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a i'm aishah hasnie. alex alexandria hoff from washington. >> the chinese foreign ministry has imposed unspecified sanctions on speaker pelosi and her family. while in tokyo yesterday, the speaker says that china's action are part of an effort to isolate taiwan and she said her trip did not change to the statues quo. and calling the exercise in the taiwan straits a grave problem and several missiles landed in japan's exclusion zone. here is antony blinken. >> since china has launched a dozen ballistic missiles, we've been hearing from partners and allies across the region who are increasingly concerned about the destabilizing actions. >> the white house believes that china is using speaker pelosi's visit as a reason to

escalate tension. >> there's no reason for china to escalate the way they have. there's no reason. the policy has not changed. we're in line with the one china policy. the speaker had every right to take that trip. >> white house officials believe that senior level military conversations may still take place, peen even after they announced they ended cooperation with major areas, including military policy and climate change. former state department senior advisor said this earlier today. >> this is just chinese posturing. just them expressing anger and they think they can get away with it because of the weakness we've seen from joe biden. >> now, officials in taipei once again fearing that china is preparing by running a simulation or rehearsal, if you will, and chinese war ships and jets have crossed the median line. aishah: alex reporting live for us, griff. griff: well, there's a

presently strong jobs report half a million added last month despite record high inflation and a shrinking economy. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with more. >> hey, griff. the white house insists the country is not in recession despite two consecutive quarters of negative growth. the president who has been here over two weeks with covid insists this massive piece of legislation in congress being debated won't take any more money out of americans' wallets. >> this bill will not, let me repeat this, this bill will not, will not raise taxes on anybody making less than $400,000 a year. when it comes to the benefits of this bill you don't have to take my word for it. >> recall former president george h.w. bush saying his pledge of no new taxes. another question on this $700 billion climate health and tax spending bill, will it reduce inflation or add to it? senator lindsey graham has this message for the white house and

senate democrats. >> these are the same people that told you the american rescue plan would rescue you. this is a horrible idea. it doesn't reduce inflation, it's a vampire tax and reimposing it on imported oil, which will make gas go up not down. there's nothing in this bill to reduce inflation, it grows the government. >> some good news for the white house and motorists across the country. the price of gasoline has fallen for seven straight weeks and triple-a says the mantel average tore regular unleaded, 4.08 from a high of over $5 in june and some think now is not the time to spend more and risk the gas prices going back up. >> we're talking about this idea of supposedly reducing inflation with proposals that got us into this problem in the first place, such as raising taxes and spending and this is a crisis of overspending and overtaxing. >> the price of gasoline remains $1.69 higher than when president biden was sworn in.

griff. griff: lucas tomlinson live for us on the north lawn. aishah: congress is working over the weekend and the senate gavelling in moments ago. the plan is to take up the inflation reduction actlators on today after democratic senators manchin and sinema agreed to move forward on the massive spending program. >> we're expect ago long day, a long night and maybe a long weekend, but work formally begins today. the most powerful person in washington right now, senate parliamentarian elizabeth mcdonough, she rules the democrats can include in a bill to let medicare negotiate the cost of medications. >> by the time this process starts and the parliamentarian provides her guidance, exactly what's determined about what can fit inside reconciliation and what's going to have to go on the cutting room floor as the senate turns to actually working on perhaps ultimately passing this year's

reconciliation bill. >> ruled out of order, a rebate for inflation under medicare. ruled in order, a $74 billion excise tax for firms when they buy back their own stocks. >> i hate stock buybacks, i think they're one of the most self-serving things that corporate america does. they're december despicable, i'd like to abolish them. >> and democrats are able to move because kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. >> and i told them thank you for holding the line on the senate filibuster, thank you for doing things to make america the less radical place, but you're going to be held accountable by your voters. >> expect a lengthy vote process and it's possible they could pass in the middle of the

night. aishah. aishah: we know you'll be watching it. chad, live for us on capitol hill. griff: it's going to be a long day indeed now. for more on where the bill stands. we're joined by the senator from tennessee and appropriations committee bill haggerty. thank you for being here and let's pick up where chad left off. the title of the bill, the inflation reduction act. how do you see it? >> well, the penn wharton modeling team has dug in deep. zero impact on inflation, and i call it the income reduction act. they're talking massive tax increases when you increase taxes on american corporations, where do you think the costs get passed on? through prices on the american public. they continue to wage war on the oil and gas in america making us less competitive and harder and harder for the average american to make ends meet. you look at the pump, we're at

record high prices since joe biden took office. the people in my home state of tennessee we drive to work and we feel the pain every day and this will not address inflation and add more pain. think about $80 billion to irs enforcement, griff. people over $400,000 have an army of accountants and lawyers working for them and they're coming after the middle class here in america and exactly what they've got to do. they've got a spending problem and where are they coming? to the middle class. griff: i'm not sure if you were able to hear lucas tomlinson, he played the sound bite of president biden saying basically mark my words, a george h.w. words reference, that taxes will not be raised on anyone making $400,000 or less. do you believe that is a moment that president biden will regret? >> i think he's going to regret it and all the analysis shows taxes will go up, prices go up and everyone is going to be impacted through the chain and vast majority on the middle

class here. griff: senator, let's talk about the jobs report and sort of fold it into the of conversation about american's feeling pain. jobs are up and unemployment is down and debate whether we're in recession. where do you see, i mean, what's your reaction to this jobs report and where do you see the economy heading in the next 60 days? >> what the jobs reports tells us is that the labor market is tightening and people are coming out of the labor force. that's very discouraging, you have to go to pre-pandemic levels is our economy as strong as then? indeed it's not. the biden administration is taking every step to weaken our economy and make us less competitive. we've got an orwellion process where you have technically two negative quarters of gdp and so recession. they're trying to rename that and saying it's not recession. and the biden administration is all about america.

