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friday night in new york city with new pro-palestinian protests. this as a growing list of prominent names on the left call for biden to bow out of the 2024 race, now including "the new york times." welcome to "fox news live," everyone. i'm anita vogel and, griff, we've got a lot of news today. griff: we do, anita that. it's great to be with you. as we were looking at that live shot of marine one in the west hamptons, it's worth noting president biden will be coming face to face with some to have heaviest-hitting donors that also read likely the new york times. friday, of course, biden says he plans to win the election this november while focusing on branding trump as a liar following thursday night's debate. madeleine rivera is live outside the white house on the north lawn with the latest. >> reporter: good afternoon, griff. president biden is just about to leave queens for his first fund raising event in the hamptons this afternoon. he has got the soothe the

growing alarm among democratic voters. yesterday he tried to assure voters in north carolina. listen here. >> i don't walk as easy as i used to or speak as a smoothly as i used to. i don't debate as well as i used to, but i know what i do know. i know how to tell the truth! [cheers and applause] if. >> reporter: the president, though, flubbed figures and had several misstatements like his assertion there were no military deaths under his leadership which is, of course, not true. thirteen service members died at the airport in kabul during the withdrawal from afghanistan in august 2021. the defense department is making a correction. >> the truth is i'm the only president this century that doesn't have any -- this decade that doesn't have any troops dying anywhere in the world. like he did. >> we have certainly had service members pass during our, during this administration. if. >> reporter: calling out what they say were 50 of trump's lies

during the cnn presidential debate is a key part of the biden campaign strategy as they try and pivot from the president's shaky performance on thursday, but it is doing little to stop the flow of stinging headlines for the president. one of the most recent ones from "the new york times"' editorial board which is urging the president to leave this race. they say in part the president needed to convince the american public that he was equal to the formidable demands of the office he is seeking to hold for another term. voters, however, cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see, mr. biden is not the man he was four years ago. if the biden campaign is defiant, campaign cochair cedric richmond responding: the last time joe bidenning logged "the new york times"' editorial board's endorsement, it turned out pretty well for him. "the new york times" endorsed amy klobuchar and elizabeth warren during the 2020 democratic primary.

griff: madeleine rivera live for us on the north lawn, thank you. >> the question every voter should be asking themselves today is not whether joe biden can survive a 90-minute debate performance, but whether america can survive 4 more years of crooked joe biden in the white house. anita: former president trump held a rally friday in virginia with governor youngkin as the calls for president biden to step aside from the 2024 race are now growing with many democratic names being tossed around. christina coleman is live with more on this and, christina, what are you hearing? >> reporter: hi, anita, good morning. yeah, minutes after president joe biden was helped after the debate stage after his rough performance, a number of names were float pded as his possible replacement. let's start off with the democrat who has gotten himself a lot of national attention, he's put himself on the national stage in a big way, california governor gavin newsom. though conservatives could easily slam him over the chronic homelessness and crime in this

state, this man continues to stay in front of the cameras. some political analysts believe he's been running a shadow campaign. he's been making presidential moves for months now; visiting israel shortly after a hamas' attack on israel and making a trip to china to discuss climate initiatives. he ran abortion right ads in republican-controlled states across the country. he went head to head with former gop presidential candidate florida governor ron desantis on fox last year, and he was at the presidential debate on thursday. after biden's rough performance, newsom was can asked if he's up for running for president right now but shot down the idea. take listen. >> if you'red asked, would you be willing to -- >> [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> i'd never turn my back on -- >> reporter: he said he would never turn his back on president biden. another name that's gotten a9 lot of buzz is michigan governor gretchen whitmer, the second-term governor helped flip

both chambers of the legislature blue with her fight for abortion rights, a key issue among democrats this election season. and in addition to being in a swing state, michigan is also a home to one of the largest muslim and arab-american communities in the u.s. so having this state's governor on the presidential ticket might help with voters who have turned away from bind over the war in gaza -- from biden. "the washington post" also laid out eight other potential replacements including another moderate democrat in a swing state, pennsylvania governor josh shapiro and vice president kamala harris, of course. is and, in addition to all of them, former president barack obama's wife michelle obama who, as we all know, is wildly popular among democrats. anita? anita: that is for sure, and her name keeps popping up. christina coleman, thank you so much for that live report. griff? griff: anita, in a major decision friday that could impact hundreds of cases involving january 6th defendants, the supreme court found the justice department's application of a federal

