>> sandra: fox news alert. we are outside of that two-minute warning but the big build up is happening there and middletown, ohio. for j.d. vance to speak and that this is a bit of a hometown rally as he will be delivering his first solo rally from his hometown. and fact, from his high school as the vp nominee and as you can imagine, there were huge security measures underway. there would be anyway but but this is happening nine days after the assassination attempt on the former president donald trump. anyway, that is a live look. as you can see, they have handed

out campaign signs. trump vance. let's listen here. middletown, ohio, j.d. vance. [applause] [crowd chanting] >> wow. wow. [cheers and applause] while, i love you guys too. just because we are in middletown i can say that.

it is so good to be back home for once. isn't it? we had an amazing crowd here. we have an amazing crowd here. we have hundreds of people outside that couldn't get in and i'm so grateful for middletown to welcome me home. it's good to be here. thank you guys. god bless you. [applause] [laughter] where can i get a good fried bologna sandwich right now? this is the guy who makes it. before we get started i have to say a few things. i want to take a moment to think of some outstanding republican leaders that we have today. if you can stand to be recognized i would appreciate it. attorney general dave yost. where is dave? [applause] the great congressman representing middletown, ohio, warren davidson. where is warren?

[applause] we have the ohio g.o.p. chairman i call him alex t. i'm going to butcher your name. i've learned. of course the next senator for the united states of ohio bernie moreno. [applause] don't get too excited. this is my event, not bernie's event. we have orlando stanza, a great congressional candidate. has a good chance of winning a very tough race. if you can help out orlando, please do and every single one of these officials state and local, if i didn't see somebody or remember somebody i apologize. we have a great slate of state and local officials who are ready to make this state and this country great again. god bless you guys, god bless

you for your service and thank you for stepping up. [applause] and i have to say hello middletown, ohio. hello to the great middletown minis. i'm so grateful to be here and i'm so grateful for this tur turnout. so many of you know my story but i graduated from middletown, ohio, school in 2003. 21 years ago. and a lot of you know the story of my family. a lot of you are my family. if you count fourth and fifth cousin, half of you are probably related to me in this room. but this town was so good to me and i can tell so many stories about my grandmother. i could tell stories about my mom and my sister. i could tell story about my aunt. i know she's here. i think all of those people are

here. i think cheryl. where you cheryl? my stepmom. we just have so many good people that are been good to me but even if you cast a wider net, ron selby was my math teacher in high school. ron has to be around here somewhere. i know he is. i will tell a story. i don't know if this story is actually true or if it is the legend of ron selby but ron if it's not true don't tell me because i've gone 21 years believing it and i don't want to be contradicted now. but the story is that at some point ron of course was a tough teacher. he demanded a lot of his students and i was a beneficiary of that but the story goes that at one point ron selby had a student who really did not want to take one of those world-famous ron selby math final exams. somebody called in a bomb threat to middletown, ohio, school. so everybody goes outside, everybody remembers there was a student. you get a bomb threat and you have to go outside and the fire

department comes but ron was really upset that someone was messing with his schedule so he walked over to the kids locker, got what was allegedly the bond, through the trash can, and said i know this kid. he's not smart enough to build a bomb. let's get back to school. [applause] that's the legend of ron selby. i could go through half an hour and longer just talking about so many of you who made me who i am and i'm so grateful to you and i sat at the rnc convention, which was the craziest speech and the craziest environment i've ever been in. it's like all of you times a hundred people. they were just as excited as you guys were times a hundred people. you could barely hear yourself think and i said i will never forget where i came from. ladies and gentlemen i came from middletown, ohio, and i'm proud of it i will never forget where you came from. [applause]

in fact, i might make the secret service take me to central pastry afterward. i'm dead serious. they get nervous. they do not like. and i love milton stu of course. i love both. but milton's has expanded. i feel like you can get milton's not just at the place that is there on roosevelt. i feel like you could get milton's anyway or at least a lot of other places so it has cast a wider net. anyway. i'm talking about doughnuts all day. i skipped lunch so my mind is on doughnuts here. but i will tell you another story. my grandma was an incredible woman. and a lot of you knew her and a lot of you knew her personally. and i talked at the rnc convention, and i will repeat the story because i think it illustrates how tough she was

that she died and 2005 and i was a united states marine at that point and i was just about to leave for iraq. when the rest of us went through her things they discovered 19 loaded handguns. that is not made up. [applause] that's right. when she introduced herself so she is an appalachian american. when she introduced herself to my uncle after the first time she said i'm from kentucky where a woman is not fully dressed without her gun. that was her attitude. and she was tough. and she was disciplined and she is the reason why i have had so many of the good opportunities i've had in my life that people don't realize she was an incredibly sweet and kind and caring person.

