we go through this process. as you go through the process. >> dana: follow her reporting. she has her finger on the pulse of what's happening. >> bill: you can tell she is still reliving this and will for some period of time. selena, thank you for that and wow, there is the picture yet again. so my lady. >> dana: it was a fun week. exhilarating, fun, complicated, complex, amazing. >> bill: a big shout-out to the delegates. they were so great. so full of optimism. they feel like they have a chance and they expressed that to us all the time this week. >> dana: they were in a good mood and cheerful with one another. >> bill: that's a jersey girl right there. >> dana: you know i like that very much. thanks to everybody at fox news, incredible teamwork under a lot of pressure and we appreciate you more than we could ever say. thank you so much. >> bill: see you in chicago. >> dana: john roberts is in for harris on "the faulkner focus." >> john: great work all week.

come on home. breaking news. massive tech outage impacting millions of people around the world. crowd strike, a large provider of virus protection said the outage was due to a system update and not a cyberattack. they apologized and said it fixed the problems but issues are lingering. major disruptions to 911 call centers, airports. thousands of passengers were stranded. the outage took out multiple billboards in new york city's times square. musk calling it the biggest i.t. failure ever. first to this. fox news alert. president biden self-isolating with covid in delaware as pressure intensifies in washington. new report says the president's family is starting to discuss what a possible exit plan for

the 81-year-old would look like. his team says that is not going to happen. this is "the faulkner focus." i'm john roberts in for harris this friday. a week filled with a deluge of reports. democrats at the highest levels quietly urging the president to step aside. one says even former president barack obama thinks biden's path to winning is greatly diminished. chris coons with this. >> i think he weighed seriously the input of those who he trusts and admires. i won't get into the details. he deserves the respect of being able to reflect on this moment. >> john: biden's campaign team is quick to comment doubts. biden world seethes as dems move to dump him. former president donald trump's campaign is pouncing on the democratic party chaos that happened to be unfolding at the same time as their convention this week. we have demonstrated to the

american people that not only is the republican party unified but we have a unifying vision for the entire country with president trump's agenda. the democrats can't figure out who their nominee should be. senior white house correspondent jackui heinrich with the latest for us from the north lawn. >> members of the president's family have reportedly discussed what his exit from the campaign might look like should he decide to make that decision. but publicly the campaign is saying that biden will be back on the trail as soon as he tests negative for covid. >> of course he has covid right now and so he has mild symptoms but back on the campaign trail next week and continue to do this. this is definitely a hard period for the campaign. >> people closest to the president admit the pressure is getting to him including ron klain, his former chief of staff and long time right-hand man and senator chris coons.

>> this weekend he will be resting and reflecting in delaware. he has covid now, which will limit the number of events and outreach that he can do. but my message to my friends, my colleagues in the democratic party is we have a great record to run on. a generation of capable of talented democrats and a talented and capable president. we need to move forward together. >> yesterday senator john tester was the second senate democrat to call for biden's withdrawal with chuck schumer's permission. the campaign was not surprised by this. tester is in a tough race and needs to distance himself from the president. the campaign wouldn't be surprised if members in similarly tough races like sherrod brown or bob casey did the same. casey would be more of a blow because of biden's connection to the state. what the campaign does not want to see is more calls for biden to withdraw coming from members in deep blue districts.

>> they aren't going to win the senate. as it became the personal interest of these congressional leaders that they started to ratchet up the pressure and that's when it will get to the inner circle. they will have to convince him is in president biden's interest. the biden legacy's interest to make this change. >> tester's announcement followed reports that chuck schumer, hakeem jeffries, nancy pelosi and even barack obama all view the president's path to victory as very bleak and want him to really think about this decision. none of those people denied those reports and meantime the date for the dnc to schedule their formal nomination for the president with what has been planned as a virtual roll call vote, that date is still in flux. >> john: jackui, thank you. headline after headline showing how dire the situation is for democrats right now. a fresh wave of democratic doubt

