Walz, holding a Campaign Event Today in Battle Ground Pennsylvania as former President Trump is gearing up for a rally this afternoon in battleground North Carolina where he is expected to focus on the economy and high prices. As vicepresident Kamala Harris held a rally last night in the blue Wall State of wisconsin. And she faces calls for more interviews from the media. Welcome to Fox News live, im alicia acuna. Griff were coming down the stretch, 45 days from Election Day as early Inperson Voting is now underway this three states this Weekend And Today is the deadline for states to send out ballots to military and overseas voters. Alexandria huff is live in wilmington, North Carolina, kicking things off for us. Hey, alex. Yeah, griff, early Voting Hasnt kicked off in North Carolina just yet, but we have a few states where its happening. We were talking to voters prior to the rally starting. Its filling up behind me. Most plan to vote inperson on Election Day, save for one older couple, they told me they will take advantage of early voting and go at their own pace and not stand in the kind of line they were standing to get into this rally. And President Biden was supposed to be back in North Carolina in april. Weather stopped him from doing so, he kicked off in virginia, minnesota, South Dakota and you know, elsewhere theres been changes made that are really getting the attention of voters. Here in pennsylvania, The State Supreme Court mandated voters will have to properly mail in in order to count and in georgia ballots have to hand count by three, and the statement last week, theres a demographic shift here, a lot of new voters and President Trump will spend a lot of time here. And j. D. Vance was here a couple of days ago and today hes expected to talk about inflation, the economy, housing prices. Here is what he said at his last rally in new york. Our heavy industries have exported overseas and our middle class has been eviscerated right here at home, been eviscerated. Housing costs are out of control. Inflation has cost a typical family 28,000. That resonates with voters here in North Carolina. North carolina has long been considered a very affordable state. Thats been changing a little bit since theres such an influx of outsiders moving to North Carolina. Its not only impacted the political landscape of the state, but also prices. Griff the Tar Heel State could play a key role. Alexandria hoff in wilmington. Alicia vicepresident Kamala Harris facing new criticism over her lack of interviews with the media. This, as she held a rally in Battleground Wisconsin with an interview with oprah winfrey. Good morning, alicia. From Wilmington To Outside wilmington, delaware. Vicepresident here is not here to join President Biden to meet with World Leaders at the top of the agenda. One of the criticisms of Vicepresident Harris is she would be another extension of President Biden, a biden second term. Here was the vicepresident talking about that last night at that rally you mentioned in wisconsin. America is ready to chart a new way forward. We are ready. We are ready. We are ready for a new generation of leadership thats optimistic about what we can do together. Now for the leaders of india, Japan And Australia here in delaware with the president , a big part of standing up to china is beefing up forces in the pacific and bidens first year in office announced a new Defense Partnership with australia, part of that agreement selling up to five Virginia Class Attack Submarines to the aussies. The problem, the u. S. Navys inventory of Attack Submarines is short. Supposed to have 66 on the books and instead only 49 with 40 of those down for maintenance at any given time. Supporters of aukus, including the Senator Roger Wicker from mississippi and warns it must boost spending, and wants to see a military buildup, 5 of the economy on defense, bolstering the submarine fleet, the u. S. Navy maintains over china. Wicker warns that china has 200 times the Ship Building Capacity than the u. S. Aukus is a great agreement and we need to put our money where our mouths are, but part one of the treaty says that we will do our part to bring australia along with twosubmarines in the near future. We dont have the Industrial Base right now to do that. Now, if you wanted to hear President Biden or any of the World Leaders discuss this issue, you might be disappointed, alicia. Because theres no Press Conferences scheduled this weekend. Alicia. Alicia in the meantime, the world is watching. Lucas tomlinson, Thank You so much. Acting secret Service Director Rowe admits in butler, pennsylvania, Complacency Led to a breach in protocol. Madeleine rivera is here live on the set. Maddie, what do we learn from this . Its not just complacency, but its detailed from the start. Secret service and local police knew that securing the Rally Site in butler, pennsylvania, was going to be a challenge. They recognized there was an unobstructed or rather, an object Structed V of the stage yet, there was no mitigation of these. And there was a local tactical team located on the second floor of the building, but no followup with the Secret Service to move that team up on the roof. The suspect fired shots from na location. Acting secret Service Director says there should have been clear instructions. The Administration Review identified deficiency In Advanced Planning by Secret Service personnel. These employees will be held accountable and the agency has among the pro Bust Table of penalties in the entirety of the federal government. Some local police didnt realize that Secret Service had a separate Communication Center on site and personnel on the ground overly relied on phones not radio typically used to send out information and transmissions were missed. And Secret Service