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day on the campaign trail with a keynote address to the bit coin conference and in with his running mate j.d. vance later tonight in st. cloud, minnesota. first, trump and vice-president harris holding duelling meetings this week with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as the focus turns to kamala's foreign policy experience. welcome to fox news live. i'm griff jenkins. >> i'm anita vogel. and kamala harris met with benjamin netanyahu after not attending his congressional appearance met with protests. >> when benjamin netanyahu arrived to meet with congress, he was met with protesters, and a day later held separate

meetings with president biden and vice-president harris. who was harris after meeting with him. >> i've had an unwavering commitment to the existence of the state of israel, to its security and to the people of israel. what has happened in gaza over the past nine months is devastating. we cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering and i will not be silent. >> it's not likely she was talking with israeli suffering there, anita, indication of daylight between harris and biden over the war in gaza. axios reported the israelis were irked by some of harris' comments and protests turned violent when the american flags were hauled down by a mob and replaced by palestinian fans and some of them tried to glorify those responsible with this graffiti outside union station, just blocks from the capitol, which read hamas is coming. the park police say they were outnumbered despite

reinforcements from the n.y.p.d., sent to protect the capitol. the vice-president said i condemn any individuals socialing with the brutal terror organization hamas which vowed to annihilate the state of israel and kill jews. pro hamas rhetoric is abhorrent and we must not tolerate it in our nation and condemned the burning of the american flag at union station blocks from the capitol and condemned the anti-semitic remarks from some of the protesters, anita. >> troubling scenes in washington a few days ago. lucas tomlinson, thank you so much. live at the white house. griff: former president trump set to speak to thousands at the bitcoin conference in nashville in a few hours, rumors swirl that he could announce u.s. bitcoin strategic reserve. that would be a first. kelly o'grady announced a preview. >> hey there, griff. a lot of excitement on the ground.

we have had people lined up since 7 a.m. just for the hope of getting a seat for that speech. now, what we can expect is a pro crypto, very anti-regulation message. trump is expected to emphasize protecting transactional freedom, concentrating bitcoin mining here in the u.s., the most anticipated announcement no is ut's, could there be a plan to bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset. in plain english, that would see the treasury purchase billions in bitcoin and hold that just like they do gold and foreign currencies. any indication a future administration would invest in that, this could be a big sign of credibility for the industry. one candidate notably absent this weekend is vice-president harris. she's yet to share an official campaign stance on crypto, but the biden administration policies have been criticized by many as anti-crypto. she was invited to speak and she declined. we spoke to the voters on the ground how they're feeling about the candidate and the election, here is what they had

to say. >> i think she's missing a huge opportunity. i think she should have taken that opportunity and captured the crypto industry people who want the validation. >> she's 100% missing the opportunity what she can do and become involved with the crypto cent. >> i think that bitcoin will be a single issue voter consideration going forward. >> a lot of our industry is moving outside of the u.s. i don't want to see that happen, especially because we have some of the brightest and most innovative minds here. >> now, this could move the needle in november in swing states. take a look at the number. stand with crypto pac, signing up advocates in key states like georgia, more than triple the vote differential than we saw in the 2020 race. trump is set to speak at 3 p.m. eastern, and attendees share they're ready for a change from the past four years and open to what he has to say. griff: safe to say that cryptos

for kamala has yet to be created yet as a voter group. kelly, thank you. >> well, former president trump returning to minnesota today with his running mate j.d. vance as he aims to flip the blue state red. madison allworth is live from st. cloud, minnesota with the latest from the rally. >> hi, anita, the rally is not set to take place until after that bitcoin conference that we heard about. the people here are not waiting. the earliest people in this line arrived 3 p.m. yesterday. we spoke to someone, the 75th person in line got here at 2 a.m. i want to show you the line here. it's full of thousands of people that are ready to vote for a former president trump. when you take a look at the polling, they are in the minority. we have the latest polling from fox news that shows a majority of voters in the state do prefer a kamala harris over the former president, with harris

polling at 52%. harris is particularly strong with suburban women coming in at 63%, a group that trump has historically struggled with. past vance xhaments comments about liberal women resurfacing, leaving the v propose and the ticket on the defensive. led to some house republicans privately expressing concerns, but speaker johnson's office blew off the question about a party divide point to go a statement earlier in the idea that president trump needs someone with ideas for the voter. and the minnesota top issue when it comes to their vote this fall is going to be the economy at 33%. it is an issue that voters prefer him on. female voters that we've spoken to here say it's the female issue that matters the most to them. >> look at the border, look at food prices, gas prices, mothers, women have to go and pay those prices, things were

