eating cats. they're eating cats. >> meanwhile former president trump while campaigning in tucson, arizona yesterday announced a new policy, no tips

on overtime. this is on top of trump's plans to not tax tips and to eliminate taxes on social security. the harris campaign says trump is, quote, desperate and scrambling. the latest polls show the economy is by far the number one issue in pennsylvania and voters trust trump more than harris to handle the economy 50 to 42. up eight points. the latest congressional republican committee report shows consumer prices on goods and services are up 19% in pennsylvania under the biden-harris administration. this means pennsylvania is spending $984 a month on food, energy, housing and transportation. harris, guys, is stopping in johnstown which is in cambria county before making her way to wilkes bury, pennsylvania. both counties won handedly by

trump in 2020. the harris campaign thinks showing up there will make all the difference. >> martha: bryan llenas in p.a. we'll all spend a lot of time there in the next few months. >> north carolina. [cheers and applause] >> you are going to make all the difference in the outcome of this race. we are the underdog. and so we have hard work ahead of us. but we like hard work. >> you have to get people to vote. because we want to get a landslide that is too big to rig. if we have the big votes they can't rig it. we'll take back our country. >> bill: kind of feels like we've reached that moment. listen to the sound bites there. trump in arizona and kamala harris in north carolina. really is the swing state battleground showdown. come to the board. if you were with us yesterday

the power rankings came out. everything you see in yellow here is a toss-up. yesterday we made the move down here in the southeast to put georgia and north carolina into that toss-up category. we'll see right now how that goes. trump held north carolina in 2020. biden flipped georgia in 2020. so it is critical state there. let me advance this one time and show you why that matters here. put this in red a little bit so you see better here. pennsylvania, all right? think about pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes. it is highly unlikely -- very difficult, i should say, for a democrat to win the white house and lose the 19 electoral votes in pennsylvania. that's the reason why, as brian was just reporting, kamala harris is there. two other things stick out on the map. 16 here, 16 there, georgia and north carolina. you win them both, 32 electoral votes. when you add this stuff up you see how critical these battleground areas are in the

overall campaign. this right here, a lot of information on the board. these are the battlegrounds in won and lost together. back in 2016, you note here arizona, georgia, michigan, this is nebraska two, okay, one electoral vote in the area of omaha why it's on the board. north carolina and nevada, pennsylvania, wisconsin. look what happened between 2016 and then 2020. biden flipped most of them with the exception of north carolina, okay? want to make a note of this. next hour we'll tell you why. both campaigns that were run in the tar heel state in 2020 did what they needed to do. trump held onto it. biden's team did well. we'll explain that. trump's team did well especially in the rural sections of that state. byron donalds join our conversation now, the republican from florida. good morning to you. i don't know how you see it. chime in on that or the fact no second debate. but 54 days without a press conference. can she run out the string and

not have one? and will voters accept that? >> unfortunately i believe that she can but i don't think voters will accept it. look, in that debate the other night kamala harris kind of proved she is good at getting under your skin but she didn't say anything. no substance. she dodged the number one question on the minds of the american people. are you better off today than you were four years ago? and she dodged it. the reason why is because the american people are not better off. this is why there have been no press conferences. this is why she only sat down with dana bash and they left about 30 minutes of the apparent interview on the cutting room floor to only show us what she said. it's not a campaign of substance, it is a campaign of i'm trying to make things better but she is in charge. if she wanted to make things better, what has she been doing? where has she been?

she couldn't convince joe biden? i anticipate they'll try to run out the rest of this campaign without a press conference. if she has to talk substance, if she has to talk policy, if she has to talk about her terrible economic plan she put out, it won't help the lives of the american people. >> martha: the question for me is what is the trump campaign strategy post this debate? is it wise to not do another debate? we've seen in prior elections that, you know, one side or the other times doesn't do great in a debate and life goes on. then there is another debate and sometimes they win that one. how does president trump get his message out to these 11 to 15% of undecided voters, especially in the battleground states? >> well look, i think the president and jd vance have been getting that message out over the past 30 days. they do a lot of interviews.

