the southern border. we have seen a rogues gallery of foreign terrorist organizations call for attacks against americans and our allies. increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland. not unlike the isis-k attack we saw at the russian concert hall back in march. >> john: just a week after fbi director christopher wray warned of a similar isis attack, one in russia come on american soil, i.c.e. arrested tajikistan nationals with suspected isis ties after they illegally cross into the united states. how is that for good news on a wednesday? >> sandra: what a way to kick it off. >> john: john roberts, good to be with you. >> sandra: gillian turner in for sandra smith today, this is "america reports" periods eight tajikistan nationals, all men, nabbed in a coordinate operation that spanned three sanctuary cities, one source telling fox news they were released into the country after initial i.c.e. screenings at the border failed to raise any red flags at all. they just walked on through periods of former fbi director investigator bill daley is going to join us in just a moment. >> john: fox team coverage, matt finn in california were one border sector now the busiest in the nation. and alexis mcadams kicks things off in new york city with the latest on the i.c.e. arrests. alexis, this has got a lot of people puzzled and concerned. >> john, that's right, we talk about what happens at the border on a daily basis and we see from our drone teams and cameras, but now people in new york are hearing about what is happening across the united states. we know eight men from tajikistan had entered in through the united states. how did they cross in? right through the southern border. and a source telling us, john and gillian, then a majority of those men actually were found right here in new york ci, watch. >> my biggest concern is that there's open southern border has created the biggest national security vulnerability the station has ever seen. >> so in just the last few days, a group of men from tajikistan, who investigators believe have ties to isis, were taken into custody. according to sources, these men were "fully vetted" at the southern border, okay, but somehow nothing was flagged on them so it was only after they were already in the country and had been released that cbp was notified about this alleged isis connection. we can tell you this was a huge situation that was led by i.c.e. that took place in three major cities, talking about philadelphia, los angeles, and then right here in new york city. we actually talked to a democratic councilman here in new york who says the border is broken and biden needs to do something before there is another terrorist attack in the big apple. watch. >> they really can't do a thorough job. they don't have enough officers to vet these people. and certainly this should be done before they come into our country. so let's get real about this. let's protect our nation. our citizens. our families. let's know who is coming in. >> according to "the new york post," the feds used a wiretap to listen in on their phone calls, hearing one of the people arrested talking about bombs. we can also tell you according to the latest information from federal sources out here, these men have not been charged in any crimes yet. they are being held in i.c.e. custody and could be basically just sent home. john? >> john: alexis mcadams for us at the big apple. gillian? >> gillian: despite president biden newly-released executive order, the number of people actually crossing into the u.s. illegally is not abating, and one key sector alone now migrants hailing from 100 different countries, even more come are being ushered into the u.s. with only what's called a notice to appear in court on a day sometime years out. matt finn is live from california right now. matt, how many people has border control and counter daily you are? >> jillian, the latest numbers obtained by fox news, crossing of a san diego every day. this week we saw at least four migrants crossing in a single clip, a caravan emerging from the desert. some of the border patrol agents tell us it is one of the largest single groups they have ever seen in the san diego sector. and we have learned that migrants are still being released into the united states after illegally crossing. despite president biden promising that would not happen under his executive order. here in san diego, we are talking to migrants from all over the world, including iran, yemen, china, and egypt. you are from egypt, correct? >> yes, i am from egypt. >> and you're coming here, staying in california, sunnyvale? >> come for work. >> come for work? >> yes, i love america. >> in my country, don't have freedom. i don't -- i don't do anything. tattoo, no. >> as you walk along the border wall, you see all types of debris, migrants shedding clothing and garbage, lighting fires, and occasionally we spot migrants cutting holes in the wall or trying to get over it. illegal migrants cross into the united states in all different ways. one method is scaling the wall with these rebar ladders. border patrol tells me sometimes the mexican military turns them over to the united states. now i'm talking to some of these migrants here, i say, are you aware of the executive order which claims you are no longer eligible for asylum? many of them say it is news to them but they feel like they are good migrants and they will be good people in the united states, so they feel like america will let them stay. back to you, gillian pete >> gillian: matt finn and jacumba for us, thank you. >> john: bill daley, former fbi investigator. how concerned are you? about this revelation that