>> and the white house saying essentially because of the 22 million jobs recouped since the pandemic and the strength of the economy, that come midterms, their plan will proven to have been successful. >> i think the midterms are going to prove painful for the democrats. as the evening goes on here into the weekend, you're going to see republicans fighting tooth and nail with the democrats because every policy in the process is going to weaken america and drive-in flayings up and opportunity less for our children and grandchildren. as the american people see this, come november there needs to be a dramatic change in the house and senate is exactly where this should happen. we're going to take control back in both the house and senate in november and that will be the message the white house needs to hear. griff: let me change gears because we had the big trip by speaker pelosi to taiwan in the past week. what do you see is the take away? did that benefit the u.s.'s

position with regards to china? >> with respect to our position regarding china we need to be strong, it's not words or press releases it's strength and presence in the region. what's going on there what you've got going ton in china, is a domestic problem. the economy is weak, what xi jinping is trying to divert the attention of the domestic, he's got to get reelected and trying to burnish his image as a strongman, he's looking to make himself appear strong nancy pelosi's visit is a mistake. and this is so the audience think he's in power. strengthening our position in that region and make sure that we are building our defense capabilities and not weakening. if you look at the biden administration's proposed budget. the senate had to step in and step it up. because they wanted to deface

the military in the face of this. griff: do the increasing escalating tensions hurt our trade abilities with china? there are a lot of moving parts here, senator. so did we perhaps put ourselves at a weaker position in terms of negotiations when it comes to the things like semiconductors and other things? >> i think what we've got to do is stay the line here, griff. we hear talk out of the biden administration they want to release the tariffs to remove them on china for what? that did not cause inflation, inflation was 1.4% when biden came into office. it's taken off since then because of domestic policies not because of our tariff policies. we need to keep the pressure on china at every turn. and say this, we've got to continue to build our strength and our posture and our image. it's not words, but deeds that matter to the chinese. griff: in the 20 or so seconds left. kentucky has been the center of the flooding disaster, but your state as well getting hit and how are tennesseans doing? >> tennessees are in much

better shape than kentuckians, we suffered last year with floods. they've allowed the national guard to come in and my heart goes out to them. 35-plus people have lost their lives. tennesseans are coming to their aid that's why we're called the volunteer state. griff: and thank you for taking time today. check in with us if you will, i think you're in for a long day and night. >> indeed. griff: thank you, senator, aishah. aishah: for the other side of the aisle we're going to bring in democratic congressman from pennsylvania and member of the house appropriations committee, matt cartwright and part of the committee. congressman, good to see you and thanks for being with us on saturday. >> thank you, aishah, and nice to see you at work today, too. aishah: i want to start with the inflation reduction act as the democrats are calling it. we're expecting the house to

vote on it friday, but we're expecting the inflation report. the new numbers on wednesday. what if the numbers are worse? how do you reconcile that on friday? >> i want to echo the sentiments of senator haggerty about the flooding in eastern kentucky and i'm here in northeastern pennsylvania and we have a lot in common with eastern kentucky, former and current coal country. we have a lot of flooding in this area, too. and we're seeing more and more of it and our hearts and minds are going out to the families of the 39 dead in eastern kentucky. aishah: absolutely. >> now, as far as the inflation reduction act, i'm going to take issue with senator haggerty over that. this is designed to help people with costs. you know, aishah, if you ask most americans did you know that it is illegal under american law for medicare to

negotiate drug prices with big pharmaceutical companies, they would say what? they couldn't believe it. but for about the last 15 years, that has been the law in the united states, not because there's a good reason for it, but because big pharma to push through. aishah: as far as how it impacts inflation. there's a big disagreement. everyone is pointing to this economist, that economist, an a number of economists sending a letter writing a letter to the white house, raising a red flag. >> the u.s. is at a dangerous crossroads, and the inaptally named inflation reduction act would do nothing of the sort and the current troubling economic complaint. even jared bernstein over at the white house, congressman, when he was asked how much inflation this would reduce, he

didn't say it was by very much. watch this. >> there have been various estimates of the extent to which it lowers inflation and i will refer you to them. we've seen estimates that take inflation down by i think if you look at mark zandi's work, it takes inflation down by a third of a point, i think. aishah: a third of a point, congressman. how do you sell that to the american people? >> well, look, let's talk about what inflation means, aishah. it means people are paying-- . congressman, i'm-- i understand, i'm asking you how do you tell the american people that you're trying to pass a $740 billion spending plan while we're still waiting for inflation numbers to come in and at the same time the white house itself is saying that it's only going to reduce inflation by a third of a point? >> would you let me get to the end of the sentence, aishah. aishah: absolutely. >> okay. the problem with inflation is that people on fixed incomes

really suffer, particularly seniors. so, if you let medicare negotiate drug prices and there's a $50 word formulary, that means a list of drugs and what we've seen is the senator working on a proposal in the inflation reduction act, to list at first, 10 or 15 drugs, that are really expensive because medicare's not allowed to negotiate those drug pricings, who pays for that? the seniors, every time they get cost of living adjustment by social security, it is eaten up by the medicare part d prescription drugs. that has to stop and that's why it helps with inflation, because it's going to ease costs and you can get politicians all day running down this bill, but the truth is we have to put people over politics. aishah: congressman, i want to get to this jobs report really hot jobs report. the white house obviously is touting it. but maybe not the fed. are you concerned at all how

aggressive of an action the fed might take because we're looking at a hot jobs report, coupled with such high inflation? >> right. don't be misled by folks who tell you what caused the inflation. it is the covid inflation coming out of covid. same thing happened after world war ii, people came home and the supply chain was interrupted because we were making planes and tanks instead of cars and trucks, and we went through a bad inflationary period for a time. right now in europe, inflation is higher than the united states, in britain it's a half point higher than the united states, so, that's what's happening. and in my mind, yeah, the fed probably should have acted earlier, but they're an independent agency and you know, president biden doesn't tell them what to do and certainly congress doesn't either. aishah: congressman, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. thank you. >> nice to be with you, take tear. aishah: and tomorrow on fox news shunned, sunday, make

emanuel will talk to ben cardin and have an exclusive interview with former ambassador to the united nations nikki haley, take a look for final and channel. on media buzz, howie kurtz will break down the mainstream media take for the kansas, price abortion vote and a fallout over speaker nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan only on fox news channel at 11 a.m. eastern. griff: speaking of abo, indiana is now the first state in the country to pass a near total abortion ban in the wake of the supreme court's reversal of roe v. wade. and eric holcum signing the bill into law, with the rape and incest and health of the mother, 10 weeks after the fuhr

fertization. >> and the biden administration is condemning that calling it another attempt to trample women's rights. >> and a car crash that left anne heche in critical condition. with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uhh... here, i'll take that! yay!!! ensure max protein, with 30 grams of protein, 1 gram of sugar enter powered by protein challenge for a chance to win big! subway's drafting 12 new subs for the all-new subway series menu. take the new subway club turkey, ham and roast beef. marshawn your analysis? relax chuck. i'm eating! alright, moving on. the new subway series. what's your pick?