you guys know this. they dwarf the media apparatus communicating in all ways, shapes and forms to the american people. donald trump and jd vance are doing podcast interviews. something we've never seen in a presidential campaign before to get to the voters. they are crisscrossing the entire landscape. i think the one thing that we have to understand in 2024 is a lot of media isn't consumed by just talking directly to the press. it is also consumed in social media. a habit of most americans now is wake up, look at your phone, scroll through for 10 to 15 minutes to start your day. them getting their message out is happening. the fact that the harris campaign refuses to talk to the american voter is one of the reasons why the polls, i believe, are going to continue to -- >> dana: oh, darn. >> bill: the trouble is not in your set. i know that from growing up. that's unfortunate.

our apologies to byron donalds hoping to answer that question and get to other topics, too. >> dana: we had other things we want to talk to him about. >> bill: you had the aclu application five years ago that kamala harris and team filled out. part went to full decriminallyization with appropriate treatment for people arrested for drugs. the drugs span the entire list. the media has been very uncurious about that questionnaire. we don't know whether or not it will come up again or if she will explain it. >> dana: that's the problem. in the venues she is in, she is not pressed on any of these things. that's kind of what i was getting at with byron donalds. what is the venue to have the pressing of these questions? are you better off than you were four years ago? do we have him back. hi, good to have you back. he is joining us once again. >> bill: what do you think about

some of these extreme positions that are on camera from five years ago, none of this came up with other night. will the media get curious or not? >> the media won't get curious. they are in the pocket of kamala harris. let's be perfectly honest and why it is incumbent on president trump and jd vance to continue to press. i am looking forward to the vice presidential debate between jd vance and tim walz on october 1st. interesting how that one will turn out. kamala harris's strategy is clear. she will run and hide from the american people. she is going to hide from the press. she will not allow herself to be cornered. that's very damning. if that's how she will run as president, what would she do as president? she would hide from the american people no matter the crises. she would run and hide and send out staffers to talk on her behalf. that's not leadership. the last thing i will say, her campaign and debate strategy

trying to needle everybody, that might be cool on tiktok and x. that's not going to work with vladimir putin. it won't work with xi. they will laugh at her. we need real leadership in this country. i hope she opens herself to the press but i don't believe it is going to happen. >> bill: thank you for being here. we'll talk again very soon. you made up for the screw-up. >> martha: thank you very much. authorities linking tren de aragua to more crimes across this country. the "wall street journal" with a headline, this is a story you must read if you want to understand the threat that is posed by this group. it is titled a venezuelan gang expanding its deadly reach into the united states. they report tren de aragua involvement is suspected in 100 u.s. cases that are currently under investigation bringing its

violent brand of robbery and drug trafficking north including wisconsin. where a suspected gang member was arrested just last week. >> the person never should have entered the country to begin with. it's part of the biden-harris policy to allow no criminal gang members to the united states and here in -- and brutalized a mother and daughter for four days. >> martha: they have extreme and brutal tactics like what we've seen from the cartels. texas is also now seeing a spike in gang activity and brook taylor joins us now from dallas. hi, brooke. >> good morning. dallas police here confirmed to me they are investigating several crimes having to do with the tren de aragua gang. sources tell me as you just mentioned this is a dangerous gang to pay attention to.

