Coming up in moments. Three hours from now President Biden becomes the first u. S. President to join the workers on the picket line in michigan. He will appear alongside the striking auto workers outside of detroit. Their strike against the Big Three Automakers approaching week two. See what the president has to say about that. The head of the d. E. A. Is about to address families impacted by fentanyl. Devastating epidemic had direct ties to the chaos weve been watching at the u. S. Border. Im bill hemmer live in new york. Dana is in semi valley. A big welcome back to smitty. Good morning. Sandra well all be watching tomorrow night. Great to start the day. Im sandra smith and this is americas newsroom. Eagle pass, texas, the town recently saw more than 2,000 migrants in 24 hours. President bidens Border Patrol chief says the surge forced him to divert resources. Cartels are exploiting that to get more drugs over the border. Bill got a picture getting a lot of attention today. A group o
On time and ready to go. Thanks for having me. Im sandra smith. Drug poisoning deaths are killing americans at an unprecedented rate in the country. More than 100,000 lives lost last year alone with fentanyl and methamphetamine driving the record increase. Ashley is just one of those victims. Her heartbroken mother attended todays summit. It continues to flow into our country and is poisoning someone every five minutes. We lose so many every day. The death toll keeps rising. Sandra david spunt is live in washington on this. Hi, attorney general Merrick Garland began speaking to families moments ago and joined by d. E. A. Administrator about the dangers of fentanyl. Top of mind for the d. E. A. As the drug continues to become more potent and harder to detect as Border Crossing numbers continue to grow, so does fentanyl. Not necessarily from the exact people crossing the border who seek a better life but the drug thats making its way to the United States through the mexican cartels. Ashl
Will take work and the right people in the right place. Americans say they are feeling the fear, the danger, and witnessing too much heartbreak. Right now our fellow citizens whose lives have been shattered by violence have gathered on capitol hill. So that the rest of us around the country can hear their voices and in particular Small Business owners are saying enough. And while survival really is bipartisan, not a single democrat will be there. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. In oakland, california, robberies like the one on your screen in broad daylight have become part of normal daily life. In protest, oakland store owners are on a strike against the city today with their doors shuttered say. They see leaders in that democratled city are failing them allowing brazen criminals to control everything. In democratrun chicago, one weekend, three killed, 30 shot. House judiciary chairman jim jordan shared those numbers from the Chicago Police department and truly we
Sweetheart plea deal that he got that fell apart over the summer. It could be mean a highstakes trial playing out at the same time his dad will be fighting for reelection. Three felony charges. Lets take a look. Two for lying about his drug use while buying a gun in 2018. The third count is for possession of that gun knowing he lied to get it. His attorney is pointing to david weiss. Republicans are in the drivers seat of the prosecutors car. There will be a defense on the facts as well and people need to remember whether its a unique and unjustified charge. He owned an unloaded gun for 11 days. There will never have been a charge like that brought in the United States. President biden let me close with this. I wish i had a chance to take all your questions but i will get in real trouble if i do that. Harris oh, wow. David spunt at the Justice Department with more. David. Hi, good morning. Hunter bidens attorney is clearly arguing that hunter biden is being politically prosecuted. That
greg: that is true. the whole world was falling apart. happy monday, everybody. like anyone who ever bought a book by brian kilmeade, we understand buyer s remorse. in these days nobody gets that better than your average democrat. joe biden continues his worldwide confusion tour, more and more voters have taken to steaming the donald trump to go their previouses. i haven t seen so many people regret a decision since cnn gave 9 billion bucks to chris wallace. [laughs] apparently many democrats have started to notice what none of us were supposed to pray things are better and safer under donald trump the jill biden. you member when your car wasn t stolen and your son wasn t pregnant. true, like watching the view talk about their weight loss, the disparity between what you what you re told is true and the evidence of our own eyes has become impossible to ignore. now even liberal thought leaders are starting to sound as coherent as the voices in kamala s head after thre