oren thank you for sharing your story. we appreciate it. todd: all right. and with that set your dvr every morning so you never miss a minute of "fox & friends first." jillian: "fox & friends" starts right now. vice president mike pence is coming up a little bit later. make sure you stay tuned for that. have a good day. >> it's a great honor and humility i accept this nomination for president. >> he has been there for 47 years and now he is going to come in and make a change. i don't think so. >> this campaign isn't just about winning votes, it's about winning it for workers who keep this country going. >> he spent the last half century in washington selling out our country and ripping off our jobs. >> if given four more years he will be what he has been for the last four years. >> we secured our borders. brought back our manufacturing jobs. rebuilt our military. and, guess what? we are just getting started. >> this is a life-changing elections. this will determine what america is going to look like for a

long, long time. >> you want a vision of your life under biden? think of the smoldering ruins in minneapolis. imagine the mayhem coming to your town. >> this is a battle we will win and we will do it together. >> one thing understanding between your family and the radical left wing mob, and that's your vote. thank you all very much. thank you very much. ♪ brian: it's finally over. there you are looking at new york city the two cranes i was able to put them up there jack them up before the show and quickly run over here and put my suited on overlooking the statue of liberty. steve: you are busy. brian: four day extravaganza done like no other. interesting what the republican also learn. ainsley: one half of the story. the rest next week. steve: so the cover of the new w york post" as you can see right here average joe biden clears the low bar and the dems exhale

with relief because as we know you hear about joe biden and is he all there? he is going to be 78 years old. the big speech, is he going to do okay? is he going to stumble? what's going to happen? turns out did he okay. griff jenkins joins us from wilmington, delaware. where last night, griff, the answer to the question where is hunter? hunter is actually at the dnc. >> yeah. how about that? steve, anxiously, brian, good morning. what's fascinating, guys. joe biden waited 32 years to gave speech and no one could have ever predicted he would have done it at emotionally empty wilmington after virtually online convention. did he meet the challenge. he vowed to unite the company. he cast president trump as being one cloaked in darkness. watch. >> i will be an ally of the light, not the darkness.

united we can and we will overcome this season of darkness in america. we will chose hope over fear, facts over fiction, fairness over privilege. >> he spoke for about 30 minutes, pandemic, race relations and what he called tumultuous economy. afterwards joined by his family, cam land her husband on stage will distance supporters in cars. and watched fireworks. firing back nearby den's home town of scranton. watch. >> biden would terminate this unprecedented recovery. he wants to impose a permanent lockdown, combined with a socialist takeover of the u.s. economy. did you hear him the other day? lock it down. he wants to lock it down. >> later he called in to hannity to counter program the dnc in realtime. he took to twitter writing in 47 years joe did none of the things

of which he now speaks. he will never change, just words. next up, we have the rnc starting on monday in charlotte. we are told there will be some live delegates there. that will be a different contrast and we expect the president to make his acceptance speech next thursday at the white house in washington. that will be something to see, a first indeed. brian, ainsley, steve? brian: it's going to be interesting, griff. thanks. i know you will be covering and easy gig for you. many expenses. ainsley ultimately sign off on them. let's look at the what the rnc can look at this number one probably need a crowd. number two, donald trump is going to be on all four days it looks like. he will have a presence. in terms of what we saw last night, president trump should realize thought bar is so low for joe biden that come debate time if he goes out and produces a solid performance like last night, people will look at this as a victory. he came out and said a bunch of things in a very short speech. one of the shortest ever that

are very vulnerable to facts. for example i will not kiss up to dictators. really? have you seen the ayatollahs. vladimir putin i will be flexible after my second term of my election. that's what barack obama said. we remember his relationship with china. build an island, don't militarize them. they built and island and militarized them. is he vulnerable on that and the economy. is he vulnerable on infrastructure and spending. because, when it comes to his $800 billion that he got with stimulus spending we are still ready for shofl-ready project. he says he can do it and be more productive. i'm not sure. the media flat out loved the speech. ainsley: yeah, they did. listen to this. >> hopeful, upbeat. optimistic. it was not parted san at all. >> it was deeply optimistic speech. hopeful. >> very authentic. very optimistic. >> a man who embraced the light.

who spoke against the darkness. >> everything is so hopeful. it's so positive. >> i think it was important for him tonight to make people feel that hope. to make people feel empathetic and to make people think that the future is better. >> this was ultimately a message of unity of the country. ainsley: it was a good speech. i will give him that it was very emotional and the stories they go a long way. he talked about the death of his children and his wife and getting through those obstacles. and how a lot of americans are going through that that lost their loved ones with covid. but, when you look at their policies. their policies are so progressive kamala harris voted for. they didn't put progressives up there bernie sanders was unhappy about that. he said more progressives needed to speak. that's what the make jump of the party is nowadays. karl rove agreed. karl rove saying it's a

balancing act. that party is has to figure out who they are trying to cater. >> to he was trying to balance two different things. bun was the image portraying himself as a unifier who would bring the country together. i thought he did so very effectively. the other part of the balancing he wanted to talk to the base. we did see a lot of policy in here fleetingly mentioned but like, for example, when he talked about the economy. i counted 11 items that he reeled off when he talked about covid, he had six things that he was going to do. most of those are tout left of his party. but, again, it was a balancing act. that was red meat appealing to swing voters. steve: in the aim of the bernie sanders wing of the democratic party is to simply get joe biden elected now and then as is he president pull him much much further to the left. right now when you ask most

people why you would vote for joe biden, a majority of the people who are in his corner say i'm voting for him because he is not donald trump. although for anybody but donald trump. right now there are three groups of people anybody but donald trump. there are the people who love donald trump who would vote for him at any time and people thinking to them selves you know, if the democrats win and they take over. what would they do to my taxes. what would they do to my industry? what would they do to the economy? those are the questions people are asking. now the hard shell that has protected joe biden for pretty much a year is done. he has got to leave his basement. he cannot go out. he will have to make his pitch for what he plans to do. at the same time, have you got the president of the united states as we just heard in the griff report, he was in pennsylvania reminding that

mr. pennsylvania, joe biden left pennsylvania a very long time ago. the gloves are off. listen, here is the president of the united states. >> he will remind us he was born in scranton but, you know, he left like 70 years ago, right? [laughter] he left a long time ago. that's why i figured i would come to you and explain one thing i think you know it better than i do. he left. he abandoned pennsylvania. he a&e abandoned scranton. he spent the last half century in washington selling out our country and ripping off our jobs and letting other countries steal our jobs, mexico, china, all of them. think are stealing our jobs. steve: that was the president yesterday. the vice president will be with us in 50 minutes. now look at this charles payne the host of making money on fox business. he joins us. charles, what is different about this particular dnc and right now we are halfway through convention season.

is that every day the president of the united states has been out making statements. so every time you play a soundbite by joe biden, you got one of the president, so this has been -- it's been pretty effective messaging for the president. >> i mean, it has been. if you look at the visuals as well, you know, president trump going to scranton, pretty large crowds to greet him there, enthusiastic crowds. and, of course, this is how he was elected in the first place through shear husband sell and pushing a message that hey, i'm here to change things and drain the swamp if you will and going to people directly. you know, a lot of folks really prevent that. the forgotten voter. the forgotten man and woman in this country. and what we have seen not just in america, around the world, a pushback against the establishment elites who by the way dominated the dnc. they you would want to put together a platform that shut out hulaian castro initially

shut out andrew yang. more old white republicans who had lost any sense of power within the republican parties than they did of progressives. so the establishment still rules in the dnc and i think that's going to be something that resonates with a whole lot of independent voters and people who are tired of the status quo. brian: i wants you to hear what joe biden -- so he outlines his plan for taxes, the economy, and we can't forget about climate change. watch. >> we can and will deal with climate change. it's not only a crisis it's an enormous opportunity. an opportunity for the lead the world in clean energy and create millions of good-paying jobs in the process and we can pay for these investments by ending unnecessary loopholes and the president's 1.3 trillion-dollar tax give away to the wealthiest 1%. i'm not looking to punish anyone

far from it. it's long past time the wealthiest people and biggest corporations in this country paid their fair share. brian: is he even looking at the tax cut? he didn't give a tax cut to the wealthiest. he gave a corporate tax rate people who work for corporations. in the big picture, charles, will they remember president obama and what he did with the $800 billion stimulus package that joe biden was in charge of, how the shovel ready projects were not there and how the infrastructure projects never took root? or are we going to have short-term memory loss and think this is a fresh start? >> they are hoping the memory loss is shorter term than that you talk about tax policies and regulatory policies of president trump. we saw blue collar rages eruntsd to the upside. blue collar wages came up from a slumber. they had absolutely died. when president obama and joe biden came into office, year over year blue collar wages up 3.5%. when they left they were only up

2.4%. that is a gadgetsian move. you could not keep up. you could not pay your bills and have the same type of lifestyle had you 8 years prior. substantially higher. the irony is all those policies help the people in this country who needed it the most. that's the irony here. if you are going to reverse that you are actually saying blue collar workers say goodbye to those raises you were getting up until february because they are not coming back. ainsley: after the president said to boycott good year because of their policies he said they were playing politics. good year has clarified their policy and said you can wear gear that supports law enforcement. here's the quote. it says good year strongly supports our law enforcement partners and deeply appreciates all that they do to put their lives on the line each and every day for our communities. we have made it clear candidates can express support for law enforcement through apparel at good year fingerprints.

what's your reaction to that? >> it's good. but it is very late. every american needs to pay attention. this reminds me of what happened with harley-davidson when they mishandled a lot of things when they ships jobs overseas and president trump wanted them out and they were defensive about it. at least good year tyre was smart enough to say let's clarify this thing. any corporation that has establishment an environment where managers take it upon themselves to tell their elmly nos they can support one thing and can't support another. they are doing a terrible job. we are hearing they wanting to get ahead of the curve not just to be shareholder driven. how about making sure all your employees feel safe, safe to say they back the police. they should not be worried about their physical safety, their jobs or upward mobility because they back the police. how about every corporation in america take note today and make sure this never happens again.

steve: right. because at a diversity training seminar at their topeka plant, apparently somebody said okay, look. this is from the akron office. lgbtq gear. but cannot wear blue lives matter or anything maga. the funny thing is my neighbor ray went into a goode year store the day after and wearing a maga hat. hey, what's the deal with why you won't let employees wear these? and they handed him the printout from the corporate office. >> that is defensive. steve: no kidding. >> their stock was 35 bucks a couple years ago. $9 now. they cannot aford to alienate any more american customers. steve: no kidding. charles, watch you today on fox business the great charles payne. all right, 16 mention after the top of the hour. jillian joins us on this friday.