i was probably ten or 11 years old and she picked me up from school and there was this -- i've never seen this person peered she was probably 14 or 15 a young girl sitting in the back of the car and she was clearly a little freaked out. and i'm going to get emotional telling the story and i don't think i've ever told the story before. but she said -- i said who is this person question or coups in your car? and she said don't worry about it. none of your business. i said okay. i shut up. eventually we dropped her off and going back home i asked who was that and she said that was a little girl and i guess there were some pretty bad abuse in her house and when that little girl ran away from home and tried to find a safe space, she asked where can i go and everyone said you can go to bonnie vance's house. [applause]

that is the middletown that i knew. you guys were always so good to me. i could talk about any number of public school teachers from ron selby to a number of others. i could talk about people who looked after us when we were riding our bikes around. my grandma was always worried about safety but she was never that worried about safety and middletown, ohio, because she trusted the people who lived here and she knew they were good human beings who would look after all of us. there would look after all of her kids and grandkids. [applause] il. i need to be careful about that because michigan is one of the most important battleground states so i cannot give the state of michigan any reason to vote against the trunk events take it. we need to work hard for every single vote but my point in telling some of these stories is i love everyone of you and i love this town and i am so grateful to have been formed by it because i would not be who i

am without it and people will sometimes say you had a tough life. and in some ways things weren't easy but a lot of you know and a lot of you read my book. all of my life was not very different from people who grew up in middletown, ohio. it was tough but it was surrounded by loving people and it was surrounded by something that if we don't fight is not going to be around for the next generation of kids and that is opportunity. middletown had opportunity and we need to make sure it is there for the next generation. [applause] when president trump asked me to be his running mate, i really had no idea what was coming. what happened is i left my home in cincinnati. we live not too far from here about a 35 minute drive, 45 minutes depending on traffic and we went to milwaukee on monday morning and i had no idea. i thought he would ask me but i thought he might ask somebody else. there were a lot of good guys running. marco rubio, a dear friend of mine and a good public servant. a number of others as well.

i had no idea what was coming and when the president called me and asked me and said would you like to run as my vice presidential running mate i said of course. we didn't come all this way to say no. but he did something that was really amazing afterwards. he said what do you think about this statement i'm about to put out. of course he put it out on social media. it's one of the things that i love about president trump. he speaks directly to people. he doesn't allow a bunch of consultants to filter him. he is who he is and that's why a lot of us love him. [applause] but he's talking about that statement and i have him on speaker phone and my kid is in the background peered my 7-year-old son. we have three kids and her 7-year-old is the oldest and he is talking in the background about pokemon or some other subject i was like son, i love you, this is the most important phone conversation i've ever gotten. please stop talking about pikachu for one second. let me take his phone call. and my son comes over to the

phone and the president hears peered president trump says who is that? i said that is my 7-year-old son and he said put them on the phone. i said oh, god. here it is. he is going to take it back because my 7-year-old is going to say something really weird right now. and he reads off this statement. he reads where he talks about my military service and my business background and he says young man, what do you think about that. you like what i said about your dad made some said yet. that was at. that was the endorsement he needed. the endorsement went out 3 minutes later. but that's the guy that donald trump is. that's a night that the media doesn't let you see. he cares about people's families. he cares about my family and your family to and he wants to believe that his generation left this country off in a better place and when they found it. that's what he has done this. i talk about myself all day but let's talk about the man who was a business leader who had

billions of dollars, who did not need any of the sacrifices that public service created and yet he went out there and he did it anyway. that's the type of people we want to become public servants and thank god he served for four years of president of the united states. [applause] and now, ladies and gentlemen, after four years of joe biden's presidency or whoever is actually calling the shots in joe biden's white house, are we ready to reelect president donald j. trump again? [cheers and applause] when i was researching what i would say at the rnc, and i mostly write my own stuff. i'm not going off a teleprompter right now and you could probably tell that. the president -- he called me

