appreciate your time. thank you so much. jillian: set your dvr to start every morning with "fox and friends first". todd: we have covered a lot in two hours on "fox and friends first". "fox and friends" takes the next three hours, it begins right now. >> four more years. four more years. >> we are here tonight to talk about the great american story. this land of promise and opportunity. heroes and greatness. we see the choice clearly. strength or weakness. energy or confusion. success or failure. >> we want safety in our neighborhood. we want a chance to get ahead not just get by. that's what president trump promised and that's what president trump delivers. >> he never stops. he leaves nothing on the field. some people don't like his style, but that's how you get the job done. >> democratic party does not want black people to leave their mental plantation. i have news for joe biden. we are free people with free minds. >> these radicals are not

content with marching in the streets. they wanting to take over. they want power. this is joe biden's party. >> i am 100 percent american. this is the greatest country in the world. our family went from cotton to congress in one lifetime. ♪ you ain't seen nothing yet ♪ baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet ♪ here's something that you're never going to forget ♪ you know, you know, you know. steve: the slow zoom out from new york harbor live from new york city. that's the statue of liberty. this is "fox & friends" for tuesday, august 25th. thank you very much for joining us. rnc it's now day two after night one. we're essentially the post game show, ainsley. ainsley: that's exactly right. stayed up late last night watching it all. there were some wonderful speakers. we will show you all the 450eu89s. right, brian? brian: it was hard to calm down after kimberly guilfoyle's fiery

speech. i could not get the adrenaline to lower it. griff jenkins spends quality time with the president of the united states and he is bragging. is he outside the melon auditorium in washington, d.c. with the night's major moments. hey, griff. griff: hey, brian, ainsley and steve, good morning. let me tell you being on the ground there in charlotte. there was a stark contrast right from the get-go. that was the in person delegates. it was scaled down. each state only got six delegates to be there when the president surprised them and thanked them for the renomination, the room erupted. watch. [chanting four more years] [. >> i wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. you are incredible warriors. have you incredible strength. >> we have to win. this is the most important election in the history of our country. our country is counting on it. >> now, the first night's lineup included a number of gop stars. including the president's son don jr.

south carolina senator tim scott. steve scalise and jim jordan all making the case that this election is a choice on the economy and security and the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley raising the issue of race. >> the american people know we can do better. and, of course, we value and respect every black life. the black coming who have been shot in the line of duty, they matter. the black small business owners who have watched their life's work go up in flames. they matter. the black kids who have been gunned down on the play ground, their lives matter, too. and their lives are being ruined and stolen by the violence on our streets. it doesn't have to be like this. griff: meanwhile joe biden stealing a page from the trump playbook punching back in retime going on a tweet storm writing the only person responsible for our failed covid response is donald trump.

following up with the president saying it didn't have to be this bad with a grab. we will hear from the first lady mump. we will hear from secretary of state mike pompeo. the first time had a secretary of state address the rnc along with more family members. hills son eric and daughter tiffany. you will hear from senator rangsd paul. you will hear from covington high school student nic sanctioned manuel how will remember in the controversy here along the mall at the lincoln statue. it will be quite a lineup tonight like it was last night. and then in the next hour, you will hear, brian from, my interview with vice president pension and really what he sees as the differences between last week and this week. guys? steve: and that's what it is all about. griff, thank you very much. donald trump actually got involved in the planning and production of this particular of this particular tv show four night extravaganza he wanted it flashier than the democrats. for the most part it was.

you noticed, what i started to notice and it was after watching the democrats with their presentations, where there is no applause, it actually goes faster and it's faster pace. and last night was largely upbeat. it was eeivelgteddive and efficient. and, you know, the number one issue facing the president is coronavirus. and they opened with a very effective video showing democratic governors like gavin newsom, cuomo of new york, phil murphy of new jersey praising the president for helping them during the coronavirus then they ran nancy pelosi's own words blasting the presidents where she talked about going back to san francisco, going to china town and what joe biden had said. but the whole show started with essentially one of the most beloved religious figures in the world, rear talking about cardinal dolan who opened with this portion of the prayer from last night near lady liberty. >> pray we must in thanksgiving.

in thanksgiving, dear god, for item as we ask your hand, oh mighty father on this convention and the nominees of both parties and wisdom upon electorate so eager to perform its do you have to citizenship pray we do for we dare claim in god we trust. amen. steve: amen. talked about both parties, anxiously. essentially after that it was game on. republicans said that donald j. trump has gotten a lot done. is he their hero. if joe biden is elected the democrats will undo all of it. ainsley: i thought it was very pro-america. that was the theme. pro-jobs, pro-law enforcement, pro-police. there was a lot of that as cardinal dolan led off the faith. faith is a big part of most people's speeches last night thanking god for taking them out of countries that were communist countries or for giving them opportunity here in america.

nikki hay li had great speech. herschel walker talked. andrew pollack who is the father of meadow, a parkland victim. he had a very powerful speech. we will show you some of those throughout the morning. tim scott, a senator? south carolina, represents the charleston area. and he had a very powerful story. i was impressed that he talked about his shortcomings many growing up and how he failed out of some of his classes and then decided to pick him self-up with the help of a mentor to become a senator from south carolina. listen to his story. >> joe biden and kamala harris want a cultural revolution. they will turn our country into a socialist utopia. we must focus on the promise of the american journey. my grand father's 99th birthday would have been tomorrow. suffer the indignity of being forced out of school as a 3rd grader to pick cotton. our family went from cotton to congress in one lifetime.

there are millions of families just like mine all across this nation full of potential, seeking to live the american dream, supporting the republican ticket gives you the best chance of making that dream a reality. steve: brian? brian: so, tim scott is going to be on at 6:50 and that's in about 35 minutes. is he going to be with us live. so you don't want to look past 2020 if you are president trump. but if you are looking at the republican party's future, you maybe saw a lot of it. some of it tonight but a lot of this last night when you saw nikki haley talking about her upbringing how she got to where she was governor and ambassador to the united nations. and tim scott come out and say let me tell you about my journey why i'm a republican and what i have seen of the president up close and personal and what little tiewngted zones have done in terms of opportunities and historically black colleges

getting financing. it's going to make people who are independent not decided. the democrats have decided the republicans have decided. this is about the undecides and the independents. give a counter narrative which they know to be the truth about the president when it comes to self-definition. when it comes to the u.s. defense. when it comes to race relations. and when it comes to positive programs, this is what the republicans saying they did. also, when it comes to immigration, the simplistic view is if you build a wall and talk about having legal immigration reform, and illegal immigration discouraged whether it's a wall or whether it's a program or policy, this is what the president wanted to do. yeah, there are people coming from the outside who can appreciate america like max mow alvarez. listen to his story. >> i have seen moments like this before. i have seen ideas like this

before. false promises. spread the wealth. free education free healthcare, defund the police they don't sound radical to my ears. seattle, chicago, portland and other cities. when i see the history being rewritten, i hear echos of former life i never wanted to hear again. president trump knows tha the american story was written by people just like you and i who love our country and they wish to build a future for our families and neighbors. brian: this shows the divide in the hispanic community brutally shown which joe biden tried to elaborate on. if you were from cuba and sue how weak the policy was with obama and biden and saw venezuela and saw it being ignored as communism and socialism took root in central and south america and nothing happened.

this president comes in and says we are going to have brutal sanctions on them and cuba we are not going to change relations with them, they have done nothing to deserve it. and you are do you believe ban american and venezuela-american you say wow, i like the latter as opposed to the former. there you saw a cuban american. recall. ainsley: dad had a sixth grade education. they fled cuba when that man you just heard maximo at the age of 13. he now has his own business. sunshine gasoline districters. he said that biden and the democrats want power. he said i have seen this movement before. we cannot let them take over our country. he said i heard these promises from fidel castro. and he said i can never forget those who starved and suffered and died as he is fighting back the tears he was saying this because they believed those empty promises. they swallowed the poisonous pill, steve. steve: absolutely. came from a socialist country. it was a cautionary tale but now he is living the personal dream. that is night one of the rnc.

we are going to be talking about that all day long. plus, a look ahead throughout the morning. in the meantime, a fox news alert. fiery clashes erupts for the second straight night wisconsin following the political science shooting of a black man. cars and buildings burning across the city. ainsley: jackie joins us. >> item strartsz break a citywide curfew and storm the courthouse. check it out. >> be careful. >> as can you see it was a long night. protesters launching fireworks and throwing water bottles at officers. fires burning across the city, including at a wisconsin department of corrections building. a garbage truck also torched of neither courthouse. police and the national guard firing tear gas to break up the. kenosha latest flash point of unrest after video of police

shooting of jacob blake as he was getting into his car. can you see it there blake's family says he is in stable condition this morning and, quote it's a miracle is he still alive. officers say he had a knife but witnesses did 23409 see one they say. at a news conference surrounded by protesters the attorney general wouldn't comment if blake was armed. the mayor says there may not be a lot of video of the incident. >> police department does not have body cameras at this time. scheduled in 2022 the purchase of body cameras. and it's -- part of the issue has been in dealing with the state. >> the shooting sparking protests nationwide including new york city, san diego, chicago, and minneapolis. the curfew in kenosha will remain in effect until 7:00 this morning, that's central time. no word if another curfew will be put in place tonight. steever, brian, anxiously, back to you. brian: thank you, jackie, appreciate it. coming up, the media sells the

