love that event last night. fox news alert as we top a brand-new however. any moment we will be hearing from president biden and what his administration is doing to stop fentanyl. the white house meeting comes one day after federal law enforcement shared details on a massive multistate fentanyl bust centered in our nation s capitol. this is the faulkner focus, i m sandra smith in for harris faulkner. nearly 100,000 deaths. nearly 80,000 were from fentanyl, 80 times stronger than heroin. according to the dea, it s the leading cause of death for americans ages 18 to 45. house foreign affairs chair michael mccall says how to stop is simple. with china sending the precursers to mexico and the manufacturing taking place mexico. that s how they get into the united states. until we get china and mexico to stop this and until we secure our border, we re going to continue to have these problems. last week president biden met with china s president to try to strike a deal to cut
that in the body camera that was released in january, and this is when pelosi said that depape pushed him aside and hit him on the head. the next thing he remembered was to wake up in a pool of his own blood. we expect this to wrap up this week, and david depape is facing decades in prison if he is convicted of the federal and state charges. veronica miracle, thank you so much. of collapse. and under investigation, the mayor is under scrutiny. moments from now, president biden is said to leave the white house and he is headed to san francisco for a summit, but the main event is a much discussed and much anticipated meeting with china s president xi jinping and the first time that xi has been back in the united states since 2017, and david culver is in san francisco, and if i could only say it, david. a lot has happened since the last two leaders met face-to-face, and what are you expecting from the meeting? yeah, kate. there is a lot over the past year, and you know,
under way, and that i have kept it they have kept it quiet? it is difficult to say, sara, but he says that everything that you are seeing right now, the little attacks and everything that you are seeing the cruise missiles shot at russian points where they have ammo dumps over the past couple of days and all of that are precursers to a larger scale offensive, and all of those are what they call a shaping operation for a larger scale. is this the big push that is happening right now. it is difficult to say, because looking at the drone videos that the russians put out with armored vehicles advancing in broad daylight, andle is of the vehicles are hitting mines and some of them destroyed by artillery or something else similar, but it is hard to know how big the losses were and how many soldiers are lost as well. the russians are claiming some
decision that should have been left to the doj. was there criminality. sandra: that s going to be the big question. we get to the report and what are the recommendations of the inspector general. what can you tell us? will there be accountability for actions to come from this? the inspector general already made a criminal referral on mr. mccabe and james comey legal jeopardy becomes greater because you ll see the precursers as they look into other investigations into fisa abuse and the releasing of classified information. james comey, it appears, did exactly what hillary clinton was accused of doing and gave classified information and gave i am to it to people without the proper security clearance. that will be fascinating. you have to understand the inspector general will not criticize the decision to
north korean, as president lee indicated north korea is already under an extraordinary battery of sanctions. they are the most isolated country in the world. they are cut off from basic commerce and exchanges beyond their borders that every other country almost every other country takes for granted. their people are extraordinarily impoveri impoverished, the contrast between living standards in the north and south could not be greater and could not be a greater testimony to the benefits of living in a free society. and so the real consequence should they go forward with the launch is they will have missed an opportunity because what we presented to them and what we ve consistently presented to them is an opportunity for them to take a different path than the one they ve been taking which is resulting in not simply hardship for their people, but a state that is decades behind their counterparts in the region in terms of development, in terms of economic strength, in terms of