right before i went on to give my speech and he said you're going to do great pure just give me a pep talk. the crowd is great. go out there and speak from your heart. and i said sir, that's right. that's exactly what i'm going to do but i may have to be honest with you if i totally screwed up, it's too late. no take back. you've already asked me and i've already accepted, no take back. this speech is just going to be icing on the cake. thank you ma'am. god bless you. i was. but here's the thing. i was researching what i would say about the president and i realized that over a lifetime of business leadership, and of course a few years of public service, the country has made a lot of stupid decisions and president donald trump was right about every single one being a mistake. [applause]

you go back to 1994, i was a third grader. roosevelt elementary school on central avenue which doesn't exist anymore but there are some roosevelt people and here. god bless you. 1994, this country gave a sweetheart tree deal to mexico that sent hundreds of thousands of go to manufacturing jobs, many of them and our communities, to mexico. that was a bad idea. we shouldn't have done it. donald trump said it was a bad idea. the current administration by the way supports it. in 2,000 toward the end of the 1990s we gave a sweetheart tree deal to the communist chinese. we allowed them to build their middle-class off the backs of the middle class? you know who supports it? the people in power and you know who opposed it? donald j. trump. [applause]

and in 2003, look, it was republicans and democrats. a lot of people supported this. i'm not just beating up on the other side. in 2003, we went to war in iraq and it was supposed to be just a few weeks. a few weeks and everything would be over and i was an 18-year-old kid. i supported it and i was wrong and you know who was right? president donald j. trump. [applause] he knew. he somehow knew even though he was a real estate developer in new york that this thing would become a quagmire and it would cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars and i think we want the kind of president who sees around corners, who does not follow the stupid conventional wisdom right off a cliff, who fights for american citizens, puts them first, and has the wisdom to know how to lead this country. [applause]

[laughter] that's right. he probably does have -- but don't tell him that. don't tell him that. so. the problem is when our leadership makes all of these dumb decisions, we know exactly who suffers the consequences. it's the people right here in this room and the communities that we live in. [applause] so i want to say, and i know there are some tv cameras here and i'm sure that this rally is being covered on any number of media channels. i want to talk about the future and i want to talk about what president trump and vice president vance ticket will mean for the american people. who we will fight for and how we will do it. let's start with who we will fight for. number one, we will fight for every single person in this country. if you work hard to play by the rules you want to be able to

send your kids on whatever vacation and whatever school you want to. work hard and play by the rules, you got a good life. it's that simple. [applause] we will fight for every single parent to send their kids to a school where they get a good education and not an indoctrination. [applause] thank you. i got a great education at middletown high school. i graduated in 2003. i joke that i got a phd. a public high school diploma and i'm very proud of it. and there are great school teachers in public and private schools all across our country but for some reason the federal department of education is trying to lean into indoctrination in our schools instead of teaching reading,

writing, and arithmetic in our schools. let's get back to common sense for our teachers and the students they depend on. [applause] god bless you, sir. we fight for the grandmother's who are raising the grandfathers and aunts and uncles who are raising a generation of grandkids that they did not expect to raise. that is who we represent and that is who we fight for. [applause] in one of the coolest thing spared my book came out in 2016 and one of the coolest things about my book as i heard from a lot of americans from all walks of life but especially from black americans who would come up to me and say our story is your story. whether it's the drug epidemic or it is this epidemic of crime and violence that joe biden joe biden and kamala harris

unleash on our country, we have a lot of grandparents, white, black, every skin color, that are raising kids that they did it did not expect to raise and they are doing it because it is the right thing to do and they do it because they love their communities. [applause] my message to them is simple. i will fight for you because if it wasn't for a grandma like that, i would not be standing here today getting to run as your next vice president of the united states. [applause] and to those grandmas and grandpa's, let me just say, from a kid who is not as grateful as i should have been when i was 15 and 16 years old, kids when their age and here they are not that grateful and i'm sure we'll learn it the hard way in a few

years. but let me just say from the bottom of my heart, thank you. you may never hear it from the kid you are raising, but trust me, in their heart they appreciate it and they know they would not be anywhere without you so god bless you for stepping up. god bless you and thank you. [applause] we will fight for the energy worker in this country who doesn't understand why kamala harris and joe biden want to buy energy from tin-pot dictators all over the world but won't buy it with our own citizens from our own citizens and from our hands and our own land. [applause] drill baby drill. it's a very simple concept but it is profound because we have great energy workers in pennsylvania. we have great energy workers in ohio and all across our country. they want to do a good job.

they want to earn a reasonable wage and they want to power the american economy. why don't we have a president that lets them do exactly that, ladies and gentlemen. unleash american energy, drill baby drill, and let's turn the page on this craziness. [applause] and it's not just about the energy workers. it's about workers all across the country because i happen to believe in this crazy thing that we ought to make more of our own stuff in this country. and i know president trump agrees. but think about this. we are 95% of the ibuprofen advil. 95% of it. you know where it's manufactured? china. do you know where the gross majority of the antibodies that we put in the bodies of our children come from? china. i don't know if you were alive the past five years but do you remember may be why we shouldn't trust the chinese attitude toward public health?