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>> these next four days have supposed to be optimistic he and he has been painting apock limb particular. >> not upbeat. >> it has been red meat not so much optimism and hope. >> okay, that's her opinion. oh, wait, is she a reporter? well, she critic and some critics in the media are waste nothing time in attacking the first night of the rnc with some even bemoaning the fact that

they had to run it at all. >> we are broadcasting this, of course, by choice; however, it is our responsibility to not unquestioningly broadcast potentially dangerous misinformation, especially of the medical variety. steve: and so they did fact-checking. hey look it's media reporting for the hill joe concha. so the other networks were doing -- you know, for the most part we had guests on last night. they had analysis and had hosts and reporters on the other networks doing fact-checking live. how did that go last week during the democrats? >> it didn't go too well, steve. because a lot of fact-checkers decided to take the week off it. is august, after all you have got to get away before the weather turns cool. cnn's fact checker said he couldn't find anything to fact-check decide the fact that the ap did fact checks on misleading statements by michelle obama or john kerry or

even joe biden the nominee himself. so, now the fact checkers are back and given prime time spots and make sure dangerous information isn't passed along. this analysis that we saw last night, it's the wwe of political punditry. in other words, just like in fake wrestling, the outcome is already decided. in other words, the analysis was already decided that it was going to be three words to describe those speeches we are -- that we saw last night and throughout the week, dark, ominous, decisive, you name it, that's the way it was going to go. and, look, this last night last night wecht very well from republicans. having some of those speeches at the melon auditorium evan there. it's a better venues that the who he emergencyized zoom meeting festivus that we saw last week. an airing of grievances that we saw from the dnc which appeals to the woke mob but not necessarily to independents. that's what it seemed to be last night at the rnc. outreach to independents in

pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, the states that decide elections, steve. indeed. the number one issue is coronavirus. the media have been nonstop hammering the president on his handling. last night rnc started at the beginning by having democrat governors say what a good job donald trump has done. oops. how do you fact check this? >> democrats, the media and the world health organization got coronavirus wrong. >> everything is fine. come to chinatown. >go about yourlives. go about your business. >> one leader took decisive action to save lives. >> promise made, promise kept. >> is he willing, able to help. >> in your hour of need, you literally are helping us in a big way. steve: okay, joe, so in their own words, there they are saying donald trump did everything that

they needed in the beginning. >> and andrew cuomo is writing a book that will be out three wix before election day mission accomplished book that he do as governor. the record changed from the beginning when cuomo said he wouldn't play politics now with 32,000 deaths in new york. maybe 32,000 nursing deaths in new york compare it to florida 11,000 deaths. i don't see ron desantis of course andrew cuomo is the ratings will be out later for day one. and i think ratings do mean something in terms of enthusiasm, people tuning in, they are curious about the message. c-span's live speed on your youtube channel. >> night one of the dnc had 76,000 views. night one of the rnc so far has 425,000 views. that's 5 and a half times the number of views, right? so we saw joe biden's speech last night. 22 million people did tube in, steve. but that was 15 million less

than the president's state of the union address earlier this year prepandemic when could go out and lower than donald trump's rnc address. it appears people are tuning in a lot more to the rnc than the dnc right now. you have to wonder does that translate to enthusiasm around the party. i would say it does, steve. let's see, ratings come out this afternoon. joe con charges thank you very much. >> all right. thank you, steve. steve: see you around the water cooler. what do the voters think after night one of the convention? our panel of mothers here with the discussion coming up next. no matter where you live, where you live has never mattered more. for over 100 years, realtors® have been providing expert guidance,

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excited. i can't wait to vote and i can't honestly imagine how they can top last night's program. but whether a really resonated with me was what the senator scott said in the -- at the end that this election may be about or between biden and trump but it's not solely about them. because it's about policies that i can live with. policies that keep our streets safe. policies that keep the economy strong for my husband and policies that keep the schools open for my children. apes ages barbara, how about you, your take away? >> i thought the night was amazing. i felt everybody really spoke to the fact that trump is a businessman and maybe not a politician. while we may not like his style, he really gets things done. and just the different examples i felt that andrew pollack was really powerful. kim clack, tim scott, i mean, they drove their points home. they used examples and i feel really good about last night. >> we will play andrew pollack's

sound bite in a minute. karith, i want to get your take away. >> i honestly ainsley was more moved than i expected to be. the speakers had really resonated. as far as making it -- they were beautiful. they they were emotional. they were powerful speakers. and for me they humanized donald trump which is not something that we see very often. herschel walker, i mean, what? knew they were friends. that was a side i don't think we really get to see in the media. ainsley: will his daughter was shot and he has been active in trying to get policies in our schools and safer. he says the president really cares. he could have just taken a picture with me and hugged me and said i'm so sorry for your loose loss. instead had a relationship and became friends and invited me to the white house to work on policies. he believes police should be at every school.

listen to. this at the white house, my family and i sat with the president in the oval office and told him about meadow. i told him what we knew. i told him that his administration needed to take a closer look at what went wrong and why. and i got to see who president trump really is. he's a good man and a great listener. and he cuts through the b.s. then the president did what he said he would do. he took action. i truly believe the safety of our kids depends on whether this man is reelected. i hope you will join me in helping to make that happen. >> barbara, i know you are a mom of three. do you agree with him? >> i agree with him 100 percent and what we heard all night long is he is a man of action that gets things done it's great we are saying is he a great man but he is a man of action. as a mother, that's what we want. we want to know we have a leader that is taking initiative to move this country in a positive trajectory. and he has the track record to do it. maximo alvarez.

ainsley: what a story. >> amazing. >> so as a mom of three, i know many people will say the president's biggest problem with women. most women are supporting biden. you clearly are not. why do you like this president? listen to me this election is not about personality. i love his personality. it's about his strong policies that put american citizens and taxpayers first high husband goes out every day i wanted him to have an opportunity for the american dream. i want my kids to see that and i want safe schools, safe streets. i want to be able to live the american dream and under president trump's policies i believe that's possible. >> she bricks up a good point, karat, if you watch the dnc. there were emotional speeches like there were at the rnc bottom line have to look at issues. what issues are important to you and your family? >> absolutely. the issues of safety, the issues

of we stressed this before being able to choose if someone wants to home school absolutely let them. if someone wants to send them to public schools or charter schools they should absolutely have that choice. if i could just say i appreciate there was a variety of speakers there who didn't all look the same and i think that's really important. and something that you know, vernon jones just like i wanted to high fiv high five him throuv screen. ainsley: is he bold. is he from georgia. is he an african-american man and he has always voted democrat. he said this year, no, i'm voting republican. >> he nailed it. you know, how dare anybody, any party relegate someone because of their color to a certain set of ideals. like that's crazy. people are not monolith. we are so much more. we are deeper than that i think that was really expressed last night. i appreciated that. ainsley: nikki haley talked about her background.

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processing equipment. second, i did not directs a cut back on hours at any of our post offices. and, finally, i did not direct the elimination of or cutback in overtime. ainsley: the post master general louie dejoy shooting down actions that he has slowed down the postal service to impacted the election. brian: here to react is fox news senior judicial analyst judge napolitano. judge, i don't know how much of this you saw it was an opportunity just for democrats to rant as if their therapist told them to. what did you take from mr. dejoy coming out trying to defend what he did? >> good morning, guys. brian, i thought it was very unusual to hold a hearing after they had voted. brian: unusual, how judicious of a word. >> right. these hearings theoretically are to inquire information in order to form a house vote. in this cases they held the

hearing tainatthe same time thae republican national convention was beginning probably to steal some thundered from rnc and beat up on mr. dejoy. i don't think the hearing changed anybody's mind. now, having said that the mail is a little slower, i don't know why but it certainly is out where i live. maybe it's post office's growing pansz as mr. dejoy attempts to make it member efficient. now is probably not the time to change things too radically. for better or worse, 80 million of us are probably going to vote using the mail. i don't think the needle was moved one way or another yesterday. if you like the post office, if you think he is doing a good job, you got what you wanted to hear. if you don't like the post office, if you think he is sabotaging it, you heard the democrats say that these hearings rarely change anybody's mind, brian. steve: judge, i'm glad he mentioned the sorting machines and getting rid of the boxes and

stuff like that. he didn't do anything except suspend those through the election. it all got started though, judge, obviously it's become political and both sides have their points of view about how the other is trying to steal the election it. all got started when the postal 1st just said some states have impossible deadlines to meet. can you ask for a ballot up to the thursday or friday before election day. and we have got to mail it out and then you have got to get it back to the postal -- rather, the ballot counter they said and yet people blue blew a head gasket. those are impossible rules some states have. >> yes. those rules were written, steve, in a different era. i will give you another example. those rules also and it varies in different states those rules also say the ballot has to be postmarked by a certain date.

guess what? the ballot has a digital code on the front of it. it doesn't get postmarked at all. the problem that the post office has is there are 52, i'm counting puerto rico and d.c. along with the 50 states, there are 52 separate regulations. each of which purport to deal with the post office and you are right, steve, some of them are impossible to comply with and it's good that we are discovering this now in august, rather than the last week in october. so it's time for the states to change these regulations, to make it easier for people to vote and easier for the post office to do its job, not more difficult. ainsley: i know, the problem is with the pandemic, people don't want to go -- many people don't want to go to the polls in. so states that are still dealing with this. steve: they don't want to go to the post office either. ainsley: that's true. mailout ballots going to people who no longer live there.