>> actress anne heche is reportedly in critical condition after a fiery car crash yesterday in los angeles. mary anne rafferty joins us now with the latest on this crash. hi. >> well, actress anne heche is hospitalized in critical condition after crashing her car into a home friday morning causing it to go up in flames. the 53-year-old actress was trying a blue mini cooper and crashed into a garage. and she fled and crashed into a home and cause add blaze that engulfed her car. a shocked neighbor described the scene. >> there were three fire engines here and a lot of commotion, but the result was the fire that was going on, billows of smoke were 200 feet

high so i knew it had to be severe inside. >> and another witness said that she sustained burn injuries and conscious and breathing when she was placed on a stretcher and rushed to the hospital. it took firefighters-- 59 firefighters fuelly over an hour to fully put the fire out and the home was damaged after the car plowed into it. under the influence and acting erratically, we have not confirmed that. griff: mary anne rafferty. aishah: a texas jury ordering alex jones to pay over $45 million in damages to the parents of a child in the massacre. >> this total award of 49.3

million dollars including 45.2 million in punitive damages and 4.1 million to compensate the parents for the suffering they endured the past decade after losing their six-year-old son jesse in 2012. scarlett lewis and neil heslin say they suffered harassment from alex jones' followers, saying that the shooting was for tougher gun laws. around the globe, if you can send a message to various media in the world not just alex jones, but to all of them saying you can't to this to private people and torment lies, that you know are lies, to fit an agenda. >> jones' lead attorney says at that state cap would limit the award to 1.5 million and he

plans to appeal. >> his reaction was that, you know, he'd been found guilty before he ever had a chance to defend this case on the merits, that the, you know, the first amendment is undersiege and that he looks forward to continuing the fight, freedom of expression. >> one of the lawyers representing the sandy hook parents told the jury, quote, speech is free, lies you pay for. aishah. aishah: jonathan serrie, thank you for that update. griff: just a tiny fraction of migrants crossing our tiny border have been bused to cities like new york city by texas governor abbott. it's causing quite a stir in the big apple. an update ahead. age is just a number. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health. versus 16 grams in ensure high protein. boost® high protein also has key nutrients for immune support. boost® high protein.

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is talking about the bill at hand. let's listen. >> the working people of this country feel, very, very differently. now, on a related matter, i want to drill down on democrats' plan to take a buzz saw, a buzz saw to the research and development between behind new life saving medical treatments and cures. the american people know that the government can't actually make something less my by making it illegal to raise the price. the government can't make something cost list by making it illegal to raise its price. this is the college sophomore socialism. it's not fair that certain things cost more than we like so why doesn't the government simply pass a law making it cheaper? well, madam president, the world would be a lot easier for everybody if things actually

worked that way. it would certainly be easier to be member of congress, we could just vote to set the price of everything in america, snap our fingers and everybody in the country would enjoy $5 smartphones, $10tv's and $100 pickup trucks. >> that's senator minority leader mitch mcconnell talking about the bill at hand the democrats' large inflation reduction act. simply talking about the prescription drug prices there, saying he sees socialism at hand in what the democrats want to do. we will continue to monitor it and bring it to you as it warrants. aishah. aishah: in the meantime, mayors in new york city d.c. continue to call for help as governor abbott says he's going to continue to send more busloads of migrants to the cities, and speaking with migrants headed

into new york city. nate, what did you hear? >> some difficult stories, the group of roughly 50 migrants mostly from south america, arrived in new york city yesterday and we learned true horror stories about what some of them have endured listen to this. >> the first border that i crossed was from colombia to panama. the heavily armed citizens caught us, a lot of kids and women who were raped. to be honest, it was very shocking. it was something i don't wish anybody else to go through, it was very hard. even one of the people coming with us died crossing the border in rio bravo. >> i can't imagine what the migrants have gone through. you see the group arriving yesterday, they were met by 10 volunteers who handed out clothes, sandwiches and water and we know one child arrived with diabetes and didn't have insulin. texas governor greg abbott says new york city and washington d.c. are the perfect destinations for these migrants because the mayors of both

cities boasted about city services and housing. new york city mayor adams claims abbott is playing politics with human lives and asking for more from the biden administration. >> he finally admitted what we're saying and we're going to continue to be open arms, this is who we are in the city and we just need help from the federal government. >> federal help is not coming to washington d.c. at least not right now. the pentagon rejected a request by mayor yell bowser who wanted national guard support to deal with the migrant rush. governor abbott says over 6500 migrants bused from texas to washington d.c. since april and he says more buses are coming, not only to there, but also here in new york. and speaking of here in new york, mayor adams just wrapped up a press conference, we did have a producer there, he did not take our questions about how the city plans to deal with the influx of migrants. aishah: he's face ago lot of tough issues in that city.