[applause] i have to be honest with you, i don't trust a plastic toy coming from china, i sure don't trust the drugs that we trot in the bodies of our children. let's make our own stuff, my friends. [applause] but you can't manufacture anything unless you have low-cost energy. we've got it. we are sitting on the saudi arabia of natural gas. the next 100 years we could be energy dominant which helps our people pay lower energy costs, and it helps our citizens who work in the energy sector and it helps our manufacturers make more of our own stuff and become more self-reliant in our own country. it is a win-win. we just need to get the current crop of crazies out of there and replace them with president trump.

[applause] that's right. we do need to do that. we need voter i.d. in this country ladies and gentlemen. if you are going to cast a ballot, show a piece of identification. [applause] it is the weirdest thing to me. democrats say that it is racist to believe -- they say it's racist to do anything. i had a diet mountain dew yesterday and one today. i'm sure they will call that raises two. it's good. i love you guys. these people were telling jokes in the front row. you might not be able to hear it but i'm getting caught up in it. but look. here is the very simple thing. we believe that we want to make more of our own stuff and we believe we want to have secure

elections and we believe we want to have schools that don't indoctrinate our children. that's not racist, that is common in american middletown sense and i am proud to be from this town and to take the wisdom from it. [applause] let me talk just a little bit about how we will do it pared the number one thing that we will do, because you can't do anything unless you get there to govern, is we will win this election. over the next four years. [applause] over the next four years we are going to do a lot of good for people all over this country. well, sir, let's not get ahead of ourselves appeared we need to win this race first to get there, the next four months. we need to do everything that we can and i would ask you, all of you, if you can find something to do to get involved, please do. there are doors we can knock on and people we need to deliver to

the polls where there are people that will vote for president trump and vice president vance and for bernie moreno but we need to get them to the polls. so that's one thing you can do. remind your friends to get out and vote and make sure they get to the polls. the second thing that we need to do is push back on every channel that we can. the media is never going to be fair to president donald j. trump but you will be fair. so use the voice that you have. use it on facebook and instagram. go on social media and actually make the case for president trump and vice president vance. that is the thing that everything a one of you could do and if you take the people in this room and you magnify it by 100 which you can do with your own platforms and your own voices, that is way more powerful than the lion media and the corrupt democratic establishment. let's get to work ladies and gentlemen. let's win this thing. [applause]

i would not be here if it were not for the generosity and the incredible opportunity of this country. and i just want every single kid, every single parent to know that because they live in america, they can dream big dreams. i remember, my friends, so many moments in middletown, ohio. riding my bike down centro which grandma was kind of okay with it and then down university and she is not okay with that. if you have kids and you live in this town you know what i'm talking about. but i remember looking to the future and the thing that i wanted most in the whole world, i wanted to be able to give my kids a little bit of stability and comfort that i didn't have when i was growing up. that was all i really wanted. and when i think about the american dream i don't think about writing a book. i don't think about becoming a business guy.

i don't think about running for the vice president of the united states although it is pretty cool to do that. i think about becoming a husband and a father and that is the way and which this community and this country was best to me. [applause] and while we are talking about it, didn't my wife to a good job the other night? didn't she do great? [applause] there she has peered she's too embarrassed to stand up. get used to it honey. it's going to be four months of me embarrassing you. that's what we do. i just think when i consider how good this country has been to me, i just think about how much i owe to it. that gratitude should come with a sense of responsibility. and when i think about

kamala harris who i guess is our vice presidential candidate officially but i think she's going to run for president now because joe biden dropped out of the race. [boos] you know, [laughter] you want to take bets your? a betting pool in this auditorium? i wonder, when i see her give a speech and she talks about the history of this country not with appreciation but with condemnation, of course every country just like every family, certainly mine has its pock marks. not everything is perfect. it's not going to be. but if you want to lead this country, you should feel grateful for it. you should feel a sense of gratitude and i never hear that gratitude come through when i listen to kamala harris. [applause]

