>> ainsley: it is 7:00 a.m. here on the east coast. we have been an entire hour without brian spilling his coffee. see if we can do it two more. >> brian: i know it's white carpet, too. >> ainsley: wednesday july 31st, it is "fox & friends." hamas does confirm its political leader h has been assassinated d is now vowing revenge the growing threat of wider war now in the middle east. >> steve: that doesn't sound good. plus, remember this: >> there's no question i'm in favor of banning fracking. there's no question that we have got critically re-examine ice and its role. i do believe that we need to do buy back. >> steve: no question, she said. now she has changed her behind. mind.brand new flip-flops on the

issues. look she is laughing about it. >> brian: changed her mind on absolutely everything. besides nothing has chakdz. overcoming challenges. we are learning about the men's gymnastic pommel horse hero and the medical condition he wears those glasses for. his parents join us live with their incredible back story. the second hour of "fox & friends" begins right now and remember, mornings are better with friends. >> ainsley: we start with this fox news alert. hamas has learned the top political leader has been killed in a strike in iran and marks the most serious escalation in the middle east since october 7th. and increases the threat of a wider war breaking out across that region. >> steve: the strike in tehran comes hours after israel says they killed a senior hezbollah commanders in beirut, lebanon. >> brian: so within hours of each other, two titanic occurrences, trey yingst all over it. putting in perspective in tel aviv. trey? >> yeah, hey, guys, good

morning. massive breaking news overnight. the political leader of ishmael haniyeh is dead following a missile strike overnight in the iranian capital of tehran. the israelis have not yet taken credit for the strike but are, of course, likely behind it we are still gathering details but we know haniyeh was staying in a guest house when it was hit by missile. weighs there for the inauguration of iran's new president massoud ayatollah khomeini hours before met with haniyeh in tehran. then hours later this strike taking place, killing the political leader of the organization that israel has been at war with for the past 300 days. we do know that the supreme leader of iran has released a statement this morning, vowing to take revenge. he says following this bitter tragic event, which has taken place within the borders of the islamic republic, it is our duty to take revenge.

this has major implications for the possibility of a cease-fire between israel and hamas as the war rages on inside gaza. we are hearing today from the qataris. qatari prime minister speaking out this morning asking how can mediation succeed when pun party assassinates the negotiator on the other side. all of this taking place just hours after the israelis launched a rare strike in the lebanese capital of beirut taking out a top hezbollah commander following that rocket attack on saturday that killed 12 people in the northern driewz village of march da shan. sending a message across the region that the israelis are not afraid to strike well within the territory of other countries like iran and lebanon. but thought major question how will iran end and axis of evil respond? overnight israel killed the leader of iran's second largest proxy in the region.

hamas. they took out a top commander of hezbollah, iran's largest proxy in the middle east. there will certainly be a response, the question is what that response will look like. we do know israeli forces are on high alert across the country. the security cabinet is set to meet today at 4:00 p.m. local time. we also know that a notice to airmen has closed all of the airspace of northern israel over concern about renewed rocket fire from the iran-backed organization hezbollah guys back to you. >> brian: break down both military actions. first off they say israel made it clear they didn't want a major escalation evidently had his hands in the marine bombing in the 1980s. secondly. they take out the hamas leader in tehran inauguration of the new president yesterday. do you feel as though hezbollah they don't want to expand but hamas the gloves are off? should we look at this

separately? both of these organizations are major proxies of the iranian regime in tehran. but we need to talk about how all of this standed and put this into context it gives you an idea at the israeli campaign against those responsible for the october 7th massacre. think will kin to be targeted. when we look at the organization, hamas, the two top political leaders are now dead. ismail haniyeh taken out overnight tehran and earlier this year on january 2nd, the israelis launched first strike against beirut taking out the number two in hamas. i think back to the video on october 7th that was released by hamas from doha, qatar and you saw these two leaders among their leaders praying. background see the news on. and it was southern israel on fire. the israelis saw that image and

it was cedar into their minds. they said they would hunt down these leaders of hamas one day after that attack hezbollah got involved in the fight and since then launched thousands of rockets and drones into northern israel killing 12 young people on saturday and one israeli citizen yesterday. >> ainsley: that was horrible. vowing a certain response. they said no doubt about it, they are vowing revenge you mentioned this in your report but how do you think they would respond? >> so hezbollah has a variety of israeli targets in their sights. it depends how much they want to he is can late this conflict. we have been looking at escalation over the past 300 days not yet seen hezbollah striking major israeli population centers like tel aviv with a population around 300,000 people. most of the rocket and missile strikes have taken place along the northern border. between israel and lebanon. it's involved drone fire.

