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house. >> surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. >> he sees it serious -- very seriously when it comes to taking classified documents and information. i'm not going to go beyond what the president laid out. he does not know what's in them. i would refer you to the white house counsel's office. we want to respect the process and so that's what i'm going to do, i'm going to refer you to the department of justice. >> and welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two on this friday afternoon, i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. seems to be a contradiction between what the president said and did, that he takes classified documents seriously, but they were in a garage next to his corvette. reporters are more frustrated as the press secretary dodges question after question after question, you get it, on the matter. >> sandra: and we heard it over again, the press secretary defers all the questions to the department of justice but we are not getting much from the doj either.

we don't know what triggered biden's lawyers to discover these records and when the record actually knew about it. >> it baffles me that we are getting, you know, multiple disclosures and that they don't seem to be in control of what their, you know, of what is out there, what the world of documents we are talking about. >> sandra: he's fired up on a friday afternoon, brian kilmeade is here with reaction. >> john: so fired up, he forgot his tie. gillian turner taking a look at the mishandling of records dating back to the clinton administration, yes, folks, it has happened before. >> sandra: begin with david spunt, live at the justice department. david. >> hi, john and sandra, i'm sitting where karine jean-pierre suggests people should reach out to, we've done it multiple times, department of justice not commenting a putting questions

to the special counsel's office, no response there at this point. it's rare to have not one, not two, but three active special counsels in three different probes in washington. two different special counsels investigating two very different presidents and they were both apointed in a two-month period. watch this. >> i signed an order appointing jack smith to serve as special counsel. i'm here today to announce the appointment of robert hur as a special counsel. >> not even two months apart. robert hur on the job as of yesterday, will investigate the documents at the penn biden center and biden residence, and jack smith is looking at the mar-a-lago documents and the potential criminal involvement on january 6th at the capitol. attorney general garland, most

recently in mexico, they were never alone, they sat together, spoke multiple times on the trip but a source says the attorney general never discussed any investigations about this specific issue with president biden, not in mexico, not ever. another interesting fact, when garland announced jack smith to oversee the trump document investigation on november 18th, he knew full well the current president biden, his boss, had some trouble looming over the coming months dealing with classified documents and the third active special counsel, john durham, talked about him since 2019. he's been working trying to put pieces together on the trump-russia narrative, he got an employee to plead guilty, and lost twice in court, spent almost $7 million, and no clue or no idea of what he's going to do, it's possible he's going to put out a narrative report. rare to see three special counsels active, back to you.

>> sandra: keep us posted from there should you get new information, john. >> john: president biden joining a long list of high profile people accused of mishandling national security secrets. some folks get a slap on the wrist, and others thrown in the slammer. >> all depends on who you are, john. that's the way the game is played, yes. so, presidents trump and biden are far from the only high profile americans to allegedly mishandle the nation's secret. the justice department turns out prosecutes officials all the time for violating top secret security clearances. it dictates how information must be handled, not allowed, making shortcuts for convenience as secretary of state hillary clinton did. >> i opted for convenience to use my personal email account. i thought it would be easier to carry just one device from my

work and personal emails. >> fbi director said it turned out to be an about it more complicated than that. >> secretary clinton used several different servers and administrators of the servers during her four years at the state department and also used numerous mobile devices to send and to read email. >> also not allowed, sharing the nation's secrets with americans who don't have security clearances. something cia director general patraeus learned the hard way. >> the end of a two and a half year ordeal that resulted from mistakes i made. as i did in the past, i apologized to those closest to me and to many others. >> clinton national security advisor sandy berger got cause stealing documents after stuffing them inside his socks. at issue for the former and

current presidents, is how far their presidential preroingtive expands, but can commander in chief elected by millions of people be excused for mishandling the nation's secrets. >> if he was commander and chief at the time, but he was the outgoing vice president. >> current question to consider about their sitting president, i suppose. >> john: and according to national records act, or the presidential records act, that stuff should have gone to the national archives and not into his garage. >> correct, you are not allowed to take any government records with you when you leave office, fun fact, whether they are personal, professional, classified or unclassified, if you wrote them on a government device, they are not yours. >> john: gillian turner with the update. >> ok, thank you. let's bring in brian kilmeade, thank you for being here.