much better three and a half, four years ago. we felt that, we feel it every time we go to the grocery store and the gas station. >> harris has notably skipped talking about the economy and the border during her first few days as the likely nominee. we expect it's something that trump will hit on here today. the events behind me open for a couple of hours and holds about 6,000 people. so, with all of these folks here in the thousands, it's likely that some will not make it inside to hear the president speak which will be disappointing to the folks you saw are clearly excited for former president trump. >> no doubt and i imagine that security is very tight, right, madison? >> security is very tight. there's been a lot of road closures. it's been very much controlled. the line, we have personnel on the roof, police presence all over the property. so, yeah, security and as we've seen from how we get to events like this has changed since the events two weeks ago. >> no doubt.

madison allworth live for us in minnesota there, thank you. >> let's go deeper in the battle grounds. new fox news polls from michigan, minnesota, pennsylvania, and wisconsin, showing that trump-harris match-up is a very close race. madeleine rivera is live on the polls. >> a lot to unpack, new fox news poll is the state of the race just like in april when president biden was at the top of the ticket. the race is incredibly tight. surveys were taken in, as you mentioned four battle ground states, michigan, minnesota, wisconsin, six point lead over president trump in minnesota, but she's tied with trump in pennsylvania and michigan at 49%. and trump is ahead by one point in wisconsin. harris has a higher favorability rating than trump in all of these states except in michigan where they are tied. and she appears to be making gains with double haters, voters who dislike trump and president biden, in

pennsylvania, they back harris by 41 points. the president was up by only 27 points among this group three months ago. in wisconsin, the double haters, favor harris by 25 points, a major shift from april when trump led by one point over president biden. in all of these states, the economy remains the most important issue for voters and trump is favored to lead on that front. in michigan and wisconsin, more than 60% of voters who prioritize the economy prefer trump. that means harris has a tough road ahead trying to sell the record of the biden administration, convincing folks they have a better shot with democrats continuing at the white house. but harris is favored among those who say abortion is most important to them. abortion ranks third among voters priorities just behind immigration, griff. griff: every time i think you can figure out how it's going to go, it's a nail-biter in all of the battle ground states. madeleine rivera, great way of laying it out. >> for more on former president trump's campaign, we're joined

now by trump campaign deputy communications director caroline sunshine. great to have you here to break it down for us. let's go straight to the polls. i want to put up the fox news poll which shows a two-way match-up in the battle ground states. there you go. this is, let's see, this is a preference among women voters who prioritized the economy. i think we have a poll that shows head to head match-up. in any case, in the battle ground states, we know that this is a virtual dead heat with trump leading, i think, in wisconsin by one point. now, this is a little bit of a surprise to some folks, but would you say this is because -- this is a bump that kamala harris is getting because she's the new candidate. the democratic base, some of whom felt they may have been saddled with president biden, now they have a new candidate. is that what's going on here? is this just a snapshot in time. >> well, we're watching the democrat party try to become

unburdened by what has been and removing joe biden and trying through selection than election to place kamala harris on the top of the ticket without a single vote cast in her name. it's not as easy to become unburdened by what has been and joe biden's record is kamala harris' record and she's more dangerously liberal in the issue and the polling in the battle ground states, as you mentioned a lot has changed for the democrat party having a very difficult time unifying themselves let alone having hope at unifying the country. one thing that hasn't changed is the issues most important to the american people. it gotten worse for the american people on the border, on the economy, on inflation, and that's no thanks to the democrats and the democrat party who are wasting time like i said barely being able to unify themselves. what we know is that the more voters get to know kamala harris, the less that they like her. the liberal mainstream media, the same liberal mainstream

media at that told people the last four years, joe biden was fine, sharp as a tack, doing cartwheels and keeping his decline. they're cheering and carrying water for kamala harris and trying to rewrite history, for example on her position as the border czar claiming she wasn't. and it was the press too gleeful to give her that name. the reason that they're trying to do this. liberal mainstream media are trying to do this, when voters find the truth about kamala harris and how dangerously liberal she is, the bottom starts to fall out. griff: to . >> caroline to this point on the favorability. what president trump has to say about the coverage. >> the fake news is talking about lying kamala as if she's the savior of our country, that she's so brave, i've never seen