it's involved antitank missiles along the border. but what we saw overnight was a shift in the equation. the israelis taking out toll commander strong hold in the neighborhood. israel could respond by striking strategic targets in places like haifa. israel's third largest city. last month we were in haifa meeting with hospital officials there. how they are moving facilities underground in anticipation of a hezbollah response. you have a variety of people ensuring that israel will be able to intercept any sort of missile and rocket fire into the northern part of this country, but i can tell you that israeli officials today that will be meeting at the syria, just a few miles from where we are standing today. israel's version of the pentagon, are preparing for the possibility heads strikes major population centers like tel aviv and need to attack major defense systems not just the iron dome but also david sling and of course the arrow missile defense system. guys?

>> steve: okay, trey that's the lebanon guy. israel and lebanon exchanged missiles for a long time, rockets and whatnot. what is different about this though and they have not admitted they were behind the strike. they hit tehran though blew up a house in iran. that is a red line for the iranians do something they haven't done before it. scares the living daylights out of a lot of people given the fact that they have nuclear ambitions and a lot of pals with really big bombs absolutely when we look back at the past six months the equation for the middle east has changed. when they took out top irgc officials in damascus, syria, iranians responded by launching more than 100 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones towards israel. it was a mask attack that was only stopped because there was a collision to intercept most of

this fire outside israeli borders. send a response of revenge to israel for taking out the leader of their second largest proxy inside the iranian capital. we can look back to when the israelis have launched covert operations inside iran in the past they took out the top iranian nuclear scientist with this machine gun that was attached to the back of a truck as he was driving near the iranian capital. the israelis have operated inside iran before. they struck some of the missile defense systems outside of a key nuclear facility in iran following the ballistic missile attack. this back and forth exchange of fire has gone on in a way that could be compared to a large scale war of attrition. but iran will respond in some capacity. the question is how they will do it. will they activate further hezbollah, their largest proxy in the region or will they try to keep this from unraveling into a larger regional war. understanding that their second largest problemsy, hamas, and

some of their larger proxies islamic jihad inside gaza disseminated following the war erupted on october 7th. >> brian: sinwar. other thing is haniyeh just to note he lost his three sons and four grandchildren and was held kids are martyrs and now he faces that death. go ahead, do you want to say something, trey? >> trey: yeah, if i could just add. this last night there were many people online and in the media talking about how ismail haniyeh the political leader of hamas who was taken out overnight was considered a more moderate voice in the organization. that is ludicrous. i have met ismail haniyeh and talked with senior officials. >> they have as part of their chart tore destroy israel. it makes sense that the israelis went after this leadership overnight. but it does raise questions about what the response will be from the iranian axis across the region.

>> ainsley: look what he did on october 7th. we know what kind of guy he is. >> brian: he was in qatar. >> ainsley: he was at the inauguration of the new iranian president. he had to know that's a security risk. especially after october 7th. >> steve: yeah. it was tehran. nobody has ever hit tehran. made by the political leader of hamas ishmael hen i can't. he has safety in qatar. he does not have safety outside the borders of that country. by flying to this inauguration for the new iranian president. he knew it was a risk but probably didn't believe that the israelis would kill him inside the iranian capital. >> brian: he was wrong. obviously, trey. thanks so much. and the thing is, as you talk to some of the trump officials at the rnc. they say why is qatar allowed to get away with this housing hamas? he says you go in there and you want this special rihanna to continue, you find a way, you expel all these guys right away and find a way to get those hostages out or else you are