always good to have you on a friday. a cover of "the new york post," it is something today, anybody vet this guy, the headline reads. >> and then zoom in on papers. >> picture of the corvette that biden used pulling out of the garage in that campaign ad we remember. this is unbelievable. we just got through this press conference at the white house, we did not learn anything new. >> i know, and how they have been over the last two days and the press on monday, they knew on monday there was a second discovery, they did not share it. they don't pay the price for that, and second discovery, a third discovery, don't know the contents of which. i was wondering when we are going to see the overhead shot of all the papers, don't like to touch your papers, but the picture of all the ten papers, maybe 15 classified items that were all over mar-a-lago. there is an unequal way in which it's done, i saw jim trusty, a

consistent guest on the network and now donald trump's lawyer, and he said man, i would love to go through our own documents. they had the fbi do it there, but here you have his attorneys go through his garage, through his offices and then call justice to say what they found. what kind of law and order approach is that? >> sandra: it seems the media is more and more waking up to this scandal, if you will, and at least starting to challenge this white house. i mean, amazing what we have gone through in the last couple year, but here they are showing up. we just saw a bit of it, did not get contentious, but certainly getting challenged on the lack of information, lack of transparency, karine jean-pierre pushes back, she's answering the questions, she's been there answering the questions, you can decide on your own. but this is don lemon challenging chuck schumer. >> misleading statements created the impression that biden's team had something to hide. that does not sound that much

different than the former president. >> don, there's now a special prosecutor, let's see what they have to say. >> you wanted lawmakers to have access to the documents from the residence in florida, seems like you -- >> bottom line, i said that night it's premature to comment on what should be done. >> sandra: makes you wonder why it's going to go. >> chuck schumer ranting and we always heard the word unprecedented when it came to donald trump, never seen anything like what happened at mar-a-lago and then find out the current president of the united states kept documents with his corvette, and by emphasizing his corvette in a locked garage, he actually thought that was ok, and the insulting way in which the press secretary keeps reading the same lines over and over again. >> sandra: that he takes this seriously. >> i don't think she's been briefed, calling transportation, i don't think she's calling up justice, and getting answers.

we have enough press secretaries in this building, ones that we interview and find out how to do the job, and if they don't want to brief you, the preds, if that's not his style, if you are the press secretary you pick up the phone and get answers along with knowing how to protect your boss. >> sandra: and you've already got some on the left, i'll play a bit of it, already without information or official information from the white house or the doj suggesting these documents were planted. watch. >> i'm also aware of the fact that things can be planted on people. things can be planted in places and then discovered conveniently. that may be what has occurred here. >> you know what i think, i've never seen a luckier learn than donald trump. just as this close to getting him, somehow these documents appear. >> sandra: ok, so -- >> good point, a couple of things. congressman johnson, that is --

that is a farce. if anyone says they are planted, joe biden's lawyers or the press secretary saying these are not my paperwork, people are going to joe biden's locked garage with his corvette and plant documents, it happens all the time i guess on some after school specials. it is true, this means the investigation into donald trump is virtually neutralized. went from nothing like donald trump well, a little like donald trump, and let's just wait for the special prosecutors to finish their job. and is now the president can say somebody is investigating me, i get it, but the seeds are doubt are sown. and i say this, i'm not a conspiracy theorist, but who benefits this. president biden is about to do is say i'm going to run four more years. is there somebody that said it's a great time to raid the so-called locked closet and show

vulnerability from president biden from the left. i did not even think they had a closet full of classified equipment at the biden center, classified documents at the biden center. >> maybe, maybe equipment, we don't know. the image, the box with all the papers behind the corvette. >> we don't know what the papers are. >> sandra: we don't, but it's there. we will wait for more information. it's not for lack of not asking, we are not getting new information. see where it goes. >> john: donald trump is about to cue up in start in south carolina and then find out if joe biden will run for four more years. >> sandra: thank you brian kilmeade, good to see you. >> watch saturday at 8:00. >> sandra: one nation. >> rob snyder, david rubenstein, and how to be happy, they did a study. >> john: first step to becoming happy is ditching the tie as brian demonstrates. >> you are all over this tie

