julie: fox news alert from washington state why two men were arrested and charged with smuggling some 91,000 fentanyl pills last week. they hid them apparently inside plastic potato chip containers. investigators are saying they re connected to an international criminal organization which imports the potentially lethal drug in bulk into the u.s. bill: it doesn t end. a senate committee is holding its first hearing today on the federal government s response to the growing fentanyl crisis. aishah hosni covering that live from the hill with a preview. good morning. good morning. that s right. d.e.a. says that fentanyl killed more than 100,000 americans last year and i just caught up with senator mike braun, headed into the hearing right now. he said aishah, i don t want to hear any more lip service. i want to see action. so today he and other senators are going to be grilling
2020. even worse, more than three quarters of all teams who are dying if overdose have fentanyl in their system. it s killing america s youth. bill: so about 300 people die every day in the u.s. of an overdose, that s 12 every hour according to the cdc. two-thirds because of fentanyl are some other synthetic opioid. bill: it doesn t end. william on the streets of los angeles today. thank you. dana: as america celebrated the fourth of july many on the left he was dead as an opportunity to criticize the red, white, and blue. bill: also the police arresting a person of interest only hours after the deadly shooting in illinois. how they tracked them down and where things stand on a potential motive at this hour. it was frightening. we are okay. it went on for a minute or more.
dana: there are some cute kids as well. i ve got to see them. all right, thank you so much. this we can celebrate america here with us right here on the fox news channel. on sunday night at 10:00 p.m. eastern pete will join carley shimkus, rachel campos duffy, for a west point independence day celebration to one of the red, white, and blue with decorated army veterans. plus there s an epic firework show that you do not want to mess. mike: it doesn t end there. monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern fox news presents an independence day special with joey jones, carley shimkus, and kayleigh mcenany. catch the fireworks from washington, d.c., and boston along with musical performances. jimmy fallon will be there hitting streets to find out what makes people proud to be an american. most important that we pay tribute to the men and women who serve this great country.
in the past month biden administration canceled over a million acres in alaska, obvious choices they are making and it s time. and people wake up and this is not something they don t understand the result of what they are doing, they just don t care because they want their agenda to go through. at the cost more for businesses to get supplies they need and distribute what they reduced, where does this and? it doesn t end well for us and it s something people have pointed to for some time. when you try to spend a ton of money and force businesses to jump through hoops, there s this narrative only the billionaires suffer or the corporations suffer but we know that s passed down to the consumer, higher prices, inability to get things you need and this is something a lot of people in society cannot sustain. we look at $5 a gas to get to work and some people make less than $15 an hour, it doesn t
it. i m from green county, missouri. one of the big problems we have is the narcotics coming over in mexico. this border wall is not complete. this border is unmanned and every day they have hundreds come right through this area bringing fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine over to the united states. it doesn t end right here in the sheriffs county. it goes to green county and all the counties and why we re here. the american sheriff is the last front for us and we want to fight this battle. that s why we re down here showing some solidarity to assist the sheriff down here and we need to secure our borders. that s the bottom line. we have oh secure the border to stop the drug traffic and crime that comes with that. harris: i hope america sees the leadership that is in focus right now because what they just did without audio communications with me a really difficult. thank you so much. i know my team on the ground there will tell you what i m