it is not just an issue, though, in this city. i'm told texas officials throughout the state are paying all attention to this gang. the governor here in texas, greg abbott, is expected to talk about tren de aragua next week. i want to bring you to a story over in el paso. downtown a hotel called the gateway hotel was ordered to be shut down temporarily because of all the crime and gang activity. disturbing security footage captured the chaos inside. a man with a gun, another man swinging a hatchet. authorities say there are wild parties, drugs and in the pictures you can see young children even nearby. records show police have been called to the hotel nearly 700 times. look at this. these are all the complaints. everything from drugs, sex, burglaries, fights. the county attorney trying to close the hotel down for good. according to their petition officers say the criminal activity spike since tren de

aragua gang members moved into their hotel. one man who lives there described it as worse than anyone could imagine. >> yes, it is, yeah. it's even worse. i don't want to get into the details, the gory details. there is blood on some of the walls. multiple incidents with gunfire inside the building and very unfortunate. >> we spoke to former u.s. marshal in el paso, deputy chief who says officials that are down playing the gang's presence are in denial and they're just concerned about their city's image. >> they are extremely violent. extremely violent, extremely dangerous and causing all kinds of problems here in the united states and they are involved in drug trafficking, sex trafficking, human trafficking, robbery, murder, you name it. >> border patrol confirmed they arrested three people at that

hotel who are from venezuela and immigration judge previously told them that they had to be removed. obviously they didn't listen so they were taken into custody. the next step is bringing them to the processing center, martha. >> martha: thank you very much. brooke. a story we'll hear a lot more about i'm afraid. thank you, brooke. >> prices are very high for us. we have not here raised our prices in three years on almost ally thames. we're trying to maintain the prices and have consumer confidence. the point now my husband says this can't continue. things are just way too high. >> bill: everybody is talking about. harris trying to sell voters on her economic agenda. what is it? americans are feeling frustrated over the pain in their pocketbook. we'll get to that coming up. >> martha: the quarterback for the miami dolphins has a history of concussions.

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>> kamala economic policies, more of the same. she has rolled out in that debate more spending that would be highly inflationary. she was the tying vote that the most -- one of the biggest lies ever was something called the inflation reduction act. it was the major cause of the inflation. the inflation creation act. >> bill: doug burgum on our program yesterday. years of high prices taking a toll of the harris campaign. voters think the former president trump is better suited

to handle the economy. consistent in the polling. still, however, democrats insist that harris has a much stronger record. we check into that from the north lawn. rich edson is here. >> the white house argues the country is turning the page on inflation though it's been quite a journey, you look at 20% increases in prices since the early part of 2021. republicans on the joint economic committee in congress say americans in swing states especially are paying about 1,000 more a month for food, shelter, energy, transportation and average monthly household spending. republicans are tying all this to the democratic nominee. >> vice president harris has said, quote, we're very proud of bidenomics. well, she should be. after all, it was the vice president herself whose votes in the senate helped send our economy into an historic inflationary spiral. back in march 2021.

>> that was for the nearly $2 trillion american residue plan. democrats say it saved the country from a deeper recession. the pace of inflation has slowed, though, that's on top of the four decade highs in price increases the u.s. hit during the administration. democrats acknowledge prices are higher but they blame pandemic disruptions and global conflicts and point to rising incomes. paychecks have increased generally faster than inflation for the past year and a half. democrats on the joint economic committee say wages and salaries from outpaced price growth since 2021 by nearly $45 hundred. >> i believe the v.p. highlighted on how we are better off. as of now, as well as her plans to build on that progress. something she talked about. how will we build on that progress? >> annual inflation peaked in this administration at 9%.

the latest reading we have august of this year is 2 1/2% higher than august of last year. back to you. >> bill: rich edson, nice to see you. >> martha: let's bring the co-host of the big money show. good morning to you guys. great to see you both this morning. let's take a listen to what some voters said about what they heard from kamala harris the other night in the debate. let's watch. >> she wasn't very specific when asked certain things. she skirted around certain issues. she knows how to be dramatic in a way that will touch the heart of americans while avoiding the hot button questions. >> ultimately she and president joe biden have been in office for three years now going on four years and they have yet to do anything. why did she have to wait until january 20th to do that? >> i think she is weak. she is weak on the substance and weak on facts.