thing. >> john: did you leave it in your skiff? >> it's my look. [laughter] i'm not allowed to have a skiff, or a corvette either, so two things. >> sandra: geez, next time wear a tie, brian. >> john: not allowed to have a tie either. >> i feel i'm at men's warehouse. >> john: i'm envious, when i do the news without a tie on, i get a face full from our viewers, saying it's disrespectful. >> if your wife says it's ok, it's ok. i've been checking myself in the monitor, and i think it's ok. >> john: you and i have the same philosophy, happy wife, happy life. >> sandra: all right, gentlemen. >> john: even if she does question our new puppy. >> i did the same thing. >> john: faa blaming personnel who failed to follow procedures

after air travel was grounded, comes weeks after southwest airlines mass cancellations left thousands stranded over the holidays. grady trimble is live in the chicago bureau. so, what more are we learning about what caused this massive ground stop earlier this week? >> human error is to blame, i guess. we knew the cause of the system outage was a damaged file and now we are learning it was faa personnel who damaged the file because they did not follow proper procedures. in any case, the system that went down, according to the wall street journal, it runs on technology that is 30 years old. the faa said in the latest budget request, failing vintage hardware is what supports the alert system and now it wants almost $30 million to upgrade it. >> we need to investigate why it

happened, and we need to give the faa at least at this point the resources that it needs in order to upgrade and maintain the systems that are vital to the security of our passengers in the air. >> just before this week's nationwide ground stop, you remember southwest airlines operations came to a near standstill over the holidays. now a group of 15 democratic senators sending a letter to the airline ceo asking what went wrong, and whether its software it uses for scheduling is outdated. southwest is facing a new class action lawsuit as well filed on behalf of shareholders. it alleges the company downplayed problems with that scheduling system and quarterly reports and in media appearances by executives. of course, all of these travel headaches come after the taxpayers gave the airlines nearly $80 billion during the pandemic, it was supposed to help them recover smoothly out of the pandemic, john. but anyone who has flown lately

can attest that it's been anything but smooth sailing or smooth flying, in this case. >> john: i used to look forward to flying, not so much anymore. if it's within 5 hours, i'll drive it instead of fly. grady trimble, thank you. >> i think that's a good plan. >> sandra: thank you very much. a court ordered ankle monitor was not enough to stop a convicted felon from murdering two hospital workers while they were working. now one state saying enough is enough with the second chances for criminals, what they are looking to now kick to the curb. >> john: plus, some grocery stores taking matters into their own hands to stop shoplifters. one store owner tells us what he is doing to curb crime, coming up next. i'd like to take a moment to address my fellow veterans because i know so many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan, for up to 100% of your home's value.

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>> john: superintendent of a virginia school district is making a shocking admission after a 6-year-old shot his teacher. a school official may have known the child was carrying a gun in his backpack but chose not to act and seize the weapon. it remains unclear how the administrator may have learned about the weapon but parents at the district say their children were put in danger. doctors say the teacher who was shot in the chest, 25-year-old abigail swarner is improving, is expected to make a full recovery. sandra. >> sandra: now to a story out of texas about the push to crack down on parole for violent criminals. a convicted felon out of parole walked into a hospital labor and delivery floor with a gun. he used it to beat his girlfriend who had just given birth. he threatened to kill anyone who

came in the room. that happened to be a nurse to check on the baby, the newborn was in the room the entire, and then he shot a social worker, but it couldn't have happened because the felon was wearing an ankle monitor. it happened last fall and now texas governor greg abbott is asking state lawmakers to crack down on releasing violent criminals back into communities. casey stegall is live in dallas. what is abbott asking here? >> calling for legislative action and happens as the lawmakers return to austin this past week and gavelled in for a new special legislative session, a regular session i should say. governor greg abbott wants leaders to enact tougher penalties for criminals who remove their ankle monitors. justice advocates say that would not prevent violent criminals from recommitting offenses, adding prevention is far more

