>> mike: good evening, welcome to washington i'm mike emanuel in for bret baier. breaking tonight a pivotal. eagle pass texas is under a state of emergency tonight. the democratic mayor of eagle pass made the declaration as thousands of illegal immigrants are crossing into the country in virtually nonstop fashion. we have fox team coverage. peter doocy at the white house shows us what the president's press secretary did when he asked about the crisis. we begin with correspondent bill melugin who has the latest from eagle pass. hello, bill. >> bill: mike, illegal crossings here at the southern border are back at record high levels. border patrol agents tell us their morale has never been lower and after two and a half years already, it appears this border crisis is show nothing signs of stopping. >> illegal crossings into eagle pass, texas surged once again today with fox news cameras catching a nonstop flow of migrants beginning at sunrise and continuing almost nonstop all day long. neither texas razor wire near federal border patrol have been able to decide migrants from crossing into eagle pass where a mass illegal crossing of 3,000 illegal migrants took place on wednesday. most of them adult men from venezuela. cbp sources tell fox there were over 10,000 migrants encountered at the southern border on wednesday. an all-time record high number only seen once before, in may, before the end of title 42. eagle pass' mayor, a democrat, has declared an emergency, and is calling out the white house. >> eagle pass is a city of 30,000 people. we cannot sustain this flow. we need help, we need it now. we need people from the top. i'm talking from our president, our vice president, we're scared to even go outside. we can't walk anymore because we have random people walking the streets. >> meanwhile, the biden administration announced late last night it will offer nearly half a million venezuelan migrants in the u.s. legal status and work permits through an expansion of the temporary protected status program. as biden bows to demands from sanctuary states and cities who say they are full. >> we have to let the word out that when you come to new york, we'res not going to have more hotel rooms. we don't have capacity. we have to also message properly that we are at our limit. if you are going to leave your country go, somewhere else. >> and, mike, on top of the tps for venezuelans, dhs just announced this afternoon they are also redesignating temporary protective status for afghan nationals here in the u.s. listen to this. they say any afghan nationals who cross into the united states between may of 2022 and yesterday will now be offered work permits and protections from deportation even if they controlled the u.s. border illegally. we will send it back to you. >> mike: bill melugin starting us off live from eagle pass texas. the biden administration is refusing to answer questions about the border crisis. white house correspondent peter doocy has that part of the story tonight. good evening, peter. >> peter: mike, officials around here are very effective with branding. when they want to take credit for economic policy, they call it bidenomics. so, what about immigration policy? >> what do you call it here at the white house this 10,000 people illegally cross the border in a single day? >> so what do you call it, peter, when g.o.p. puts forth -- wait, no. no, no, no. no. >> peter: karine. >> no, we are going to move on. no no, no, no, no. rear we're moving on. >> peter: the press secretary said the strategy is improvement. >> the president has worked very hard to implement a strategy when it comes to the border humane safe and has orderly enforcement. >> a different border was top of the agenda in the east room today, the one between russia and ukraine. >> we have begun the process of formalizing our long-term commitment to ukraine security alongside the g-7 and with other partners. >> the visiting president volodymyr zelenskyy is seen in the west wing as being politically savvy enough to ignore a congressional fight over funding for ukraine's defense. >> president zelenskyy is not coming here like a babe in the woods. >> officials did catch "special report" last night where the saudi crowned prince was ask about iran's nuclear weapons am ambitions. >> bret: are you concerned though iran gets a nuclear weapon about them getting a nuclear weapon? >> when we are concerned any country getting a nuclear weapon. if they get one, we have to get one for security reasons, for balancing power. >> peter: the white house sees that as another reason to stop iran from building a nuke in the first place. >> one of the major reasons that we are working overtime with partners and allies to ensure that iran never gets a nuclear weapon is that if they did, not only would they be a direct threat to the region and beyond, but it likely would trigger a regional arms race. >> peter: the ukraine meeting at the white house tonight is part of the white house strategy to answer questions for people concerned about president biden's age. we have learned that he is starting to tell campaign donors he knows the people are talking about his age and he gets it. but, he thinks that just gives him an argument to talk about his experience with two things, vax sinating the nation and rallying the world against russian aggression. >> mike: peter, thanks a lot. there are new questions tonight about the seeming inevitability of former president trump's campaign to regain the republican