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call xi told the president quote, those who play with fire will perish by it. >> speaker pelosi said to be heading to the region today. not clear if she will make a stop in taiwan. we expect to hear from her in the next hour. >> meanwhile, the u.s. and china agreed to plan an in-person meeting between the two leaders. this despite beijing's failure to stop the flow of fentanyl from china into the united states. not to mention its reported targeting of the federal reserve and buying up real estate near u.s. military basis. >> bill: team fox coverage. greg palkot, the latest on the trip to the region for speaker pelosi. let's begin on the north lawn today. >> good morning. the white house agreeing to a face-to-face between president biden and president xi after the two leaders talked their longest conversation yet, two hours and 17 minutes. critics say kind of an odd

thing to do after a death warning according to chinese read-out. xi told biden those who play with fire will perish by it. china threatening the u.s. not to medal with taiwan. the white house refusing to say whether they see this as an escalation. >> we should take that clearly as a threat. what we have done on energy policy and what we've done on food security, supply chain issues has weakened america and now china is boldly declaring they'll set us on fire if we have taiwan's back. >> unclear whether the call yielded anything productive. biden hasn't made a decision whether to lift trump-era tariffs on china. no talk on next steps there and the white house wouldn't say if they are pressuring them on the covid origins and no promises

from china about fentanyl. whether biden brought up the congressional investigation showing the chinese have been trying to infiltrate the federal reserve for years. >> we did an investigation report and legislation to try to address it. the fed is the latest of institutions targeted by the chinese. so this is where the fed needs to be given a wake-up call. they have made some changes and trying to tighten it up. >> yesterday the white house wouldn't say whether biden pressed china on their treatment of the uyghur muslims but said generally biden did bring up genocide and forced labor as part of a broader discussion about human rights. a few moments ago a spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry denied biden brought it up on the call with xi and accused the white house of lying. >> bill: jackie, thank you. >> team coverage continues with

greg palkot. it is not confirmed yet if nancy pelosi will make a stop in taiwan during her asia trip. what are we hearing? >> taiwan and that whole asian region has a lot to be on edge about at this very moment. multiple reports say house speaker pelosi is headed to the region stopping in japan, south korea and other places. the talk is she will go to taiwan making her if she does it the highest ranking elected u.s. official to visit there in 25 years. as we've been reporting, beijing is mouthing off about it and could be ready to do something militarily. officials and experts don't see there will be direct confrontation but taiwan could see fly bys or fly overs of chinese aircraft which carries with it high risk. the pentagon lukewarm to the visit says it is making special security preparations in the event that pelosi goes.

the u.s.s. ronald reagan and other ships are headed to the south china sea. it was pre-planned but perfect timing. in and around and over the self-governed island of taiwan, all this week military exercises just to underscore the risk the people there face from beijing as taiwan gets ready for the possibility of chinese defensive activity sometime against its people. the word from taiwan officials today is they would welcome a visit and the support of nancy pelosi. at the same time, they are walking that strategic high wire with china and have to make sure at the very least keep their national head above water. back to you. >> greg, thank you. >> bill: michael allen, former special assistant to the president and senior director for counter proliferation strategy at the national security council welcome back to our program here. i want to play this clip from may of 2019. here is how then candidate

biden saw this relationship with china. >> president biden: china is going to eat our lunch? come on, man. they can't even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between china sea and the mountains in the east -- and the west. >> bill: don't know where you want to begin, michael. how do you see the state of this relationship today? >> i remember when that quote that biden said that and it just led me to the conclusion he doesn't quite get it completely. china has a comprehensive plan to displace the united states, spying on the federal reserve and the pilfering of our intellectual property are two of the latest examples of what the chinese are up to. it is time that the president lay out a comprehensive plan for the united states to deal with these efforts from china to displace us economically and

militarily around asia and the world and for us to get serious and wake up as a country. it is deadly serious. it will affect our economic health for many, many decades to come and i'm not sure the president totally gets it. >> bill: wow. they've been talking about a pivot for asia for 20 years and you look for a plan now. i don't know if you'll get it. beijing is in our business in so many ways. so our viewers see it foxnews.com find these stories just today. china warns a firm and absolute response if spokeer pelosi visits taiwan. china's return to college campuses, china increases u.s. real estate portfolio, major cause of concern. china targets federal reserve. that story a week ago. you put all that together and they're meddling, michael. >> yes, they used to hide their intentions and everyone thought that they were going to have a

peaceful rise. china is just aggressive. they have stated boldly what they are up to. they are interested in becoming the world power, the predominant world power and making the world safe for the likes of china and russia to dominate. i think the united states, with our allies in europe, have to step up economically, militarily. we have to have a comprehensive plan and we need to follow through on it or else the chinese, who have no good interests at heart as pertains to the united states, will be displaced and we have to be very careful about that. >> bill: which leader, which country is leading on that? >> i'm not sure that president biden has got what it takes. i don't hear much from him on the comprehensive threat. i think he has to get more active. we need to lay out what our strategy is from semi conductors to international trade, to how are we pivoting

to defend taiwan? i think speaker pelosi's trip is very dangerous for us. this is a self-inflicted wound. it should not have been leaked to the media. i'm worried they will use it against us as a chance to show they have the upper hand. >> bill: last point. do you think she cannot afford to go now ?oo >> she has to go now. we're in a fine mess here. imagine as we try to recruit allies across asia and the world to join us in a coalition against china if we don't go. it looks like we're weak and can be intimidated by the chinese. and so i think she has to go now. >> bill: a lot of attention on that trip. we'll see where it goes. clear analysis today michael allen. appreciate it. 10 minutes past. from yesterday. >> president biden: we have a record job market of -- record unemployment of 3.6 percent today. businesses are investing in

