from the first time i thought it when i was eight years old and i have been going back ever since. >> kayleigh: you are a diehard yankees fan. >> whether they went back or lose. i stay until the virtual end. the president came over at the end, he said i knew you would still be here. we were down eight runs. >> kayleigh: there are going to be a lot of people on the lookout for general jack keane today.l security questions and baseball too. thanks to everyone. it has been a great friday. dvr the show. here's a "america reports." [sirens] >> take action, get it done right now. >> president trump should not go ahead with a risky and potentially dangerous strike on iran without the approval of congress.

>> i feel like he's already kind of made up his mind that is their war. it is not ours. >> president trump has incredible instincts. nobody should be suppressed by the president's position that iran absolutely cannot obtain a nuclear weapon. >> john: new wave of air strikes in the middle east as the israel-iran conflict enters its second week. leaving the door open for a diplomatic solution, and we expect to hear from him when he leaves the white house about an hour for now. welcome to friday afternoon on "america reports." i'm john roberts from washington. >> sandra: good to be with you. i'm sandra smith in new york. trump says he will decide if the u.s. gets directly involved within two weeks. the u.s. military is ramping up its presence in the region. lieutenant general charles moore will be here and just moments. >> john: jennifer griffith takes a look at how we can

strike at the heart of the nuclear program. we've got some spectacular new footage of daytime missile interceptions. >> we really do. i ran lobbed missiles, and showing you a scene that plays out now just about every day here in israel, and this is people hustling for the bomb shelters as the sirens wailed and iranian missiles are inbound. in tel aviv we were able to watch these interceptions directly overhead and broad daylight. one must look out through the tel aviv defenses, hit the ground, resulting in no injuries. another in southern israel hit again, no injuries, but in the northern part of the countries, the port city of hafia, causing as many as 20 injuries. including a 16-year-old who took shrapnel to the chest. one woman died of a heart attack

while running to the shelters there in the north. in response to the missiles, promising an intensification. the air campaign, last night and today fighter jets were busy. the targets were missiles and military infrastructure. john. >> john: mike tobin for us, kicking us off this afternoon. sandro. >> sandra: has the pentagon assembles its assets in the middle east, president trump considering the use of bunker buster bombs to annihilate iran's underground nuclear pl plant. jennifer griffin has more on that. why this specific type of ammunition? >> it is interesting, sandra. first we have learned that the uss nimitz aircraft will arrive in the middle east this weekend. that is significant because they have additional growler electronic warfare plans on board needed for neb to strike on iran. at the pentagon, there is little

doubt whether the massive penetrator could destroy iran's hamas nuclear facility buried under a mountain with layers of limestone rock which geologist call nature's own bomb shelter. shown here in 2018, developed by the air force specifically to address iran and north korea's underground nuclear sites, it was designed to penetrate 200 feet underground. further if two missiles are dropped via gps. oversaw the defense departments targeting operations advising five commanders and the chairman of the joint chiefs on weapons like this. >> you can use a multiple scenario. will create a large crater. it will be thrown out and allow a pathway for the next ammunition to go and even deeper and farther so that successive

hits will allow increased penetration and lethality. >> all eyes now on the air force base in missouri, home to the b-2 stealth bomber which can fly at 52,000 feet, curing two massive 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs. there are two entrances to fordow. >> if they want to go after the portal entrances, it is likely that they would use two for each entrance, so drop two bombs per portal appeared. >> they fly with a significant error escort for protection. it is 30 hours round-trip. that requires a massive air refueling bridge. former b-2 pilot, served as deputy commander for the air force global strike command. >> dozens of tanker aircraft supporting it, command and control missions, all sorts of support to this type of

emission, so it's a very comple. >> the mission, he says, will rely on the quality of the intelligence about the fordow site. >> sandra: jennifer, thank you. >> john: let's bring in charlie moore, u.s. cyber command to walk us through this. thanks for being with us. we wanted to point out that you join 70 of your colleagues and issuing a statement of support for israel which says "the united states should join with its international partners to put in place a comprehensive strategy to ensure diplomatically if at all possible but by any means necessary that iran does not reconstitute its nuclear program. so far diplomacy has not borne fruit. the iranians are still saying and what do you mean, no enrichment? we want to continue to have enrichment, which may bring us closer every day to the u.s. jumping in. what do you think is going to happen?