nate foy, thank you so much. >> you've got it. griff: for more on this story, former acting dhs secretary and policy institute executive director and officer chad wolf, thank you for being here, let's pick up where our reporter nate foy left off about migrants, a tiny fraction of them being bused to now new york and of course, here in d.c., with d.c. mayor bowser getting upset just about 4,000. when i was reporting this past week on the border, in the rgv, in just the rgv, del rio and el paso sectors, you've got more than a million have been encountered and yet, 4,000 here in d.c. and bowser throws her hands up. a number of hundreds in adams in new york and he can't deal with it. what does that tell you? >> well, it meals that he they're out of touch with actually what's going on on this border. you talk about 4,000 in d.c., that's what rgv probably

averages and rio grande valley ap henderson in the course of two days. you have mayor adams and mayor bowser talking about help from the federal government. i say welcome to the fight. that's what texas, arizona and other states have been staying saying for 17 months. we need help from the federal government and do their job and secure that border. absent that you'll continue to see hundreds of thousands of individuals coming across that border and going to communities all over the country and i think what governor abbott's doing,'s having to shame some of these big city mayors to actually stand up and say, enough is enough. and we need to stop this and we need help from the federal government to do their job along that border so that we don't have to have these tough conversations about hundreds and thousands of individuals into communities all over the country. you talked about the-- you showed a clip about the dangerous journey here to the border, absolutely it is dangerous and this administration continues month after month encouraging individuals to take that

dangerous journey and put their lives in the hands are cartels and smugglers who care nothing about them and all they care about is profit. griff: you raised a good point, chad. the migrants, they went through the darian gap between colombia and panama, six, eight months ago, i went there. you could only get there in canoes with indigenous indians and a woman was raped moments before we encountered here and the group we rode out with and they continue this journey and it goes through honduras, guatemala, southern mexico, all the way to our border, yet, this administration has done zero that i can see in trying to stop the pipeline that's coming now from south america and countries beyond. do you believe now that these big city mayors are starting to have to weigh in, that maybe something will change? >> well, i certainly hope that it will change. i'm not going to count on it at

the end of the day. look, all of these countries along that route, mexico, central america, honduras, guatemala and all of those look to the united states for leadership on this issue and i, during my time at dhs, i met with many foreign officials and they want to know what is the united states doing to prevent this surge of individuals, and if they look at the biden administration right now they're saying nothing. why would they take extraordinary measures, which we need them to do, why would they do that if they continue to look at the united states and we're not enforcing our own laws on our southern border. and so, it takes leadership, and it takes will to do this and to make some very difficult decisions, you're getting none of that from the current administration and relationship at the department. they're not making any tough decisions to try to stop the illegal behavior to get it somewhat under control so you can bring some law and order back to what is occurring along that border. 17 months and no end in sight

that we're going to continue to see this crisis and going to continue to see that flow from colombia, panama, central america and mexico into the united states. griff: we have an honest moment christopher wray talking about them coming across. we have 15 hitting the terror data base and 20 gang members, one convicted in illinois of child rape. but there was a moment here before this state judiciary committee and senator john cornyn pressed director wray specifically what we're seeing coming across, migrants from more than 150 countries and a number of countries growing. here is the exchange. take a listen. >> i certainly know that it is an ecclectic mix of nationalities and the volume is just staggering.

>> and that's a public security threat, do you agree with me? >> to me, it represents a significant security issue and represents a wide array of criminal threats that flow out of it. griff: your reaction? >> well, i believe director wray is correct. this is a national security threat. the numbers are 56 known or suspected terrorists apprehended along that border just in this fiscal year, so that's an extraordinary amount. you have to go back five, six, seven years to find that number that have been apprehended so we're a little over a month away from the anniversary of 9/11 and you talk about trying to keep bad people and bad things out of this country harming americans and you look at the southern border and you see an invitation, that's why you see 150 different nationalities that are apprehended along the border and known or suspected terrorists and those are the ones that we apprehend and stumble into the border patrol

officers. you have to be concerned about the national security threat along that border that may not manifest itself today, but certainly will do that in the months and years to come. griff: concerns me the honest answer to this last question, can the border be fixed before it's too late? >> 100%. it takes very, very difficult decisions and leadership to do the right thing and hold people accountable for breaking the law and making sure they're not abusing of asylum system. we've proved it can be fix, you've got to have the will to do it. this administration has known no desire to fix the system. they want to keep processing more and more individuals into the country. it's the wrong approach, bad for americans, wrong solution. griff: chad wolf, thank you for the insight and coming in on saturday. >> thank you. aishah:. griff: aishah.

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>> a fox news alert. president biden has tested negative in the rebound case of covid just moments ago the white house releasing a letter, the president's doctor saying that president biden continues

to feel very well. given his rebound positivity which we reported last saturday we have continued daily monitoring, adding abundance of caution the president will continue strict isolation measures pending a second negative test as previously described. we will bring you more as we continue to get it, aishah. aishah: meantime the war between russia and ukraine is about to enter a new phase according to british intelligence officials as russia starts a now offensive against two eastern ukraine cities. alex has the latest from kyiv. >> hi, aishah, russia and ukraine pointing blame at each other again this time for the latest attacks taking place at a nuclear power plant outside the highly contested donbas region. this is the largest power plant in all of europe. it was taken over by russia forces earlier in the war and

rockets have damage add nitrogen oxygen unit at the power plant and there has been no radiation leak. >> the city, as well as nuclear power plant is built on sand. even any small explosions could lead to sand moving. we have dunes in our city that are moving constantly. >> moving further west in the country, the southern city is under intense attacks and at least one person has been killed there today according to ukrainian officials. the government has ordered a lockdown for the weekend. ukrainian residents were told to stock up on enough food for the entire weekend and stay inside as law enforcement there are searching the city for russian operatives. >> law enforcement is working to find them. only last week, ne they arrested four people and there are more at work. >> the conversation about spies is far from uncommon. this week, i met with the

presidential office here in kyiv and they told me that they found russian operatives and people working for the russians who moved into apartments near the presidential palace six months before the war broke out. the conversations with people working with russians living in ukraine is far from uncommon. aishah: i know in the last couple of months of just following this war, the battlefield constantly changes. where do you find that the russians are now really focusing in on? >> well, we've seen some changes just in the last couple of days, fighting has intensified in the southern part of the country, but when we're looking specifically at the eastern part of the country, and i believe we have a map that we can show you, there's one town in the donetsk region.