as fissures deepen. democrats are in chaos and en -- doug collins from georgia, jose, let's start with you. former secretary for the dnc. axios is saying biden could pull out as soon as this weekend. you heard the campaign manager saying he will be on the campaign trail next week. he is in it until he is not? >> there is no question that time is running out for the president to make a decision. i care about joe biden and supported joe biden and there is no better president than joe biden but looking at the polls and looking at the way things are going, i think he should step aside and drop out and someone else has to pick up moving forward. >> john: you think it is time for him to step aside. doug, if he steps aside, what

happens then? >> i think the chaos in the democratic party continues. it is amazing to hear what i just heard that you went through a primary season that many of us have been complaining and talking about the problems with the biden administrations and issues not being able to communicate, having a prosecutor actually say we can't put him on trial because he couldn't even answer questions. these are things that have been building way before the debate and now we have the democratic party deciding they want to overturn their own primary that they were forcing people out including robert f. kennedy, jr. and others and they want to overturn the vote on a bad debate performance that we've seen before. that's shocking when you come off a republican party that's united and this sort of building overthrow inside the democratic party. >> john: then consider this, too. liberal media outlets, critics say were complicit in covering up president biden's -- now they

are changing their tune. >> president biden is like bruce willis's character in the movie the sixth sense. the only one who seems unaware of his grim fate. >> i've been talking to a lot of people and i've come across one who still is riding for biden, okay? honestly just -- i'm not advocating, i'm analyzing. the walls are closing in. >> the drips and leaks might be the think to break the dam. >> john: added this. there is a palpable sense that the ground has shifted underneath biden even among some of the president's internal backers who believe the writing is on the wall. jose, it is kind of ironic that a lot of these people who work in the mainstream media have been -- i don't want to say offering cover for biden but certainly down playing the issues that outlets like fox news have been noticing for years now and suddenly they are on the band wagon maybe things have to change. >> look, there is no question.

we have to remember and be real that at the end of the day we have the information -- [inaudible] they want to go for the headlines and i'm making more money. at the end of the day the american people want to decide if joe biden needs to step aside and another candidate takes his place. we have 90 days for the party to unite behind this candidate. i believe we can do that. aside from being joe biden or whoever the candidate is, there is a huge movement that don't want trump to become president. they don't want a dictator in place. they don't want to become the next venezuela. whoever the candidate is democrats will unite and come back and say we have to -- >> john: if he drops out it could make chicago 2024 look a lot like chicago 1968 where he go in with an undetermined candidate and battle it out on the floor. that could be one for the ages.

listen to this. a new column in the "new york times" says if the left wants a new nominee it is time for democrats to hold hands and jump, there is no salvaging this campaign. biden has lost his party's competence. it is in a downward spiral. they need to push for the quick et and most decisive end possible for the crisis. the question is how do they do this? do they have a mini primary prior to the convention as some people suggested and how do you organize that so quickly? convention is a month away. do they have an open convention like they did in 1968 and the you know what show that became? or do they do something else? do they simply anoint kamala harris? what do you think? >> look at it. look at what we've just heard here. the people will decide about joe biden. that's not what is happening right now. it is the democrat elites, those in congress and senate scared

for their own jobs saying whoop, we covered this up. thought he could get through and hold the senate and take the house. we can't do that now. we have to get rid of joe. that isn't the people saying we don't want joe biden. then to actually now say we'll have a primary. remember, they have a problem with ohio. they have to do this virtually. a lot of this will be done behind the scenes. nobody will get to see it. and then to say the only thing that is against donald trump and we talk about throw out the language of dictator and venezuela, looks like a democratic party better look in the mirror. they are the one overthrowing their own presidential nominee. >> john: one interesting point. if the chicago convention in august looked like 1968, everybody would be watching to see what would happen and that may give the democratic some new energy. we'll see. thank you for being here. appreciate it. shocking admission from police sources about the attempted

assassination of donald trump. why they lost track of the gunman moments before shots rang out. plus the secret service director facing more backlash over the agency's response that day. >> i want to know where the breakdown of communications occurred. i don't know what it was going to take for secret service to address the situation and the question is why did they receive all these red flags and still allow the president to take the stage. >> john: pressure is building. kara frederic in "focus" coming up next.