effective than punishment. >> it actually works in the opposite direction, the more barriers and the more criminalization and all these different types of stipulations you put on ankle monitors, it creates barriers for those who are wanting to be successful. >> abbott says he's just trying to prevent another case like this one from happening again. as you were talking about last october here in dallas, police say 30-year-old nester hernandez shot and killed two employees inside a hospital maternity ward because he got into a fight with his girlfriend who was a patient and he opened fire in the building. many argue that hernandez should have never been on the streets in the first place because he was a convicted felon who had been arrested just weeks before for cutting off his g.p.s. tracking device, yet he was allowed to leave jail for the birth of his child so long as he was outfitted with a mitor. governor abboty the way,

nearly 4300 criminals under electronic monitoring of some sort. the state department of corrections did not give us a percentage of just how many violate or attempt to violate the rules. sandra. >> sandra: casey, thank you. john. >> john: now new york city, grocery store owners say they are sick and tired of scenes like these. thieves looting the stores and taking whatever they want only to get a slap on the wrist so that they can come back and do it again. stores and pharmacies have locked up goods such as razor blades and cosmetics, even toothpaste, now they may lock up the spam in order to combat the rampant shoplifting. joining us now is jason farrera, good of you to be with us this friday afternoon. how bad is the situation at your stores? >> hi, john.

thanks for having us. yeah, it's become something that we had not seen for years. i grew up in the food business and i remember my parents having a store in the late 1970s, early 1980s, it was a normal thing to see shoplifting because we were in low income neighborhoods, but we had not seen something like this for years, it's become so frequent and reminder of the past, except we are in a different era now, and law enforcement is not helping us in any way whatsoever. >> now is this people who are hungry, looking for a loaf of bread or something to eat, or lack of a better word, professional thieves who want to rob you blind? >> well, you know, you are never going to have a time where there's not someone hungry looking for food. we always help people like that. that's not what's happening here. what's happening here is just blatant disregard for any consequences because there are none. the police don't respond to

these types of occurrences, we have frequent incidences and what's happening is you have a combination. you have people that shoplift for the heck of it because they know that there's no consequence, but then yes, you do have the professional people that are focusing on high ticket items and we know that they are out there selling them to smaller operators, other stores, buying these stolen goods from our stores. >> you know, gristiddis, a competitor of yours but friendly as well, they had one shoplifter arrested three times in the course of a day and that person kept returning. and john, the owner of the store, said look, like you, are saying there's a real difference here between people who are hungry and people who just want to rob you. difference between professional thieves ruining the city and someone stealing a loaf of bread because he's hungry.

bail reform for a loaf of bread, yes. professional thieves, no. this whole thing in the city with alvin bragg as the manhattan d.a., and other places across the country, so lenient on criminals, is that what's fueling this, or is it multi-factorial, how do you see it, jason? >> you know, we are in a time when people are saying, you know, we have high inflation, high prices, and john is absolutely right with what he's saying. i think like i mentioned earlier, there are no consequences that people see right now. so, other than being embarrassed for stealing something, there is nothing to stop them. we have police come to the scene sometimes when they do arrive they let the person go because they say there is really a waste of time to bring them to the precinct because the d.a.'s office will not send them anything more than an appearance ticket. >> the first time i walked into a duane reed a few years ago and

saw the toothpaste under lock and key. are you doing things like that at food town and how much of a hassle is it and how much time for your associates if they have to be going around the store unlocking and locking cabinets back up. >> listen, we have not gotten to the point we started locking things the way you have seen at the drug stores, but we have had to remove things from the shelf. so we have had to take high ticket items, put them at the courtesy counter, but a limit to that, only so much you can do and it's very frightening to walk our aisles and you walk by, let's say, a section of detergent and a whole section missing, maybe 6 or 7 bottles of tide, 100 ounce and go to my computer system to see how many i sold, maybe i sold one. the other six obviously were stolen. >> john: so real quick, what's the solution? >> well, what we did is we belong to an organization called