obstruction statute flawed, giving those defendants including president trump the opportunity to fight to get the charges tossed altogether. attorney general merrick garland called the decision, quote, disappointing and said the justice department will comply but also use every remaining tool possible to go after a january 6th defendants. for more on this, let's bring in now former acting attorney general matthew whitaker. matthew, thank you for joining us. >> hey, griff. griff: what do you make of this ruling, and how might ajekyll the -- affect the j6 defendants? >> i thought that charging the j6 defendants with this enron-era crime was aggressive from the start, and i'll tell you, i think the supreme court got it correct. i mean, i think this statute was never intended by congress to extend to folks that tried to do what happened on january 6th, breaking into the capitol, assaulting police officers, interfering with the certification of the election. so i think the supreme court was absolutely right, and i think that the department of justice

had really been overly aggressive in getting, trying to get every possible charge stacked on in those cases. griff: math, what does it mean for the january 6th defendants? now, this is specifically with regards to the group charged with this obstruction charge. but some have already seen their case play out and and been convicted, some are in the midst of it awaiting sentencing, is and others are waiting for their trial to come. how does this impact them? >> yeah. i think each one has a unique if posture. some people have waived their appeal rights or their ability to go after the fact and get relief. some are still pending charges including president trump, two of his four charges are these counties. and i think jack smith is going to have to relook at how he charged that case and is what the supreme court said because i think they should drop those two charges for sure, immediately, because they were overly aggressively charged. they're going to be probably, you know, over 50defendants that are going to get some relief because they were charged and

and convicted only of this charge, and obviously, the supreme court said it doesn't apply to these facts. griff: former president trump spoke out about this yesterday. here's a little bit with of what he had to say. listen. >> you know, the supreme court ruled that biden's department of injustice has wrongly prosecuted hundreds of americans for peacefully protesting on january 6th. [cheers and applause] so we're asking based on the decision they should immediately be released, immediately. griff: and you say this could actually affect the obstruction charges that former president trump is facing. let's just go later bit -- a little bit deeper into that. how do you see it playing out? >> well, remember what the supreme court said is that this applies to, essentially, altering documents, shredding documents and not into the actual sort of interference if with the congressional certification process. and so to me, i think judge chutkan and the judge, other

judges are going to have to determine if there is any way that this case can continue forward on this, on this basis for these two of the four in trump's cases and in some other of the j6 folks their entire case was based on these charges. so i think it's a huge victory, obviously, for the rule of law, because at the end of the day, griff, you know, this was an overly aggressive prosecution of these individuals, and they should have never been charged with these crimes. griff: let's talk a little bit more about attorney general merrick garland as it relates to now, that debate we saw on thursday night and calls for garland to be held in the contempt for robert hur not releasing the tapes. now, to be clear, mr. hur interviewed president biden back in october of last year. by february and march, we all learned, of course, the takeaway from his report that a said this, this is special counsel hur's report saying that biden would not be are prosecuted because he was a sympathetic,

well-meaning elderly man with a poor if memory. now you have the congresswoman anna paulina luna if saying this: >> we have a, a resolution we're introducing that has the support of the speaker, and this is going to be voted on next week. this is actually going to be a common practice now used by the house of representatives as an accountability mechanism for those individuals that ignore subpoena ifs. griff: matt, how important is it now that the american people hear those tapes? if. >> yeah. well, obviously we all saw with our own eyes, griff, and this is what i'm hearing from my friends back home in iowa that are saying, you know, this was a disaster. but i think, you know, the white house has been trying to cover up what we saut the debate and suggesting that these previous iterations of joe biden being incoherent at times were cheap fakeses. but we all know what's happening. on the inherent contempt, this

is very important, and our founding fathers fully expected that if congress was going to subpoena witnesses or documents, that they should be able to enforce those subpoenas by, you know, essentially sending the sergeant at arms out to get this, the people that aren't complying with subpoenas and bring them in and force them to testify. and so this is a powerful move by congress and, again, it's something i think our founding fathers fully expected would happen. not relying on the department of justice which didn't exist until the grant administration to enforce congressional subpoenas, because then you end up with these per perversions where steve bannon is going to prison on monday where at the same time merrick garland can enforce the own law on himself. it's a little bit of who who controls the executive branch, and i don't think the founding fathers intended that to be the case. griff: do you think we could actually see merrick garland being arrested this week? >> that would be a huge power play by congress. obviously, he's surrounded like i was when i was attorney

