>> sandra: it could make landfall as a dangerous category 3 hurricane. i'm sandra smith. >> jon: i'm jon scott. puerto rico and virgin islands avoided a direct hit from dorian. folks in florida are bracing for the worst. the storm is expected to make landfall over the holiday weekend. >> i've been through andrew, wilma, irma. i don't want to go through this one. >> you would like to think not. nothing wrong with preparation. >> regardless of dorian's path we're entering the bus yift part of the hurricane season. everyone must prepare now. have an evacuation plan.

fill your gas tank. plan to leave with ample time to get to a safe area. >> jon: rick leventhal reporting live from san juan, puerto rico. >> another hot, sunny day here in san juan. no better sign this city is already back to normal. the lounge chairs are put on the beach again after residents the three million residents of this u.s. territory were put on notice that dorian could make a direct impact on the center of this island. they took all sorts of preparations and fortunately for san juan and puerto rico still recovering from hurricane maria two years ago the preps weren't necessary. a different story in the u.s. virgin islands hit hard yesterday by this category 1 hurricane. st. thomas, st. croix, st. john, high winds, heavy rains, power knocked out to the islands. curfew put in place scheduled to be lifted at dawn today. now the storm heading into the

open atlantic strengthening forecast hitting florida possibly as a category 3. gas lines and empty store shelves at people in florida get ready. >> getting ready for the hurricane. >> sandra: getting prepared if the storm comes. >> want to protect against what's coming potentially. >> the governor declared a state of emergency last night and tweeted he spoke with the president to give him an update and president reassured him florida has the full support of the federal government as residents prepare for the storm and trump said puerto rico is in great shape. thank you to fema and first responders being so well prepared. great result. bad news, florida get ready. storm is building and will be big. so again here in san juan the schools are open today, ports are open, airports back in normal operations breathe than a big sigh of relief. >> jon: nervous weekend ahead

for folks in florida. >> sandra: now on to a fox news exclusive. the department of homeland securing barring staff frers the democratic led house oversight committee from visiting border facilities this week after disruptive behavior on their last trip. joining us now juan williams, fox news political analyst and co-host of the five. good morning. they were disruptive, refused to follow instructions during their last trip. so they're making the case -- democrats are saying they didn't like what we were seeing at the border. what's going on? >> politics overlaid on the immigration issue which is highly political. in this situation what you have is the department of homeland security saying on the last visit attempts to take pictures, to do interviews, proved to be disruptive to them and they're saying you also had a situation in some cases members of the congressional delegation even crossed over the border saying it's contrary to their rules.

what you hear from elijah cummings the chair of the oversight committee is in fact that dhs doesn't want reports on the conditions and the kind of experiences that people are having. >> sandra: the question s is that fair for him to say that based on what we're hearing from the facilities who said the staff behavior interfered with law enforcement operations on the ground there, refused to leave one site after their scheduled window causing problems and then they were skipping other tours where officials were waiting for them on the ground and they never showed. time was being wasted and they were also reportedly rude to officers. so there was a lot going on here including not abiding by the rules and the time limits that were set. so were they right to say not this time? >> no. these are elected members of congress and they're a branch of government. they may report to the executive but congress has oversight responsibility. this is the oversight committee. so what you get here is we are

a government of laws. and we should have the ability for our elected officials to go and see if laws are being followed. and now you get a situation again i say that's the kind of cut and dry approach but the politics here are so intense. you have policies being put in place. >> sandra: it wasn't a firm no. they could have said we will commit to abiding by the rules and time frames. dhs says unless we receive a firm commitment that the committee and staff will comply with existing guidelines and policies they would have said set the rules and we'll follow them. >> that would negate the ability of the congressional officials to investigate the conditions in the detention centers and tt border. >> sandra: gillibrand is out. the 2020 field narrows, a lot of members of your party not happy about some of the rules that were placed on entering into this third debate. here is tulsi gabbard on tucker carlson last night.

>> there is a whole bunch of different polls that have come out. dnc has only recognized some of them as being qualifying polls for the debate. people deserve having that transparency. ultimately it's the people who will decide who our democratic nominee will be and who the next president will be and when you see that lack of transparency it creates a lack of faith and trust in the process. >> obviously the big news this morning is the fact that kristen gillibrand left the race. she thought the democratic national committee did the best they could. tulsi gabbard didn't qualify and tom steyer who put in millions of dollars and lambasted by montana governor bullock for buying the system. it didn't work. he couldn't get that 2% necessary in the polls. so now you have a situation where it's going to be just 10

democrats on one stage september 12th in houston. >> sandra: had there been one more added entry by the deadline it would have been a two-night. >> what you get is a situation for the democrats they see the winnowing of the field. you have an october debate and tulsi gabbard may qualify for that. you have people who have dropped out now, a good number. hickenlooper, inslee, molton. kirsten gillibrand dropped out. >> sandra: the president said i'm glad they never found out she was the one i was really afraid of. we'll leave it there. final topic here lawrence o'donnell the msnbc store retracting a story and issuing an apology last night. >> i repeated statements a single source told me about the president's finances and loan documents.

i didn't go through the verification and standards propers at msnbc before receipting what i heard from my source. the attorneys from the president said the story is false. tonight we're retracting the story. it wasn't ready for broadcast and for that i apologize. >> sandra: certainly made waves last night. you heard him at the end. he did receive a letter from the president's legal team demanding the retraction and apology and there it was. >> they deserved it. we don't know if the story was right or wrong. he retracted the story and said it was an error to put it on the air without proper vetting and a single source. that's not good journalism. >> sandra: thanks for your reaction. jon. >> jon: fox news alert. a manhunt underway for a married couple considered armed and dangerous. blaine and susan barksdale are facing murder charges.

the couple overpowered prison guards and escaped from a transport vehicle earlier this week. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with the latest. >> the f.b.i. and u.s. marshall, local highway patrols on the lookout for the couple thought to be riding a red gm sierra pickup truck. damage to the passenger side fender and rear bumper. in april the couple allegedly sets fire to a house and burns to death a man living in side, 72-year-old. then the couple flee to upstate new york hiding in an rv and spotted and captured by police. they have to be extradited back to arizona to face charges. rather than being flown the county activates $120,000 a year contract with security transport services to drive the couple from new york to arizona. along the way in utah, the

couple overpowers the guards, steals the van, ditches it in arizona and steals this red pickup. they're now on the run. armed and dangerous and could be headed back to tucson. >> we can't believe that this thing happened. the transport company, they really screwed up big time. somebody -- they didn't follow protocol or didn't do what they were supposed to and that's why this thing happened. >> barksdale has heavy tattoos on his arms and hand. they have no money and they could commit more crimes. tucson suspended the contract with the transport company. >> jon: i'm sure viewers in that part of the country will be on the lookout. >> sandra: major drug companies considering massive pay-outs to settle opioid cases after the

verdict against johnson & johnson. pam bondi will weigh in on what it means for the ongoing crisis. >> jon: a u.s. city issuing a health alert over vaping as one manufacturer unveils a new system to curb teenagers from buying e-cigarettes. >> sandra: plus alexandria ocasio-cortez, the congresswoman saying young people are more informed now than older generations. >> one thing that i love so much about this new generation is the radical acceptance that i see. and experience adventure in unexpected places... ♪ who were inspired by different cultures ♪ and found that the past can create new memories...

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>> sandra: north carolina police arresting a college freshman on charges of keeping guns in his dorm room. prosecutors saying the 19-year-old planned to shoot

himself and his roommate if he didn't get accepted into an eternity and studied video of mass shootings. officers arrested him tuesday after his classmates went to school security. the case illustrates the importance of reporting suspicious activity. >> i think young people are more informed and dynamic than their predecessors. i think this new generation is very profound and very strong and very brave because they're actually willing to go to the streets. how about that? >> jon: that's congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez claiming that millennials and generation z better understand our history than previous generations. praising them for not being afraid to have difficult conversations. let's bring in byron york, chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner" and fox news contributor. how would you assess her

reading of history here, byron. >> well, it seems that representative ocasio-cortez has not heard about or read about the 1960s. and anyone who has read about that time or remembers it themselves will remember a generation that was pretty involved in this sort of stuff. she is correct in the sense that i'm sure she is very happy that the generation z is very democratic. millennials and generation z do lean democrat in a very, very heavy way. and i think she and others see that as an indication for a bright future for them in elections. >> jon: she also says they're willing to puncture more tab oos,. more on that. >> i think they're more sensitive in a positive way in that they actually care about other people's experiences and

lives. i think they are profoundly courageous because they're willing to puncture tab oos and conversations that older generations struggle to have. >> jon: they're called snowflakes and needing safe spaces. >> when she talks about older generations she might be referring to her own situation where there is a certain 79-year-old speaker of the house and a 78-year-old house majority leader, and other leaders who are in their late 70s. look, she is at the forefront of a generational struggle inside the house not only a struggle of progressives against more centrist democrats, but up against -- younger people versus older. i think it's pretty clear in

the democratic party you have a presidential race in which the top three contenders biden, sanders and warren, are all in their 70s and you have a house leadership in which the top three democrats clyburn, hoyer and pelosi are all in their late 70s. there is a generational issue going on inside the democratic party. >> jon: her previous career she was a bartender and it probably made for good discussion. i want to look at a piece you've written, the headline is the justice department inspector general has done a separate report on james comey. that's in the "washington examiner", your reporting there, byron. why, do we know? >> we don't know. we've talked a lot about this upcoming inspector general's report. we've been really anticipating what might be in it and when it might show up. it is going to cover what

republicans call fisa abuse but a much broader examination, we think, into some of the origins of the trump/russia investigation in 2016. and now we learn that as part of that the inspector general of the justice department michael horowitz prepared a separate report on james comey, the fired f.b.i. director. that will be released sometime before the bigger report is released. we think that it concerns mostly comey's handling of the so-called comey memos. those are the memos he wrote up about his conversations with president-elect and then president trump and then he specifically leaked some of those to "the new york times" with the hope of setting off a firestorm that would ultimately result in the appointment of a special counsel. ended up he was very successful on that score. >> jon: senator lindsey graham

said he thinks we'll see the report show an effort to defraud the fisa court by feeding it false information. >> you've seen a lot of this from republicans. we do know that the f.b.i. presented information from the so-called steele dossier, the discredited dossier that had all these all gigss about trump and russia. the f.b.i. included some of that in the application for a warrant to wiretap carter page. what we don't know is what else was going on? we hope to learn that from the horowitz report. >> jon: it will be fascinating reading when it does come out. byron york. >> sandra: republicans reacting to the surprise resignation of johnny isaacson. how democrats are reacting and what it could mean for the balance of power in the senate. >> jon: also hurricane dorian now threatening to deliver a