to remind our viewers at home heavily contested donbas region. donetsk and luhansk, russian sources have taken over more of luhansk. aishah: it's incredible after all of these months, they haven't quite taken it. thank you. griff: cancel culture comes after dave chappelle again next. ♪ from boston. ♪ it means, “ok-to-beer-fest”. another sam octoberfest? nein. make it ten! i like this guy. (cheers)

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griff: touting strong job report's but americans are hoping for relief from record inflation. live from lucas tomlinson. hey, lucas. lucas: just in the past few minutes we know that president biden tested negative for covid-19 but what's not in debate the country in defense. the labor secretary said the following. >> it's a global recession. we can't lose sight of that. what's happening in the united states and across the globe and in high level in some places. >> triple a down from all-time high of over 5 bucks back in june. >> last one, why is the president bragging today about gas prices? >> because it's gone down. >> it's still 1.72 higher than when he took office. >> it has come down in a way that we haven't seen, trajectory

coming down in over a decade. >> four dollars a gallon. is that good? >> lucas: lindsey graham had a message to the white house. >> these are the same people told you that the rescue plan would rescue. it's a vampire tax. there's nothing in this bill to reduce inflation. it grows the government. lucas: as aishah said despite the negative test the president will remain isolated until he receives a second negative test, griff. griff: lucas, quick follow-up, this is breaking, you may not fully understand, but do we anticipate hearing from the president or his doctor or anyone else today on where his health stands? >> no announcement right now, griff, the president is anxious to see the massive spending bill pass the senate is in session working on that and the

president might not be leaving town until the bill passes and require all 50 democratic votes and the vice president to break the tie-breaking vote. griff: lucas tomlinson we will check as it warrants. aishah: let's go to dallas where the final day of cpac conference is taking place right now with the former president set to close out the event tonight with keynote speech, jeff paul joining us live from dallas with the very latest. >> yeah, after two days of speakers in dallas all comes down tonight and that's when former donald trump is set to take the statement and everyone here right now very excited to see him, long lines just to get into cpac and voters point to the fact that they believe conservatism truly still runs through the former president. they point to what just happened in arizona. up and down the ballot there for the primary, every single republican in every contest won

and had the endorsement of the former president. from state lawmakers to the governor, to u.s. senate. folks here at cpac say that doesn't surprise at all. >> i trust him. i like what he's did. he's proved himself and we had a good economy, you know, things -- the energy was good, energy independent. i mean, he gives things that were good for the country. >> now, in addition to the former president speaking later on in the evening, there's also the results of the votes, the results expected to come out a few hours before the president speaks. it'll be interesting to see if he addresses those results, aishah, griff. aishah: jeff, a quick question for you, how do you think voters view the impact of the overturning of roe v. wade discussion decision and the impact of january 1st hearings when it comes to voter turnout for the midterms? jeff: yeah, the voters we talked

to here in dallas they both are big issues but they believe by the time we get to midterms in november those issues won't be as big of a deal. they do say they were surprised by what happened in kansas last week with voters voting to protect abortion rights but they say at the end of the day, it really all comes down to one issue and that's the economy. >> most americans care about pocketbooks and right now we are at inflation. as a 22-year-old i have never in my life seen inflation. my grandparents when they were little kids. it's robbing my ability to buy a house earlier and start a family earlier. >> the other big things being discussed among conservatives here have to deal with protecting the u.s.-mexico border and the crime that seems to be impacting all sorts of cities throughout the country. aishah.

aishah: jeff paul live for us in dallas, thanks, jeff. griff: officials warning that china's large military drills rehearsals. alexandria hoff live in dc with more. alex: taiwan officials reporting this morning that the attack simulation included 14 chinese warships and 20 planes, 14 of those aircraft crossing the median line. secretary state antony blinken weighed in from the philippines. >> what happened to the taiwan strait affect it is entire region and in many ways affects the entire world because the strait like china sea is a critical waterway. alex: china is intentionally overreacting using it as pretest for provocative activity and called military exercises a grave problem adding that several ballistic missiles law

firmed by china landed in japan's exclusive zone. speaker pelosi spoke from tokyo yesterday. >> they may try to keep taiwan from visiting or participating in other places but they will not isolate taiwan by preventing us to travel there. >> pelosi and the white house remain adamant that the u.s. does not desire escalation or the change to the status quo. taiwan is a democracy that sees itself as sovereign and the chinese party reviews as territory and china announced that communication has been cut with u.s. in several major areas including military and climate policy but the biden administration that senior-level conversations may still be able to take place and china issued sanctions against speaker pelosi and her family. griff: alex, thank you very much. you know, aishah, the wall street journal reporting that we

may be closer to an actual invasion than we think. many experts -- we will talk to an expert later this hour, christopher johnson who was analyst on china on how significant this could be. aishah: we also heard from former intelligent officials that have predicted in the next 18 months we could see an invasion. i want to get to our panel now to talk more about u.s.-china tensions. former u.s. ambassador to china under the obama administration max bokas, he was also the senate financial chair committee while serving as democratic montana senator and cpac foundation senior fellow at the foundation right now mercedes schlapp, thank you both. you said earlier this week that the whole public back and forth

between what speaker pelosi was choosing to do and what the president told reporters about how the military felt about it. this whole public back and forth with the white house still hasn't conceded happened, you said that that it made the president look weak, why? >> well, could have told the speaker not to go. he did not. and on the other hand, she went even though there's white house indications that the white house do not want her to go. that's not helpful, no. the overall scheme of things, the real problem here is china regards taiwan is existential and describes as the u.s. and taiwan reportedly to china

policy and china sees that it is backing away and that is officials going to taiwan, encouraging taiwan move closer to independence. speaker pelosi's visit -- facing a whole new situation here, a whole new normal as you might say and i frankly think that we will see china stepping up pressure on taiwan and the reason because, gee, we shouldn't necessarily be so bent on independence. china is also trying to show in the united states, look what we can do, maybe minimize, reduce