nomination. he is apparently been hurt by recent comments on abortion. now, one rival in particular appears to be benefiting. here is correspondent mark meredith. >> thank you so much. it's great to be here. >> stumping today in new hampshire, former u.n. ambassador nikki haley is seeing a spike in support of ahead of next week's second g.o.p. debate. a poll of new hampshire republicans finds haley now essentially tied with businessman vivek ramaswamy. their gains come at governor ron desantis' expense. is he now polling fifth. in iowa, desantis maintains a second place lead but the latest fox business survey shows him still trailing former president trump by 31 points. [cheers] trump held multiple events in iowa wednesday telling supporters his victory is all but guaranteed. >> we're going to win the iowa caucuses in an historic land slide. >> g.o.p. strategist karl rove believes trump's lead still. rove writes the higher he races expectations the easier it will be for his performance to disappoint. they are convinced trump will prevail. >> he did what he said he was going to do. and he put our country first. >> still, trump is facing skepticism from some evangelical voters about his views on abortion after he criticized florida's recently exposed six week limit. >> i think what he did was a terrible thing and a terrible mistake. >> desantis says trump wants comments insulted many conservatives. >> for him to then attack people like iowa, south carolina, florida, all these other states, i thought, was a big mistake. >> south carolina senator tim scott says abortion should also drive republican turnout. >> what the american people in the republican primaries want to know is where are we different? >> the former president's abortion comments are also sparking criticism from g.o.p. leaders who are not even running for the white house, including georgia's governor brian kemp and the governor can of iowa kim reynolds poet before whom are defending efforts to limit abortions in their states, mike. they were pretty upset by these comments. >> very interesting. mark meredith live in the studio. marks, thanks a lot. please join dana perino and stuart varney and univision ilia calderon as they moderate the second presidential debate on fox business september 27th, that's next wednesday from the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute in simi valley, california. ♪ there appears to be a connection tonight between the bankrupt crypto currency giant ftx and one of the largest dark money experts in the country. kelly o'grady has details tonight from los angeles. hello, kelly. >> good evening, mike. yes, less than two weeks until sam bankman-fried's fraud trial begins a new suit now targets the alleged crypto-currency parents. the team is suing the stanford law professors and the filing surprises political link. the suit highlights ftx's father bankman served advisers major left wing dark money group. arbella is denying any connection with fbf's father instead blink subsidiary. mr. bankman has never had any role with arabella advisers. a vendor to the new venture fund it. briefly worked with the ftx foundation to provide administrative services. the suit looks to claw back 26 million in gifts and luctionry relationship alleging ftx exploited to enrich themselves. for example ftx mother barbara freed allegedly advised her son to violate campaign finance laws by using a strawman to don't to campaigns. many perks privately chartered jet and giving donations to stanford which the school is now returning. when bankman was unhappy with his ftx valerie he pressured his son continue to crease it to $1 million. the lawsuit this email where he calls on ftx mother for support gee, sam, i don't know what to say here. >> this is the first i have heard of the 2,000 a year salary putting barbara on this. lawyers for the couple argue the allegations are not true telling fox business, quote this is dangerous attempt to intimidate joe and barbara and days before their child's trial begins these claims are completely false. ftx new management shares they recovered 7 billion of 8.7 billion in customer funds with suits like this seeking to make up that difference. mike? >> mike: kelly o'grady, thanks very much. the dow lost 370. the s&p 500 was off 72. nasdaq dropped 245. the search for a convicted murderer let out of jail by mistake is next. and, later, bret baier takes us inside the rapidly growing sports and entertainment industry in saudi arabia. but, before we go to break, we have some personal news to share with you. rupert murdoch is transitioning from chair of our parent company fox corporation in a 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>> so we just watched supply demand, if there is shortage of supply, our role is to nail shortage. if there is oversupply our role is to stability of the market. >> bret: doesn't have anything about that. >> it's purely about demand/supply. >> bret: what about that defense and action so far. >> this is essentially a change in the stance. we first saw in october they said look, we want to get in front of the market because it looks like demand is going to weaken. and history vindicated that. it turns out of the demand was weaker than expected. the cut looked well advised. now, typically, opec has not cut when inventories have been lean. they have been cutting when inventories have been long. so this is a change. >> bret: another change for saudi arabia a big shift away from oil and toward additional investments