and that is what we have to do. fundamentally you will agree, hopefully since you are here, you will agree hopefully with most of what president trump and i want to do. [applause] we are going to drill baby drill, we will shut down that border, we will put america citizens first because that's what american citizens are going to elect us to do. it is common sense. [applause] thank you sir. but even when you disagree with us. nobody is ever perfect and no politician is perfect, certainly not me, but you deserve to be led by people who are grateful. who are grateful for the community that they came from, who are grateful to this country and its boundless opportunities, who were grateful to the service of our veterans and the people

who put their lives on the lines from police and firemen on down. [applause] i believe that you deserve to be led by people who are grateful and i know president trump is grateful for this country and i know i am and i know we will never stop fighting to give you the same opportunities that we got. that's what this whole thing is all about. i'm going to go really off script here and all of my communication staff back there is going to get a little ner nervous. i was hanging out with my kids yesterday peered we were swimming at the swimming pool and somebody brought over their phone and showed me the news. >> sandra: you have been listening to j.d. vance give his first solo speech since becoming donald trump's running mate. nine days after the attempted assassination of the former president. a packed crowd there at his hometown in his high school.

a remarkable moment embracing his hometown roots saying i will never forget where i came from, i'm from middletown and i'm proud of it. his message to those in the drill, drill baby drill, shut down the border, work hard and play by the rules and you'll get a good life. >> john: joking with a crowd there that he has a phd from that high school, a public high school degree. i have one of those as well. we will see where it fares in the campaign going forward. we don't yet know who he will be running against. that will present a bit of a challenge for him and the trump campaign going forward as they get that all figured out on the democratic side. speaking of the democratic side, the house minority leader hakeem jeffries moments ago with praise for president biden who as you know is dropping out of the race and announcing a meeting with vice president harris that he will have with chuck schumer but not coming out to endorse harris. listen to this. >> president biden is a heroic,

patriotic, transformational leader. who will go down in american history as one of the greatest public servants of all time. when president biden and vice president harris first took office on january 20th of 2021, the biden-harris team assumed a public health crisis, and economic crisis, and a democracy crisis in the immediate aftermath of january 6th. at the same time. and thanks to the leadership of president joe biden and his partnership with vice president kamala harris, they were able to rescue the country from a once in a century pandemic. enter in a situation around so that we could return to her no

maliseet. thanks to the leadership of president biden and his partnership with vice president harris, we were able to save the economy from a once in a decade or so from a recession-like situation. and set us on a positive path so that everyday americans could thrive in every single zip code across america. thanks to the leadership of president biden and his partnership with vice president harris, dignity and decency and a democratic way of life was restored to the oval office in 1600 pennsylvania avenue. we owe a debt of gratitude to president biden for his tremendous leadership and i'm also thankful for the incredible partnership that he has had for the last three and a half years

with vice president kamala harris. >> leader jeffries, first, will you endorse kamala harris? >> the leadership and i are scheduled to meet with vice president harris shortly. the house came back into session today. the senate does not come back into session tomorrow. i'm excited for that meeting and let me say this. vice president kamala harris has excited the community. she has excited the house democratic caucus and she is exciting the country. i'm looking forward to sitting down with her in person and short order with leader schumer and we will have more to say about the path forward as soon as that meeting is over. >> john: the house minority leader there with praise for kamala harris and a tribute to the outgoing president.

been saying that he and leader schumer have not yet had a meeting with kamala harris about this. they are holding off at the moment for an endorsement but i expect a one will likely be forthcoming. if not after that meeting, at least as it looks like kamala harris is getting further down the road to replacing biden on the ticket. speak to the messaging on the economy will be interesting as we get closer and closer to the election and what we will hear from whoever becomes the nominee on the left. if it's kamala harris, how she is able to debate j.d. vance and donald trump on the economy, they were able to save the economy hakeem jeffries just said from a once in a deck a recession situation. i mean, it's doubling down on telling the american people who don't feel great right now about their gas prices up 40% or 50%, food prices up 20%-25%, those have not come down. inflation growth has slowed but

