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>> john: reversal from the manhattan district attorney's office, good tuesday afternoon to you and you as well. >> gillian: nice to see you on this happy tuesday. i'm gillian turner, who is out on assignment. new york city bodega worker charged with murder is now off the hook after fending him off in his store. hi, alexis. >> the nation has been closely watching and waiting for the decision. manhattan d.a. office says after reviewing the surveillance video and interviewing witnesses and the people who called 911 they will not present the case to a grand jury. in the motion filed here, the manhattan d.a. office says the people have determined we "cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not justified in his use of deadly physical force." >> this case, we had an

innocent, hard working new yorker that was doing his job and someone was extremely aggressive towards him and i believe after the d.a. review, made the right decision. >> that was mayor eric adams commenting on the case. jose alba was charged with second-degree murder after police say he killed a man inside a bodega in new york city. this shocking surveillance video was released, you can see 35-year-old austin simon run behind the counter of the bodega and attack the 61-year-old store clerk. simon shoves him into the wall and grabs him by his collar. moments later alba stabbed simon three times to death. according to court documents, it started after simon's girlfriend tried to buy her daughter a snack at the store but her e.b.t. card was declined. the worker's union, they have been rallying for the charges to be dropped and speaking out

about it daily, saying the clerk was acting in self-defense, launching the case into the national spotlight. and we just checked in with the bodega association president and tells us he was the one who posted bail so alba could get home on the ankle monitor, but they had several sleepless nights and that they are happy with the d.a. decision. for that girlfriend that did stab alba, no charges filed. >> gillian: alexis mcadams, thanks so much. >> john: biden administration taking a victory lap on declining gas prices after months of blaming russia for the pain at the pump, but the biden administration is finding it harder to spin record high inflation crushing americans and the president's poll numbers. a new survey from cnbc showing his economic approval rating at just 30%. this as a new report reveals

some prominent democrats, including vice president kamala harris, could be quietly laying the ground work for a white house bid if the president decides not to run for re-election. congressman ro khanna from california will join us, but lydia hu live at a new york city food bank where lines are longer due to inflation. and jacqui heinrich starts us live from the white house. what has the white house lashing out at the media today? >> jacqui: john, it might be the president's polling like inflation just have not been able to wrangle and pull in the right direction. a poll put his economic approval rating at 30%. trump was 41%, and biden is lower than his predecessors. and fox poll ranked the economy as fair or poor. when biden took office, the

number was 44%. now that gas prices have continued to drop over the course of the last month, the white house wants credit on the news. outgoing communications director writes despite the data you would not know the gas prices are coming down from. waing the evening news or reading the paper. the media is covering the spike but not the drop. but remember, the white house repeatedly said gas prices were largely out of the president's control. of course, when they were trending in the wrong direction and that's not the case now that they are heading the right way. republicans say the president should get credit for what the country is in the first place. >> gas prices and electricity prices, not an accident, it's what joe biden and the democrats wanted. promised in the campaign that he would end america's use of fossil fuels. >> jacqui: the president's allies are meeting with party officials and donors as more polling suggests voters may want an alternative to biden on the

ticket in 2024, and according to the reports, among the people rubbing elbows includes vice president kamala harris and california governor gavin newsom, john. >> john: jacqui, thank you. >> gillian: a lot of folks are turning to food banks, many for the first time to try to help fill their fridges. as the demand surges, food pantry managers are worried about keeping up. lydia hu is live from a new york city food bank with details. talk about how the pantries are maneuvering through the period. >> hi there, gillian. so far the food banks are able to meet what is a growing is he manned for food assistance, but they are concerned about how much longer they can do this as inflation is at a 41-year high and they are trying to stretch the dollar. you can see just behind me a line of folks outside of this food pantry that have been

waiting for food distribution. the distribution started more than three hours ago and a line here all morning long. we are at the food bank of new york city, one of their pantries here. they have seen a 93% increase in the number of visits compared to before the pandemic. at the start of the year, they had hoped maybe the need for food would dissipate at their pantry as people got back to work, but instead as inflation has heated up they have also seen the demand and hunger exacerbated. watch. >> there are new sort of things to the food insecurity space and people having to navigate that, and simply because a dollar does not stretch as far any longer. >> and you can see here the need is evident across the country, for one, there is phoenix, arizona, a food bank there saying the distribution in a

recent week in june up 78% over the same week last year. and inflation not only worsening the need, but also training food supply. the group feeding america, country's largest hunger relief organization says food banks are purchasing nearly as much food as they did last year but now they are paying 40% more for the purchases and that comes at a time when donations are also down by more than 50%. now, here at this food bank in new york city they say they are trying to scale back because inflation is so high, but they are trying to do so without leaving any community members hungry. the real challenge that they are confronting in realtime and they are not sure what exactly the answers are. >> gillian: lydia hu in new york city. thank you. >> john: bring in democratic congressman ro khanna of california. thanks for joining us. as you saw in lydia hu's report,

more and more americans are turning back to food banks or going there the first time, a lot of that a function of covid relief money drying up and many democrats are pushing for more relief in the build back better plan. how do you help folks out without exacerbating the current inflation that this nation is in? >> well, two ways, john. on gas prices, doing what the president did, which is have a big release of the strategic petroleum reserve. we need to continue to release that and purchase at the dip. and also ban exports to places like china, not have our gas exported and on food, i think we can buy as a government some of the food and resell it at a cheap price to americans to put downward pressure on prices. both of those would help stabilize prices. >> john: what about the idea of more stimulus, in favor or against? >> for a windfall profits tax on the profits of big oil companies and giving a check, inflation

rebate check to working class americans to have a bit more money in their pockets to make expenses. we need to do that, and also need to have an effort to stabilize prices. >> john: so more and more people going to food banks, harder to live with inflation, or food on the table, what effect will have that in november. the president's poll numbers are pretty low at the moment, and this just seems to be another crisis that's on his table, and might appear he has long coat tails when it comes to the congressional races. >> john, i'm not going to sugar coat it. people are upstate, gas prices are too high and european sanctions that gas may spike come october and november. we have to deal with this, and have to be aggressive and people in my district complain about the grocery bill, complain about what they have to pay for eggs, for milk, so we need to every day in the congress, in the white house, morning, afternoon