jillian: good friday morning to you. let's begin with this. overnight police firing rubber bullets and tear gas in portland as protesters vandalize an ice building. police say protesters spray painted the building before throwing rocks at fireworks at officers. meanwhile police are asking for witness to come forward in this via lengths attack on a truck driver. officers say this man may have been in contact with suspect march keyes love before the assault. love is accused of kicking that truck driver in the head knocking him unconscious. police releasing this time line of crime during the protest as the city faces more than 80 days of unrest. hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested. johnson and johnson will conducted the largest vaccine trial starting next month. more than 60,000 will participated. that's double the number in similar trials. firsz says on track for regulatory. mild to moderate fevers found in less than 20% of participate

pantsdz. firs is still analyzing data from phase one trial. postmaster general luis lajoie is set to testify on capitol hill. accusations that the trump administration is trying to halt the usps in an effort to hinder mail-in voting. dejoy announced a series of changes mental to save money for the postal service. the house is expected to vote tomorrow on infusing $25 billion into the postal service. overnight actress julia defrifs. i'm saying that wrong. she is taking heat on social media after her joke seemed to fall flat at the dnc. >> i cannot wait to see her debate our current vice president mika pints or is it paints? >> okay. so the comedian going back and forth with former presidential candidate andrew yang intentionally mispronouncing v pghtd pence's name.

referencing the mispronunciation of vice presidential nominee kamala harris' first name now they can come at me for mispronouncing her name and go in a circle of everyone mispronouncing everyone's name. julia luis dreyfus. ainsley: longest stories. right? brian: andrew yang was asked to be in a sitcom and he was ill prepared to do it. thanks a lot, jillian. as joe biden wrapping up night four of the dnc and president trump blasts his 47 years of public office. how did their messages resonated with the american people? here with the dials partner and president maslansky lee carter. hi. >> hi. great to see you. brian: great to see you. some of the sound bites you picked out. this is joe biden talking about he is touching you with his emotion. listen. >> remember what the president said when asked, he said there were, quote: very fine people on both sides. at that moment i knew i would

have to run because my father told us that silence was complicity and i can never remain silent or complicit. at the time, i said we are in the battle for the soul of this nation. and we are. brian: let's see the grades. >> you can see there democrats gave this an a. independents a c and republicans an f. this is sort of what we have been seeing through the whole convention. the split between the sides and independents right in the middle. i think it's really interesting in this moment is this idea of silence is complicit. it's really, really negative. you can see a dip in the dials. when either candidate uses shame or guilt to try to motivate someone to be on their side saying you must feel this way or you are bad. that does not resonate and not something that either candidate should really be engaged with because it doesn't work or change anyone's mind. brian: he doesn't say the skin

heads or neo nazis there were people in the south defend dollars the statues and heritage. that's what he was referring. to say he didn't do a good job explaining 24 t. then and the democrats are making the most of it now. the president of the united states was signing off himself and talking about what biden wants to do once he takes over. remember the mask mandate and more. watch. >> biden would terminated this unprecedented recovery. he wants to impose a permanent lockdown combined with a socialist takeover of the u.s. economy. did you hear him the other day? lock it down. he wants to lock it down. so everything we have gained over the last number of months he wants to lock it down. brian: so, get the grades? >> >> this isn't the highest moment certainly resonated. republicans a b plus. independence b minus and democrats an f. bottom line is. this people are very concerned about covid. people are very concerned about their personal safety. what they do not want is another lockdown because as much as

people are concerned about their personal and individual safety, they are very concerned about the economy and what this means for their financial life and the future of our country. brian: you split the hairs. he did say last night first beat the virus and then get back to school and our lives. excuse me? we have been down that path before. even anthony fauci doesn't want to do it. the president of the united states says listen it doesn't matter what joe biden says. force. the bernie sanders who are convinced he is not going to be any moderate. watch. >> i never mental it more at stake in this election is the survival of our nation. that's true. bas because we are dealing with crazy people on the other side. they have gone totally stone cold crazy. joe biden is a puppet of the radical left movement that seeks to destroy the american way of life. brian: anyone convinced on that, the grades? >> you can see there the republicans gave this an a. independents a c and democrats an f. what we are finding is this idea of demonizing the other side

saying this is the fight of our life. if you don't vote for me the world is over. basically what both sides are trying to say isn't necessarily moving independents. that is the voter they need to move. that's going to be the decision maker in this election. brian: see if anything changes or have to wait until after labor day for anybody who heangted made up their mind. lee, thank you very much we you have back in two hours with more cuts. >> thank you. brian: if you are throwing parties in los angeles, it could be lights out. waterfront out. the mayor shutting off power to one hollywood home because the owner won't stop throwing parties. rorobrob smith says democrats ae driving people out of his city. that story is next. as a caricature artist, i appreciate what makes each person unique. that's why i like liberty mutual. they get that no two people are alike and customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need.

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ainsley: steve bannon is facing charges in a scheme that defrauded thousands of donors in a campaign to build the southern border wall. todd piro joins us live with how the president is now responding. todd? todd: ainsley, good morning. former trump campaign manager and steve bannon released after posting a $5 million bond. bannon walking out of federal court in manhattan after pleading not guilty to charges he stole money that was donated to help build a wall along the u.s. mexico border. indicting bannon and three co-defendants conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. arresting him on chinese billionaire's luxury lot off the connecticut. the president distancing himself never thought the fund raising effort was a good idea. >> i know nothing about the project other than i didn't like -- when i read about it, i didn't like it. i said this is for government. this isn't for private people. it sounded to me like show boating. >> bannon is accused of

funneling $1 million from online crowd funding campaign called we build the wall and using it on personal expenses. in total that campaign raised more than $25 million. bannon faces up to 40 years behind bars and is expected back in court on august 31st. back to you. ainsley: thank you so much, todd. steve over to you. i have news for you people out on the west coast if you are throwing parties in los angeles it could be lights out. l.a. mayor eric garcetti shutting off utilities at one hollywood hills house including power and water because the owner won't stop throwing parties. garcetti said in a statement despite several warnings this house has turned into a nightclub in the hills. the city has now disconnected utilities at this home to stop these parties that endanger our community. he is talking about covid, i believe. here to react, iraq war vet. turning point usa spokesperson and author of that book always a soldier. rob, good morning to you. rob smith.

>> good morning. steve: what do you make of the l.a. mayor coming out with this and said no big parties if there are a bunch of people from different houses because we have got to control the spread of covid. but, at the same time, this started after there was a shooting at a house up in a very swanky neighborhood. >> well, not only do they want to control the spread of covid apparently but they want to control every aspect of your life. this is just indicative of the authoritarian nature of a lot of these democratic politicians that are controlling most of our major cities right now in the united states, which is why people are leaving them in droves. in california you have a $54.3 billion deficit. you have taxpayers leaving in droves. you have rolling blackouts in some houses. they have a host of different problems. and, by the way, when they act as if cutting off the electricity to this house is somehow protecting people from covid, they think that we're stupid because they think that we did not see tens of thousands of protesters in the streets in

l.a. just a few months ago and none of the leadership said anything about that. in fact, most of them were participating in the protest. steve: rob, speaking of leadership, last night joe biden making the pitch for himself in his dnc infomercial was talking about covid and said, you know, we are going to stop this thing. we are going to do a better job than donald trump. he also, once again, called for a national mask mandate. we know how important masks are they can stop the spread. but, at the same time, if there is a national mandate on masks, i think you worry about what's next from the federal government. >> you really do. it's a slippery slope. if the federal government can tell you that it is a national mandate to put on your mask, what is the next thing that they can tell you and force you to do. this entire mask thing we know that masks are safe. we know that they help stop spread, stop the spread of covid. but it ♪ something that should be mandated by the federal government because it frightens me as a citizen to know what the

next thing that they are going to force me to do. steve: sure. a couple of weeks ago in chicago there was terrible looting and violence on the streets. we saw that a number of businesses were gut you had. and i have read in the "chicago sun times" since then that some of the businesses are thinking, you know, we are not so sure and that looks like one of the peaceful protests right there. we are not so sure we are even going to rebuild because we don't know that the police would protect us. well, then the mayor of chicago, lori lightfoot, as it turns out because the protesters were showing up in front of her house, she actually banned protesters and told the police arrest anybody in front of the house. she defended that yesterday. listen to this, and then your reaction. >> >> there is something that pops up there are specific threats to my person, to my wife, and to our home. steve: so there are threats to

her home. but what about the threats to other people's property? >> she doesn't care. lookment. lori lightfoot wants the safety in her own home, right? she wants to feel safe in her home. steve: we all do. >> but she doesn't want her citizens to, right? but she doesn't want her citizens. to say she wants where during quarantine she got dinged because she got a hair cut during quarantine because she shut down all the barber shoppes. it isn't about her rights and her comfort before the comfort of her citizens. and if you trade out lori lightfoot for any of these democratic mayors in these cities across the country, you will get the same thing. they put their needs before the needs of their citizens. steve: all right. rob smith joining us on this friday. rob, thank you very much. have a good weekend. >> thank you. steve: you bet. 28 minutes before the top of the hour. the u.s. house will vote tomorrow on a saturday on a bailout for the postal service. will the lawmakers reach a deal?

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straight. congressman steve scalise joins us now house minority whip. congressman, joe biden is getting high marks for pulling off the speech last night. what grade do you give him? >> well, it's good -- good morning, it's good to be with you all of you. first of all, i guess you could give an m for misleading because there were so many points in there where they just left out the facts. joe biden literally said that he won't let russia interfere with the elections under his watch, it was under the obama-biden administration where russia tried to interfere with the election. in fact, it was an fbi official under the obama administration and biden administration who just pled guilty a few days ago to trying to spy on the trump campaign. all this happened under joe biden's watch. and by the way it's been donald trump's leadership that did the travel ban on china. stopping flights coming in from china. joe biden said he was against that joe biden criticized president trump who led and said we're going to ban flights coming in from europe to stop the flow of covid.

