>> on my tablet. >> phone. >> laptop. >> this is how i fox news, how do you? >> i do it in every way. download the fox news app. it is excellent and works very well. not clunky. even i can figure it out. i fox news all the time. >> bill: if you are not hearing it at home. the app is amazing. satellite radio is big for me, too, in the car. >> dana: martha maccallum is in for harris, here is the "the faulkner focus". >> martha: hello, dana. no laughing matter. the u.s. is in a recession. more on that moment with charles payne. first up the hunter biden scandal rolling on. all roads may lead to the president himself. a review of white house logs showing that then vice president biden met with at least 14 of hunter biden's business associates.

all those visits despite the president's claim. the "new york post." the business partner called joe biden the big guy in a panicked message to hunter after the bombshell lap taupe story broke. ted cruz says enough is enough. >> this guy, how many films has he made of himself committing multiple felonies? i have to sai, jesse, if you put out a film with you with a pile of crack and prostitutes, somebody would come knocking on your door and they would prosecute you. but if daddy lives at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, apparently the criminal laws do not apply and it is deeply corrosive to our system of justice. >> griff jenkins is live in washington >> good morning, dagen. top news for hunter biden on multiple fronts. the "new york post" headline

you referenced appearing to finally put to rest speculation around the identity of the big guy. the subject of much speculation as part of the ongoing grand jury probe into hunter biden's business dealings. but even more telling, dagen, fox news digital review, which looked at messages and visitor logs showing at least 14 of hunter biden's business associates did meet with vice president biden ranging from mexican billionaires, former columbian presidents and prime ministers to ukrainian energy executives and russian oligarchs. president biden consistently denies any knowledge of it. >> mr. vice president, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings? >> president biden: i have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. i have never discussed with my son, brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses period. >> meanwhile the ranking member

of the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley and fellow member senator ron johnson say multiple f.b.i. whistleblowers allege senior f.b.i. and d.o.j. officials tampered with politically sensitive investigations across multiple election cycles, including queries into hunter biden's dealings. senator johnson had this to say right here on "the faulkner focus" yesterday. watch. >> this could be the greatest scandal, the greatest episode of corruption executive branch against congress in u.s. history. you have the f.b.i. federal law enforcement agency, obstructing congressional oversierkts congressional investigations. smearing us. can it get much worse than that? >> where does it go? now johnson and grassley are demanding the d.o.j. open an internal investigation or appoint a special council.

the d.o.j. has declined to comment so far. dagen. >> but in terms of the pushback and pressure from republicans in the senate and house, it doesn't really go anywhere until or if the republicans take back the house and/or the senate in november. >> that's true and that's good point, although i would also say we learned in recent days a single source telling fox news the grand jury probe into hunter biden's business dealings has reached a critical stage and that charges could be coming if indeed hunter biden were to be indicted perhaps it will bring more of this to the front. >> thank you so much for your reporting, griff jenkins in washington the u.s. economy in a recession, contracting economy for the second straight quarter and the white house still refusing to call it what it is.

this morning's gdp report showing another quarter of decline. the economy shrinking 0.9% last quarter down 1.6% in the first quarter. republican leaders sounding the alarm. >> when a super majority of americans already knew, democrats have plunged america into a recession. today's democratic party is a walking, talking economic disaster. >> this is a grim milestone that points to more hardship, more suffering and more pain for the american people. >> we cannot afford democrats failed policies. we are certainly paying for them. >> the president himself down playing the news in a statement saying this, quote, even as we face historic global challenges, we are on the right path. his top economic advisors out in full force putting lipstick on this pig.

>> we have resilient consumers who are continuing to spend and businesses continuing to invest. we're in a transition, no doubt. >> it is important in these reports to ask how are american households doing? they are facing real head winds from inflation, no question. they are also facing some tail winds. strong job market, low unemployment, so a nuanced story. one we expected. >> yesterday the federal reserve trying to tame raging inflation. the central back hiking interest rates 0.75% points. the first back-to-back hike of its kind and size in 40 years. charles payne coast of making money on fox business. economy sagging, inflation raging and american people in pain. >> the white house is hurting

themselves tremendously by telling people don't worry about how you feel, this is how you are supposed to feel. i think bernstein was half right. we have the head winds of inflation but not the tail winds he is talking about. that strong consumer spending number i am still going through the historic data. last quarter at 1.8% was the lowest since the fourth quarter 2019. business investment not what it was. coming down dramatically. dagen, we'll get a jobs report in the next month or two that will be dramatic and fall off a cliff because all the signs are there. tick up in initial jobless claim in other reports. it is right there. as far as the unemployment rate. let's stop using that. when people drop out of the labor force and unemployment rate goes down it doesn't reflect a healthy jobs market. just the opposite. in the last jobs reports no one wanted to talk about a quarter million black americans dropped out of the labor force and 166,000 lost their jobs. real people in this economy are