and evening, tell the american people, what are we doing to lower prices, economic relief, make sure the flights are not getting canceled all over airports, doing to make sure baby formula is in, back in the shelves, these are real issues and what the focus is of the congress and the white house. >> john: come back to gasoline prices because you mentioned it and yesterday the white house was taking credit for gasoline prices coming down after blaming vladimir putin and the oil companies for them going up, prompting this exchange between a reporter at the white house and one of the president's economic advisors, listen here. >> both ways, jared. when the gas prices go up, nothing to do with the president. when we see them decline you want him to get the credit. >> look, i think that there's no both way thinking here at all. the president has reacted from the beginning, talking about how this was such an important priority. he then presided over the largest historical release of

barrels of oil from the strategic reserve. so he -- >> putin's fault, when they are coming down he gets the credit. >> i very much disagree with that framing. >> john: nothing has changed in ukraine, the war is still raging there, poke a hole in the putin price hike if the war is still going on. secondly, when the president released oil it did not have much of an effect on prices, what seems to be driving the price of oil down is uncertainty about how much people are going to buy in the future because the price is so high. is it really the president that had this effect? >> well, i think the president deserves credit for the release of the strategic petroleum reserve. the president can do more. he can have a greater release by buying oil when it's low, ban exports, have a tax on big oil but i never bought into the let's just blame putin. i believe that ultimately we have to have policies that are going to lower prices and we can

do that with the ones i outlined. the other thing is, we have to figure out how do we aggressively try to have diplomacy in some settlement to the war. we cannot have the war be never ending or the american people, the working class are going to continue to pay the largest price for that. >> john: no question about that, and ukraine as well. we have heard from a wall street executive who helped fund joe biden's 2020 run he has heard from kamala harris, from gavin newsom about potential funding for a presidential run in 2024. and put up the president's numbers in terms of whether people in the democratic primary would like to see him run again or somebody else, he's underwater in literally every major voting demographic. do you want to see the president run again in 2024? or is it time for new blood? >> he's running, he has my support, i'm a pragmatist.

jimmy carter was low and destroyed ted kennedy, and i don't see anyone like ted kennedy out there in the field beating an incumbent president is very difficult. joe biden beat donald trump, my view is we have to be for the sitting president. i guess i don't view that as a controversial statement, but a pragmatic statement. >> john: he has your full support. >> if he runs he has my full support and i expect him to run. >> john: do you want to see him run? >> i think the incumbent president is entitled to make that decision and the biggest argument he has, he has beating donald trump. not only people who have done that. let's see when trump announces and if biden runs, i think he'll be running, he thinks he's the best person to beat donald trump. >> john: congressman ro khanna of california, good to catch up with you. >> john, great chatting. >> john: i guess should we take that as a soft maybe, or -- >> gillian: i think so, and also

take away from that, we are glad we don't have to sit with an interview with you, and answer the same question 50 different ways. >> john: you've got a bolt stuck on the lawn mower, you try as many ways as possible to get it off. try the screw driver, then the wrench, and the rust breaker on it. and try to get it off. >> gillian: better the congressman than i. >> john: glad i took auto mechanics in the 10th grade. millions dealing with a relentless heat wave, and we mean relentless. high temperatures in the triple digits in places like england where it's usually in the 70s. how long will it last? >> gillian: 25 years after kristin smart's disappearance grabbed global headlines, her body has never been found, but prosecutors claim paul flores

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>> i've heard that phrase used before and highly disagree. what rape case could go right? but -- >> good point. >> practically speaking you are dead on. what i believe happened in this case and agree with the prosecutors and of course two prosecutors because there are two simultaneously jury trials going on, one for the devil and his minion, paul flores, in school at the time at cal polytech, and his father. and off the top the evidence will show that ruben, the father, tore down kristin smart missing posters and called her, and i quote "a dirty slut." she is scrubbed in sunshine, she's a teenage girl, a freshman. all right. and he said that about her. but that aside, what i say the

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know? >> gillian: that's pretty terrifying. nancy, you've got this trial that you are monitoring for us, and make sure the viewers know you have a fox new investigation special dropping. take a listen to this clip. >> as an average child, can make six figures for a trafficker easy. six figures for a trafficker easily. i can't even begin to explain the condition of some of these victims when they are rescued. >> come to the selling of drugs or something like that, that's a one-time thing. but a person can be used over and over and over again. >> gillian: wow, nancy, tell us about it. >> this teen girl was taken out of a mavericks game with literally thousands of people as witnesses that didn't realize what was going on.

she was there with her dad for father-daughter bonding, and she was not seen alive again for weeks, when a group called the texas counter trafficking initiative found her, not the police, online, the parents think she may be dead and there she is, completely naked, this teen girl on a site with hookers. you know what i say, i say thank god she was found alive because after a teen girl has been passed to man-to-man to man, 15, 20 tricks a day, they are so cracked up or messed up they are out of their brains, they lose weight, and ultimately the pimp will kill them. this girl survived. but trafficking has got to stop in our country and it's happening right under our noses. >> gillian: nancy, i don't know how you stay sane and happy covering all this stuff all the time but thank you for bringing it to us. we are all going to watch that special. >> and thank you for allowing me on your program.

i say thanks, because i have twins, age 14, and i want to make a better world for them. >> gillian: good on you. john roberts says the same, he has twins that are 11. coming up right behind you. thanks, nancy. >> john: i'm not sure they keep me sane, though. fox weather alert, the summer heat wave sweeps the nation. some 40 million americans are under heat alerts, 89 wildfires across 12 states. fires have also erupted in the u.k., with temperatures rose above 40° celsius. do the conversion, 104° fahrenheit. nicole is live in nashville with the latest. oh, you got the plum assignment. >> it is a summer scorcher across the globe. i'm sure you notice some families behind me trying to beat the heat. we are at sound waves, an outdoor and indoor water attraction in nashville, tennessee as we are expecting

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very outspoken of the emotional toll it has taken on families and children in particular, brought it up already during her trip to the u.s. so expect mental health to be part of the conversation today. we are expecting any moment for her to arrive at the white house to meet with first lady jill biden, this would be the second in-person meeting between the two first ladies. back in may, biden made an unannounced visit to ukraine where they met at a school and interated with children. a key moment in her first foreign trip since the conflict broke out. earlier this afternoon, the first lady attended the captive nations summit in washington, she accepted an award on behalf of the ukrainian people, gifted by the victims of communism foundation. >> thank you very much for acknowledging, and thank you for the words because you once again reminded the world about the courage and our struggle.