general by an fbi security detail that is supposed to protect him. there should be an accommodation, but right now the department of justice is playing politics with these tapes because at the end of the day congress has every right and entitlement to to these tapes, to hear them to, if necessary, share them with the american people. but i think it becomes a little less pressing, to your earlier point, griff, with what what we saw for 90 minutes of joe biden being unable to defend his record or suggest he had a man to solve things like -- a plan to solve things like inflation or the porous southern border and so many things that affect real americans. griff: and, math if9, let me just before we run out of time shift gears to one other thing, and that is looking forward to monday. of course, we fully expect that the supreme court's ruling in the immunity case will come down. what are your thoughts? how do you think this will go? >> yeah, griff, i think -- i'm not sure the supreme court has enough of a record from the district court in d.c. to actually decide, you know, what was an potential if act --

official act or what may have been a personal act of the president at the time. i would expect they will send it back to judge chutkan to make that decision on what is accused in the indictment. but, you know, half the case is going away because of the fisher case that we talked about a earlier, so this case becomes very weak to start. i think they will provide -- consistent with probably the nixon precedent in the zell realm -- civil realm, a test that suggests that the outer bounds are fairly broad and that presidents do have an amount of immunity that is certainly more than, for example, the special counsel things. griff: so if the high court doesn't give the full immunity that trump wants but but yet sends it back in some way, you're looking at a delay. is that a, perhaps, short-term victory for the former president who clearly his defense team has sought delay in this process? >> yeah, i don't think this case in washington, d.c. or in judge

cannon's courtroom in florida is going to go to trial anytime soon. and then you're bumping up against not only the conventions, but the general election after a labor day, and i just don't think any of these cases based on what their current procedural posture is, griff, are going to go to trial before the election. griff: and just lastly, so that the american people -- because it's unprecedented, and we have never had this before, but do you foresee the ruling on monday setting a precedent going forward for future presidents? >> yeah. if you listen to the arguments on this case in the supreme court, it was very clear that all nine justices were struggling with the historical precedent which they were about to decide. and so i think that's one of the reasons this has taken so long, because they have to write a rule for all the ages, not just a rule for president trump. and it's going to apply to all a presidents going forward. it's mostly going to be based, i'm sure, on our constitutional framework. but at the same time, i mean, this is going to be a very interesting opinion to see how far they say presidential

immunity goes. griff: and, clearly, we shall see how it all affects, and it is fascinating, matt, as you point out with the ruling we did get on the obstruction the tying across the other cases. last question, do you think that any of this has an impact on other cases in other places, in georgia or the new york case? if. >> yeah. well, the georgia case is most likely, when the appeals court hears the argument in october and rules sometime probably next year, that case is most likely going to be reassigned because the opinion was so strong for recusal of the entire office in that case. and then, you know, judge cannon is running a very careful process and considering things like selective prosecution and this immunity question that we've been talking about. and and so i think that these cases were used as election interference by the left, and now it's not being as effective as they had hoped. griff: former acting attorney general matthew whitaker, thank you for your time.

have a good day. >> good talking to you, griff. see you soon. anita: turning now to this, at least four people are dead and nine more in thement hospital after a minivan crashed into a new york nail salon. authorities on long island say it drove through the entire business yesterday, initially trapping people inside. one woman described the scene after some of the victims were pulled out. listen. >> -- on stretchers. one was, like, back with. there was one sitting up on a stretcher, but i didn't see her talking. they had something on her neck. anita: the driver was semi-conscious when police arrived. we still don't know what caused the crash. all right. griff: why nasa is having to insist two astronauts are not stranded in space despite an indefinite delay involving boeing's starliner capsule. we'll tell you about that next. ♪ ♪ okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete,