a turnaround like this. three weeks ago, four weeks ago, she was the worst politician in america and now they say, isn't it amazing? look at her, she's so beautiful. she's so magnificent. >> there you go, there's the former president's take. but at some point as you mentioned she's going to have to defend her positions. i want to pull a couple up. let's put these up of the she was in favor of medicare for all, abolishing private health insurance, taxpayer funded health care for illegal immigrants, she's also the co-sponsor of the new green deal. she called for a ban on oil, gas fracking, and prosecuted oil companies, citing climate change. so, very quickly, she's going to have to defend these positions and when do you think we will see a debate? >> absolutely. well, like i said the liberal mainstream media giving kamala harris the hillary clinton, and her positions might be popular

with people in new york and san francisco, but they're deeply unpopular in the rust state belt and kamala harris in her words would like to ban fracking entirely, defund ice, the border czar who has never been to the border and they say they've never had a phone call from her. griff: and what about the debate? kamala harris says she's ready to debate and the president says let's wait and make sure that she's the official nominee. >> it's selection, not election. you have to remember the last time that donald trump was on the debate stage, the democratic nominee had to drop out because he was so dominant. and he would have the honor not just defeating one nominee, but another nominee. >> america wants to see another debate and we'll look at see when that happens. caroline sunshine, thank you for joining us, i appreciate

it. >> thank you. griff: there are just three days left for democrats who may want to challenge vice-president harris' bid for the white house to file paper work with the dnc. potential candidates must file by 6 p.m. on july 30th and get the signatures of at least 300 delegates. so, for more on this, let's bring in maryland democratic delegate who is voting for harris and once upon a time she was a dnc spokeswoman. jennifer, it's great to have you. thank you for joining us. you know, taking or putting your dnc hat back on. is it a mistake the sort of anointing of harris as the nominee, that it's not fully open and transparent to other democrat voters or do you think it's a done deal because so many potential challengers came out quickly and endorsed harris? >> griff, it's great to be with you today. and i must say this is a very open, transparent and

democratic process. the fact is that 14 million americans went to the polls in the primary and voted for biden-harris. when biden stepped aside, of course those votes are hers, number one. but that didn't end it. of course we then had to vote again. as a delegate i've been a part of a very open and transparent process where other candidates can choose to run against her at this point. none have stepped forward. i am proudly voting for kamala harris she's so good on the top issues like the economy, like freedom for women to have a choice, like health care, abortion, gun safety and all of these different important issues. griff: i want to talk about that and the issues. but do you fear that when we've just showed you in our reporters -- madeleine rivera putting up the polls, how tight it is, are you concerned that

harris' progressive politics particularly running in the primary before she was the vice-president, are too far to the left? here is a small montage of some of the things she's said and positions she's taken, watch. >> there's no question i'm in favor of banning fracking. >> would you ban off shore drilling. >> yes, and i've again worked on that. [laughter] >> the status quo, thinking has been to believe that by putting more police on the street you're going to have more safety and that's just wrong. >> we've got to critically reexamine ice and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it's doing and we probably need to think about starting from scratch. griff: do those far left positions appeal to the independents that make the difference in the battle ground states? >> you know, chaotic don old trump and i emphasize old is bringing old ideas of calling her liberal and trying to distort her record. the fact is that we've got a healthy economy that's growing new jobs, the stock market is

going up very, very significantly, and meanwhile, donald trump is at the bitcoin folks and i must say i'm very concerned because of his ties to convicted felons. ftx, his son don, jr. is very connected to ftx. they took 24 million dollars. griff: i've got to stop you there, by the way, because you said donald trump's old. i mean, donald trump was young compared to biden just a week ago and now we're talking about that. but more importantly, the actual issues, she is defending-- harris is defending the biden-harris administration and you know, when you look at that poll, we can put it up again, you can see how close it is. tied in pennsylvania, tied in michigan, and the fact is, voters, americans, in those states, michigan, minnesota, wisconsin, are not feeling love for bidenomics and inflation,

and we've heard the numbers and the americans aren't feeling it poll after poll. how does she craft her message on the economy that continuing the economic policies of this administration is a good thing for americans' pocket books? >> you know, griff, we've moved from agonizing as democrats to organizing as democrats and we're so excited because we know that she brings freedom, she brings new jobs, she brings a real focus on the extreme climate issues that we've had. i mean donald trump has again and again said drill, baby, drill, which really will cause more asthma, more people dying of extreme heat, more of these forest fires, more homes being wiped out, these tornados and hurricanes, he is so dangerous because his entire policies around energy would cause more kinds of things that will bring death, destruction and chaos to our nation. griff: it will be interesting