getting crushed at this very moment and we need real answers. no more public relations. except what is happening so we can deal with it. >> kevin hassett said stop the propaganda and the white house is down playing it. fed chief jay powell said this. >> the fed doesn't make a judgment on that. we don't say there is now a recession and that kind of thing. if you think about what a recession really is, a broad based decline across many industries that sustain for more than a couple of months. what we have right now doesn't seem like that. >> the clown car of spin is chock full of them. listen to this. >> how worried should americans be that we could be in a recession? >> president biden: we're not in a recession.

>> this is not an economy that's in relegs. >> we're not in a recession or pre-recession at this time. >> the data over the second quarter is not consistent with an economy in recession. >> the evidence is strong we're not in a recessionary period. >> if things are going so great, why is it white house officials are trying to redefine recession? >> we are not redefining recession. >> a headline says this quote, the biden administration appears to be preparing for a recession or rather for news of one rather than tackling the underlying economic problem. the white house is playing word games. i call it a sentence ghoul ash that they keep putting together. >> it's unfortunate. one of the clicks someone said the second quarter data doesn't suggest we're in a recession. it actually suggests we're in a depression. new home sales came out two

days ago. average home prices are down over $100,000 in two months from april to june. almost every economic data point that came out didn't miss. most of these things didn't simply miss wall street consensus. they missed by a country mile. i would be very, very afraid about worrying too much about this recession talk because a lot of folks will soon be talking about depression talk. let's figure out how to fix it. soaking this thing with more money is how we got here in the first place. they need to stop the political wins and have a win for all of americans once and for all. >> charles, the win comes in the form of again it reduces our standard of living and eats into our wages fighting inflation. real incomes are down 12%. what the democrats have done and even some republicans is with this chips bill, 17

republicans signed onto it, and then this manchin/schumer spending package, you combine those two it is more than $700 billion. i'm being conservative. $700 billion in additional spending. what the democrats and some republicans are doing is spending money at a time which makes the fight against inflation harder for the federal reserve and which will exacerbate this recession that we are already in. >> you know, i have to tell you, looks like mitch mcconnell got played big time. all these republicans who went in thinking okay, we can vote on corporate welfare because reconciliation is off the table. tax hikes are off the table. less than 24 hours after they said okay to that we get senator manchin making this flip-flop. you wonder how much of this was already orchestrated but they look dumb now the republicans who voetd for this. and i have to tell you, it

doesn't work. unfortunately we find out the hard way free money policies don't work and i wish they would all stop. >> 17 republicans voted for that semi conductor enrichment. only two are up for reelection in november. it tells you the pickle that the other 15 have put republicans in. i will ask tom cotton, the senator, whether mitch mcconnell did get coned and duped. charles payne, thank you so much. a reported prisoner exchange with moscow to get back wnba star britteny griner. why critics say it is very bad idea. president biden talking to china's leader today and things could get tense over pelosi's taiwan trip. >> they are openly threatening to invade taiwan and threatening nancy pelosi. this is a line that is being

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>> i think if the president played hardball with him, we have to put the full economic muscle behind our country. he needs to bring up their horrible treatment of the uyghurs, aggression towards hong kong and taiwan. we know that's coming and we know what's going on with taiwan. >> lawmakers calling on president biden to stand firm in his talk with president xi this morning as tensions worsen. that call to china's leader wrapping up just about a half hour ago. the president considering rolling back tariffs on imports

from china. beijing issuing new threats over the possibility that house speaker nancy pelosi could visit taiwan. administration officials fear it could spark a major crisis. peter doocy is live at the white house. good noerng. >> we're told that president biden and president xi spoke on the phone for about two hours and 17 minutes, the longest of their five calls since this president took office. joe biden bragged over the last couple of years he has known xi for a long time. when i asked he said they aren't old friends. it is strictly business. we're now seeing what that is looking like. the pentagon says commander-in-chief has ordered military access into the south china sea. we have a statement that says i can confirm u.s.s. ronald reagan and strike group are underway operating in the south china sea following a successful port visit to singapore. as matter of policy we don't discuss future ship movements.