dr. fauci, by the way, testified under oath that president trump's decisions were the right decision and president trump's decisions saved american lives. joe biden would not have saved those american lives. so let's fact-check. this let's look at those details. because the details really do matter. when joe biden is embracing the far left agenda that includes defunding the police. you had that segment earlier about the violence in some of these cities across america. it's coming because they are trying to defund police. joe biden sells he wants to reallocate money away from police. does he not think that we understand what that means? defunding and reallocating are the same things. he is going to take money away from our police. we need safe streets. i know first hand how important it is to have law enforcement and the important job they do keeping us safe. ainsley: so we had lee carter on who was looking at the polls and polling people as to what they thought about what happened last night in these speeches. and brian interviewed her. and she said you really have to look at the independents, the republicans are going to vote

the way they are going to vote. democrats are going to vote the way they are. what about these independents who are still not sure yet? they like the policies of trump. they might not like the way that he tweets and whatnot. they like joe biden's story, pulls at the heart strings but they are not sure about the progressive agenda. you know him. you worked there in washington with him. he has been a lifelong politician, 47 years. who is joe biden? >> well, joe biden is somebody who has been on the wrong side of a lot of issues. you know, and he might put his arm around you and laugh and chuckle and, of course, we have seen that's gotten him into trouble, too. ultimately, have you got to look at what he said and has he delivered? for all of the list of things that he said he would solve, every problem in the world is going to be solved. he hasn't solved any of them in 47 years in political office. i do think that matters. results matter. and so you look at president trump's record, in just three years, he has delivered on all the promises he has made. look, if you didn't vote for him four years ago because you didn't like the fact that he was going to restore law and order and going to bring back jobs

from china, president trump was doing all of those things. he was getting regulations under control so we can actually build america back up again. every income level was benefiting by the way. lowest income workers were benefiting the most we need to rebuild our economy now from covid. who better than donald trump to do it. who already did it once not joe biden who was part of so many failures we don't want to go into. usama bin laden might still be around today if he was the one making the call. steve: yeah, he said he dngted think it was a good idea to go. congressman, apologies, it sounds like you have to work tomorrow because nancy pelosi dramatically last week called the house back into session. sounds like there is going to be a vote tomorrow on the postal service. and it's crazy that this is now a political issue. it all started with the postmaster general sent out a letter and said, hey, attention all states, because you, in some cases have crazy rules where people can request a ballot on

the thursday before elections day, we don't know that we can get the ballot out and get it back in time to count. and now it's become a big thing and there is all sorts of money being talkinged around, which is unusual because the post office in financial filings has made it clear, we have enough money to run right through 2021. >> yeah. this is such a fabricated crisis. it's a typical move by nancy pelosi to try to divert because, you know, in the middle of their convention you would think they would be talking about their agenda. they didn't mention their agenda at all. in fact, in the democrat party platform they mention donald trump almost twice more than they mentioned jobs or confronting china because that's not what their focus is they hate the president more than they care about people or rebuilding this country. but, look at the post office. i mean, they have said they have enough money to run through the middle of next year if we don't give them another dime. they just turned down a $10 billion loan request and nancy pelosi saying give them 25 billion of your hard earned dollars or else the election

won't happen and oh by the way nancy pelosi wants to mail ballots to everybody on the rolls, including people not legally on the rolls. that's what they want to do. i think people are going to see through. this but it shows you where their priorities are and not focusing on jobs right now. that's where we should be focused. brian: the president is mad at you guys. how can you let nancy pelosi to do. this why didn't you shut her down. i know you are in the minority. does he have a point no protest about bringing this in and foster and allowing the flames to burn on this controversy? >> well, first of all, she is speaker of the house. that's why we are working to fire nancy pelosi as speaker in november. when when we get the house back, we will be focused on creating jobs again, getting our economy back on track. lowering healthcare cost. brian: what about the president being angry at republicans for not standing up for this whole situation. >> look, i talked to the president two days ago about this and i agree with the president that this is ridiculous that nancy pelosi is wasting the house's time on things like this.

things that aren't a problem. again, they have got enough money to run through the middle you have next year without another dime. and they should be focused on jobs, helping reopen schoolings safely. but that's why we have got to get rid of nancy pelosi as speaker. brian: no skinny bill? >> she sets the agenda: look, the post office has enough money. again, they will create a crisis and let the media run with it as if, you know, as if the post office is going to shut down. that's not the case, and by the way when they end their convention say oh they don't want you to vote. who are they? we are trying to make sure every vote counts but we don't want millions of ballots fraud electricity out on the streets rampant for voter fraud. ainsley: all right, congressman, thanks so much. >> good being with you all. ainsley: good seeing you. let's hand it over to jillian for headlines. jillian: hey, good morning. the fbi now offering up to a $10,000 reward in the case of a missing mother. 21-year-old layla cabot was last seen july 25th at a gas station in hollywood, florida. her 2-year-old son found hours

later found wandering around an apartment parking lot. police claimed self-proclaimed witch doctor with kidnapping her son after he claimed to be the last person to see cabot before she disappeared. tensions rising with iran as they unveiled two new missiles. one named after iranian general kassem soleimani. secretary of state now moving to sanctions on iran a snap back provision to apply further pressure to the iranian regime. >> the united states will never allow the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes, tanks, missiles and other kinds of conventional weapons. jillian: tune in at 8:15 when general jack keane will be here live to sound off. house democrats proposing a new commission to evaluate names and displays of national monuments. these pieces would be judged on diversity, equity and inclusion. this comes as monuments and public art have been removed or

destroyed in several major cities. okay. so there is buzz around former presidential candidate michael bloomberg's dnc speech but it has nothing to do with politics. take a look. a fly, yes, a fly, stealing the spotlight from the former new york city mayor. the insect landing twice on bloomberg's faces a he called on americans to vote president trump out of office. that's always the worst when that happens. send it back to you guys. steve: you would think a billionaire could afford some off. just saying. all right, jillian, thank you very much. let's go off to janice dean who joins us now from the weather bunker oh, there is that tropical stuff behind you again. janice: yeah. they haven't gotten their names yet but we think today laura and marco are what they are going to be called and they could be in the gulf of mexico early next week. so here is tropical depression 13. take a look at the track as of 5:00 a.m. coming very close to puerto rico, hispaniola and

maybe south florida needs to watch this. this tract has it bringing it into the gulf of mexico tuesday and wednesday as a hurricane. now, here is our next system that's going to move closer to the yucatan peninsula this weekend and then into the gumple early next week potentially make a landfall over texas or louisiana. two potential hurricanes in the gulf of mexico. and making landfall across the u.s. it has happened before, but it is quite rare. and it is quite 2020. so we will continue to watch both of these systems moving into the gulf of mexico this weekend. potentially impacting the gulf coast states next week. two of them. steve: quite 20 20u6789 that's well-said. brian: here we go. thanks, janice. some of us working from home or for some of us working from home is a dream. for others not really. [screams] >> i can handle it. >> manage the mob. >> no, no.

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♪ ♪ >> if you entrust me with the presidency, i will draw on the best of us, not the worst. >> he has been there for 47 years, and now he is going to come in and make a change. i don't think so. >> i'm a proud democrat and i will be proud to carry the banner of our party into the general election. >> biden is a puppet of the radical left movement that seeks to destroy the american way of life. >> we can and will rebuild our economy with newly empowered labor unions. >> biden looked american labor into the eyes and took their dues and sent their factories to china. >> our economy is in tatters.

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have been a logistical secret service to secure 100 cars. i think that was actually an idea for one of the trump rallies that was floated at some point but they didn't do it. drive-ins were popular back in the days when people would leave the record players on for the kids all night long as joe biden said last year. brian: speakers on the big pole and stick them on the backseat. mad at your parents for having the backseat face the wrong way. kind of crazy when it comes to safety. they got this from greg gutfeld. having a big event for his book in rhode island. he is having a drive-thru so, again, i have to look into this i'm my only source. steve: joe biden stole from greg gutted if he would? brian: right now i'm going with my story. i don't have a second source. i'm sure greg would also back this up. i would say this, have you seen west point graduate? have you seen annapolis graduate? you can have a crowd socially distanced wearing masks.

i think the president realizes that i think he is going to find a way to get the folding chairs and put them into action. steve: i was going to see right there bria fireworks. they have applied for fireworks permit over the white house on thursday night. that is a preview of coming attractions. brian: 1-800-from grucci fireworks out on long island. live in wilmington where joe biden delivered his speech last night. he is getting pretty good reviews, griff. >> yeah. he met the challenge, brian, ainsley and steve, good morning. you were talking about the socialismly distancesocially di. something we haven't seen before. biden able to give that speech he has been wanting to give for 32 years. did he it without the applause of the live audience. he cast the election, guys, in terms of being a battle between

lightness and darkness. listen. >> i will be an ally of the light, not the darkness. united we can and will overcome this season of darkness in america. we will choose hope over fear. facts over fiction. fairness over privilege. griff: he spoke for about 30 minutes. talked about the pandemic, race relations, the economy. and talked about his personal tragedies. and then afterwards he was joined by the supporters in their cars outside socially distanced. his family along with kamala harris and her husband doug. but, during the day, president trump had traveled out to a campaign battle ground state of pennsylvania going to near scranton. biden's home town and for the first time, guys, you got a contrast with an election day that is 74 days away. a contraste contrast on the iss. watch. >> my economic plan is all about jobs. dignity.

respect in community. today we can and will rebuild our economy. >> we will create 10 million jobs in the next year. we will hire more police. we will ban sanctuary cities. >> during the dnc, president trump called in to hannity to counter the dnc message in realtime and he took to twitter writing. this. in 47 years joe did none of the things of which he now speaks. he will never change. just words. next up, as you mentioned, ainsley, they will travel to charlotte. some rnc delegates. there will be some in person as we learned from ronna mcdaniel the rnc chairwoman and we learned from her yesterday when she was talking to bill hemmer they hope for most of their speeches to be live a contrast from what we saw so much dnc taped speeches. we know for sure the president will make his acceptance speech in washington at the white house. that will be something to see. brian, anxiously, steve? ainsley: griff, thank you so much. let's bring in the vice president of the united states, mike pence.

good morning to you, mr. vice president. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: good morning. what were your takeaways over the last four days? >> i think the whole of the democratic national convention was a very, very negative view of america. and there was no attention paid too two of the most important challenges that our nation faces. either during the convention or during joe biden's acceptance speech last night. that is the violence that's be-setting the families in major cities across this country. and, the economic and strategic challenge that we face with china. not a word about that. as far as i could tell from joe biden last night and from any of the speakers. instead, we heard that negative view, the criticism, the ad hominem attacks against the president of the united states. and all of it with the exception of elizabeth warren and bernie

sanders was bereft of any of the policy descriptions that you're going to hear next week. we are going to talk about what this president has done to revive this economy, rebuild our military, strengthen the constitutional liberties with conservatives to our courts at every level joe biden. the democratic party has been overtaken by the radical left. while they didn't talk about it very much, their agenda is higher taxes. socialized medicine, open borders. abortion on demanding. and efforts to cut and reduce support to law enforcement at a time of rising violence in our streets. and that's a choice we're going to make clear to the american people next week. steve: so, mr. vice president. we are through the dnc and next up the rnc that starts in earnest on monday. and then after that the next big political events will be the debates. there will be four. three with donald trump vs. joe

biden. and one, you vs. kamala harris. you know, she is going to bring up how you guys blew the covid response and everything else that she feels you have done wrong. what, from her background, and what from joe's background are you going to bring up? >> well, look, joe biden has been in washington for 47 years. and the speech he gave last night was just more of the same talk that we have heard from him and other liberal democrat politicians for the decades. and the contrast between what joe biden and kamala harris are offering and president donald trump is a difference between a talker and a doer. joe biden and barack obama with their effort to raise taxes, regulate the economy, spend and bail our way back presided over the slowest economic recovery since the great depression. by contrast, in three short

years, president donald trump cut taxes, rolled back regulation, fought for free and fair trade that put america first unleashed american energy, and we saw 3 million jobs created and it's remarkable to think, steve, that in the last three months while joe biden last night said that the economy won't come back in the coronavirus is over. news flash to joe biden the economy is coming back thund president's leadership. this economy has added 9 million jobs back just in the last three months. and the only thing that stands in the way of a full economic recovery in 2021 and behind is joe biden's agenda to raise taxes, increase regulation, pass his green new deal and we are going to take that case to the american people. steve: and the stock market is right on the edge of their record highs so that's a good