elsewhere. >> bret: when americans think about saudi arabia, i think the thing that first came to mind is oil. that is how you have raised a lot of revenue. but, interestingly, 2030 and the vision is to try to increase nonoil businesses and also green energy. >> we have been using oil, yes. we will continue using oil, of course. we would be marketing oil, yes. but how about we would like to demonstrate to the whole world that we are equally transitioning. we are actually going to get better and better with it. >> bret: saudi arabia is an oil-rich country but it is trying to diversify its economy to be nonoil or a bigger part of nonoil. this image behind me is a perfect example of what we're seeing in the country. the history to the ruins at the ray a, the birthplace ever the saudi kingdom and in the distance, a gaggle to cranes. there are more cranes in this country than in any other around the world. the net oil export revenue last year, $311 billion. the cost of the projects around the country $1.1 trillion. besides real estate, they are spending big bucks on big names and events. dr. christian know reynaldo and nay march to dustin johnson and phil mickelson, saudi arabia is investing heavily in professional sports what do you say to the people who charge that's part of sports washing, that you are trying to use all of that to somehow improve or somehow affect your image. >> sports washing increase #%? then we will continue doing sport washing. >> you have chris an know rendell who is a huge draw. did that change the dynamic here. >> that changed everything. this investment in the players and the clubs and the and the events we host reflect directly to the youth and the kingdom. >> bret: according to forbes. reynaldo will be the highest paid professional athlete this year. >> sport is important for the kingdom, for the crown prince? >> well, sports is important, i think, for everyone, especially for the kingdom and for the conference. 70% of the population is below the age of 40. and this population wants to compete in different sports. >> bret: and the kingdom is investing in ports at the youngest level. to compete on the global stage. >> so it's a bit of a farm club from around the country? >> exactly. and different regions we choose these kids and move them. they have special coaches for each sport and nutrition and so on. >> and you have had some successes, some real stars. >> yes. we have had some, you know, some real outcome from this in the past two years that this year we had a couple of our athletes who participate on asian level and on regional level who have achieved some medals. [cheers] >> bret: as a millennial him himself -- it's all part of the young crown prince's vision. >> you are a big gamer. >> since i'm a kid love it. >> bret: really? >> it disconnects me from reality. >> bret: and there is a big video game part of your ministry, right? there is out of sports? >> it's probably one of the most important thing happening globally. one of the most growing industry in the planet. >> younger population to travel and visit his country. >> one thing that has changed specifically is the entertainment, the music fess devils the concerts, the football matches with thousands and thousands of fans that's a big changes. >> when people travel, they travel to enjoy the culture. whenever they come they can dine in the best restaurants. they can enjoy the amazing entertainment and they can go to sport activities we can programs whether they stay for a week or two or three what were once underground events concerts in the kingdom have become giant music festivals. headliners have included brew know mars, post malone and david get that. >> i is would have never expected i would come to saudi arabia for a comicon. >> there is also interest in the big screen. the government reopened movie theaters in 2018 and announced a goal to open more than 300 by 2030. in just a few years, saudi arabia has become the biggest box office in the middle east. it report recorded a total revenue of $242 million in 2022. >> of course, i'm very happy to be here with the team representing our movie, our countries. >> it now hosts an international film festival. saudi arabia, however, has been criticized for holding the red sea film festival over accusations the kingdom suppresses free speech. >> under the crown prince's vision for someone out of the country that looks at saudi arabia and says they are a little skittish about coming here. you know, i have read the stories about concerns over human rights or other things. and maybe they're, you know, not ready, they are not sold yet. what do you tell them? >> i tell them come and experience this -- people are free to go where they want to go. saudi cities very safe and among the safest cities in the world. i'm very, very sure they would enjoy. >> bret: there are funds set aside for new films as well. the red sea fund will invest $14 million in film projects. >> we have accomplished a lot. we are very hungry, we want to accomplish more. we have an amazing chance to do that. >> bret: and do you think that the perception of saudi is changing? do you sense that? >> what i hope that's happening but for us in saudi arabia, we don't look at that for us in saudi arabia, what we do change, we look to our needs, to our people needs and to our economy needs. if it change the perception positively, great. >> bret: it's a battle for the hearts and minds of tourists around the group. how many rights on one side freedom houses