reagan is continuing noble scheduled operations as part of her patrol in support of a free and open indough pacific. china watchers believe xi wants the self-governing taiwan back under chinese control to cement his legacy. president biden has pledged to help taiwan defend itself if china decides it will take an invasion of taiwan and the chinese are responding to the u.s. military moves in their neighborhood. a foreign ministry spokesman says this is not the first time the u.s. has sent its aircraft carrier to the south china sea to flex muscles. it is clear to us all who poses the biggest threat to peace and stability in the south china sea. the president pressed a lot for these calls and white house officials didn't give us a heads up what would be on the to do list. >> so clearly tensions over

taiwan, tensions over china's aggressive behavior t indo pacific and tensions and the war in ukraine. i would expect all these things to be part and parcel of the conversation. >> something you did not hear the white house say there when pressed to go over the president's priorities for this call, pressing xi about the origins of the covid pandemic. president biden has said in the past he wasn't going to rest until china came clean with the world so they could get info about the last pandemic and try to stop the last one. we will get a read-out on the call soon. >> thank you for that. retired four star general jack keane fox news analyst and what do you make of the u.s.s. ronald reagan moving into the south china sea and any

preparations military or otherwise that might need to be made before house speaker nancy pelosi goes to taiwan, if indeed she follows through with that trip? >> the ronald reagan stripe group operates in the pacific normally. there is nothing unusual about sailing in that area. they just came out of a port call in singapore. where they were headed was on the schedule already. i wouldn't make that much of it. certainly if the speaker is going to make the trip, the military will take normal precautions that it does take when the speaker is traveling anywhere given her succession in line to be president of the united states. there is always extra precautions for her taken regardless of where she is traveling. >> we as a nation have been behaving -- i use your words, general -- as if we don't want to aggravate china. it is china that has changed

its behavior in the region. quoting back to you, intimidating and coerceing and harassing the united states. what else do we need to do in terms of standing up to this threat? >> the old paradigm we've used for years, which is self-censorship and self-deterring in our relationship to china all because we don't want to spook them. we don't want to aggravate them. that paradigm has failed massively. president xi came into power 10 years ago and you look back at what he has done year-over-year over year for 10 years. he has increased his aggression abroad, specifically in when it comes to taiwan, generally in the pacific region at large and what have we done through most of that? we try to avoid aggravating the

prc. that's absolutely the wrong strategy. haven't we learned a major lesson here from russia, who has desired to take control of ukraine saying it is a part of russia and have advertised that for years, and we didn't do much to deter them from that. we have president xi saying much the same thing, taiwan is an historic part of china and he has said time and time again we will take it by force if necessary. and what we need to do is put in the region the military capacity to deter him from that and that capacity has eroded over the years and also be willing to confront them and stand up to their behavior and their rhetoric in general. we've got to put those cards on the table and hopefully the president has done that in his last two-hour talk with president xi. >> the home of a pandemic that

killed more than a million americans. millions around the globe and again americans dying from fentanyl that's coming from china. all that needs to be addressed. general, a reported prisoner swap to get basketball star britteny griner out of a moscow prison after a dug conviction. tony blinken has offered a substantial proposal to bring home griern and another american priceer and exchange the so-called merchant of death. a convicted russian arms trafficker serving a 25 year sentence in the united states. mike pompeo says bad idea. >> to offer a trade like this is a dangerous precedent. we got lots of folks home, dana, without doing this kind of thing and offering up these kinds of dangerous people and prisoner swaps. this will only beget more americans being taken on false charges. these aren't comparable.

this is not a good trade. not the right path forward. >> what do you say, general? >> when you look at this first of all i give the biden administration credit for trying to work a deal with the russians to get our two citizens home as soon as possible. i think when you look at this, the problem is not so much the swap but who we're swapping. we have an 80-year history with the soviet union going back to the 50s and russia through the 90s of exchanging prisoner swaps. usually spy for spy has been our history. it changed a little bit. in april we got a journalist back and gave them a pilot who was a drug dealer arrested in the united states. trump administration swapped a graduate student on a baseless charge in iran for somebody in the united states, an iranian who was committing sanction violations. so we've done swaps before.

but this is disturbing and i grew with the secretary who this person is. a russian arms dealer who is trying to -- arrested for attempting to kill americans who is assisting terrorists around the world. that is the problem. i have great empathy for the families and they are hoping something comes of this but this is the wrong choice the administration has made. the department of justice was opposed to this initially and browbeat by secretary blinken and the president of the united states to agree. i think the department of justice was right in the beginning in putting their hands up and saying no, not this person. let's find somebody else. >> general jack keane. always a pleasure, sir. thank you so much. >> great talking to you, dagen, thank you. >> homes and cars swept away in kentucky. a desperate race to those still trapped in what some say is the