>> a lot hinges on the discussions that are going on in europe as we speak right now between envoysan and some of our allies in europe. i think the president is going to wait how to see tsi. >> john: we have a lot of u.s. assets in the region. if we were to get involved, those bases would become a target. one that most people are familiar with, is this one because after we took out -- we saw ballistic missiles ran down into that area. also the area here in bahrain. and over here in naples, which may be in range -- very long-range, iranian missiles, and of course this one here in qatar. what is your fear of what might happen if the united states gets involved and iran makes good on its retaliation threats?

>> such a good question, and this gives us a display of exactly how vastly u.s. presence is in the area, and there are significantly more bases at locations -- that is exactly right. i think a component of this issue that has not really been discussed very much is israel has really been going after the medium-range ballistic missiles that iran possesses because they can arrange to israel. those are the ones that we are seeing every single day shot their way, but the iranians have a vast supply of short range ballistic missiles that can reach up to 600 nautical miles. they have between 601,000, we think. if you were to draw a line from baghdad, that is almost perfect. virtually every one of our bases inside or to the east of that location is a threat to the short range ballistic missiles. >> john: we have a lot of assets. the fifth fleet, we know we have

assets in kuwait as well. other operating bases in iraq. and iran knows where all of those are. do you think that this would be a strike as we saw back in 2020 where the iranians did enter a number of service members? but according to general kellogg and others, they were not aiming to destroy that base, just send a message. this would be different? >> it is what they could do if they elect to and would be a threat to our personnel, assets, infrastructure in the region, so we would have to take action. >> john: tremendous amount of american firepower, courtesy of our navy as well as having the uss carl vinson there. what we believe is it's last appointment. it was supposed to depart, but now they will both be on station. how comprehensive is this, in terms of trying to keep a lid on what iran might do?

tea i think it is very much so. a lot of press has been given to all of the air force assets. more fighters, tankers, and this does three things. it gives maximum flexibility to the commander in chief going forward of what decision he wants to make. and not do what we were previously talking about, provides additional structure for us to aid in the defense of israel. >> john: not asking you to divulge any classified information, not that you would, but there's been some debate over whether or not the mop would be enough to get to fordow and how many it would take. do you have any question as to whether or not that weapon would be effective? >> any time you have a military operation, you have to assume that many things can go wrong, but setting that aside, i am very confident that the pairing could do the job.

>> john: we will see if president trump pulls the trigger on that. thanks for joining us. really appreciate it. >> diplomatic solution with i iran. >> thank you. >> sandra: the trump administration is weighing its options, so what does come next? david friedman will weigh and, next. plus this. >> even if we want to stay, which i have refused to accept, that joe biden was mentally deficient, his mental deficiencs still 1,000 times better than what we currently have. >> john: texas congressman jasmine crockett doubling down on her defense of joe biden, but american voters do not appear to be on the same page as a congresswoman.) our panel will certainly have a lot to say about that, coming up. (♪)

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's to be one big victory for president trump in california. he can keep the national guard deployed in los angeles. this after a federal appeals court blocked kevin newsome's troop to take control of the troops. he is going to keep fighting to overturn this. shannon bream's thoughts on this coming up a little bit later in the program. >> sandra: all right so that is a live look at the white house, and tel aviv right here, keeping an eye on the middle east right now and awaiting possible words from president trump as he departs the white house for a dinner in bedminster, new jersey. officials meet today in switzerland. but iran says that the door is shut on diplomatic talks with

