southern border. we have pictures you will only see here on fox news showing heavily armed operatives from drug cartels illegally crossing into this country. this comes as a delegation of democratic lawmakers visits the region today. we have fox team coverage. madison alworth on randall s island, new york where locals are beginning to tear up athletic fields to construct migrant shelters. correspondent bill melugin though starts us off tonight live from eagle pass, texas. good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. illegal crossings are starting to surge once again here at our southern border. this is after a lull during the month of june. now fox news has obtained some brand new startling photographs showing it is not just asylum seekers crossing into the u.s. startling exclusive images from the southern border. as a group of suspected cartel gunmen are seen crossing illegally into texas in the rio grande valley.
money payment to a porn actress that case relates to reimbursements that trump made at the time to his lawyer michael cohen. cohen had paid stormy daniel to silence her before before 2016. the former president has pleaded not guilty. he contends this case belongs in federal court. and the stocks were up today. the dow gained 109. the s&p 500 rose 11. nasdaq finished ahead 4. gillian: well, the biden administration has cut off u.s. funding for the chinese lab in wuhan where the coronavirus is suspected to have originated back in 2019. the biden administration is reportedly concluded that that wuhan facility failed to provide adequate documentation about safety and security. here is fox business correspondent grady trimble. the wuhan lab at the center of the covid origins probe won t
the suspension of funding comes as newly released messages suggest several top scientists who publicly denied the lab leak theory actually believed it was possible if not likely. twitter files journalist matt taibbi and michael shellenberger along with two of their colleagues published the messages. these government-funded scientists waged a disinformation campaign, a propaganda campaign aimed at misleading the american people and it worked. shellenberger and g.o.p. lawmakers also claim the federal government worked with big tech companies like twitter, facebook, and google to suppress the lab leak theory, a theory that multiple federal agencies now say, gillian, could explain how the pandemic started. gillian: pretty stunning policy reversal on wuhan lab funding. grady, thanks so much. coming up next, bret baier investigates whether massive sanctions in place now against the russian and iranian regimes are actually working. first, here s what some of our
trace? trace: thanks, grady. let s bring in robert wolf, former economic adviser to president obama, founder and ceo of 32 advisers and a fox news contributor and steve moore, former economic adviser to president trump and co-founder of the committee to unleash prosperity. thanks for coming on. we appreciate it. you heard grady trimble s spiel there in his report, robert. the american people, they re just not they don t feel it. he s pitching bidenomics. i know you say again and again, robert, that you believe the economy is robust. why is america not feeling it? i mean, there s a few runs. one, we re coming out of this most covid world. inflation was incredibly high. it was double digits. you know, it s come down by half. prices are still up, whether it s add the gas pump, still higher than where we were or at the kitchen table. that being said, we have a buoyant labor market.
they re falling behind in their finance jumping almost 20 points since the president s first year in office. those that say they re getting ahead or just holding steady, both as you can see there dropping. former obama economic adviser robert wolf and former trump economic adviser steve moore are standing by. first, to fox business correspondent grady trimble. he s live at the white house. grady, good afternoon. good afternoon. the white house and the democratic party say today s jobs report is an example of bidenomics at work. there seems to be a business connect between the picture of the economy that the white house is painting and how americans feel about the same economy. on today s jobs report, the economy added 209,000 jobs. that s worse than wall street was expecting and the lowest since december of 2020. the acting labor secretary says that its good news. this is very much a part of bidenomics. creating good jobs in every