if this is not a landslide do you think we will have to wait months after november 3rd to find out who won? >> you know, ainsley, you are probably too young to remember what we all went through in 2000 when we didn't know who was going to win the election until early december. and i hope we don't go through that. who knows. hopefully it will be overwhelming on one side or the other so the country is not on pins and needles and so we are not living each day with truck loads of paper ballots suddenly showing up that arrived on time but weren't counted. ainsley: and a recount. >> nobody wants to go through that, which is why i say the states have to modify their regulations and work with the post office not tell the post office what to do. brian: the post office has got to make a stand if you get the ballots by a certain date, if you wait that long, i'm not going to be able to do anything about it and no political agendas. let them get it through their

thick heads that he was not appointed by the president. understand that they just seem to want to sit there and yell at him. yesterday was embarrassing every time i see things like that. >> yeah there was a lot of yelling. the flip side of what you said, brian, the post office should say get them in the mail by a certain date and they will be counted and here's the date. brian: hillary clinton yesterday said joe biden should not concede if is he losing on election day because things could change after. great advise. she is a wonderful person. thanks, judge. >> oh, boy. have a nice day, guys. brian: meanwhile, turning to extreme weather tropical storm laura now expected to hit the gulf coast as a major hurricane. steve: that's right. meanwhile marco weakening this morning after making landfall as a tropical storm. watch this. ainsley: a lightning strike hitting panama beach as the streets flood from all the heavy rain. janice dean is tracking the

storms. janice, what are those folks expecting? what can they expect? >> we are not going to pay attention to marco even though marco is still bringing some showers and thunderstorms across the gulf. laura is the big deal because as of the 5:00 a.m. advisory hurricane center saying this is going to be a major hurricane when it makes landfall wednesday night into thursday morning. so overnight wednesday, tomorrow night into thursday. so you don't have a lot of time to get your plans in gear because we're going to be dealing with a major hurricane potentially making landfall between texas and lfrs louisiana. again, as a major hurricane. i don't think they have seen a major hurricane since harvey. this is going to be a big deal, obviously. we are expecting rapid intensification of the storm. tropical storm now but to reach cat 3 status in 24 to 36 hours. that's rapid intensification. can you see the computer model in pretty good agreement. landfall somewhere between

southeast texas and southeast louisiana. wind field. that core right there in the orange making landfall, again, we think arranged midnight into thursday morning. so, again, i can't stress this enough. you need to be listening to your local officials, your local forecasters if you live across southeast texas southwestern louisiana. can you seat temperatures are above average in the western gulf. so all indications are not only do we have the warm water in place but the upper level winds are going to be conducive for rapid intensification it's a big deal. laura is going to mean business as it moves in the gulf coast. separate from laura big deal as well. northeast to mid-atlantic. strong to severe thunderstorms this afternoon. very strong winds could bring power outages and trees down so this is another big story we will be following but, again, especially tomorrow, wednesday into thursday, in the path of

laura. we expect this time tomorrow for that storm to make along the east coast. back to you. brian: jillian mele given us a lot to hear about she has put the news together. jillian: let's begin with a fox news alert. riots in portland overnight after they set the police union building on fire. police making several arrests before breaking up the crowd. this just hours after a judge set bail at $260,000 for the man believed to be in this video attacking a truck driver. marquise love faces several charges including assault. is he scheduled to be arraigned next week. the california supreme court overturning the death sentence of scott peterson. the court ruling that significant ear errors are were made in jury selection. upheld conviction. have the option of seeing the death penalty again. he was found guilty of killing

his pregnant wife lacy in 2002. his lawyer says they haven't told peterson about the ruling because of a covid-19 outbreak at his prison. florida is appealing a judge's decision to block schools from being forced to reopen. the judge ruling the state's order is unconstitutional because it puts students' safety at risk. it comes after the state's largest teacher's union sued governor ron desantis. a spokes manuel for the governor sells they are confident they will win the lawsuit. that's a look at your headlines. i will send it back to you. steve: a lot going on. thank you very much, jillian. meanwhile, his speech is one of the highlights from the rnc. and senator tim scott is going to join us live coming up next. if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame. looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes over-the-counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. ha! these drops probably won't touch me. xiidra works differently,

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a reality. brian: he was supposed to be the headliner and man he knocked it out of park. south carolina senator tim scott wrapping up night of rnc making his case for president trump as the best choice for america's future. he joins us now. senator, what did you hope to accomplish with your speech and how were the reviews coming in about it because what i'm hearing from almost every channel is rave reviews. it? >> was certainly a blessing to be part of the trump team last night. we have an amazing country. i love america. and today is my grandfather's 99th birthday. i think about all the lessons i learned from that amazing man. one of the lessons he taught me to was to lean in to my country and lean in to what i believe in. i think, without any question, president trump has kicked off this convention by leaning in on the american family, wanting them to be passionate and to be expectant about what's possible in our future and that's one of

the reasons why i wanted to talk about the next personal century if we have the right policies and the right person leading the country. we will break in to a full speed ahead approach, a warped speed ahead because the best is yet to come. brian: you know from charlottesville to the civil unrest we are seeing here to george floyd. the president and you two have connected on some of the most critical moments over the last three and a half years. what's the president like behind the scenes because a lot of people seem to have a knee-jerk reaction like bernie sanders and say he is the most racist president we have ever had and that's certainly the impression i got from watching the dnc last week. what do you know? >> brian, let me say this first. a racist president does not provide the highest funding for hvcus in the history of the country and he certainly does not make that funding permanent. a racist president does not take opportunity zones and provide up

to $75 billion of private sector dollars for the most distressed people in the country. a racist president simply does not create 7 million jobs and make sure two thirds of those jobs go to african-americans, hispanics, and women. but, behind the scenes, maybe just as important as those policy positions because you see the heart from whence it comes. behind the scenes, sitting with the president, talking to the family members who had lost their family member because of an interaction with the police. watching the president be patient and listen and hear what they were saying, feel their pain and pandemic theisman with them was one of the most remarkable experiences i have had in the lifetime. our president sat there for other an hour and listened to the victims' families and that's the president a heart of what it makes to be a good president. brian: by the way there were no

cameras there. you told me that offline you were moved by how the president moved and was a listener. real quick another situation now in wisconsin. as we try to get to the bottom of this and the victim recovers with seven bullet wounds. what's your message? >> my message is we need to get to the bottom of it. the good news is we have body camera footage that will help us out or at least video footage to help us out. most importantly pray for the family. let's be patient for all the facts to come out so that we make a strong and clear determination about all the facts. this is a hard thick to ask in this country today. but it is necessary to know exactly what we're talking about first. brian: senator, it's hard for me to watch that speech and not think about 2024. are you thinking about that right now? , running for president? >> oh, no, absolutely not. i'm thinking about 2020 and making sure that we have another four years of donald trump.

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>> i believe in the goodness of america. the promise that all men and all women are created equal. >> you and i will decide to choose freedom over oppression. i choose president trump because i choose america. ♪ ainsley: well, good morning to you. thank you so much for choosing "fox & friends" to wake up. it is 7:01 on the east coast. look at that beautiful american flag flying. last night was night one of the rnc. we have three more nights to go. brian: yes, we do unless our schedule is way off. tonight is going to be mump. going to be onmelania trump: nie speaking on the tuesday addition. tiffany and eric trump amongst the speakers tonight. i think it came off.

i thought, really well last night. well produced the production value was high and i think, steve, they learned a little bit to keep it moving. so after the speaker was done, it moves. after the speaker was done it moves. not that awkward silence between speakers where you say oh, forgot we are in a pandemic no audience. steve: it was fast-paced, effective, efficient. the president himself was involved. he is a tv producer himself. he says i want it flashier than what we saw last week thanks to the rnc they started a half an hour earlier than peopl for peot morning shows. ainsley: griff is outside the auditorium in washington, d.c. is he going to highlight all of the major moments from last night, hey, griff. griff: good morning. boy, what a difference a week makes. there was something very different from the get-go. and that was the in person delegates. we were there on the convention floor. it was scaled down to about 300 delegates instead of thousands. but when the president appeared,

surprising him. it felt for the first time like a normal convention cheering delegates and their nominee. watch. [chanting four four more years] >> i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. you are incredible warriors. have you incredible strength. we have to win. this is the most important election in the history of our country. our country is counting on it. >> and while the president is his own best spokesman his son don jr. making the case for his father highlighting the administration's strongest issue, the economy. >> trump's policies has been like rocket fuel to the economy and especially to the middle class. biden has promised to take mahoney back out of your pocket and keep it in the swamp. that makes sense though considering joe biden is basically the loch ness monster of the swamp. >> and the first night's lineup including a number of g.o.p. stars like former u.s.

ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley. >> last time joe's boss was obama. this time it would be pelosi sanders, and the squad. their vision for america is socialism. joe biden and the socialist left would be a disaster for our economy. >> and she wasn't the only south carolinian, senator tim scott raising the issue of race and joe biden's record versus his actions. >> joe biden said if a black man didn't vote for him, he wasn't truly black. and while his words are one thing, his actions take it to a whole new level. look at what he already did and what he didn't do while he has been in washington for 47 years. griff: meanwhile joe biden taking a page from the trump play back punching back in

realtime tweeted storm only person responsible for our failed covid response is donald trump. tweeted it didn't have to be that bad including the chart. coming up tonight the land of opportunity. the theme. we'll hear from mike pompeo. we will hear from eric and tiffany trump. and we will hear from senator rand paul and nic sandmann the covington catholic high school mentioned that, brian. and you will hear in a half an hour my conversation with vice president pence as we spend a day shadowing him and seeing what it was like firsthand at the g.o.p. convention in charlotte. brian, ainsley, steve? brian: i imagine the vice president is going to want to do a feature what it's like being with griff jenkins. counter program maybe streaming online. thanks, appreciate it. my privilege to bring in karl rove as we look back at night number one. karl, i saw some of your analysis last night. we saw diversity accomplishments, gun rights and some future arrests stars. was it better than what you thought it was going to be. >> yeah.

absolutely. production value high. moved quickly. i thought tim scott's speech was terrific i thought nikki haley hit it out of the park. this was a chance to start what they need to to achieve. they have sort of five things were evident last night. the biggest one was promises made, promises kept. they began very -- right from the beginning in strong contrast on three big i. they talked about coronavirus, which they have to talk about, biden has got a lead on it and edge on it. they have got to remove that edge. they talked about the economy. contrasting the two visions and they talked about law and order in our cities. they began to humanize trump. i thought some of the more effective moments him with the front line workers, everybody from a nurse to a truck driver. i thought, also, there was attention here in the tone. you had some which were red meat

aimed at the base. but a lot of last night was aimed at those swing voters sitting there saying i sort of like what he has done. i want to get more comfortable with him and i thought that was particularly effective. we will start seeing more, i suspect a second term agenda. they laid it out on sunday night in a document we began to hear about yesterday. i suspect we will hear more about it as the week goes on. i thought it was very effective first night. steve: sure. essentially they were saying donald trump has gotten a lot done. if joe biden is elected, he would undo all that stuff. karl, we heard yesterday that the president would have a surprise every night in the 10:00 hour. and last night the surprise was something he is obviously very proud of, and that is the fact that he and his administration have freed over 50 hostages. he had six of them at the white house yesterday. watch this. >> i'm very pleased to let everybody know that we brought back over 50 hostages from 22

different countries. >> your administration really fought for me. and i think if you hadn't done that i may still be in turkey. >> i was held in syria for 63 days, and i'm-i think i speak for my fellow former hostages and detainees here when i i same i'm as grateful as anything to be home safely. >> what you did, sir, you were able to get me out of that prison in record time. it was amazing. >> i remember a lot of people asked me what was it like meeting president trump. i would say i was blown away. got released and shaking the hand of the president in the oval office. >> on behalf of my family and myself thank you, entrepreneurship, for getting us out and getting us home. steve: carl, that's one of the things politicians try do once they have a policy or they do something, rather than just hear about hostages. we met the hostages and that really personified them and the president. >> yeah. absolutely. again, one ever the interesting break aways the other one was the front line workers that

humahumanized donald trump brout attention to something most americans weren't aware of and did so in a powerful way. ainsley: left wants to be critical of the way he handled covid and heard from workers how they were praising him. ainsley: if you watched c-span they aired the entire rnc and took some reaction at the end. and there was a caller his name is rick from ohio i have been a lifelong democrat but this year i'm changing my party. listen to this. >> i'm a lifelong democrat. prime lorain know, ohio, which a democrat city in ohio. and i just want to say after watching the convention tonight, i'm definitely changing my vote to republican. it's the heart felt way they came across to the american people. and i was really touched by the number of times they used the word god. they put god into everything.

and the people on the democratic side on their convention acted like they were pushing god right out of it. that's had a lot to do with changing my mind. ainsley: karl, that was a theme. i noticed that a lot last night, too. pro-america, the flag, the pledge. and a lot of prayers and god blesses and please pray for our country. what else your thoughts? >> well, lorain is in northeast, ohio in a mostly democrat area. lucas county. ainsley: , you know that. >> of course, it's a sad thing. steve: how do they vote in 88, karl? >> this is indicative of the problem the democrats have in the middle part of the country in that people who are animated by sort of traditional values of patriotism. >> a belief in america as exceptional country. religious people. they are drawn to the republican ticket this year. i suspect in part because of the strong contrast with the democrats. we had elements of the democratic party who said the pledge of allegiance but refused to use the words under god, for example. people on the east coast and

west coast sort of the elites and american academia, they don't understand how much values motivates what ordinary people do when they come to the polling place and i thought that was an interesting moment. may i say one -- may i offer up one bit of criticism though about last night. i missed the hollywood squares we had during the democratic convention. steve: the zoom call. >> what a brilliant piece by having the entire screen covered in boxes with people sort of clapping or whatever. steve: nancy pelosi to block. ainsley: did you see carley shimkus did a report on this. if you zoomed in on those boxes some of them were repeats. one lady wearing the white shirt. >> exactly. brian: karl, a lot of people watching and saying joe biden is not talking about defunding the police. he is not talking about socialized medicine. i have news for you the democratic party is over a thousand delegates voted gengts the platform. the more he is forced to talk

about how mod draft he is. the more susceptible is he to losing that progressive liberal base that did not vote for what he talked about. that's the problem. if you could get close enough in these polls to force joe biden to actually campaign, this whole thing could blow apart. >> yeah. yeah. lock, the media cover. i picked up this morning my device began reading nbc dealt with the issue of last night of the republican's attack on violence in our cities and said but, of course, biden and kamala harris have been out there denouncing the violence. i have searched for that. brian: not true. >> i have actually thought about writing a column. i found one instance five words whereby den sort of dismisses the violence in our cities. but literally portland goes up. they try to burn down the courthouse and the next day in a hearing senator harris is saying to the head of dhs why are you attacking, quote, moms and

veterans? no denouncing of the violence. this is a real weakness for the democrats. a lot of people in america are concerned about why is it that parties do not stand up and denounce it only one party stands up and denounce in our streets and major cities. steve: i think we will hear that this week. karl rove up late last night and early this morning. thank you very much. >> you bet. steve: extreme tropical storm laura this is probably going to be a major hurricane and hit the gulf coast. ainsley: yeah, marco weakening this morning after making landfall as a tropical storm. brian: lightning strike hitting panama beach as streets flood. janice, have you more? janice: we are getting new advisory 8:00 a.m. and that will give us the coordinates on the storm can you see on the satellite presentation the storm is starting to get a little bit better in shape and size and we

are expecting this to rapidly intensify in the next 24 hours. a major hurricane is in store for parts of southeast texas into southwest louisiana. we are expecting a landfall wednesday night into thursday morning. and i just want to point your attention one of the reliable forecast models is showing this system a category 3 storm moving very close to houston, texas. so, if you live anywhere from houston to cammeron, louisiana, you need to pay very close attention to this storm. and the effects are going to be widespread here. not just where the center of circulation comes on shore but all along the gulf coast. hurricane watches in effect from galveston to more da morgan cit, louisiana. westerly tour towards southeast text. cat 3, 111 to 123 sustained winds. we are expecting a major hurricane to make landfall

weapons night into thursday. not only landfall but storm surge. tornadoes and hurricane force winds for many hours so this is going to be a big deal. we will continue to monitor. new advisory coming out at 8:00 a.m. landfall tomorrow evening across southeast texas and southwest louisiana. steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. steve: this is very serious and thank you so much for making the warning, janice. people have got to plan now. all right. 7:15 here in the east. jillian joins us now with the latest from wisconsin. wisconsin. jillian: hundreds of angry protesters setting buildings and cars on fire clashing with police second straight night in kenosha, wisconsin. >> be careful. be careful. be careful. be careful. jillian: unrest following the shooting of a black man jacob

blake. he is in stable condition. a department of corrections building and furniture store completely engulfed. the governor deploying the national guard to curb the violence. the curfew will remain in effect for one more hour. dramatic dash cam video shows the moment three maryland police officers were ambushed. jillian: officers responding to a home invasion fired at seconds. all three were hit are expected to be okay. andre smith and steven warren now charged with attempted murder. a nasa reserver is arrested and accused of secretly working for the chinese government. federal prosecutors say he lied about his ties to a chinese university. the texas a&m professor china's talents program which tries to recruit foreign scientists for beijing. it comes just two months after a

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partners lee carter. hey, lee. >> hey. great to see you this morning. ainsley: great to see you. let's talk about the president. he talked about how democrats will blame losing on the post office. watch this and the folks at home, the yellow line represents the independents. >> every one of you have to watch because bad things happened last time with this spying on our campaign and that goes to biden and that goes to obama. and we have to be very, very careful, we have to be very, very careful. and this time they are trying to do it with the whole post office scam. they will blame it on the post office. you could see them setting it up. ainsley: so, lee, what do the people say. >> you can see there and i was surprised by this because the attacks have been -- throughout both conventions. the republicans gave this a minus. independents a b while democrats gave this an f. a lot of democrats upset about this argument but it is resonating with both independents and republicans. ainsley: tim scott, he gave the last speech of the night.