the u.s. unless israel stopped strikes. let's bring in david friedman. thanks so much for joining us. please do give us your thoughts in that is obviously very moment and all of this as we do oh wait what's next for the united states and all of it. >> well, sandra, thanks for having me. i think the first overwriting point as there are a lot of things you talk about. multiple factors. but all roads lead to a nonnuclear iran. that is where we are going to end up. that is everybody's goal, and we are going to achieve it. will it be militarily? i will tell you that it is likely that israel will stand down in favor of the right to negotiate, probably zero. they have had 500 ballistic missiles shot at them. yesterday they were on the receiving end of a cluster bomb, which is a war crime. they took out a hospital that

serves probably more than half of the patients are arab and muslim. they have had 400 or 500 drones shot at them. every night people are going into shelters. they are not standing down until they have achieved their goals, so i think that demand is going to go nowhere. the other thing i would say is knowing president trump now for at least 25 years, way back when i use to represent him in a lot of deals, i know his negotiating style. the deal he will make is when the iranian leader takes a piece of paper, white piece of paper, blank page, and he writes down on it "the surrender appeared we give up all air nukes. we are going to dismantle our facilities. you are welcome to observe whatever you want, and we are going to stop shooting missiles that your allies." when he writes about, i think it will be a diplomatic deal. i think the probability of that is awfully low.

the only guy left to his negotiating this, even knows where his instructions are coming from? and remember the iranians are telling their people that they are winning the war. they are telling them that they have dominated -- that they are dominating israel airspace. not telling them that they shop 1,000 projectiles and only about 5% have landed. all of a sudden, he's going to surrender? it just seems so unlikely. >> sandra: ambassador, you said the israeli people are not standing down. this is general jack keane joining us last hour on "outnumbered." this is why he says that is the case. listen. >> 25 years, they have taken every step humanly possible not only to develop a nuclear weapon but also they have put into this major enterprise, and this is what some people don't get, the

ayatollah has built an enterprise that is resilient because he knows at some point it would be attacked, and he wants to absorb that attack, survive it, recover, and reb rebuild. >> sandra: ambassador, i wanted to get your reaction to that. >> general keane is exactly right. it just seems so unlikely -- they have staked their regime on the north korean model. they want to get nukes, try to hold the world hostage. that is the only way they are going to keep their regime alive, so the idea that they will somehow surrender seems unlikely if your neck the regime change? in short order, that is incredibly wishful thinking but would be wonderful. and as far as israel is concerned, i have got some of my kids there now. i know what life is like. because i missiles are coming from 1,000 miles away, they've got about a ten or 15 minute warning, so they run for

shelters, but the rest of the day, you have seen pictures. they are on the beach, living their lives. this is not going to bring down israel. israel is and is for the long haul. they will not allow their children and grandchildren to live under the shadow of a nuclear attack from iran. they will not permit another holocaust. >> sandra: we continue to hear a very firm message sent from benjamin netanyahu, as we did that interview, i continued to hear from him. ambassador, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate your time. i want to ask the team to tee up -- this is karoline leavitt yesterday and the press briefing room when she was asked a question about the iranians getting to geneva. >> logistically of the iranians are getting to geneva, does that mean they have found a way to get to the white house? >> i am not going to get into hypotheticals, but they have expressed interest in doing so.

>> is there pressure on the president to come to the aid of israel? >> sandra: obviously an important moment and all of this. we could hear from president trump directly. he is attending this maga dinner and bedminster, new jersey. he certainly could stop and answer questions. >> john: we are hoping that that will happen. a lot of people in the maga movement have said that they do not want a president to take action and iran. so we will see what the president has to say later on tonight. sometime between now and two weeks from now, he will make a decision on what to do. israel says that it does have contingency plans to try to take out fordow, but most people would agree that you drop a couple or four of those mops on that facility, and it is done, so what is the fastest way to an end? i think that will be a big topic of discussion.