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passed the house with some bipartisan support but fell short of 60 votes in the senate due to spending concerns. an estimated 3.5 million veterans were exposed to toxic burn pits in afghanistan and iraq. jon stewart will join us next hour. >> there will be a lot of chatter today on wall street and among pundits about whether we're in a recession. if you look at our job market. consumer spending, business investment we see signs of economic progress. >> bill: well, president biden denying the u.s. is in recession. don't use the r word. the data does not lie. we saw it before in 2008 and 2020 when gdp shrank for back-to-back quarters and it is happening again. want to bring in our money team. i know you guys have been chomping at it all week. denial is not a river in egypt apparently. go ahead and defend where we

are today and why the definition seems to be on this sliding interpretation. >> well, it's not my role to get in an argument about those words. the definition of recession is defined by the national bureau of economic research business commission. always has been. we use as a rule of thumb that usually that's correlated with two quarters of negative gdp growth and declining employment, declining industrial production and declining real income. it is a broad-based slowdown of the economy. i think the president is right. this hasn't been a broad-based slowdown of the economy. job market is doing well. but i think they are over confident when we're in an environment where the fed is raising interest rates like this. in april, may, june it wasn't a recession in no way means that

we won't soon be in a recession if the fed keeps raising interest rates that fast. so this whole discussion could be mute if we go into a recession in the near future. >> sandra: can i follow one quick thing. austan, you used to sit on that body, correct, that would declare a recession? >> no, i never was on that body. >> sandra: we'll have to correct the record. your name is listed there. are you calling this a recession? >> i am a member of the national bureau of economic research but this is a group of eight macro economists. >> sandra: steve, how important is what we call this? this is what people are feeling. >> yeah, look. austan can make a case. the employment situation is good. he is right about that. but when you have 82% of americans, sandra, who say that the economy is headed in the wrong direction, that's a pretty good indication that americans aren't feeling the love here and another thing,

one of the things that joe biden said in that little clip that you showed was he said oh, business investment is good. no it's not. did he look at the report? business investment plummeted in the second quarter of this year, which makes me very nervous because as you know, sandra, business spending and expanding on equipment are the seed corn of a growing economy. i don't know where he got that number. he needs some fact checking. a couple of things. >> bill: why don't we cut through this. steve, are we in a recession yes or no? >> yes, we are. >> bill: austan, sandra asked you, are we in a recession? yes or no? >> i don't think in the first two quarters we're in a recession by any conventional definition of a recession. we could be in a recession soon. >> bill: webster definition, right, smitty? call for number two.

gdp last two quarters we dropped 1.6% in the negative side and the number that came out this week was a negative .9, steve. >> that's right. what i'm calling it is a cost of living recession because, you know, austan just talked about what is happening with personal income. adjusted for inflation, people's incomes have fallen. we did a study at the heritage foundation and estimate the average family has lost about $4,000 in the last 12 months in terms of their wages and salaries not keeping up with the cost of living. so for americans on main street, they are getting killed by 9% inflation. >> sandra: and then what boggles the mind, austan, as economist i hope it boggles your mind. calls for this president to now raise taxes on americans in the middle of a recession, or whatever you want to call it, two straight quarters of economic decline. i rewind back to president

obama about raising taxes during a recession. normally you don't do this, which is why he said he chose not to and why instead they cut taxes. so why is the president making this pitch now? >> when you say raising taxes on americans you are talking about hedge fund managers and the closing the carried interest loophole. >> sandra: who do they employ? you are in an economist. what happens when you raise taxes on those force. people lose jobs. >> enforcing what people are cheating on their taxes. that's what the revenue sours of that bill is. the issue is if you think the downturn in the economy is caused by inflation, we've been talking about overheating causing the inflation. if you reduce the deficit, you are reducing the amount of overheating. it is exactly what steve and others have been calling for the fed to do. >> this isn't a reduction.

it's $350 billion more spending, austan. come on, $350 billion on green energy. >> that's fully paid for. >> no it's not. when austan is talking about increasing the amount of taxes people pay, they are talking about hiring something like 75,000 new i.r.s. agents. have we forgotten what lois learner did under the obama administration? come on. >> bill: austan is straddling the bank of the river and steve is in the middle of the river. thanks. >> sandra: house democrats may soon introduce a bill banning lawmakers and their spouses from trading stocks. all of this just days after nancy pelosi's husband, paul, sold $5 million worth of chip maker stock. a democrat appears to give the middle finger to the republican dugout last night during the baseball game. we'll talk to steve scalise from the great state of louisiana about that and the

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are sending migrants to big cities on purpose using them as a political ploy. >> gillian turner is on that this morning. good morning. >> good morning. those bus loads of undocumented migrants from the southern border keep arriving in the nation's capital. we caught new arrivals this morning offloading a couple hours ago. mayor bowser said it has become a humanitarian crisis. as they arrive she is calling in the national guard. she says she fully expects fema, the u.s. military, and even president biden himself to get involved. take a listen. >> we need the federal government to be involved. so i've asked for the deployment of the guard as long as we need the guard to deal with the humanitarian crisis that we expect to escalate. the number of people crossing the border seeking asylum, we expect to only go up. >> the pentagon confirms to fox news they are working on her

request saying we're not prepared to comment on the specifics of it at this time but the secretary takes this request for assistance very seriously. meanwhile bowser is also assigning blame to republicans for the arrival of undocumented migrants here in washington >> it's obviously politically motivated and the reason why we're different in this is that people aren't coming to d.c. as their final destination. what we see is that they are moving on to their final destination through d.c. >> this is developing as the department of homeland security is reporting that over half a million people are known to have crossed the southern border into the u.s. illegally without being detained by border patrol since the beginning of the fiscal year. just in october. that number, as you well know, is already far eclipsed the total 2021 numbers. >> bill: interesting back and forth. gillian, thank you in washington >> sandra: former republican