sign. but the unemployment is still stag gerring. mr. vice president, back to kamala harris. you know, once upon a time, she was all about law enforcement. she referred to herself as top cop and now look where that particular ticket is on redistributing money for the police and things like that. she has been, you know, the mainstream media has tried to portray her as a moderate. when you look at her record, she is far from it. >> look, senator kamala harris is a california liberal who had the most liberal voting record in the united states senate in 2019. and her selection as joe biden's running mate just confirmed everything president trump and i have been saying all along that joe biden and the democratic party have been overtaken by the radical left. and, look, we will talk about

that i'm looking forward to that debate more than i can tell you. you need look no further than what bernie sanders said in his address at the democratic national convention. he conceded that many of the ideas that that were considered radical, his word radical just a few short years ago are now mainstream in the democratic party. i can tell you they are not mainstream in america. the american people want a president who will support our military, reject socialism, oppose higher taxes and they don't want a presidential that's joe biden and kamala harris want to abolish fossil fuels in this country. they are going to end fracking in great states like pennsylvania. they are going to destroy more than 10,000 jobs right out of the gate. that's the choice we are going to take whether it's debate night. every day of the next 74 days, and i think it's going to result

in four more years of president donald trump in the white house. brian: mr. vice president, in these conditions, in a pandemic with an economy that's taken a hit like this with civil unrest. it's going to be a tough -- it's going to be a you will tough haul to get four more years. we know that how do you handle republicans like governor kasich. secretary of state powell and now 70 other republican national security officials are endorsing biden. how do you explain that? >> well, look, president trump came to washington, d.c. he -- he came to up end the status quo in the establishment. i mean, the fact is that collin paul who served our nation in uniform and -- he supported democrats in the last three presidential elections. no shock there. and i won't even mention some of the others. i mean, but i'm happy to take this president wants record on the foreign stage to the american people in the next 74 days because this is a president who has put america first.

he has put american security first, i mean, where joe biden actually criticized this president for taking out the most dangerous terrorist in the worm kassem soleimani, president trump rebuilt our military, he disseminated isis he took their leader out without one american casualty. i think most significant of all, brian, is that this president stood strong against china. half of our international deficit. brian: mr. vice president, why don't they see that you? are talking about william webster and michael hayden, michael lighter. donnelly. these people who served under reagan and bush? >> i can't account for it. when we came into office, half of our international trade deficit. $500 billion a year was with china. china's military was growing. their aggression was growing. we continued to see china

flexing its muscles throughout the asian pacific. president trump announced that the ear wrath economic surrender was over. we stood strong against china. imposed tariffs. and as we rebuild our military, reaffirmed our commitment to freedom of navigation, you know, china is getting the message that america is going to continue to stand strong. and the fact that joe biden in his speech last night never mentioned china was truly remarkable. and it's also remarkable, brian, that the democrat nominee for president of the united states never mentioned the violence that is claiming lives and destroying property in major cities across this country. and i want to tell you, this president, this administration are going to stand with the men and women of law enforcement, with programs like operation legend where we have seen the arrest of more than 1,000 criminals in cities across the

country already. we're going to bring law and order to our cities. you are going to hear about that next week. but the fact that joe biden didn't talk about china, didn't talk about the violence in our streeghts streets tells you all you need to know about the liberal agenda that they are going to try and advance on the american people. ainsley: funny that you bring that up. because the president also addressed that. listen to this. >> if you want a vision of your life under biden presidency, think of the smoldering ruins in minneapolis, the violent anarchy of portland, the bloodstained sidewalks of chicago. and imagine the mayhem coming to your town and every single town in america. you are not going to have law and order. ainsley: when you poll people, they are really worried. they are fearful. they are scared a, of another shutdown, because they need their jobs. they need to put food on the table and pay their bills. and they are also fearful because crime is going up.

they are fearful of their safety. where do you and the president stand on these issues? >> well, you know, joe biden said last night, anxiously, that democracy is on the ballot. character is on the ballot. well, let me be clear. the economy is on the ballot. law and order is on the ballot. and the american people know it. you know, i have been traveling all across this country, supporting law enforcement. talking about the growth in this economy and this president's vision for bringing the economy not only all the way back but building even a greater economy than the world has ever known over the next four years. and the contrast with joe biden and the democrats are offering are astonishing. think about that, in the middle of a global pandemic, joe biden's first act will be to raise taxes on the american people by $4 trillion. to advance a 2 trillion-dollar version of the green new deal. to stifle american energy and,

take us back to the kind of economic surrender to china and other countries that literally saw more than 60,000 factories close over the last 20 years in this country. i mean, that's the agenda we are going to take and it's also an agenda of law and order and law enforcement support. i mean, this president believes that we don't have to make a choice between supporting law enforcement and supporting african-american families and our cities and other minority families in our cities. we have done both from the beginning of this administration. we're going to continue to do both. but, the democrats are offering a vision for this country that would crush our economy. and promote the kind of policies that will resort in more violent in our streets. and i think the american people know it. steve: mr. vice president, speaking of law enforcement, a couple of days ago we did a story that was broken by wibwtv in topeka where at a diversity

training event at the goode year plant in topeka. whether a you can and cannot wear to couldn't support blue lives matter or maga hat talked about black lives matter or lgbtq things like that. since then, the goodyear shares have tanked. the president has called for a boycott. and the chair of goodyear has tried to clarify. he says goodyear strongly supports our law enforcement partners and deeply appreciates all they do to put their lives on the line each and every day for their communities. we have clarified our policy to make it clear. associates can express support for law enforcement through apparel after the goodyear facilities. i know the president said that it sounded like goodyear was playing politics. what do you think? >> well, i just think the

american people really appreciate a president had speaks his mind and speaks out against this cancel culture the way president trump does every time we see it happen. and the very idea that employees couldn't be expressing their support for this president, for our agenda and i would think. steve: or for blue lives matter. they couldn't wear blue lives matter. >> couldn't wear a blue lives matter t-shirt or hat is breathtaking. again, it's all support of the cancel culture agenda of the democrats. what we heard at the agenda this week and i didn't watch much of it. frankly i couldn't watch much of it. but, there was so much negativity, nothing but ad hominem attacks. and but at the end of the day, elections are about choices. and as we convene the republican national convention, we're going to make sure that the american people see the choice here.

this is a choice between a president who has rebuilt our military, made america more secure. revived our economy. stood by our rights, our second amendment rights. appointed conservatives to our courts. built a wall on the southern border. made all the incredible progress. supported law enforcement. and joe biden of the democratic party overtaken by the radical left with an agenda that will result in higher taxes, socialized medicine. open borders, abortion on demand, and continued calls to cut, defund, dismantle or what did kamala harris say reimagine law enforcement in a i think that will simply invite more violence and more mayhem in our streets. brian: mr. vice president, i saw jill biden on another network and they asked is joe biden getting out of the basement when the doctors say or scientists say it is safe we will do it. is it safe to campaign, is it

safe according to the trump team to have crowds? what are you doing going forward in the final sprint towards november 3rd? >> well, what we're going to continue -- we are going to continue to respect the guidance of state and local authorities. the good news is. brian: is that an excuse he is making up because he doesn't want to campaign. you are out there. president trump is out there. president trump is around the same age. what else the truth about campaigning. >> stuarting to get the impression they don't want joe biden out of the basement. brian: why? >> the speech last night and reading a speech on a tell promr is one thing but literally being out with the american people as president trump was yesterday. and i was in wisconsin the day before. or sitting down with people and doing interviews and answering questions that's part of the process. look, we are going through a time of testing and the american people have risen to the challenge. i hope everyone is as encouraged

as we are to see cases declining in the sun belt. we believe in the midwest because of strong actions taken the cooperation of the american people, the positivity rates are leveling as well. we're every single day closer to that day that we put the coronavirus in the past. brian: you are going out. >> we have an election. i think it may be one of the most important elections in the life of this nation. because of the -- it's a choice between president trump's record and agenda of freedom and opportunity versus a democrat agenda driven by the radical left and joe biden's vision that will result in socialism and decline for america. i know we are going to lay that choice out. we will travel all across this country. and we are going to win four more years for president donald trump in the white house. ainsley: what was your reaction and the president's reaction to

steve bannon pleading guilty spending improperly the 25 billion-dollar border wall fundraiser money. >> the president was actually critical of that initiative months ago in a tweet. and i don't know any more about the case than that. and what we have seen in the newspapers. but, i will tell you, i think one of the great accomplish. s of this president is that after years of open border policies of a government looking the other way as illegal immigrants surged across our borders, this president has kept his word and built nearly 300 miles of border wall on the southern border. and we have seen an extraordinary reduction in illegal immigration. joe biden last night didn't talk much about their agenda but we know joe biden and the radical left want open borders and amnesty for 11 million illegal immigrants.

brian: mr. vice president they are trying to say. >> going to build the wall and i think every american should be proud that we have done that this president used his authority as president to secure billions of dollars to build the wall and that was the right way to do it. brian: mr. vice president, what they are saying and critics are saying that don jr. on the website crediting them for their entrepreneurship this whole $25 million mission the president told kris kobach of kansas that he supports it. what do you say to both those things? all i know is what the president said tweeted about it months ago he didn't think it was the right thing to be done. we will let that play itself out. the president is very clear but the amazing thing is irish back in the day the fought tongue and claw toll fight funding to build

the wall that the american people voted for in 2016. president trump declared an emergency on the southern border. used his authority as president. as we stand here today, nearly 300 miles of border wall constructed illegal immigration down so dramatically, and this president is going to continue to go forward to fix this broken immigration system once and for all. steve: the joe show is over. you guys are up next, mr. vice president. thank you for spending 25 minutes with us this morning here on "fox & friends." >> great to be with you. thank you. steve: all right. thank you very much. goodbye and good luck. all right. by the way, the invitation is open for kamala harris and joe biden to stop by "fox & friends" any day. we have got three hours. all right. and during those three hours, we have a lot of news to prove it here is jillian. jillian: that's right. good morning. we begin with this story that we continue to follow. overnight dozens of raging wildfires forced thousands of people to flee their homes in northern california.