national supermarket association here in new york, have many members here in the tristate area, and we got together with some other local supermarket organizations, there's another organization that, you know, an asian organization, arab organization, we all merged together and we formed a coalition, it's called the collective action to protect our stores, and what we are doing, we are trying to engage our politicians, we have engaged the mayor's office, trying to engage the governor's office, we are trying to get their support to get tougher legislation, to get the judges to be stricter with discretion on bail so that we can curb the shoplifting and have people see there are going to be consequences. we want to see more action taken by the city with the police department. we would like to see a special task force created that is strictly dedicated to these types of crimes happening in our

neighborhood. >> john: so many people in the city are so upset with all of this. listen, we wish you a lot of luck in making some change, it's clear something has to happen. jason farrera, good to talk to you. thank you. >> sandra: two special counsels have now been appointed to investigate two presidents who could be facing off to win the white house in 2024. does attorney general merrick garland need to intervene before the campaigns heat up? shannon bream is here on that. hi, shannon. >> john: plus, devastating tornadoes through communities across the southeast, leaving some families losing almost everything they own. hard hit georgia, the clean-up is just getting started.

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recording the covid vaccine. cdc is saying there has been enough cases of people who have had the vaccine, received the vaccine, and then suffered a stroke. the agency will now be investigating any potential links between the shots and strokes in some of those patients, and on the breaking news we bring in dr. marc siegel, joins us, a fox news medical contributor. this is big news for many just hearing this now. what do we know? >> i actually spoke to somebody very high up at cdc about this and i want to put it in context and first of all, everyone has heard of the vaccine averse event registry, it gets listed. but this is the data link cdc has that looks for associations between side effects and getting the vaccine.

everyone needs to remember that covid can lead to stroke, covid itself can lead to stroke. so it's always a judgment of what's more of a risk. the treatment or the vaccine or the actual disease if you could decrease the risk if you took the vaccine. but this is not proof. they see there may be a link and they want to investigate it and trying to be transparent. only found in ages over 65, it was not found in pfizer data, it was not found in israel or u.k. data, medicare or, and it's only in veers, where they look for the association. only in one place they found it and the vaccine safety data link but sandra, it's an important place to find it and so it can't be dismissed, has to be investigated.

>> john: and with the pfizer bivalent, and also in europe, data associated with another vaccine. what should people 65 and older take away from this. is this the sort of thing, talk to your doctor before you get the vaccine to discuss the risk benefit analysis, also my understanding that the increase in stroke that was found was in the first 21 days following vaccination. >> also correct, and john your point is exactly what you and i have always discussed. talk to your doctor about the risk benefit analysis. i happened to talk to dr. paul a few minutes ago the vaccine advisory committee and they are going to discuss it at the end of january and he believes it's a safe vaccine, especially in high risk groups. he does not necessarily see an advantage over the monobalent,

but updated in boosters, if you have not h covid recently, which is huge. you would consider this anyway. it doesn't change his mind but he's looking at the association further. talk to your doctor if you are in a high risk group over the age of 65. i would generally, even with the information i have today, not change my view on this yet. >> sandra: important to note as we have been in the chiron there, the cdc is making no changes to the vaccine requirement, right, dr. siegel? >> yes, and you know cdc suggests vaccines from five and up. but a lot of us are moving more in the direction of let's make sure that high risk groups get covered and the elderly get covered. today's announcement pertains only to the elderly, only to the senior citizens and that's important. >> john: all right. so again, the bottom line here, discuss it with your doctor to see what risk profile you might

fall into. doc siegel, thank you. >> sandra: we thank dr. siegel for jumping on the phone with us there, but obviously big news, we'll continue to track where this goes, john. always want to be transparent with the audience, we want to present it to them but noting no changes to the recommendations in the vaccine but certainly something they are looking into, these adverse reactions. >> john: as the doc pointed out, the cdc and the fda thought it was important they put out the release this afternoon and they will look further into it as well. moving on, because fox news sunday is coming up in a couple of days, u.s. attorney merrick garland has two classified document probes on his watch after tapping special counsels to investigate both president biden and former president trump. the wall street journal editorial board says they can conduct for now but cannot escape how to handle all this. how will he play this. both names potentiallyn the ballot in 2024.