utah congressman jason chaffetz is here now. your reaction. >> honestly are saying out loud they think it is the republicans' fault? are you kidding me? if they would have done what donald trump had done we would have secured the border. there are millions of people crossing that border. she gets a few bus loads and she is calling out the national guard? what do you think they're dealing with in california, arizona, new mexico, texas? >> sandra: they are getting more than a few bus loads. buses to d.c. per day now district officials are reporting that they have encountered more than 4,000 people arriving on more than 200 buses since governor abbott and arizona governor doug ducey announced plans to ship the migrants to the country's center of political power. she says it's a political ploy. >> that is so offensive and the hypocrisy is just dripping with it. if you look over the last 11 years in texas, they have had

over 257,000 crimes committed by people there illegally in texas. why should texas enjoy the benefits of illegal immigration? why not spread it around the nation? i think this is exactly what should happen. ducey and abbott has governors are doing exactly the right thing. why should they have to take all the pain, all the problems that come with this, and if these people -- they are asked to voluntarily if they want to go. they aren't forced to be put on those buses. they are asked if they want to get on the buses and they come to the nation's capital. i think it's appropriate. >> sandra: do you think it will change the way they look at it? >> they created this on purpose. a thought-out process. they hired obama's regulatory czar and put him over there with mayorkas, the secretary and changed 90 different rules in order to facilitate and make this happen.

it was done on purpose. look at the biden administration. don't blame abbott and ducey. they are doing the right thing. >> sandra: i want to move on to a topic we've had a chance to talk about on multiple occasions now but it seems to continue. nancy pelosi's husband selling off $5 million worth of chip maker stock ahead, of course, of the semi conductor bill vote. the timing of the stock purchases is what is called into question. i know you have been a big observer of this activity and let you weigh in in a second. we can show our viewers the tesla purchase up to a million dollars worth that dates back to december 2020. obviously ahead of the huge push for e.v. purchases. microsoft 2 to 10 million in march of 2021 and now the one that is getting a lot of attention today is the nvidia purchase between 1 and 5 million. june 17, 2022. is this okay? >> no, it is not okay. i don't think any member of congress or senior administration official should be trading in any stock. wall street understands this.

if you go online and look you can find that there are groups out there that track the pelosi purchases and are suggesting to their investors just buy what pelosis are buying because they have insider information. >> sandra: i can't help but wonder -- >> look it up online and you'll see these people trading there are tools to do this. >> sandra: while it's public information there is a lag period, right? what he is doing right now we would have interest. if he is using inside knowledge that would be illegal activity. but if that were the case and these are interesting the timing of all these purchases are interesting, you won't know for 45 days until it is reported because it has to be reported. >> it does. the lag is 45 days. insider trading would be if you got information from the company. what if your spouse was the speaker of the house and she and she alone was the person that could call up a bill that could make or break whether or not an industry was going to succeed or not. in the case of the chip maker

on june 17th, paul pelosi exercises 20,000 options at a strike price of $100 per share. it is now trading at $180. who gets that kind of return in that short amount of time except for the spouse of the speaker of the house? >> sandra: what is his broker doing and telling his customers to do? i think those are reasonable, fair questions. >> that's why you need to have an across the board prohibition. they shouldn't be allowed to do this. even the immediate family members. bill. >> bill: democrats at it again spending millions of dollars meddling in republican primaries. talking to one candidate about the ad put out against her and how she is trying to fight back. catastrophic flash flooding in eastern kentucky. at least 15 reported dead earlier today. we'll take you there live next.

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>> bill: there have been some deadly storms in kentucky raining very hard there this week. the governor there saying at least 15 are dead after major flash flooding in the eastern part of the commonwealth. just got word president biden signing a disaster declaration to the area. they will need it. will is live in hazard, kentucky from fox weather. >> this is some troubling and heartbreaking messaging coming from the governor this morning in the past hour confirming 15 deaths and saying among that count children and in some cases entire families. you can probably understand why when you consider how many houses have just been destroyed, just fallen into these swollen creeks and broken apart within a matter of seconds. this is the east fork of the kentucky river behind me.

couches, rooftops, pieces of people's homes and lives rushing down this creek. efforts are being hampered by the cloud cover and the low cloud cover here because they aren't able to launch the helicopters that they need. we have so many people frantically trying to find information about their missing relatives. i spoke with rod a few moments ago and says he is trying to reach some of his relatives. >> it came down so hard and so fast. that's why you probably got all the water and had nowhere to go. trying to contact him and i can't get ahold of nobody. i hope they're all right. >> the water rescues are being measured in the hundreds. we're keeping an eye on jackson, tennessee, where a dam is threatening to breach causing more flooding. we're watching that carefully here on fox weather. we expect more comments from the governor at 11:00 and live

coverage on the fox weather app. still an emergency situation and developing. >> bill: thank you for that. eastern kentucky. >> sandra: flash flooding hits the iconic las vegas strip. videos show water swamping cars on the streets and even pouring into the casinos there. flash flood and severe thunderstorm warnings were issued last night as strong storms passed through that area. we have a live report on that coming up in the next hour. >> bill: democrats embracing a controversial strategy for the mid-terms. they've spent $44 million to meddle in some of the republican primaries boosting candidates that will have a better chance coming in november. the latest target is tutor dickson, a republican candidate for governor in the state of michigan. thank you for your time today. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> bill: i just -- in a general sense what do you think of the

dnc getting involved in these republican primaries? >> we're seeing them get involved across the country. in my case this is the first time we've seen a direct attack against a candidate that they seem to fear. if you look at this gretchen whitmer is very vulnerable. she is at the top of the list of vulnerable governors. having the democratic governors association spend money ahead of time in the primary against a republican opponent is flattering but a big hit. >> bill: they say you are against police funding. what do you respond to that? >> yes, they know that my platform has been to go around and say we want to make sure we take care of the police. this is gretchen whitmer's stand. she supports defund the police and have we have some of the most dangerous cities in the country and we're fighting against it. >> peter meyer is another republican voted to impeach

donald trump. he is in michigan and a primary battle on his hands as well. can you hear me okay? we'll hang for a moment. we're still on the air. you got me okay? we'll try for this a second. the number of people who are running against her in the republican primary come tuesday. there is a lot of them. at least five on the board right now and see how it works out. dickson has a slight lead at the moment. gretchen whitmer has been a target on behalf of republicans since covid began. a lot of people in the state did not like her policies and how they went down and handed to various businesses as well. donald trump has not given an endorsement for anyone on the board right there yet. however, there was a message that went out yesterday and dickson retweeted it an hour ago and trump said stand by for some news on this. we may get an endorsement after all. sorry about the interrupt there. >> sandra: it happens.