it was really powerful. he is the senator from south carolina. he talked about his story and the american dream. watch this. >> my grandfather's 9t grandfaty would have been tomorrow. he suffered the indignity being out of school as a 3rd grader to pick cotton and he never learned to read or write. our family went from cotton to congress in one lifetime and that's why i believe the next american century can be better than the last. ainsley: look at that yellow line, it was right up there with the republicans. >> it sure was. he hit it out of the park. can you seat republicans gave this a plus. independents gave it an a and even democrats gave it a c. this is a big night for scott and also a really, really great capstone for donald trump. i think the most surprising thing i saw last night is how

much independents were lock in step with republicans. we did not see that during the dnc. republicans and independents acted very differently in response to that here last night we saw them right in step with the republicans. ainsley: how could anyone not like that speech it was so touching how far we have come. >> so touching. ainsley: herschel walker spoke former nfl player. he has been friends with the president for a very long time. he takes offense to the fact that many people call the president racist. listen to this. >> it hurt my soul to hear the terrible names that people call donald. the worst one is racist. i take that as a personal insult that people would think i have had a 37-year friendship with a racist. people who think that don't know what they are talking about. growing up in the deep south i have seen racism up close. i know what it is and it isn't donald trump. ainsley: lee? >> so you can see there, again, we have republicans and independents acting very similarly, republicans gave this

an a. independents a b plus and democrats a d. this is a big, big night for the president and for the republican party. i think that overall you saw independents really really rests sonating with the messages they heard. there were some blips but the personal stories. nikki haley, scott, herschel walker. all these personal messages resonated with the voters and that's what you saw last night. ainsley: lee out from the hamptons, thank you for joining us. >> any time. ainsley: ripping democrats during remember convention speech. >> much of the democratic party it's now fashionable to say that america is racist. that is a lie. ainsley: she is going to join us live next. ♪ ♪

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>> quote, americans always blame america first. james kirkpatrick's words are

just as true today. joe biden and the democrats are still blaming america first trump has always put america first and he has earned four more years as president. steve: her speech was one of the highlights of last night's rnc. former u.n. ambassador nikki haley hailing president trump for always putting america first and she joins us right now live. good morning to you, nikki. >> good morning. steve: you started that, we didn't play the top part of it. but it was very clever because you used to be the united nations ambassador said what united nations said this about a president and we thought it was you talking about trump but it turned out to be kirkpatrick talking about reagan. >> you know, it just goes to show how so much has changed but so much has stayed the same. the idea that the democrats even during reagan's time the fact that they were blaming america

first and today we are hearing that same thing when that's exactly what we should be doing we should always put american people first and that's what president trump has done. steve: one other soundbite from lath night. watch this. >> america is not a racist country. i'm the proud daughter of indian immigrants. i was a brown girl and in a black and white world. we faced discrimination and hardship but my parents never gave in to grievance and hate. america is a story that's a work in progress. now is the time to build on that progress and make america even freer, fairer and better for everyone. steve: in the beginning you said in democratic party it is fashionable to say america is racist. that is a lie. america is not racist. you essentially were fact-checking the dnc from last week what do you make, nikki of the fact that at least one tv network last night was live-fact

checking the rnc. somebody would say something and they would go oh, hold on a second, that's not true they did not do this last week for the democrats what does that tell the viewer. >> big part of the cancel culture. they aren't going to like anything you say regardless of what it is. look, there was a huge difference last night from the democratic convention last week. last night showed a lot of hope, a lot of optimism and a lot of success. you know, last week it was gloom and doom the sky is falling. and what we did last night is say look, here we have a president that precovid was breaking barriers left and right with the economy that has taken on foreign policy and made a difference. put america first in the way that americans feel put first whether it's african-americans or hispanics. look what the president has done from justice reform constantly

trying to improve the lives of everyone. that is exactly what we need four more years of. we have to build on that progress. they want to call us a racist country. i will tell you, ask my parents, they do not believe this is a racist country. me elected as the first female first minority governor of south carolina, this is not a racist country. ask tim scott, it's not a racist country. steve: sure. one of the other things you talked a little bit about and i'm going to paraphrase but joe biden is a good guy. but, a good guy doesn't, you know, i heard people say allow chaos in the streets in this anti-cop thing or the socialist policies that he would bring in if he is elected. and you had a whole other list of joe biden is a good guy, but a good guy wouldn't do this or that. >> i mean, look, steve, joe biden is a very good guy. i know him, i mean, he is just as nice as they come. that's just the problem. we saw what happens when you try and be nice at the united

nations. basically, everybody was running over america when obama and biden were in there. and biden he is weak on foreign policy. he wants to raise taxes, which is going to hurt 82% of americans if we go through what he is doing. they want to put all these regulations down on small businesses. i mean, truly, it would be a disaster to see a biden harris presidency. before biden was listening to obama. now we know he is listening to sanders and warren and the squad. we have to really look at what is going to be the difference with a biden presidency versus a trump presidency. we have seen what the president can do with the economy. we are going to see him do it again. we have watched what obama and biden has done for decades and that's not where we want to go. steve: nikki haley, joining us live from the d.c. area. thank you very much. >> thanks, steve. steve: all right. all right. it is 7:34 here in new york city. what were newt gingrich's top

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brian: stark contrast from the democratic national convention, delegates allowed on the floor to listen to president trump and vice president mike pence speak at the rnc. steve: as you can see they were distanced. griff is next to the vice president there spoke exclusively to the vice president. i got a feeling, griff, you were tested before you got that close to him. >> that's right, steve and brian. i had to take the covid test. passed that obviously. and it was amazing to shadow him to spend a day in the life with the vice president as he went down there to make the case that

this election is all about a choice between the democrats and another second term of the trump-pence administration. watch. >> when you compare the message of what's coming this week to what we saw in delaware last week, how do you see it differing. >> i think the choice in this election is clear. the american people are going to see a great contrast. we have president who said we are not going to shut this economy down again and to hear joe biden talk about shutting down our country again just shows how out of step is he with the progress we have all made as a country. >> i know joe biden last week said the democracy is on the ballot. president trump and i believe the economy is on the ballot. the future of this country is on the ballot. law and order is on the ballot. and we're going to take that case to the american people. griff: what is going to be the message of the administration this week about how we get the situation in the streets under

control? >> from the first day of this administration president trump and i have stood with the men and women of law enforcement. and we always will. and the violence that's ensued, in cities across the nation is unacceptable. and the fact that joe biden in his acceptance speech spoke not a word about the violence is just really astonishing. >> have you given any consideration to running in 2024 for president? >> all of my focus is on getting this president reelected for four more years. >> this is not only the most important election to lifetime. >> you didn't say no to my question 2024. i will note that, he didn't rule it out. [laughter] griff: there have you it joe biden said he might run for a second term. might be mike pence running for president in 2024.

who knows. incredible experience and fascinating to see. mike pence isn't phased a fazedy the attacked. ainsley: nice interview. good to see you. bring in newt gingrich, former presidential candidate and author of "trump and the american future." good morning to you, newt. >> good morning. quite an evening. ainsley: i'm sorry? >> that was quite an evening. ainsley: yes. what were your takeaways? >> well, first of all, south carolina did an awful lot for the country when you have both nikki haley and tim scott and they were both extraordinary scott's closing from cotton to congress in one generation is probably as good of a repudiation of all of last week's talk about racism as you could ask for. i also can say from the a georgia perspective, having herschel walker say he is known and been friends with donald trump for 37 years and then

herschel is offended when people suggest he be that close to a racist. i thought it was a complete repudiation of the left's efforts to tar president trump. so i thought it was effective overall. interestingly, the average speaker this week in prime time is about nine years younger than the average speaker last week at the democratic party. and you saw, for example, kim klacik, great new candidate from baltimore had almost three times as much time as aoc and used it very effectively to take on the corruption and failure of liberal democrats in big cities. so i thought it was a very effective evening and my guess is that independents found themselves much more intrigued by the future with donald trump than anybody in the media expected and then i think despite the media's efforts. this will be a very successful convention. brian: you know what's amazing newt, i'm surprised it's come to

this, but you need jim jordan to tell an intimate story of what president trump is like one-on-one. you need tim scott to tell a story about what is he like away from the cameras. you need nikki haley and others to humanize him three years in because channels go the opposite way ill equipped unable to rise to the occasion. just some honest true stories can counter that narrative. in fact, here is senator tim scott who also talked about one-on-one what the president is like. they have -- talked about the progress the economy has made for everybody. listen. >> president trump has kicked off this convention by leaning in on the american family, wanting them to be passionate and to be expectant about what's possible in our future. a racist put does not take opportunity zones and provide up to $75 billion of private sector

dollars for the most distressed people in the country. a racist president simply does not create 7 million jobs and make sure two thirds of those jobs go to african-americans, hispanics, and women. brian: so that's the person you know. that's what you write about in your book. so, you knew the person before he became a politician and now you know the president as a president. and it's a shame it had to come to this convention for people to tell these stories. >> look, i think the powerful thing is when your opponents develop a lie and people see the facts, they really do changes divisively. i think that the -- what i would frankly consider a media that is dedicated now to consistently lying actually undermining their own credibility. not necessarily undermining the president's.

