♪♪ >> carley: president biden spending his weekend inside a $20 million mansion on a luxury island in south carolina free of charge. on the other hand, americans are struggling to get by with a new

poll revealing 75% say the country is going in the wrong direction. you are watching fox & friends first on this friday morning i'm carley shimkus. hey griff. >> griff: hey carley, i'm griff jenkins in for todd piro. while biden's away, by the way, the white house launching a victory tour to celebrate all of his so-called accomplishments over the past 18 months, that's said to include the massive spending bill which will likely pass in the house today and head for biden's desk. >> carley: kevin corke is live in washington with more details on the bidens. kevin, good morning. >> kevin: carley, good morning to you. voter dissatisfaction abounds as most don't see an economic rebound. that according to the very latest fox news survey with large majorities rating the economy negatively, including, get this, over half of democrats. joining almost all republicans and independents in being dissatisfied. so while the president spent his weekend, as you pointed out, on a luxury island inside a fancy

$20 million mansion, a whooping 75% of americans say, look, i'm just not happy with the direction the country's going in. alas, that is not stopping the white house from taking a victory lap. >> all of the things that this president has done in 19 months, the most effective transformative legislation policies since lbj. >> what we're going to do is continue to have the president out making the case, you know, a lot of these things that we're seeing congress pass in these last couple of weeks are things the president campaigned on. >> this has been an extraordinarily successful 18 months of joe biden's presidency. and what's notable about it is the number of things that have been done in a bipartisan way, as well as those bills, like the inflation reduction act, that the republicans refuse to vote for. >> kevin: everything's fine. it's all g democrats expected to push through their massive spending agenda today, even

though nearly a third of lawmakers won't show up for the vote for, you know, the inflation reduction act, and a lot of them don't even know what's in the bill believe it or not. don't take my word on it, look at what the cbo says. given the scope of the amendment to title one, committee on finance cbo expect that it will be a few weeks before we can fully analyze and estimate those budgetary effects, at which point we'll provide a complete cost estimate for the legislation. republicans say the spending spree is flat-out reckless. >> this is ridiculous, unnecessary spending. when the government spends more money unnecessarily, it's going to lead to more inflation. 8% is still a lot of inflation. it's better than 10% but let this bill start funneling more unnecessary government money into the economy, inflation will again rise. >> kevin: james comber there. and apparentlyup roy agrees saying this about the democrats passing this massive spending

bill most not showing up to do the work t vast majority of if not all members of congress signing this letter to vote by proxy are lying, there's no other way to describe it. and they're lying to vote on a massively harmful bill from the comfort of home, vacation, or otherwise. all this is happening as mr. biden's disapproval ratings are at record highs among voters over 65, among moderates and among independents. we're talking about 73% disapproval. carley, that's not good. back to you. >> carley: it is not good, kevin, but you're great and thank you so much for joining us all week. we appreciate you. >> kevin: thank you. >> griff: wow, members of congress voting on a bill and they don't know what's in it. that's a shock. i can't imagine that's ever happened. our colleague, by the way, dana perino hitting back at the democrats promise not to raids your taxes to pay for the climate spending bill because the money has to come from somewhere. watch this. >> i think democrats are having some regrets going all in on

this irs deal because we have proof, non-partisan proof, that you are five times more likely to be audited the less wealthy you are. this goes for middle class taxpayers and senator from idaho put forward an amendment when announcing this bill saying, can we put into this law that no one making under $400,000 a year get audited and every democrat voted no. why would they want to vote no? well, because in order to pay for the inflation reduction act they had to find the money somewhere. where's the money going to come from? it's going to come from you and it's going to come from these audits and that's why they had to do this. they'll come back for more soon but basically they're trying to audit the poor to buy the rich electric vehicles >> hunter biden seemingly involved in more shady business dealings this time while helping a former biden aide with his house campaign. back in 2016, an advisor to then vice-president biden named francis person announced he was

seeking a house seat in south carolina. one day later hunter began working to drum up donations including friends lists on e-mails discussing with potential business ventures and meeting with chinese executives writing quote bo zhang and his family would host us, a great family with great respect and relationships in china. hunter also met with his father at the white house at least 30 times often just days after returning home from overseas business trips. >> the warrant that the justice department used to raid former president trump's florida home could be released today. but legal experts say the affidavit is really what we need to see. we will even -- will we ever get to the bottom of what actually happened at mar-a-lago? >> griff: well, former congressional investigator is here with us to explain it all. that's next. ♪♪