>> martha: that gave track record to everything. you had one take post debate. the more you dig into people's takeaway from it, it gets quite interesting. >> the debate was many topics last night that aren't necessarily top of mind for voters. the two most important topics are the economy and immigration. fox power rankings showed when he communicated effectively former president trump on these issues, it resonated with people. think about what doug burgum said. she is doing more of the same. more government spending, higher taxes for corporations and individuals, and giveaways which put us in an inflationary spiral. trump is talking about a lower tax rate. he wants to grow our way out of this. no tax on tips so working people have more money to spend and sticks to their bones. these are all ways to strengthen the middle class, which is what harris says she wants to do. but if you look at what they did the last 3 1/2 years, they made

the middle class weaker. >> bill: when it comes to grabbing the headlines day after day, no tax on tips is something that stuck out. kamala grabbed that as well. yesterday you got this thing no tax on overtime. what do you think? >> i think lower taxes, i will go on record. if you talk about lower taxes, i'm happy. the problem you get into is when you start slicing it up to different things, you get a really complicated tax code. what kind of income do i earn? do i get a salary, commission, am i on overtime? i want to see lower taxes on overtime and tips and lower taxes on. i want lower taxes on everything. here is what i like. donald trump is talking about you keeping more of your own money. kamala harris is not talking about that. if he wants to really distance himself from her, that's the message he stays on. all of this is about you and your money, not funneling it through the government to some

program or give away or housing or whatever it is harris is talking about. that's a winning theme to me. >> martha: one of the things that came up was kamala harris saying that goldman sachs said that her plan would make the country more prosperous and that trump's plan would make it weaker. and goldman sachs spoke out on cnbc and what he said about that claim by harris at the debate. >> that report which was mentioned last night in the debate came from an independent analyst. a lot more has been made of this than should be. the reason i say a bigger deal has been made of it. it showed the difference between the sets of policies that they put forward is 2/ten of 1%. no idea if they'll be implemented. >> he is a really smart guy and saying no, no, no, we didn't say that. don't put our name on your policies.

at the end of the day smart people on wall street, investors, and the average person in america who shops at the grocery store and is dealing with inflation understands what matters most. they lived it, they had a track record under president trump and they have a track record for the last 3 1/2 years. the why haven't you done it until now or why are you waiting until january 20th? they don't want to do it and they aren't going to do it. >> harris got caught stretching the truth big time on that one. the goldman sachs ceo said what you said wasn't quite right. >> martha: fact check. >> bill: we needed a little more of that. >> martha: thank you, great to see you both. >> bill: boeing has had a really tough year and now it's employees wants more money. how will it work out as thousands walked the line at midnight last night. a closed door briefing on the attempted assassination of donald trump. why lawmakers, republicans and

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>> what do you hope to tell the american people about accountability, your message to senators today, sir? >> look ping forward to working with congress to make sure we never have a tragedy like july 13th again. >> dana: rowe with david spunt after giving an update to lawmakers on the trump assassination attempt task force. chairman mike kelly says the agency investigation is moving forward but wants to leave no stone unturned. >> today was our first chance to get together in the same spot at the same time with director rowe. i think it was really worthwhile and members feeling we are accomplishing some things. at the end of the day the idea is not to get a quick answer. the idea is to get the right

answer. >> martha: let's bring in pennsylvania congresswoman madeleine dean, part of the task force. richard blumenthal had this to say about his reaction to what he has learned in this investigation. i just want to play this and i want to get your thoughts on the other side, if i may. >> do you think the american people will be shocked, astonished and appalled by what we'll report to them about the failures by the secret service. i think they also ought to be appalled and a astonished by the failure of the department of homeland security to be more forthcoming and to be as candid and frank as it should be to them in terms of providing information. >> martha: i'm not looking forward to being shocked and appalled by what the secret service, how they are functioning and how they functioned on this day. obviously we have to understand