was not aware of a search by local authorities to find the suspect. Passing a boost to provide security for president ial and vicepresident ial candidates, and give them the same as sitting President S. How many more Assassination Attempts need to happen before we as an institution get serious about secret Service Protection . Theyve increased for trump, but they want it into law. Griff and lawmakers have questions for protection for all the candidates. They do and well see more coming out from different agencies in the coming days and weeks. Griff all right, Madeleine Rivera covering that story. Thank you. Youve got it. Alicia thanks, griff. For more on this, lets bring in former dhs Senior Advisor and former Secret Service agent, charles moreno. Good to see i. Alicia Thank You. Director rowe brought forward this stunning admission of complacency on the ground in butler, pa. What are your thoughts when you watch the Secret Service and going forward, its ability to right the ship . I think what this means is gone are the days of the Cookie Cutter approaches to protection based on title. For example, former President S like trump get this Set Amount of resources. Those days are over in this dynamic Threat Environment. Now the Secret Service, speaking of the Paradigm Shift that the Acting Director described yesterday, means that they actually have to resource to the Threat Level for each of their protectees. This is a dynamic Threat Environment that requires the Secret Service to be just as dynamic in the Security Plans that they put together, the staffing that they provide, including state and local Law Enforcement. The technologies they use and the Communication Systems they put in place. Alicia you know, rowe also said that the agency is spread thin. Watch. While we can do this, it is certainly, we are burning through a lot of assets and resources and thats the argument that weve been trying to show. This isnt some Pie In The Sky trying to say, hey, we want this now. We are not capitalizing on a crisis. We are showing the math. We have finite resources, and we are stretching those resources to their maximum right now. You know, charles, resources covers a lot of ground. Is he talking about recruitment, retention, training . What do you hear . Well, hes talking about all of that. The first thing that he needs to do to congress is prove that hes managing the resources that the agency has affect effectively and efficiently. If he can do that, congress will support him. The Resource Issue is important. The Secret Service has the United Nations General Assembly this month on top of now, three president ial level details, including former President Trump and Vicepresident Harris. And two Vp Level Security details. So the problem is, you know, where do they get all of these resources and how do they avoid burning out their manpower . Theyre already borrowing 1500 Special Agents from Homeland Security investigations. Now, while these are Law Enforcement officers, they are not trained in the way that Secret Service are trained. Its that simple. The Secret Service needs to be able to sustain its operations on its own, and thats where congress needs to come in, but this wont be solved overnight, hiring, retention, these are all longprojected issues for the agency to solve. You know, and we saw the house pass this enhanced president ial security act. But then we also which also like level sets the level of protection for vicepresident , president ial candidates as well, and vicepresident ial candidates, but then we find out from rowe that actually, trump already had elevated Security Status when the second Assassination Attempt happened in florida so what are we supposed to make of that. Even if there are more resources on there. If they already have that level of protection and then this happened . Yeah, not so sure theyre speaking about the same thing, being congress and the Acting Director about what the expectations are for president ial level protection. I dont know if that was actually in place, based on the incident that took place at the Golf Course on sunday, where that perimeter was left unswept, prior to the former president getting there. So, i would dispute that, but what that bill does, that passed the house, and will likely pass the senate, is it takes away the discretion of the Secret Service. And this will also be a huge Manpower Train because the Secret Service would usually have free rein to interpret and analyze the Threat Environment and assign the resources as necessary. What this bill tells the Secret Service we no longer trust you to make those decisions. Interesting, when you talk about resources, and manpower, how long do you think it will take for the Secret Service, honestly, to get where it needs to be . Unless they were able to do a rapid transfer of agencies, say from the Homeland Security investigations agency, because they all fall under dhs and say, look, if youre interested in becoming Secret Service agents, well put you through the Training And Switch you over immediately. Short of that, any traditional Hiring And Background checks and medicals and physicals, these take a year to get done for the typical applicant. Were talking over a year or two to get where they need to be. Alicia it takes time and here we are 45 days from Election Day. Charles moreno, so good to talk to you and see you. Thank you. You, too, thanks, alicia. Alicia Thank You. Coming up next hour, we will speak with Florida Attorney general Ashley Moody to discuss Floridas Investigation into the second Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump. Stay tuned for that. Griff. Griff . In San Diego we had a significant increase of aliens, with significant ties to terrorism. At the time i was told i could not release any