>> enduring commitment to ukraine was under scored when she met with antony blinken. >> had an opportunity to commend the first lady's work to support the many civilians, ukrainian civilians who have been in different ways impacted by this brutal war against ukraine. >> and tomorrow first lady will speak before congress in the same venue her husband earned a standing ovation in a virtual address by her husband. and nancy pelosi attended all members of the house and senate to attend. >> we'll braining you that as it happens tomorrow. thanks very much. >> john: looking forward to that. vladimir putin is visiting his counterparts in iran today. russian president touching down in tehran a few hours ago,

robert o'brien joins us. robert, great to see you, thanks for spending time today. he is meeting with the turkish president erdogan, syria a big topic of discussion. one of the things out there, the current national security advisor, jake sullivan said iran might be inclined to sell hundreds of armed drones to washington to use in the war against ukraine. others have raised some skepticism about that. what do you hear? >> payback, the russians gave the s-300 anti-aircraft missile system to the iranians, and so this might be a way for the iranians to pay back the russians to some extent for the russians having supplied the anti-aircraft missiles. so, no surprise here. i mean, these evil regimes, russia, china, iran, closing

ranks during this time, it shouldn't be surprising to see them together. >> john: interesting to see putin has some friends in certain places. >> well, look, beijing, tehran and moscow and a few other places like havana and caracas, total dominion over their own people and engage in terrible human rights abuses. engage with their neighbors, and like putin, engaged in outright invasion or threatened invasion like china with respect to taiwan. it's no surprise they stick together. one of the things we have to do as a free world as the west, we have to think about the whole concept, the free world coming together to stand up to the regimes. whether it's the iranians and their proxies or the russians in ukraine. >> john: one of the thing erdogan wants to talk to putin

about, finding a safe passage for the grain to get to the black sea. do you think that's something putin would be inclined to agree to? >> well, he might. keep in mind, erdogan is in a tough neighborhood, sandwiched between iran and russia, not a place you want to be as a country and he has his own ambitions. i think erdogan would like to be seen as a saviour to some countries that rely on ukrainian and russian grain, if he's able to cut a deal with putin to get that grain out, he would look good. putin is not going to do this without, you know, some sort of fee. so, he's known as mr. 10%. whether he'll take a monetary fee or political concession, you know, we'll have to see. i think that's probably the basis of the conversation, erdogan scores a reputational benefit with his arab neighbors, and african neighbors, and putin

gets some sort of cash or concession out of the deal. >> john: so where are we with the ukraine war. back in the spring, everybody's attention was focused on it, now fallen out of the headlines, gas prices are coming down, western interests and what's going on there appears to be waning somewhat, even though we continue to supply ukraine with weapons. is this potentially going to give putin an advantage because he likes to be the guy who outlasts everybody else. >> well, absolutely right, john, putin thinks he's winning at this point. i don't think he's winning, i think if the west supplies the ukrainians they can win and push the russians out. but we are in a 24-hour news cycle and people lose interest, and the first lady is here to keep attention on the ukraine, it's a brutal human rights situation as pointed out by your

earlier correspondent, it's terrible what's happening to the country of ukraine. we need to stay on it. and look, at the end of the day we have to end the half measure sanctions. if we want to cause putin's war machine to cut off, we have to cut off oil and gas sales, and swift system, half measure sanctions we have been involved in, they have not deterred putin and in fact, because the price of oil per barrel, putin is making more money than before the invasion, and that's the wrong incentive and our friend chairman xi is watching putin make money and thinks he can do the same thing in taiwan. >> john: iran is saying what are we supposed to do with the oil for you guys. thanks for catching up, appreciate it. >> thanks, john, take care. >> gillian: president biden is losing ground with asian-american voters. a key voting block. we are going to tell you why coming up next. >> john: primary day in the

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be on-site at the electric converter station. we can't confirm that, but somebody who is purporting to be, you know, an expert on the hoover dam says that's what you are looking at here. >> john: so transformers and things like that there. >> gillian: presumably, yeah. >> john: and they go up all the time here and spectacular fashion and a big boom, but it's not obvious you see somebody like this. obvious a tourist had the camera in hand as the plume of smoke outside the powerhouse. the dam was built in 1936, clearly equipment has been replaced since then, but a huge part of the power infrastructure in the west for so many years, lighting up 1.3 million homes every year. >> gillian: quite amazing. it's a beautiful sight, i was there a few years ago on vacation, a spectacular

operation going on. boulder city fire department is calling it an emergency but no further details at this moment. >> john: we will keep you updated on what's going on at the hoover dam on the colorado river as the afternoon goes on. >> gillian: we will indeed. and voting underway in maryland. the republican governorship primary is shaping up to be a proxy battle between president trump and larry hogan. both of their preferred candidates are facing off in a tightly contested race. aishah hasnie joins us from annapolis, maryland. has candidate kelly schultz responded to former president trump's attacks yet? >> hey there, gillian. yes, she has. she is firing back, she's even taken a shot at the former president and told me earlier today this is all just a big distraction. i caught up with her earlier this morning and asked her specifically about the trump

attacks, including this statement here last night that he released, saying this. get rid of shut down rino larry hogan, trying to get another rino into office, kelly schultz. >> are you worried about his influence in the state? >> well, number one, i know i'm not an rino, i have been, unlike some, a republican my entire life and focus on people other than the candidates it's a distraction. >> so yeah, gillian, it's going to get very interesting if both hogan and trump announce a run for the white house. on the other side, though, take a look, nine democrats are on the ballot, one endorsed by speaker nancy pelosi, they lead the pack and think about this. primary results tonight could get delayed here in maryland because in a one-of-a-kind law, mail-in ballots cannot be counted until two days after the primary, and as of yesterday there were about 500,000 ballots already in the box.