prices has not come down and people are still living through that inflation crisis. every single day. i wonder how they address that as we get closer and closer to election day. >> john: and you wonder how they will address immigration as well because now donald trump will be able to say to kamala harris should you become the nominee and they meet in a debate in september as it scheduled on the 27th, what did you do to fix the border? that was the job that was given to you and what happened? >> sandra: it looks like there is some activity on capitol hill if we could head to that briefing room. saw director cheadle stand up. cameras on her obviously. she has been in that room facing major questions for hours now about the major security lapses during the assassination attempt on formal president donald trump. the hearing began at 10:00 a.m. and it has been a long day. we will see what is happening here as far as the conclusion of the hearing or if this is a break. okay. i believe they have wrapped for

the day. it was expected this would be about five hours but you know it's anybody's guess. there have been some fireworks and heated moments in that room. bryan llenas is live in butler, pennsylvania, for us where this all went down and capitol hill we have seen many questions about the lapses that happened where you are standing. ryan. what do you make of what we have heard so far? >> there were many answers. that's for sure. we were here when a group of a dozen bipartisan lawmakers did something that secret service director kimberly cheadle has yet to do and that is to visit the rally site nine days after the assassination attempt against former president trump. our fox news drone flew overhead as these lawmakers walked around the rally site and even climbed up onto the agr buildings roof were the shooter fired his ar-15.

the congressional delegation noted that a tree obscured the view of the building from one of the counter sniper teams. they also were struck not only by how close that agr building was to the stage but also just how easy it was to get on top of that building. >> i was on the roof. the roof that the directors said it was really dangerous for secret service and other personnel to be on. i'm 70 years old. there is nothing unsafe that roof. >> the site is very small. the perimeter is something that should've been secure. >> i think there's a lot of issues here that probably strongly suggested we never should have had the event here to start with. >> congressman is a former navy seal sniper himself. he immediately noticed the water tower. he said a counter sniper team should have been placed on that water tower. he said if a team was put there, would have been taken out within

5 feet -- within no matter of time. director cheadle told the congress that secret service was alerted of a suspicious person 2-5 times before those first shots were fired at 6:11 p.m. but she did distinguish there was a difference between a suspicious person and a threat. she said they would have never let the former president hit that stage if they knew that there was a threat around. according to the congressman here mama they were not only calling for her to step down but they are wondering what was that communication breakdown that allowed the suspicious person to hang out for about an hour before he fired his shots. >> sandra: left with more questions and answers after all of this. bryan llenas, thank you. >> john: joe biden as he steps out of the race endorsing his border czar kamala harris to replace him. what does that mean going forward. we will get reaction from greg abbott coming up next if you love to save,

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>> sandra: president biden through his support behind kamala harris just minutes after ending his candidacy. you remember it was back in the early days of the administration when biden tapped her as the border czar and since then the issue has become one of voters top issues in one of the biden administration's weakest points. >> do you have plans to visit the border? >> not today. but i have before and i'm sure i will again. >> sandra: i remember that like it was yesterday peered march 22nd 2021 here let's bring in texas republican governor greg abbott. she laughed and it became a thing where those who were quick to criticize or were saying laughing calmly. i think president trump did. but that was a moment where she

could have taken this extremely seriously. what was happening and let people know what she was doing about it. but she didn't and she still hasn't. welcome governor. >> thank you senator. you are spot on. very importantly that's not the only time that she left about what she would be doing on the border. as our fellow americans know, this is not a laughing matter. this is quite literally a matter of life and death. there are been far too many americans including here in the state of texas who lost their lives. jocelyn was a 12-year-old girl who was raped and killed by two illegal immigrants pair this is deadly dangerous and what americans need to understand as it looks like the person is going to be the democrat nominee. she had one job and that is to secure the border. she was the border czar. and she gets a grade of f minus four her job on that border because we have had the largest number of illegal border

crossings ever and the history of the country including more than just the murderers and rapists but also an all-time terrorists. we are at a precarious time in our history now with this transition of power where terrorists will be seeking to come across the border that she is in charge of that she is endangering because her lack of responsibility to step up and secure the border. >> john: governor you said there were a couple of times that kamala harris laughed about the border. there was one there that we just played and here's the other one. listen to this. >> do you have any plans to visit the border. >> i'm here in guatemala today. you know, we are going to the border. we have been to the border. this whole thing about the border, we have been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. i don't understand the point that you are making. >> john: that was early