the kingdom respects almost all civil rights and lishtsd. however that group acknowledges rights for women have improved in significant years. the saudis say come visit, give us a shot. we'll show you the hospitality. mike, we'll send it back to you. >> mike: bret, great stuff. thank you. tomorrow on "special report," israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu responds to mohammed bin salman's statement to bret baier that the two nations are getting closer to normalizing relations. up next, vice president harris says climate change is keeping young people from doing one very basic thing. >> i have heard young leaders talk with me about a term they have coined called climate anxiety. >> i don't believe climate change is -- really is the reason. i don't really think many people care about climate change. ♪ ♪ age is just a number, and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv (group singing for kids birthday) toooo youuuuu! 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significant progress in new contract before the union plans to announce expassengers of u.s. strikes. the standoff is fueling worries about long industrial shutdown that could disrupt production and ripple through the supply chain. approximately 12,700 workers are currently on strike. ♪ vice president harris has an unusual explanation for the fact that young americans are not buying homes or starting families during the biden economy. it seeks to advance one of her boss' key agenda items. here is white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. >> vice president kamala harris says climate anxiety is making younger americans reconsider major life choices like buying a home. >> the fear of the future and the unknown of whether it makes sense for you to even think about having children, whether it makes sense for you to think about aspiring to buy a home. >> their solution, launching the american climate corps a federal workforce training program focusing on conservation, clean energy and environmental justice with the goal of leading to jobs. team biden openly framing it as a way to court young voters. >> over the last three years, thousands of young people stepped up and made the civilian climate corps a generational rallying cry. president biden acknowledges that this is just the beginning. >> but biden's critics and 2024 republican white house hopefuls say the economy is really driving decisions from would be home buyers. >> people are focused on the rising cost of living, run away inflation. >> the first thing we have got to do is get inflation down. the second thing that will give builders confidence that they can build. but right now, even banks don't want to lend. >> new fox polls show 79% of voters extremely or very concerned about housing costs. second to inflation at 91%. the federal reserve skipped another interest rate hike this week but left the door open to one more this year. reiterating cuts aren't coming any time soon, meaning higher mortgage rates are here to stay for now. >> activity in the housing sector has picked up somewhat. though it remains well below levels of a year ago, largely reflecting higher mortgage rates. >> market experts say the standoff will persist because while home prices are up, would be sellers don't want to lose locked in lower mortgage mortgage rates and buyers can't afford it. the chairman says that's not reason enough to bring rates down. mike? >> mike: jacqui heinrich in the briefing room. thanks a lot. up next the panel on the reaction to bret baier's exclusive interview with saudi arabian crown prince bin salman. here is what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 5 in new york as at least one person is killed and dozens injured in a bus crash on interstate 84 in orange county. it involves students and parents from farming dale high school on long island. fox 2 in san francisco as the city supervisor strategy on car break ins. the district attorney's office says there 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per month. that is up 348% compared to the trump administration. with that, let's bring in our panel. katie pavlich, news editor at town hall.com. olivia beavers, congressional reporter for politico and guy benson politico editor at town hall.com and host of the guy benson show on fox news radio. welcome to all of you. >> great to see you. >> so, olivia, on capitol hill they don't love it when the white house says it's their fault, right? >> no, no. they don't. and, you know, this is an issue where have you finger pointing. if you talk to members like chip roy and donnie gonzalez they have very different views of how to address the border but they will say that is one of their top issues. they are in a border state. and the border numbers that came out recently are bad. if you look at what they were compared to july, coming in, there is a 60% increase. and so this is going to be an issue. you hear talking presidential, talking about down ballot and, you know, that's also why republicans are trying to attach a policy, hr 2, their border bill to the government spending. they have think they could have a win on that. but they can't seem to really take off on actually getting anything passed right now at the moment in the house. >> mike: guy, being a multi media star, what are you hearing from people on the radio. >> i think there is a huge amount of frustration just among american voters in general because the images, to the extent that they are being shown by much of the media, but the images speak for themselves. it's absolute chaos. 