so, gillian, we might have at that wait a little while, at least on the democratic side to find out who the winner is. hopefully we will find out something on the g.o.p. side tonight. gillian. >> gillian: aishah, thanks so much. john. >> john: gillian, the jury has now been selected in the trial of former trump advisor steve bannon. faces two counts of contempt of congress for defying a somebody from the january 6th committee. federal prosecutors say it will take a day or two to present their case, bannon's lawyers have not indicated whether he will take the stand in his own defense. bannon argued he could not comply with the subpoena because he was under executive privilege. prosecutors argue that's not true. bannon left the white house a few years earlier. asian-americans may spell trouble for democrats in the midterms as concerns grow over crime, inflation and education. this comes as the group emerges as the fastest growing minority, making up 4% of the voting

population in 2020. rich edson is live with more on this. >> asian-american voters backed president trump in 2020 by 44%, and supporting democratic candidates this year by only 28%. this as a comparison of 2020 presidential exit polls to a midterm of a few on basically what's going on for the spring. this 16-point drop in support for democrats among asian voters is about three times larger than the decline among all voters. one maryland voter told us they are mostly concerned about education. >> growing up in china, i experienced the cultural revolution, everyone is supposed to think one way. i think it's important to teach the kids the critical thinking skills where they can sort out the facts, listen to different opinions and inform their own view. >> john is another maryland

voter, c.e.o. of his own commercial real estate firm. lin immigrated from taiwan, and helps register asian-american voters. most concerned about the economy and crime, especially attacks on asian-americans. he says many in the community may register to vote with one party, though are open with alternatives. >> i feel like people register in democrats, they have done, not necessarily vote for democrats. because certain issues. >> this polling shows democrats with a substantial lead over republicans, but not overwhelming as in the past. the 2020 census says agents make about 6% of the population in the united states, expanding faster than any other group. the number of americans who identity as asian have tripled in the last three decades. john. >> john: important voting block, no question about that. rich, thank you. >> gillian: the crisis at the

southern border is now arriving here at the capitol's doorstep. d.c. lawmakers are asking for more resources to help handle migrants who are being bussed into the city. this comes of course as border communities have been struggling daily with the surge of migrants crossing illegally into the united states for 18 months. matt finn joins us with breaking details. >> hi, gillian. at the edge of the river here, the rio grand river and hundreds and hundreds have crossed into the united states. i spoke to some directly, from countries like venezuela, nicaragua, some say they did 30-day trips by foot. and the governor here, governor greg abbott has been sending some of the migrants from his state of texas to the nation's capital to washington, d.c. "washington post" reports the number of busses has increased to four, sometimes five a day.

d.c. shelters are filling up with migrants, and some sleeping on the ground. ten d.c. council members called on the mayor to release the contingency funds to create respite centers near union station, coronavirus tests and isolation hotels for those with the virus. the council members say a current $1 million fema grant is not cutting it, writing in part if the district is truly a sanctuary city we must stand up against hateful rhetoric of governor abbott and provide a dignified welcome to the migrants. a growing dispute between abbott and the d.c. mayor. bowser is accusing abbott of sending migrants to d.c. who prefer to go to other cities. >> we know they are getting on busses, i think sometimes under false pretenses, travelling across the country to go to other places. >> governor greg abbott's office

responded writing in part "president biden's open border policies have created an ongoing humanitarian crisis, and drugs like fentanyl flooding into the state. border communities are overrun and overwhelmed and he launched the border bus mission in april to provide support to the communities pleading for help where the biden administration is dumping migrants and there is a non-profit in d.c., they are helping welcome some migrants there, they say some arrive without shoes on their feet. that group estimates about 10 to 15% of the migrants who cross into the united states desire to live in virginia. gillian. >> gillian: interesting. matt, thanks so much. >> john: officials in washington, d.c. are saying the people were tricked into coming up, but the law stipulates the only way to be bussed up here from texas by an entity other than the federal government is for them to volunteer to do it,

and we talked to some folks dropped off literally in front of fox news a number of weeks ago and said yeah, we wanted to come to d.c., we have relatives nearby, a venezuelan, a couple venezuelan guys who said yeah, we thought it would be a good place to transition to miami. >> gillian: makes sense, a hell of a lot closer here than you are where they crossed into the united states. >> john: easy to go south from here, no question. just got this in from the white house and the first lady of ukraine, as you can see there, meeting with president biden and first lady jill biden. she is here in washington, d.c. to meet with members of congress, addressing congress tomorrow to try to get more support for her husband's campaign to try to beat back vladimir putin's forces as they try to solidify their gains in the eastern part of that country.

>> gillian: a key strategic moment for her husband and the ukrainian people. and the war in ukraine is not making headlines here the way it was just a couple months ago. >> john: dr. biden and she met in may when dr. biden made that stealth trip to ukraine and they met in the western part of the country and now here she is in washington to meet the folks and try to get more support for their campaign against russia. >> gillian: stick with us. another controversy potentially brewing for vice president harris, after she compared the supreme court ruling to slavery. and also what she is saying about her own political future. and roger marshall will weigh in on how biden officials tasked with handling the economy may have little to no business experience. also general jack keane on

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moments has a lot more to say she tells us. begin first with inflation. president biden made a prediction a year ago today, this is a fox news alert. >> the economy has come roaring back. we have seen some price increases, some folks have raised worries this could be a sign of persistent inflation. but that's not our view. our experts believe and the data shows that most of the price increases we have seen were expected and expected to be temporary. >> john: temporary price increases. one year later inflation is at a four-decade high, and prices are still soaring. though, gas has come down a little bit and the white house has wasted no time taking credit for it. all of it republicans say boils

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john: issue of business experience, kansas republican senator roger marshall, years of business experience running a practice and hospital and is on the small business committee. so, let's just put this up on the screen, this is pretty interesting report from the committee to unleash prosperity.