at least five people have died. more than 30 others are hurt. officials say 10,000 firefighters are battling the flames but warn it may not be enough a powerful photo look at this showing the fire's intensity as flames surround the sign reminding people to social distance and wear a mask. wow, the department of justice looking to reinstate the death penalty for the boston marathon bomber. tsarnaev convicted of the bombing. the judge threw out the sentence last month outraging families who feels justice was not served. the doj will appeal that ruling. former secretary of state james baker and his wife are being treated for covid-19 at their home in houston. baker's senior advisor saying the couple, quote, felt crummy but have not required hospitalization. the two believed they were exposed last week while visiting family in wyoming. and louisiana senator bill cassidy is quarantining after

testing positive for covid-19. cassidy, who is a doctor, caught the virus after being probation exposed to an infected person. the first ever u.s. air force dogfight similarity competition between human and artificial intelligence goes to the ai. the ai virtually shooting down a u.s. air force top gun in five rounds of mock air combat. the human by lookout said he couldn't keep up with the robot's aggressive tactics raising questions of the future of air-to-air combat. look at your headlines. send it back to you, ainsley. ainsley: thank you so much, jillian. today lori loughlin and her husband will be sentenced in the college admission scandal. federal prosecutors are calling for the actress to serve two months behind bars and her husband to serve five months. the couple pleaded guilty in may to paying half a million dollars in bribes to get their daughters into usc. here to react is fox nation host indianapolis nancy grace. good morning few, nancy. >> good morning. ainsley: so what can we expect

today? >> well, they have them staggered first of all lori loughlin will be going in 2:30 p.m. she is doing -- from ler husband. her husband will be earlier in the day around 11:00. i expected that the judge u.s. district court judge nathaniel gorton will take the plea. remember this judge is not a little baby in the high chair spoon feeding him a plea could very well reject the plea there is a chance he may do that typically a judge doesn't reject a plea because both sides have agreed to it. but, in this case, paying a half a million dollars and faking out usc to try to get your children in, no. that is wrong. plus, these two have taken the prosecutors on quite a roller coaster ride claiming that the prosecutors were unethical. that they were fabricating evidence. hey. they didn't need to fabricate evidence. these two gave them plenty of

evidence all on their own. those are serious fighting words to claim that you, the prosecutor, are making up the case, withholding and fabricating evidence, huh-uh. that's a serious charge and it was completely false. there are 22 people sentenced. how did they get away with this for so long? you don't usually look at high caliber colleges and university for crime. that's why. we are having enough problems fighting street crime. but very rarely do you go into academia to find wrongdoing the master mind rick sanger would take hundred of thousands of dollars of bribes to place students wrongfully. what really pushes me over the edge is how far, how hard most of husband to fight to get into college, get into law school and

grad school and these two just wrote a check and were in, no. that's an attack on the education. ainsley: will they serve at the same time? i know one is five months and one is two months. >> well, they are going to ask the judge to stagger it and come on, that's not a big deal. even theresa the real housewife. somebody will be with the children. i think that will happen. but i think this there is a pretty good chance they will get out early on compassionate relief because of covid. look at felicity huffman she stood up, she said i did it. and sorry. there are pictures of her out bringing baked goods to women's center. what are these people doing? they are lying and fighting the government and whining online about how much they have been harmed by the investigation. that's a far cry from felicity huffman. ainsley: all right. nancy, thanks so much. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. coming up our own pete hegseth and will kaine have been very busy speaking directly to the

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>> my economic plan is all about jobs, dignity respect and community. together we can and will rebuild our economy. and when we do we will not only build back, we will build back better with modern roads, bridges, highways, broadband, ports and airports as a new foundation for economic growth with pipes to transport clean water to every community, with 5 million new manufacturing and technology jobs so the future is made in america. steve: that was the conclusion to the joe biden infomercial which was four days long. let's bring in "fox & friends weekend" co-host pete hegseth and will kaine, good morning to you guys. >> good morning. >> bedi biden clears low bar.

we wondered what kind of a speech joe biden was going to get. you know, sometimes he is out there at the podium. he just has that stare into the middle distance. he might stumble. he might say something crazy. as it turns out, it was short, but it was good. >> good, some might say. the bar was very, very low. steve, and ultimately reading off of a teleprompter is not all that difficult of an exercise i would congratulate joe biden wanted that for 35 years too bad he wasn't there to see it and enjoy it himself. he talked about darkness and light the soul of our nation. i don't want a president to save my soul. i want a president to provide jobs and opportunity. darkness and light. i guess that makes donald trump dark varied and me a storm trooper. i guess that's what they have been calling us anyway. i don't know who he is observey one can a nobodiy or yesterday do. i will tell you hot jedi is that's comrade cortez the leftist he is enabling.

this speech builds back better? all that is a new mask for no pun intended make america great again. you can't be in the senate in policy for 50 years outsource our jobs to china through nafta and claim you are going to protect and bring those jobs back. who does he want to empower he? said new empowered unions that will put even more of a grip on the ability of our economy to recover. this is an old agenda based on raising taxes, radical climate change, open borders. i don't think the american people are going to buy it. i also don't think it was a good speech. i thought it was average. meh, he muddled his words. very little energy so the bar was low and it was low. brian: i say this for eight years he could have built broad band and roads and bridges he didn't do it. $800 billion didn't execute it. still no shovel ready jobs. i didn't see any shostles. he forgot about that. i don't know why he brings it up now as if it's something new at 77 years old. meanwhile, will, you have been busy. one of the big stories not covered on other networks is the

law and disorder in major cities, including in new york city and the dispritting and defunding of our police force. where did you find yourself this week? >> you know, brian, where i found myself this week was talking to people on the ground, on the streets of new york. both business owners and those policing our streets. to tie this together. biden's speech last night, while it's true what steve said crossed the bar of being a smooth speech, what i looked for in terms of substance was i found criticism criticism. criticism of the president and this country. not substance how to fix it. go lower in the democratic ranks. mayor's, cities to see how a democratic regime would govern. that brings us to new york city. i spoke to business owners. i spoke to police officers this week. and they gave us some insight into what it is like to be on the ground on the streets in a place like new york. now, we spoke to an nypd officer, brian. he wanted to be in cog any tito. steve: a current officer.

>> a current officer. we had to disguise his voice and we this to shade his face. steve: like a mob boss. >> a little bit unfortunately. he did give us insight who what it's like to be an nypd officer today. take a look at this. >> when i came a police officer many years ago, i never thought that i would have to put this uniform on and be looked at as the enemy and be hated. >> how widely held within the police department are the opinions of de blasio that you just voiced that you hold? i will put it like this the term for nypd that is going around in every commanded in the city is the job is dead. you you would being crazy to take this job this day and age. will: he pointed out officers are retiring, quitting and terming out. this is not just a new york city issue. there was a story yesterday

happening in san francisco as well. so this is my -- steve: and chicago. will: look to what's happening in the city and get an insight into what a democratic presidency might look like. ainsley: wow. so i know the whole thing is going to air on saturday. and also who is coming up on the show? pete? pete: we have got -- who do we got? we have mike huckabee and lieutenant colonel allen west, david webb, katrina pearson and many others to put a cherry on top of what will said. what i think we do at "fox & friends" better than anybody else is listen to people and their experiences and their life. will did it with the nypd. i did it on the street with breakfast with friends. steve: diners. pete: we have more footage of that of regular people sharing what's happening in their lives, the fear of they have of what a leftist presidency and ultimately all those policies. brian: speaking of fear, i'm worried about this and did you go out and you nail it on the diner and will feels he has to beat you and go to the cops. is this rivalry something that could get out of control? please answer the question, will. >> well, i'm not too worried

about it getting out of control as far as i'm concerned. i think it might just be a blowout. brian: look at this. [laughter] brian: you are not at his level, pete. brian: this is unbelievable. steve: you just summarized what was going on at the dnc. the rnc starts on monday. so, i'm going to ask you both and, pete, you are first. what do you expect the republicans to do differently than the democrats did? pete: complete the entire pledge of allegiance. stand for the national anthem. talk about how wonderful this nation is that we were found in 1776 not 1619. and i expect a strong emphasis on the actual track record of this president. you heard tons of promises from joe biden. just like -- this is what i will do for you. donald trump can stand up and say this is what i have done for you and how we can go further with it and he has amazing background to do it.

ainsley: will, what do you expect when it comes to law and order. lee carter was on our show earlier. she says independents are the ones making the choices here. they are really living in fear. fearful that their businesses are going to close down again and they're fearful because of. steve: schools. second wave. ainsley: fearful of schools, exactly and law and order was a big issue for them. will: ainsley, i'm looking for this at the republican national convention. two fold. i want defense of are individual values freedom. and how republican also impact our daily lives. law and order as you all referenced and our economy. this is what americans live with on a daily basis and what republicans need to show how they can improve. by the way i will lose a push-up competition. i need some time to train but anything else i'm ready to go, pete. i'm ready to go. steve: you don't want to swim across the hudson. will: i may have to get him on that one. pete: he is a swimmer. steve: he went to pepperdine he is a wave.

will: i got nothing. pete: let him back this weekend it was a bell curve. ainsley: my bet is on jedediah. will: that's where the real competition lies, i think. steve: we're going to be watching this weekend to both of you thank you. meanwhile, turn to jillian who joins us with headlines 16 mention before the top of the hour. jillian: that's right. good morning to you. start with this. a kentucky man is behind bars for trying to sell a 4-year-old at a gas station. harry day putting a $2,500 price tag on the child he and the boy's mother admitted to using methamphetamine. he pleaded guilty to human trafficking and was sentenced to one year in jail. passengers on a jetblue flight coming to a mother's definition as she is kicked off because her toddler wouldn't wear a mask. [shouting] >> irrational. >> the mother and her six kids were on a plane in orlando flying back home to new york. she says flight attendants

forced them off the plane because her 2-year-old daughter refused to wear a mask. she slammed jetblue's mask policy saying it's not feasible for children. >> no more lights, camera, action, at this hollywood home. los angeles mayor shutting off utilities at tiktok influencer's home because he wouldn't stop throwing parties despite coronavirus orders. rob smith joined us earlier slamming the mayor's move. >> by the way when they act as if cutting off the electricity to this house is somehow protecting people from covid. they think that we are stupid because they think we did not see tens of thousands of protesters in the streets in l.a. just a few months ago and none of the leadership said anything about that. in fact, most of them were participating in the protest. jillian: the mayor says he gave influencer bryce hall several warnings before cutting off his power. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. brian: i'm sure he will tweet about that later. thanks, jillian, appreciate it.

let's go over to janice dean who is watching the weather. janice: watching tropical storms. we have a couple of them that are probably going to get named today and both of them are forecast to go into the gulf of mexico. perhaps making landfall around the same time next week. if that's not 2020, i don't know what is. so, both of these systems we're going to have to watch over the weekend if you live anywhere along the gulf coast, florida, you need to pay attention to the weather forecast and your local weather forecasters. here is the tropical model this one moves close to florida this weekend and impact the eastern gulf of mexico and the other one moving towards the yucatan this weekend and texas and louisiana needs to be on alert and the names of the storms will be laura and marco. who gets the name first? we will have to wait and see. but the bottom line is the tropics are busy and we have to keep an eye on them. steve: halfway through the list

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jillian: good morning and welcome back. in just hours players of big ten plan to protest outside of conference headquarters in

chicago over the canceled fall season. they are upset games were were called off without an explanation from the commissioner. some threatening to sue. the decision to cancel was over covid-19 safety concerns. and the kansas city chiefs are banning native american imagery. fans no longer allowed to wear headdresses or face paint at arrowhead stadium. reviewing the use of the tomahawk chop. >> former vice president joe biden making his pitch to voters last night while also taking shots at potus. >> the president takes no responsibility. >> refusing to lead. blames others cozies up to dictators and fans the flames of hate and division. he will wake up every day believing the job is all about him, never about you is that the america you want? steve: so, for reaction, talk to durham county north carolina republican parties chair manuel

jarvis raised in a democratic household but now supports president trump. good morning to you, manuel. >> good morning. steve: in fact, you grew up in a household where you didn't realize you could vote for nibble other than a democrat? >> i think that's remains true for a lot of african-americans. when you turn 18 years old and they have an opportunity to register to vote, it's a no-brainer. and that's the problem it's a no-brainer. there is no thinking involved. there is not a reviewing of the history. there is not looking at legislation. there is not looking to see exactly what has republicans done for african-americans what has democrats done for african-americans not just in the last four or eight years but in the last 20 years, 50 years and even in the inception of the political party. and i think that's the probable we have right now that we're really not thinking. and, if we were, what's the word i want to use? just intellectually honest about some of the policies and things, they are not for us. they are not helping us.