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it feels great to win. in the way everybody played it was phenomenal. august pfluger had a stellar mvp game pitching and playing third base. kevin brady, retiring from congress he had a 750 on base percentage. hall of fame numbers. the manager had us all to go. a harbinger for what is to come in november, too. >> sandra: what happened with the democratic represent from california as she walked back to the dugout? he flipped the bird to members of your party? was something said to her when she did that? >> i don't know. look, they've been frustrated with themselves for a year and a half. they've been doing that metaphorically to the american people with horrible policies. you see inflation out of control, gas prices out of control. i think people are fed up with what they've been doing. maybe they're finally getting

fed up with what they've been doing and what it is doing to families across america. >> sandra: it is a moment and going back to the unfortunate incident involving you back in 2017 with the shooting at the practice for this game, you know, that moment, the silver lining was it highlighted the bipartisan nature of this game and how the two parties come together and you have this sort of fun day that day turned out differently. chad pergram was able to catch up with nancy pelosi last night and had this exchange. >> this game is so great and these are so nice. that's what makes it great. we're competitive and it is great to be here, have a little fun. sometimes i coach, sometimes i'm the umpire. i have my point of view but it's always fun. >> sandra: want to get your reaction to that. >> i don't know if she is coaching the team or not but look, we have a lot of fun. we do make real friendships on both sides with the teammates

on the republican side but even on the democrat side. but we're competitive and want to win the game. we practiced since march at 6:00 in the morning. look, the real winners are charities because we raised a record-setting $1.7 million for local youth groups in d.c. it helps a lot of these young kids and we get to meet a lot of kids and groups it helps. to see 20,000 people in the stands cheering. it was right down the middle cheering for the republicans, democrats are cheering, too. it is a good cause and a lot of fun as we're in the middle of some pretty heady topics up here in washington >> sandra: final question. a little different outside of the game there. there were climate activists trying to shut down the baseball game. there was more protests apparently inside. this was a climate activist to fox digital. >> having fun, actually hanging out with some of the rich polluters at this fundraiser game. >> sandra: they should not be

out having fun hanging out with some of the rich polluters at this fundraiser game. what was your response? >> maybe that's some of the people they hang around with. i wonder if they all walked to the game or if they drove cars and used fossil fuels that they decry as they are living their life trying to ruin it for other people. like i said, they wanted to shut down a game that raised 1.7 million dollars for local youth in d.c. maybe they should spend more of their time helping out some of those same kids who are in need. some of these young people who maybe want better options so they can live a better future and they might feel better about themselves, too. >> sandra: you were out there representing the u.s. congress and the great state of louisiana but represented lsu tigers. a big geaux to you. >> go tigers. >> sandra: i had to say that. >> bill: get it. following that for a lot of years. fox alert now house speaker

nancy pelosi getting on a plane for asia today. watch this trip. she is set to speak later this hour and the big question will be will she address her possible trip to taiwan. some biden officials fear it could spark a major crisis with china after beijing issued new threats against the u.s. taiwan now bracing for any military action. we'll follow this and bring you any breaking news when it comes up. congressman mike gallagher the republican who served in the military gives husband -- his take. >> you say i can go and serve to these individuals here and i can -- thousands of people? >> a terrifying warning from the d.e.a. and health officials in chicago are listening very carefully. they are urging fans who are

attending a big festival this week to test their drugs for fentanyl in chicago. bill hemmer. welcome back. dana has the day off today. >> sandra: it's a different city today. i'm sandra smith for dana. thank you for having me this morning. the drug crisis is affecting all of america. tragic scenes unfolding in cities all over. beyond the numbers there are individual victims of fentanyl. these are the faces of the poisoning of america. some overdosing on substances they had no idea they were ingesting. mike tobin, a much different city than we've known. you have to feel for the families who send their kids off to -- the city

acknowledging that the drugs will be used at the music festival but they are trying to keep them from killing themselves. this is a four-day outdoor music festival and attracts a lot of recreational drug use. the synthetic opioid is showing up in everything from cocaine to heroin. the issue with fentanyl it is so potent it doesn't take much for an overdose oftentimes fatal. with the street mixes on drugs overdoses are common place. the department of public health put out a message, test your drugs before you use. carry narcan and don't use alone. the department also advised concert-goers that narcan and fentanyl test strips can be picked up at the library at easy to access narcan dispenser kits. >> every here this music festival is a surge into people in emergency departments and people in chicago every year we see young people end up

admitted to the hospital because they have experimented at a time when we really want people to have fun safely. >> the test strips are strips of paper that react when exposed to a small amount of fentanyl. narcan is an antidote to fentanyl overdoses and it's in the form of a nasal spray. >> sandra: mike, thank you. >> bill: meanwhile let's get to the power rankings at the fox news channel. we had some poll results we put out late last night. here is how it breaks down in the u.s. senate. what you see in yellow are five toss-up races. a lot of attention on this to see who controls power in the senate. want to come to the southeast state of georgia right now. very good race between herschel walker the republican and warnock the democrat. walker trailing by four within the margin of error. it appears walker has work to do still in the state of georgia. however, when you look at

extremely motivated voters, you see walker leads by 6 over warnock, 81-74. back to the map again. nevada, arizona, you will hear a lot about those races. here is pennsylvania now. here in the northeast. john fetterman the democrat has an 11-point lead on the doctor oz. we wanted to find out what matters to pennsylvania voters. the most important issue right now in the state of pennsylvania, inflation clearly at 27%. but we see the abortion issue popping up in pennsylvania also now number two at 14%. a little deeper in the numbers and find out more about what is motivating voters on both sides. of those who believe inflation is issue number one they favor oz by 39 points among those who believe abortion is the biggest issue they clearly favor fetterman at 56 points. that's what's happening now in pennsylvania and georgia.