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♪ griff: biden and trump clashing over the border crisis during thursday night's debate as new violent crimes come to light involving illegal immigrants. c.b.9 cotton is live with the latest in new york. hey, c.b.. >> reporter: hi, griff, that's

right. we're learning more about two illegal migrants accused of committing violent crimes against women here in the northeast. both of the men made their way to upstate new york after crossing the border. the first of them, take a look, this week pleaded not guilty to raping a teen girl in albany. a police report says back on a may 14th he threatened the 15-year-old girl with a metal pole to get inside his car and then, quote, the defendant took off the victim's clothes as well as the forced the victim's legs open leaving scratch marks on her thighs. he was arrested in november 2023 at the u.s.-mexico border. khan's attorney tells fox his client is here seeking asylum, and he says his client denies the criminal allegations adding that they, quote, believe evidence will shed light on what occurred. about two hours away in syracuse, new york, prosecutors say jocelyn -- was suffocated on

her 21st birthday by an illegal migrant, a man she had known in ecuador. president biden said he had worked to make the border more secure during the presidential debate, and former president donald trump talked about other recent high profile crimes involving migrants while saying that the border was to blame. >> we are living right now in a rat's nest. they're killing our people in new york, in california, in every state in the union because we don't have borders anymore. every state is now a border. and because of misery dick louse, insane -- his ridiculous, insane and very stupid policy, people are coming in, and they're killing our citizens at a level that we've never seen. >> reporter: and the criminal case where prosecutors say the woman was strangled, investigators say that suspect entered into the country illegally through el paso, texas. griff. griff: c.b. cotton live for us from new york. c.b., thank you. anita? if. anita: two nasa astronauts now

hoping to return to earth sometime next month after a series of issues has delayed their trip home on boeing's starliner spacecraft. madison scarpino has the latest on this story. hi, madison. >> reporter: hello, anita. this is the boeing starliner's first test flight with astronauts onboard, and its return back here to earth has now been delayed several times. the mission began on june 55th and was supposed to -- 55th and was supposed to last only about a week or so. nasa says it's still sorting out problems with the thrusters and some small helium leaks. but nasa is stressing the two astronauts are in no serious danger. jose hernandez spent 14 days at the iss in 2009. he says time went by way too fast and issues with new spacecrafts are not uncommon. he says the astronauts are definitely staying busy at the international space station and

likely enjoying the extra time in space. >> if mission control houston called me up and said, hey, you've got to stay another week or two weeks, man, i'll be doing my space happy dance because, yes, we're going to be spending more time, more revolutions around the world, more hours in space. that's so cool. >> reporter: engineers are using the extended time to study the starliner's issues so they can prevent future problems in space. and nasa says that overall the starliner is doing well in orbit. so if there was an emergency, the spacecraft can return to earth. here's an update from nasa yesterday. >> -- make it very clear that butch and sunny are not stranded in space. our plan is to continue to return them on starliner and return them home at the right time. we have a little more work to do to get there for the final return, but they're safe on space station. >> reporter: and nasa

originally said that the starliner can stay docked at the iss for 45 days which would mean a late july return as a plannedded, but after a some testing nasa says that that time window can be extended. anita? anita: great to have that video of them hugging and smiling faces. great to see that. madison scarpino, thank you so much for that live report. griff? griff: anita, president biden is facing growing, new calls this weekend to step aside. our political panel on the democratic panic next. ♪ ♪ his #2s are perfect! he's a brand new dog, all in less than a year. when people switch their dog's food from kibble to the farmer's dog, they often say that it feels like magic. but there's no magic involved. (dog bark) it's simply fresh meat and vegetables, with all the nutrients dogs need— instead of dried pellets. just food made for the health of dogs. delivered in packs portioned for your dog. it's amazing what real food can do.

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he's grossly incompetent. griff: house democrats are being careful with their public reactions after thursday night's debate. there are concerns the president's performance could have a negative impact, a trickle-down effect, if you will, on congressional races in november. here is senior congressional correspondent chad pergram. >> reporter: democrats dodging reporters after president biden bombed. >> i have no comment if whatsoever -- >> reporter: no comment -- >> i'm staying with papa. [inaudible conversations] >> reporter: is your flight more important than the president, the decision whether or not he should stay on the ballot? >> he had a tough night, but i don't think we need to overreact to that. >> reporter: what is overreaction, in your mind? people wanting him to remove himself from the ticket? >> yeah. that's a big leap. >> reporter: the top democrat in the house sticking by the president. leader jeffreys, do you think president biden should step down after the debate performance last night? >> no. >> reporter: it takes a lot for the party to unwind itself from the president. biden delegates are pledged to