eight tajik people with known ties to isis were apprehended coming across the border. they were vetted and paroled into the country. >> hey, john, i'm very concerned. i'm concerned, much like the fbi director said, that this is the harbinger of perhaps things to come. we have literally hundreds of people who have been shown up on the terrorist watch list. these individuals apparently did not appear on that watch list. perhaps they weren't discovered by our partners overseas, our own intelligence agencies, before they arrived. but nonetheless, we literally have hundreds of other people who we suspect are terrorists who snuck across the borders. i'm very much concerned, and i'm concerned, john, we also use this term "betting" very loosely come i would probably put that in airports without being too common about this. venting is a very serious matter, in this case, venting, using the terrorist watch list is probably the best tool we have. comparing databases, getting into countries that may or may not have records, may have purged records, people have authority or push can have records expunged. it is a very loose term we use beard over the years i have worked on international cases where we need to truly vet people. it takes literally tens and tens of hours, i even on the ground work, to really understand who someone is. >> gillian: so, bill, the terror watch list, as i understand it, is pretty black-and-white. how does one encounter a migrant along the southern border, match their name with the terror watch list, and somehow come up short and miss eight people when they are, in fact, on the list? do you have a sense of how that mistake is made in real time? >> well, actually, gillian, i'm not too sure whether or not they were on the list at the time. that seems to be the big take at this point. we may want to suggest that perhaps they showed up afterwards, they came to the fbi's attention, homeland security's attention, because of information received by either our agencies or our partner agencies overseas. but you know, people showing up at the border and even showing up and then passed the border, they have papers, or maybe they have nothing, they give a name, perhaps if they are on a terrorist watch list, we'll have a face, you can do some type of facial matching or facial imagery to compare them. other than that, that's really what we're talking about here and i think that is really a concern that we all need to have as americans, people coming through, there isn't this kind of thorough vetting and even people who might be on the terrorist watch list, in this case we will find out whether or not they really were there or they gave a different name or the face didn't appear through facial imaging, but it is a very -- a very spotty case, at best. catching people appear to be appear to be one all right, bill, as troubling as this is, there is an even bigger problem, and that is the number of people where come across this border, that the border patrol, cbp, dhs, i.c.e., the fbi, have never laid eyes on, the so-called got-aways be at how many are there? take a look at this. since president biden came into office, an estimated come only in estimation because we don't know, what their intentions were, 1,664,203. how much of a national -- of people who are being vetted pose a national security risk, what kind of -- 1.6 million people who weren't invented? >> john, you are spot on with this. you can imagine what it takes for an agency like the fbi when you don't even know who you are looking for appeared in a case where people may come across and we have a name or a face or some information about them, maybe try to track them but in this case, we don't know who they are, we don't know who they are connecting with, we don't know what their intentions are. we don't know whether they were sent here intentionally as part of some type of plot, sent here as sleeper people who could be activated later on in sales, could be used against us later on, or could they be, people could easily be radicalized and influenced by either outsiders or other people when they get here? i think you are right, john. when you look at these numbers, it certainly is startling, to say the least, and certainly from a national security perspective, whether from a terrorist perspective, an intelligence perspective, when we see large numbers of people coming from different countries who we deemed as being hostile intelligence services, they may be sending their people here, sending young men, young military-age men, who could also be intelligence operatives. we have a number of issues we are facing, and i think all of us as americans need to be appalled at what exposure we are placed at because of the open border we have. >> gillian: but especially considering the threat environment we are currently in, bill, i want you to take a listen to the attorney general last week and then we have the fbi director -- reversed that order come fbi director chris wray last week, the day before we had the attorney general talking about what we are dealing with. listen. >> we have seen the threat from foreign terrorists rise to a whole 'nother level on top of that. increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland. not unlike the isis-k attack we saw at the russia concert hall back in march. >> i am worried about the possibility of a terrorist attack in the country after october 7th. the threat level for us has gone up enormously. every morning, we worry about this question. we try to track anyone who might be trying to hurt the country. >> gillian: it's a perfect storm. >> eight is. as the fbi director said earlier, we have seen a rogues gallery of individuals coming through and people could act again in these groups or in concert together. 