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>> jon: a union representing new york police officers now voting no confidence in mayor bill deblasio and commissioner james o'neill. also calling for both to resign or be fired. this all coming in response to the commissioner's decision to fire officer daniel pantaleo. he was seen using a choke hold that was momentary and accidental during the arrest five years ago of eric garner who died in the process. deblasio's office is an attempt

to divide the city saying the city is the safest it's ever been. >> this changed over the last 48 hours. it shifted and has a path to strengthen with some pretty open stretch of water and potentially impact anywhere from southern florida all the way up to florida at this point. and so just everyone have your plan and we'll get more resolution and certainty over the next 24 to 48 hours. >> jon: former governor ron desantis declaring a state of emergency in more than two dozen counties ahead of hurricane dorian. the storm expected to strengthen into a category 3 hurricane before making landfall over the holiday weekend. let's bring in brock long, executive chairman of a consulting firm and fema chairman. we appreciate your time this morning. a situation you're quite familiar with. what does the next 24 to 48 hours look like when you're

preparing for something like this? >> well, right now the most important thing is anybody from the florida keys well into the georgia coast should be paying very close attention to what happens. and any small change in the forecast at this point can have huge ramifications along the coast in three days from now. talking with the national hurricane center and others that are in there working the forecasts, there is nothing in the way of this storm that will keep it from rapidly intensifying. wind sheer will subside and water temperatures are prime so i think you can expect to see dorian a major hurricane somewhere along the florida coast. the other thing about this storm is that if you look at the forecast track it is forecast to reserve through the southeast. a lot of the river basins inside florida are very saturated which means it is not just going to be an intense wind and storm surge along the coast but there could be major ramifications from the inland flooding as it does travel out through the southeast.

>> sandra: as far as hurricane safety, how do residents on the ground prepare for that? >> they have to be proactive. citizens are the true first responder for emergency and disaster. the actions they take right now, taking action now will help bolster the overall response because responses to an event like this is a team sport. it starts with neighbor helping neighbor to the federal emergency management agency that works its tail off to serve other people. so the most important thing document the stuff that -- document your house, the contents within it. make sure that you are heeding all warnings that are issued by local officials within the county emergency management area and heed them quickly. >> sandra: really important stuff there as we await this storm. it is making its way and preparations are certainly being made. i want to ask you because of your experience and you

overseeing hurricane maria, some of the criticism out there on the trump administration for diverting this $155 million from fema to the border as this hurricane approaches and as we enter hurricane season. here is democratic leader nancy pelosi taking on the president on this to pick the pockets of disaster relief funding in order to fund a family incarceration plan is staggering and to do so on the eve of hurricane season is stunningly reckless. how do you respond to those criticisms out there? >> i don't have all the inside information as to the reasons why dhs needed to go into the disaster relief fund. they've got a very important and complex mission and it is probably never an ideal situation in having to fund parts of their mission. what's most important here is there is over $27 billion in

the disaster relief fund right now. there is plenty of money to fight dorian as well as other storms that may be behind dorian. the other thing is as fema administrator several times i had to be very proactive and give congress a heads up to say the brf is being depleted very rapidly or very quickly. we may need to have supplemental funding put forward. as a result of that pete gainor, an emergency manager, will be proactive and asking congress and giving them a heads-up if there are any issues to fund this. that issue doesn't keep me up at night right now. >> sandra: very interesting. the administration makes the case those funds are for immigrant detention space, temporary hearing locations for asylum seekers and that these funds will allow the government to fund nearly 7,000 additional beds for immigrant detainees. great to get your reaction and perspective on all this as we continue to watch hurricane

dorian gain strength. brock long, appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, sandra. >> jon: a major u.s. city now issuing an urgent warning about vaping as lung disease cases continue to rise in the nation. >> i woke up about 6 or 6:30 the next morning throwing up everywhere. i could feel my heart pounding out of my chest going 100 miles per hour. >> jon: one city is taking action telling residents to stop vaping immediately. >> sandra: the trump administration issuing another immigration rule that has critics fuming. former florida a.g. pam bondi will be here to react. atlanta on monday... ... cincinnati on tuesday. ...philly on wednesday. ...and thursday back to cincinnati . modernized comfort inns and suites have been refreshed

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e-cigarettes. the health department for that city put out the health alert on wednesday. this follows the state of wisconsin confirming 16 cases of illness linked to vaping. they're investigating another 50. federal officials say they're looking at another 200 cases of potential lung disease across 22 states linked to vaping. the milwaukee journal sentinel is talking about a sophomore who started vaping and at 20 he has the lungs of a 70-year-old. they target kids with marketing. they have flavors like bubble gum. >> vaping in teenagers is causing harm to our kids and we want that message to be loud and clear. >> last friday the illinois department of public health said there was a man hospitalized after vaping and then died. the symptoms of vaping related illness range from shortness of

breath, fever, chill, digestive problems and use of the chemical thc the active ingredient in pot. it's focused on the company of juul. they just announced it is working with e-cigarette vendors for an i.d. verification system to prevent the vaping products from being sold to kids. >> sandra: mike tobin. we'll watch it. thank you. >> jon: a major policy change by the trump administration will impact the u.s. citizenship for children of some service members and government employees born outside the united states. the u.s. citizenship and immigration services stating children residing abroad with their u.s. citizen parents who are u.s. government employees or members of the u.s. armed forces stationed abroad are not considered to be residing in the united states for acquisition of citizenship. let's bring in pam bondi, former florida attorney general.

this makes it sound like i have a son who is in the military, overseas. he wasn't married at the time. if he had a kid overthere makes it sound like that child won't be a u.s. citizen. >> and jon, you said it very accurately. it makes it sound like. that's what nancy pelosi has been doing with all the propaganda saying that it is an attack on our citizens, an attack on our military. and it is not. they're following the law and the director has made it clear. the perfect example is if you're a solder overseas and marry a woman who has a child. that child needs to establish residency in the united states afterwards. it's in no way, shape or form according to the white house going to block anyone from becoming a citizen. they just have to establish residency like the state department and do it in the right way. >> jon: a tweet from the director. he writes the policy manual update doesn't impact who is

born a u.s. citizen. only affects children born outside the u.s. and were not u.s. citizens. this does not impact birthright citizenship. so the hu and cry from nancy pelosi and others is misguided you're saying. >> it is and it's a shame we all can't work together now and she used the word attack and horrible for families. that's not the case at all. if she read the manual, no one is going to try to block children who are part of our service members from becoming u.s. citizens if they're born abroad. >> jon: you're in washington now. when you were attorney general in florida you were heavily involved in the opioid crisis. purdue pharma is one of the companies now offering to settle some of the thousands of lawsuits that have been brought against it by states and counties. what do you think of the settlement offer here? >> jon, when i was attorney general i filed one of the most comprehensive lawsuits in the entire country against

manufacturers and distrib itors. it's still pending. i'm glad these corporations are stepping up to the plate. they need to. we have lost thousands and thousands of lives in florida. when i was running for office in 2010 i couldn't go to any city in the state of florida without hugging a parent who had lost their child to an opioid overdose. the numbers are going down. i sat on president trump's opioid commission. he cares deeply about this issue. they have to accept responsibility. it is what you do next now. they all need to accept responsibility and frankly i tell people there are still doctors out there who are overprescribing and they need to cut it out as well. >> jon: i have had a bunch of orthopedic surgeries and taken opioids. haven't been addicted. i'm glad they're out there. they do a wonderful job. what is it about the marketing, the way they're marketed that leads you to believe these companies are responsible?

>> jon, that's true. we have to have opioids after surgery and serious things. but it is how you give them, the dose that you prescribe. it has to be a very low dose. people need to be weaned off them, not extensive doses for minor surgery. you are one of the lucky ones. we see so many athletes and people in every walk of life becoming addicted to these horrible drugs. it's all about money for these companies and the way they were marketing them knowing good and well that these are so highly, highly addictive. and it continued on and on after the deaths started occurring. you know, it's a sickness to get addicted to this and these people are victims and that's what we have to stop and protect our citizens not only in florida but in the entire country from this horrible epidemic. >> jon: looks like hurricane dorian will slam florida, a

pretty big storm possibly category 3. there are always scams and price gouging in the wake of the storms. what do you have to say to the people of florida as it approaches? >> governor desantis has enacted the emergency order meaning that the price gouging statute is in effect. if you're raising the prices of water, essential commodities, wood to board up your house, sandbags or anything, you cannot raise the price of essential commodities once we're in a state of emergency. if you are, the attorney general's office will go after you and you'll be in trouble. can't raise the price of hotel rooms. what the standard price would have been this time of year. folks, please get out of there. you never know what's going to happen. as opposed to a tornado or an earthquake with hurricanes we have plenty of notice to get out and that's what people need to do. just be safe. >> jon: pam bondi. the former attorney general of the state of florida. thank you for being with us.

>> sandra: a story we've been watching. amazon announcing now more than 400 law enforcement agencies have partnered with its ring security service participating departments can request footage from those doorbell smart cameras. something that has sparked privacy concerns. amazon has released an interactive map where users can see if police in your area signed on. it is now over 400. 405 at last look. privacy advocates are concerned about this. if you're interested there is a map and see if your local police department is partnered with amazon. >> jon: the most exciting thing i saw from my doorbell is a coyote. >> sandra: let's hope it stays that way. >> jon: the racing world is mourning the loss of the fastest woman an wheels. jesse colmes. what we're learning about the tragic accident that took her life. >> homeland security department barring democratic staffers

from looking at a border facility after rude and disruptive behavior. we'll get reaction from today's headliner, louisiana senator john kennedy will join us.