to see that issue debated when and if we get the debate with harris and trump there. last question i've only got about 15 seconds and that is you mentioned the excitement and as james carville, an old former colleague of yours said, he said beware of the giddy elation. are you worried about the giddy elation that could hurt harris? >> i'm thrilled to see so many young people and others coming into the campaign. 58,000 new volunteers. we just have to get out there and work, work, work, so people know the facts, kamala harris is going to bring us a better future. she's for freedom, she's for us. griff: we shall see where it goes. 101 days, jennifer, thank you for taking time, we appreciate it. >> thank you. griff: anita. >> it will be here before you know it, griff. did the olympics go woke? social media is lighting up with reaction to the last supper with men in drag. we'll be right back with the backlash. stay with us. this?

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>> outrage pouring across social media after the opening ceremony of the paris olympics yesterday where drag queens appeared to parody the last supper, posing behind a large table, one in the center wearing a head dress that

resembled a halo. stephanie bennett is here with more and stephanie, you really had to have a lot of patience watching that because it went on forever. >> that's exactly right, griff. it went on for i think around five hours, maybe over just ending around 11:30 local time. it was dark, it was raining, and as you mentioned, it was kind of full of highs, lows and woes. everything was happening yesterday. first you had the train cancellation, the down pouring of rain storms, and then you're getting mixed reaction from this opening ceremony. that in a second, but first olympic organizers issued an apology after the south korean team was mistakenly introduced as north korean. despite the artistic freedom of from a stadium for the river seine, some said it was tacky. >> that was great, but the boat thingy, i think it was just overt

overthought. >> yeah, and online critics ripped apart the opening ceremony, the drag performances and beheading of marie ant antoinette, and saying on x that christians around the world who are watching this ceremony felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the last summer. no, that it's not france speaking, but left wing minority ready for provocation. the people running the show said it was a modern take on the greek god of wine and festivities, meant to show between human beings. >> applauded as historic. >> my goal wasn't to be s

subv subversive, my goal was part of this big one and last night shared republican ideas around inclusion, kindness, generosity, solidarity, ideas that we greatly need, i think. >> yeah, and taking a look at the whole train situation today, it looks like that there's forces on the case so far, no one has claimed responsibility, but the french transport ministry says that routes should return to normal by monday. griff: all right. stephanie bennett live for us covering all of it for us. thanks stephanie. anita: well, griff, some members of the homeless population in california will like lie rebuild the encampments, once the police leave the area. in 2023 there were more than 180,000 homeless people in the state. accounting for nearly one third of the nation's homeless population. and you know, griff, i spend quite a bit of time in

california, you know, homeless people, and you can just tell by living here, the number has been growing, but you wonder, with this order from the governor saying they have to leave their encampments, where are they supposed to go? that's the big question. when you talk to homeless people, yeah they'll clean it up, pack it up and move away, but planning on coming right back. >> and they can't go to the la dodger stadium, the capacity, only 56,000, so, this population of 180,000, you mentioned, would fill l.a. dodger stadium three times over. quickly i want to note, trump took to social media and caught note of it and calling out kind of the timing of this, saying, why didn't gavin newsom do this a long time ago. he's doing it because just like crooked joe biden, the radical democ democratic kamala harris is on the polls.

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of the shooting is still very much off limits. take a look at some of the video, our fox drone team shot. that's the butler farm show, the grounds of the butler farm show, and that, according to our sources, is a group of fbi personnel and other investigators. they are still seemingly piecing things together trying to figure out how this happened and why. we're also getting an update on trump's condition. former white house doctor and current texas congressman ronny jackson says that trump is rapidly recovering and doing extremely well. trump himself telling the crowd at west palm beach at the turning point action event, as and i think you can see i've recovered well and took off the last bandage to my ear. in terms of the cause of the injury, director christopher wray questioned whether it's a bullet or shrapnel. it reads in part. what struck president trump in the ear was a bullet, whether