african-americans are in the same situation we have been for years and every four years a democrat national convention we hear the same promises that we took in society as a chest doesn't happen. steve: so four years ago you did something that shocked a lot of your friends and neighbors and family members, you voted for donald trump. >> i did. steve: i know you took a lot of guff over that fast forward to today. you are a salesman and have sold many things in your career when you talk to people on the street and try to convince them look. i know have you never voted for a republican but have you got to go with trump. what is the number one thing about his background that you liked in the begin and still like was it the fact that he wasn't a career politician he was a businessman or what? >> yeah. i really appreciate businessmen because i am one. i like how they approach and tackle them. businessmen are not rewarded for their efforts. they are not rewarded for their fight. you hear politicians talk about

i'm fighting for you i'm working, i'm working, i'm fighting. who cares? we want action. you know, ceos are fired every single day because they don't produce the results to their shareholders and if they don't they are gone. they have to produce. and if there is any position in the america that needs to produce it's a presidency of the united states. if you say you are going to do something, you need to do it. if you say you are going to fix trade deals that are broken, you work on it and you fix it. because, if you don't, you know you are going to get fired in the real world. and it seems like only in the political world you can fight and fight and say you are fighting and working for people. never doing anything people expect you to on your job. steve: going forward, is your worry the fact that joe biden is trying to appear to be a moderate along with and he has been a centrist for most of his senate career. but then you have got kamala harris who they are trying to portray as a moderate. she has gone far to the left over when she was the a.g. in california. are you worried the democrat party is now heading that way to

the left? >> well, they already are i think one of the reasons why in my opinion, this is me personally why joe biden is the nominee is because he is actually pliable. i know -- i feel like the hard left has the ability to control him and take him wherever they want him to go instead of actually having a democrat that principled knows exactly what they want to do and not deviate from it. joe biden out of all the people on that stage during those debates is he probably the one that can be manipulated the most and the reason why they like him the most. steve: immanuel jarvis, thank you. >> thank you. steve: look who is in the final hour? and we'll be right back. start your day with secret.

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it's with great honor and hu mility, i accept this nomination for president. president trump: he's been there for 47 years selling out our country and ripping off our jobs. >> he's given four more years he'll be what he's been for the last four years. president trump: the last four years, we've been reversing biden's betrayals and delivering historic wins. >> we can and will overcome this season of darkness in america. president trump: after years of building up other nations we're finally building up our nation. >> this president, if he's re-elected, more mom and pop businesses will close their door s for good. president trump: in a second term in office, we will create

10 million jobs in the next year >> we'll rebuild our economy and when we do, we'll not only build back, we'll build back better. president trump: we built the greatest economy in history. nothing even close. >> this is our moment. this is our mission. are you ready? president trump: one thing standing between your family and the radical left wing mob and that's your vote. thank you, all very much. thank you very much. >> [applause] >> ♪ ♪ steve: 1,776 feet tall you're looking at the freedom tower in the center of your screen, lower manhattan, welcome aboard folks it's hour three of fox & friends for this friday, august 21. it's good to have you we're essentially the post-game show for the joe show which was last night and you know, brian and ainsley, after running three times, and trying for over 30 years to be president of the united states, last night

was joe biden's big night and one of the top viral moments is about michael bloomberg, who just gave a little something and it's all about twitter was a buzz after what appeared to be a fly came to rest above his right eye before briefly stopping below his upper lip. the fly unplume berg's face stole the show tonight, somebody said on twitter. brian: no question, what kind of year has he had too, spent $1 billion. steve: and all i got was this fly. brian: and didn't pay my staff who you promised if you quit your job and work for me i'll pay you through the whole year so the multibillion air didn't write the check and then he watches his city burn from in competence and doesn't have the integrity to stand up and say how dare you allow the nypd to rot on the vine and the city to fall apart in our midst while not providing any insight into how to run a business in this covid environment. instead, everybody stays home, no one is here building up a tax base. you can't even eat in doors in

new york city. that's why all these small businesses are going out. ainsley: a lot of people are worried about that. they're worried about law and order and those law and order at least and the violence and riots wasn't really mentioned last night so a lot of republicans are criticizing that and independents are as well. some of my takeaways i felt the speech was good. i thought it was emotional. his grandkids talked and his two chirp talked. steve: hunter don't forget hunter. ainsley: hunter talked and so did their daughter ashley and it was a tribute to beau, but when it comes to issue you have to ask yourself as a voter do you agree with this do you think the democratic party will go so progressive and bernie sanders has said that and bernie sanders has complained because not enough progressives were speaking, so griff jenkins is live in wilmington in delaware where biden delivered his speech last night. hey, griff. steve: watch the bugs. griff: hey, ainsley. yeah, right we have a lot of spiders and stuff here i could begin to tell you about that but you know it was a big moment for

joe biden and its been in the making as you mentioned, steve, for 32 years when he first ran in 1988 and he chose to take that moment to deliver an uplifting speech. he vowed to unite the country in a time of darkness, and he said he be an allie of the light. watch. >> we can and will overcome this season of darkness in america. i'm a proud democrat and i'll be proud to carry the banner of our party into the general election. griff: he spoke for about 30 minutes, touched on the pandemic , race relations, the economy and his personal tragedies in life. afterwards he went outside with family and kamala harris and her husband doug and joined the socially distanced supporters in their cars to watch fireworks. meanwhile earlier in the day president trump had hit the campaign trail in pennsylvania near biden's hometown and for the first time it was clear in this election which is just 74 days away there's a contrast between the

two candidates when it comes to the issue of the economy. watch. >> my economic plan is all about jobs, dignity, respect, and community. together we can and will rebuild our economy. president trump: we will create 10 million jobs in the next year we will hire more police. we will ban sanctuary cities. griff: as we know the president has been watching the dnc coverage all week long last night, he was watching as well and he tweeted this , saying in realtime, in 47 years joe biden did none of the things of which he now speaks he will never change, just words. now, the rnc starts on monday in charlotte. here is what we know on monday. there will be a live roll call from delegates in person. we know from rona mcdaniel that all of the keynote speakers in primetime will be live. that wasn't the case this last week when we saw first lady michelle obama with a taped speech as well, and we know that

the president will give his acceptance speech in washington at the white house, so gear up, we got another week coming up. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: we do indeed and the president is going to be live so who knows what's going to happen griff thank you very much. one of the things that joe biden did not do last night was he did not really promise the big socialist leaning left things that the bernie sanders wing wants, per se, but ultimately, the bernie sanders people realized look, bernie couldn't get across the finish line this time so let's get joe biden in, get him elected and then try to move him as far to the left as possible, and that's one of the things the vice president of the united states, mike pence said, when he joined us just about an hour ago, that if biden and harris are elected, that economic recovery, not going to happen. >> the speech he gave last night was just more of the same talk that we've heard from him

and other liberal democrat politicians for the decades and the contrast between what joe biden and kamala harris are offering and president donald trump, i think, is the difference between a talker and a doer. the only thing that stands in the way of a full economic recovery in 2021 and behind is joe biden's agenda, to raise taxes, increase regulation, pass his green new deal, and we're going to take that case to the american people. steve: i've got a feeling we're going to hear that list a lot over the next 70 some days let's bring in geraldo rivera, fox news correspondent at-large he joins us, geraldo look up, good morning, geraldo? geraldo: hi, steve. steve: you're frozen. apparently we can hear you we just can't see you. geraldo what's your big takeaway from the show last night? geraldo: well i thought it was a pretty good show. i thought that joe biden, the bar had been set so low that if he could put a couple of paragraphs together it would

have been a triumph. he did that and read the tele prompter speech with confidence. i thought it was a good speech, there i am, and he's a nice guy and the plain deal, our local paper got it right. joementum, i'm frozen again. steve: we used that for joe lieberman back in the day. geraldo: well maybe not that creative but i thought they now do have some momentum. i thought that the rollout yesterday or the day before was really admirable. it was historic and the first woman of color to potentially sit in the white house. i thought that was excellent. i thought that joe being the kind guy, the decent guy, father joe, the guy who reached out to the kid who stuttered i thought it was very very touching and i suspended my disbelief for the night just because he is a fine and decent fellow and had a rough time in

life. i think all that will change. i did not like the obamas, either of them. i thought that they went after president trump in a way that was very unseemly, accusing him basically of murdering all of the 170,000 people who parished from the plague by his inaction or missaction, and i thought it was very unnecessary, and you know, assett egantt as they are the obamas when you start rolling in the partisan mud you get dirty. that's just the way things happen. i believe that, you know, the race starts monday, the republicans start. let's see next weekend, that's when the polls should be taken whether or not the democrats have resonated whether or not biden can sustain the relentless attacks that is about to be mounted against him and his record. i mean, we're going to think by next weekend that hunter biden is the candidate not joe biden. brian: i was seeing everyone

except mayor deblasio and come out and i'm just reminded that mayor pete was the one who first said it's absolutely okay to question biden's decision-making capacity. it was corey booker who says you got to question biden's cognitive abilities. it was corey booker who was talking about how biden should apologize for breaking up a regulation with segregationists, but the one takeaway i had if i'm president trump is that you'll have to go win the debate you'll have to think in your mind that joe biden is going to show up and be that person that read the prompter even though it's unscripted and harder, you have to go in not expecting joe biden to fail. you got to go for the win. don't you agree? >> oh, i think it all depends now. there were four different crisis for joe biden, four different hurdles for him to surfing mount the first one was last night, could he put together a coherent speech and deliver with confidence a speech that was excellently written for all the

aspirational goals. he cleared that first hurdle. september 29, here in cleveland, will be the first of the free- ranging debate. it'll be much different, nothing on teleprompter. the question will be whether joe biden, because he still seems to me physically frail, can he stand against the hurricane. brian: but if you're the president what's your mind set. joe's going to fall apart or you have to go there to won like it's rubio, or like it's cruz? geraldo: well having been with president trump during celebrity apprentice he's going to go for the jugular and the victory and he sees in biden a potential prey that he could grab with the big teeth and shake around and knock certainly knock off message. i think that the president will be much more formidable physically, he'll be free-rang ing and roaming that stage.