>> when you say we're going to withdraw, i don't think about it as we're going to withdraw. i think about we'll initiate interafghan dialogue leading to peace and stability. not being a sanctuary from which we can be attacked. right now it is our judgment the afghans need support to deal with the level of violence that is associated with the insurgency today. >> sandra: that was the chairman of the joint chiefs addressing the peace talks with the taliban. too early to talk about a full withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. let's bring in johnny joey jones. not using the withdraw word

right now since the joint chiefs of staff chair on afghanistan. your reaction. >> general did you again dunford is a great human being. when you serve in the marine corp and military and four-star general. you have honor and commitment and honoring relationship. most of these generals have a conviction toward allies we look at in the region. what will happen in 10 years and next five years? when he justifies staying in afghanistan on the premise that we're leaving the afghan government a commitment behind, i don't know if that's really taking into account what's best for our country or maybe it is. what i'm not hearing is rhetoric or even factual information on what we think will happen when we leave. do we truly believe they'll regain -- the taliban, isis, pick your poison, will regain control of the country and have an opportunity to train and

have resources there? or is it simply we feel like we're leaving the afghan people high and dry? two different things and this country has to decide which one we're willing to be invested in. >> sandra: 14,000 troops remained in afghanistan. what mostly and is there role there. >> we say advisory role. a lot of ways to take that advisory role and make it combative. we're doing offensive operations. if we bring in four afghanis to lead the charge and take out a high-value target it's advisory in a combative situation. i don't know personally what those situations are every single day. i know that with 14,000 troops you're trying to hold kabul, kandahar, some of the places that we feel like are important and you are also trying to stop the growth of the taliban as they are beginning to regain half the country. i was in year two years ago saying the taliban had less than a third of the country. every time i talk about it i

see what they have today. that's part of the problem. >> sandra: we want peace and stability for the afghan people. the op-ed penned by james mattis. former defense secretary. duty, democracy and the threat of tribalism. he warns about the fallout from fractured alliances and divisiveness under the current administration. he is speeng out, why? >> he is speaking out against politics in our country today. no one represents politics in our country better than president trump. i voted for him. i probably will and i like his style and most policies. a four star general that led troops into war and honor, courage and commitment won't like that style or like a rally where you rip people up and get them on your side and pander to your base. when you take that same style in the foreign policy they'll be offended by it. when you tell someone i know we made this commitment and shook hands on this but it doesn't

turn out the way i want it to and back out of it. in real estate it makes a lot of sense and maybe politics it does. in a military culture it doesn't work. is it helpful to undermine your strongest defense advisor? it goes back and forth. >> sandra: he suggested he left his post as the defense secretary with concerns about keeping faith with our allies. warning america cannot go it alone. want to ask you about the iran and the latest coming from there. this is the foreign minister says the united states is engaged in economic war against the iranian people. it won't be possible for us to engage with the u.s. unless they stop imposing a warren gauging in what he called economic terrorism. joey, the latest on iran this back and forth and bring it back to the g-7 earlier this week when the french president urged president trump to meet with iran and come to the table. your thoughts. >> i think this is the trump

doctrine now. the trump doctrine you have the tools in the your tool box, why debate them or figure them out individually? if president trump can use economics to solve a military problem he will try to do it. past presidents have said we'll make a deal here even though we have problems there. even though iran supports terrorism and hezbollah, hamas and big problems with iran we'll make a nuclear deal that looks good on paper. president trump says wait a minute. i can stop you from selling your oil, right and you'll have to come to the table. i think they are feeling the pressure. is enriching their own uranium for nuclear power program worth going broke? president trump is in that position. the defining factor will be will all our allies join us in this or will we go it alone? if we go it alone we may not be suck susful. >> jon: a new op-ed has

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>> jon: race car driver and tv personality jessi combs has died in a jet car crash. the accident happened tuesday while combs was attempting to break her own land speed record. she reportedly was trying to hit 619 miles an hour. with more is laura en gal. >> her death is not only a devastating loss to her family, friends and fans but to the entire racing community who embraced jessie for her fearless drive to continue to push the boundaries of speed and her never-ending love of everything automotive. the 39-year-old was killed tuesday as you mentioned while

attempting to beat a land speed record in a dry lake bed in a desert in southeast oregon. the caption, it may seem crazy to walk directly into the line of fire. those who are willing are those who are achieving great things. people say i'm crazy. i say thank you. combs was pronounced dead at the scene after a fiery crash of the north american eagle. 64 foot long jet car capable of generating 45,000 horsepower. the cause of the crash still unknown and being investigated. combs was familiar face oh tv. she appeared as a host and builder on the show myth busters and co-hosted and made appearances on programs like extreme 4 by 4 and spike tv and all girls garage on the velocity channel. family and friends are planning a celebration of her life saying they will create a foundation to continue her efforts to empower women and

young girls. a tragic loss. >> jon: she will be missed. thanks very much,. >> sandra: we'll tell the reason why democratic staffers were banned. and senator john kennedy from louisiana next hour.

>> sandra: fox news aler. here comes hurricane dorian expected to hit the florida

coast as a cat 3 storm this labor day weekend. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." it is thursday morning, everybody. i'm sandra smith. >> jon: bad timing for the labor day thing. i'm jon scott in for bill hemmer. dorian just gave a glancing blow to puerto rico. brock long told us last hour about the challenges ahead. >> the most important thing is anybody from the florida keys well into the georgia coast should be paying close attention to what happens. any small change in the forecast at this point can have huge ramifications along the coast in three days from now. but talking with the national hurricane center and others that are in there working the forecasts, there is nothing in the way of this storm that will keep it from rapidly intensifying. >> jon: meteorologist adam is tracking dorian from the fox extreme weather center. adam. >> he is right. this storm is going to continue

to intensify. it has since yesterday. now 150 miles north of the island of puerto rico. yesterday a tropical storm. today a category 1 hurricane. before day is over category 2. winds up to 85 miles per hour and gusting over 100 miles per hour. this will only strengthen as it runs over warm water. the projected path right now. it will intensify. by early this afternoon we project jumping up to category 2 storm. winds up to 100 miles an hour or greater. as this storm continues to turn and bend its way towards the florida coast becoming a category 3 storm. it is getting into early monday morning our time frame as of right now. it runs into florida weakening once it gets over land. the potential model suggesting perhaps a category 1 hurricane in the center of the state. that would be damaging for a lot of areas. our tropical models show you all the possibilities. still a wide area. some of the models running as

far south as the florida keys. others turning and running toward jacksonville. a lot of the models grab this and turn it to the north. several take it into the gulf of mexico. all of this not happening until getting into tuesday and wednesday of next week. a long ways off. plenty can change. one thing that is not going to change and this is important is that intensity. it's a category 1 storm and nothing from where it is now and where it is ultimately going to go. everything between here and there is very warm water. that's what fuels the systems. 85 to 86, 87 degrees. it looks like, jon, it will be a powerful storm. it will arrive late sunday into monday but where exactly it is going to arrive there is room for that. we'll figure it out over the next couple of days. >> jon: it could be a hurricane beyond florida if it gets into the gulf. >> yes. >> jon: adam. thank you. >> sandra: as we track that hurricane president trump's plan to divert disaster relief funding to the border.

top democrats slamming the move but in 2014 then president obama did the exact same thing diverting millions of dollars to deal with the crisis at the border. let's bring in the a-team jessica tar love. amos snead and cheryl casone from the fox business network. why is it different this time, jessica? this arguably it is more money that obama had sent to the border from fema funds, $267 million. >> my understanding reading what's men made available and what democrats have said, john castor who heads the senate appropriations committee the trump administration hasn't shown reasoning for the extraordinary circumstances that imminently threaten the safety of human life or the protection of property. currently with this hurricane coming that the timing is just crazy. so the segment before we're talking about a hurricane that

will hit america, already hit parts of puerto rico. we had to send $42 billion to puerto rico after hurricane maria. if you take hundreds of millions to give to ice, an organization that democrats have a huge problem with how they're running the border facilities. >> sandra: you get into the politics of it. if you just compare numbers to numbers here obama diverted much more at that time. >> i think if you look at this it takes washington getting used to. we have an elected official who is following through on campaign promises. remember, president trump ran on immigration. he ran on looking at the border and he is taken the steps. looking at immigration, border security. taken steps to roll back regulations. he has taken steps to lower prescription drug prices. we'll see from now through the sprint to next november you'll continue to see them try to fulfill the campaign promises. >> sandra: there was plenty of money to deal with what we're looking at. >> you also have the unknown

which is the unforeseen disaster like hurricane katrina katrina. you don't know what nature is going to do. your point about puerto rico. not all the money has been spent from that disaster from two years ago. when it comes to fiscal responsibility this is a imagine or precedent whether president obama or president trump shifting funds. >> sandra: something we've been waiting for. the i.g. report we're being told is out. just getting word of this now, catherine herridge is getting to a camera in washington and the breaking news as soon as we can bring it to you. >> james comey and that will be interesting. the conversations he had with president trump that he wrote memos about and whether or not that was impropriety. go back to the idea of the deficit. we are spending and spending. i'm with you on rolling back regulations and i'm with you on lowering the corporate tax rate and things like that but the unforeseen is the concern here as far as the money going to ice. >> sandra: let's pick up on the inspector general report as we

try to get access to whatever we're being given access to here and get your thoughts leading up to that jessica and amos. >> we were talking about this on the business network this morning. the report -- the i.g. is just looking at james comey. this has nothing to do with the collusion and the fisa warrants and the abuse and the investigating the investigators. a separate look from the i.g. at james comey's actions when he was still f.b.i. director and whether or not it was illegal, were his actions illegal. some said he should be brought up on charges. >> sandra: let me read you one line from what we're getting here. official release. the d.o.j. inspector general report has been released. report of investigation of the former f.b.i. director james comey's disclosure of sensitive investigative information and handling of certain memos. digging deep into the third paragraph here this stands out. as described in today's report,