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>> john: more questions this morning over the security failures that allowed thomas crooks to get a direct shot at former president trump on saturday. sources tell fox news butler township police flagged the secret service over a lack of manpower of the building crooks shot from. trump rally shooter thomas crooks tracked ex-president's appearances for months. three people were shot at the rally, one fatally. right now in pennsylvania, private funeral underway for corey comperatore. the volunteer fire chief died while shielding his family in the crowd. let's bring in kara frederic, former d.o.d. analyst.

the big question in this investigation is how in the world that rooftop was left uncovered? in the world of the secret service and presidential campaign events it is an absolute no no for an elevated platform with line of sight toward where the president is going to be is unprotected. do you theories what might have happened? >> we aren't getting the full picture here. this is physical security 101. the fact that rooftop was not secured is a massive oversight. in terms of theorizing on what happened it is critical for a security plan to have your local law enforcement and state officials and federal authorities all coordinating. it appears there was some sort of lapse in coordination here. the bigger question is there are reports that he was surveilling president trump's movements over the course of months. how do we not know how he was

surveilling? what digital platforms was he using to do it? every time of -- it's a digital exhaust. they should be able to track down his geo location based off the digital surveillance platforms he was supposedly using and have a pattern this kid, content to paint a more intelligence picture to get after this guy. the fact it wasn't done beforehand and doesn't appear -- they don't appear to be exploiting that data accurately for the public to see how is a massive oversight as well. >> john: intriguing development according to michael waltz from florida. in the briefing with the secret service and f.b.i. members of congress were told that crooks had three encrypted accounts on overseas platforms. i don't think the nature of the platforms was described. we don't know if they were financial or social media or

some other kind of account. there now appears to be some sort of international component to all of this. >> i think this is so interesting, too. something i did for almost ten years with the government and big tech companies. what you do is extract data from these platforms and figure out who were the platforms he was using even if encrypted. who was he talking to. what are the i.p. addresses. can you geo locate him to those physical locations? tech companies can do that. was he using aliases. where are the connections to that network via the platforms? we don't know the nature of those encrypted overseas accounts but there are people in the government and outside of the government who can work to exploit that information that those accounts would convey. the hearing next week should give us a lot of answers. this is happening. the public is not aware of what's actually going on. >> john: a bigger question in all of this is given the

security failures and how these erupted and the fact we know almost nothing about crooks and what his motivations might have been. does there need to be in the wake of the kennedy assassination the warren commission was struck. it was a lot of political cover for lyndon johnson. do we need something of that level to look into this? >> i completely agree with that, yes. congress has oversight capabilities and you look at the senators trying to track down the head of secret service walking away from them not as a reverse of how this is supposed to work. our senators and represent ifbs represent the america people and head of the federal agencies work for us. they work for us. she should not be evading the questions. a measure of transparency the american people are owed. this does not pass the smell test. the fact that a 20-year-old would not have a heavy social media presence or minimal presence at all and that in the face of that he would have better operational security than the seasoned al qaeda operatives

that i tracked down over the course of years doesn't pass the smell test. the american people deserve answers. let's give it to them, congress. >> john: if one 20-year-old can breach security. if iran sent a trained team, god knows what would have happened that day. kara, great to talk to you. appreciate it. a lot more to come on this. paul mauro is live in butler, pennsylvania with more. what have you been able to glean over the last couple of hours? >> well, i think the most interesting story line that has emerged is the role of the local butler township police officers. they were among the local caught ray assigned to the detail and given exclusive traffic control. they get a radio alert on their radios, that matters. the communications here are in question. they get an alert there is a

suspicious male. perhaps a threat. four break off their post and run into the event, which they had not been at. two of them then go towards the building that ultimately crooks is found on. it looks like some of the people, civilians just attending were pointing at the building. those two followed that direction and those are the two, one of whom scooped his hands to give the other officer a boost. that second officer manages to get at roof level from the outside of the building, puts his hands on the railing and looks up over the lip of the building. crooks turns to him with the riffle pointed at the officer. he gets on the ground and says i choirs a target and the story line developing out here according to officials in butler county is that that incident might have actually spurred

