in the wall street journal, former attorney general william barr has joined the debate, he wants moreressive policy inside mexico including the use of capabilities. the death toll grows, the poison keeps flowing at all the president does is call for stricter penalties for fentanyl trafficking and checks on vehicles on the southern border just not doing much. he's treating is treating fentanyl as a law enforcement issue. bennett and william barr believe it's a national security issue which would dress to fired drastic action. deal with the cartels the way they deal with terrorists. they are terrorists who corrupted our southern neighbor and poisoned 100,000 americans which we cannot tolerate this. the inaction of the administration is encouraging more drastic solutions. military action has been put on the policy table. let the debate begin because we are being terrorized as william barr writes, the head of the snake is in mexico. second hour of varney just getting started. ♪ stuart: let me introduce you to a real victim on our program this monica rebecca tragically lost her two sons to

prosecutions, trump and his obliging sycophantic attorney generals, like jeffrey sessions and william barr, repeatedly pressured career prosecutors to go hard or go soft in particular cases, always seeking to reward trump's friends or to punish his enemies. if weaponization of the department of justice had any meeting, this is it. consider the egregious case of gregory craig, a white house counsel under obama. who was targeted by the doj for alleged -- violations, and finally indicted on a single count of making false statements. he was acquitted unanimously by the jury, in less than five hours, and one of his lawyers observed the department of justice had hounded his client without any evidence, and without any purpose. former u.s. attorney, jeffrey berman, said that greg craig never should've been prosecuted. consider the case of michael cohen. the president's former lawyer and confidant, for many years. august 2018, he pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations over large hush money payments he arranged before the 2060 election, to keep porn star, stormy daniels, and karen mcdougal f

you were working with william barr about identifying this problem. >> one of the things we saw at thends of the last administration and didn't have enough time to implement it. we located many of these processing facilities. they are all subject to attack. bill barr wanted to attack the facilities, the secretary of defense didn't want to. it's something you do quietly using special forces. dan crenshaw, a former sale. they introduced the authorization for military force we can use to go to the mexican government saying you can't handle this, we'll handle it for you. we'll handle it for you. we will be nuances and use drones. we are going to take out these processing facilities and take out the cartels and their leadership and they are killing 100,000 americans a year and holding your government hostage. brian: it looks like china leads the world in 47 of the 100 top technologies. we are losing in the classroom and in technology. >> 10 of the top 20 tech companies are in china. our government is trying to introduce antitrust legislation to hobble our big tech companies. we have to get

it's so bad at the border, trump's attorney william barr said the military should go to the border totle drugs, that they are as bad as isis. he was asked today again, his press secretary was asked if he would do anything like that. and they just won't answer the question. they refused to answer. they won't offer any solution. all he has to do is laugh and try to make fun of marjorie taylor greene. and he's dodging the whole issue of what's going on. we want answers. the american people want something done now. they can see it's a war. the democrats are pretending like it's not. liz: to rebecca's point, a majority of democrats are not even showing up to hearings on the border out in the field? 300 young americans are dying a day from fentanyl poisoning. charlie hurt points this out. he's saying more people are dying from fentanyl and other drugs streaming across the border than what killed more innocent americans than 9/11 and all-american wars since world war ii combined. how can we be laughing at a time like this. >> there is nothing to half about. there has been enough opioids and

former attorney general william barr says the cartels are running mexico. watch this. >> there is another hostage, the mexican government, being held by parimilitary cartels that control mexico temperature is pretty close to a failed narco state. the government has no will and doesn't have the ability to deal with the cartel. >> todd: senator lindsey graham says he will take action. >> 70 to 100,000 have died from fentanyl poisoning from mexico and china and this administration has done nothing. i will introduce legislation to make certain drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations under u.s. law and set the stage to use military force to protect america from being poisoned from things coming out of mexico. mexican government, if you don't clean up your acts, we will clean it up for you. >> ashley: george allen kelly, the rancher accused of shooting a mexican national pleaded not guilty. he was originally charged with first-degree murder. the rancher said he fired warning shots at a group of suspected smugglers, the trial will take place december 6th. >>