now i want to bring in axios political correspondent to take us through. good morning to you. what do you see from these states today? >> look, you look at in all the battleground states joe biden's approval numbers are in the danger zone for any democratic candidate, low 40s in both the fox polls in pennsylvania and georgia. but what you are seeing in the pennsylvania poll is that john fetterman, the democrat, double digits up on dr. oz and dr. oz is having trouble securing the support of all the republicans. he is struggling with the republican base even though he has already won the republican nomination. it is an ongoing theme in a lot of senate battlegrounds. the environment is with the republican party but republicans are struggling with some of their candidates that are under performing where they should be at this moment in time. >> sandra: hard to believe you aren't seeing more of these

democrats change course or change strategy. put up the latest fox poll on the important issues, pennsylvania issues, most important is inflation. i mean, every single time at least in recent months this is the top issue for voters. why are we not seeing more attention given to this by the democratic party? >> it is a challenge for any democrat running in this type of economy when you debate whether he or are are not in a recession. it's not a good political place to be. that's dr. oz's political playbook. his strategy is going to be to nationalize the race to talk about the economy, to blame the democrats for the head winds the country is facing especially in pennsylvania. there is room for dr. oz to grow. he certainly can get more republican support. he will need to win more independent voters but he will use the issue of the economy and inflation. i expect most of the campaign

ads from republicans in pennsylvania will be focused on the economy. >> bill: i think you are right about that. georgia and herschel walker. here is how the pollster summarizes walker's challenge. he has to convince independents and wayward republicans he is up to the task. how would you interpret that, josh? >> yeah, the biggest challenge for walker is to show that he is ready for political prime time and not fumble away the very strong opportunity republicans have to win this senate seat. it is a close race in the fox poll. senator warnock up by a few points. there clearly is a pathway for walker to win over undecided voters, many of whom, according to the poll, don't like the president's performance and they are dissatisfied with the state of the country. one thing you see in a lot of polls early on, there are a lot of undecided voters that end up

breaking to the challenger. senator warnock is up by four points in the fox poll but if walker runs a good campaign it is easy to see how he can catch up and potentially win this big senate seat in georgia. >> sandra: very similar you can see the top issues in georgia, inflation top of the list garnering 28% for the most important issue for voters. you know, you look at that and you again ask yourself what will the influence of president biden be in these elections? the question to so many democrats today is are you going to support president biden in a reelection bid? so many democrats not answering that question or avoiding it. >> it's the elephant in the room for so many democratic candidates. historically, sandra, it's really hard for any candidate to run ahead of the president's job approval by more than 5 points. it's a really tough thing to do. in both georgia and pennsylvania, the president's favorability is in the low 40s.

41 or 42%. as we closer to the mid-terms you will see the biden number and generic battle number starting to converge and may see republican challengers gain support as voters pay attention and start looking at who they support. >> bill: i hope you are around in september and october. this conversation is endless. have a good weekend, okay? >> sandra: thank you, josh. >> bill: we had five as toss-ups on the senate races. 10 that are interesting to watch. scan the country and find a lot of very interesting, intriguing and telling stories. >> sandra: good to see you on the big board, by the way. >> bill: i stay in practice. >> sandra: exercising those muscles again. all right. meanwhile safety concerns for starbucks to close another prime location after nearly 20 years. this time at d.c.'s union station. that is where we find aishah hosni. for many of us who traveled through washington often we know that very starbucks. how bad is the crime situation

there that something like a starbucks so commonly visited by folks who go to work every day there has to close? >> good morning, to you, sandra. that's right. we've all used this train station behind it. it is bad enough that now democrats and republicans are telling fox that something has got to change to help protect commuters that use this train station. union station technically is not in the d.c. metro police jurisdiction but according to data it shows that all crime in this neighborhood surrounding the station has increased in the past year including a reported stabbing that happened just outside the train station last month. some are calling starbucks' bluff. a group helping starbucks workers around the country unionize are pointing out that 30% of the 16 stores being closed nationwide had ongoing union activity and they are saying the closing is an act of retaliation.

but law makesers here, senators, representatives, some who use the train station to get to the capitol next door agree something has got to give. >> we have to make investments in transit to make sure people transiting feel safe. >> they are not dealing with reality. no different than the biden administration not dealing with the reality of what is happening in the streets of america. >> one thing i will note for you, sandra, i used to see a lot of homeless encampments here. those have disappeared. i guess removed. by the way, the starbucks store here closes this sunday. lots of changes. >> sandra: for anybody who traveled in the post covid years, union station is quite empty. it is much different. it has changed a lot. thank you very much. >> they haven't met a war they won't sign up for and they haven't met a veteran they won't screw over.