bring in shannon bream, unchartered territory, special counsels investigating the two front running candidates for 2024, even though one has not declared. >> you know the buzz that president biden is gearing up for the election announcement, and rematch in the front-runners of 2024, i don't know the attorney general had any other choice. you have the ongoing special counsel, with president trump and classified documents. a lot of heat on the doj about how they handle issues, do republicans and democrats the same treatment, pro life and pro choice groups get the same treatment, i don't know if he had any other choice. this is what a special counsel is meant for when you need the full appearance of objectivity and independent investigation. >> john: the wall street journal suggested that he did have a different path he could have followed. rather pass the buck to special counsels, mr. garland would be wiser to help the country by

seeking a better way out. clarify the facts and explain how they handle documents recklessly in a way that could affect national security. mr. garland could close both cases giving voters their say next year when mr. trump and mr. biden expect to be on the ballot. >> kim strasel lays this out, and if it's just about the classified document, there are suggestions and allegations of obstruction of justice potentially in the trump case, if it's just about the classified documents found at the homes of people who were a former president and a former vice president and there is a different way and authority that presidents and former vice presidents have for declassifying information, that's a substantive difference. i don't know how you charge one of these men and don't charge the other, the doj will make the decision. the voters will probably get the

final call. >> john: they will, and you mentioned kimberly, she said this about the effect that garland is having on politics, the power the department now has over the 2024 election is extraordinary. how long will the probes drag on weighing down the candidates, will one investigation finish sooner than the other giving one candidate an advantage. will one man be exonerated the other is indicted. how much information will be leaked in each probe in an attempt at partisan advantage. will the department end up having altered the future of politics by dissuading mr. biden to run. she suggests that garland has his hands on a bunch of levers here. >> very sticky situation. he's trying to signal i'm making it as objective as possible and putting it out there. but how many information we may get on the indications, the photos from the mar-a-lago raid and the search, and what the former president was holding, we have not gotten that much detail

about -- >> john: bits and pieces there but not a whole lot of what the content was. you'll be talking about this on fox news sunday. >> house oversight has said we are going to launch into the investigation, so a democrat and republican to talk about where the house goes, can they govern from here, and new governor, sarah huckabee sanders, she's been making a lot of moves. will she endorse her former boss as president for 2024, we'll see. >> john: intriguing question. mandated getting rid of latinx. >> and crt in schools and things like that. see you sunday. >> sandra: good to see shannon. a missing mother in massachusetts once feared her husband so much that she called the police and that was before the couple was ever married. the incident happened nearly a decade ago when ana walshe

reported her now husband threatened to kill her and a friend. case went nowhere after she refused to cooperate with the prosecutors. brian walshe is under arrest accused of misleading investigators about his wife's disappearance. it adds to the damning evidence they are piling up against the husband, includes a knife, a hatchet, and traces of blood. but with investigators unable to say for certain whether ana walshe is even a victim of a crime, the evidence in the case remains circumstantial. nicole parker, a former fbi special agent in the miami field office over more than a decade at the agency, investigated homicides to sex crimes, kidnappings and human trafficking, she was a special agent on scene to investigate many high profile cases, including the shooting rampage at the parkland high school, and a shooting at the orlando airport in 2017, and her system in court has led to countless

convictions. appreciate you joining us now. welcome. >> thank you. >> sandra: we'll talk about your piece, it's gotten a lot of attention on foxnews.com, and why you left the fbi, but first to this case. now we have this picture of this woman since her disappearance with a bruise on her face, we know there was evidence that she once was threatened by her husband, then did not cooperate with authorities in the investigation. what do we know about this really bizarre case, seems to have been a lot of red flags an i long the way. >> there are absolutely a lot of red flags. a lot of times when we look at investigations and solving these cases, we look at the historical behavior of an individual. brian walshe clearly had a history based on this new information coming out that he had been abusive to her. she had actually contacted law enforcement herself. >> sandra: i want to point this out, our producers are telling us these are brand-new photos we have received of the couple,