very significant in terms of what tim scott has personally committed to. yesterday, the trump administration announced that they are going to be moving federal jobs and federal offices into these opportunity zones. that is the biggest single step ever taken to try to begin to rebuilded poorest parts of american society. and i think it's an example that trump has actually tried to be effective not just sympathetic. people talk about joe biden is a good person. well, trump is actually getting things done. and the record he has with historically black colleges and universities is better than any president in history. so, i think you saw this. but you also saw fascinating that is every day people. we have a cancer survivor explaining that it was president trump's intervention to make it possible to have a choice if you have a fatal disease so she is alive. steve: right. >> that's sort of an amazing

example of trump's ability to change things. not just talk about them. steve: you know, speaking of talking about things, one side is lying or really distorting what's going on at the nation's post office regarding the election. nancy pelosi was over on another channel. they were talking about the post office and all the problems over there. how trump is trying to hack the election. she had this observation about well, mr. speaker, guys like you. listen. would take annual oath to protect and defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic and sadly the domestic enemies to our voting system and our honoring our constitution are right at 1600 pennsylvania avenue with their allies in the congress of the united states. steve: okay. so, it sounds like you are the ally to the domestic enemies of america. congratulations. >> look. there is a great book called the madness of the crowds. and i would say that nancy

pelosi is a perfect example of the madness of her crowd. brian: do you want to expand on that? she has lost her mind donald trump has pushed her over the edge. she has been unhinged about six months. >> i wrote a paper recently saying we are in a war between two worlds. >> i think if you look at these two conventions you will see what i'm talking about. pelosi is from san francisco a city which is collapsing. which, by the way, harris is also from san francisco. this is a city which is collapsing. there is picture just put out today of rush hour in downtown san francisco. there is no one on the street. people are moving out of the city. the rapid transit is going broke because there are no riders. so pelosi comes from a rich enclave in a city which is collapsing and she brings all of those values to washington. and, frankly they can't tell the truth. i mean, what are they going to say oh, yeah, it's terrific that

we have produced this many homeless. it's terrific that the city now pays to put you in a hotel and give you both drugs and alcohol to help control you. so she lives in a fantasy world. as does frankly joe biden. and so you are seeing two different worlds and two different conventions and average american is going to pick which world is real. brian: newt gingrich thank you so much. ainsley: sean parnell fighting to win over democrats in his convention speech last night. and he is joining this morning next. it's time for the biggest sale of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed.

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>> i look across the aisle and i do not see a party that wants you to pursue your dreams. i see a democrat party that wants to dictate what those dreams are it doesn't matter what you look like, how love, how you worship, your gender or your job if you are a traditional democrat who has become disillusioned with how radical your party has become then stabbed with us. you are most welcome. brian: sean parnell took his military experience and wrote a book. become a best seller and continue on our channel. caught the attention of the united states and now running

against conor lamb. now running for congress. fighting on the battlefield to fighting to 2020 welcome back sean parnell. what was it like last night? >> it was overwhelming. especially if you knew how my journey to this spot. i mean, i left the military 10 years ago broke and broken. i intended to make a career of it, joined the special forces. served for 20 years. i got blown up by a rocket propelled grenade and medically retired before my time didn't know what i was going to do with my life. then october of last year, i'm in south carolina doing a charity event. president trump comes to my district. gives a big speech and calls me out to run for congress and i wasn't even there. never met him or talked to him at the time. and i found out i come off stage in south carolina, i had 50 missed calls, my mom is texting me over and over and over again. i pick up the phone and think there is a death in the family. sean, italian woman, very strong, sean, are you running for congress? i said ma, no, i'm not running for congress. there was just a pause she goes well, sean, the president of the

united states says you are running for congress. and you have got to be kidding me. if she sends me the video and sure enough president trump called me out and we have been campaigning ever since. it's been amazing. brian: now going against conor lamb someone listed amongst democrats as a rising star is he a so-called moderate. are you taking on a moderate democrat? >> no, no. and nobody is -- by the way nobody's star has faded faster than conor lambs. first campaign ad carries ar-15 now f rating with the nra. voted against the born alive act not once but twice. first thing he said from the podium i look forward to supporting the trump voters who put me here, voters who put me here, said he was going to vote to impeach president trump. votes with will nancy pelosi 890% of the time. he votes with aoc and the squad over 0% of the time. that's not independent moderate voice and conor lamb has

integrity problem in the district. it's going to be hard to make that up in november. brian: people saw that speech and see you now and want to help you, where do they go. >> go for sean for congress co and join the movement. politicians think elections are about them. i recognize that pritions are about the people and i am just a small part of a much greater movement and it's an honor to have the opportunity even to serve this great country again. so join us go to sean for congress.ceo join the campaign and movement. we would love to have you. brian: and, of course, when president trump calls you out he also expects to you win. good luck, sean. great job last night. >> you got it. brian: meanwhile, coming up next. we have house minority whip steve scalise and jim jordan. don't move. >> tech: schedule at safelite.com. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ ...to soccer practices...

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hard-working law abiding americans, this new democrat party considers these people uneducated racists, the left wants to defund the police. this is personal to me. i wouldn't be here without men and women of law enforcement who saved my life. >> we are starting to reach a brighter future. the future start when the american people reelect president donald trump. ♪ brian: there you go. the freedom towers, 716 feet high. there you go. we are in new york city as you know. a place where no one works anymore. we just walk around. steve: we do. brian: very few people don't and great news from our terrible mayor, no indoor dining until the new year. you will hear sounds of people handing keys thank landlords all around 25,000 eateries in new york city. that's irresponsibility that's

happening around the country that is maddening and making this presidential election more important than ever before and this final hour will be a big one. ainsley: sorry to interrupt you, steve. they will figure out a way, the restaurants to still have outdoor dining, what do you put up tent on the top, probably no sides and heaters under there when it's cold? brian: there's not enough tables to make up what's on the inside. ainsley: i know. steve: we are trying to figure out how to move forward in america. last night first night of rnc, for the most part they sure up their base and remind them why they voter for donald trump in the first place 4 years ago. the big question is can they expand the base with independents and democrats and ainsley you had lee carter with the dials and last night a couple of hitters kicked it out of the park with independents

and they are the ones who elect the president. ainsley: that's right. griff jenkins with all of the major moments if you fell asleep last night. hey, griff. griff: we have all for you, ainsley, brian and steve, while the restaurants closing in new york the rnc in charlotte was not shut down. it was scaled down with fewer delegates but more than 300 gathered to do traditional roll call and when he did the room erupted. >> four more years! >> i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. you're incredible warriors. we have to win. this is the most important election in the history of our country. our country is counting on it. griff: his son don, jr. making the case for his father highlighting the administration's accomplishments

like the economy. >> last time joe's boss was obama, this time it would be pelosi, sanders and the squad. their vision for america is socialism. joe biden and the socialist left would be a disaster for our economy. griff: in south carolina senator tim scott raising the issue of race comparing joe biden's records versus his actions. >> joe biden said if a black man didn't vote for him he wasn't truly black. while his words are one thing, his actions take it to a whole new level. look at what he already did and what he didn't do while he's been in washington for 47 years. griff: house republicans also making a strong showing. the minority whip steve scalise and congressman jim jordan, they

had this to say. >> i wouldn't be here without the bravery and heroism of the men and women of law enforcement who saved my life. president trump stands with those brave men and women. >> he's taken on the swamp and when you take on the swamp the swamp fights back. griff: meanwhile joe biden taking a page from the trump playbook punching back in realtime going on tweet storm saying the only person responsible for covid response is donald trump. then biden tweeted at the president it didn't have to be this bad, now coming up tonight, theme land of opportunity and you'll hear from the first lady along with secretary of state mike pompeo, first time a sitting secretary of state has addressed an rnc convention along with senator rand paul you see young student from catholic high school involved in the controversy here as well more member offense the trump family, eric and tiffany trump, so it would be another interesting and excitinglineup, brian, ainsley

and steve. brian: wanting to clarify what the president did and didn't do with regard to covid-19 and lawmakers who praised him one minute and short-term memory loss and not giving him credit the next. it's also the story of personal stories, interactions with the president that people don't really know about and steve scalise and congressman jim jordan joining us right now and they both have that, the quiet side of the president when the cameras aren't around. always great to see you, last night i thought you contributed a personal story. can we start with you congressman, when you talked about a call that the president made to you that got to become a family affair. here is how it sounded last night when you talked about your family and you going into your family after your nephew was killed in a car accident, listen >> what i also appreciate the president is something most americans never get to see, how

much he truly cares about people. our family has seen it, 2 years ago our nephew eli was killed in a car accident, 3 days after the accident, i walked to the car to head up to eli's parents home when the president called. we talked about a few issues and then he asked how the family was doing. i said they are doing okay, mr. president but it's tough, the president said, yeah, losing a loved one is always difficult. what's his name the president asked, i walked in the door todd, the president wants to talk to you, for the next 5 minutes family and friends sat in complete silence as the president of the united states took time to talk to a dad who was hurting. that's the president i've gotten to know the last 4 years. brian: why was it important for you to tell the story? congressman: just shows the side of the president most americans never get to see. i say in every speech, i wish every single american could spend time with the president of

the united states. when you're around him, there is a charisma, energy, passion that he has for the american people. he loves our law enforcement, our veterans, our military and just regular feel like ours and -- and it comes through -- it's so sad but i really do wish that every american could spend some time with him because you get to see a side that cnn will never tell you and mainstream press will never tell you but he's a good man that loves his country. as i said last night, that's why i will work so hard to help him get reelected and i know a lot of people in the country will do the same. steve: steve scalise you told a story about gunman tried to kill you in baseball practice in virginia. rather than play sound bite, tell the story. >> well, steve, good to see you,

jimmy shared same thing that i've seen. i've gotten shot that day, it happened to be the president's birthday. i barely made it and i was in a coma. my flew up with our kids from new orleans and they didn't know if i was going to make it through the night. it was an unbelievably tough night and the president and the first lady show up at the hospital and just spent quality time consoling my wife and taking care of my family and he did that throughout the next 3 months that i was in the hospital. he would call randomly to see how i was doing and he cares about people like jim said, he's fought for forgotten men and women of the country that washington had left behind. he doesn't poll well with them because they didn't vote, they gave up on washington because washington gave up on them and this president is fighting and delivering for them and i got to see that side of him in a way that you don't get to see in the mainstream media and so i thought it was important to