9/11, 19 individuals who carried out that horrific, horrific attack on the day. but over the years we have had the boston marathon bombing. somewhat poignant, today is the eighth anniversary of the pulse nightclub shooting down in orlando, where 49 people were killed. it goes to show you that even those people who may be on our radar at some point, some i just mentioned, perhaps, were, they go unnoticed. they come here with intent, cultivated with intent to come and we don't even know who they are. >> john: so, bill, just as we say goodbye to you here, bill melugin obtained this memo sent to the border patrol about apprehensions in san diego sector. there is only a mandatory referral to detention of people from uzbekistan, touch extent, which is where these eight were from, russia, georgia, kyrgyzstan, moldova. all others from every other country should be processed with a notice to appear and then released on their own recognizance, which includes more than 100 countries in the eastern hemisphere. so you've got to wonder, how many people are coming into this country? 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i think the state of the country is scary. >> i would agree, prices of everything. >> gillian: all right, the federal reserve set to react to the new inflation report at the top of the hour. inflation continuing to ease just slightly, though, still more than a point higher than the feds goal. jerry baker joins me now. jerry, take a look at this. we compiled some of the stats on the inflation for particular sectors since president biden the day he took office, so we are looking at overall, we have talked about 19.3% but then food is up 21, shelter 21%, energy 35%, and car insurance up more than 50%. not a rosy picture. >> no, gillian, you are absolutely right and those are a good illustration of prices people have to pay, rather than the sometimes general numbers we get -- that gets a lot of focus. this report we had today was mildly encouraging. what came in slightly better than people had been expecting, but it is really important to put into perspective, gillian, not only exactly as you said prices overall since joe biden came to office 20% higher, inflation is slowing, it's true, it has come down from its peak, the rates of price increases, prices are still going up month after month after month on average. the rate of price inflation has come down but it nearly 3.5%, gillian, it is still, as you said come above the federal reserve's targets, but almost also twice as high as when biden took office. the last few months of trump's presidency, inflation down below 2%. it's no wonder as you heard from those people in the clip at the beginning of this segment, gillian, that people are unhappy with the economy. prices are much higher than they were three years ago and they are still rising. and what's more, most incomes have not caught -- caught pace with that, and with interest rates is still high they are suffering in terms of student loans and other things. it is still a very bleak picture for most people. >> gillian: cost of living, salaries not going up as quickly and you have americans like we talked to in the montage in the segment where they might be earning more than they ever have but it's not making a difference to their quality of life. gerry come here is jerome powell setting the stage for the u.s. government own report card, take a listen. >> we remain strongly committed to bringing inflation back down to our 2% goal. we'll have to do more in terms of monetary policy. we will get back to 2%. we understand the hardship inflation is causing an strongly committed to bringing inflation down to our 2% goal. >> gillian: i know you can't see into the future but if you were going to kind of try and project and give your best guess, when could we be looking? >> we are going to find out what the fed thinks in the next hour. that will give us a sense of when they think inflation will come back to 2%. currently they think it will happen sometime next year. what's really interesting, gillian, what they will do with interest rates. this report today has raised very slightly the possibility they will cut interest rates this year, not today, nobody expects any kind of interest rates today and not july, but we could see a cut in september just before the election, by the way, which might be quite interesting. some people will wonder about the timing of that. even so, still important to remember that even if they cut by 25 basis points come a quarter of a point, that mean rates will still be 5% -- again, when president biden took of office, they were below 2%. rates, all those interest rates from housing and student debt, car loans, were way, way lower than they are. it is the same story with inflation. while inflation is better than it was a year ago and is coming down, it is still nowhere near where it was when president biden took office and file interest rates may come down they are still way, way above where they were when president biden took office. >> gillian: it sounds like we are looking at, you know, weeks to months to get to where the fed has wanted to be for some time now. september is only three months from now. a little bit of hope there appeared we will be watching at the top of the hour to see when the decision comes down. thanks so much, gerry. >> thank you, gillian peered to be when we are monitoring a pentagon briefing after russian warships sailed close to florida on their way to cuba. moscow's show of force a warning to washington? 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