the oig concluded that the memos were official f.b.i. records. i'll keep reading into this, you respond to that. >> how many hours will we talk about this today until it goes immediately to political talking point? half an hour, full hour? we'll see if it continues. >> sandra: the oig determined comey violated applicable policies in his employment agreement by providing one of the unclassified memos that contained official f.b.i. information, including sensitive investigative information to his friends with instructions for the friend to share the contents of the memo with a reporter. jessica. >> i believe his friend is the columbia professor and on its way to the "new york times." the way it was being discussed and certainly looking at the content of the situation expected this would always be something that we would revisit and comey made comments in the past few days that indicated the a.g. might find some of his

behavior not up to code. >> earlier it had been recommended that justice should look into this more and look into comey's actions whether it was illegal. he was fired a month after those. >> he was not fired -- >> sandra: let's get the news out there before we have the reaction. james comey is responding sent out a tweet. found no evidence that comey or his attorney -- he is quoting the i.g. report that his attorneys released any classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media. this is james comey. i don't need a public apoll gee from those who defamed me but a quick message with a sorry we lied about you would be nice. i'll take you back, however, to the i.g. report. what it said further about james comey in those memos that were stored in the safe in his ohm. the oig determined kept copies

of four of the seven memos in a personal safe at his home and after his removal as f.b.i. director violated f.b.i. policies and his f.b.i. employment agreement by failing to notify the f.b.i. that he had retained them or to seek authorization to retain them. >> none of us have read the report if full. we're hearing tidbits of it. i would like to see it. if you look at comey is going to the bottom line here, right? we didn't find large wrongdoing and there will be bits and pieces of things he did do wrong and breaches of protocol. the conversation swirling in the last few days. those will be the small pieces. actually sounds reminiscent and i'll wait until i look at it. the indictment, non-indictment of hillary clinton over the emails. at the end of the day it wasn't something we were going to go after her for but there were x, y and z things done wrong.

classified versus unclassified information which is a very big deal. i don't know about the rules and what you can store in your safe and what you have to turn over. >> jon: he argued so many of these memos he wrote were his own personal memos. the inspector general is saying no, some of this was f.b.i. -- these were f.b.i. reports and should have been maintained under f.b.i. confidentiality. i want to go to the end of the report where it says comey's unauthorized disclosure of sensitive law enforcement information about the investigation merits similar criticism in a country built on rule of law it is of utmost importance that all f.b.i. employees adhere to department and f.b.i. policies particularly when confronted by what appear to be extraordinary circumstances. comey had several other lawful options available to him to advocate for the appointment of a special counsel. now that's what he was trying to do when he handed off these reports to a friend of his. >> they dig into the use of his

personal scanner, his personal email to jessica's point brings up the hillary clinton era we have all gone through. again his personal memos. sounds to me from what i'm reading. it is a large report. what the i.g. is saying is he was the f.b.i. director at the time and that he was actually using personal technology at his home maybe he should not have been doing that. >> sandra: catherine herridge got to a camera for us and has the report in hand now and catherine, what are you concluding from it? >> for folks at home. the inspector general is the justice department's internal watchdog and it is not every day that the inspector general is tasked with investigating the actions of a former f.b.i. director who really sets the tone at the top of the bureau for 35,000 people. and this report is lengthy and looks at three key issues. it looks at the issue of these

memos that comey took to document his conversations with the president and he testified that he leaked some of those documents in order to kick start the special counsel investigation. some of those memos contained classified information so the question before the inspector general was whether he had mishandled classified information. that would have been a violation of 18usc793f. the show how things come full circle, it was the same statute he investigated hillary clinton over for the mishandling of classified information. the second thing is whether he properly stored these memos. they were f.b.i. government records. he took them outside of the f.b.i. and he held them at his home and then he shared them with a columbia professor daniel rickman, a special government employee, a very unusual status for someone. he confirmed to us it was unpaid but he was the vehicle, if you will, for the leaking of these memos. and then finally the thing to look for is whether director

comey was straight forward with investigators about his actions on the memos. there is something in f.b.i. speak called lack of candor. that means the individual has spun their explanation and not been straightforward with investigators. i'm going through the records right now. already i see a pretty significant headline. you remember director comey if you want to come back to me here one second and get off the file video. in this section on page 52 there is a very important headline from the inspector general. when director comey testified he said he felt these memos were his personal recollections of recorded events but this is an explanation which does not satisfy the inspector general. he states comey's characterization of the memos as personal records -- this is important, finds no support in the law and is wholly incompatible with the plain language of the statute. he found comey's explanation

that he could take these records because they were like a diary or personal memo or journals. it doesn't wash according to the inspector general. his language wholly incompatible with the statutes and no support in the law. if i find more i'll come back to you. >> sandra: it went on after that to say by definition federal records include all recorded information regardless of form or characteristics made or received by a federal agency. while you're digging through that as we noted james comey had already responded on twitter quoting a portion of the report. he has followed up with another tweet. i'll read it. to all those who have spent two years talking about me going to jail or being a liar and leaker, ask yourselves why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president? what does that tell you, catherine, about the way james comey is taking in this report? >> comey is trying to get out

in front of the investigation findings and the reason he has so much incite into the findings, the inspector general gives the target of the investigation an opportunity to respond once the findings have neared their completion. director comey has a full aperture into the findings of this report. it doesn't change some of the -- if i could say cold, hard facts of the findings here. on page 54 it states comey violated department and f.b.i. policies pertaining to the retention, handling, and dissemination of f.b.i. records and information. that is important because again the statute when it comes to the mishandling of classified information, shows no requirement for intent and we know from f.b.i. 302, i have them here, these are f.b.i. interviews with the former director, when they went to his home he had four memos at his home but then he told them that two were missing.

so losing government records, if they were unclassified or classified, is a violation of the f.b.i. policies and also according to this report his employment agreement. >> sandra: catherine herridge on that breaking news for us this morning. we're making our way through this together, the breaking news. to have james comey prepared to respond so quickly to all of this we want to bring in -- are you ready on the report? >> i haven't seen the report but let's do it. >> sandra: i can put what i can in front of you. i have the report here and i can tell you the key findings. jon, if you have that still up in front of you. >> jon: one of the questions is whether the inspector general, very rare for an inspector general to go and take a look at the head of the f.b.i., which is the nation's premier law enforcement agency. one of the questions is whether there would be a referral to the department of justice for possible prosecution here. i guess not having read the report you don't know the

answer to that question. >> i don't. what you bring up is interesting. when we were dealing with the top echelon of government, with all these investigations, whether hillary clinton or donald trump or now the head -- former head of the f.b.i., this is something where typically these people are doing the prosecuting. here we have agencies investigating them. there will be a referral to the d.o.j. >> my impression was, we're still reading this, there wouldn't be a referral. the i.g. report says he did not follow d.o.j. guidelines but also did not disseminate classified information or commit another crime. the argument people are making with jim comey, the argument he is making he was facing extraordinary circumstances to have the president of the united states of america putting pressure on an f.b.i. director in this way. he responded in an extraordinary way as well. my impression from the top line findings here the i.g. is acknowledging that he did wrong

but that there would not be a referral. >> jon: catherine herridge has new information. >> a few minutes ago we talked about something called lack of candor. in f.b.i. that's when an individual is questioned but they aren't straight forward or spin their answer or they obscure critical information. what this report states is that the former director understood the terms of his employment agreement and an obligation to return all of the records once he left his f.b.i. employment. but he failed to reveal to multiple individuals within the f.b.i. some of whom came to his home, that he had taken the records. i'll read this section here. we found it was particular tlarly concerning that comey did not tell anyone from the f.b.i. that he retained copies of the memos in his personal safe at home even when his chief of staff, the f.b.i.'s associate deputy director and three ssas, senior agents, came to comey's house on may 12th,

2017, to inventory and remove all f.b.i. property. so two important points right there. number one when he had an opportunity to tell people he had these memos, he had retained them after his employment had ended when he was fired by the president, he didn't volunteer that he had those records to multiple f.b.i. employees and kept them in a personal safe at home. that may seem like a small issue, but if you can come back to me i can explain why it's a big issue. it is a big issue because some of those memos contained classified information. it was at a low level. but there is a requirement for that material to be secured in what is called a scif, a special compartmented information facility. a high standard for protecting classified information and a personal safe in someone's home would not meet that standard. again, that doesn't properly retain or store classified

information and then he was not forthcoming with multiple f.b.i. agents that he had retained those records. >> sandra: catherine herridge. thank you. >> jon: we have our a-team with us but also have andy mccarthy joining us on the phone, fox news contributor and former federal prosecutor. andy, your first thoughts as we get the word on this inspector general's report on james comey. >> well, without having sat down and read the report i think it's always been problematic that the way he handled these documents of his from the beginning. what we heard at the very beginning was that he didn't even regard them as government records, he regarded them as he put it at the time, recollection recorded or aids before we really had a big issue about whether it was classified or not. i've always thought the fact that some of it was classified was troubling but he shouldn't have been handling any of it

because it was really government records. i cut him some slack because the f.b.i. director is always on duty so the fact that at least at some points he had these kinds of sensitive documents outside the possession of the safe government place i think you have to be reasonable about that. but when you are dealing with classified information that's a big problem and it is an even bigger problem because the huge investigation that the headquarters of the f.b.i. took over here, which was so consequential to the way we've lived for the last three years, the clinton email investigation about mishandling classified information. so these were the people who had to make the judgment about whether mrs. clinton were to be charged or not and we're getting a sense of what they themselves thought of their obligation. >> sandra: all right. andy mccarthy, stand by with us and continue on the breaking news, catherine herridge is digging through that nearly 80-page report and has found

something new. >> one of the critical issues in the investigation is whether comey was really within his rights, if you will, to take these memos and disclose them to "the new york times" in an effort to kick start a special counsel investigation. and what it states is that quote, comey improperly disclosed f.b.i. documents and information. and this is the first time that we've had a window into what comey told the inspector general about his motivation. it is important to listen to the language because the finding of the inspector general against director comey and the handling of the clinton emails is that he took matters into his own hands because he did not trust the justice department to do the same thing. and this is exactly the rationale he used to leak the memo to "the new york times" quote, james comey said he believed disclosing the