him but become bound on august 7th, more than a month before the next debate in september, so if president biden stumbles again, democrats are stuck. the party can only replace the nominee after august a 7th due to death, resignation or disability. most democrats believe the president deserves at another chance. >> that was strike one. if this were a ball game, he's got two more swings. >> reporter: in this isn't baseball -- >> that's what i'm saying. >> reporter: house speaker mike johnson discussed the 25th amendment. >> it's the cabinet that makes that decision. i would. i would can ask the cap net -- cabinet members to search their house. >> reporter: a senior democratic house leadership says, quote, the president's cabinet did not serve him well. chad pergram, fox news. anita: chad, thanks very much. for more on this, let's bring in today's political panel. joining us now is america first policy institute chief

communications director marc lotter and democratic pollster charlie -- i'm sorry, carly cooperman. excuse me. welcome to you both, marc and carly. great to have you here. all right, quite a debate last night, one for the history books, for sure. "the new york times," as you know, is calling for president biden to step aside. the article saying, quote, the greatest mix service mr. biden can -- public service mr. biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election of carly, to you first. should he step down? >> i don't think joe biden's ready to step down. he had a bad night. his campaign is quickly pivoting and bringing the conversation back to one of substance, back to biden's policy positions which a large majority of americans support many of those positions, back to his record of the past three and a half years and to the strong economy he's presiding over. and i think it's notable while there are a lot of democratic pundits and editorials calling for him to step down, not one

democratic official has done so yet with. and so i think that there's an understanding that a brokered convention is not necessarily a more appealing alternative, and there's the belief that there's still several months to go and that making this a contrast between biden and trump is still something that democrats can do. anita: okay. marc, what about you? if i mean, "the new york times," i mean, that is a paper that speaks to the democratic base. what are your thoughts? >> cry me a river. democrats and their liberal media ya outlets created this mess, and now they're stuck with it. look, joe biden will be the nominee because they cannot replace him with anyone but kamala harris. they're bleeding black voters because really all voters can't afford joe biden's economy. the border's wide open. and so if they disrespect the first if female vice president of color and don't give her the nomination and she's even more unpopular than biden is, they will throw away the entire election, the house, the senate, governorships. they know they're is stuck with

this and, well, it's an -- they created this mess themselves. anita: yeah. and president trump keeps reminding people that joe biden is polling the best in head to head polls against him, and i thought that was kind of interesting. you know, the folks over at cnn, they are usually very friendly and supportive of president biden, but here they were after thursday's debate. listen to this. >> there is a real concern here tonight that there's been some real damage done that cannot be undone. >> there is no two ways about it, that was not a good debate for joe biden. >> that was painful. he didn't do well at all. he did not do well at all. i think there's a lot of people who are going to want to see him consider taking a different course now. >> there's a reason that fdr was never shown in his wheelchair. there's a reason that john f. kennedy pretended to be a vigorous man when he was certainly not. you can't become president again when america looks at you and

that avatar to them looks broken. if. anita: okay, wow. carly, politico says dems are so so panicked, they are looking for a replacement. one article says a major democratic donor if described biden's night as a, quote, the worst performance in history. so can he recover? what does he need to do to inspire if confidence again? what do you think? >> i think one of the things that's easy to forget is that there is a gap between the democratic elite, the people that are out there talking, the pundits, and and voters. and, you know, voters have already expressed grave concerns about biden's age and mental fitness and, likewise, there's concerns they've expressed about trump's character. but i think perceptions of both trump and biden are largely baked into voters that are not necessarily paying as close attention as the people who are doing this professionally. and so to some extent, you know, i think there'll be some bit of movement in the polls, but i'm

not sure how much this changes the big picture to the broad electorate as opposed to the people who are talking. and in terms of where biden needs to go the from here, i mean, he had a performance yesterday at a rally that showed a much more vigorous joe biden. he needs to go back to the trail and make the case that he has a record to run on and that he's got policies that are supported by americans ranging from abortion rights and and lowering prescription truck costs to one where he is -- drug costs to one where he is taking steps to address the border and improving the economy. anita: okay. back to a more scripted performance for him. marc, this is mitch landrieu, the national biden campaign cochair, talking about the idea of replacing biden. take a listen. >> well, this is a conversation that's been going on for the two and a half years. it's not likely to happen. again, i think as the dust clears on this thing, this campaign has still got four months to go, and i think that a joe biden's going to be the nominee. anita: okay. so what do you think?