62% have no business experience. only one in eight has extensive business experience and that average business experience is 2.4 years. you are a business owner 25 years, from five employees to more than 300 employees. what do you make of the lack of experience at this crucial time? >> john, looks like the white house has about 0 business experience with the exception of hunter biden's consulting business in the ukraine and russia. but what being a business owner taught me and helped prepare me to be a better congressman and senator is government regulations impact a business and disproportionately impact small businesses. i understand regulation creates uncertainty, overregulation creates consolidations of industry and hurts the economy. so i think that helps me understand as i look at legislation going forward, it helps me anticipate some of the unattended consequences. >> senator, you know, i got a flag here, supporters of the

president would push back and say there is plenty of folks here in washington to represent business interests. the job of a lot of these folks is to steer economic policy, you don't have to run a business to know what's in the nation's interests. we got plenty of policy. what do you say? >> would you want someone running our army that's never been in the military, right? i really do think it's about the economy. all people talk about back home is about inflation, and every economic decision this president has made so far has been wrong. i think it's good to have advisors but eventually we need a commander in chief that understands business. and why people liked president trump, people respected his business, and whoever is giving him advice, either he's taking bad an advice or bad decisions, he being the president. >> john: and janet yellen said we have it wrong, pete buttigieg's answer is buy an electric car.

>> gillian: for as little as $60,000, by the way. >> john: they were tasked by trying to get the animal under control. gas prices, what the president said pretty consistently for months about why gas prices were going up. >> today's inflation report confirmed what americans already know, putin's price hike is hitting americans hard. >> elevated by p utin price hike. >> start with the putin price hike. high gas prices and energy prices. >> 70% increase in inflation was a consequence of putin price hike. >> i'm doing everything in my power by executive order to bring down the price to address the putin price hike. >> john: he blamed gasoline and everything else on vladimir putin and the war in ukraine. that has not ended, still going on and yet gasoline prices are coming down and the white house is saying way to go joe biden, you are bringing down the bryce of gas. what do you say? >> i was just back home visiting

with some classmates and all they talked about was inflation, inflation, inflation and the price of gasoline. at the pump back home, the price of gas is twice of what it was when joe biden took over. i grew up in the oil industry, i understand exactly what's going on. this president is creating uncertainty. going back to that business acumen, he has declared war on the oil and gas. why would you invest $10 million, $100 million in a new oil patch if it going to take 2 to 5 years seeing the return on investment. the average kansas family is spending $700 a month more on basic necessities of life, and joe biden owns it, he cannot fool the american public. >> gillian: senator, i know you are a solutions oriented policy maker. where does the president go, what is the nationwide fix for inflation? >> inflation starts with the energy, right.

accounts for 25, 30% of inflation starts with energy. the president needs to go to kansas and visit with the people that drill. it's a shorter trip than saudi arabia, but the folks are afraid to drill because of the lack of certainty. they need some long-term confidence that we are going to be still using oil and gas cars in the future as well. so, we need certainty, americans can solve the problems, why should we depend upon foreign decisions when we have americans that can solve the problem. >> gillian: foreigners are not stepping up anyway. >> john: and -- officials say the fire is out following a reported explosion at the hoover dam. it was not reported explosion, there it is on video. jonathan hunt live in our west coast news hub.

jonathan, this was pretty dramatic. >> yeah, alarming for the tourists who flock to the hoover dam every single day of the year, john. this explosion caught on video by one of those visitors. you hear a lady saying oh, my goodness, something just exploded. now, as we understand it, though, the fire was pretty small, but that plume of dark smoke obviously quite alarming in itself. the boulder city fire department, the nearest

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before. so, this visit here on the part of the first lady of ukraine really just to keep awareness up because as time wears on, gillian, it starts to fade from the news cycle, western nations are turning to other problems, so many other things going on in this world, she's trying to make sure ukraine stays on the radar. >> gillian: it's important to stay on top of it. we still have reporters across the country inside ukraine bringing the story every day but it's got to stay at the forefront of the nation's consciousness in order to enable the ukrainians to make the headway they need to make. a federal judge is siding with twitter, allowing the lawsuit against elon musk to go to trial quickly, it will start in the fall. susan lee has breaking details out of the new york city newsroom. what happened in the hearing so far today? >> round one to twitter, first virtual hearing lasted roughly around two hours, arguments from both sides and a judge making

her ruling in just ten minutes. delaware chancellor presiding over the nonjury trial as she was ruling in twitter's favor for an expedited five-day trial to start in mid to late october. arguing the company is harmed the longer the overhang of the deal lingers, so the judge says she might extend it past five days depending on the arguments and evidence presented. most legal experts say musk has a high bar to prove here after waiving due diligence and favorable conditions to fast track the deal through. look at twitter stock, close to $40 or so, it did go up after the delaware court favorable ruling. it's still nowhere near the musk-offer price of 54.20, they think wall street thinks musk may walk away by paying a multi billion dollar fine which he can afford, or get twitter at a cheaper price, and people have

seen the twitter term sheets, this is all going according to plan. musk still wants to buy twitter but a lower price, of course, he is l with the stock market selloff and the main arguments over material adverse effect, over the number of fake accounts or bots on the twitter platform, and did twitter misrepresent the actual number of users. a lot of folks on wall street could tell you talking about the judge herself and she lived up to her reputation as a no nonsense type. she made a ruling in ten minutes and reputation of forcing a buyer to buy a company in a deal they tried to walk away from. but in that case, that was a half a billion dollar case. $550 million. much smaller than the $44 billion deal we are talking about with musk and twitter. >> gillian: susan lee with the scope out of new york. thanks so much. >> our country has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies. those same so-called leaders are

the same ones who are passing laws to restrict the ability of people to vote. we will not let the filibuster stand in our way of our most essential rights and freedoms. >> john: vice president kamala harris hitting all the campaign talking points in a speech at the naacp. >> gillian: claims that vice president harris and democrats, including gavin newsom and jared polis are huddling with their big donors to explore the possibility of running themselves in 2024. >> john: nikki haley, served as u.s. ambassador to the united nations and governor of south carolina. good to see you again. >> nice to see you both. >> john: play a little more of what it was that kamala harris said at the naacp convention. >> we know naacp that our country has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies. we must recognize there are those who are fighting to drag