june 2021. 25th 2021 pair and she did go down to the area of the border. she was in el paso and visited a processing center. when she gets on the stage if she becomes the nominee as is expected with president trump on the 27th he could look her in the eye and say here's what i did on immigration. what exactly was it that you did as border czar. >> you are spot on. and as you know there are two top issues in the united states. one is inflation. this burning through the talk of books of our fellow americans and the other is the border. not just in the state of texas but states across the country whether people like lincoln riley being killed or police officers in new york city being assaulted or being the fentanyl that killed literally tens of thousands of americans. the border czar kamala harris has not done her job. she is a failure at one of the two most issues that americans

care most about and i think americans can and should and must reject her at the ballot box in november. >> sandra: they are gearing up for this to be the issue to attack kamala harris on. this is a new trump campaign add to, governor, attacking harris on the border. >> if you wondered how joe biden could get the border so screwed up, remember, he had help. >> sandra: going right on that issue. >> and justifiably so. because the trump administration understands this and this is they are right on the issues that americans care most about. one of those issues is the border. there is another issue that, has talked a lot a lot and that is trying to transition oil and gas workers to work on the green you scan.

americans are fed up with having the green new scam crammed down their throats. they want have access to oil and gas and texas is the third of larger producer of oil in the entire world and we have so many jobs connected to it but jobs also in states like pennsylvania that are consequential. if they get rid of energy jobs in pennsylvania, that will destroy kamala harris campaign. >> john: in terms of how president trump measures up against kamala harris on the issues important to people i have not seen any polling. but we do have lots of polling of president trump and president biden. here is how people feel about who they trust on the issues when it comes to immigration. trump leads 52% to 35%. on the economy he leaves 54%. we don't have direct polling with kamala harris but since she was part of the biden administration those policies transferred to her, i would expect that the numbers will be somewhat similar if not

identical which would seem to really give trump a leg up on some of the issues that are very important to people. >> you are correct. i have seen some polling from the state of texas, some other national polls that show pretty much that kamala harris is polling about the same as joe biden as it concerns donald trump. then again going back the reason is because the top issues are the top issues. jobs, the economy, inflation, and the border. and there is no escaping it. just like there is no escaping it from joe biden. think about this for one quickset compared a lot of people were saying joe biden had a problem because it was age. his age would not have mattered had joe biden been right on the policies and positions that americans cared most about but because he was wrong on those issues, that made his age a disqualifying factor. >> sandra: on the issue there is breaking news a few moments

ago that from president biden's doctor his covert symptoms have almost completely resolved putting out a statement that he is continuing to work and do his duties as president of the united states. that is the update from his doctor. governor, great to have you on. thank you for sticking with us to the breaking news earlier. >> thank you all. >> john: and because he's getting better, maybe we will see president biden soon. taiwan preparing for potential invasion from china with huge new military drills and fox news as they are on the live coming uped.. next. but that changed when my urologist told me about axonics therapy. a long-lasting solution that has really changed my life. this is not another drug, and it works. visit findrealrelief.com to arrange an appointment with an expert physician to determine if axonics therapy is right for you. results and experiences may vary. stop suffering in silence.

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allowing the troops to really react on the ground. what we've seen so far in the first day of these military exercises, annual military drills in preparing for a potential invasion, troops tried laying down minds for a potential attack. the navy also tested it's response to an emergency departure from a court. china claims taiwan as it's own territory and stages almost daily air force missions in the nearby skies to pressure the island. the cochair of the taiwan defence and foreign relations committee tells me this year there drills are heavily influenced by american-style training stressing the importance of defeat -- improving defence strategies here fast. >> we need to improve our equipment. we need to modernize our training program and competing with time. because china invests a lot of a huge budget. >> reporter: taiwan is closely watching ukraine and learning lessons from russia's invasion

and what a chinese invasion could look like for them. a common conversation amongst civilians who are on a alert and even taking taking classes where they can learn how to use firearms. >> because of the war and what to know more about this area. in the future should a war break out it might help we have a chance to protect myself. >> reporter: these drills run until friday, just a matter of hours our team will join the military for a day two of these exercises. john. >> john: looking forward to that great reporting alex hogan for us and taiwan, thing you see you soon. sandra it's just so boring being in the news business. >> sandra: nothing happens. that does it for us on this monday. john gray to be with you thank you for joining us i'm centrist met. >> john: if sunday was as busy as it was what will the rest of the weak look like pure i'm john roberts, charm to with martha begins now. >> martha: thank thank you