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>> sandra: l.a. county pausing its plan to bring back the indoor mask mandates citing a drop in covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths. beverly hills, pasadena and long beach said they would not enforce a new mandate. the mayor of beverly hills say no, we're not going back to that. and she made a lot of headlines for doing that. it looks like it had an impact. >> bill: they won, right? >> sandra: i don't know if you can get people back to indoor mask mandates. it would be tough. >> bill: this now from the "new

york post." that newspaper is now claiming that president biden may have had a much larger role in hunter's business dealings than he has been letting on. the paper reporting one of hunter's former business associates referred to joe biden as, quote, the big guy, in a text message. that message allegedly sent the same day the post broke the news of hunter's infamous laptop. miranda devine, a new op-ed in the paper. good morning to you. the fellow's name is james gilliar. the text, if they lose i don't think the big guy cares about that. he will be too busy focusing on all the other stuff he is doing. what's this about, miranda? >> hi, bill. james is a former business partner of hunter biden. he has links to british intelligence and this communication was on the very day that the "new york post"

first broke our hunter biden laptop stories. there was panic going on among hunter's associates and this was one of those conversations. and james is reassuring people that look, don't worry, if joe biden wins, we won't have a problem. if joe biden loses, we won't have a problem. they are talking about will the biden campaign, will joe or hunter throw us under the bus? and he is saying no, we're fine, the big guy he refers to joe biden. and the reason that is significant is because there are other communications on the laptop about the big guy who had an involvement in hunter biden's influence peddling operation overseas when joe biden was vice president. and in one case he was going to the big guy to get 10% of a big chinese deal. of course, joe biden has consistently denied that he

knows anything about hunter's business dealings overseas. he said it during the campaign and the white house has continued to push that line since. yet the evidence is overwhelming that he was aware of and perhaps involved in and perhaps profited from these business deals. >> bill: i am told by those who have access to this laptop material that it is dense. and you have to plow through a lot of material. and it takes -- we're talking weeks, maybe months and maybe more than that. this name the big guy the phrase. how many times has it come up? it came up with tony bobulinski in october of 2020 with tucker carlson this way, just roll the clip here. >> may 13th, 2017, i received an email concerning allocation of equity which says 10% held by h for the big guy. in that email there is no

question that h stands for hunter, big guy for his father, joe biden. jim for jim biden. in fact, hunter often referred to his father as the big guy or my chairman. >> bill: that was during a press conference when he made the big announcement. how many times did the big guy come up in this computer? >> look, it's at least half a dozen. in other times there was one associate who called him the big man. joe biden is sort of an undercurrent in everything. when you listen to tony bobulinski he says that hunter often conferred with his father my chairman or the big guy on important issues when it came to dividing up the money that was coming in particularly from the chinese. so there is a lot there. but i think the most -- one of the most sinister developments in the last few days has been

the whistleblowers that have come forward to republican congressional investigators, one of them gave us the big guy communication i just told you about. but also there are ones whistleblowers from the f.b.i. who are outlining a real operation inside the f.b.i. to suppress this information. we know the f.b.i. had the laptop from december 2019, did nothing with it. and there was also other information that they had, including all of tony bobulinski's material that they had in october 2020. and there was just this effort to suppress and also kind of smear all this information as russian disinformation to dismiss it so that it didn't damage joe biden within the f.b.i. and that really is scary and has pushed bill barr finally to say there should be a special

counsel looking into the biden family influence peddling operation and it is too big just to leave it with the delaware u.s. attorney and grand jury there. >> bill: joe biden is consistently denied this. an interesting report the other day is hunter reached out to the official photographer for the vice president when he was vice president in 2014 and asked to have the email -- sorry, a picture of the group who met in the vice president's office emailed to him. that's something else. comment. >> well, look, there are more than a dozen times recorded on the laptop where joe biden met with hunter's overseas business partners whether it was mexico, columbia, china, ukraine, russia, kazakhstan. joe biden invited them to his home at the vice presidential residence in washington he went to dinner at a cafe in

georgetown in april 2015 with hunter's business partners from three countries and he met them in beijing. he took hunter famously in 2013 to beijing to meet the senior people at the ccp at that time. he was involved, obviously. and i think it's just the white house has run out of time to explain it. >> bill: miranda devine, "new york post." check out her column in the paper today. we'll talk about very soon. >> thanks, bill. >> bill: 23 past now. >> sandra: new york city crime crisis spilling into an upscale neighborhood where police were drawn into a shoot-out there. the stunning details on that. plus comedian jon stewart putting lawmakers on blast for failing to pass a healthcare bill for vets exposed to burn pits calling it an embarrassment to everything america stands for and he will make that case just ahead. >> the pact act doesn't solve all their problems but it removes at least some of the

burden and obstacles and it starts to switch the burden of proof back to the government.

>> bill: nypd in new york. police getting into an early morning shoot-out outside a newt club in manhattan in the neighborhood of chelsea. police exchanged gunfire with robbery suspects who fled the season. no one hurt. new york city prosecutor alvin bragg defending his handling of teen suspects seen on video assaulting a police officer at a subway station. repeat offender was released without bail and tried as a child. bragg's office says our system must respond to children as children and intensive community monitoring was the proper pre-trial determination. there was debate about that. he had trouble to the law prior to the fight in the subway. meanwhile the shoot-out in chelsea we were coming to work earlier today and they have the

whole neighborhood locked down, blocked out. local tv crews out there checking out the scene. that's the way it is in new york now. >> sandra: that's the way it is. if the soft on crime policies and you see videos and no consequences to actions like that, it continues. >> bill: you will see more. pat lynch says we're having this debate about what courts should go to. the reality is it doesn't matter at this point. they are releasing everyone. the criminal justice system is not set up to protect the public from dangerous criminals and it's set up to fail. a lot of cops would agree with that sentiment. >> sandra: "wall street journal" writing about impunity crime will continue as criminals know they face few consequences. all too true. >> bill: we'll see how tough the mayor gets with the d.a. we've seen it here or there but not entirely yet. this from yet. check it out. watch. >> now they say this will get

done maybe after we get back from our summer recess. maybe during the lame duck. they're on senate time. they live forever and they never lose their jobs and they never lose their benefits and they never lose all those things. they're not on senate time, they're on human time. cancer time. this is an embarrassment to the senate, to the country, to the founders, and all that they profess to hold dear. if this is america first, then america is [bleep]. >> bill: jon stewart not happy. this after senate republicans blocked a bill that would expand healthcare for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in places like iraq and afghanistan. republicans say they were not happy with the provision that they claim was stuck inside the bill and they want it out. back with me today jon stewart. good morning to you. thanks for coming back.