us backwards. and sod extremist so-called leaders are criminalizing doctors and punishing women from making healthcare decisions for themselves. >> john: she did not come out and say it but the inference was the supreme court decision on abortion is akin to slavery. >> she's outrageous on everything, whether she compares pro life supporters to trying to stop people voting at the polls, whether she talks about this, and trying to compare it to slavery, whether she wants to talk about ending the filibuster. she's unbelievably extremist. at the end of the day, democrats want to take away the voices of the people. the fact that they were ok with an unelected, you know, group of justices deciding our fate was fine as long as it was in their favor. but now suddenly when all, when the ruling is going to go back to the people and the people are going to decide in their states, suddenly they don't think the people are capable of deciding

that and i think they are, so look, i mean -- she messes up everywhere she can. the one job is the border, she refuses to go there, so she gives us the word salads on things that don't make sense and she continues to sound extreme. >> gillian: the democratic pollsters tell us this is the overturning of roe v. wade animating issue for the voters, and fire people up ahead of 2024, so it is evidence that the vice president is harnessing this issue, making it her own, maybe making it a key issue for her going forward as we hear these reports about her and a couple of democratic governors now exploring presidential bids. what do you say about that? >> i think they can try to do it but i'm all over the country helping candidates get elected. house, senate and gubernatorial candidates and does not matter what part of the country you are in. the issues they are talking about is how it costs more money at the gas station and that's how they get to work.

it costs more money, you know, at the grocery store and they feed their families. the fact the border is in chaos, the fact that crimes are high on the street, the fact that their kids lost two years because unions would not let them go back to school. that's what people are talking about. you know, what i say fifth and sixth down the line is abortion and gun control. right now people don't have the luxury of politics. what they need to know is there are people fighting for that and they are going to go and listen to them and get those things done. i think this is nothing more than them trying to distract to win the midterms and i don't think it's going to work. >> john: it is a galvanizing issue, no question about that, but the economy putting food on the table, top priority for most americans. in terms of 2024, kamala harris, gavin newsom reaching out to big money wall street donors about a potential run for 2024. when you take a look at joe biden's polling numbers, well underwater with every major voting demographic.

do you believe he'll be the nominee in 2024? >> i mean, look. i don't know what they are going to decide. i would love it if it's biden, love it if it's kamala, or gavin newsom. we can bring it all day long, bring it. if that's all they've got, bring it. at the end of the day we know what the american people want and they want freedom and they want government out of the way and they want to make sure their dollar is valued and they want to make sure their kids have a better life and that we have a strong america that makes it safe abroad. that's what they care about. they don't care about whether our military has pro gender classes, they don't care if you are trying to get the elementary school kids to decide which sex they are. they don't care about the fact that here you are trying to get biological males to run against women. what everybody sees is it's so left, so extremist and they don't identify with it. conservative democrats, independent, and republicans,

and expand the party with jewish, asians, african americans, our issues will lead to solutions lifting up everyone. >> could you beat those candidates in 2024, president biden, vice president harris, newsom? >> you put me on a debate stage with any of them, i would have a field day. our issues are better, our solutions are better and at the end of the day, all you have to do is look at what they have done the last couple years and how backwards they have taken our country. what we need is some common sense. we need a fighter. we need somebody that will snap america out of it. we look so distracted right now and when america is distracted, the world is less safe. we've got to snap out of it, get rid of all the cancel culture, all the woke stuff and start fighting for people and normal people and real people that are just trying to survive. >> john: you gave a point to the christians united for israel where you were talking about iran and also seemed to tease

toward 2024. listen here. >> no deal is better than a bad deal, and if this president signs any sort of deal i'll make you a promise. the next president will shred it on her first day in office. just saying sometimes it takes a woman. >> john: so when are you going to make a decision whether or not you are going to do this, wait until after the midterms like tom cotton? >> i mean, look, that was all in fun. i think at the end of the day -- >> john: truths are often spoking in jest. >> if biden were in, it would be horrific for america. but having said that, do i think the first female president that it would be great if it was a strong conservative republican, of course i do. and sometimes does it take a woman, i mean, we have tried men for a while, maybe a woman is

what we need, but i don't think i have to make that decision until the first of next year. if we don't win in 2022, there is no 24. >> john: colin powell said he did not have the fire in the belly to run for president. do you? >> my parents reminded us every day how blessed we were to live in the country. all i have ever known is to fight for her. so whether i run or not, i'm going to fight for the country until my last breath, it's all i know to do. >> gillian: maybe we'll take it as a yes. if you do decide, let us know right away. >> john: appreciate it. >> gillian: we have seen how fired up parents can make changes at kids' schools. what is going to happen when moms and dads turn their focus and attention to the midterms. we are going to see parents wielding some potent power. >> john: conflicting reports

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>> john: fox news alert, some action outside the supreme court on the street where capitol police have arrested 34 people, including 16 members of congress. there is the tweet from the capitol police, we made a total of 34 arrests for crowding, obstructing, the number includes 16 members of congress. apparently they were out there on the streets protesting the recent dobbs decision by the supreme court. capitol police said it's illegal to block the street so started making arrests. among the prominent names arrested by the capitol police, alexandria ocasio-cortez, ilhan omar, and carolyn maloney. cori bush tweeted i introduced

legislation yesterday and today, we believe no stone unturned in our fight for justice. so, they'll be processed by police, and get more information on this a little later on. gillian. >> gillian: well, former advisor to president trump, steve bannon, in court, facing two counts of criminal content of congress. david spunt joins us from the justice department where he is following every step in this trial. hey, david. >> david: hi, gillian. new meaning to speedy trial. department of justice, federal prosecutors expected to wrap their case in a day but actually getting to opening statements has taken more than a day. we are finally there at this point after several delays. steve bannon's attorneys pleaded with the judge this morning to delay this case for a month. judge said no. bannon claims he ignored the january 6th committee request for a deposition and documents because of executive privilege,