going to lose that special relationship. so, there's a totally different philosophy if this administration flips. and the scary thing is iran knows it. so if they are going to do some action, they got to do it within this window if they think donald trump is going to get elected. because the game is over if he takes over. >> ainsley: isn't s. it interesting they live in qatar and not in gaza. >> brian: right. >> ainsley: where all of this is hang? >> brian: not eating sand. they are having a great time in the four seasons. >> steve: let's see what happens. because it is a fluid situation. >> ainsley: now to the race for the white house. a busy day of campaigning ahead as former president donald trump is heading to the state of pennsylvania for a rally there. >> steve: current vice president kamala harris heads to houston later today to deliver remarks to a sorority. all this while the veepstakes comes down to the final stretch. >> brian: yep. a college sorority. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house. lucas? >> good morning, guys. former president donald trump returning to pennsylvania for the first time since an assassin tried to take his life.

vice president kamala harris heads to houston. she was asked yesterday who is she going to choose to be her running mate? this is her answer. >> ms. vice president, have you chosen your vp yet? have you chosen yet? >> not yet. >> now, here is the list of who harris is likely to choose from. mark kelly, former nasa astronaut. josh shapiro, critical governor of a swing state. tim walz a union favorite. kentucky's governor andy beshear one of the younger candidates. a 2,000 grad of vanderbilt university. pete buttigieg the youngest choice, of course, winner of the democratic iowa caucus in 2020. illinois governor j.b. pritzker who could self-fund the race. commerce secretary geno raimondo former rhode island governor cut taxes every year, removed 8,000 pages of regulation. 53 is about an inch shorter than james madison. now, harris is one of those we -- one of those candidates we

just mentioned hitting the trail with the vice president next week heading to philadelphia, then wisconsin, detroit, raleigh, savannah, phoenix and las vegas. donald trump will begin his day in chicago and interviewed by journalists including our own harris faulkner before going to pennsylvania state capital. harrisburg, again, his first trip to pennsylvania since the assassination attempt. we just learned this morning that the white house is forgiving another 30 million student loans. this brings the grand total to nearly 170 billion for context that's about the u.s. army's budget last year. guys? >> steve: oh my goodness. and because, ultimately, lucas, right now, joe biden is still the president. so he can do stuff like that to help her running up to november. right? >> that's right. and likely be doing things like that and not out on the campaign trail. it's notable that some of kamala harris' remarks in atlanta yesterday, there was a lot of mention of former president donald trump. there is no mention of joe

biden. guys? >> brian: good point, lucas. watched the whole thing and read the transcript. good job. i think it's also important to point out that -- bye, lucas. see you soon. >> ainsley: thank you. >> brian: okay. we can talk about him thought. >> steve: what do you want to say? >> brian: nothing. [laughter] it's just i felt like he was looking right at me. right? i mean for a while. [laughter] i totally forgot what i was going to say. >> steve: while brian collects his thoughts. the "new york times" had just dropped a brand new item that says the headline is harris has created. >> brian: oh, i remember. >> steve: okay. we'll come back to that harris has created a huge wave of manufacturing. how long can democrats last? write it. the question is how long will the honeymoon last with harris now that she is the expected nominee for the democrats and a republican pollster said i don't know. but right now you look at the wave of excitement. she has tightened the polls

yesterday in atlanta 10,000 people that showed up. >> ainsley: okay. if you go to gov track. they have taken it off their website so you can't see it anymore. she was voted the most liberal, most progressive senator. >> steve: yes. >> ainsley: even more so than bernie sanders. >> brian: we have it on tape nora o'donnell asked him. >> ainsley: had on tape and couldn't respond. if you look at her voting record she wanted to ban frac. now apparently she is flip-flopping on fracking. she'll wanted to reimagine ice. and now she is flip-flopping on that. she wants to put more ice agents down on the border. she is flip fropg on healthcare. remember, i'm going to do away with your health insurance. we will do healthcare for all. even illegal immigrants and get rid of your health insurance. well, she is flip-flopping on that now. now we are mandatory. we will dom your house, steve, if you have guns give you money and buy back your guns and this will be mandatory give us your gun. now she is flip-flopping on that. basically she has republican views now.