on america's interest. that's what they are trying to do. aishah: i want to get mercedes in here because china keeps taking action after action, they are playing the war games around the island right now and in the meantime the administration is almost pulling back here. they are reportedly trying to lobby democrats on the hill to delay this taiwan security funding bill. it's such an important bipartisan bill for this island. they are delaying missile testing. we are seeing this -- tell me why this administration can't just come out one support the speaker of the house and just outright say that we support her and we believe that she did the right thing and why do you think they are pulling back? >> well, i got to tell you, when you have senator mitch mcconnell and a number of senators supporting speaker policy's trip. this is a bipartisan -- should be a bipartisan support of the speaker. being able to travel to taiwan. he's had other political leaders

travel to the island before. we shouldn't have to put up with the china threat of taiwan now that they are looking to continue the military drills in that area because we've had an american politician visit the island. that's disgraceful and it shows that president biden has very much spent a weak miami to the chinese government and he really needs to stand strong and say we are not going to put up with this. and instead what you saw was this division amongst the democrat party where biden was not being supportive of speaker pelosi. that is harmful to our national security. aishah: ambassador, do you feel -- we heard from senators, republicans, that this is reminding them of ukraine all over again? is that what you feel, are you casting a possible invasion in the next 18 months? >> no, not at all. they are very different. putin -- how can i say it, he's

a military adventurist and he wants to expand russia influence and has no right going to ukraine. this is my judgment. on the other hand, taiwan was chinese territory before the japanese invited and got kicked out. we all as americans subscribe to one china policy set in 1879. it's kind of like having the united states face another which is russia or ukraine while the united states is also going with china. it's been reported and i think it's true that the white house did a pretty good job in convincing china not to rush into the ukraine war. biden i think is doing a good job trying to cool things with china as possibly he can and one

action he took and china has not helped very much, little bit but not so much. aishah: i want to switch to domestic issues especially because we are watching the senate right now possibly pass the massive spending bill. ambassador, you were the chairman of the finance committee when you served the joint committee on taxation as well which by the way republicans often point to to show that this spending bill is going to impact the middle class very much so. how do you see this? do you think that this 740 billion-dollar package is going to increase inflation? >> well, inflation really is the word of the day. it has a lot to do with it as midterms come. reduces the deficit by $301 billion so standing clearly

but also raises taxes on appropriations primarily and middle class. on that basis it reduces the deficit and reduces inflation. there are economists and economists. >> there are a lot of economists. >> by 300 billion. aishah: seems like everybody has an economist that they turn to. mercedes, give me your perspective from the midterm angle of this. we have the inflation numbers coming out on wednesday and if they are not good, if democrats pass this on friday, are they setting themselves up for disaster? mercedes: well, they've already set themselves for a disaster because they waited too long to tackle the inflation problem. the inflation reduction act is the expansion act. eliminate 30,000 full-time jobs and effect on reducing inflation

and trying to salvage obamacare to make sure that the premiums don't go up before the midterm election. the democrats are on deep end. they have fallen too far behind because they focus more on other items like gender confusion or redefining what a woman is and they don't even want to define what a recession is. they are recession deniers and so in essence i think that the democrats are going to be in a very difficult position to win the midterm elections. i have to tell you just here at cpac, the people that are enthusiastic and the people that are going to go out and vote are going to be the conservatives, the republicans, you're seeing independents, the hispanic vote going to the republican party instead of focusing on how the u.s. can be not only energy

independent but energy dominant. we are seeing the weakness that we see from a national security angle. aishah: before i let you go, the former president is going to make a big speech tonight. what do you expect the former president to really hit on tonight? mercedes: look, i think president trump as we know, he's very focused on continuing to talk about pushing back on president biden and he's going to make that comparison. under president trump america was strong, america was secure. we had a stronger prosperous economy where people were getting jobs, inflation was low and he's going to talk about common sense policies of border security and we didn't have this issue with russia and ukraine you should president trump's leadership, so that contrast is important. we know that president biden, his approval numbers are very low. he hasn't been able to gain traction because he's letting

the progressives run the shots and he's losing that coalition. aishah: we will give the ambassador the last word. >> president trump's america first devastated america. they devastated us worldwide and reduced our trade worldwide and cut off worldwide. we have an opportunity in this upcoming election 2024 to select a president, we don't know who is going to be running frankly but the main question who is best for america. aishah: and the voters will get to decide, you got it. thank you both so much for joining us on this panel. we appreciate it, have a good rest of your day. griff. >> thank you. griff: coming up one mom's battle crt wokeness out of public schools social studies books. that's next. ♪ ♪

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griff: it's that time of year millions of students across the country will soon head back to school but in texas the topic students will learn in social studies classes are under hot debate. the texas state board of education is now in the process of revising its social study curriculum for the first time in over a decade. joining us now to weigh in

chairman of the moms for liberty travis county, texas jackie, jackie, thank you for being here. i know that you're joining us from cpac, i want to sort of address that. first, are the attendees there that you're talking at cpac, how do they feel, what are they telling you about what they worry about what their kids may be learning in school curriculums in crt and the concerns that moms have? >> so thank you for having me. what we are finding right now is that the texas board of education is rewriting history. the entire curriculum k through 12 is taken completely the christian-base and values of texas. we see indoctrination and so now

we are finding that it's undermining the family values and undermining as well the upcoming new board. that's pretty frustrating. this is what's happening to start. griff: jackie, let's show the viewers change to social studies curriculum. you can see on the screen. they want to remove before christ and year of our lord calendar dating system. they want to replace references to japanese american with the word incarceration and amazingly and unclear why they want moses excluded as a historical figure. is this really the jest of what's upsetting moms like you? >> yes, and they are removing also completely in god we trust which is by state law it's

supposed to be in classrooms but they are removing that also so all christian values removed and they are going to have eighth graders learning about abortion and learning about gay pride. nothing wrong to learning but why are we removing education and adding something that should stay in the privacy of the home and of the individual so we are finding crt under dei which sounds great, equity, diversity and inclusion but takes away religion and takes away values and also takes away things that we are supposed to be teaching our kids, you know, because in god we trust curriculums that matter being completely removed and history, geography, all civics are all under crt.