>> first of all, bill, nice to see you. thank you for having me on and i truly apologize for always having to be in my car when i'm doing these. apparently i work for door dash. >> bill: i just thought you like the turnpike in jersey. we spoke two months ago today and i watched your clip from yesterday and as we say back in ohio, you were hacked off. do you still believe that this bill will get done in some form? >> boy, i pray, bill. it has to. these men and women have suffered for so many years exposed to these and the government has not fulfilled their promise to them and it has to get done. these men and women live -- they call it scan time. they get a scan every three months. if the scan is good they get a decent three months. they can't wait any longer. the delay has to stop.

i want to just tell some of the misinformation put out about this bill. no spending that is not related to veterans has been added to this bill. no last-minute budget gimmicks have been added to this bill. this bill is purely based on toxic exposure, healthcare and benefits to veterans. by way, don't take my word for it. don't take an idiot's word parked on a side street in new york for it. congress.gov has the text of the bill. not one word has been added to that bill from the pact act bill that the senate passed 84-14. not one word has been added to it. there is no added pork. hunter biden didn't sneak in and add in unrelated spending in the middle of the night. this bill is exactly as it was with the removal of one sentence that had to do with

taxation and rural medical facilities. >> bill: you went off on pat toomey the republican on pennsylvania. last term he is leaving after this vote. i spoke to him earlier today and he calls it a budget gimmick. he says there is $400 billion in totally unrelated matters and i told him i was going to have you on and he said you ask jon if he is really ticked off about this go after democrats and say to democrats get this provision out of the bill and it would pass today. that was his response. >> first of all, that's just not true. the provision was in the bill when it passed 84-14. ask pat toomey because he complained about it on june 16th when it originally passed. nothing has changed.

the mandate versus mandatory spending and discretionary funding is exactly as it was and that provision came out of the senate veterans affairs committee unanimously. it was not added to the bill by democrats. it is not a gimmick that was put in there and again, don't take my word for it. go to congress.gov. the text of the bill hasn't been changed. >> bill: he said eventually this bill will pass and everyone knows that. is that true? >> eventually is not okay. tell someone with cancer that has been fighting this for years that eventually they will get the help that they've earned. that's not an acceptable answer. it is dispickable to continue to use america's men and women who are fighting for this country as political pawns for whatever anger you have about separate issues. this bill is utterly and completely focused on veterans' issues. there is no pork in it.

it is a kosher bill. there is no extra spending on this bill that is not veteran related. they are lying. ted cruz came out and said they added this gimmick. it hasn't been added. ted cruz voted yes. there is a video on the senate floor that is despicable. >> bill: here is what caught my ear yesterday. i'm used to it, kay. what i'm not used to is the cruelty. listen, man, you have been in the cogs of the engine of washington, d.c. for years now. and you have run straight in just like you are sitting -- you have run straight into a head-on collision how washington works. a final comment on that. >> the way it works is a shell game of mandatory and

discretionary spengd. how everything works in the government. i'm so tired of the real life costs of their casual cruelty and indifference to the suffering of the men and women that fight for this country. if we can't take care of the people who take care of us then we're nothing. we're nobody. >> bill: i told you two months ago i would bring you back when the thing passed and you said hang on we're not there yet. i'll bring you back when it passes. i believe it will get done. >> thank you for helping get the word out. i appreciate it. >> bill: you are doing a great job for door dash, big tip for you, five stars. >> just make sure that rating stays high. we count on it. >> jon stewart, thanks for coming back. >> sandra: china is already an economic and military power and now sposhl media. speaking of china, it is warning that nancy pelosi visiting taiwan would be a red

line the u.s. cannot cross. congressman mike gallagher on the rising tensions next. >> i encourage nancy to go. i think it would be humiliating and destructive if she were to back down.

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>> bill: frankfurt, the capital in the bluegrass state. the governor with an update on the flooding. updated again. 16 confirmed dead. hazard, kentucky, eastern part of the state. they had six inches of rain come down in a couple of hours and the rivers flooded all over these towns taking homes under water. 16 dead as of today. tough news in kentucky. meanwhile got a new report indicating china is stepping up efforts to influence americans on social media. heads-up now. newly uncovered messages show a chinese government entity allegedly tried to open a stealth account on tiktok with the goal of promoting propaganda. edward lawrence fox business live in d.c. at the white house. what did you find out? >> interesting. bloomberg is reporting this chinese government account would send favorable messages about the chinese government

targeting specifically americans. again was meant to be an account that had no ties back to the actual government agency that was running the account. tiktok company executives tried to push back against the request. a spokesperson says the company declined the offer to support the request. in general the white house press secretary claims the president brought up unfair business practices in the two hour and 17 minute call yesterday with the chinese president. >> the president did explain on his decision but the president did explain his core concerns with china's unfair economic practices that harm american workers and families but again they did not discuss any potential steps he might take with president xi that has not been decided. i won't get ahead of the president. >> again no specific warnings for china to stop meddling in the u.s. either by propaganda or stealing intellectual property of companies. you may remember that former president donald trump went

after this to be critical eye to tiktok and the information that was being collected on americans that possibly being sent back to china and tried to ban the platform. this president ended that look into tiktok and the chinese company has exploded in popularity. now china trying to weaponize the popular social media platform to send those favorable messages without any ties back to them. back to you. >> bill: a warning there. edward lawrence thanks from the north lawn at the white house. >> sandra: american show of force in asia. the u.s.s. ronald reagan aircraft carrier and strike group entering the south china sea. the seventh fleet said the deployment was previously scheduled as house speaker nancy pelosi plans a potential trip to taiwan. china warning of serious consequences if she goes through with that trip. let's bring in congressman mike gallagher. welcome to you, sir. so this is quite a chilling warning play with fire and you will get burned says china's xi