>> brian: here's what she used to think. >> there's no question i'm in favor of banning fracking. >> there's no question we have got to critically re-examine ice and its role and the way that it is being administered. >> do you support the medicare for all bill. >> correct. >> initially co-sponsored by bernie sanders. >> yes. >> also a co-sponsor on to it? >> yes. >> i believe it will eliminate private insurance. >> let's eliminate all that move on. >> do you believe in the buy back of assaulted weapons? >> great question. i do believe we need to do buy back. >> brian: tonight show with tradition. >> ainsley: people in the audience could ask question on his show. >> jimmy fallon interesting format there as opposed to thank you notes. here is now what she believes. used to believe various times over the last few years now according to the "new york times," this is what she is about to believe. ready? we will no longer seek to ban fracking. i will have more on that later. now backs increased funding for border enforcement, now down to the root causes, only been to the border once. no longer supports single payer

healthcare insurance programs. she no longer wants to get rid of private insurance. now against requiring gun owners to sell weapons to the federal government. so i got it. so, everything that she thought she has reversed in order to be like donald trump. then if you have two candidates who think the same exact thing. why even have two parties? what are you going to do? if she came out and said i have evolved, i have evolved i would go why. okay. you are a totally different candidate. did the people who nominated you know you were going to flip on everything? because, i know you didn't get any votes or go through any primaries. but, everything that you used to believe didn't work. you go become vice president, you never backed off your views. now you flipped on them. >> ainsley: so which kamala do you believe? >> brian: why would you believe anything she says in the future? and just a quick note what i was going to say before when you forgive student loans, it also particulars off a lot of people who paid off their loans or didn't take out loans. good luck with that, joe. i actually think you are hurting kamala your vice president. but i digress and plus, you

don't forgive loans, you make us pay for their loans. >> steve: apparently according to the items that i read about this particular program is there are existing programs on the books that the administration is going to email people and say hey, did you realize that with this program if you apply, we will forgive your student loan? >> brian: right. >> steve: clearly, kamala harris is in the rewriting history stage. because. >> brian: we have never anything like this though, steve. >> steve: we have seen people flip flop. >> brian: not on everything. >> steve: on a lot of stuff. >> brian: this is everything. >> steve: do you remember where john kerry -- remember when john kerry was running for president. remember he was followed with republicans with flip flops hey mr. flip flop. stuff like that. people have down this. obviously the people who are running her campaign have said look, those things you said, those crazy things you said, those crazy things that are on tape, you can't win. so now they have come up with a new and improved kamala harris

2.0. >> brian: listen, ainsley, here's the thing. if you are going to flip flop, i think the one requirement is to say it yourself, not fax the "new york times" to write it while you talk about something else. number two is we have seen flip-flops but on 10 to 12 foundational items that you stand for on the fly in real time? while getting' 96 days before an election and never set it yet? this is nuts. >> ainsley: read the article in the "new york times" it's baffling. >> brian: it's a different person. >> ainsley: campaign saying okay she doesn't agree with that anymore. she doesn't believe that anymore. she doesn't believe that anymore. it's not that anyone. anymore. >> >> brian: she was bernie sanders. >> steve: do you know according to the "new york times." you know what they are going to say about essentially steve harris campaign will rebut most of the campaigns by saying the

republicans are exaggerating or lying. >> brian: we just played the tape. that's the problem. got to check out dave mccormick's 60 second ad kamala harris and pins it to casey and it's as good as it gets. good news for republicans, donald trump, it's all on tape. attorney general, a d.a., you have a a candidate. a lot of tape there. >> steve: indeed. a lot of time to play it also time for news. >> carley: major update on a story following out of the u.k. 22 police officers in the u.k. hurt following a violent protest outside of a mosque. this happened right where three young girls were stabbed to death at taylor swift themed dance class. 8 other children and two adults were also stabbed and are currently in the hospital stones and bottles at police officers and set a police van on fire. they crashed a vigil where hundreds of people were honoring