what happened here, congresswoman. do you agree with him that it's that bad? >> what i will say, thank you first of all for having me on. but i take a little more sober approach. we are in the midst of this investigation. it was good to be in that classified setting with director rowe and members of the task force, bipartisan task force. what we will reveal through hearings and a final report in december are the failures. what i think is going to be important is to identify that we aren't going to find just a single crack in the protection offered by and required by secret service. there will be multiple areas of failure of protocol, concerns over resources, as well as in this heightened environment of threats of violence, which is completely unacceptable, what

new protocols have to be put in place? so i think we're going to find and the director was very candid yesterday to say that there was at a minimum a serious communication failure. >> martha: there is a lot of things that pop into my mind when i think of that day and one of them is a secret service agent who can't get her gun reholstered, disturbing images of people, you know, calling out that there is someone on the roof, someone on the roof and the total lack of communication. i think all of those images, i'm sure, are very much in the mind of the former first lady. a statement that she put out about this a few days back. >> the attempt to end my husband's life was a horrible, distressing experience. now the silence around it feels heavy. i can't help but wonder, why didn't law enforcement officials

arrest the shooter before the speech? there is definitely more to this story and we need to uncover the truth. >> martha: that is the central question on everyone's minds. once they realized they had a suspicious person within shooting range on that property, why did they allow the former president to speak? >> well, that's very heart rending statement from the former first lady. my heart breaks for her and for her family over the fear that they had to go through and still go through. but i will say, you can see by this bipartisan task force we are asking that exact set of questions. that's something i've asked everybody we've talked to. how did they ever let the president take the stage when there was somebody suspicious on the adjacent grounds? we traveled to butler, martha, to do an on-site visit and

immediately what strikes you. i believe you were there. what strikes you is the proximity of the whole place and how it is that that was -- that building, the agr building, was not within the protected scope. we had -- they had law enforcement there, local law enforcement there. but it was not within the perimeter of protection, which is a stunning thing. so as i said there will be an awful lot of questions. we're asking specific questions about failures, about timelines, communication. i think we'll find a few things. some serious failures. we're also going to find some heroes. those who identified, whether people going to the rally who identified there is a person on the roof. before even law enforcement was able to communicate that. we are going to find some real heroes who reduced the loss of life. in the meantime what happened that day is completely unacceptable and i assure the first lady this is not silence, we are doing serious

investigative work. you saw the number of transcribed interviews we took last week. 15 more this week. collection of thousands of pages of documents. we will ask all of those very question so that something like this never happens again. >> martha: we hope -- some people have been removed from their jobs and some people are retiring. we hope there is some serious accountability at the secret confidence and most importantly a restoration of people's confidence in this elite agency that should never allow something like this to happen. so we wish you all well on your work. >> can i just echo that. that is literally the charge of chairman kelly and ranking member crowe. getting to the bottom of this. we owe it to the american people to restore their confidence that they can attend a rally like that and they can be part of something bigger than themselves and be safe at it. that's part of our mission. >> martha: thank god the worst

did not happen on that day. thank you very much, congresswoman madeleine dean from pennsylvania. good to have you with us today. >> thank you. >> bill: more to come on that certainly. a daring raid in the middle east. israeli commandos destroyed a missile factory tied to iran and hezbollah. we'll take you there. money i sd i thought i'd get a wax figure of myself. oh! right in the temporal lobe! beat it, punks! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ icy hot. ice works fast. ♪ heat makes it last. feel the power of contrast therapy. ♪ so you can rise from pain. icy hot.