griff: jackie, you talk about the inequities. let me play for you a soundbite from the texas state burden of education social study department director. here is what she says about these changes? >> i would be remiss if i did not stress that inequities definitely exist in our current society. everyone is not afforded the same access and agency the opportunities. if we want our graduates from texas schools to truly be competitive responding courageously to inequities affirming values isen invaluable skill set. it's not personal. it's being responsible as educators. griff: being responsible as educators is what she says. jackie, what's your reaction to that? >> okay. it sounds great, but the reality that's not -- that has nothing to do. you are taking essential values away and you are using equity as

a weapon to indoctrinate children so they can become -- everything is sexualizing children and everything now is about race. this is actually irresponsible to say that this is how it has to go from this point on. they are taking away texas family values. that's what they are trying to do. griff: jackie, this process has just begun. as i understand it the final decision comes in november. do you believe that voices like yours will be heard in the final decision? >> i am hoping so because we also want our grate governor to get involved in this because what is happening is that the changes in the curriculum were not supposed to be made until january when have a board and

this was rushed and we don't understand what is the reasoning because they don't want new state burden to be able to voice, you neglect, their concerns and make changes that are based in family values. i think that there's something in the background that we still don't know what it is but trying to undermine some of the values. griff: well, you're hopeful but in the last 20 seconds we have, do you believe that the state board of education folks are listening to you? >> yes. griff: you do. all right, jackie, the moms for texas fighting for the curriculums in those social studies books, thank you for joining us from cpac. aishah: hard the hear when everyone is so loud in the convention. she did a great job. still to come, massive cleanup

underway in kentucky after deadly flooding there next. ♪ ♪ ♪

griff: china escalating rhetoric and military drills in the wake of nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan. for more on the future of u.s.-china relations amid rising tensions let's bring in former cia analyst and senior fellow at the center for strategic and international studies christopher johnson. chris, thank you for taking time. you have a wealth of knowledge on this topic. let's start where you see things standing. obviously china cutting off defense and climate talks with the u.s., continuing these drills which appear to simulate an invasion? >> yeah, well, today we have sort of the culmination of these exercises which as you said naval activities very close to

the coast of taiwan and affecting japan, obviously missiles fired close to taiwan than we have ever seen before and this certainly isn't doing anything to stabilize troubled u.s. relations. griff: we have not had the bell coast position in years, is this a new normal? >> i think in some level it is a new normal and it is in response to their perception of series of tactics by the united states over the last couple of years, certainly going back to the trump administration and continued by the biden administration where their perception is that the u.s. is eroding its commitment to what we call the one china policy which is what u.s. china relations were based upon when relations were restored in the 1970's. they've been saying for some time to u.s. counterparts some messing around or we are going to do something and we are seeing the fruits of that.

the goal is clearly to remind the united states that if you want to slowly erode your commitment to that one china policy, we are going to do something demonstrative to set the balance. griff: is it time to rethink the one china policy? >> some have said that's the case but what we see is a situation generally where when the chinese are comfortable that the u.s. is adhering to the one china policy we don't see this disruption in the area which is dangerous for all parties concerned, disrupts shipping, real threat of accident and so on and so forth. so far one china policy has kept the relationship from going adversarial that we could have a war between the two of us and i don't think it's a good idea to abandon the policy. griff: chris, how close are we in your estimation a chinese invasion of taiwan and the wall street journal has deep-dive essay on the coming war of taiwan, where do you see things? >> well, they have improved capabilities dramatically. what we are seeing on display

with military exercises f you wanted to capture 30 years of chinese military modernization in the course of a couple of days, look at what we have been seeing. they are improving their capabilities. my sense, however, is if there is a war in the near term and because the united states or taiwan provoked it by continuing to signal to china that there is this erosion of the one china policy, some analysts have said that 2027 could be a tee timeline, certainly that's a time when china's military capabilities will be peaking while the u.s. has slight dip before more forces, new materials come online. others said it could come as 18 months, we are on war footing, no doubt. griff: chris, let me ask you, we've heard a bipartisan accusations of weakness on the part of the president and this administration just in our recent interview my colleague aishah senators saying the

president was weak and could not tell pelosi not to go. do you see weakness in any regards to how this administration has handled this? >> absolutely. i think we see a situation where they mishandled it really and the facts are that the president tells the speaker of the house, you are not going there, you can't go on military plane and it has put us in a position where we do not look resolve in terms of deterring activity and confusing allies and partners without coordinating with them and president can't stop someone from his own party to raise tensions in the region. griff: great insight, mr. johnson, thank you for taking time. >> my pleasure. >> kentucky is again facing the threat of stormy weather and

flash floods this weekend. emergency responders have been on the ground since the flooding began. we are making sure that the federal government is stepping up as well. aishah: that was senate minority leader and kentucky senator mitch mcconnell talking about renewed threat of flash flooding a week after devastating floods killed at least 37 people in his home state. fox weather robert wray is in southern kentucky right now to just show us how bad the flooding is and how bad the damage is. robert. robert: you look at this, this is the north folk of the kentucky river right here. look at this. it doesn't look like a lot but this is what caused the damage here in this town, it came up 10, 12, 15 feet and destroyed most of this town. i will show that in a second.