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pay their fair share of taxes, an enormous down payment on many of the things he campaigned on. >> they announced the deal that would spend more than $400 billion over the next 10 years claiming the bill will reduce the deficit by $300 billion over the same decade. republicans are having none of it. senator marsha blackburn saying build back broke will bankrupt america. mitch mcconnell with, quote, first they killed your family's budget. now they want to kill your job, too. tom cotton is with us. senator, good to see you. mitch mcconnell got 16 republicans on board to pass this enrichment bill for semi conductor companies. did he get duped by joe manchin or is he a con artist? >> i wouldn't say mitch

mcconnell did but they proceeded on the -- i would invite those bill sponsors of that semi conductor bill to join me today calling on every single house republican to vote no. we should not be greasing the skids this week for the democrats to spend $250 billion so they can spend another $500 billion next week. that's only going to add to the record high inflation joe biden has already created and now that we are in a recession, the tax increases are only going to kill your jobs. this is a terrible deal and we have to stop it. >> reading through this proposed spending bill from schumer and manchin, it looks like as the bills always do that the tax increases won't raise nearly the amount of money that they do and the spending will be forever.

the exchange for the premium enhancement for obamacare it won't last three years. it will last forever. it's an entitlement expansion. over and over again the famed economist said it not about a tax increase it is about fueling inflation nor the chip bill and this idea a combined more than $700 billion in spending. you were making the federal reserves job dd they are so much harder. could lead to real financial, economic calamity and armageddon if the democrats don't stop spending. >> dagen this bill will fuel more inflation, it won't fight inflation no matter what joe manchin says. it is going to kill jobs by raising taxes on businesses. by the way, those taxes will also fuel more inflation. businesses will pass tax hikes along to consumers. the last thing we should be

doing is putting another trillion dollar tax and spend bill with a economy -- the -- they planned the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan last year also. >> the manchin/schumer spending bill. do you have any idea where sinema stands on it? >> she has opposed many tax increases in the past and a voice against the crazed radicals than joe manchin. i will wait to see where she comes out. frankly no senator, democrat or republican, should be adding another trillion dollar tax and spend bill into an -- economy that has record inflation. >> can you explain the

republicans who voted yes? even bernie sanders voted no on the chip bill but the 17 republicans who voted for it, senator, this is an industry that is a high margin, lucrative business that is loaded with money and they just spent another -- like close to $300 billion, $280 billion on it. what is their reasoning? >> dagen, they are trying to get at a genuine problem. the threat to supply chains and china's threat to supply chains. i didn't think this bill approached it in the right way or provided guardrails to keep these companies from doing business with china. putting aside the merits of the bill, the condition of this bill according to its sponsors was the fact the democrats wouldn't pass another tax and spend bill. that has changed in the last 24 hours. i would invite the bill's

sponsors to urge every house republican to oppose the bill today. we shouldn't do it this week or another $500 billion of democratic spending next week. >> only two republicans are up for reelection. what will the other 15 do, the republicans who are running in november? i digress. i want to ask you about the democrats who appear to be turning up the pressure on attorney general merrick garland to bring charges against former president trump over the january 6 riots at the capitol. op-ed in the "new york post" by andy mccarthy a fox news contributor argues garland is in a tough spot. for the rule of law pillar the biden justice department like the administration broadly is cowed by the democrats' hard left base adding. the democratic base's most cherished desire is the prosecution of donald trump.

garland knows that prosecuting trump on flimsy grounds would rip the country apart and also worried, however, that biden's left flank is poised for mutiny if there is no indictment. the pressure that merrick garland could be under. >> he is an ivory tower liberal who spent 25 years sitting in a courtroom divorced from the real world and came to the attorney general's office and revealed himself as a partisan hack. he is the one, remember, who siced the feds on parents going to school oh boards concerned about their kids' education and refused to arrest protestors outside of justice's homes in violation of federal law. he should resign in disgrace. if he doesn't joe biden should fire him and we should impeach him come january. >> has joe biden fired anyone?

senator? mayorkas still has a job. >> unfortunately for joe biden, if he fires anyone it points the finger back at himself because he is the root of his own administration's problems. he is the one that delivered record high inflation, that put us into a recession, that ordered the botched afghanistan withdrawal. joe biden is to blame for the results of his disastrous policies. >> senator tom cotton. great to sigh. >> thank you. >> speaker pelosi's husband making a big move after criticism of a stock purchase. a big guy who is as shady as the day is long. some democrats avoiding 2024 like the bubonic plague.