he's got snappy one-liners and already answered a thousand questions joe biden has probably answered six. i think that unless biden really works at that presence, you know , of the destroyer against the battle battleship, i think he's going to be sorely outman ned. the president is coming all guns blazing i'll tell you that much. they will emphasize something the democrats are not emphasiz ing the green new deal, and other aoc promoted positions that we have not heard from the democrats, but president trump will lay it on them anyway because they have as you indicated in the buildup to the nomination, they have flirted with very progressive positions and kamala harris is one of the most liberal senators currently holding office, so i think that the president has plenty of red meat to go after. he will, without hesitation, do it. it'll be like i said, when you take a poll, polls are meaningless as of right now, the democrats had their shot and now comes the reporter

republicans and then there will be the response and by next weekend the polsters will have a true tight race. i think this thing is so close, both sides will have to struggle , states like this one, you know, i'll show you another headline. brian: we could do that too. geraldo: we cannot boycott this good company, they're talking about goodyear and the president calling for boycott because goodyear says no hats at their plants but they did allow black lives matter hats at their plants, so i say as governor de wine does, good year is a good company and means a lot to ohio, this is a swing state that was my point. you don't want to be boycotting and you are one of the principal employers at the same time you're asking for ohio and western pennsylvania to go with president trump, but it's going to be a knife fight. there's no doubt about it and biden, to summarize seemed more competent than the low bar we had been anticipating.

back to you. ainsley: so, goodyear all the backlash they responded and they said yes you can now wear the blue lives matter paraphernalia and they also released a statement. goodyear strongly supports our law enforcement partners and deeply appreciates all that they do to put their lives on the line each and every day for our communities. we have clarified our policy to make it clear, associates can express support for law enforcement through apparel at goodyear facilities. what do you think about that? why do you think that they changed their tune, geraldo? geraldo: well, first of all, when they allow black lives matter and did not allow blue lives to matter, i think goodyear was in an impossible position. they do a lot of business with police agencies across the country, and to be so insulting, to organizations that are promoting safety for our law enforcement personnel, i think was really a misstep corporately by goodyear, but boycotts really stink. i was on his program some weeks

ago when the democrats went after goia. i don't like boycotts when they go after goodyear regardless of where the boycott comes from. we're a free enterprise as republicans. you know, you don't try to interrupt the market because someone doesn't agree with your politics. goodyear has been spanked, they reversed their policy as ainsley suggests. now you could have blue lives matter and black lives matter but know maga hats but that's like a i'm going to vote for biden sign. it's a starkly political statement, god bless him but i understand the rationale. steve: well maybe now they will have a good year after a big problem this year. geraldo thank you very much, sorry we had the little snafoo at the top. geraldo: [laughter] okay. steve: there he goes. 16 minutes now after the top of the hour. let's see how this goes. it's news time. brian: who knows. ainsley: yeah, no one knows good morning to you let's begin your headlines. overnight police firing rubber

bullets and tear gas in portland as protesters vandalize an i.c.e. building. police say protesters spray painted the building before throwing rocks and fireworks at officers. police are asking for a witness to come forward in this violent attack on a truck driver look at that video. police say this man may have been in contact with suspect love before the assault and love is accused of kicking that truck driver in the head knocking him unconscious. police releasing this timeline of crimes during the protest as the city faces more than 80 days of unrest. hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested. today lori loughlin and her husband will be sentenced in the college admission scandal. federal prosecutors calling for the actress to serve two months behind bars and her husband to serve five months. fox nation host nancy grace joined us earlier to discuss their proposed plea deal. take a listen. >> i expected that the judge, u.s. district court judge will

take the plea, but remember this judge is not like a little baby in a high chair. spoon feeding him can very well reject the plea and i think there's a chance he may do that. >> reporter: the couple pleaded guilty to paying half a million dollars in bribes to get their daughters into usc. former presidential hopeful tulsi gabbard gets snubbed by the dnc. the hawaii congresswoman responding to a tweet about the convention writing you're correct i was not invited to participate in any way. she was not invited despite being one of seven 2020 candidates to earn delegates during the presidential primary. the convention traditionally offers speaking slots to candidates who earned a dell eg and talk about a good boy, a dog saves his 88-year-old owner 's life after she falls outside her california home. watch this. >> he certainly came to my rescue. >> to look to the left like hey , i have something to show

you. >> reporter: unbelievable. home surveillance video showing sandy grabbing the attention of a sanitation worker, leading him around the house. that's where he found the woman on the ground, helping her up after she fell. awww, lots of treats for that dog. send it back to you ainsley. ainsley: thank you, jillian. well as joe biden wraps night four of the dnc and president trump lasts his 47 years in public office how do their messages resonate with the american people? here with the dial is partner and president, lee carter good morning to you, lee. >> good morning. ainsley: good morning. all right, so the two top contenders were both speaking yesterday let's start with president trump. he warns of a biden victory and how that will impact our country listen to this and everyone at home watch the dials, yellow liner independents. president trump: if you want a vision of your life under biden presidency, think of the smolder ing ruins in minneapolis, the violent anarchy

of portland, the blood-stained sidewalks of chicago and imagine the mayhem coming to your town and every single town in america ainsley: so lee? so you can see it's not surpris ing republicans gave us an a and democrats an f. again the line to watch is the independents. they gave it a b and the reason that this attack is so interesting because some of the attacks don't resonate at all with independent voters but this idea that urban cities are not safe and it's something that needs to be done to address them , this isn't just an urban issue it's something that's affecting all americans right now. there's a high level of fear, a high level of concern and democrats specifically joe biden is going to have to come up with an answer to this. ainsley: here is joe biden talking about character. character being on the ballot. watch this. >> character on the ballot. compassion, decency, science, democracy, they're all on the ballot.

who we are as a nation, what we stand for and most importantly, who we want to be. that's all on the ballot. ainsley: lee that's an interesting one. >> it sure is. you can see there, again, the polarization between republicans and democrats not surprising but those independents, they gave this a c. they agree that character is on the ballot. they agree that this is a really really important election and that doesn't mean yet at that point in the speech that they agreed that joe biden was the answer to this moment and so his job is to prove who he is, what he's going to do for us and i think in many ways he delivered a pretty clear vision of who he was last night and it was very effective. ainsley: now here is the president talking about what biden will do with your jobs. he'll send them to other countries. listen to this. president trump: he'll remind us he was born in scranton, but you know, he left like 70 years ago, right? >> [applause] president trump: but he spent the last half century in washington selling out our country and ripping off our jobs and letting other countries

steal our jobs, mexico, china, all of them. ainsley: lee? >> so you can see that this wasn't as effective with republicans they gave it a b, independents a c democrats an f this kind of attack not as effective as some of the specific attacks that go to the issues that are most important to the voters which is about law and order, our safety and security and also on the handling of the economy. ainsley: that's what i'm hearing too thanks so much lee. >> thank you. ainsley: have a good weekend. coming up iran unveils two new missiles as the united states announces a new push to reinstate sanctions against them how will this impact tensions? retired four star general jack keane reacts, next. >> ♪ ♪

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boating. todd: bannon accused of funneling more than $1 million from an online crowd funding campaign called "we build the wallet using it on personal expenses and in total that campaign raise more than $25 million and bannon faces up to 40 years behind bars and is expected back in court on augus. brian: iran unveiled two brand new missiles yesterday this coming after the trump adminitration announced plans to snapback or restore or previously suspended u.n. sanctions and iran. secretary of state mike pompeo addressing the sanctions yesterday. >> our message is very very simple. the united states will never allow the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism to trial it buy and sell, planes, tanks, missiles and other kinds of conventional weapons. brian: i know, but will they? let's bring in fox news senior strategic analyst and retired four star general jack keane.

general how much trouble are we in here convincing the rest of the world to do the right thing? >> well it's a struggle to be sure particularly with the europeans. they are trying to hold on to the fragments of the nuclear deal, or the so-called jcpoa, which was crafted in 2015 and we know that that deal has been fundamentally flawed because it actually permits iran to have a nuclear weapon if they so desire with no restrictions whatsoever so the trump adminitration in 2018 walked away from that deal, and the europeans, the other parties and the russians and the chinese have all tried to hold on to that deal, and as a part of that deal, that has an arms embargo, that is due to expire, in october of this year, and the administration obviously doesn't want iran to have those weapons given the money that they received from their relief of the sanctions as well, because their behavior has not changed. in fact they have doubled down

on their behavior since the nuclear deal was signed in 2015 in terms of their aggressive behavior so this administration has committed itself to and i agree with it to stop iran from having the tools to implement their very aggressive strategy at the expense of all of our allies in the region. that's what is at the heart of this. brian: general i don't want to get you involved in politics but is there a sense that the world is waiting for november 3 and thinking that john kerry is going to get his old job back and tape this thing together that was never even passed as a treaty that didn't have the support of democrats like schumer is that what you think? you're a good strategist. >> well, i think as much as this election obviously in the united states like all elections, has huge impact on domestic policy, and it also has impact on foreign policy and the minds of our leaders. one of the issues dealing with the snapback sanctions what the united states will likely

get approved because they will veto the measure to wave the sanctions which is the position we have now, the reality is the europeans and likely the russians and chinese, will pull out all the stops to delay that vote until after the election, and you see the same thing manifested dealing with north korea. north korea's refusing to negotiate with the trump adminitration after we pulled away from them in vietnam, because they refused to put any deal on the table, but they are also refusing to negotiate, they're waiting out the election same thing with the iran yankees es. i believe they will eventually negotiation with the united states because they are back on their heels and they have huge problems, not only economic problems but huge problems with civil unrest in their country on a scale they've never seen before, brian, but they're waiting also for the results of that election. yes, so, elections in the united

states, the global leader of the world always matter. brian: more now than ever because it's going to be so dramatically different. the iraqi prime minister came and visited the president yesterday this guy has a lot of promise it seems. he does not want iran in that country and he's looking for the u.s. help. is he going to get it? >> yeah, i mean, this prime minister has, i think, so far, has shown some real courage and standing up to the iranian- backed iraqi proxies who have been contributing to so much of the violence inside iraq and he pushed back on him and gained the support of the iraqi people, and it tells you something that the iranians who have political influence inside iraq do not want him to be the prime minister, the united states did and that is why his first out of the region international visit is to the white house. here is where i think we are. the president keeps talking about getting out of iraq.

eventually we obviously will. we still have a mission there because isis is still alive, not defeated although they've lost all their territory, and we're assisting the iraqis in dealing with that. we'll likely reduce our forces, but continue to assist them as i think where we are. just as we are doing in afghanistan, with lesser forces, just as we're doing in syria with lesser forces. i believe that will be the path going forward to continue the mission but at the minimum strength required, but because the mission is vital to u.s. national interest, it will continue. brian: and last time we left, we got the jv team now known as isis, and the last time we had iranian deal it was israel who were isolated now that's reversed general keane thanks for spelling it out for us appreciate it. >> good talking to you brian. brian: great job, 28 minutes before the top of the hour, joe biden highlights the darkness of

