gillian turner, welcome.to happen to mitch mcconnell again, the way he froze up on reporters staring off into space, and of course the stories about republicans being worried about his health are fair stories. but it seemed like they instantaneously are turned into who's going to succeed mcconnell before we even knew the tate of his health. >> obviously, we we wish him nothing but the the best in his personal recovery journey. howard: indeed. >> that said, you know, one hinge that has happened as the result of his health challenges is that the argument in washington now about politicians aging out of office has become bipartisan. which i actually think is a helpful, useful thing if you think about it. you've got republicans making the case that president biden is not mentally fit for office. we now have democrats pointing the finger at senator mcconnell and saying why don't you clean up your own house -- howard: and there's 90-year-old diane fine tine. what struck me was -- dianne feinstein. there wasn't even

. >> dana: gillian turner ahead on problems in d.c. calling 911 for help. griff jenkins has more on the city's crime crisis and efforts to get it under control. >> good morning. no denying it. there is a crime crisis in d.c. you lived here. crime has been a reality in washington, now it has become to spread out and random that residents in every part of the city are starting to change routines for fear of becoming the next crime victim. homicides topping the chart at 190. 30% up from last year. surpassing a 20 year record. robberies up 60%. auto theft up 100%. violent crime up 40% overall. the stories are heartbreaking. monday a teen walking into his job at a jersey mike's sub shop at 4:30 in the afternoon, a group of men jump out of a car, shoot and kill him. now a father is grieving left speechless. >> just trying to process everything. it's hard, you know. a lot of violence in the city. my son -- i don't even have the words, to be honest. >> fear is palpable. in ward one a sector with popular restaurants and night spots is saying a 150% increase in homic

i'm gillian turner in for martha maccallum. right now on "the story," time is almost up for americans with student loans. they're about to start getting monthly bills once again. interest payments kick in starting today after a three-year pause during the pandemic. this all comes after the supreme court shot down the president's plan to forgive $400 billion in student debt. we have charles payne host of "making money" on fox business. first we go to hillary vaughn. she joins us from capitol hill this afternoon. hi, hillary. >> back to school, back to reality for people with student loan debt. uncle sam coming to collect interest starting to accrue today. payments officially start next month despite president biden insisting up until now that he would forgive student loans. >> my campaign for president, i made a commitment, i made it that we would provide student debt relief. i'm honoring that commitment today. using the authority congress granted through the department of education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding federa

we have fox team coverage with griff jenkins, gillian turner at the white house. we begin with griff in eagle pass, texas. >> charles, let me tell you, ground zero here has never seen these kind of numbers. i've spent a lot of time in eagle pass, texas. they've had more than 2, 200 cross through here in the last 24 hours, just in eagle pass. that 11,000 number, you were showing, they have never seen that. we'll show you from the drone camera, looking live now at what is the remnants of several hundred that crossed earlier. it was a dramatic morning. they build up 100, 200, 300 along the riverbank. they had to go through the razor wire that the state of texas put there. got so hot out here and the numbers were swell soing high, charles, the border patrol had to cut the wire to let them through. women and children particularly small children, even had to be taken in a boat to the bridge here where they'll be processed. you know, charles, what is really striking is the strain this puts on the border patrol. at any given day, there's no more than 45 or 50 agents on sh

i'm gillian turner in for martha maccallum. "the story," time is almost up for americans with student loans. they're about to start getting monthly bills once again. interest payments kick in starting today after a three-year pause during the pandemic. this all comes after the supreme court shot down the president's plan to forgive $400 billion i

correspondent gillian turner is at the zoo tonight. >> pandas are my favorite animal and i moved hereo say goodbye to them. >> the three pandas living at washington's nationals zoo are the most famous and fluffiest chinese ambassadors in america today. >> those pandas represented something dating back to the nixon administration. >> china first loaned pandas to the u.s. in 127 to commemorate nixon's historic visit to the communist nation. now they are going home. the agreement ends commodities. and for the first time china is declining to renew the deal. some see it as icy negotiations have become. >> the fact of the matter is politics should not play a role in conservation. animals don't recognize political boundaries. >> today pandas live in 18 countries around the world all on nation. they consider them national treasures. >> this panda cub was born here at the national zoo and is now three years old. just a few weeks from now he is going to be flown back to china along with his parents. >> commodities the only remaining pandas in the u.s. will be at atlanta zoo and they are slated

