declared a public emergency. in massachusetts, a military base now converted to migrant housing. mercedes schlapp, joe concha and juan williams are standing by. first to peter doocy. good afternoon. in the press room, they talk about these flights in serious terms. we heard about the president. he was trying to laugh off the idea. saying that if desantis will send a flight to delaware, desantis should tag along. any comment to migrants to delaware? he should come visit. we have a beautiful shore. just before that, the white house claimed that they were willing to engage leaders in texas and florida who have been bussing migrants points north to make a point about the burdens and influx of migrants can have on small towns. a cool premeditated political stunt. that is not what that is what they re doing. and so we re always happy to have conversations about ways to further improve border processing. even though she says they re happy to have conversations, she adm
and giano caldwell, but first this. john: to kick off america reports, life expectancy in america dropping to the lowest level in more than two decades, according to the cdc. deaths from drug overdoses and covid fueling the decline. john roberts in washington. sandra, good wednesday to you. sandra: i m sandra smith in new york city. plunged to an average of 76.1 years in 2021. fentanyl poisoning driving that number with more than 72,000 deaths by the end of last year. john: president biden s border crisis making it worse. officials are trying to stop the flow of fentanyl from creeping into the u.s., but despite efforts, parents are feeling the consequences of drugs in their family. fentanyl has changed the game. no longer can we say just be careful or it s not going to happen to my family. it took half of what he thought was a percocet. you have to talk about these pills and other forms that unfortunately they are now taking other than just pills. no mother want
documents with classification marks. we are also learning additional details about the criminal justice implications possibly for the former president. he is calling federal prosecutors hacks and thugs tonight who had no write to storm his property and steal everything in sight in his words. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight to begin our coverage. good evening, david. good evening to you in this redacted affidavit we are seeing a picture of federal prosecutors who had an escalating concern about documents stored at the home of former president donald trump. in justifying its search, the sworn affidavit notes there was also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises referring to mar-a-lago. trump s team in january turned over 15 boxes of materials stored there. 15 of them containing 184 classified documents. 67 marked confidential. 25 marked labeled 25 top secret. the affidavit says some of the material a
president tim stuart says the move is putting politics over our allies. it s hypocritical to be promising to our european allies we will do everything we can to help them because of the russian sanctions and then back out at the time when they need us the most. gas prices here at home have been dropping primarily because people are driving less and oil prices have stabilized some. but industry experts warn cutting those exports as the energy secretary wants could further stress those global supplies and raise oil prices making our gas prices go up as well here at home. we have got to get through the labor day holiday weekend. it s around the corner. it s a tough one. bret: yeah. back and forth. aishah, thanks. you bet. bret: the panel on the redacted trump raid documents, facebook and the fbi on the hunter biden laptop. fox 5 in new york has at least six people reportedly injured at six flags great adventure in
department of justice. once that happens, we certainly expect for rod rosenstein to leave shortly thereafter. just for clarification, the source, are they using the term heat shield of their own? or is that a phrase rosenstein, himself, has used? to we know? that was a phrase told to my colleague pamela brown in a source close to rod rosenstein who said that to her essentially saying that he, rotd rosd rosen wants to take the punches, if there are punches of the report, there could be a while when that happens. certainly everyone expects there to be political fallout once the thing gets landed on the attorney general s desk. in terms of the release of the michael cohen raid documents today, what itself the headline from that? what do we learn from it? one of the things we saw for the first time, is that the mueller team started looking at michael cohen just months after robert mueller was appointed.