whole or in smaller pieces from the rifle. the focus should be on how the shooting happened in the first place. >> what's so chilling about this, it's not just a shooter and the fact he got eight shots off, it's the fact that these are law enforcement officers, tacked out in gear, supposed to be policing that area and looking at this like it was a street corner that it was a mile away and they just drove up on it. this was their job to secure that. >> now, we're also learning that the former president not only intends to continue doing outdoor rallies, but he at some point is going to come back here to butler, pennsylvania for a future rally. no details on the date or timing with the former president, only saying stay tuned for details and that it will honor the lives of the victims in the shooting. anita. anita: it's so hard to believe that it was just two weeks ago that that assassination attempt happened. jeff paul, thank you so much

for that live report. griff. griff: anita, here with more on the investigation into the assassination attempt on former president trump, is fbi special agent, maureen o'connell. you just heard in jeff's report there, they had the drone shot and he could see the fbi agents there. you worked on cases like this in evidence gathering and i think much of the country is looking at this story saying it's been two-weeks. how in the world is it that we don't know from the fbi what this guy's motive was? >> well, motive, you know, is implied, first of all, by the fact that president trump was his victim, but also, there are a lot of people that do these type of crimes just so they can become popular, that they can become infamous without putting in any work at all and that's something that we've seen over and over again with these active shooters. they want to get their name on the map and they're not willing to roll up their sleeves and do

the work to really do great things to get on the map, so to sp speak. sorry, go ahead, griff. griff: i wanted to-- for our viewers, you're looking now from our fox flight team, a drone shot on the right side of your screen of the shooting scene. that is where it happened and the difficulty of gathering evidence there when we know there was at least outside of the secure perimeter a lot of people that weren't checked, that bags had not been looked through and now you have the task of finding out what you didn't know. >> well, i think one of the things that's going to come out in the after action report is that it appears that local law enforcement, from all the reports i've read, they were tasked with doing things like, you know, crowd control-- or i mean, parking and you know, traffic, things like that. and then they get there and the op order all of a sudden says you're going to be a sniper on

the roof and my understanding, a lot of the police officers were volunteers. that's all-- the volunteer part is separate and i a part from this, however, when you have -- when this things gets sprung on you and the briefing that morning and no one from secret service shows up, that's just a recipe for chaos. we have what's known as ics in all incident command systems and we use it in any type of situation from this, to a massive event, to a plane crash, to, you know, the oscars. you name it. we use incident command where we talk about how we communicate with each other and where we do it and all of this type of stuff and it's just absolutely crucial that you get the com's element down. what that would generally look like, if you have five agencies involved in this mission, you have five members from each-- a member from each agency in one room with their radios so that if something comes over the fbi radio for me, i tell

the team or they hear it off my radio and they put it out to their people. there seems to be a real lack of communication on every single level. griff: yeah. >> for this particular event. griff: that's for sure. and so, based on what we know about what happened, and as our viewers can see from that drone, live drone shot, we were talking about the difficulty of the outside venue he was in in butler and going back to butler soon. when you hear former president trump saying on social media that he wants to return to outdoor rallies, what is your take on that? >> well, i think a real problem is that we have pretty much over the last two weeks taught hundreds of thousands of people how to become a sniper with very little skill. so, i think it's a problem. i think it's going to be a big problem. security-wise, it's a problem, for manpower, it's a huge

problem and until they figure out that component of com's or communication, it's dangerous and dicey right now. let's try to get things together and get organized a little bit more before we embark on something like that, in my worthless opinion. griff: no, it's not worthless because you bring the experience and that's why we appreciate you taking time. we've got to leave it there. maureen o'connell, thank you, have a great weekend. >> thank you, griff, have a great weekend. anita: well, griff, one of the largest wildfires in california's history continues to spread across thousands of acres. we're going to have a live update right here from los angeles coming up next.

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>> welcome back. u.s. troops in iraq working to contain the terror threat of isis while military leaders met in d.c. this week to discuss the way forward for these troops. grieve national security

correspondent jen griffith has more. >> for two days this week, iraqi leaders and their u.s. military counterparts were in d.c. negotiating the way ahead for u.s. troops in iraq. those troops, as you know, are there keeping a lid on isis. there are still 9,000 isis fighters under the watch of u.s. allied forces in syria. i sat down for an exclusive interview with the top u.s. general in iraq and syria and asked him what is at stake. >> is there a possibility that the iraqi government will ask u.s. forces to leave? >> they doesn't want to ask us to leave. >> but they're coming under a lot of pressure from iran to push us military out. >> and there's pushing that the coalition needs to go away and more heated and to kill u.s.