welcome back, i'm gillian turner in washington. good to be with you, trace. >> trace: gillian, good to be with you. i'm trace gallagher in los angeles. sandra and john have the day off. breaking news in the hunter biden probe, david weiss and hunter's attorneys have until the end of the day to provide an update on the battle over a diversion agreement that was aimed to keep hunter out of prison. special council weiss says the agreement fell through when the plea deal collapsed in july. hunter biden's team is arguing the opposite. david spunt has the latest, he's live in washington. david, good afternoon. >> hi, trace, good afternoon, we heard the white house press secretary ignore questions about hunter biden and not answer them from the podium, which we see often. hunter biden's plea deal collapsed on july 26th in a very public way in open court. technically the final piece to fall is an outstanding diversion agreement and a federal judge is waiting for updates. original terms, hunter was expected to avoid jail time for lying on a

gillian turner is live at the smithsonian zoo and gillian, sounds like china may be playing panda politicsthat is indeed the case, john. the three pandas that live here at the national zoo are obviously the fluffiest and the most famous chinese ambassadors, but they are about to go home. beijing is recalling them and will get overseas in a few weeks. >> the pandas represented something dating back to the nixon administration. animals don't recognize political boundaries. >> gillian: a sign of how icy the u.s. and china relationship has become. pandas live in 18 countries on loan from china, they are the national treasure. the only remaining pandas will be at the atlanta zoo, and they are slated to return to china next year in 2024. even that timeline is in jeopardy, given xi jinping's increasing aggression. >> see it with the pandas, attacks on the dollar and nuclear weapons and the communist party of china doesn't need to do panda diplomacy anymore. >> gillian: as china recalls pandas around the world, only one nation will get to keep theirs for the foreseeable future, that's russia. duri

i'm john roberts, join gillian turner and me at the top of the hour for "america reports." >> kayleighando, florida, for true crime fans, professionals, my co-host emily compagno is there mingling with the true crime community. emily is host of fox true crime podcast. emily, what are you seeing down there? >> emily: hi, guys. this is incredible. crime con is an absolutely fantastic summit as kayleigh described bringing together so many people in this genre. people say why is true crime popular? three reasons. we are fascinated. we tell ghost stories and read horror novels. it is attention to cold cases, it is support for law enforcement, the reason we know to advocate and allocate resources so crimes can be solved, families can get closure and people who immerse themselves in the true crime genre are better equipped and feel safer. they say, i know how to fight my way out, how to evade or avoid a situation to begin with. that is who is here with us on fox true crime podcast, we have law enforcement and cis, we have cold case coalition, we have the podcast gold shield and security and s

. >> i'm gillian turner in washington. john and sandra are off today.ts acros

board district president there in just a moment, but first, team coverage with shannon bream and gillian turner youngkin's plan to curb his state's learning losses. gillian, what can you tell us about the learning loss that american students are suffering generally? >> gillian: well, john, there is a new crisis now that is plaguing the nation's schools, might not be on your radar but it is chronic absenteeism. more than a quarter of students missed more than 10% of the school years, during the pandemic when kids were shut out of classrooms and got in the habit of not actually showing up. >> you get the schools back by going back to teaching what you are supposed to teach involving parents and welcoming them, and that's got to be the beginning. but we are in bad shape. don't forget the bottom line, math scores, reading scores, down. this is very bad for the future of the country. let's get it together. >> gillian: u.s. students will need four months of extra full-time school to overcome the post covid achievement gap, with the absenteeism crisis hurting black, hispanic and poor students. >> virg

welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm gillian turner. good to be with you, john. >> john: i'm john roberts. dana and bill both have the day off. we have the joystick in washington and not giving it back. >> gillian: not until 4:00 when we're both off the air. >> john: the lawsuit comes after the national archives responded admitted to having more than 5,000 emails potentially associated with joe biden's office. fox news cannot independently confirm hunter biden was copied on any of the emails. but there is a group suing to get the actual records. critics are asking why vice president biden would even use pseudonym email accounts in the first place. >> not only is that nefarious in its intent, it shows that they really truly want to hide something. we went from joe biden saying that he never had a discussion to now joe biden having full and complete access of the white house and the vice president's office to hunter biden and all of his business associates. that's what they were selling was the access. >> john: david spunt is live at the d