president's statement would, quote, change the game by creating extraordinary pressure on the leadership on the department of justice, which comey did not trust, to appoint a special counsel who would preserve any potential tapes of his conversations with the president. it continues, by disclosing the contents of memo 4 through rickman, the columbia university professor that comey gave a special government employee status to, to the "new york times" comey made public sensitive investigative information relating to an ongoing f.b.i. investigation. and that was information he had properly declined to disclose while still f.b.i. director during congressional testimony. so what the inspector general found here is really two-fold. number one, he was not within his authority to leak this memo documenting a conversation with the president to "the new york times." and that he took matters into his own hands

because he felt he could not trust the department of justice and that's the same theme that played out in the clinton email investigation and it was also this inspector general michael e. horowitz who faulted comey for those same actions in the clinton email case. >> jon: thank you. let's go back to andy mccarthy fox news contributor, former federal prosecutor. james comey at least prior to his firing always enjoyed a reputation of something of a boy scout in the f.b.i. a guy who was always upholding the law. this report would seem to suggest otherwise. >> well, certainly he became a law unto himself. he thinks that he had a good reason for it. but here is something, jon, i've never been able to understand. he was jim comey. he had a very big public profile. he was no longer f.b.i. director once he was removed by president trump. why leak government records? you are jim comey, you could go

out to the sidewalk and convene a press conference and he could have said whatever he wanted to say in terms of how badly he thought a special counsel was needed and why. it has never been clear to me, and i have yet to hear a rationale even if you accepted everything he is saying about that he didn't think the justice department was trustworthy and nobody who has worked at the justice department gets to make that call. so it is very presumptuous on his part to do that. what i continue to be mystified by is why do it this way? why leak internal government information regardless of whether it was classified or not? you don't get to do that. it is not your information to do or to leak. he was a private citizen at that point. if he thought that the government should appoint a special counsel, he could easily have just convened a press conference and said so and it would have had lot of impact. >> the i.g. report makes that point there were other avenues

available to him besides taking these f.b.i. memos, giving them to his friend the columbia professor and letting the friend leak them to the press. >> sandra: we're beginning to get a response. lawmaker response is coming in. jim jordan has just issued a statement saying today's report is a disappointing reminder that the former f.b.i. director put partisanship and personal ambition over patriotism. his legal obligations to the american people by leaking his confidential communications with the president in an attempt to safe face in the wake of his hiring. he believed he was above the rules of the d.o.j. actions were disgraceful and part of a wider effort within the obama justice department to undermine president trump. i'm grateful the inspector general brought these issues to light and look forward to the findings of the abuses of the fisa process. as we await that. senator john kennedy is now

joining us. senator kennedy, appreciate your time. can you jump on what we're hearing here from the inspector general report and what you've heard so far, your reaction? >> sandra, power does not change you, it unmasks you. i believed for a long time and this report confirms it, mr. comey is a meat head. he is a political hack. he hurt the f.b.i. badly. do f.b.i. agents and f.b.i. directors have political beliefs? sure they do but they aren't supposed to act on them. the f.b.i. should not be a political body. and mr. comey acted like a political operative while he was f.b.i. director and every day since. and it is just sleazy.

i think chris wray has a lot of work to do to regain the american -- the confidence of the american people for the f.b.i. >> jon: f.b.i. future directors and agents come before you in the senate or before the house of representatives, you will be looking at them with a raised eyebrow, is that what you're saying? >> well, you have to now. and look, 99% of the men and women of the f.b.i., all of whom have personal beliefs, are just professionals. but more important than congress's reaction, i don't want americans, if an f.b.i. agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a democrat or republican? he is an f.b.i. agent. his politics is not supposed to matter. and mr. comey -- i believe before this report came out, he just cheapened the premier law

enforcement agency in all of human history. he ought to hide his head in a bag. it is not right. >> sandra: he is responding and tweeted out immediately upon the release of this report. a portion of the i.g.'s findings, that they released confidential -- he said i don't need a public apology but a quick message with a sorry we lied about you would be nice. that's his response. he has also tweeted this. to all those who spent two years talking about me going to jail or being a liar and leaker ask yourselves why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president? by the way he we just got word from the white house, no reaction, no official statement from the white house yet. we do expect one shortly. but senator kennedy, the department of justice in its release of this report put out

a statement at the end of it, it concludes, upon completing the investigation -- prosecutorial decision regarding comey's conduct as required by the inspector general act. the d.o.j. declined prosecution. so that's obviously directly what james comey is responding to. >> well, just because it's not criminal in the opinion of the department of justice doesn't mean it's not sleazy. now, in terms of mr. comey's response, i think it's pretty apparent to the american people at this juncture that mr. comey is not exactly -- he never should have been appointed head of the f.b.i. and his problem is he is often wrong but he is never in doubt. and this is just one more example. >> sandra: we bring sandy mccarthy back in. senator kennedy stand by for a

minute. andy mccarthy. can you add your thoughts as we make our way through the 80-page report? >> my thoughts are mainly sadness. i really as somebody who knows jim comey for 30 years and disagreeing with him, i think this is a moment where it would be nice to have, you know, quiet intro spec shooun. i hate to see him make comments if you manage to stay one step ahead of indictment you somehow vindicated yourself when he was always my kind of idea of a public servant who got the point that you needed to hold yourself to a higher standard. so i'm hoping that he will take the time and reflect on what has happened here and maybe have a better take on it in the coming days.

>> sandra: okay. if everybody could stand by with us as the news continues to break and we make our way through this. catherine herridge, andy mccarthy and bob is standing by. senator kennedy, if we could take everything down to the southern border, the d.h.s. blocking some of these democrats from touring the border after they were interfering with law enforcement operations at the border, extending the amount of time they were given at the border longer than they were supposed to. if you could react to that this morning as it's another one of our top stories. >> whether you're a member of congress or not, if you go to the border, you have to follow the rules. it's not the big rock candy mountain down there, sandra, it is a law enforcement crisis. if somebody follows the rules and they are a member of congress they should be allowed to go.

but if they don't, they shouldn't. but let's face what this is all about. not all of them but many of my democratic friends now believe in open borders. they think anybody who wants to come into america should be able to come in. they should be eligible for welfare and food stamps and free healthcare, and they should be able to stay on those programs as long as they want. and if you disagree with my democratic friends you're a racist. now, they are entitled to their opinion but i'm entitled to mine. i think their argument is wrong, i think it's malign and on the pipe crazy. i think vetting people who want to come into your country is not racist, it is prudent. if for no other reason than public safety. every country that i'm aware of vets people before they come into their country. that's really what this is all about.

it is open borders versus enforcing america's immigration laws. now, i want to -- all my democratic friends don't believe that but more and more do. and they would be -- it would be a lot more intellect uhlly honest. if trying to interfere with law enforcement at the border they would say hey, we believe in open borders. >> jon: i want to put up a quote from a senior official at the department of homeland security who says this. due to the operational burden placed on the field. the field agents. by their refusal to comply with instruction during last week's staff delegation, customs and border protection pulled the trip in which more site visits were to take place as facilities this week. dhs communicated to the committee due to their conduct cbp could not support visits from the committee this week. critics of this proposal have said that it's just politics, that it is just department of

homeland security trying to embarrass the democrats. your reaction. >> the rule of law is not politics. there are rules, law enforcement rules at the border. let me say it again. it is not the big rock candy mountain down there. it is a law enforcement crisis. at one point i think it's a little bit better. we had 4,000 to 5,000 people a day -- a day -- coming in. i don't care who you are, democrat or republican, house member, senate member, you have to follow the rules. and if you are going to go down there and not follow the rules, then at a minimum you should be told you can't come. i mean, to me it's just as simple as that. now all of my colleagues on the democratic side -- i don't want to paint with too broad a brush. many of them are in good faith. but there are some who go down there and they do everything they can to disrupt law

enforcement. they hate border security. they hate border patrol. they hate ice. they believe in open borders. and if you disagree with them you are a racist. i just think that's on the pipe crazy. >> jon: the trump administration has been criticized for diverting fema funds, emergency preparedness funds to ice and border patrol for the southern border situation. it has also come to light the obama administration did the same thing. the numbers are pretty staggering back in 2014 the obama administration diverted $267 million from fema, $31 million from the coast guard. $35 million from transportation security administration and $70 million from customs and border protection. total of $405 million. a bigger number than the trump administration is talking about.

>> that's just one more example of some members of congress and others just trying to throw a wrench into our law enforcement machinery. i mean, everybody who cares to look knows that agencies reprogram money all the time. border security, border enforcement, and fema for example are both under the homeland security department. they reprogram money all the time. and we have to because one of the things lost in this discussion of border security at our southern border is how outrageously expensive it is. we're spending billions of dollars in taxpayer money because congress won't change the law to make it look like somebody designed it on purpose. and those billions of dollars are coming out of people's pockets and they are being taken away from money that could be spent on cops and kids

and roads. nobody talks about the cost. we just had to give the department an extra $4 billion, nine zeros, dollars a few months ago. this isn't a game. it is not a game. and i think it would be a lot easier and cheaper if my democratic friends who want open borders would just come out and say it and we want open borders. and let's debate it. >> sandra: they say that's not what they're arguing for. really quick your reaction to the georgia republican senator johnny isaacson announcing he will be resigning from the chamber at the end of the year. republican reaction, senator kennedy, your reaction to that. >> in the senate, not everybody who rides with you is riding for you. if you don't believe me, run out of gas and see who helps you push. johnny isaacson is always first in line to help you push.

he is just a good man. he is also a warrior. if he thinks what you are proposing is going to hurt america or georgia he will be right in your face. johnny wouldn't leave if he didn't have to. i think he is just -- i think he is just end of the year teacher tired and he just can't go anymore and i'll miss him every day. >> sandra: cited health concerns as well. appreciate you coming on "america's newsroom." thank you, sir. >> jon: in the meantime. >> sandra: adidas and foot locker asking the president to step into their shoes and reconsider the tariff hikes on china. >> jon: new reaction from president trump in the china trade war. charles payne our money man takes up both topics next. >> we need to deal with issues like the fact that china is