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♪ >> griff: president trump hitting back at attorney general merrick garland after the nation's top prosecutor admitted that he, personally, signed off on the raid on the former president's florida home. >> carley: brooke singman has been covering the story from the beginning and she joins us now. brooke. >> brooke: hey, that's right, guys, attorney general merrick garland finally breaking his silence in a rare public statement from the justice

department revealing he, personally, signed off on the push to raid former president trump's mar-a-lago home. watch this. >> i, personally, approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. the department does not take such decision lightly. where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search. >> brooke: the attorney general also revealing his motion to make the search warrant public. >> the department filed a motion to make public the warrant and receipt, in light of the former president's confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances and the substantial public interest in this matter. >> brooke: and trump is on board writing on truth social quote not only will i not oppose the release of the documents related to the unamerican, unwarranted and unnecessary raid, i am going a step further by encouraging the immediate release of those documents. late last night, the washington post reporting that the fbi was

searching for classified documents on nuclear weapons that were allegedly withheld when agents subpoenaed trump back in the spring, but new york congresswoman claudia tenney joined us earlier in the show and she says the main stream media is grasping at straws. listen. >> everybody who has access, who's around the president in the closest top secret circles to what that situation is y would president trump have classified documents? these would be top secret and would definitely not be at mar-a-lago. >> brooke: now with senator ron johnson is calling for whistle blowers to expose corruption at the doj. >> i do not trust the fbi, i don't trust the upper echelons of the department of justice. again, the rank and file, those individuals, if you want to see integrity restored to your agencies, you need to come forward. >> brooke: and, guys, we could see a copy of the search warrant and a copy of the property receipt from monday's raid as

early as this afternoon. >> carley: all right brooke thank you so much >> let's bring in sam, former investigator to the u.s. senate and house of representatives. sam, good morning to you. what stands out to you the most from what we just learned? >> well, i think the thing that stands out most is just the unprecedented and destabilizing nature of what's happened. there was a tradition in this country that, if you're going to do something extraordinary, like raid your primary political opponent, you had to have overwhelming evidence of a serious crime, and you had to contemporaneously explain to the american people why this raid was necessary. why less intrusive means weren't petitioned. and not only have we not seen that, but we've seen a systematic doubling down on a refusal to follow this norm, and to comment.

and that is just an incredibly destabilizing situation to be in, and has real dangers for how our republic has functioned. >> griff:. >> griff: well, and sam our fox news legal analyst greg jarrett was basically calling garland out for hypocrisy. take a listen to this. >> merrick garland todaying unwhen ittingly stupidly undermind his own argument when he said oh, our standard practice is to use the least intrusive method. that's called a subpoena. and the fbi did that two months ago. they were counting on donald trump challenging it so that they would then be poised for a raid. but trump capitulated he gave them everything they wanted so they probably sat back at the doj and said now what are we going to do. >> griff: so, sam, as one who's familiar with investing these things, it seems to me that we really need to know what happened between those meetings in june, when everything seemed

to be -- everyone was on the same page, and the raid on monday. >> absolutely. and while normally that might not be something that's done in the public, in this instance, the department of justice owes an explanation and a time line. you know, we've seen a very public explanation in other cases. attorney general barr didn't have to release the mueller report, but he did. because it was important. people needed to know. >> carley: what do you make of this washington post reporting that the reason this raid took place is because the doj was looking for documents related to nuclear weapons. you now have trump's lawyer saying that there were no nuclear weapons related documents at mar-a-lago but, if that is the case, would a raid like this be warranted? >> it depends on what is meant by nuclear weapons. you know, is this very,

extremely confidential super sensitive information that could damage the credibility of our nuclear deterrent, or is this information that may be technically classified but is just a number of war heads somewhere. we just don't know. and, again, that just goes to show how destabilizing it is, that we're playing in rumor and innuendo rather than a clear explanation. >> griff: well, connect the dots, sam, we only have about 20 seconds left but do you believe, because the post article basically says that experts say they worry about this information falling into the wrong hands which suggests former president trump is a russian spy now which is what they started with way back when. did they not learn their lesson here. >> i don't think they did because they have a huge credibility deficit. look at cross fire hurricane. agents involved lied to the court to get a warrant.