crooks to rush his operation starting to shoot then. we'll never know what the result would have been had he not rushed it but it does look like that the action that those officers took might have made him move more quickly and had a real impact on the way this all shook out. >> john: i mentioned the same thing yesterday. maybe the president's life was saved because the officers encountered him. let me drill down quick on one part of what you said. when the officer dropped down from the lip of the roof he got on the channel and said there is a guy with a gun on top of the roof in line of sight of the president. yet the president continued to speak. where did the breakdown occur? >> so the communications as i said at the top are really in question, you are exactly right. it looks like the standard practice in a thing like this generally is going to be when you have so many agencies. another thing that's beginning to emerge here. there was butler township. there was homeland security officers. there was a secret service which

has the ticket as the main agency. there was also the state police. there were also apparently county counter sniper teams here. butler county counter sniper teams. one of whom may have fired off a round and may have hit crooks. that's one of the other story lines developing here. when you have so many people involved, you need tight communications. the way this worked the communications from the people in the field go into the main command post, a tent set up to run the whole thing. the way this thing generally works is each agency has their overhead stationed in that command post and those bosses are supposed to be speaking to each other in realtime. so the question becomes, as you articulate, was that alert immediately apparent to the secret service snipers and all ships at sea or dependent upon communications inside the tent. that usually happens quickly.

i've been involved in these things. not clear why it seems to have taken as long as it did for snipers the engage. >> john: so many questions and coming out in dribs or drabs or the f.b.i. or secret service or homeland security telling us what we have so far. nobody can understand why that hasn't happened. paul mauro, thank you. >> thank you. >> john: breaking news on the divide growing over president biden's re-election bid. four more house democrats want biden to step aside. a total of 27 congressional democrats. 10% of the party's representation now calling on him to bow out. that means 90% haven't weighed in. among the new four house democrats. the first member of the congressional black caucus for biden to withdraw and one from the hispanic conference.

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crowd strike a major mal ware protection firm is due to a software update and not a cyberattack. it halted flights from several airlines leaving thousands of americans stranded at the airport. also affected people overseas. thousands of flights delayed. hundreds have canceled. countries like japan and germany also canceled flights. senior correspondent steve harrigan live at hartsfield airport in atlanta. the busiest airport in the world. how are things looking there? >> huge lines here in atlanta. you can see this is really the most visible fallout from this i.t. crash. at airports here and around the country and world. this problem goes far beyond airports. this i.t. glitch hurts banks, tv prod castors and hospitals had to delay operations. crowd strike is a cybersecurity company. they say it was a software update. an update with an error.

ceo says it was not a cyberattack. >> it is related to this content update and as you might imagine we've been on with our customers all night and working with them. many of the customers are rebooting their system. it is a very complex world and there is a lot of interactions and always staying ahead of the adversary is certainly a tall task. >> there is some sense of movement and hope. delta flights are beginning to run again. for other companies it could be days before their systems are rebooted. john, back to you. >> john: and you have all the people trying to get home from milwaukee this morning. thank you. more democrats are calling on president biden to step aside and top democrats reportedly think that will actually happen. possibly as soon as this weekend. what happens if biden does decide to take the high dive? if biden drops out before he gets the nomination, his delegates would be up for grabs

to any candidate to try to get a majority vote. if he resigns after -- the list of possible alternates to biden including vice president harris, governors whitmer, shapiro, pits kehr, newsom and pete buttigieg's name has been floated. axios lays out why kamala harris is the most likely pick. some reasons include she is the only person with access to the war chest. she would also be expected to get endorsements from heavy weights like the obamas and clintons and avoid an ugly fight. harris has the advantage according to axios. >> every sign is she will be the nominee. debate in the party is how to get there? we expect president biden, if he decides he is not going to run, that he would endorse her, but