10,000 encounters a day at this point. plus, all the got-aways. and just this unbelievably lame insulting talking point that it's the production' fault. republicans passed a border bill back in may. the democrats don't like it. they're not interested in enforcement, but the republicans have taken action. the president has plenty of tools at his disposal to make this better on the enforcement side. he chooses not to exercise those options because he is not interested in it. and so that exchange between karine jean-pierre and peter doocy earlier to me was just very, almost infuriating to watch because peter asked a specific question and the response from the press secretary was a quick deflection to something he didn't ask and then she just moved on to someone else hoping for a different question. >> mike: katie are, you are from one of those border states, what about it. >> talking to folks back in arizona. they are seeing the same situation play out as in texas with thousands of people coming over every day. most of them single adult males. and for the press secretary today to try to pivot to republicans, her argument is that republicans don't want to give the administration more money and that's not to enforce the border or to deter illegal immigration. it's to process illegal immigrants. they have no intention as she said today of putting a cap on the never of illegal immigrants who cross. essentially saying the number is going to be infinite. and when it comes to the border patrol's mission, they have completely violated that. the mission of border patrol is to protect the united states of america. and they have turned them into a processing organization. morale is low. you know, that's morale has been low for a long time on the border. it's not republicans who are sounding the alarm on this. they are, obviously, but democrats. the mayor of eagle pass, a democrat. the governor of new york democrat. the mayor of new york city a democrat. this is a bipartisan problem. the president has title 8 at his disposal through the executive branch to stop this, and they have no intention of stopping the flow. only managing it by letting as many people in as want to come. >> mike: bret, made a lot of news with his interview with the saudi crown prince. one issue was relations with israel. let's play it. >> now we have relation with israel now but the biden administration succeeded to make, i believe, the biggest historic since the end of the cold war. then we got to start the relationship and this relationship got to be continues. >> mike: bret is due to talk to b.b. netanyahu tomorrow. look forward to that interview. your thoughts on what this could mean between the vaudys and israelis. >> huge realignment. there has been some between the saudis and the arab states and iranians. clearly they're still concerned about iran and nuclear weapon, which also came up during the course of that interview. if saudi arabia joins with some of these other countries in the abraham accords, to recognize the state of israel, and have open relations with them. what a see change and hopeful one. let's pray for that outcome they didn't want to recognize the abraham peace accords struck under president donald trump. luckily they have and good for the world and the united states of america, endorsed that concept and saudi arabia certainly on the list to try to join those packs. of the most interesting part of the interview in terms the consequence was the saudi arabiaen prince saying that if iran gets a nuclear weapon, we have to get one, too. the iaea just came out a week ago saying they are no longer allowing inspectors in. this comes on staples in may from the iaea saying iran was enriching uranium to nuclear grade levels. it's for a nuclear weapon and they went in and stole a bunch of information from tehran in 2018, showing that the iranians have been disingenuous not for peaceful purposes. so that certainly plays into the negotiations with normalizing relations on a national security front. i can moo mike all right. i got a special topic for olivia. my hill correspondent friend about the dress code in the united states senate. dialing it back. going casual for senator fetterman no more jacket and tie. well, that's created quite a stir. caught my ear when senator mark kelly responded to this question from jake tapper. >> i wondered what you thought of schumer changing the senate dress code, do you like these more casual looks? should they be allowed on the senate floor. >> i don't like it and i think it would have been better if we had a discussion about it ahead of time. >> mike, we have a bipartisan issue happening in the senate, basically majority leader schumer changed the rule for fetterman and manchin is now trying to codify it. you have senator rick scott republicans to sign a letter saying that they have -- and i would also say attempt by the leader to change from one man's brand and you are seeing pushback in the clip there. >> mike: all right. i will ask you guys about the dress code after the show. thank you all, panelists. >> thanks, mike. ♪ ♪ the final game was played at the old yankee stadium. bronx bombers defeated the baltimore orioles 7-3 as march an know rivera closed the contest with perfect inning. the historic stadium opened 100 years ago in 1923 and came to be known as the house that ruth built. julia ruth stevens 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