toxic chemicals. welcome to fox news live, i m jacqui heinrich. griff: i m griff jenkens. lucas tomlinson on the ground in east palestine, lucas, what do you have for us? griff, state and local and even federal officials like epa say the water is clean. many residents simply don t believe them. in the last few minutes a truck pulled up to distribute bottled water from salvation army and private owners. yesterday i spoke to a resident by the creek, this is what he said about the water. it s tainted and it would never be the same. i would never let me kids walk in this. ever? ever again. lucas: now representative bill johnson who represents east palestine in congress, he responded to that sound. the epa, both the federal and the state have made the valid case that the water is clean. this community has a city water system that is routinely tested anyway. it does not get its water source from that creek. lucas: the epa has deployed teams like this to clean the nearby s
documents issue. lucas tomlinson from the white house, lucas, what is the reaction? well, bill, for days we have been hearing from republicans, they want to see this matter investigated fully and now some democrats are joining the course. i want the facts, i want the department of justice to be completely thorough, completely honest and i want we need to know who knew and when did they know and why did they chose to keep it secret for two months and before an election. lucas: two democratic senators facing tough campaigns also want to see matter investigated. manchin telling, quote, reports of mishandling documents are extremely irresponsible and disturbing. the allegations should be investigated fully. president biden spending time in beach other house in delaware. no documents discovered in that place unlike wilmington home. sent a letter to biden s director of na of na of nationag similar assessment. quote, this discovery of classified information would put preside
will force some democrats when they hear the evidence and hear witnesses they will have to pick a side. they will prove oversight hearings that the border is not secured, record amounts of fentanyl coming across the border and they can t ignore. border security is important. griff: you know, i think we have seen with the unprecedented amount of deadly fentanyl reaching far beyond the border that states do care and every state has become a border state. i want to talk to you there was one tweet of the border papatrol raúl ortiz and they seized fentanyl between legal ports of entry enough to kill 100 million people. that s jus in the first four months of the fiscal year.
secure. take their politics, set it aside. republicans take your politics set it aside, let s work together for the good of the country and that s where the fracture is. enough, enough. they battle this every day, we are on this border dealing with tragedy after tragedy and my citizens are tired of it. meantime, staff houses continue to pop up on both sides of the border, mexican and u.s. side. agents busted 4 of those in just 3 days time this past week. these houses as we know are used by cartels to temporarily hold drugs and migrants so they can control when and where they are smuggled into the united states. so far for the fiscal year 2023 at least 175 of these stash houses have been dismantled by u.s. border patrol but they say they ve encountered thousands up and down the border, jacqui. jacqui: casey stegall for us in mission, texas. griff. griff: jacqui and casey thank you, for more on this we are joined by former acting ice
an important point that s not just coming through ports. great tweet by raúl and i ve been screaming for months that the democrats want the white house keep pushing that the fentanyl is coming through the port of entries. certainly some that does but most of the fentanyl is not coming through the port of entry. most of the fentanyl seized at the port of entry because they stop every vehicle, they talk to every driver, they have cbp targeting system that has data in it. i can t tell you what s in it. this vehicle may be a vehicle that you might want to pull over based on the data on in the report. but between port of entry, the cartels are going to use the route of least resistance which is between the ports because of this crisis, griff, you know this, 70 to 80% of agents are pulled off the line. so that border is wide open now. it s not a coincidence in historic illegal immigration that you have historic illegal drug flow and the two things