those stabbing victims. the protest was inspired by rumors online that the 17-year-old suspect was a muslim immigrant but police say he was born in britain. >> we are learning the suspect killed in the fatal carjacking of a 54-year-old woman in virginia was in the case illegally. ice confirmed martinez is a migrant from el salvador entered into u.s. as a got away. unclear when he entered the country. officials say he stole the woman's car on sunday and then ran her over with it. the investigation is still ongoing but authorities expect him to face upgraded charges. republican missouri senator josh hawley and new york democrat senator kirsten gillibrand new to create a hotline for first responders. hawley writing our first responders put their lives on the line every day for us. the least we can do is support them in the halls of congress. put $125 million of grants next five years to grant mental

health resources and 50 million would go towards that hotline. and to the olympics we go where team u.s.a. is leading all one tries at the pairs game. a total of 26 medals won so far after an amazing day yesterday. [cheers] ♪ [cheers and applause] >> u.s.s.' women's rugby team using a last second score to upset australia in the bronze medal game. the medal is the first the u.s. has ever won in the rugby seventh competition. they weren't the only american women to win yesterday. ♪

[cheers] >> carley: u.s. women's gymnastics team taking gold in the overall competition as simone biles is the most decorated gymnast in american history. and for the male gymnast pommel horse hero stephen nedoroscik's girlfriend loving all the pememesin his glasses. take home bronze. guess what we will be joined later on in the show to discuss their son's rise to olympic fame. and i'm so looking forward to that interview, guys. they're the parents on the sidelines in the stands who were so nervous. you know how they show the parents right before he was about to get on the pommel horse and now we know that he great.

>> ainsley: brock is older and playing sports waking up at 5:00 in the morning to get him an hour. >> carley: they deserve the medals too. >> ainsley: drove back and forth. >> steve: brilliant thing they have done with the conch for everybody for the olympics, we have microphones on the parents. >> carley: yes. >> steve: when you hear their reaction. >> brian: and snoop dogg. >> steve: snoop dogg, of course. the parents will come on and explain why stephen wears those glasses there is a medical condition with his eyes and he has become a darling of this olympics. >> ainsley: yes, he has. >> steve: meanwhile, straight ahead, despite the harris honeymoon effect, which is apparently ongoing right now, famed pollster nate silver still predicting donald trump will win the electric it college. we will talk to the former president's team as he looks to rally the base today in pennsylvania. >> ainsley: and, will you look at the at this beautiful shot of beach haven, new jersey. ♪ ♪

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to man the roof where a gunman took aim at former president trump. what's going on here? and the secret service counter sniper warns another

assassination attempt could happen before november. cb cotton joins us live from butler, pennsylvania. cb? >> hi, brian, good morning. secret service acting director ronald rowe now admitting the agency made a mistake. assuming there would be enough eyes from local police on the roof. the gunman fired from. >> i think what we made an assumption that there is going to be uniform sufficient eyes to cover that counter sniper teams in the agr building and i can assure that you we're not going to make that mistake again. >> local officials who helped coordinate tell me for the entire agr building there were only two local snipers assigned. porptioned at windows, surveying the fenced in grounds. >> secret service, he showed a window. that was right here. >> exactly. >> looking up to the roof. >> that's not where we were

assigned. we were assigned over here in those first two windows. >> so is he wrong about the assignment? >> absolutely. >> have you talked with acting director ronald rowe at this point directly? >> no. i would love to brief mr. rowe on all of our actions that day. >> all of this has outreal clear politics obtained a letter secret service counter sniper to the agency's uniform division. >> the outlet says this counter sniper warns that another assassination attempt could be possible because he believes leadership has failed. ainsley? >> ainsley: great job. thank you so much, cb. this morning notable pollster nate silver predicting that trump will beat kamala harris despite her momentum. one of the key states in the race, pennsylvania, where trump will hold a rally today. it is his first rally in the state since the assassination attempt as his campaign hits kamala harris hard on her border record. >> this is america's border

czar. and she has failed us. under harris, over 10 million illegally here. a quarter of a million americans dead from fentanyl. >> so what message does 'president trump hope to send today? let's ask trump 2024. deputy communications directors caroline sunshine from the sunshine state. hello caroline, good to see you. >> great to see you. >> ainsley: thank you. tell us about this message and your reaction when you look at the polls. nate silver says electoral college trump will win 61.3%. some of the other polls tied in these states. pennsylvania, michigan. it just baffles me when you look at her record. she is so progressive. how in the world can they be tied? >> well, she is dangerously liberal. and she has a liberal mainstream media, the same liberal mainstream media told the american people for years that joe biden was fine. he sharp as a tack. nothing to worry about. same mainstream liberal media same thing will harris. the more pot voters find out