gillian turner in for sandra smith. this is "america reports". unsealed indictment accuses the couple of literally lining their pockets with hundreds of thousands in bribes, in exchange for the senator's influence here in washington. prosecutors say the bribes included cash, gold, luxury car, even mortgage payments. >> john: senator menendez indicating he plans to fight the charges, saying prosecutors "misrepresented the normal work of a congressional office." >> gillian: fox team coverage. kerri kupec urbana, former counselor to attorney general bill barr and she will join us, first chad pergram from capitol hill. hi, chad. >> gillian, good afternoon. a major indictment for a senator indicted for corruption and cleared in a mistrial just a few years ago. the fed slapped menendez and his wife with counts of using his office to help egypt. >> as you can see here, this is the mercedes benz we allege your rebate provided as part of the scheme. you see here three kilograms of gold. those together are worth approximately $150,000. and of course, here

i'm gillian turner, apples apples. america's oldest politicians have no plans to step aside any time soon. it is being debated as president biden is asking voters to keep him in the oval office until 86. donald trump aims to be president until 82. >> john: a series of health scarce is raising concerns about politician's abilities to do their job. 90-year-old senator dianne feinstein appearing confused last month at a hearing. an aide reminding her to cast her vote. this week senate minority leader mitch mcconnell appearing to freeze for an extended period of time. his second such incident in five weeks. he is 81. he suffered a concussion after a fall back in march. 2024gop contender nikki haley says it's time for a change. >> we need to start getting new faces, new voices, younger generations involved in our government and need to have everybody else understand when it is time to go. >> luke as tomlinson joins us now from the white house. >> from john's old perch at the white house speaking to reporters at fema yesterd

. >> gillian: i'm gillian turner. >> martha: very true. we have bret on speed dial. good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. great to have you with us today. any moment, officials will give an update on the intense man hunt that is underway for an escapee in prison six days ago. he's paralyzing parts of philadelphia where schools have been closed was they don't know where this guy will show up. people have said that think think he's been in the home. he's picked up a couple of objects, a backpack along the way. let's watch. >> the prison board president, josh maxwell and howard holland. in inmate. i'm going to turn this over to acting warden holland to talk about that. i'd ask that following his remarks you hold any questions until the end of our briefing and we will be happy to take questions at that time. >> i want to make sure that the victims know that we're consciously thinking of what they're going through and give out the fact that they are in our thoughts and prayers to bring mr. cavalcante to justice. so good afternoon. i'm howard holland, the acting

gillian turner drills down on that today. good morning. >> good morning. that these numbers can and will continue to change as women keep closing in on the workforce. it will change for the better the data experts tell us. analysts say women are now crushing the gender gap in employment and pay that has dominated for decades. women's earnings have improved dramatically just over the past year reaching 83% of their male counterparts. that's the narrowest the pay gap has ever been in history. a lot of that progress is thanks to working moms jumping back into the workforce in droves surpassing now pre-pandemic levels by 3%. >> there are more women than ever with young children that are in the labor force and so that's really fascinating finding there. it looks like one big factor is remote work which has allowed women to stay attached to the workforce. >> behind each data point of progress are tens of millions of working women hustling day in and day out. right now there are more women than men on u.s. college campuses and more women than ever before pursuing

. >> i'm gillian turner. thank you. >> martha: good afternoon, everybody.

correspondent gillian turner has details on that tonight.igins of covid-19 are accusing dr. anthony fauci of improperly influencing intelligence operatives themselves investigating coronavirus origins in china. quote: dr. fauci was escorted into cia headquarters without a record of entry and participated in the analysis to influence the agency's review. chairman brad wenstrup's letter to health and human services does not provide a date for fauci's visit or source for the information. the new allegation comes in the wake of explosive claims from the same house panel that some cia investigators who initially concluded that covid originated in a wuhan lab were paid off to flip to concluding it originated in nature. >> they have a covid discovery team that comprised of seven people. six of the seven people went with the idea this came from the lab. >> energy department and the fbi were the first federal agencies to conclude the pandemic's origins were most likely lab incident in wuhan. >> you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese go

