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
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.
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