information on this increase in sias or mention any of the arrests. The administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at The Border. Griff shocking testimony on Capitol Hill this week over an alleged role the Bidenharris Administration had in controlling what information was released to the public about special interest aliens crossing our southern border. For more lets bring in some of the witnesses at those hearings, San Diego County Supervisor Jen Desmond and Aaron Hiky who made the allegations. Chief, first, Thank You for being here. I want to start with you, as full disclosure ive spent a significant amount of time in your sector back when we were seeing this surge of sias. So our viewers understand, these are individuals who, because of their travel patterns, may pose a national Security Threat to the u. S. What did you want to convey . What does the american public need to know about what was the intention of the administration to muzzle you . The ultimate impact that i see is that they didnt want to see the threat at The Border, threat that existed and since the agents were off The Border, moving Care And Feeding of the masses, there was gaps in The Border and when this happens, it gets around, word gets around and those that really want to get through to do bad things see the opportunity and in the past, when San Diego would arrest 10 to 15 a year since we started tracking those numbers, 10 or 15 arrests of individuals with those backgrounds, that went up to over 100, and then over 150 and even more than that this year. Theyre taking advantage of that gap so theres a very, very significant threat out there of bad people doing bad things that are coming into our country that are taking advantage of the increasing gaps on The Border. Griff chief, i want to show our viewers the numbers. There was a 3300 increase between the trump fiscal years, 2017 up to 2021, to 22 to 24. Have we ever been at a greater threat of a terrorist slipping across The Border than we are today . No, in my opinion, no, ive never seen it. Griff and when i spoke with cbp about your testimony, they did not address directly your testimony, but rather said that they maintain a high level of transparency because theyve published the numbers on their website and because they make sector chiefs available through Social Media and interviews. Whats your response . Are they transparent . No, the amount of information that sector chiefs are allowed to disseminate on their Social Media and their ability to contact the media is extremely limited. Those limits come through customs and Border Protection and the department of Homeland Security. As information that they want to put out is limited and the chiefs are told when and what they can put out, so, no, its that information is not freely put out in the sectors or the employees. Griff were working to reestablish our connection with jim desmond. The San Diego center is the epicenter of the Border Crisis and i want you just to speak, if you can, chief, for a moment about why specifically they dont the administration may not want information released from that sector . Theres a large amount of people coming from areas that we are very concerned with, pakistan, iran, iraq, china, russia, and those people come for a multiple of different reasons, but many of them have actual ties and contact with organizations that were very concerned with and when those numbers rise in the dramatic ways they have over the last couple of years, its very concerning. It shows that there is an active threat and that information, the administration doesnt want, doesnt want put out into the media. Griff when you say they dont want it put out to the media, is this a coverup . I wouldnt directly say coverup. Its an effort to minimize the threat. Its an effort to minimize what is actually going on there and to deflect that to simply that the large amount of migrants that are coming into the country, they want to deflect the actual violence potentially violent threat and bring it over to that we simply need to take care of the masses that are coming in. Just to go, to get away from that and to give people concerned with taking care of people who need help, but not get to the root of the very potentially violent program. Griff and chief, just quickly, before we run out of time, i want to play for you a short sound bite, President Biden saying that his Border Plan is working. He said that Thursday Night to the congressional hispanic caucus. I took executive action to secure The Border, it is working, Border Encounters dropped over 50 . Griff whats your reaction . Is it working . Well, its working right now. My question is why it took four years for this action to come in. Now, the Executive Order has a minimum impact. More important things that theyve done very recently in the last month, the last couple of weeks is to actually asking mexico for help for the traffic thats coming through their country, actually going back to the Darien Gap and using our friendly forces there to help minimize the migrants travelling through that part of the world and other places, whether it be brazil or ecuador. Those things were all being done prior to this administration. They havent been done the last three and a half plus years and now, just recently, theyre starting to do those, they have an impact and a positive impact, but why did it take three and a half plus years to do that . And are they going to maintain that once the election is over. Griff why did they wait . Thats such a great question. Retired San Diego Sector Border Chief aaron heitke, Thank You for being here. And our apologies, we lost our connection to mr. Desmond, but well work to get him back in the future. Thank you, chief. 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