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i resisted even discussing whether or not there was a phone call. i think it is embarrassing that we have to wait for the spokesperson for the communist dictator to acknowledge these things. they've been talking. they talk almost every day. the guys write notes to each other. handwritten notes. they're negotiating behind the scenes. >> sandra: it was the administration who got the messaging -- confused message. >> a call and the rest of the media said we won't believe you unless china confirms you. the market was up on that news. and to more of the story to me is that hey, yesterday was the most amazing tell so far in the last couple days because we officially put in the record the u.s. trade representative that these tariffs will go through and the market rallied. we were down 100 points. we closed up almost 300 points. the only thing i could say they hadn't talked about the october 1 rate hike of 25%. i don't know read into that

being a positive development. we get the follow-up. i'm happy the tone is being curbed a little bit, the public tone. the tweets on our side, the so-called mouthpieces for the government on twitter, on the communist side are for public consumption on both sides. i think behind the scenes they're trying to work towards something. >> jon: it is virtually impossible these days to buy a pair of shoes that isn't somehow made in china and the athletic footwear companies have been protesting pretty vociferously to president trump. a quote from a letter they wrote him. we're very concerned the tariff action will create more economic uncertainty and a downturn will take away disposable income from u.s. consumers even if they have to pay more for product. when consumers have less money to spend we sell fewer shoes and it hurts businesses. >> i think they're very disingenuous the way they

articulate why they don't like it. they don't care about the american consumer but their operating margins. if the american consumer can absorb it. pass on 25% increase in prices, jc penney wouldn't be a 60 cent stock now. you can't do it. ceo of macy's said we can't do it and said it will have an impact. some companies this morning, best buy. sales were a disaster. blame it on the tariffs. they want to say it hurts our business and bottom line. i would be more willing to listen and say good, but, is there any way you can bring some of those jobs back? there was a time where 100% of shoes in america were made in america. >> sandra: very interesting. quick comment on this. "politico" piece published this mornings. republicans are growing anxious about the trump economy, trade war with china could undermine gop chances of holding the white house and senate. >> this morning the gdp number

was revised. personal consumption, you know that consumer that is getting beat up? soared. i can't find a higher number. i went back five or six years. i'll have to pull up an all-time chart. it was driven by durable goods. things we buy that last three years. big ticket items. refrigerators and cars is what we were buying. the american consumer getting crunched by tariffs. who knows? you can say these things and a lot can change in a year. but at this very moment forgetting about negative speculation the facts are the american consumer is very strong and carrying not only our economy but the world economy. >> sandra: gee, charles. >> something political said. we're doing great right now as a country. >> sandra: thank you. breaking story this hour the inspector general released the report on james comey.

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>> jon: democratic field narrows once again.

if you're counting new york senator kirsten gillibrand is ending her campaign after failing tore qualify for the third debate next month. only 10 candidates met the threshold to make it to the stage. we're back with our a-team jessica tarlov and amos snead. were you surprised she pulled out? >> i was surprised she pulled out when she did. there was a last minute campaign going on. if you gave her a dollar she would send you a t-shirt worth $40 which doesn't make a lot of sense mathematically. i was surprised at the timing of it. >> jon: get more donors. >> she was going to be -- unlikely she would make it and another $130 grand down. i think it's smart for people who are not making it, they have had a long time to qualify, the dnc spokeswoman saying these aren't absurd rules that you should get 2 percentage points in four polls or whatever it is and 130,000

donors considering some people are governors of states, senators and yang was able to pull it off. it flies in the face of the argument the dnc hasn't been fair. he will be on the stage. >> jon: a small-town mayor is up there and new york state senator is not. >> because she was unpopular. >> i think we saw this during the republican primary. 12 or 16 candidates and you keep watching to see who will break through. all of us were surprised to see mayor grab the media's attention like he did. if you look at the republicans, every candidate would have a day or two or week or two of a rise and reset their campaign and trump continued to stay at the top. as i watch the democratic field now i see biden taking that position. he will continue to hang out and kind of hover around number one or two and comes down to it he will end up being the candidate. >> his lead is so much more durable even people who are

biden supporters expected. he got in late, april or beyond that is still in it and leading there. no one else has been able to break through who came in that late. a testament to get in early if you're going to if you have low name i.d. we know the polls, biden is really more there than a lot of naysayers are saying. >> jon: warren is going upward. he is holding water. >> he is at 32, 33. >> i'm not saying they're close. her campaign seems to be going up. >> it would be hard for him to be going further up at this point. we haven't gotten to the third set of debates. >> if you look at this he is hovering. biden's strength in the race. the next debate is september 12th in houston. we'll continue to see if he can continue the momentum after that debate. >> amos snead and jessica tarlov thank you. >> sandra: the i.g. report is

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>> sandra: we begin with breaking news out of the justice department. inspect or general releasing a report on the james comey saying he violated bureau policies in miss handling of memos on president trump.

good morning, i'm sandra smith. >> jon: i'm jon scott for bill hemmer. despite those findings the department is declining to prosecute the former f.b.i. director. mr. comey appears to be claiming vindication on twitter. chief white house correspondent john roberts is reporting live from the north lawn. >> good morning to you. what comey is claiming vindication on is this idea of whether or not he leaked any classified information to the media. a couple of times over the past couple of years as this investigation was going on the president referred to comey leaking classified information. let's go to twitter from july 10th, 2017. the president writing quote james comey leaked classified information to the media. that is so illegal. then almost a year later on april 15th, 2018, after comey's book came out the president tweeting quote, the big questions in comey's book and

answered. how come he gave up classified information? the president puts in parentheses jail, suggesting he should be sent to criminal prosecution. why did he live to congress? jail. why didn't they take it, why the phony memos. the consistency between those two tweets is on this idea the president was accusing comey of leaking classified information. here is what the inspector general's report said on that front. we found no evidence that comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media. that's what comey is tweeting about this morning. and quite directly. seeing vindication in this report even though the report says that he clearly violated f.b.i. policy and set a bad example for the 35,000 or so people who work for the f.b.i.

no official response from the white house. president has not tweeted about it. officials are going through the i.g. report page by page to find out what it is they want to respond to. but comey does appear to be in the clear at least on this major finding that he did not leak any classified information to the media. the d.o.j. as you pointed out at the top declined to prosecute comey. so other than this being a slap on the wrist to comey saying you shouldn't have behaved in the way you did, you set a bad example. there may be repercussions administratively it would appear he is in the clear as far as any criminal prosecution regarding the leak of classified information. as soon as we get something from the white house we'll get back to you. >> jon: the radio silence from the white house isn't it? >> not really, jon, the memo did only come out an hour ago. it is 80-some odd pages. they have to go through it. they didn't get an advance copy as far as i know. the white house counsel's office has to take a look at it

and the president's advisors and tease out what it is they want to respond to. their response has to be geared for maximum impact and with this finding there was no leak of classified information they'll have to go to item number two, which clearly wouldn't be as strong but may just come down to the president saying i was right to fire james comey and everything that happened after that was a witch hunt. don't forget there is still the other i.g. report which is about fisa abuses and how the russia investigation got underway. comey may factor into that as well. we'll hear a lot more about mccabe, strzok and others when that report comes out. >> sandra: as we await the white house response we can get bret baier's response. anchor of "special report" joining us now. it came out less than an hour ago. we'll see when we hear from the white house. we've heard from james comey so far. your thoughts as we dig into that more than 80-page report. >> i've read through it.

everything john said was accurate, that is true and it is true that james comey is essentially crowing about avoiding an indictment from the department of justice. which is a little rich if you think about it going back to everything that the former f.b.i. director said as f.b.i. director. kind of portraying himself as this man of the law who follows the rules and who is this pillar of fortitude, if you will, in all of his testimony. if you go into this report in detail, it is not a good look for the former f.b.i. director. the d.o.j. ig concluded his retention and handling and dissemination of certain memos violated department and f.b.i. policies and f.b.i. employment agreement. it says he set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current f.b.i. employees. not a bad example, a dangerous example. and it goes on. you can go down all of these pages and it is not a great

look for somebody who portrayed himself as the pillar of following the rules if you will. now, does he avoid indictment? yes, he does, as john rightly points out, the i.g. has another big part of this investigation that has yet to come out, the fisa abuse investigation and the entire meat of the investigation of the investigators. >> sandra: so james comey almost immediately responded to the report. i believe it was within minutes last hour. quoting the i.g. report saying it found no evidence that comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the members to members of the media. then he wrote i don't need a public apology from those who defame me but a quick message sorry we lied about you would be nice. to all those who spent two years talking about me going to jail and being a liar or leaker ask yourselves why did you trust people who gave you bad

info so long including the president? james comey is claiming vindication here. >> those tweets are pointed at president trump. it is pretty rich. this report definitively says he is a leaker. he had the memos home and he gives them to this law professor friend, richman and he tells him with the instruction to leak to the "new york times." the d.o.j. makes the determination they won't move forward with prosecution of leaking classified material. it doesn't take away from what happened, what transpired. and how it is characterized in these 80-plus pages. it is not, again, a good look for an f.b.i. director to face these kind of paragraphs about his time in his job. we don't know what we don't know about the other i.g. report and that, you know, could be more sub tantive when it comes to specific and maybe potentially recommendations for moving forward on other fronts. >> sandra: going back to your

original point while these were the findsings the d.o.j. declined prosecution, there will be those who say where is the accountability for violating f.b.i. policies when you are the f.b.i. director? >> exactly. listen, we get a lot of this where we get to the end of an investigation and people say okay, what happened? where is the resolution? it happens on capitol hill all the time. and there are people who look at the facts and say why not move forward? the prosecutors have to look at whether they can make a case that stands up. and can be prosecuted effectively or whether they don't think they can do that. and they made that decision. >> sandra: bret baier, you have a lot to talk about. we'll see you on "special report" tonight at 6:00. thank you. >> jon: getting an update on the track of hurricane dorian. forecasters say it could grow into a dangerous category 4 storm after dorian largely

spared puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands if major damage. now it is on a collision course with florida. here is former fema administrator brock long on "america's newsroom" earlier this morning. >> taking action now will help bolster the overall response. responses to an event like this is a team sport. it starts with neighbor helping neighbor all the way to the federal emergency management agency. document the contents within your house, make sure you are heeding all warnings issued by local officials. >> jon: phil keating has the latest from miami. >> quite a different scene here in miami-dade county today as compared to yesterday. certainly a sense of urgency and now we're starting to see the classic long lines at gas stations preceding every hurricane down here. look how long it snakes. inside the store is also jammed.