then is there some sort of mini process? are there debates? a mini primary? how do they get to her being the nominee. a lot of top democrats will tell you she will be stronger if there is a process. otherwise people will say the democratic party is being undemocratic and looks like a coronation. >> john: ari fleischer. is biden done? time to stick a fork in him? >> i wouldn't say that. let's do this. you have to get into joe biden's head. if you were joe biden and his loyalists, people who always thought joe biden was under estimated and by golly he is the president and the delegates are committed to him, what you have to consider is their thinking, which would be all these people have always been wrong, obamas, the clintons have always treated joe biden like a little brother. he is not the little brother. he is the president of the

united states and he won't step down. he can beat donald trump and look at the polls. the polls show it is still a close race. i don't rule that out, john. we a hearing from the newsmakers and party leaders, we're not hearing from the delegates. the delegates have the power, joe biden has the power. >> john: can you imagine if biden were to step aside and at the convention helps delegates revolted and said no we're still voting for joe? wow. >> i don't think that will happen. >> john: imagine if it did. consider this, ari, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez democrats who want biden to drop out want to give kamala harris the heave hoe. >> if you think that there is consensus among the people who want joe biden to leave, that they will support vice president

harris, you would be mistaken. they will come out and say their things on background off the record but not be fully honest. i'm in these rooms. a lot of them are not just interested in removing the president. they are interested in removing the whole ticket. >> john: what about that idea of dumping harris, too? internal polling said harris would do better against trump than biden does. senator mark kelly of arizona, gov governor gretchen whitmer. other candidates do better against trump than kamala harris. she would be a fifth or sixth choice. >> from the other side. the people who want to dump joe biden and kamala harris. just because someone is standing in the on-deck circle doesn't

mean they get to step up to the plate. you can always be substituted. when the other team switches pitches you can substitute. if biden steps down, everything could break loose inside the democratic party. what will happen is harris, of course, starts as the frontrunner since she is the v.p. what it takes then is who has moxie. who is the democrat who says i am stepping forward. too much is at risk. the party can't lose, i can win. then what you have to look for is a courageous democrat. is the newsom, whitmer, governor of pennsylvania? at that point you have a full-on rebellion inside the democratic party. i don't think harris will be the only one with the moxie to step forward. not about her having that to step forward. she is just the vice. who else has that drive? this is politics. this is the presidency. a lot of people have that drive. she won't be able to go right

from the on-deck circle to the plate without somebody trying to pass her. >> john: one of the other candidates that would do better than her is governor moore of maryland. an impressive individual. though i wish he would get on board with the state of virginia to replace the american legion bridge on 495. they have to get that done. local politics creeping in there. great to see you. have a great weekend. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> john: now this. >> i am running to be president for all of america, not half of america. because there is no victory in winning for half of america. >> john: former president trump accepting his nomination and promising to unify the country. it was an emotional speech to cap off the convention. former governor mike huckabee in "focus" coming up next.

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>> john: evan gershkovitch has been convicted of espionage. a russian court sentenced him to 16 years. he was accused of spying for the c.i.a. he and his employer, and the u.s. government all deny the allegations. "wall street journal" is denouncing the trial as a sham. nate foye in london with the very latest on all of this. in some ways, i guess, it is a bit of relief for gershkovitch, now they can hopefully begin the idea of a swap. >> the sooner that this ended, john, the better for evan gershkovitch. he has spent 16 months in a russian prison. he is now staring a 16-year sentence down as he was found guilty on espionage charges. it called the russian legal

process a sham. we're getting new videos including this one. take a look at gershkovitch today in court. he was asked if he understood the proceedings and the sentence. he said he did. the 32-year-old is the first american journalist to be held in russia on espionage charges since the cold war. he was seen waving as well while leaving the courtroom. a source close to his family tells me they've been anxious for this sham trial to end. gershkovitch, as you mentioned, the "wall street journal" and u.s. government say he has done nothing wrong. president joe biden put out a statement saying she is pushing hard for his release adding, since the very first day of my administration i have had no higher priority than seeking the release and safe return of evan, paul whelan, former u.s. marine in custody there since 2018 and all americans held hostage abroad. russian prosecutors claim gershkovitch acted on behalf of the c.i.a. gathering information on a russian tank factory. the foreign minister said this