you do it in the middle of a presidential race, presidential primary or general election race william barrto play that sound. >> it's the abuse of the prosecutorial function to engage in a political hit job it's a disgrace if it turns out to be what we think it is. politically it's going to be damaging, i think, to the republican party simply because i think it's a no lose situation for the democrats. i think the emphasis is to help trump get the nomination legally i think it's, from what i understand, it's a pat pathetically weak case. >> david, what do you think about what barr is saying? >> he's expressing his opinion and saying it's a plot by democrats to get alvin bragg to bring this case so that trump secures the nomination i don't think that's what's happening here it's a commentary on our times there's such fear on both sides. i'm working on a book on the justice department under trump and biden. there's many good people who work in the department, but there's conspiracy theories on both sides barr commuted the sentence of roger stone and democrats called that disgraceful it's a si

attorney general william barr recently described amlo as the cartel's chief enabler. his attack on the election agency is personal. he believes that he won the 2006 and 2012 elections but was denied hi due, independent observers do not agree. much of his presidency is an act of narcism. he holds daily press conferences that could go on for hours and he attacks the state because the agency limits his powers and now he's weakening election oversight. they have their difference but amlo has turned out to be the mexico donald trump. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my washington post column this week. and let's get started. ♪ >>> the president of israel's supreme court, two former directors of the massad, former heads of the shin bat security service and an ex police commissioner and a nobel prize winning economist, these are some of the israelis who have condemned that country's judicial reforms proposed by benjamin netanyahu. those reforms would weaken the independence of the supreme court and give the nasset the power to overrule the high court's decisions about i a

the name -- he was arrestinged at lax airport, and our attorney general then attorney general william barrered him to be released. mexico so that mexico can conduct an investigation. that investigation took five days and they said he didn't do anything wrong. that's the problem with mexico. i mean i love mexico there's a lot of great people in mexico. a lot of good people. unfortunately they don't have -- because of corruption. corruption from the lohse level of law enforcement all the way up to the highest level of the mexican government. so they don't have a chance. i can go to mexico -- and i do my research i talk to the mexican people, and they want our help because they know the mexican government is corrupt. displawrns you're vieght sir you can separate your love for the mexican people an the towns and the country. from the government -- sir thanks so much for joining the program. >> thank you very having me disagreement on whether it is the next move there's consensus that biden administration isn't doing enough at our southern border and u.s. came under intense criticism for this e

aren't coordinated with the government and want to take some action and you have people saying william barrm like you did isis, got to take these groups down, they have more money, we might have some cooperation from the federal government who are outgunned by the cartels. it would help if we didn't have a failed socialist state at our border but we let the border be controlled by the cartels in that failed socialist state so we are really to blame for it. the previous administration said we should have more time to take action but by any means fentanyl getting into our country is up 22%, you see the flow of illegals, not even close between the two administrations, blowing the doors off of all records. stuart: got to get an accurate report what happened to those americans, if the cartels of killed americans, that is a major escalation and we have to respond. >> where's the president on this? ned price made a statement yesterday, we have no muscle, no bluster, 0. stuart: not good enough. moving on, changing the subject, governor ron desantis taking a swipe at california's migrant policies. >

please join shannon bream on "fox news sunday" guest william barr and senators joe manchin of west virginiau sunday 1:00 p.m. eastern for fox news live. i highly recommend it. should be action-packed show. thank you so much for watching "special report." "jesse watters primetime" with guest host will cain starts right about now. will, great show. >> will: thank you so much. i will take it from here. >> will: welcome to "jesse watters primetime," i am will cain. donald trump has shattered a lot of glass ceilings. a presidency of firsts. he was the first president to be impeached twice. he was the first president to have his home raided by the fbi. and, now, he is the first president to be indicted. on tuesday, he will be hauled in, fingerprinted and have his mugshot taken, why is this happening? well trump has a way of making people lose their mind. >> donald trump is president of the united states. [boos] perhaps more

when the federal government has refused to prosecute first with william barr, who was the attorney generalging forth charges, does that come into bragg's decision on whether to pursue it? >> what i would ask people to think about is ifr would be charged with thisÑinen why is a former president's prior job a way ofq immunizing them. ujp!ove the law or not? them. do we really think that people m and so if other people would be charged with this, why shouldn'; and that is whate1 it means to the rule of law. now the issue of timing, should this go firste1 or be second or third? i think that is somewhat of a, i want to sort of put reality into that mix one1 that. which is this is not one single prosecutor making these decisions. you have somebody in georgia. somebody in new york. you have federal investigations. and you know what, life's messy. some things happen first, second, third. yes, would you like to see the most important crime charged first? absolutely. absolutely. just a few months with all of this being charged in whiyx case the question we're discussing right now will go away and ev