share that. i'm glad jim shared it as well and here sharing his story with vernon jones and tim scott, this is the side of the president that people need to see more and they will see more of it this week and that's really a sharp contrast from joe biden in his 47 years with washington. ainsley: nancy pelosi was on another network and we know the president opposes mail-in voting and she was talking about that very issue and she called gop lawmakers like yourself domestic enemies. listen to this. >> we've taken an oath to protect and defend the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic and sadly the domestic enemies to our voting system and not honoring the constitution are right at 1600 pennsylvania avenue with their allies in the congress of the united states. ainsley: all right, so what do you think about that? the president opposes universal mail-in voting, i will start

with you congressman jordan. congressman: look at what happened to sponsor of their bill, carol maloney, they want the chaos, they want the confusion because they know the president of the united states will win on election day but they want to keep counting just like they did in new jersey 4 weeks after their primary election. imagine if it takes 6 weeks to figure out who won one congressional primary, now they are talk about live ballots being mailed out to everyone and then counting ballots after the president -- imagine the chaos that that's going -- that's going to have. that's the thing that scares me so we don't want to get this cleared up straightened up ahead of up and we want fair election. ainsley: all right, congressman scalise? congressman: there's in place for hypercharge language that she uses, enemies of the state and all of this. that's the hypercharge language

that led to craze gunman trying to kill every republican on the ball field. why don't we focus on the issues? they don't want to talk about issues. we have seen the play book before on the ballots. in louisiana we sent an election commissioner to jail for voter fraud, the idea that it doesn't happen. if you mail millions of ballots to people who aren't legally on the roles, that is what will happen, you ask every secretary of state, every one of them has 10% or more people in voting roles that aren't properly registered where they moved or something else and the idea that you will have millions of ballots sitting around and in weeks and weeks later even in california last time, there were counting ballots 3 weeks later. we don't need that chaos. they want the chaos because it's what their party is all about right now. brian: joe biden could be benefited by people having their vote actually counted. 558,000 ballots rejected in the primary season in 2020 and in 2,016,300,000 ballots were thrown out.

how does either party benefit from that but let's pivot and talk about covid-19. short-term memory lose which democrats are suffering from because in january and february we were in unprecedented situation. we were getting hit by something we still can't figure out to this day, this coronavirus, and as we try to ramp up and listen to scientists who told us not to wear masks for 2 or 3 months and we hear different governors praise the president and quickly do about face on that, it was up to the republican party to get together some tape, not some voiceover but some tape and put together the actual chain of events that led us through the pandemic who hopefully we've gotten the best of. let's watch. >> democrats, the media and the world health organization got coronavirus wrong. >> everything is fine. come to chinatown. >> it's all about your lives, go about your business. >> one leader took decisive action to save lives.

>> he is ready, willing and enable to help. >> you all literally are helping us in a big way. brian: i thought that was the most important tape of the day. this is where the president is under water with the american people according to polls handling the storm, it's important for people to see what they were saying at the time jim jordan. congressman: exactly, this president canceled travel from china and did something better, he said we will not send you anymore money. that's great. we don't have to pay some organization to lie to us. they will probably do it for free. he stood up to them at the first day when all democrats were saying something different and now they are criticizing for being real leader throughout the entire thing. i thought it was appropriate that they got the truth out there right at the start of the convention last night as well, brian. steve: hard to argue with what they actually said and the rnc was simply reminding them. meanwhile steve scalise, i know

that you are down in louisiana right now, it's your family home, battening down the hatchets, louisiana and gulf coast is preparing for what looks like a major hurricane, it could come ashore tonight at cat 3, right? congressman: yeah, hurricane laura is coming in. went through cuba and is a big, big storm as you said. we just had tropical storm marco go through. everybody here on the ground has been preparing, taking the necessary precautions. people in low-lining areas have evacuated, so we -- we've unfortunately been through with this before and these are tough resilient people in south louisiana. they are ready for what's coming. pray for the best but we will prepare for the worst. ainsley: gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us. congressman: great to be with y'all. ainsley: janice has more on the weather. praying for the area, janice, because we know it's about to come. janice: yeah, time is running out and the storm is

strengthening. hurricane hunters have been investigating the system. it's now 70-miles-per-hour sustained winds. 4 miles shy of a hurricane and we think in rapid intensification will happen in the next 24 hours, we will have a major hurricane on our hands this time tomorrow. galveston, people of galveston have been told to evacuate immediately. this could be the worst case scenario in low-lying areas. cat 3 major hurricane, expecting landfall overnight tomorrow night into thursday morning as major hurricane. the last time we saw major hurricane in the houston area was, of course, harvey, some of the computer models are making it most west ward to houston area, you're not out of woods here. expecting landfall overnight wednesday into thursday as a major hurricane, so we are going to start to see the storm

rapidly intensifying overnight tonight from a tropical storm to a major hurricane in just, you know, a matter of 48 hours, sea surface temperatures very warm especially western gulf side and there's nothing to tear the storm apart. marco had a hard time getting act together. the wind sheer has calmed down and we are expecting smooth sail for the storm. there's no reason why we aren't going to have major hurricane wednesday night to thursday morning. forecast precipitation, of course, definitely 8 to 10-inches of rainfall, 10-foot storm surge in some of the vulnerable areas. tornado threat and hurricane-forced winds. it's going to be a big deal for this area. if i could real quick, this is unrelated to laura but we have severe storms going to affect i95 corridor this afternoon. keep in mind, we could see tornado watches, we will keep to up to date on the very latest, back to you, steve, ainsley and brian.

brian: amazing, thanks so much, janice. let's go to jillian. jillian: fox news alert, protestors set police building union on fire, police making several arrests before breaking up the crowd, this just hours after judge set bail at $260,000 for the man believed to be this video attacking the truck driver. faces several charges include ago salt, he's scheduled to be arraigned next week. break in the weather could give firefighters the upper hand in battling at least 600 wild fires across california, at least 7 people have died, more than 1.2 million acres have burned. firefighters are using every resource they have saying the week ahead is critical to stopping the flames. meanwhile police releasing these pictures of a suspect wanted for stealing a firefighter's wallet, police say one of stolen credit cards was used at a gas station. the university of alabama

reporting more than 500 new covid-19 cases in just a week. the school says 531 students and faculty have tested positive since starting classes, that's in addition to the 311 cases reported when students arrived. officials are working to create new isolation spaces as the 450 beds they have could be filled in the next week and a half. that's a look at your headlines, i will send it back to you. steve: they have to social distance. they have to wear masks. they wore them in class but not in parties. violent clashes erupting overnight after police shot a black man. we are live on the ground with a look at the damage done to businesses and his conditions coming up

ainsley: we are back with fox news alert, fiery clashes for the second straight night in wisconsin following police shooting of black man, cars and buildings burn across the city. hey, grady. reporter: ainsley, good morning, unfortunately this is one of those businesses that is the collateral damage of last night's rioting, this is what's left of office furniture store. i was just speaking with the owner and arrived to survey the damage for the first time this morning but he watched it get burnt down to this on facebook last night live and also down the street from here you can see what's left of wisconsin department of corrections building where flames are still burning and smoke is still

billowing, protestors throwing water bottles and fireworks at police, police responding in kind with teargas to try to stop them but that didn't stop several businesses, dump trucks and other vehicles from getting burnt to the ground. the businesses are reeling and hud secretary ben carson says it will take a lot for communities like this one where rioting has occurred to rebuild. >> who is going to start a business in a place that's going to be burned down with rioters with nobody doing anything about it? reporter: of course, hud secretary ben carson and the mayor of kenosha try today reason with protestors and to be patient and wait for investigation to play out and ultimately moved into the public safety building for that press

conference. protestors then rushed that building and tore the door off of the hinges, that investigation being done by the state department of justice could last up to 30 days before any decision is made after that shooting video was released. ainsley. ainsley: okay, grady, be careful. thank you so much. night one of the republican convention is over now, but are the biggest differences, what are the biggest differences so far from the democratic convention? donna brazile and tammy bruce are here to discuss coming up next.

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they stage their messages. if in ways if the goal was to present a diversity of speakers, you know, sort of like a choir of people who are all behind donald trump, they achieved that. so i -- that's not my complaint as you well know, brian, i love conventions because it allows you to tell a story and the story that they are trying to tell is a story about donald trump being the champion of everybody and that's just not true, but that's the story they want to tell and that's the story that i'm sure they will reinforce tonight. brian: tammy, your take away. tammy: i think it's story that is true and clearly the american people see that in everyday life. what we've had to do, i think, as americans is deal with the media that has had one single message, working for the last 4 years now to demonize one guy, they go out their way to do it

and the republicans wanted to make a point to have one evening and now we will have 3 more to show the american people who donald trump really is and this is perhaps the first time that a lot of americans have seen his success. one thing was going in twitter that joe biden shows to speak with julia and cardi b and donald trump was speaking with hostages and first frontline healthcare workers and individuals that benefited from his policies, so i think that this is incredibly important. the speakers highlighted that as well. you have more discussion about policy in that first night than you got with the entire democratic convention for 4 nights. brien: i want you to hear what walker had to say. he talked about friendship, how he used to baby sit the kids when they were kids and how he first met donald trump, the businessman and he also talked about his style, watch.