one line specifically dedicated the people purchasing cases of bottled water and they're limited to just two per person. moments ago or this morning the governor of florida ron desantis flew down from tallahassee meeting with the national hurricane center for the latest briefing and update and moments ago he did speak. take a listen. >> the time to act is now. if you haven't acted, act to make preparations. do not wait until it's too late. if you prepare and don't end up getting affected, no harm, no foul. if you don't prepare and you are affected that may be something that is difficult to recover from. >> for days actually two or three in miami and other south florida supermarkets there have been a lot of people stocking up on supplies simply because last year during hurricane michael, the year before in

irma, people lost power for days and even weeks. if this comes ashore, even north of us up in the space coast the impact here in miami will be very strong possibly like a category one or two but again this storm could veer north or south. here is the mayor of miami-dade county last night. >> uncertainty remains high for the future forecast. regardless of dorian's path we're entering the busiest part of the hurricane season. everyone should prepare now. >> one thing we haven't seen yet are a lot of cars and trucks on the turnpike and i-95 heading out of state. if anyone is going to do that they have to hurry. the hurricane is forecast to make landfall late sunday or early monday. >> jon: not a lot of time left. thank you. >> sandra: drug companies now considering pay-outs in the

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so on behalf of chevrolet, i want to say "thank you, real people." you're welcome. we're gonna need a bigger room. >> sandra: the suspect accused in the capital one attack is behind bars. a federal grand jury indicting page thompson on wire and computer fraud and abuse charges. the hack affected more than 100 million capital one customers and cost the bank as much as $150 million. she could get 25 years in prison. >> if somebody follows the rules and they're a member of congress they should be allowed to go. but if they don't, they shouldn't. but let's face what this is all about. not all of them, but many of my democratic friends now believe in open borders. they think anybody who wants to come into america should be

able to come in. >> jon: that's louisiana senator john kennedy last hour in a fox news exclusive. homeland security is barring house democratic staffers from entering customs and border protection facilities at our southern border citing past rude and disruptive behavior. former arkansas governor mike huckabee is a fox news contributor and he joins us now. democrats are saying that this is all politics, that the trump administration is preventing these democratic staffers from coming back to see some of these facilities because it wants to make the headlines. what do you say, governor? >> well, jon, it is about politics. they want to try to demonize the law enforcement officials at the border. they ought to be supporting these federal officials. these people who don't get that much money to do a very difficult job they're being asked to do. they ought to show them a little support and respect. it is simply a lack of manners

when they go down there and they act rude. as my mother used to say, jon, were you raised by wolves? i sometimes want to say to these folks, who raised you? didn't they teach you some basic common courtesies and simple manners of treating people with respect? >> jon: here is a letter or part of from the department of homeland security to elijah cummings, the head of the oversight committee. they're explaining why they're not going to allow future visits. during discussions between department and committee staff, however, the committee staff repeatedly stated they do not intend to abide by dhs guidelines. if light of this we're unable to accommodate your staff's visit unless we receive a firm commitment that the committee and its staff will comply fully will all existing guidelines and policies. reminds me of a kindergarten field trip where you have to be told to hang onto the hand of the kid in front of you or something like that.

>> well, that's kind of what it is. there always are rules when you go visit. heck, when i was governor of the state and went to visit one of the prisons there were certain things i was asked to do. not because i didn't have, quote, the right or authority, but because it was for my own safety and well-being. there are certain things, some of which is like a photography of maybe somebody who isn't prepared to be photographed. it could violate a hipaa issue if there was a medical procedure being taped. all kinds of things. and simply to say here are some guidelines and rules, please follow them, raise all the questions you want. raise stands about you don't like but while you're there act like a guest. if i come to your home and yell at your dog and throw food all over the place i'm sure i won't be invited back to your home. >> jon: i don't think you would behave that way, governor. you are welcome any time. i want the talk about another

issue. we were on with former florida attorney general pam bondi in the first hour of "america's newsroom" explaining the controversy, a headline out there that says the children born to service members overseas are not going to be considered american citizens. but that is a very broad reading of what was announced. listen to the former florida attorney general. >> if you are a solder overseas and marry a woman who has a child. that child just needs to establish residency in the united states afterwards. it is in no way, shape or form according to the white house going to block anyone from becoming a citizen. >> jon: what do you think of the fuss this has raised? >> my good friend pam bondi did a better job of explaining what this is about than the federal government did. here was i think the problem. it was not communicated well.

it sounds like the federal government is going to make it difficult for children of service members to be u.s. citizens. that is really problematic and most people would react rather negatively to that. service members are already sacrificing for their country. the way it could have been communicated is to say in order to prevent there ever be a cloud about the citizenship of these who are the children of our cherished military, we're going to initiate the paperwork to make sure that there is never a question about their legitimacy and citizenship and we're taking these steps to make sure that we make it easier for our servicemen and women. if they had simply said that, there wouldn't have been a controversy. i think it was a ham handed proefp the way they communicated. a p.r. lesson would have been helpful in this one. >> jon: they need a huckabee treatment. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, jon, have a great day. >> sandra: police chase in los angeles. but not on the freeway.

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doesn't cover anyone who filed a suit, just the states who filed suits. the public benefit trust will be begun. i'm concerned about what actually is going to happen with all the monies that are part of this settlement. >> sandra: we know under the proposal currently on the table.

purdue pharma would file for bankruptcy, transform itself into a public benefit trust corporation, then all those profits from drug sales and other proceeds would go to the plaintiffs. this is according to news reports. we're trying to put this together. the "wall street journal" saying the arrangement would stay in place for 7 to 10 years. >> the thing worrisome about that. back in the 90s we did a similar settlement with the tobacco companies. the money was supposed to go to tobacco and addiction help and cancer that resulted from tobacco. only 3% of those monies actually went to those things. they actually went to things like subsidies. the concern here is that this money actually go to the things that are going to help the people. that's one question that is up in the air. the other question that is up in the air is what happens to the family behind purdue corporation? many people think they had something to do with it and whether or not it will be a

confidential settlement for all the terms and things that went behind the scenes are never brought to light. those are unanswered. >> sandra: they'd give up ownership of purdue pharma and use some of their own money and sell another pharmaceutical company to add 1.5 billion to the settlement. by the way in addition to all of this purdue pharma would supply addiction treatment drugs for free to the public. pam bondi the florida attorney general weighing in on the broader opioid crisis in this country. >> they have to accept responsibility. it is what you do next now and they all need to accept responsibility and frankly i tell people there are still doctors out there who are overprescribing and they need to cut it out as well. >> listen, part of my work is defending doctors in medical malpractice cases. some suits that's alleged. part of the problem was the miseducation by the companies

which is why they're reaching these settlements. we need to know this money will be used appropriately and who will be monitoring the spending of the money and where it is going to go and what what will happen to the family. >> sandra: the company didn't confirm any of the details we're talking about but see little good in wasteful litigation and appeals. you look at the problem in the country, 2017 statistics, the areas with the highest rates of death due to opioid overdose were west virginia the highest. ohio, district of columbia, maryland. growing problem and we could just be in the beginning stages of how exactly to address it with the companies. >> it would be really helpful to use these monies to address it and hopefully someone will be in charge of that to make sure that happens. >> sandra: thank you very much for coming. >> jon: fox news alert. we're pouring through the i.g. report on former f.b.i.

director james comey. it finds that comey violated f.b.i. policies in the trump/russia probe. why is the department declining to prosecute? >> power does not change you, it unmasks you. i believed for a long time. the report confirms it, mr. comey is a meat head. he is a political hack. he hurt the f.b.i. badly.

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>> jon: top story. the d.o.j. inspector general releases its report on james comey. it concludes the former f.b.i. director violated bureau policies in the handling of memos detailing conversations he had with president trump. the department, though, is declining to prosecute. catherine herridge live in washington with the latest. >> thank you, jon. the justice department's internal watchdog found the

former f.b.i. director was held to the highest standard because he led a bureau of 35,000 employee violated f.b.i. rules, violated his f.b.i. employment agreement, and just like the inspector general's findings into his handling of the clinton email case. he took matters into his own hands. what was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information obtained during the course of f.b.i. employment in order to achieve a personally desired outcome. what comey wanted was to leak the memos and kick start the special counsel investigation which is exactly what happened. the inspector general said comey was wrong to claim these memos documenting conversations with the president were like a personal journal or diary. horowitz said the memos documenting the conversations

were in fact government records. and the report also shows how comey gave at least one memo to a columbia law school professor with the specific intent the memo would be leaked to the "new york times." with the other memos he gave them to his legal team and the inspector general found that none of this was authorized. in comey's last appearance on capitol hill we already knew he was under investigation for possibly mishandling classified information. watch his response. >> was there still classified information when you shared those measures? >> talk about whether -- zbliem owe not going the talk about it one way or another. >> the inspector general found that when comey learned one memo contained classified information he had an obligation to immediately report it but he didn't do that either. as you mentioned the justice department has declined to prosecute but when you dig into the details here what you see is that the former director

took government records at least one contained classified information, he took them home, used a personal scanner, and then a personal email account to transmit those memos. and that on its face would fit the requirements of a statute called 793 subsection f called the gross negligence. mishandling, no requirement for intent. but still there has been no prosecution and just to bring things full circle this is the exact same statute that hillary clinton was investigated for during the email case, jon. >> jon: the point i was going to make. thank you. >> sandra: for more on all this let's bring in andy mccarthy former u.s. attorney and fox news contributor on set with us now. you've had a chance to go through the report yourself. james comey is a man you've known for decades. >> many years, yes. i'm very disappointed to see that the commentary about this including from his camp immediately goes to the

classified information issue and the fact that he managed to avoid indictment here. >> sandra: his commentary. he reacted right away and cited the report putting it in quotes, the i.g. found no evidence that comey or his attorneys released confidential information to members of the media and in his own words. i don't need a public apology from those who defame me but a quick message sorry we lied about you would be nice. >> a moment to be introspective and i hope he thinks about that and maybe now is the time to think about his own behavior. to me as an old law enforcement person, eight years a prosecutor before i knew the f.b.i. had a night job in domestic security. most of the stuff we do is cops and robbers stuff and very little involves classified information. the reason that's an important

point to make. everybody in the government knows that law enforcement information even if it's not classified, is sensitive information that you are not allowed to disseminate. now, it's not a felony to disseminate it but it is against the rules eight ways to sunday and if somebody in comey's agency had done what he did, he would have terminated them in nothing flat. >> sandra: what does it tell you this went on to not being prosecuted. he will not be prosecuted. >> he won't be prosecuted on this slice. i've said from the beginning on this business about the investigation of the investigators, the most important thing for the country is we find out what happened and we make whatever legal changes we need to make to avoid it from happening again. if you make indicting people the price tag for getting accountability you won't get accountability. we'll never get the whole story. all that said, there is a big difference between staying a step ahead of indictment and doing the right thing.