week negligent achess for a potential prisoner exchange will happen in private and at the conclusion of the trial. so you mentioned, john, that this could lead to the next phase which ultimately we hope will lead to evan coming home. russian officials when asked why the trial was pushed forward. the second hearing was set for mid august and moved ahead to yesterday and then the verdict today. we'll see how negotiations progress as president biden promises he is on it. >> john: we're praying we'll get him and paul whelan hope soon. trump accepting his party's nomination five days after he survived and assassination attempt. he showed a more emotional side as he recounted for the very first time how the shooter nearly took his life. >> i'm not supposed to be here

tonight. not supposed to be here. if i had not moved my head at that very last instant, the assassin's bullet would have perfectly hit its mark and i would not be here tonight. we would not be together. despite such a heinous attack, we unite this evening more determined than ever. i am more determined than ever and so are you and so is everybody. >> john: the "new york post" says trump started his new tone of unity for campaign in america with profound message in rnc2024 speech. doug schoen writes trump did something he has never done before. the election may all be over. i may be a democrat but a clear-eyed analyst. he rose to the occasion with his

rnc speech. joining us now mike huckabee, the governor of arkansas's dad. your daughter gave a great speech earlier this week, governor. >> yes, she did. i was very proud of her. she said she wanted to be better than her dad. i think she is done it and done it in quick order. congratulations to her, the baton is passed and i'm very pleased. >> john: they'll wear that with a badge of honor. what do you think of president trump's speech last night? did we see a new dawn? >> i think we did especially in the early moments. by the end of the swiech he is off script and going back to the rally speech and trump being trump but i think it was so significant that he gave a very somber and personal address of the shooting and what it had done to impact him. but i thought the line of the night -- i think this may be what my friend doug was alluding to. and i appreciate his candor and

honesty in what he said. when donald trump said i want to be president for all of america, not half of america. i thought it was the key thing he made clear. this comes against joe biden saying for years now that maga republicans are a threat to democracy. and so if you tell half of america they are a threat to democracy, it is not just you disagree with them. you think that they are a dangerous threat to the country. that's a very different message than what donald trump delivered when he said i want to be president for everybody. >> john: as you pointed out he went back to the rally speech after the initial phases of his speech talking about lawfare and the results of the 2020 election. it is clear that that's going to factor heavily into the campaign in the weeks ahead. >> i don't think it's something he is going to ignore completely. but i also think that what we saw in the front part of that speech we'll see a lot more. and quite frankly with the

democrats completely imploding donald trump doesn't have to do a lot to attack what they have done. he doesn't have to relitigate the past. he just needs to present the future that includes the record that he had when he was president and remind people they could afford gasoline, groceries and going to grandma's house, none of which they can do under joe biden. >> john: here is a trump bolster explaining some blue states are now in play. listen here. >> it's a totally new territory leading in the battleground states and in the national polls. we never saw that in 2016 in minnesota the trump campaign rarely releases their polls. they released a poll we did in mid june up four points. new jersey up a point. virginia we're getting a fifth of the african-american vote and winning where the military is in norfolk. so the map is getting much larger. >> john: there is no doubt that the stars are lined up for

donald trump at the moment. biden is counting on his blue wall of wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania to carry him through to a second term. but all of those states right now are polling for trump. >> i think they will continue. we're still a long way from the election. i won't declare it's over. it's never over until the votes come in a week after the election. at the same time john mclaughlin is one of the best pollsters in the business and he gets it right way more than most do. but the bigger issue is that donald trump is reaching people. we saw the teamsters president on the stage at the rnc. first time ever. union people, housewives who are scared about security in their neighborhoods and children. people not traditional republican voters, not traditional trump voters saying i will give this guy my vote this time. >> john: all right.

governor, great to see you and say hi to your daughter next time you see her. >> will do, john, thanks. >> john: before we go we're looking at senator heinrich, the third senate democrat to call for biden to step aside. five more lawmakers joining the list just this hour. thanks for watching "the faulkner focus." i'm john roberts in for harris, i will be back with sandra smith at 1:00 eastern in america reports. "outnumbered" after the break. but don't wait, use promo code big25 to save. visit pods.com today.

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