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>> do you support the president in his reelection bid? >> i'm working on my own election and that's all i'm focused on right now. >> do you want to see joe biden run for a second term? that's an easy question and won't take long. >> i don't want to answer that question because -- i don't want to answer that question. >> do you believe president biden should run for a second term? >> i have said if he runs i'll

support him. >> more and more democrats dodging the question of backing president biden in 2024. the president would be 82 years of age running for reelection. voters seem to be worried as well. biden fell behind pete buttigieg in a new hampshire poll among democrats and a new cnn poll shows that 75%, three quarter of democrat voters say anybody but biden. matt schlapp and jose aristimuno. jose, not a lot of love for the president running again. >> look, we're over 800 days away from the election. i get it. it is a opinion based on gas prices and inflation. you look at republicans how they feel about donald trump it is no different. majority of republicans don't want president trump to run.

i can tell you again we're still way, way ahead of ourselves talking about a presidential election. we have to focus on the mid-terms. if joe biden decides to run again, i am confident that a majority of democrats will support him again come the election. >> do you think he should run? >> i think he should. i think he should run. it's his decision to make. if he decides to run i would support him. we look at the last year and a half over 8 million jobs created. infrastructure bill got passed, gas prices started to come down. he has done good things for the country. are we close to where we need to be? no. we can continue working to make sure that we get and solve the problems for the american people. >> jose did the biden but, but, trump. he did that thing. what about trump, matt, and what about this recession we're in, matt? >> let me tell you, joe biden

would give his eye teeth to have donald trump's numbers slirt with republicans. he is the most popular republican in the country and wins the straw polls. we'll have the straw poll in texas. he will dominate. that's the way it is. republicans make the mistake when they make it about joe biden. joe biden is an accidental president who got the nomination because barack obama intervened and got everybody out of the race. mark zuckerberg spent $417 million to fortify the election so let's put him off to the side for a little bit. i don't think he is running for president. i think that's a joke. the real question is socialism and the radical policies that the democratic party, threw joe,d adoeptd, nancy pelosi adopted, charles schumer adopted went far left. the green new deal says we want $7 a gallon gas. part of the green new deal. all the policies we are getting.

let me finish. by the way, your lips to god's ears and joe biden running again. on the inflation piece now they will spend another half trillion. it will make inflation worse. everything they are coming up with is making it harder for joe lunch bucket to do what he needs to take care of himself and his family. >> or jane lunch bucket. jose, i will split the difference. one on the schumer/manchin bill, a billion dollars for electric garbage trucks and buses, a billion. but matt schlapp on the other hand what about that semi conductor enrichment bill. 17 republicans signed onto that in the senate and sent it to the house. you want to talk about spending mistakes. some of those republicans are part of the problem. >> that's right. let me tell you, when we get our majorities, dagen, the republican party for the first time -- they will lose the

people. >> republicans try to play the game that they are anti-deficit. donald trump added to deficit more than barack obama did. all you guys did was print money which is why we have the inflation we have today. we had the pandemic and had to do it. don't try to point fingers and say all the democrats want to do is spend money. that's all you did for four years. >> you and i will get along great. i criticize republicans more than they like and they spend way too much money. it's on the wrong side of history and economics. >> let me add this the federal reserve $2 trillion spending bill from president biden last year, the federal reserve juicing inflation and joe biden renominated jay powell to that job. so mistake.

nancy pelosi meantime her husband selling up to $5 million worth of computer chip stocks, chips like the chip bill taking a loss of more than $341,000. the move comes as the house speaker faced questions about the timing of some of her husband's stock purchases. speaker pelosi's spoke person said mr. pelosi decided to sell the shares at a loss. interesting timing here. pelosi's office confirming that a stock ban proposal for lawmakers and their spouses will be introduced to get a vote in september. matt, to you first on this. paul pell oh -- pelosi trades options which is gambling. why was it allowed to go on as long as it did, matt? >> he is a risky driver and risky investors. the bottom line is this. we had the bad economic policy.

now you have the culture of corruption with paul pelosi and the biden family, hunter biden, joe biden's brother. this spells nothing but trouble. merrick garland, where are you on democratic wrongdoing? you are silent. >> it is hard to prove it at the federal level. i covered those cases. final word, jose. the ban on trading stocks, good idea? >> it's a great idea. we should not allow insider trading from any party. we had a former member of congress get accused for doing the same thing, a republican. both democrats and republicans should be investigated and it should not be allowed. >> you can own mutual funds. no reason there should be this conflict and it is being kind among republicans and democrats. jose aristimuno and matt schlapp, both of you great to

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