accordin to reporting for the new yor times, shortly after he became attorney general in 2019 william barr set out t challenge the prosecution. when barr was sworn in, cohe had already pleaded guilty and was set to begin a three-yea prison sentence, all of whic embarrassed and angered th president. the bar spent weeks week prosecuting the questioning -- and at one point eve instructed justice officials i washington to draft a memo outlining legal arguments that could've raised questions abou cohen's conviction and undercu similar prosecutions in th future the person on the receiving en of all that pressure, bearin the brunt of, it was that ma you see there on the right jeffrey berman, who was then the u.s. attorney for th southern district of new york. had been appointed by donald trump, and whose office wa prosecuted in the case against cohen. berman would later confirm, in his memoir, that barr tried to kill the investigation suggesting cohen's convictio on campaign finance charges be reversed and by mid 2020, barr an donald trump, fired berman so, essentially, barr and trum made sure th

indictment but it happens reports indicate that that happened with the indictment presented in william barr justice department against and mccabe for making fals statements while he was at the fbi. so it is possible that there will not be an indictment. but i would like to think that that is not because of political pressure, but becaus of legal conclusions by this grand jury >> barbara, what we make of th fact that as best we can tell, stormy daniels was never asked to testify as part of this grand jury process we know that she spoke t prosecutors but not ran jury late last week she's indicated that she i willing to cooperate but it is hard for me as a layman to understand how this case would even get to this point potentially on the edge of indictment without having hear from stormy daniels. what do you make of that >> well, not every person that you interview is someone tha you put in front of the gran jury it depends very much on what the charges are. if it is simply about th falsification of busines documents, business records, i may not matter what she wa saying or doing. it may matte

gop lawmakers and former ten william barr, they say send in the military the, bill clinton did in the that was two major cartels. now it's at least six. what do you think about the idea of sending in the military to deal with what's going on at the border. >> i think we have no other choice, quite frankly, liz. again, if you have a border as large as we have with a narco state, you have to use all means at your disposal. i've already cosponsored legislation to the authorize the military to be used to fight the cartels because they're some of the most evil people on the planet, and they're putting americans' lives in danger both and north of the border. elizabeth: it hits trade, it hits tourism. former fbi officials warning vacation resorts in mexico may not be safe, that even driving on highways in mexico are not safe because the drug cartels set up checkpoints basically like a toll gate that you have to drive through. congressman, let's get your reaction to the white house again downplaying and misleading that the border is safe. watch this. >> well, let's be very clear, let me take

o'brien said over the weekend a plan in place trump administration was about to put it in with william barrore they lost the election. therefore, the biden administration took their hands totally off the wheel. now the fentanyl has come streaming in and these gangs run our border. >> ainsley: coming up, a juror from the murdaugh trial shares his experience. >> he has lost his wife. he has lost his child. and then you send him to prison for his life. you know, sir, he may have done other crimes but that would just be awful. i couldn't live with that decision if i wasn't sure of myself. >> ainsley: the evidence that he says changed the trial. that's coming up. >> steve: you have got to hear that plus an nfl wide receiver makes the biggest play of his life-saving a man from a burning car. the fiery rescue straight ahead on "fox & friends" live from new york city where we have got a big show on at that point. ♪ hello. ♪ hello ♪ i know there's conflicting information about dupuytren's contracture. i thought i couldn't get treatment yet? well, people may think that their contracture has to be sev

you did mention that he has this chapter in his book where he talks about getting a call from william barr, who we do know was acting as a fixer for donald trump and as attorney general at the same time but what you said sound like you're alleging some intimidation tactics against mr. berman and maybe against mr. cohen as well. >> no question that mr. berman wrote that in the book he waited a little long to talk about what was basically criminal obstruction of justice, even if the attorney general does it when he calls a u.s. attorney and tries to interfere in a case, and something was amiss in the prosecutors not allowing michael cohen to not come in and talk, even on the friday before the monday they threatened to indict him i know as a lawyer we called after and said can we come in and present you with new evidence on mr. trump? and the criminal lawyer that i was working with said the first time in his career, the southern district prosecutors said no, we don't want your information, and they dropped everything, and the only person prosecuted who went to jail in the whole trump organiza