about her the more the numbers begin to sink. president trump took a bullet for democracy. >> this is a man who is going to save democracy. is he headed back to pennsylvania today. one of those states where he is beating kamala harris in the polls. is he going back there, carrying the memory of corey comperatore with him and is he going to talk about how we are going to make this country great again. because the thing about kamala harris is her policies read like a wish list. for greta vhe greta thunberg. ban our assault weapons. we can't have any of that going to talk about make america great again. securing our border. bringing back maganomics and of course drill baby drill. >> ainsley: look at the under biden and harris. raise cost to drill and mine on public lands. they canceled thousands of acres on oil leases. they set a goal for half of new vehicles to be electric by 2030. they released a string of

regulations in appliance crackdowns. and they implemented stricter emission standards for fossil fuel power plants. this hurts american industries. how will donald trump connect with the working class voter? >> absolutely. well, you can add all of that that you just said, ainsley to the list of the failures of the harris-biden administration. look, president trump, ever since he came down that escalator in 2015 has fought for the forgotten men and women of this country. pennsylvania, west virginia and ohio this is the third largest natural oil reserve in the world. president trump understood that. fully empowered that region. fully empowered our great american coal workers to do what they do best. they built this country and keep this country going. a lot of benefits, right, when we put american coal workers and energy first. president trump understood that one where we get to celebrate our great american coal workers and industry but also we bring down the cost of our goods. it helps keep peace on the world stage. president trump understood all of this. kamala harris is dangerously liberal as she is. she is a good old fashioned

california liberal. she will kill all those jobs and go right back to california, san francisco, hop in her prius, hop in her private jet she is completely out of touch. president trump is ready to make our great american energy industry dominant, independent and great again. >> ainsley: thank you caroline. great to see you. we did reach out to the harris campaign to injo us. we did not hear back. 36 minutes after the top of the hour. a fox news alert. hamas is confirming its political leader has been assassinated in iran retired army brigadier general anthony tata, next. ♪

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and the golan heights israeli playground last weekend. retired u.s. army brigadier general anthony tata joins us now. general, how concerned should would he be about this thing exploding into a total middle east war? >> well, you know, what is happening right here, brian. you have got hezbollah in the north. that's been hit. you have hamas in the south that's within hit. tehran. that's kind of a hat trip for israel to strike in the heart of tehran if indeed it was them. safe conclusion it was. so this saber ratling that we are hearing from iran in my point of view is a little bit empty. remember the last time when iran threw hundreds of missiles at israel, israel struck back. they didn't even know what happened. so, iran has to think long and hard before they do something against israel. because israel can literally dismantle that country, their oil fields, their energy infrastructure.

their ports, their navy israel has significant capability that they have withheld in the face of this onslaught that they are seeing from alana and its proxies hezbollah. >> brian: hezbollah has 150,000 rockets. and you know that iran could send # hundred rockets israel's way and helped knock them out of the sky. the ayatollah, just to summarize came out and said the separation took place iranian soil. we are going to avenge this blood of this criminal and zionist entity after the assassination pafdz a the way for a punishing response. >> yeah, but, remember, brian, they had a domestic terror incident not too long ago that was actually determined to be domestic terrorists when there was a bombing in their area. so, you know, i think everybody is jumping to conclusions here good haniyeh is removed from the

chess board here. particularly for israel i think it's a logical deduction. what the harris and biden administration should be doing is tucking the u.s. military up against israel with its counter drone, counter strike capabilities that we have got in the navy and other technology that we have got. and we ought to be strengthening the shield over israel instead of what harris is doing kind of playing both sides game saying that the suffering and israel needs to back off and stop the suffering in gaza. so. >> brian: take the shackles off. take the shackles off. let them win. >> let them win. let israel fight and defend itself and resource them to do that and get out of their way. they are very capable of doing it. >> brian: 100 percent. general tata, i hope they do that i don't think they will. they are already hedging,

general anthony at a time tax thank you. >> thank you, brian. >> brian: of course breaking news across the middle east as it develops. wwe don't know what is best. economy under biden. americans are being pushed into homelessness. jacqui deangelis says a harris presidency will only make it worse. she will explain, next. ♪