obviously in a different time, but these are -- these are exclusive to us, wedding pictures that fox digital was able to obtain, continue. >> wow, excellent. looking at the pictures, one of the calls to law enforcement was actually before she was married to brian, and she, you know, contacted law enforcement and chose not to press charges, and they contact law enforcement but then they end up backing off and proceed in the relationship. that history of threats, if someone is going to behave that way, patterns of behavior are future behavior. not shocking if he committed the crime if he made that in the past. >> sandra: and now evidence reportedly found in the mother-in-laws trash, trash bags with blood, a hatchet and

hacksaw, used cleaning sclies, how has this person not been brought to justice? >> i think it's a matter of time. i'm sure they tested blood, dna, when you charge a case you want to make sure it's rock solid and that's up to the prosecution team. it's up to them to determine whether it's right to charge the case. i would think it would be soon in this investigation. >> sandra: in your time with the fbi you have seen countless cases like this, looks like a perfectly happy -- look at the pictures, perfectly happy couple. >> right. you know, you say pictures are worth 1,000 words, but you can put a smile on. she had wanted her mother to visit her recently right before it occurred, and a lot of times things are going on behind the scene but you go back and look at the digital evidence, text messages, phone call, emails,

and that shows the behavior and things going on you don't see on the outside. >> and that can be incredibly telling. and your piece on foxnews.com, and why you left the fbi. three months ago you say you walked away from the fbi and the career you once loved. and why you felt you had to leave. in it you say the fbi became politically weaponized, starting from the top in washington and trickling down to the field offices, distancing myself from mistakes, and actions taken by a small but few fbi employees was exhausting. i was always treated with the highest level of respect in the miami division, you no longer felt you were the type of agent the fbi valued. that is a huge statement. what did you see happening there? >> that is a huge statement and i would like to make a very, very clear discrepancy. there are so many amazing people

doing amazing work at the fbi but at the end of the day we require to the higher-ups, so when you -- when things continue to happen that don't appear to be fair and it's very clear and obvious and i think americans have seen this one thing after another. a lot of politicalsation at the fbi, i think all americans want the fbi to be fair. it shouldn't matter what side of the political spectrum you are on. the truth is the truth and we need to conduct investigations fairly and about 99.9% of the employees at the fbi are operating under that. but it just takes a small few to kind of, you know, we have to explain ourselves to everyone just because of the actions of a small few and it did become exhausting because you know, when you are having to go out and do investigations you need the buy-in of the americans, you need their trust to conduct their cases, you have to conduct interviews, you need witnesses, people that really want to

cooperate and help the fbi, it's so important and we need to make sure we are the fbi that americans love, respect and trust, and i can tell you that most people at the fbi are, but we really need to make sure that we are standing strong. >> sandra: i'll ask you if you believe the ship can be righted based on where you believe it is today and losing valued employees like you can be a huge problem and you write about that in your piece. how the credibility damage at the fbi is leading to a lot of problems, including recruitment. we need the best and the brightest talent to be working inside of the fbi, and if that's not happening, things can dramatically change. >> i 100% agree with that. you need quality employees, and with a few minor tweaks we can change. >> sandra: minor tweaks. >> the fbi works with the department of justice, we report

to the department of justice at the end of the day and it's a partnership. but i do believe with some strong leadership and maybe reevaluating, self-reflecting and looking at some things that have happened, if we can look and make adjustments and be the fbi that americans deserve, trustworthy, fair, impartial, unbiased, we can absolutely right the ship. >> sandra: you are incredibly skilled, your resume' is amazing, and involved with some of the highest level investigations there and to have you here to talk about this is really key for us. thank you for being here and the piece is on .com right now, and just a small theory about why this has gone so viral and people are reading it, perhaps it's confirming suspicions for americans who have lost the faith in the fbi but americans are a hopeful group of people and i believe to your point they believe it can get better, and there can be improvements made and you are confirming that.