and showing that you are fit for high responsibilities. i am surprised to see him take the position that staying a step ahead of indictment is enough. >> sandra: the inspector general said comey set a dangerous example with his action. >> think about it. if every one of the 12,000 or 13,000 f.b.i. agents decided i'll become a law unto myself, how do you have rule of law and how do you have an agency? wouldn't work, right? so it's ingrained in everybody you have to follow the rules even if you disagree with them. we're self-determining society. you have to follow the result of an election even if you don't like the president. you don't get to as f.b.i. director undermine the existing government. you have a political part of your life but you have to put that in a compartment. when it's time to do your job you have to follow the rules. you don't get to say i don't think the rules are working here and i'm bigger than the rules.

>> sandra: doesn't take long to go through the report and repeatedly and pointedly that it alleges that james comey wrongly violated policy for personal reasons. why does it do for morale? >> morale is bad at the moment. there is a difference between the supervise re ring of the f.b.i. and the rank and file. the rank and file will be fine. >> sandra: great to get your reaction on this breaking news. appreciate it. thank you. >> jon: this fox news alert. the trump administration close to a peace agreement with the taliban which could lead to the end of america's longest war. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon with more on that. >> elected afghan political leaders say they fear their country is being handed over to the taliban. officials aren't totally sold

on a so-called agreement but say it's worth a try. >> i'm not using the withdraw word right now. i'm using we'll make sure that afghanistan is not a sanctuary and we're going the try to have an effort to bring peace and stability to afghanistan. i believe that what is needed is some type of disruption to the status quo. an agreement that can initiative interafghan dialogue and leading to a reduction of violence associated with the insurgency is something worth trying. >> the taliban are saying all u.s. troops will be out of afghanistan in the next 24 months. u.s. officials say it will be conditions based. afghan leaders say they felt excluded from the talks and believe the taliban will try to unseat them and start a civil war when the u.s. leaves. >> there are groups of taliban who are already gearing up to join isis and they are not necessarily agreeing with the political deal that is in the

making. >> if the taliban have been clear they aren't interested in joining the afghan government. they aren't interested in maintaining the afghan constitution. they are interested in overthrowing the government. >> secretary of state mike pompeo set september 1 as a deadline for the talks and a deal. jon. >> jon: jennifer griffin. keep us updated. thanks. >> sandra: china with a warning to washington after a u.s. warship sails through the south china sea. what it means for relations between the trump administration and beijing. >> it is clear that china is engaging in a deliberate strategy to undermine the stability of the region. it is clear the behaviors of the chinese communist party don't align with the vast majority of states. value, up to 100% os and take out an average of over $50,000.

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>> sandra: a top navy officer has been removed from his

position. jonathan see beck. the neighbor's number two officer on the attack submarine jimmy carter relieved of duty due to the navy losing confidence in his personal judgment. he has been reassigned to another squadron. navy hasn't commented on this move. >> jon: china warns a u.s. warship sailing through the south china sea that it violated the country's sovereignty. beijing also calling on washington to stop what it calls provocative naval operations. let's bring in daniel hoffman, former c.i.a. chief of station and fox news contributor. let's be clear what happened here. this ship sailed within 12 miles of one of used to be a natural reef that china built a military base on and it is now claiming that as its territorial waters, correct? >> that's correct. the united states has operated about six of these freedom of

navigation operations designed just for that, to insure that china doesn't exercise dominance over the south china sea. >> jon: much of the world's commerce flows through that area and if china owns it all, it can set some rules that the rest of the world isn't going the like. >> that's absolutely right. it is important for international commerce, for the region and beyond. i would also add the timing is probably not coincidental amidst a trade war with china and china's espionage and theft of the intellectual property and they have accused hong kong protestors of being supported by the united states. it suits china to conflate this exaggerated unreal u.s. military threat with the real threat which are ideas and principles enshrined in the constitution and bill of rights like liberty, freedom and democracy that are inspiring those protestors in hong kong.

>> jon: the chinese not happy about this warship sailing through waters they claim and that the u.s. says are international. they told bloomburg, a spokesman for china's naval southern command facts have proven the freedom of navigation of the united states is essentially ignores the rule of international law seriously undermines china's sovereignty and security interests and seriously undermines the stability of the south china sea region. other countries in the world would argue that it is china that is undermining the stability of that part of the world. >> what china is doing is against international law. and perhaps this is something that could be raised in the united nations. china is a member of the security council so it won't go anywhere. i think highlighting china's behavior in the region, which is so an thet call to the way

commerce should be allowed is worth doing. >> jon: one other topic we wanted to bring up today before you go, after the iranians shot down the u.s. military drone worth something like $40 million there was talk of a military attack, president trump called it off and said he didn't want people killed in response to a drone shoot down. now we're learning u.s. cyber command orchestrated an attack on the iranians that they are still trying to recover from. can you tell us more about exactly what was done here? >> so over the past few months u.s. cyber command under the leadership of a general has stepped up their efforts being a big part of u.s. national security strategy and reportedly they did conduct an offensive cyber operation against iran's paramilitary computer system which degraded irgc's capability to target

merchant ships. it was a proportional response. the president could have chosen a kinetic response risking killing hundreds of iranians. in this case he chose to degrade iran's capability. counter their attack on the drones and leave open the off ramp, negotiations between the united states and iran. >> jon: dan hoffman our fox news contributor. thank you. >> sandra: update on a manhunt for a married couple both wanted for murder. how they escaped and where investigators think they may be hiding. 1 gram sugar. it's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! keep it up. you'll get there. whoa-hoa-hoa! 30 grams of protein, and one gram of sugar. ensure max protein.

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>> sandra: authorities offering a $20,000 reward in the hunt for a married couple wanted for murder in arizona. officials say the pair escaped from a transport vehicle monday

after overpowering the guard. william la jeunesse has the story from los angeles. >> there are two stories, one manhunt for the dangerous couple. secondly protocols of the private company hired to transport this pair from new york to arizona not by plane but in a van. so here is the back story. in april the couple allegedly sets fire to a house and burns to death the tucson man living inside. then the couple blaine and susan barksdale flee to upstate new york. arizona wants to extradite. the county, rather than using trained deputies, hires a private company out of kansas that often transports foster kids to drive the pair of alleged killers 2,000 miles to arizona. somewhere in utah the couple overpowers the guards, steals the van, then drives towards

tucson or mexico. the victim's son is shocked. >> we can't believe that this thing happened. the transport company that -- they really screwed up big time. they didn't follow protocol, they didn't do what they were supposed to and that's why it happened. >> police say the couple dumped the prison van and stole a pickup truck with damage to the passenger side fender and rear bumper. experts believe the couple will have to commit more crimes to survive. yesterday tucson discontinued its contract with that transport company. u.s. marshalls said they have no idea what protocols these private companies have in terms of a leg, waist or wrist shackle. the company hasn't called us back. >> sandra: thank you.

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>> jon: well, a phone scam or gets more he bargained for when the potential victim turns out to be a north carolina police captain. >> can you verify your home address? >> no, i will not. >> i need you to verify me with the last four digits of your social security number so i can confirm that we are speaking to the right person. >> i'm not going to confirm my social security number with you. >> jon: the department posting the video to facebook, reminding folks to never give their personal information to colors they do not know. >> sandra: clearly she was having a little fun with it. but this is a serious problem. >> jon: especially for the elderly. they often get taken in by these

people. >> sandra: any way to call attention to that, and a bit of a warning. now on to our newsroom vault, opening on a key figure in the olympic park bombing in atlanta. the security guard wrongly accused of involvement in that attack died on this date in 2007. he first made headlines back in 1996, when before the explosion at centennial lithic park, he found a suspicious looking backpack and alerted police. jewell was initially praised for his actions, but then he was reported to be a suspect. although he was never charged or arrested, he faced intense scrutiny for months to come. the justice department finally cleared him in october of 1996. >> jon: he really went through the ringer before he was cleared. sad story. >> sandra: that's it for us. one more day to go. can we make it? >> jon: i've got one more day in me. i will be back tomorrow. good working with you.

>> sandra: good stuff. we'll see you tomorrow morning. thank you, everybody, for joining us, and now "outnumbered" begins. >> jon: bye-bye. we won this fox news alert, hurricane dorian taking aim at the u.s. east coast, and out florida looks like it will take the brunt of that storm. forecasters now say that dorian could hit the sunshine state as a monster category 4 hurricane over labor day weekend. this comes after the storm battered the u.s. virgin islands overnight, knocking out power across the islands of st. john and st. thomas. we continue to monitor the storm's path and we will get you an update from senior chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in just a bit. this fox news alert, the doj et cetera general releasing a scathing report unfired fbi director james comey, saying comey violated doj policies and said "dangerous example" for the