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>> an elite idf unit. the facility was built by iran to make weapons for hezbollah, mike tobin has the latest on this report for us live from tel aviv. hi, mike. >> this was a remarkably bold and aggressive operation from israeli commandos reportedly taking out a weapons production facility inside syria. the target according to numerous reports was officially called the scientific studies and research center in syria north of lebanon. israel regarded it as a site where iran and hezbollah developed chemical weapons and short and medium range present situation weapons. hezbollah preferred the site in syria that israel would be more reluctant to attack syria. they had struck at the site from air without effect because the

important parts were underground. they hand carried explosives inside and guarantee the destruction. they had -- air strikes were reportedly part of the operation this time intended to keep syrian forces from responding to the attack site. syria's health minister said 18 syrians were killed. official israeli spokes people are confirming nothing about the strike. >> the sophistication of the operation sends a message to the iranian regime that israel is very well aware of its activities on our borders and that we have such up to date intelligence that enabled us to carry out such a precise operation with what we know so far 0 israeli casualties. >> it's very bold raid came days after the head of u.s. central command visited with israeli military commanders in the north of the country to talk about

operational plans for a potential northern front and the threat from iran and hezbollah. >> martha: thank you very much, mike, from tel aviv. >> i'm really concerned about what abc did when the reps put their finger on the scale, you have to throw out the score of the game. >> bill: that's mark penn. he has penned a piece. former clinton advisor with harris calling on abc to conduct an internal investigation into the debate planning and execution, a new piece in the "wall street journal" writing abc's bias deprived voters of a fair debate. want to bring in our media analyst howie kurtz. good morning to you. let's just -- here are some of the fact checks from the other night and i'll ask you about it. >> there is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born. >> the f.b.i. says overall violent crime is actually coming down in the country. i did watch all these pieces of

video. i didn't detect the sarcasm lost by a whisker. >> he says you hate israel. >> you said she went to negotiate with vladimir putin. have you ever met putin? >> bill: she didn't answer that question about putin. he helped prep her. abc had an easy job of fact checking. was that abc's job, howie, under the rules? >> if you are going to do fact checking, how about doing it for both candidates? i've been saying all week the abc moderators were blatantly biased against donald trump. repeatedly, five instances correcting him. jumping in, asking follow up questions when harris did not get the same treatment. it tilt the debate against the vice president. but i don't agree with mark penn that there should be an investigation and an outside law firm. there is nothing to base that on. >> bill: lindsey davis one of the moderators was quoted as

saying this. she said people were concerned the statements were allowed to just hang in that debate in late june and not be disputed by the candidate biden at the time or the moderators. how do you interpret that? >> well, i interpret that as a worthy goal if you bring the same approach to the two people, one of whom will be the next president. it is precisely what david and lindsey did not do. mark penn says i have a suspicion that this was rigged and it didn't sound right to me and therefore abc should turn over all internal emails and i just think it takes more than one pundit's suspicion to make that kind of demand of a news network. at the same time, donald trump in the last 24 to 48 hours, bill, has called for abc to potentially lose its broadcasting license.

the two journalists from the network be fired. there is an atmosphere of intimidation right now and again, here is what i think should happen. these two people should come on the air and with me or somebody else, not from abc, and answer a series of questions about why what they did appeared to most people watching at home to be so one-sided and tilted and so hostile to former president trump. in other words, use the medium of journalism to let them have their say and answer the tough questions. >> bill: i would watch that. a lot of people would watch that. let's hope it happens, all right? >> my door is open. >> bill: thanks, nice to see you. >> martha: justin timberlake set to appear in a long island courtroom pleading guilty to a lesser charge in his dwi case. he is expected to arrive sometime in the next hour and we'll be covering it. we'll be right back. gets everyr

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>> martha: a house committee probe finds china made cargo -- max gordon with fox business live with more. hi, max. >> good morning. cranes manufactured by the chinese company zpmc account for 80% of ship to shore cranes in the united states according to this report. some of these cranes cellular mowed oms are asking ports for remote access. the risks are numerous ranging from the ability of the chinese government to shut down equipment, spy on u.s. shipments by detecting what is inside sensitive shipping containers or it could be used to smuggle items into the u.s. in response to the report the american association of port authority said there have been no known security breaches of port equipment to date. zpmc didn't respond to a request

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