soldiers, u.s. and the pressure, we've seen it at volume after october 7th. >> half of the iraqi military is backed by the shia militias and attacking u.s. bases. >> correct. >> do you think that isis has the ability to attack western targets and do you see evidence they want to strike the u.s. homeland? >> yes, yes, if they could strike western targets and at the homeland. we know this. >> are you still looking at att attacks? >> yes. >> how recently. >> recently. >> does iran have control of the proxy groups. >> we were able to stop the attacks early december, there was a period they were told to stop and they did. after the strikes here in february when we responded with deterrents, they were told to stop and they stopped attacking because iran told them to stop.

>> why does the middle east still matter. >> with the indo-pacific, the china problem, north korea problem. there's an iran problem, there are challenges. it's healthier to have a thriving prosperous middle east than a chaotic one. >> the talks with the iraqi government will continue in the coming weeks and months, with a lot at stake in the middle east. at the pentagon, jennifer griffith, fox news. griff: california's park fire, the state's largest wildfire of the year torching more than 3 307,000 acres of land, and christina coleman has the latest on the massive wildfire. >> steady winds and hot temperatures caused the fire to explode in size destroying at least 130 buildings and threatening to rip through more than 4,000 other structures. as flames aggressive ly go on

the brush, thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate as nearly 2500 people from multiple agencies worked to stop the flames and mitigate the damage from this fast spreading wildfire. >> right about the time i go out the door. i've got two city p.d. officers at the door telling me i need to get out and, well, i packed up what i could pack up in the car and me and the dog, and i got out. >> cal fire arson personnel arrest add 42-year-old man who they suspect started this massive blaze wednesday afternoon by setting a car on fire. you can see him right there. authorities say he was seen pushing the car into a ditch on wednesday. they believe it rolled down a 60 foot embankment where it burned and spread into this giant park fire, which is now the 12th largest wildfire in california history wreaking havoc on local residents. >> i hate the situation and the fire and the pain around me, i mean, there are some people

that are really suffering. i haven't really lost anything, but whoa you talk to people who have lost family, they lost trailers and pets and horses, you begin to feel thankful. i'm thankful. >> the park fire is just one of many fires burning on the west coast right now. a pilot flying a single engine air tanker was killed while fighting the falls fire in eastern oregon. police say the plane crashed, it was found in steep terrain yesterday morning, a tragic situation. back in california, the large park fire has forced some residents of paradise to evacuate. if you remember that town is still rebuilding after the california's deadliest wildfire claimed over 80 lives in 2018. griff: christina tracking the wildfires for us, thank you. anita. anita: remember the two boeing starliner astronauts that were stuck in the international space station? we have the latest update on them after the break. stay with us. but home is also your body.

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>> two american astronauts are in space with no official return date scheduled. all thanks to the boeing starliner rocket. they were launched into space on june 5th for what was supposed to be an eight-day trip. instead, they have been there for 52 days.

danamarie mcnicholl is live with the latest. what can you tell us how the astronauts are doing? >> well, good afternoon, anita. i can tell you that it's been over a month since they've been up there, but nasa officials say they're going to stay put on the international space station until any of those issues that they're dealing with with the boeing starliner are fixed. take a listen. >> we kept saying eight-day minimum mission. i think we all knew it was going to go longer than that. we didn't spend a lot of time talking how much longer, but i think it's my regret that we didn't just say we're going to stay up there until we get everything done that we want to go do. >> right now, engineers are analyzing data to determine what caused five of the spacecraft's 28 maneuvering thruster to fail as it approached the international space station june 6th, a day after lift-off. the team is studying small

helium leaks, both are on the service module a portion of the spacecraft that's jetting during the return flight. so nasa and boeing want to study the issues while starliner is still in space. >> we don't have a major announcement today relative to a return date. we're making great progress, but we're just not quite ready to do that. >> and nasa and boeing officials say they've been in contact, of course, with honey and butch. they say they're enjoying their time in space and really using this time to their advantage and hey, guys, if you have fox news up there, we wish you a safe return back home. anita. anita: yeah, we sure do. danamarie, thank you for that update, appreciate it. you know, griff, i can only imagine how their families are worried about them. griff: i mean, i was watching that and listening to danamarie's great report thinking i hope they don't have a hal 9,000 computer on that. for those of us old enough to

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