>> john: florida governor ron desantis helping to rescue hundreds of americans from israel. what went into carrying out this difficult mission? >> sandra: what americans think about joe biden's mental state and office, and the news is not good for the former president. our panel will weigh in next. they say seeing is believing, but with stearns & foster® that's only part of the story. we handcraft every stearns & foster®

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in tampa. passengers described the 75 grueling hours travel journey as emotional and stressful. now, as the airspace in israel closed, american scrambled to find a way home here in florida quickly coordinated efforts for evacuation. most were high schoolers on their birthright trip. also college student studying in israel and families on vacation who found themselves in a war zone. >> you're essentially living on pins and needles for the sirens to go off, and you have 90 seconds 2 minutes to take in our case our 6-month-old baby and run to the bomb shelter. we are so blessed to live in the free state of florida. >> then nonprofit is helping coordinate the evacuations in israel using both land and sea routes. one method includes busing evacuees to jordan. another group of 1500 americans

were evacuated by a cruise ship that sailed to cyprus, reportedly escorted by the israeli navy. ron desantis charter two plans, bringing about 200 people home, calling it the most complicated mission that the state has ever done. >> i know that there is potentially some other states that may want to get in the game at this point. the reality is there is definitely a need for more. >> governor ron desantis says more rescue missions are expected in the future. about 4,000 americans have already signed up for evacuations. he says although these missions are focused on upping floridians, no americans will be left behind. sandra. >> sandra: live in tampa on that for us. thank you. john. >> john: let's turn to some friday politics. some democratic lawmakers are doubling down in defense of

president biden's health in office even as the majority of americans say they think the white house was not honest and transparent about his mental fitness. we have the results here. more than two-thirds of people say that the white house was not honest. let's bring in the -- now, typically in a poll like that you will see a real split when it comes to political affiliation. but take a look at what these numbers found. it was the previous white house white house transparent about his fitness? democrats, if d2% say no. independents, 75% say no. the majority, regardless of what your political affiliation is, says that the white house, of which you were apart, says that they were not honest with what was going on with joe. >> that has been litigated in the press, and the media appear joe biden peacefully stepped

aside -- >> john: he was stabbed in the back 100 times. >> he will have to figure that out with his own personal relationships, but now we are seeing them spending a day doing a hearing that his political theater with a star witness of sean spicer, and i'm so glad that democratic senators chose not to attend. your welch sat in the room, and of course senator dick durbin gave an opening statement and talked about all the other things that we could be working on and discussing instead of giving sean spicer a platform to talk about the president's mental decline. >> john: i don't think we need to replay the sound what they were saying that he was fine, terrific, and then it suddenly became apparent in the debate at the end of june of last year that maybe he is not up to the job, so that was the moment of truth, but when did it become clear that he was in cognitive decline before debating trump? 68%, what we are seeing with our

own eyes apparently was true and shared by a lot of people in this country. >> the large majority of americans have family members that they have seen in a similar state, myself included. whether that is old age or a cognitive decline due to something else, it is evident in front of your eyes, and the anger towards the biden administration stems from the fact that they knew it. they saw him every day and they would say behind closed doors, he is great, but in front of the campus, he was awful. people are like why would you put a man in that condition in front of the american people for public office? it felt cruel and unusual in many ways, and that is reflected in the poll. >> john: the white house south lawn during a concert when joe biden appeared to freeze, we put a clock on it. it was for at least 17 seconds that he looked like he had been replaced with his wax figure from adam to south. he stood there, frozen, while everyone else was moving.

yet jasmine crockett recently said this. >> i still stand by the decision to stand with president joe biden. i never saw anything in joe biden that made me wonder. >> john: really? >> jasmine crockett can be a bit hyperbolic. we know that. i think regardless the poll also showed that a lot of americans would also like for the repurepublican party to move pat this. they want to discuss the auto pen. okay. representative james comey has brought forth a staff secretary at that time it oversaw the auto pen, so have her sit down, do a closed-door meeting, and show us the transcript of that. let's litigated it and find something else, but the republican party is running on a man who is no longer an public office. >> john: you think everyone needs to move past this. is it important for congress and the doj to investigate his advisors on using the auto pen?