arguing his conversations with former president trump were protected and not advice i believe. trump wrote in a letter he waived bannon's executive privilege that would have allowed bannon to testify publicly before the 1/6 house committee, but unlikely given the trial timeline. bannon and peter navarro are the only two charged with contempt of congress, from the house committee probe from the january 6th attack on the capitol. the last successful criminal contempt of congress charge was nixon aide g. gordon liddy in 1974. and bannon was a private citizen following the 2020 election, long gone from his white house job which he left in 2017. this all comes just a few days before the 1/6 committee will hold another hearing in primetime and republicans in the house have said there will be some revenge if they take the house, which is likely next

year, meaning they could be subpoenaing members of the democratic party. gillian. >> gillian: david spunt at the justice department. thanks very much. >> my administration understands if we were to experience unchecked inflation over the long-term that would pose a real challenge to the economy. while we are confident it is not what we are seeing today, we are going to remain vigilant. >> all people talk about back home is about inflation, and every economic decision this president has made so far has been wrong. >> senator roger marshall blasting president biden who shrugged off inflation fears a year ago. steve moore, freedom works economist and robert wolf, former obama economic advisor and fox news contributor. inflation in just a second, but first of all, tackle gas prices. for months now president biden has been blaming the putin price hike for the increasing price of gasoline and everything else and now that the price is coming

down, the white house is giving president biden a pat on the back for lowering it. if it was indeed, robert, putin's price hike that drove prices so high, how could joe biden have possibly turned things around? the war in ukraine has not changed. >> well, welcome to politics, right. as you know, john, i've been saying all along the gas increases were caused by the covid reopening, supply being down based on russia, not really outputting their 10%, and the ukraine war. so, so the perfect storm, persian gulf, and the post recession fears. we had it before and each time gas prices increased and once again it did when all three came together. with respect to some of the things he's doing, releasing the strategic petroleum reserve made a lot of sense, i don't think it's a gimmick, it reduced the

output by russia for a million barrels a day, and supportive of gas tax holiday, both federally and state, which a lot of republican governors have done. >> john: congress does not seem to have made moves toward that. steve, is it disingenuous to say our credit for the price going down? >> joe biden wants to take credit for 4.50 gasoline, it's all his because that's still about almost double what it was when trump left office. look, i disagree with a little bit what robert said because we were in a six-month recovery from covid, remember under trump's last six months, and we did not have that big escalation in gas prices and as you know, we have been doing this show together, robert and i for the

last year and i've been the one saying beware inflation, this is not temporary, it's not transitory, it's not a high class problem, it's killing middle class folks and when you have 9% inflation and consumer costs and 11% costs increases in business prices, you've got a real crisis on your hand, and i don't see any solutions right now, john, from this white house of dealing with it. >> john: and the big looming problem is potential recession. the chairman of goldman sachs sees a possibility of that happening, he said it does not preoccupy me but i think the chance of a recession in the next 24 months is high, yet just yesterday jared bernstein was saying oh there, is not going to be a recession. robert, what do you think? >> so, my concern is definitely inflationary scares over the longer term than recession. i think if you look at the strength in the labor market, retail sales for their june retail sales, showed that the

consumer is staying resilient and you know, 70% plus of our g.d.p. is consumer driven, i don't see a recession on the horizon. i see inflation staying longer than expected. with respect to steve's comments, listen, he knows i said this was transitory early on, he knows i thought the fed was behind the eight ball, and with respect to the trump administration we have gained 10 million more jobs under the biden administration. that is a reason people are driving more, you know, things have changed, you look at miles per car, you are seeing a big change in gas output because we are in a recovery. i don't see it as recession. >> john: one big reason why the gas prices are going down, apparently, because the industry is uncertain about what future demand is going to be. steve, final thought. >> yeah, look, robert, i want to say this in sincerity. you did a segment on this report we did that you don't have any real business leaders in this

biden administration. if joe biden called me, i would feel a lot more comfortable if somebody like robert wolf were over at the white house and when you have jared bernstein give this crazy press conference saying oh, things are so good in the economy when 82% of americans, john, say that the economy is headed in the wrong direction, i believe we are in a soft recession right now, we have had two quarters of negative growth, and so they've got to bring in some business leaders and i don't always agree with robert wolf, you know, john, and he did a great job running a major bank. i would love to see that. i'm worried about the country right now. >> john: robert, you want the job? >> i'll say thank you, steve. >> john: thanks for your thoughts, appreciate it. gillian. >> gillian: vladimir putin is visiting iran, his first foreign trip since invading ukraine and comes as tehran is warning it has the capability to build a

nuclear bomb at a time of its choosing. this comes just days after president biden signed a pact with israel to make sure the regime does in the ever gain that capability. general jack keane, general, this is a pretty balsy move by putin travelling overseas while his own military, at his orders is busy carrying out this illegal, unethical, illegitimate war in the heart of europe. >> yeah, that's part of the reason he's there. he wants to send a strong message that a country is in the middle east, that despite the war, that he's involved in, in ukraine. he has a strategic foothold in the middle east ever since his military incursion into syria in 2014 and 2015, i'm absolutely convinced this meeting has taken place, he scheduled it after biden had announced his meeting

to the middle east, and everyone knows full well that this administration has backed away from the middle east over the last 18 months, particularly with saudi arabia and the arab states. and putin does not want the balance of power tilting in favor now of the arabs, israelis, and the united states. i think president biden has got a long way to dig himself out of the hole he created with the arab states. but i think the visit was a start. but that's the reason putin is here. also, you know, he wants to meet with erdogan and likely, and hopefully, the grain that is being held up, the exports out of ukraine will be removed and at least some countries will start to get some relief from that. but this is a message to the middle east that putin is a power broker here and i've got the iranians' back. >> gillian: well, speaking of