when you have that credibility deficit, when you are doing something this extraordinary, you need to be open. you need to satisfy the american people that this isn't political. tell us why it was necessary. >> griff: i'm not sure they've satisfied that. we will be following it, sam dewey thank you very much for getting up early with us today. >> absolutely. thank you very much for having me. >> carley: absolutely. thank you. >> griff: well,s the las vegas strip totally saturated as flood waters soak homes and casino floors again. we have your fox weather forecast coming up. >> carley: and listen to this an executive with the new york times allegedly instructed colleagues to have democrat chuck schumer sign off on an op-ed written by republican senator tim scott before it was published. >> the more senior colleague said, let's check with senator schumer before we run it. >> wow. >> and the colleague, the younger one, refused. are you surprised to hear that? >> i am disappointed to hear

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>> fox weather alert, the iconic las vegas strip completely saturated by another wave of flash floods. and check out this incredible video from inside planet hollywood water leaking from the ceiling down to the casino floor. you can see the water pouring next to table games right there, major power outages leaving at least 17,000 customers without power, and more rain is expected through the weekend. meteorologist adam klotz is here with fox weather forecast. adam. >> good morning carley. you know what, kind of that time of year monsoonal rains around the southwest rounds and rounds of those get to that, but beginning with temperatures across the country, finally looking a little bit cooler. the dog days of summer and in the northeast where we've seen just intense heat over the last

week, a big break in the heat in the coming days where these are your daytime highs you're seeing a lot of spots into the upper 70s, upper 80s or mid 80s along the coast and as i take you through the weekend, moving through fairly quickly here it just stays cool so temperatures there right around the upper 70s around 80 degrees, much cooler less humid air only 72 degrees in washington, dc on monday. that's your daytime high. now, again, those showers that we were talking about taking you out west, rounds of big heavy rain have kind of fired up every time you get into the afternoon, big thunderstorms, and this has been happening every single day. it is the time of year where you see some of those monsoonal rains. this is additional rainfall so not including what we saw yesterday, widespread across the entire area you're seeing fox getting up to two to three inches of more rain, ground already saturated. that is enough for there to be flooding out there carley. so it's just kind of been that time of year where we're seeing so much rain and unfortunately i think more is to come. >> carley: all right, adam klotz

thank you so much we appreciate you >> a normer new york times editor barry wise exposing what took place over a republican senator tim scott that the gray lady never ended up publishing. listen to this. >> one colleague, a more senior colleague said to a more junior colleague who was pushing for the piece, do you think the republicans really care about minority rights? >> wow. >> and the more junior colleague said, i think tim scott cares about minority rights. and then, and here's the pretty shocking part, the more senior colleague said, let's check with senator schumer before we run it. >> wow. >> carley: joe concha here to react, i thought joe was supposed to check politicians not the other way around and the thing about this op-ed is tim scott's team submitted it, it was never published. >> it's really disturbing actually, carley, it's not

necessarily something that's shock going, however. you know, the new york times always talks about diversity in the news room and celebrating diversity and that's all great. but the most important diversity you can argue is the diversity of thought, right? and, according to barry wise, you know, here you have a senior editor questioning whether -- remember, tim scott's the only black republican senator in the united states senate. if he actually cares about his own race and minorities in this country, and then says we probably should check with one of the most senior people on the democratic side before we run this. it shows you that many of the decision makers at the new york times aren't there to serve and inform the public, but serve at the measure of the democratic party. it's not journalism, it's activism. >> griff: now, joe, since you're talking about schumer, let me turn to another thing i've been following and i was reporting earlier this week on bernie sanders refusing to outright endorse president biden for