>> hurt my soul what people call donald, the worst one is racist. i take that personal insult that the people would think i've had a 37-year friendship with the racist. he shows how much he care about social justice in black community through his actions and his actions speak louder stan stickers or slogans on a jersey. he leaves nothing on the field. some people don't like his style, the way he knocks down obstacles that get in the way of his goals, people on opposing team don't like him either but that's how you get the job done. brian: donna, you know communications is that an effective communication? donna: again, he's speaking to donald trump's base, he's not speaking to the american people. brian: why not? donna: let me just say this, i recognize that we are not on the same team when it comes to who our quarterback is, but let me

also remind tammy that joe biden did not ignore the pleas of the american people, he talked with everyday ordinary americans whether they were first responders or whether they were on the front lines trying to take care of their own in their community, so we are talking about the story that the republicans are trying to tell this week. we heard what the democrats, what a platform told last week, i'm speaking to republicans and what i heard. they are speaking to the choir and that's fine because i -- like a church goer, i want to hear the music and i want to hear what that is. i'm not sitting here early this morning praying for not just my family in the gulf coast facing two hurricanes but praying for the families, his name is jacob blake, praying for his family, praying that this man survives so that he could tell his story.

that is what we should do when we are at the conventions, tell the story. now tell your story, we told ours and i appreciate the republicans telling theirs and it's up to the american people to decide which story they like. that's what the conventions are all about. brian: tammy, go ahead. tammy: thanks for getting me a word in here. we are not talking about -- we are not going to bubble it out and set it aside. the fact of the matter is joe biden has almost have had half a century and you look at the condition of the democratic party, the message that this is hillary clinton's message that he should not concede under any circumstances, the desperation that's there because they know they can't persuade the american people. you might dismiss last night and the next 3 days preaching to the choir but that's the problem with the democrat point of view, is that they don't consider it a message that americans represent, that americans want

to hear that is a part of everyday life, it's not just a political isolation chamber and this is who we are and what matters and clearly the republicans have that understanding directly, it's about education, it's about health care, it's about faith and it is about a man who cares about the american people more than he cares about his next job and winning in the sense of it's just got to be about the next election. he has given everything as has his family to change this nation and get her back on her feet so we as americans can live lives that best suit us. if you're going to see the incredibly moving stories from tim scott, nikki haley showing that we can deal with violence, racial violence in a way that we come together, no democrat has spoken out against the nature of what's happening in kenosha, portland, seating, baltimore,

new york, chicago, americans have a choice and the fact is that the republicans are showing a -- an expanse of what the american sensibility and what the american future is. donna: you know, brian, this is why the choir -- it sounds like i will never be an american in your world because after 400 years my family cannot -- brian: that's not what anyone said. tammy: anybody is saying that. don don donna: you're saying to me -- no, no, tammy, you need to listen as well as talk. brian: let tammy answer. donna: pains of people who are hurting. you ignore the pains of people who just want --

[inaudible conversations] brian: hold on one second. [inaudible conversations] donna: patronizing to tell me -- to tell me -- brian: donna, let her answer you. tammy: she doesn't want an answer. [inaudible conversations] donna: no, no. brian: donna, hold on. did you ignore 400 years? donna: yes, she did. brian: i asked, tammy, donna. donna: tammy, i see it every day. brian: donna, you have to let her finish. [inaudible conversations]

brian: you've spoken most of the time. donna: you do not recognize my existence, tammy. brian: wait, wait. [inaudible conversations] brian: this is it. we brought you for one reason to talk about one night and preview night 2 if you had the time. no one brought you up to not acknowledging existence. night 1, how you interpret it, i don't know how it got off the rails. nobody is shameful. thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] tammy: this is what the democrats do. brian: all right, that's not going well. not too sure of anybody benefited from that. more "fox & friends" in just a

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steve: we've been wondering when it's going to happen. it just did. janice, we have a hurricane heading towards the united states. janice: correct. and anywhere from now until tomorrow night is going to be a strengthening hurricane. we think category 3 as it makes landfall across southeast texas, south western louisiana, so the hurricane hunters found winds of 75 miles per hour so they have upgraded laura to a hurricane. there's really nothing in its path, we don't have any upper-level winds that are going to tear the storm apart. the water is very warm ahead of it, so rapid intensification is going to happen within now -- between now and the next 24 to 36 hours when we think it makes

landfall wednesday night into thursday morning, anywhere cameron and port arthur, although one of the computer models showing more of a houston track, so you're not out of the woods yet even though houston is under a tropical storm watch. you're still going to have to pay close attention, galveston has mandatory evacuations right now. major hurricane, making landfall over southeast texas, southwest louisiana, right on the border right now. galveston up to morgan city, louisiana, widespread. the effects even though the center comes on shore, widespread of showers and thunderstorms. storm surge of upwards of 10 feet, upwards of a foot of rainfall, hurricane-forced winds and, again, the water ahead of the storm very warm, there's no reason why this time tomorrow we are not talking about a category 3 storm, major hurricane, last time that happened in houston with harvey, there's the forecast rain precipitation. so this is going to be a big event, folks, and if i could

also mention this has nothing to do with laura but we are going to be expecting some strong storms today for millions of folks all up and down i95 corridor, we could see tornado watches so be on alert and we will continue to keep you up to date, today, tomorrow and until laura is gone, but a major storm, developing story for the gulf coast, steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. ainsley: thank you, janice. we have ben domenech, he will join us next with reaction of rnc, first let's check in with sandra smith. i think i know what you'll be talking about. sandra: yeah, lots to talk about, great show this morning, second night of violent protests with kenosha following shooting of jacob blake. plus day two of rnc in charlotte, theme land of opportunity, reaction to last night's biggest moments from guy benson and senator marsha blackburn, they join us in moments and joe biden talks taxes. who say -- he says will pay more

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>> i've seen ideas like this before and i am here to tell you, you cannot let them take over our country. spread the wealth, free education, free health care, defund the police, i hear echos of the former life i never wanted to hear again. president trump knows the american story was written by people just like you and i who love our country and build future for our families and neighbors. i am cuban born but i am 100%. steve: florida businessman maximo álvarez. joining us right now special place is ben domenech, publisher

of the federalist, ben, good morning to you. ben: good morning, good to be with you. steve: some of the take aways are that some of the -- in addition to fantastic speakers last night like nikki haley and senator scott, you had these ordinary americans like andrew pollack and maximo álvarez and they really stole the show. ben: yeah, they absolutely did. i think their speeches were better than trained politicians which was pretty impressive in álvarez i hear echos of my grandfather, puerto rican and reminds me of him a lot and attitude toward radicalism that he sees rising on the left. i think, steve, we may look back at democratic convention and if donald trump goes onto win reelection and joe biden's decision and the decision of the

democratic party not to speak about violence and riots that we see in major cities as equivalent to major political mistake of 2016 of hillary clinton never going to wisconsin. i think that their choice not to address this, not to say that they condemn it and not to say that no matter what we need to do when it comes to police reform it does not justify the burning in kenosha, wisconsin of auto dealerships, that that does not bring anyone back, that that does not end any of our problems and that it represents degree of radical leftism and people are concerned about taking over the country in serious ways. that should be condemned by democrats and republicans alike and i think the choice of the dnc not to address it at all is a real mistake. steve: well, you can see that the republicans and donald trump are trying to take advantage of the absence of comment from the left during their convention.

one of the other things that the -- that you guys at the federalist observed about the rnc last night was last week during the dnc, they continually hammered donald trump as a racist but you say last night what they started to do was they started to tackle democrat race-baiting head on, can you explain that for our viewers? ben: well, i think that people don't want to see the kind of conversations that we've had degrade in this country. i mean, no offense, because she's not here to push back against me but when donna brazile reacts like that, she represents the kind of thing that worries a lot of americans which is that if you disagree with what you see happening in the streets, if you say this is not justified, that in some way that means that you're a racist, denying 400 years of slavery, erasing black americans or their experience, that's absurd, and frankly it's un-american. it doesn't look at us as being

individuals to make individual choices, it connects us based on ethnicity to past sins. i think the choice of republicans to take this race-baiting stuff face on is a good one and they shouldn't ignore it and call it for what it is. steve: one of the things last week the democrats did their best to portray joe biden as a good guy and last night what i heard republicans essentially say was joe biden is a good guy but a good guy does not allow the anticop chaos in the streetsover raise your taxes or turn america into a socialist country, your response? ben: to their point to their credit they didn't had character assassination of joe biden. they focused on issues, what choices would they make. you talk about the concerns of a lot of conservatives that are out there, they include the fact that kamala harris historically has been engaged in anticatholic action.

if you're a member of the knights of columbus, an organization j.f.k. belonged to, that you shouldn't belong in a court. that's the thing that concerns people and good for republicans to bring it out. steve: one night down, ben, thank you very much for joining us live. ben: good to be with you. steve: we will step aside. more "fox & friends" in a couple of minutes new advil dual action with acetaminophen fights pain in two ways. advil targets pain at the source... ...while acetaminophen blocks pain signals. the future of pain relief is here. new advil dual action.

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we'll have the highlights. look at the lineup tomorrow. >> fantastic. we'll see you here tomorrow same time, same virtual couch. >> sandra: we're watching for the eye of the hurricane. fox news alert hurricane laura has formed in the gulf of mexico. the storm now packing maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour but it is forecast to gain strength in the warm waters of the gulf and make landfall tomorrow between houston and new orleans as a major hurricane bringing storm surge, heavy rainfall and tornadoes. laura is pounding the caribbean with rain and strong winds and blamed for the deaths of 13 people. the latest on the storm's path when we get it. but first