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this is "america's newsroom." all right. today is the day. moments from now we'll be seeing president biden, he is set to depart for saudi arabia late yesterday the kingdom lifted its longstanding ban on israeli commercial flight towards normalization. >> bill: the real objective of the trip. convincing the world's largest exporter of oil is ramp up production and reestablish things with this administration. we watch a beautiful air force one head down the runway, complicating all of this, remarks from then candidate biden back in 2020. >> president biden: i would make it very clear ...

on top republicans at the deteriorating situation at the southern border. lindsey graham is speaking, dip in and listen what was a record number of migrant crossings in a single day this week. >> the director of the fbi said when asked about blinking lights threats, i see blinking lights everywhere i turn. since october 7th, people need to understand what happened to israel affects you too. we have chosen to support israel because we should, we need to. hamas would kill us if they could, we need to be behind our friends in israel. what does that mean for us? the threat level has gone...

Than old folks such as myself, especially compared to america's favorite sport. >> that's exactly right. let's look at high school soccer participation rates. so let's go back to 1981 and 1982, about 213,000. go 2001 to 2002, 635,000. look at the latest year. we're all the way up to 813,000. that's nearly quadruple where we were just 40 years ago. and take a look here. the high school football versus soccer, this is how many more high school players are there in football than soccer. back in 1982 and '82, there was 715,000 more football players than soccer players. it dropped to 421,000 20 yea...

Attorney. is he attorney general, in -- district attorney in l.a. george gascon, he has been so soft on crime that people who live in that area say it is a mess, crime has gone up. if you look at the numbers for march, the lapd is reporting robberies up 57% compared to 2020. and homicides up 29%. so all these residents signed this petition. they wanted to recall george gascon and they did not get enough signatures after verification. the effort failed. 200,000 of the signatures of the 715,000 signatures were verified. so, not the number that they needed. they needed 566,857. >> so he falls sho...

>> absolutely. especially when the recall is on ballot this november potentially. neil: how is aha going there? i know it's a separate issue. i know that his side has started saying we want to look into these people who signed on to this petition. do you know how that's going? >> yes. it's in the verification, signature verification process right now. apparently, the county rebel star -- registrar looked at a sample, and that sample was high but not high enough to just go and put it on the ballot without complete verification. so he's given himself, the county has, until august 17th to check e...