52% say yes. making key decisions, 50% say yes, covering up the decline, not that interested in the cover-up, but they are interested in who was signing for all these big important decisions. >> there is an incredibly reason for that. the american people elected joe biden, not his staff to make the big decisions. jake tapper's book, they have a lot of stories to that end, but there is a historic tie-in, one of the greatest candles was in 1919 when woodrow wilson suffered a stroke and was incapacitated or a year and a half, and his wife took over stewardship because she said of her husband had power pulled from him, it would kill him. we have an example in this administration of something similar. at least the accusation of something similar. in 1919, the press and congress both said never again will we get duped. the american people deserve a duly elected president.

we need to understand what led up to it, what we are not doing right, what we are not checking for to make sure it never happens again. >> john: this idea of moving on, is it not true that the longer this festers and the more that we find out about it, the more it looks like many very prominent democrats from nancy pelosi on down were not telling us the truth, and that harms the credibility of the democratic party. >> there is an underlying credibility issue. so there has to be a rebuilding from the ground up. i don't think there are any democrats who would doubt that, but that's the great thing, you hold your leaders responsible. >> the credibility issue extends to the fact that they also did not hold the primary process to the successor, so it goes a lot deeper. >> john: we will see if it is reflected next year in the interim elections. now this.

>> you don't know that i am going to even do it. i may do it. i may not do it. nobody knows what i am going to do. i will tell you this. iran has got a lot of trouble. >> sandra: we are waiting to see if president trump stops and takes any questions, expected any moment now. we are also watching the state department. a briefing will be happening there. we are going to bring you to both of those events when they are underway. >> john: that new flag is pretty impressive there. an old-fashioned crime. nicole parker will tell us about jugging. >> the golden age of america --

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to happen in their own districts for this crime can take place in just a matter of seconds. >> they are in the area, scoping, and they well watch you as you are either coming in or out of the bank or watching you do atm withdrawals and seeing how much you are getting. >> that is exactly what happened to one man who owns a landscaping company in south carolina. he pulled out money from the bank to meet his weekly payroll, unaware that he was being observed. he pulled into a gas station to buy a drink, and seconds later, they broke through the window, crawled in, stole what he says was a $6,000 payroll in cash. >> people need to be careful when they take out money. the same thing that happened to me could happen to them, so be careful. >> texas legislature has already

passed a bill, making jugging a distinct offense. it will be a felony, much higher penalty than just for simple robbery. john, back to you. >> john: we will see how it goes as things unfold in the future. >> sandra: for more on this, let's bring in fox news contributor nicole parker. you have our attention. jugging does not appear to be a regional trend. it is happening all over the country. what is happening here? >> initially it started in houston, texas, and branched out from there. a lot of people, a lot of them have never even heard of the word jugging. it is the intent to commit theft of another persons money, knowingly traveling from a commercial business art financial institution on the same path as another person with the intent to take their money and rob them. access is taking the lead here and has enacted house bill 1902

which would make this a felony, and for law enforcement, we welcome this because it allows us to more closely investigate these crimes, and they are very much specified to theft of money. people need to be aware when they are leaving a bank, financial institution, check cashing store, you are a prime target. there could be people watching you that you don't even realize. to be safe, conduct what i call a detection -- surveillance detection route. watch your back. see if people are following you, and if so, veer off of your normal path, and just be safe. be aware. do not flash money. conceal your money. if possible, do your transactions online to avoid having to physically go to a financial institution, bank or atm. >> sandra: sadly it sounds like this is a case where people are going to the atm because they need the physical cash. perhaps even don't go to an

outdoor atm, i would assume? probably better to go inside, but so many have shut down these days. that can be hard to do as well. these are some of the headlines that are popping up your point about about this happening nationally. running a safety alert. police are warning about these crimes spreading to upstate. this is texas where they ran a headline -- texas legislature passing a bill to make jugging a criminal offense. just shows you how rampant this is. seven and dieted in a maryland crime spree, so lots of states are dealing with this. looking back to july 2024 and the attempt on president trump's life as he was running for another term in office, there is some brand-new drone footage featured in "the donald trump come back." i want to share some of that with our audience right now.