real quick answer, i want to move on to something else, is he going to be the nominee, and should he have committed to that second debate? >> he have committed to the first debate. he's losing in the polls nationally, losing in the swing states. not just one or two, but all of them. this was a hail mary on the first debate, and they threw a pick six. anita: okay. i want to move on to this, something everyone is talking about, trump's potential vp pick pick. some people say he needs to pick a woman. others say he needs to pick an african-american. some people say he needs to pick a a latino. i think we have -- there you go. here are some of the faces that the everyone is talking about. it might be one of these folks, it might not be. we're not sure yet. marc, what qualities do you think his running mate has to have? should it be, like i said, someone to balance the ticket in an ethnic if sort of way, or should should it just be someone that the former president has complete in? what do you think? >> well, ultimately, it'll be the president's choice, but i think every vice presidential candidate from both parties

going back 40 plus years has fallen into one of four categories, they either bring something geographic, demographic, a policy area or to unite the party. each one of those names on there and others have differing qualities in those area, so i think he's got a great pick no matter which way he goes. anita: carly, what do you think? does it need to be a woman since the current vice president is a woman? >> i think it certainly would help, but honestly, i think trump is unlike any republican presidential candidate we've seen and, honestly, i don't think it matters so much who his vp is because he's such a strong presence that i think people who are going to vote for trump are going to vote for him, and if they're not, they're not. i'm not sure any vice president could really change the equation for voters at this point. anita: uh-huh. well, we will see. that pick is sure to be coming soon. marc lotter and carly cooperman, thank you so much for joining us today. great analysis from both of you. >> thank you, anita. anita: griff. griff: why some democratic-run

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♪ ♪ anita: welcome back. in the most significant supreme court decision on homelessness since the 1980s, the high court has ruled that cities can now enforce banses on overnight homeless encampments in public spaces. some cities are applauding the ruling while others are pushing back. for more on this, let's bring in the mayor of el cajon, california, bill wells. mayor wells, great to have you here. just for our viewers' perspective, your city is just east of san diego near the border, just about 5 miles east of san diego. >> yes. anita: so, you know, more than 6000,000 people are homeless nationwide. that's according to federal data. nearly half sleep outside. california, your state, has the

highest number of homeless people in the nation. mayor wells, what are your thoughts on this supreme court ruling? >> well, i think it's great. i just hope that cities in california will avail themselves of the ruling. i haven't allowed camping on my streets for over three years now, and that's because we've built enough homeless shelter space that we can get around the boise decision, and we were able to take our encampments -- out encampments whenever we see them. i'm not so sure the other cities will do that because i think their political narrative is geared towards the concept that homelessness should be a viable option and should be protected. anita: uh-huh. well, you know, of course the ark clu and others are against this ruling -- aclu. the justices was 6-3. justices sotomayor, kagan and brown jackson, were in the dissent, the three liberal judges. justice sotomayor said, quote,

sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime. for some people sleeping outside is their only option. and in los angeles, the big city to the north of you, the epicenter of homelessness in america, the mayor there, karen bass, she's made this issue of solving homelessness her number one issue on her agenda. she said this, quoteed today's decision is not surprising given the the makeup of the court but disappointing nonetheless. this ruling must not be used as an excuse for cities across the country to attempt to arrest their way out of this problem or hide the homelessness crises in neighboring cities or in jail. neither will work. neither will save lives, and that route is more expensive for taxpayers than actually solving the problem. so, mayor, let me ask you, you mentioned that you've already been building some affordable housing for homeless people? is that true? and, you know, other cities, like you said, haven't been able to have much success with that. so what are they going to do? if what is your city doing?

>> well, what we're doing is making sure that a we have a lot of shelter beds available. but right now we have 175,000 people on the streets of california, but we have 50 open beds in our shelter right now. is so when you go back to sotomayor saying that sleep is a right, she's missing the whole point. the whole point is that people are not homeless because of lack of housing or lack of places to sleep. people are homeless because they're addicted to drugs and alcohol. now, i can say that that because i'm a doctor of psychology. i've worked in emergency rooms doing psychiatric evaluations most of my adult life. i can tell you, you ask any cop, any fire fighter, any e.r. doctor, homelessness is about drug and alcohol abuse. when we have open beds, it doesn't mean people can't get to them, it means they won't because they don't want to give up using drugs and alcohol. it's not about creating more space or being nicer to the people that are trying to sleep on the streets. the problem has to be solved with a get-tough attitude and force ifinging people into some