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>> janice: good morning, everyone on the streets of new york very yucky and humid. take a look at the maps. we have severe weather that is moving across the midwest and parts of the plain states. looks like we have severe thunderstorm warnings just southwest of peoria and a severe thunderstorm watch for parts of iowa in towards illinois. we could see some big thunderstorms. including hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. also watching a disturbance number one here just east of puerto rico. expected to develop as it gets towards the bahamas. and then it's going to be very close florida. the southeast coast. i need to you be vigilant and watch your local forecast. here is the active wildfires. it's been a crazy season so far. over 3 million acres burned and a lot of smoke moving across the west. the heat wave continues across the central u.s. over the mississippi river valley temperatures over 100 degrees. it's summertime steve doocy, but with the heat indices over 100 going to be dangerous, too.

>> steve: tomorrow is august. here we go. >> already, my friends. >> steve: no kidding, tick tick. j.d., thank you very much. >> you got it. >> steve: meanwhile, listen to this. homelessness hitting a record high as a new report reveals even working people in the united states are being pushed into shelters. making too much money for government assistance. but not enough to afford housing costs, which are sky high. and with the nation's debt soaring past $35 trillion for the first time ever, it appears bidenomics not working out for everybody. joining us now to discuss is the big money show co-host jacqui deangelis. jackie, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> i want to read you something from "the washington post. homelessness record high people with jobs. housing further out of reach forever low wage earners. so, in other words, people who have jobs. >> yeah. >> steve: can't afford to live anywhere. >> absolutely. that's because of the rising cost that we have seen in the to two most important things.

food and shelter. okay? so ultimately have you got an administration, biden and harris who said they were going to help the middle class, they were going to help the poor. these are the ones that are being squeezed the most right now. when you look at food prices up over 20% the last three and a half years. let's get to the shelter. the average cost of a median home has doubled in the last four years according to the heritage foundation. rests are up more than 20%. people are seeing more money in their paycheck, when you actually adjust if for inflation down 4.4%, how does that work? >> steve: how does that work? we have got a statistic, the national realtors put out a number that apparently home prices are up had 0%. but, that's when you buy a house. >> jacqui: right. >> we are talking about a people that can't rent place. >> interest rates are 7%. exacerbating that problem. what you are dealing with is a situation where people are being squeezed and they have no alternative and no options. i have got to add, this steve. we are also dealing with a

problem of illegals coming into this country and an administration that is saying you need shelter. you need food. you need education you need healthcare, taking that out of you. you this is not sustainable. you can't keep on taking from people who have more help the people more needy and have it balance out. the debt is 35 trillion. we talk about that all the time. we are spending our way into a situation that isn't even economic anymore this election is about ideology. do you want to redistributed wealth or live in a society where people work and they can take care of themselves and living costs are manage being? that's capitalism. >> steve: no kidding. so the administration can't give everybody a house and obviously as you just detailed a lot of the housing is now going to the migrants they can buy your vote if they forgive your student

loans. apparently unveiled overnight forgive loans for 30 million americans. that's a lot. they have forgiven loans for 5 million now 30 million. that's 35 million potential voters. >> interesting timing that they are announcing this as well? this is something that they have long-promised they realize when you tell people we are either going to forgive your debt or give you free things. people will vote for the democrat party. that's what this is all about. where is the money coming from? you are taking it from people who did pay their loans back. people's parents who did pay for their college education and now they are saying you have got to pay for these other people, too. ultimately, we have a bigger problem in education that has nothing to do necessarily with paying back the loans structure of all of it. they love talking about root causes, steve. as we know with kamala harris they don't address the root causes. >> steve: the root cause is stuff just costs too much, period. >> right. >> steve: listen, for some common sense, jackie on "the big

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