to your point about the storms. it rained here all morning, very heavy. look at this bridge with the debris on it and the worry is that bodies of water like this and rivers will rise as the weekend goes by and the flash flooding watch but this is the mud here that's caked all over this town and i want to show you guys and if we could look at some of the video perhaps of clean-up and destruction in this area while we are getting to this other section here, with 37 people have lost their lives aishah, unfortunately, aid and volunteer groups are all over the region. some pockets very difficult to get to because roads are crumbled and these mountain hallows, it's just tough. food and water is being distributed but communications is lacking. as a matter of fact, i've heard from so many people that they could use some of that satellite technology that even elon musk has, the starlink for folks to

get their signals out of here but you see the debris, aishah, and i want to show you, ben west the photographer following me right now, this is what people have been emptying out of structures and homes, all of their personal belongs, business items and look at this, just unbelievably cake mud. this is what you see all over town and stories of desperation from people, one dentist here in the area, his entire business and home destroyed trying to figure out whether he's going to rebuild. that's the issue for so many. what they need is funds. they need people to come here and see the devastation and give aid. these folks here. this is not a wealthy community and region by any means but they feel that they have a shot and this is an area that is worth saving, aishah, you can see volunteers and aid workers giving food and water as humidity increase but more

storms on the way here in eastern kentucky, guys. aishah: robert wray, thank you so much. i know people in the hartland will pitch in and we will continue to shine a spotlight on it. thank you for your coverage. well, fox weather brings live coverage and hourly updates right to your phone, for the latest details on your area, download fox weather app and scan the code on your screen and keep yourself up to date. griff: meanwhile, we will take a closer look at why strong numbers got chilly reaction from investors on friday and what it means for the battle against inflation next. ♪ ♪ ♪

aishah: the biden administration getting a boost from a surprising strong job's report showing 528,000 jobs added last month and the unemployment rate down to 3.5%.

for more on what all of this means for you, for me, let's go to and for labor market we are going to go to our guest macro tend adviser llc founder and university of san diego school of business visiting researching fellow mitch roschelle. mitch, you are the number's guy, i'm so glad that you are with us on this saturday. okay, let's dig into this hot, hot job's report. some might find that it's uncomfortably hot. the white house is certainly touting this as a big win but i want to get to the one, i guess you could call it the one blemish of this report and that's the job participation rate. it dropped. talk to me about that and why it's so important that we don't miss that. mitch: yeah, and i think as the white house is doing a victory lap about a very strong job's report and certainly is that the one thing they failed to mention is that the labor participation rate and in english basically

the percentage of the population that's in the workforce. it fell and it's fallen to the lowest level since 1977 and if you're old like me and if you remember what the economic climate was like in 1977, you're really reminiscent of what it's like right now and what that means there are incentives out there that people would rather not work than work which makes absolutely no sense when the price of everything is going up. there's something broken in our labor market and a job report is a great talking point when it's strong but you have to focus on where the cracks are and i think labor participation is a huge crack. aishah: i think the white house looks at the top line number and the top line number is good. this report comes amid sky-high inflation and i'm thinking of all the americans that are working sometimes two jobs because inflation is just eating into their paycheck and they've got to make ends meet somehow. the president even tried to address that point while

celebrating the win at the same time. let's listen to this. >> i know people will hear today's extraordinary job report and say they don't see it and they don't feel it in their own lives. i know how hard it is. i know how hard to feel good about job creation when you already have a job when you're dealing with rise in food and much more, i get it. aishah: do you think he gets it? mitch: no, he has to take off the sunglasses and see the realities. here is the thing, wages are going up by 5.3% and inflation could be 9% so even if you have a job and your wages are going up, you're not keeping up with an inflation and one of the things buried in the job's report that nobody is talking about but i am that some of the jobs that are created are people who are taking a second job just to make ends meet. in fact, bernie sanders tweeted today that people need to take

two jobs in order to have a living wage. aishah: yeah. mitch: if it wasn't for economic policies that give rise to inflation that wouldn't be the case and i think the problem is bad policies. aishah: i want to get to that really quickly. we have 30 seconds left, mitch. we are watching the floor right now because the senate could pass so to speak inflation reduction act as they call it in the next 24 hours. how do you see this going? >> there's nothing about that bill that reduces inflation. it's more spending, it's more stimulation of the demand side of the economy and higher taxes on business, higher taxes on individuals, just discouraged job creation and we continue to need jobs to be created so i think it's an awful bill. aishah: all right, mitch roschelle, thank you very much for your expertise. >> have a good day. you bet. griff: coming up update on

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aishah: welcome back, now for a look at some of the headlines, los angeles county police arresting a suspect in that fiery awful multicar crash that killed 6 people including a

pregnant woman and 11-month-old son. the driver is alive, suspected of causing the crash. she's been hospitalized taken into custody. a fast-moving pennsylvania house fire has killed 10 people including 3 children. they were all members of the same family. local officials say 3 people escaped and they are currently investigating the cause of that fire. weather raining on travelers plans as thunderstorms forced airlines to cancel over a thousand flights on friday. 1,400 flights to be exact. the worst day for cancellations since the middle of june. flying is no fun anymore. griff: fighting continues in gaza after israeli killed 10 people on friday. trey yingst live on the ground with details from israel, hey, trey. trey: griff, good afternoon,

israelis continue to strike targets inside gaza strip as jihads launch rockets in southern israel. israelis targeted commander and they also struck a variety of targets from long-range positions to outposts killing nine people. this drew response from the group that launched 300 rockets across the border and shows some of the failed launches by islamic jihad. according to israelis 40 launches fell short including a number that landed inside the strip injuring 12 people and causing damage to at least 7 buildings. a senior israeli official detailed conditions for a new ceasefire as egyptian negotiators attempt to push both sides from the brink of a larger escalation. those conditions do include stopping rocket fire and removing threats from the border. tensions has been high in recent days after arrest jihad leader in the west bank last week. this was one of the driving

factors in the current escalation. hamas, the group in control of gaza spoke with fox news today calling this unprovoked escalation and added that they want the international community involved to try to stop the escalation. griff. griff: trey yingst live for us in israel, trey, great reporting. stay safe my friend. and aishah, that will do it for us this hour as we watch the senate floor, it's going to be a listening day for the senators as they gather. aishah: last checked all 50 democrats in house, they voted on a test vote, looks like this is going to sail through and the only thing that will slow it down is republican amendments. we will keep watching for you throughout the day and night. griff: meanwhile fox news live continues with our buddy mike emanuel and arthel neville. aishah: thanks for watching.

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arthel: a rare working weekend for the senate as democrats try to hammer out the final details on their climate, energy and tax bill. they hope for a possible vote this afternoon, but republicans have promised to unleash parliamentary hell to delay that. this as president biden, good news, justested negative for covid, but will keep isolating until a second negative test. hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville, welcome to "fox news live," and hello, mike. miami mike i'm mike emmanuel in for eric swn