another term. well, schumer just became the latest on that list to not go all in. listen to this. >> what's been your response to whether biden should or should not run? >> i'm not focusing on that. right now, if the election were held today, we would pick up a few seats. we're doing great. so please focus on the 2022 elections and let's deal with the presidency after that. >> he won't go there. what is going on here joe? why is joe biden having so much trouble getting up supporters for another term? >> well, you know, griff, chuck schumer is the majority leader right in the senate? he also agrees with an overwhelming majority of democratic voters. recent cnn polls 75% three in four democrats do not want joe biden to return for what would be a sequel because i guess the prospect of an 86 year old joe biden in office, and that's all he would be if he won a second term and stayed until the end is a prospect very few members of his own party are embracing because we're seeing the late

70s version of this president now and it's getting uncomfortable to wachlt i just find it amazeing that chuck schumer or aoc or other democrats like bernie sanders when they're asked this very simple question, they probably know it's coming, they just don't say he's the president, if he runs of course i support him 100%, it's even silly to ask that question. but it appears more and more of those within the party can't answer this question because maybe they're trying to send a message to mr. bind they don't want him to run without actually saying it out, carley and griff. >> carley: that's absolutely right and then the question turns to who, if not him, then who, and polls now are saying gavin newsome but you look at california and it's just a total mess. so the bench is very, very thin, if you will. yeah. small. there's also this sound that we have from abc news, and it was their reaction after the inflation report this week was revealed. and here's how they characterize

the situation right now. watch this. >> going to turn out to these rising prices in the hope that just maybe, maybe we are turning a corner. >> a gallon of regular will set you back $4.15, which for new york city, from earlier this summer, i have to tell you it feels like a bargain. >> carley: to be honest, i agree with that, $14.15 now does feel like a bargain, and that's the problem. >> yeah, it's like you play a football game a week ago and you lose 42-0. and then the following week, you play a better and you lose 42-6 and you say, wow, you know, things are getting better we're really improving. it's still a blowout. you know what i mean? when this president took office gas was at $2.36 a gallon. that's a bargain. not more than $4. i get it's coming down but, you know, we are turning a corner, though, carley, i agree, though, big time. because the president told us on wednesday that the united states inflation rate currently stands at 0.0%. it's a miracle, all right?

so the president's team just wide on that one, inflation still at a 40 year high, people still feel it when they pay for things like food and gas and they pay their electric bill. so until we see a steady decline down and it stays there for a while, let's put the pom poms away for a little bit carley and griff, that's what i've got to say. >> carley: the president is in south carolina on a lavish vacation so good for him joe. thanks for joining us. >> kiawah island are nice. i don't know if you've been there but you should. excellent job by joe biden going there. >> carley: in a $20 million mansion of course. >> see you monday. >> carley: texas governor abbott and new york mayor eric adams as the two battle it out. the parents of border states are here to give eric adams a reality check. >> griff: and parents after school board in north dakota

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meetings. >> ghaiven the word god in the text of the pledge of allegiance is capitalized, the text is clearly referring to the judeo-christian god and therefore it does not include any other faiths, such as islam, buddhism, hinduism. >> carley: well, we were joined by two parents from the area earlier in the show who think this move is outrages. >> so, of course, the next logical step in the progression is he's going to want to remove it from schools because it's a non-inclues water act. >> kevin: our board of education is frankly concerned with petty politics more than doing their job of ensuring the education of our kids. it concerns me greatly that he's going to come after our classrooms next. >> carley: you heard it there. the board voted 7-2, it wasn't even close, to end the pledge. this will not impact the reciting of the pledge in local schools but, of course, as you heard that is the concern that that's going to happen ex in. griff, over to you. >> griff: texas governor greg abbott is daring new york city mayor eric adams to quote make