the iranians, what do you make of the announcement out of the foreign ministry, they say it's official, they got the capability and the capacity to build, to start building a nuclear bomb any day from now going forward. is that bluster, do you buy it? >> oh, absolutely buy it. president biden's personal envoy who is leading the negotiations, robert malley last week said as much. he said the iranians are within a few weeks of being able to have the materials together to build a bomb. now, for our audience, i mean, there is a distinction here that's worth making and it can be confusing. to take those materials and put together a bomb and then weaponize it so you can deliver it is a different capability. and they likely have to miniature the bomb to fix it to a missile system or bomber and

that would take likely a year in the estimate of the i.a.e.a. and other nuclear experts who are looking at this. but yes, i mean, iran has moved the ball much closer than they ever have to having a nuclear weapon, and i take the prime minister of israel at face value when he says there is nothing that we are going to be able to do to negotiation, through jcpoa, the old 2015 nuclear deal to stop the iranians from their desire to have a nuclear weapon. the only thing that would do that would be to present a credible military option to deny them that capability, something that they would have to believe in because it is factual and credible. >> gillian: general keane, we have to leave it there. appreciate the strategic perspective as always. >> great talking to you, gillian. thank you. >> john: gillian, parents who fought covid-related school

closures and c.r.t. in classrooms are turning it into political action. mike emmanuel is reporting on this. are these parents becoming more organized in the name of this cause? >> mike: absolutely, moms for liberty, says it is focused on unifying, educating and empowering people to defend their parental rights. moms for liberty held a summit in tampa over the weekend. the group is led by former school board members who say they witnessed how short-sighted and destructive policies directly hurt children and their families. >> parents realize that this american government does not work well without us, and while we were busy raising our kids and working, we saw during covid elected officials abdicated their authority. so the parents are ready to take the reins, sit on school boards and give parents a lot of good skills, tips and resources to be effective candidates as well. >> governor desantis spoke to

the group how florida schools handled covid. >> so in florida over the last two years there's been no increase, no widening of the achievement gap between rich, poor, black, white, because we had kids, and you know what, the california school closures and all these other places, you know, that hurts disadvantaged kids the most. >> mike: education secretary was trying to engage more with parents with a group of his own, saying the national parents and families engagement council will serve as an important link between families and caregivers, education advocates and their school communities. several conservative parent groups have already filed an absolute claiming that group is politically biased. john. >> john: mike emmanuel, thank you. gillian. >> gillian: more on the issue at the supreme court, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez among

the democrats arrested moments ago outside, video she tweeted out of her arrest. congressional correspondent chad pergram joins us now, breaking details. hi, chad. >> good afternoon, gillian. it's routine sometimes members will go and protest something, go to the white house, a demonstration here on capitol hill, and it's usually kind of choreographed with the capitol police and this is what happened today between the capitol and the supreme court. you had a grand total of 34 persons arrested, 16 members of congress, among those that we know about so far are alexandria ocasio-cortez, of new york, jackie spear of california, and watson of new jersey, and ocasio-cortez is walking with the police officers with her hands behind her back but she is not handcuffed. she raises her fist in the air, kind of acknowledging some other demonstrators. trying to make a point about the supreme court and the recent

ruling. this is one of the largest mass arrests of members of congress we have seen in quite some time here. the other thing that is interesting is the u.s. capitol police, unlike almost any other law enforcement agency in north america, they do not release the names of who they arrest. in fact, they did not release the names of the colbert 9 who were cleared of charges yesterday. don't release mug shots and i pressed a couple of sources and why is this the case, and i've covered capitol hill for decades now, always been the policy, why don't you just release the names of those who you arrested and they said well, guess what, we work for members of congress and they may not want their names out there. they are essentially our bosses, so those names will not be released. back to you. >> gillian: chad pergram from capitol hill, thanks so much. john. >> john: interesting crowd out there. up next, historic and deadly heat wave hitting europe. we have the latest on how long the scorcher is going to last. stay with us.

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>> john: it's hot out there. ian oliver joins us with more. ian, this is highly unusual. >> yeah, john. good afternoon. this has been a brutal spike in heat in places that are not equipped to handle this. we're not talking about a daily or monthly record. this was an all-time mark set in the u.k. no place in the united kingdom had reported 40-degree celsius for a high. today was 40.2. that was 104.4 degrees fahrenheit. that's a new record at london heathrow. the old record was 107.

the meta office has reported that as well. the heat is extreme and widespread. here's the issue as you look across europe at 8:00 p.m. in the evening over in london. 86 degrees. london, amsterdam, still 90 degrees in paris. these are old buildings that were bit in the 1800s. they're injuries to retain heat, not disburse it. less than 1% of homes and buildings were are equipped with air conditioning. that's where the real danger comes in. the peak hate is problematic. you get no relief heading to the overnight hours. here's the good news. look at the temperatures today. 90s and triple digits, london and paris closer to average for tomorrow afternoon. 81 degrees in london. good for a temperature drop of roughly 20 to 25 degrees. average this time of year is in the mid 70s. these temperatures are up 30

degrees above what is considered average for the middle of july. you come back stateside, places like oklahoma city, tulsa, dallas, recording their warmest temperatures in roughly a decade. we've seen this spike stateside as well as abroad. back to you. >> statside in the south we're used to it. in europe, they're not designed for that type of heat. thanks, ian. gillian? >> a crazy scene in the big apple. a sinkhole opened up and swallowed an entire van. this happened after a rainstorm yesterday. the van obviously setting off a whole lot of car alarms. luckily we're learning nobody was hurt. miraculous. >> neil: a sketchy looking van anyway. >> i wouldn't repeat what people call a van like that. >> look at it go down though.

what do you do, bury it there? >> seal up the sidewalk and pretend it never happened. >> john: when you undermine the roadway like that, anything can happen. great to spend the afternoon with you. >> thanks for having me. >> john: my time. thanks for joining us on this tuesday. we'll see you tomorrow. i'm john roberts. >> i'm gillian turner. shannon bream is in for martha. "the story" starts now. >> thanks. good afternoon, everyone. i'm shannon bream in for martha maccallum. right now, case dismissed. the new york city bodega worker charged with stabbing a man that was robbing his store is now cleared. frank garcia has been fighting to clear the man's name. he joins us in a couple minutes. first, alexis mcadams reporting live from new york city. hi there. >> hi ther