many years, or even a sycophantic trump appointee a lifelong republican like attorney general william barr. if these people break from the habits of lying and lawlessness that define life as a camp follower in the coat of donald trump, if the weaponize campaign isn't partisan, it's entirely political. it's got an overriding electoral focus. you know what it is. it's all about restoring donald trump that the, twice impeached former president, to the office he lost by 7 million votes in 2020 and try to steal back in a political coup and violent insurrection against our constitutional order on january six 2021. do you disagree? well, please don't take my word for it. as our chairman would say, listen to what chairman jordan himself had to say six months ago. at the action conference in dallas, where he was predicting gop victory in the 22 elections and promising that oversight of hunter biden's laptop when the claim that the federal government is treating moms and dads like the ones in this room like terrorists would be the centerpiece of the gop's work in the house. relaxing with a friendly

what they did, president trump built -- william barr, the attorney general, what they did first of manythe news like chris wallace. to shepard smith. what they did, it came back and bite them. but the only thing now, i am waiting for jack smith to be a real american. we have so many crazy people. i watch every channel. i am a book freak. i've read a lot. i have the time, i watched television, but the truth is coming and i am begging for jack smith to do right. they started in atlanta georgia to start investigating. what they are doing to our democracy. i came to this country 60 years ago. i know what i am talking about for me and other americans, we love america. you have a good day. host: from new york city, a headline for the wall street journal. criticized by republicans and democrats. criticizing a fox news segment that showed footage of the january 6 2021 attack saying that it played down the severity of the riot. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell said he agreed with the letter written by the police chief. he said the segment was filled with offensive and misleading conclusi

recent reports about former attorney general bill barr and special counsel john durham, mr. williams, do you agree congressional oversight works best when it is bipartisan in nature? >> absolutely. >> have you seen example of of that in bipartisan investigations? it is so infrequent now. >> absolutely. great example in 2016 when the house committee on oversight led by republican chairman jason chaffetz and ranking member elijah cummings worked together on an investigation, bipartisan investigation, of the united states secret service and mismanagement and misbehavior their. it lead to bipartisan legislation that made, as i said, and the government work better, a more functional organization. >> what about cooperation between the branches of government? is it necessary for congress to be willing to work with the executive branch in investigations? >> yes and vice versa. the executive branch should be willing to work with congress as well. >> with that first instance trying to come to agreement as when and how documents and information should be given? >> absolutely. the public sees he

williams are back on u.s. soil. but the big question is what to do about it? last night former attorney general bill barr said let's declare the cartels to be terrorists but texas congressman dan crenshaw is of a different mind. he gives us the reason why, let's see what they both said here. >> they are terrorists, the mexican government is being held hostage by tens of thousands of paramilitary members of terrorist organizations that effectively control mexico. we are sustaining the same damage as we would in a major war from these groups operating right beyond our reach. but you don't want to designate them as that, why? because now you just made millions of people in mexico valid asylum-seekers. you just massively increased our immigration problem at our border if you call them terrorists. >> john: farces call them terrorists, crenshaw says don't but authorize no trade force against them. >> either way you're cartels that are moving a product that is killing tens of thousands of americans. every year. the number is only going up. and fentanyl is come across in huge numbers let alone a number of illega

barr and susan collins. and to round out the week, consumer spending and the fed favorite read on inflation. the pe index. pce index. excuse me. another batch of fed speech from john williams fruzzetti. >> thanks for having me, frank. >> we hit the high point so far. what do you make of that after we come off banking sector and areas. >> the futures position can change quickly as we see in the last few weeks. the main thing is listening to the fed speak late last week. they are still not concerned with so much with the banking crisis, but really focused on inflation. i think, you know, a lot of the speak we will hear later in the week will continue to focus on that. we will see the quarter point rate rise from last week and that is more to continue on the market front. >> i know you believe the volatility in the banking sector is weighing on the market. does that speak to contagion being contained. >> there is an effort being made. trying to learn the lessons of '08. it is good that some participants are being pro-active. that is a good thing. this is a lot wider. a lot broader of a problem than i think the market is continuing to price in. we are going to continue to see