kind of meaningful treatment so they don't die on the side of the road which, by the way, i don't think is compassionate if whatsoever. anita: yeah. it is, though, getting people inside and into treatment is a tough order because a lot of people simply don't, they don't want to do that. let me ask you your final thoughts on how this ruling changes your city ask other cities across -- and other cities across the nation. about 30 seconds, please. >> it's not going to change our city significantly because we're already doing it, but what i'm wondering about is the deep blue cities that are very committed to the narrative about homelessness, and now they have to deal with their constituents. because for years now they've been telling the constituents there's absolutely nothing we can do, and now the constituent withs can say, oh, yes, there is. the supreme court says you can clean it up if you want to, and that's the dilemma that democrat cities are going to have to face. anita: yea yeah. we'll see. mixed opinions on this, but it surely will change the complexion of some cities. mayor wells, thank you.

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griff: president biden and first lady jill biden will soon arrive in the hamptons, they'll also attend a campaign event later this evening in new jersey. as we watch a marine one there in west hampton beach, new york, it will be an opportunity for president biden to meet face to face with some mega donors and potentially celebrities who also likely read "the new york times," to see them in person after thursday night's debate. we'll bring you more as we get it. ♪ griff: tropical storm beryl expected to strengthen into a hurricane this weekend as it moves towards the caribbean. wind speeds eventually may reach over 100 miles per hour, it's expected to become the first hurricane of the 2024 season, a statistic that usually isn't reached until late absolutely or august. anita? if. anita: well, griff, evacuations have been ordered north of phoenix, arizona, as a brush fire burns out of control. the boulder view fire has

charred more than 3700 acres since it started on thursday. crews say it is spreading rapidly due to dry, gusty conditions. there is still no containment. the cause has yet to be determined. griff: floods in minnesota and iowa are causing widespread damage as surging flood waters cause devastation across the midwest. minnesota's governor, tim waltz, says the state is still in a dangerous situation and flood waters are still rising in certain areas. the mississippi river is several feet above major flood stage in is st. paul. anita: well, fox weather is getting a look inside of the hurricane hunter aircraft that flies into storms and sees what happens onboard. a pilot for the wp 3-d orion aircraft says their work helps to improve storm forecasts between 10-20, an important margin for families making a choice to the evacuate to safety or not.

brandy campbell has more on this story. >> reporter: hey, anita. tomorrow they are getting to work. they have two flights out to go into tropical storm b everything ryl, and that includes noaa and the air force reserves. they have two missions and a third one actually going in to instress 94l, that a one in the bay of campy chi. let's take a look at their operation. noaa, they have two p3 planes and the air force if reserve has 10 c-13 to 0s, both fly missions around 10,000 feet high for about 8 hours, sometimes longer. noaa also has the g4 aircraft flying up to 45,000 feet, gathering information on the upper atmosphere surrounding the storm. the aircraft also have radar for added research. tomorrow engineers will release these drop -- into with tropical storm beryl. they will collect temperature, pressure, humidity and wind data. it's all a sent in realtime to

the national hurricane center, refining the forecast. now, here's an example of a mission pass. their goal is to locate the center of the storm and sample every quadrant of it. pilot christopher wood told me this data can improve forecast accuracy up to 20%. >> when you're making the decisions whether you're going to evacuate your home, if you need to go and, you know, buy supplies and stock up, 101-20% is a really large margin, it's really important to make those decisions. without these aircraft, we would be much more uncertain on what the storms are going to do. >> reporter: all right. now this shows just how wild of a ride it can be for them, but the data that they are gathering, it's very important. and it's likely there's going to be a lot of flights ahead of them for this hurricane season. anita, noaa is predicting between 17-25 named storms just this season, so a very active one. hopefully, you know, their first flight out there won't be too

crazy, not too much turbulence. the storm is expected to rapidly intensify. back to you. anita: yeah. it looked very turbulent to me. you've got some brave pilots there. brandy campbell, thank you so much for that. griff. griff: we'll be watching it. we've got with one more hour, stick with us, coming up.ou gh♪ ♪ -ugh. -here, i'll take that. woo hoo! ensure max protein, 30 grams protein, 1 gram sugar, 25 vitamins and minerals. and a new fiber blend with a prebiotic. (♪) upset stomach iberogast indigestion iberogast bloating iberogast thanks to a unique combination of herbs, iberogast helps relieve six digestive symptoms to help you feel better. six digestive symptoms. the power of nature. iberogast. let's take a little test together: which looks better — this? or this? this... ...or this? seems clear to me. saving cash wins every time.

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