to president biden. now today a statement from the kremlin expressing solidarity with china's stance on taiwan. where does this all go next? do you support her trip there? >> i absolutely support her trip there and i urge the speaker not to back down because the bottom line is that neither the executive branch nor the chinese communist party should get a veto on congressional travel. if she backs down, not only will it give the chinese communist party a massive propaganda victory but it will also weaken our entire deterrent posture. if we are too afraid to let normal congressional happen to taiwan, clearly we are signaling we don't have the stomach for a fight over taiwan. it will undermine our allies and partners around the world. i urge her not to back down. as for the call that president biden had the xi jing ping his friend of four decades i hoped the president would actually

tell xi jinping to stop the coercion but xi is trying to intimidate us. >> bill: something is going on here. newt gingrich, the last speaker of the house to visit taiwan as a speaker in 1987. here he is. >> this is very simple. if speaker pelosi backs down, what the chinese communists will learn is one more example of american weakness. this would be increasing the danger of a communist invasion of taiwan. >> bill: she is going to japan, a few other stops. almost like when this happens you make a side trip and you get it done. instead it was leaked and there is all this pressure from every corner of washington, d.c. just doesn't add up to me. can you help us? >> we don't know where the leak came from. it was leaked in order to

prevent her from going and part of the defense department and executive branch that did that it is more damaging. we passed the taiwan travel act a few years ago. the official policy of the united states government to encourage collaboration and travel and interaction between officials of all levels in our government and the taiwanese government. this violates the spirit of that were they to back down right now. it is a mess, i grant you that. we can't be intimidated by the chinese communist party. this is their playbook. they want to win without fighting. they want to just force us to capitulate in all these different ways and undermine the people of taiwan. >> sandra: final thought on the 15 key u.s. states where chinese citizens are buying up $6 billion of property. ron desantis is calling it a huge problem in this country right now. listen. >> i don't think they should be able to do it. the problem is these companies

have ties to the ccp and it is not always apparent on the face of what the company is doing. >> sandra: should they be able to do this? >> no, governor desantis is right. they're buying near military facilities. a purchase in north dakota unacceptable. why we tried to beef up the committee on foreign investment in the united states to look at such purposes. we didn't go far enough and they aren't doing a good enough job at protecting our national security. >> sandra: appreciate you joining us. thank you very much. >> bill: a family taking a social media giant to court claiming facebook and instagram targets teenagers with harmful content. the young girl at the center of the lawsuit will share her story with us. stead of letting s wrap their arms around us, could we put little handles on our jackets? -denied. -can you imagine? i want a new nickname. can you guys start calling me snake?

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we are in las vegas and how is it now? hello. >> good morning. as you can see we've been here all morning. the damage here in this las vegas neighborhood is pretty severe. the gate was knocked down. several downed trees. if you look at the house right here to the left there is a tree that fell on the car. basketball hoop fell as well and pan over to the left more, more downed trees, debris in the road. it has been an eventful couple of days here. if you've been on social media today you've seen people driving through water. looked like they were driving through a lake almost. water pouring into the hotels and casinos on the strip. this is the worst of the damage we've seen here. i've been driving around for the past couple days. this is the worst i've seen. trees down, down on the car, not even knowing if the person in the house knows what's happened yet. we've had a lot of damage

around the valley. it has been pretty eventful. the thing is, this is day three we are expecting today. we'll probably have more damage over the next couple of days. something we will keep an eye on. send it back to you. >> bill: thank you. good reporting there in las vegas. >> can you be led by the algorithm to interactive contact and confirmed this happens to people. facebook knows that they are leading young users to anorexia content. >> sandra: facebook whistleblower sounding the alarm of social media's harmful effects on is its users. this mother said her daughter was among the victims. they pushed 12-year-old c.c. down a dangerous rabbit hole with content focusing on weight loss leading to serious decline in her mental health. they join us now along with their attorney. welcome to you. thank you for telling your

story. c.c., i will start with you first. why did you get started on instagram and especially so young, 12 years old? what was your experience with it? >> well, i was at my -- my parents were divorced. my mom wanted to keep in contact with me. she wanted to do that but also getting into that pre-teen, teen era, you know, i just wanted to get. a couple of my friends were getting on social media and another reason i wanted to as well. >> sandra: how did it change your life, c.c. >> it started simple. it started innocent. after a while it became toxic. it changed my life not only comparisons were prevalent but i feel like the posts that i was seeing other people post. not necessarily people i knew but things that were coming up

in my algorithmss changed my percentective even on myself. >> sandra: what changes did you start to see in your daughter as the years went on as she continued to use this social media platform more and more? >> well, obviously we were admitted to cincinnati children's hospital for bradycardia, a very low heart rate. at points her heart rate was dropping to 30 beats per minute in her sleep. so she was actively going into heart failure. once we finally were admitted. cognitively, she could no longer concentrate. she was getting terrible grades in school. obviously the lack of nutrition and anorexia was causing the grain matter in her brain to deteriorate. she was once a very social child and creative and happy child. that was no longer the case.

friends weren't there anymore. she didn't really have much interest on that level. so eighth grade was her first hospitalization and she has yet to have an uninterrupted year of school since then and she will be a senior this year. >> sandra: c.c., glad to see you -- >> she has had a hospitalization every year. >> sandra: i want to get your lawyer in here. matthew, you are making the case that meta is causing and growing the mental health crisis in this country for kids like c.c. >> what happened to c.c. was neither an accident or coincident but the deliberate result and the known result of algorithms that meta has designed to addict children to their products. one-third of girls who

encounter instagram develop negative body images. healthy food and exercise and anorexic content occurred time and time again. the only thing unusual about this case is that through the love of her mother and the support and grace of god she is here to talk to us today. >> sandra: you are telling her story, c.c. and candace, we appreciate you joining us and will continue to follow it. >> bill: good luck to you in northern kentucky, cincinnati area. we have to run. you are back at 1:00, right? >> sandra: yes. have a great weekend. >> bill: here is dagen, see you later. >> dagen: fox news alert. two hours and 17 minutes that president biden and china's president xi jinping spent talking by phone yesterday. president xi with very strong