>> absolutely. like i said, i -- all the people i know, we are doing fair, honest, true investigations protecting americans, and we need to rest assured there are good people holding the line. >> sandra: good to have you here. nicole parker, thank you for joining us. john. >> john: interesting background, too. one of those people called to serve in the wake of 9/11, she was working at merrill lynch in the financial world prior to this and said i'm going to join the fbi and help get the bad guys. >> sandra: fascinating transition and the fbi was lucky to have her. >> john: turning to weather and the devastating tornadoes ripping through the southeast, first responders scrambling to rescue people under trapped trees and buildings, both the governors of georgia and alabama have declared states of emergencies to the areas affected. steve is life in griffin, georgia, an hour south of atlanta. what's it looking like where you

are, steve? >> john, just a mess here. signs of destruction, some houses are gone, roofs missing as well. selma, alabama, one tornado touched down in selma, went for about 20 miles, including through the center of town. uproot oak trees and knocked down brick buildings as well. 20 miles on the ground and enough to throw debris up in the air 10,000 feet. when you talk to people who lived through it, they say it was just an afternoon and a night of real terror. >> you could hear the roar, and you could hear the wind, and right over our head. >> we had to go back into a glass front building and hope the pressure did not take the glass out. you could feel the pressure of what was happening but no damage, thank god, for where we were. >> one of the hardest hit areas, rural alabama around montgomery,

at least six people dead there, and many in mobile homes just crushed by trees. overall, the death toll has been steadily rising. right now, nine, including two here in georgia, was of whom was a 5-year-old boy. john, back to you. >> john: steve, we wish the folks down there the best. >> sandra: before we go, cancel culture strikes again. university of southern california school of social work is dropping the world field from its curriculum over what administti -- administrators call racist origins. instead the school of social work will use practicum. in a letter, they say the word field has connotations for descendants of slavery and the change will support anti-racist, social work and inclusivity. it has sparked criticism from many, including alumni of usc. another change. >> john: what field of study are you in, or what field of work --

wow. [laughter] >> sandra: go fathom. >> john: ok, ok, i'm not going to get myself in trouble. it was not -- it was not a fun week for those working at the white house as they scramble to contain the fallout from classified documents being found in the president's garage, but that did not stop some of the usually left leaning late night hosts from having some fun with the president, a subject they have often steered >> he is super proud of that corvette, isn't he? "you know, i have a corvette." >> which is more dangerous, joe biden having classify documents in his garage or joe biden having the keys to a corvette? >> he wasn't sure what was in the files for your go oh, yes, the old "grandpa caught shoplifting" maneuver. "is that something in my pocket?

oh, charleston shoe?" "how could that happen?" >> john: i thought it was interesting when peter doocy posited the question to the president, classified documents next year corvette, what were you thinking? and his response was, well, the corvette was in a locked garage. [laughs] not the documents were in a locked garage. >> sandra: amazing. >> john: the car was in a locked garage. >> sandra: as peter pointed out, that was included in his question because the president was seen backing the corvette into the garage in that campaign video. >> john: we do know at least at one point in the history of those documents being in that garage that the garage is not only not locked, but that the door was wide open. and there was a camera crew there, as well, so you had classified documents in proximity to people who didn't have security -- >> sandra: if they were there then. >> john: well, they were, because they were filming him backing the car up. >> sandra: right, but we don't know if those are the documents in that box. >> john: we don't, but they

were in the garage with a corvette so can surmise there were documents at the time. speedily i don't know if there's going to be any movement on this this weekend. it doesn't appear karine jean-pierre had any new information. we will be back with this on monday, john. >> john: to say the least, she didn't have any information to give today. >> sandra: have a fabulous weekend from everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: and i'm john roberts. "the story" begins. >> martha: right now on "the story," president biden is about to take off for the weekend for the white house and guess where he is headed? his home in wilmington, delaware, where he will undoubtedly visit the corvette, the garage, and all of that, the side of two discovery to classify documents that led to the special counsel probe into his handling of these documents. the press secretary faced another day, just a short time ago, questions around the timing of all of this. and why it took a reporter to ge