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america. we'll choose hope over fear, facts over fiction, fairness over privilege. steve: that's a little of the joe show last night. let's bring in ben shapiro, he's the host of the ben show, the ben shapiro show, also the author of "how to destroy america in three easy steps." ben, good morning to you. >> how are you? steve: i'm doing okay. such a positive message from joe biden last night. do you think donald trump was watching that thinking oh, my goodness what am i doing? i can't run against that. he's going to win. >> well, i think that what president trump should be thinking was that joe biden should be making the entire campaign and indeed the entire dnc was really about donald trump's character and biden didn't mention trump by name but obviously the entire speech was designed to contrast joe biden cap some light here with the evil darkness that is donald trump, and look i'll say this for biden. biden's expectations were going in where he had to be alive and he surpassed those and met with ease an it was a pretty good

showing for biden but the problem is between some time between now and the election he will have to face another live human being asking him a question and some of those cases it will be donald trump asking him those questions and at some point somebody is going to ask him what he means to do politically speaking to change the sort of trajectory that we are on as opposed to vagueness of that man being bad. brian: right is i thought it was very interesting that we saw those also had a chance to come together and salute joe biden, as if we forgot that corey booker said it was okay to ask about joe biden's faculties as if mayor pete said the same thing. we understand that it's, you know, it's all fun and love and politics, but there's a lot of these guys took maiming or shots at biden who they thought was shot. here is a little of their excerpts. >> i'm very excited to present to you a group of people that ran in the 2020 democratic primary. >> you could think of it sort

of like survivor on the interviews of all of the people that got voted off the island. >> the magic of joe biden is that everything he does becomes a new reasonable, and all of us, whether you're progressives or moderates or conservatives have got to come together to defeat this president. brian: i think my takeaway from that is, ben, if you listen to joe biden, he's not going to get rid of fracking. he is for the cops, he's not going to defund the police but if you listen to everybody else 's party and go in the ground they are going to do it so he's got to weigh a blocking that easy criticism but the question is is it really going to be his policy if he gets the job? >> well this is exactly right. joe biden was specifically selected by the democratic primary base because he was not bernie sanders, but is he going to be a trojan horse as we've been saying for a bunch of leftist policy positions and that was sort of his, that was the dnc. it was a bunch of people suggesting beyond trump's character, that they were going to do very very left wing things

and then joe biden getting up saying quoting the declaration of inneds talking about how often he goes to church and the fact he's going to be president for not red states and blue states but for all of the united states hijacking barack obama's message from 200e of 2020 that we had headed into the throws of fascism and that was jarring change in pace. for four nights we got the democrats saying that we are on the verge of fascism and america is systemically racist that america's foundations are problematic and then we got joe biden who sounds like a democrat from say 1964 and that was i think a pretty radical shift actually. ainsley: so what message resonates, because they are trying to take the picture of decent character, then you've got the progressive party as well attached to the establishment but if you look at donald trump, he's law and order he doesn't want to close down businesses anymore, he wants the economy to bounce back and he thinks that he can do that again, and he's not going to sugar coat it. a lot of people might complain

because of his tweets or he says he touts his own reputation a lot, but a lot of people you'll hear say i like that about him because he says what we want to say and we can't. what message sells america right now? >> the big problem for the democrats is they went four straight nights without mentioning the threat of china, threat of iran, mentioning the fact there are tens of millions of people out of jobs specifically because of blue state lockdowns whetherrer there's no end in sight thanks to democratic governors they went four nights without mentioning rioting and looting in the streets apparently according to democrats there are only peaceful protesters across the country. i don't think that president trump is going to leave those stones unturned at the rnc , he's going to play footage from portland and seattle and chicago and d.c. in new york and la on a loop and he should and the fact is the democrats have to answer for the fact that they have basically decided all of these things are meaningless the only thing that matters is they don't like donald trumps tweeting. steve: i think yesterday, they are going to have a fifth night and they are just going to play michelle obama's speech over and

over tonight, which was a funny joke to start the show. listen, ben, i know you live in the los angeles area. whatever you do, at your party house, don't invite a couple hundred people over and because you're going to get warned by the covid police to stop it because we learned just in the last day or so, that la's mayor garcetti cut the power to the party houses because of the threat of covid and i don't think they worry about the electricity or the water, but when you cut their internet, you really got them going. >> [laughter] it's pretty amazing and eric garcetti one of the worst mayors in the united states cutting off the power to party houses while simultaneously being down in the middle of large scale protests by the way cutting power to houses in the middle of a giant heat wave it's 104 degrees outside and wildfires all around us it's a strategy, it's a take, and we've been in lockdown for a long time in la and i will say that the spread continue, so the

policies pursued by the state of california are not good and they will continue to not be good because this state is governed like trash, it turned into a hell scape unfortunately. brian: what did you think of governor newsom who might be a front runner in 2024 coming out mocking president trump because he said rake the forest and he was trying to say if you want to stop the fires you've got to keep the forest as clean as possible but he was mocking him yesterday. i mean, gavin newsom standing in the woods while wildfires consume half the state and he shuts off power in rolling black outs when it gets hot in the summer in california. we should know this. it seems like as governor of california at some point you might want to get on top of that and the giant homeless problem that consumed virtually every major city in california, get on top of the fact that nobody has jobs in the state of california right now and you just destroyed uber and lyft in the state of california but gavin newsom has better things to do like stand around in the woods and talk about trump. ainsley: ben thank you so much have a good weekend. steve: at your party house. ainsley: janice has the weather

for you. >> janice: yup, good morning. i want everyone in florida, along the gulf coast, to pay really close attention to the tropics this weekend. we have two developing storms that are probably going to get a name today. both of them are going to wind up in the gulf of mexico so here is our first storm, this is tropical depression number 13 and it is moving very close to florida this weekend, perhaps south florida needs to pay attention to a hurricane and then moving into the gulf of mexico, perhaps affecting the panhandle, parts of alabama, mississippi, georgia, as we get into tuesday and wednesday. our next possible named system is going to move very close to the yucatan peninsula this weekend and then the gulf of mexico perhaps affecting texas or louisiana tuesday/ wednesday, so two storms , two possible hurricanes in the gulf of mexico, doesn't happen very often, i think its happened twice in history. so there are your tropical model s and pretty good agreement that we are going to see

something in the gulf of mexico. will it be a tropical storm or a hurricane and they are both going to kind of affect each other, in terms of if you have two hurricanes in the gulf of mexico, they could actually weaken each other. so that be the good news, we really need to watch the forecast models as we get into the next several days. bottom line, all of the gulf of mexico needs to pay close attention. the other big story we're watching showers and thunderstorms over parts of the southeast, the mid-atlantic and as you mentioned it's hot, dry, and wildfires everywhere across the west, no moisture really getting into this region unfortunately so that's another big story we're going to be talking about through the weekend as well. steve, ainsley, brian my friends happy friday back to you. steve: thank you very much, j. d., have a good weekend yourself meanwhile as we've been discussing this morning, joe biden delivered his message to america, while taking a lot of shots at president trump, but is it enough to convince voters who are undecided? a discussion who has a new book

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>> sandra: good friday morning everyone coming up secretary of state mike pompeo will be joining me fresh off his trip to the u.n. yesterday. his message to our allies on restoring iran's sanctions and the threat iran poses today. secretary pompeo will be our guest, 9:00-10 a.m. eastern time plus bret baier joining us fresh of joe biden's big night last night. brand new reaction pouring in this morning, and a hearing on capitol hill with postmaster general lewis dejoy, we'll hear from him a short time from now join us live from americas news room on a very busy friday morning see you soon.

steve: meanwhile former vice president joe biden and democrat s shifting the narrative during the dnc that just wrapped up making this election a choice between darkness and light. >> donald trump doesn't deserve to call himself commander-in-chief for another four minutes, let alone another four years. >> i did hope for the sake of our country that donald trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously. >> donald trump has divided our country, diminished our greatness and demeaned everything. steve: but after four days of attacks on president trump, was uniting the country really the message from the dnc? here with a discussion the executive washington editor of the wall street journal, gerald sibe. i went to journalism school with this guy, jerry good morning to you. >> thanks steve it's a long way from lawrence to here isn't it? steve: a couple of journalists right now. jerry, how do you summarize what

we saw over the last four nights with the dnc? >> well you know, it was interesting because i thought the two things you learn from this convention. this campaign at least according to the democrats is going to be much more about character than about issues. you heard a lot more about joe biden's personality and empathy than policies, and i think that leads you to the second thing i learned which is if you had any doubt that the fall campaign is going to be a referendum on the incumbent and the democrats are happy to have that, that's what you're going to see and i think that's what we saw and in the convention and it's what we saw in the vice president's speech last night. third point surprised me a little bit. how much of the speech was devoted to the coronavirus. the coronavirus is still a big issue. it's not going to be a central issue and that tells you democrats the magnitude of the problem is still weighing on voter's minds. steve: you know, donald trump is a big part of your brand new book, and people got to get it. it's terrific called "we should have seen it coming" and what it does is it looks back over about

the last 40 or 50 years of the republican party and how it has morphed into what however you would describe it right now, under donald trump, right? >> yeah, it's different. look i think it's morphed from ronald regan to donald trump and that happens to be kind of the ark of my journalism career so i'm fascinated by this four- decade period but also morphed from reagan conservatism and the overall message of the book really is that people were shocked by donald trump in 2016 in the republican party and out, and the message of the book is you shouldn't have been. this was building. this didn't just happen overnight. it happened with pat buchanan and sarah palin. steve: a whole populist movement right? >> absolutely building from beneath the feet of the establishment leaders of the republican party and they didn't really appreciate it. steve: sure and jerry donald trump has changed the republican relationship with the business community. he's changed conservative ideas when it comes to trade and

immigration. i mean, he's come a long way. i know he mentions ronald regan a lot, but he's come a long way from what ronald regan stood on and ran on. >> yeah, exactly and that's in part because the republican party is a different party now. fundamentally different than it was when ronald regan came in. you know, reagan brought in a lot of reagan democrats so there was kind of a beginning of what the republican party is now but it's now much more populated by a working class, blue collar voters who moved into the republican party because they wanted to be there for cultural reasons didn't like gay marriage, didn't like transgender rights really didn't like abortion rights being expanded. that pulled them into the republican party and then when they got there they decided conservative economic messages didn't work for them. the globalization didn't work for them, the free-trade policies didn't work for them and donald trump walked through an open door because he appreciated and realized that more than most people in the party. steve: exit question, when it comes to the first tuesday in november. do the republicans who have kind of been drifting in the middle

do they come back and unite around trump? >> that's the question, i think and you go back to joe biden's speech last night. there was a fascinating message in which he said i want to be the president for all americans it was an overt appeal to moderate republicans and independents to stick with him. there's another question, steve which is a similar one which is are there still hidden trump voters out there? people who hadn't yet been activated in 2016 and available now. steve: check out his new book, sir thank you very much. (announcer) now more than ever, it's important to lose weight,

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>> watch and listen to the radio show. chris christie is one of our guests. bye everybody. >> sandra: any moment now postmaster general louis dejoy set to testify. it is the first of two hearings on his decision to make changes to the postal service before election day. earlier this week he said he would stop all changes between now and the election but democrats still accusing the administration of trying to slow the delivery of mail-in ballots. the white house is denying that. we'll take you there live when that hearing begins. we begin with dueling messages on