. >> i'm gillian turner. thank you. >> martha: good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. breaking right now on "the story," $500,000 in cash stashed in envelopes in pockets of jackets and in closets, a mercedes and "a lot of gold." prosecutors say those are just some of the bribes that were paid to new jersey democratic senator bob menendez, chairman of the foreign relations committee. the feds say that menendez cashed in by giving sensitive u.s. information to egypt and trying to interfere to block criminal cases against people he knew. >> bribes. the form of cash, gold, home mortgage payments, a low show or a no-show job for a.d. menendez, a mercedes benz and other things of value to the senator and his wife. >> senator menendez says that the accusations are baseless. he goes on to say there's been an active smear campaign of anonymous sources to create an air of impropriety where none exists. chad pergram live with the latest on this huge story today on capitol hill. hi, chad. >> hi martha, good afternoon. the

. >> i'm gillian turner in washington. john and sandra are off today. growing number of businesses and school districts across the country are once again asking americans to mask up. this is due to a late summer spike in covid cases. >> trace: critics argue it's more harm than good during the pandemic. >> gillian: should we expect we will all be wearing masks at work once again, at school? >> that's what everyone wants to know and you are seeing more masks, covid cases are up, masks are making a return, even at the white house where the guidance seems to be a little confusing. this is what the press secretary yesterday had to say on the guidance. >> since the president was with the first lady yesterday he will be masking while indoors and around people. in alignment with cdc guidance. will remove his mask when sufficiently distanced from other indoors and while outside as well. >> seems the president either did not understand the guidance, gillian, or was simply ignoring it. you see him starting off with the mask at the event yesterday, and then takes i

this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner potty mouth gillian keegan .nyone ever say , you >> does anyone ever say, you know what, you've done a good job because everyone else has sat on there and done nothing? no, no signs of er no secretary of state? >> no. you just say you've done a good job because you're blooming well, haven't sticking plaster approach. that's what the spending watchdog has called the spending watchdog has called the to the the government's response to the concrete crisis. we're going to bnng concrete crisis. we're going to bring all latest . simon bring you all the latest. simon byrne resigns. >> the police federation of northern ireland wants a full investigation into the actions of the former chief constable. we'll let you know all the details of that . details of that. >> and time to ban vapes. that's the way france is heading as they plan to outlaw disposable vapes. should we follow their lead same . lead and do the same. i think the vapes are really interesting story. i do the french minister bringing this in, she says

this is britain's newsroom on gb news with bev turner and andrew pierce, potty mouth, gillian keegan,, that's the education secretary, fighting to keep her job after this interview , she job after this interview, she said, thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you . just >> thank you. thank you. just a few keir mather sarah ferguson does anyone ever say, you know what, you've done a good job because everyone else has sat on there and done nothing? >> no. no signs of that, no . >> no. no signs of that, no. >> no. no signs of that, no. >> no. no signs of that, no. >> no signs of that sticking plaster approach. that's what the spending watchdog has called the spending watchdog has called the government's .response to the concrete crisis affecting our schools. you the schools. we'll bring you the very it and it's getting very latest it and it's getting hot in here. >> our southwest reporter geoff moody's in devon to tell us about the heatwave which is sweeping the nation . sweeping the nation. >> yes, who said summer was over 7 >> yes, who said summer was over ? i'm here on instow beac

turner and they're here in the panel with us. >> oh, but first, we're going to listen to this, by the way, this is a corker. this is from the education secretary, gilliant the fact kids schools may not be safe for children taught. just children to be taught. just listen to this. >> this their video . >> this is their video. >> this is their video. >> rac stands for reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete , and autoclaved aerated concrete, and it's a lightweight form of concrete that was used in building construction from the 19505 building construction from the 1950s until the mid 1990s. problems with the strength and durability of the material mean that some buildings may pose a threat to safety . threat to safety. >> risible. so just to be clear , that's the official government video explaining this situation i >> -- >> sarah vine emma wolf, are our guest on this morning and we're all slightly aghast. sarah, what's your response to that having by the way, put the boot in the secretary state for in the secretary of state for education column yesterday. >> i mean , what is that meant to >> i mean, what is that meant to be? i don't know. >> to get kids i