>> clearly the secret service wants to get him out of the situation. >> to stand up then go "fight, fight, fight." i think it is true that everyone knows where they were when they got the news. >> sandra: it gives you a closer look at the secret service response, or reactions from the crowd, as all of that was unfolding and not incredibly dramatic moment, nicole. >> it was absolutely chilling. it was alarming. to see the facial expressions of those in the audience and to see the heroic efforts of the secret service agents who immediately jumped into action to protect president trump, that's what we do in law enforcement. they are expected to put their life on the line, and that is exactly what they did. unfortunately, this debacle never ever should have occurred. thankfully he was protected, and i do think this footage as very powerful, something that all

americans should be aware of, and i think we all remember where we were. i certainly remember. it was almost like a 9/11 moment for all of us in the nation. >> sandra: brings back a lot of the fear that we felt as we watched that day. kash patel was asked when we are going to know more, the american public, when we will all know more about the butler shooting, and he said this when talking to bret baier bret baier appeared. >> i don't know that there is more to know, but you are going to know everything we know, and that's the other thing. we take assassination attempts of the president of the united states very seriously. we are digging through the files, and we are giving them a more robust picture of what happened. >> sandra: he is indicating perhaps we will learn more. what are you expecting to come from there? >> what i expect is that director kash patel is extremely transparent. i came from an era where it was not transparent at all.

everything was very, very hush-hush. now let's be open and honest and transparent with the american people. the fbi has a trust issue with the american people. the best way to regain trust is to be open and honest and show them what you've got and show them the facts. this is president trump, their former and now current president. they deserve to know what happened that day. >> sandra: always good to have you on. thanks for joining. >> to the people of east palestine and to the nearby communities, we have told you loud and clear you are not forgotten. >> john: the trump administration making good on the president's promise. what the white house is doing to help the people of ohio two years after that devastating train derailment. >> sandra: new flights to iran sparking suspicion. why might china be getting

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>> john: national institutes of health launching a new study and to the train derailment and ohio. toxic chemicals from 38 freight

cars reading to symptoms like headaches, rashes, breathing issues. what is the plan for the investigation? >> this is all about spending more money to understand how much it impacted the people of east palestine the train had a lot of different chemicals on board. there was that fire that you see on your screen. it was just a huge mess. it created a major political problem for them president biden peer locals accuse the president of basically ignoring their problems because he was dealing with ukraine at the same time. president biden eventually visited, but it was a year after the visit. they insisted they were taking the matter seriously and addressing potential health concerns and the cleanup. at the time, former president trump was also slamming the bite in response, calling it "inadequate."

vice president vance insisted that the latest infusion of money is going to help people know if their health remains at risk. >> we are finally going to get to the bottom of what affects this terrible train crash and the ensuing consequences had on the people of east palestine. >> this is the first multiyear federal study took us to specifically on the long-term health impacts. of the east palestine disaster. >> knew this afternoon, we are hearing from the mayor who says "we were not forgotten. they promise that we would not be forgotten, and they lived up to the promise. the epa and justice department reached a settlement for $300 million to pay for the damage caused by this derailment, and they are still cleaning up and trying to rebuild that area. >> john: the problem continues to linger for many people. remember, sandra, and the early weeks after, we had a lot of focus on, property owners, some

of whom lived on canals in the area, ravines, they said that they could smell the chemicals in the air. that it really felt like it was unhealthy to be in that area. >> sandra: it was horrifying. they felt like they were being ignored or not believed. there will be a huge number of people who will be interested in what comes from this report. it will take a lot of money and resources, but incredibly important to get to the bottom of that. >> john: remember after 9/11 health the government officially told us that the air was just fine, and then all the first responders came down with cancer. >> sandra: we hope for some answers here. >> john: now this. >> you are not a victim. you are not even a diplomat. you are a wolf pretending to be a diplomat. and we are done pretending otherwise. >> sandra: harsh words for the iranian representative to the

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>> sandra: top of a new hour. we are keeping our eyes on washington for two live event at the top of this hour. president trump is set to depart the white house on his way to new jersey any moment now. and the state department is about to hold a briefing, as the world awaits news from the united states on iran. while come back as we head into a second hour of "america reports." good to be with you, john. i'm sandra smith in new york. the one on john roberts and washington. the presidents of that he will decide i