his day by carrying through on his threat to send new yorkers to campaign against his reelection bid. watch this. >> i am deeply contemplating taking a bus load of new yorkers to go to texas and do some good, old-fashioned door knocking. >> go ahead mayor, make my day. they are now getting a taste of what we're having to deal with. >> parents maryanne mendoza laura wilkerson and jemele shaw all had their sons killed by illegal immigrants. i've had the honor of i believe interviewing all of you at one point. they join us now. i want to give each of you the time to speak directly to mayor adams with what they -- what he needs to hear from you in your experience, your message to them. jemele, i'll start with you. >> yeah, i just want him to know, you know, i notice that when people get skin in the game, they always change how

they feel. you know, everybody was, we're a sanctuary city, come on everybody, free healthcare, free everything. and then when they all showed up, all of a sudden now they feel overwhelmed and they can't help it, they need the national guard. you know. what about us? you know, our kids have been dead for years and years and we can't even get them to say anything nice about it, they ignore us, but now when it's their families and they're being infected, all of a sudden now it's an urgency to stop it. but he won't even come to the border. you know, he doesn't even want to see or speak to the families because he knows it would be a reality check. >>. >> griff: well we can show on the screen what emergency he's talking to, 250 migrants have been buffed to new york city by texas governor abbott, not a very big number. laura, your message to mayor adams. >> he makes me laugh, i think

he's the biggest ever. he's getting what he asked for. he's a sanctuary city and you mean to tell me that 250 people make a difference to him? these poor women and children, they need help, you know, he should be standing there with a cold drink of water waiting on them when they get there. he needs to offer them child care. he needs to offer them welfare, and of course they need a phone. and then they need after school care. and they need buses and they need teachers who speak the languages. he's just getting a taste, 250 is absolutely minuscule. governor abbott needs to keep doing it, drop them in his neighborhood and every wealthy neighborhood in the country, drop them in the schools where their kids go and see where we show up. let something happen to one of their kids and see what we feel like as parents who have lost kid. he is laughable, what a cry baby. send whoever he wants to texas, i don't think they'll like it. >> griff: and governor abbott

frequently stresses that since this administration came into office 18 months ago, he launched operation lone star to try and get the border under control because of the types of individuals coming across our border. governor abbott saying that they have arrested, texas dps has arrested over 18,000 criminal migrants, quite a large number. marianne, your message to mayor adams? >> it's political theatrics. this administration, specifically mayorkas has been sending plane loads and bus loads of illegal aliens to new york and everywhere across this country since the spring of 2021. so the fact that a republican governor has now done this, and is bringing light to the dire situation at the border, that, you know, every one of our states that we represent, laura, jemele and myself. we face this on a daily basis.

250 is what comes over in an hour in texas and the same thing in yuma, arizona. we have been fighting for years. we have been sending this message. jemele for 14 years, laura for 12, myself for 8. and i'm sick of illegal immigration becoming election year fodder every two years, these election leaders do nothing about it, we have been warning them for years, they have not heed our warnings, they don't heed our border patrol warnings over a thousand people a week are killed by fentanyl and illegal criminals in our country. and isn't it sad that 250 much illegals on a bus delivered by governor abbott now has their attention. this is sickening. >> griff: sad indeed, maryanne jemele and laura thank you for continuing to speak out and for taking time to join us. >> thank you, griff. >> carley: turns out speaker nancy pelosi's son may have had a financial incentive to join his mom on their trip to taiwan.

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♪ >> griff: the biden administration has been bragging about a strong jobs market to

dismiss recession claims but the latest labor numbers tell a different story. >> carley: that's right. jobless claims reaching the highest level this year. cheryl casone from our sister station fox business here to break it down. >> good morning to both of you, an initial jobless claims shows american spying for new unemployment benefits hit an 8-month high. the weekly print coming in at 262,000. that was a jump of 14,000 from last week. and this comes as many companies appear to be poised to cut jobs, google wal-mart apple met a and microsoft have announced freezes or layoffs as fears over a recession and overall economic slowdown have executives preparing for potentially the worst. this as americans continue to deal with inflation at 40-year highs. the latest news we got this week, 8.5% for the inflation

rate for the company. >> carley: that has to be wrong because both the president and vice-president said it was zero. >> they did carley and you're right. what they were talking about, to be fair, is the month to month number, that came in flat from june to july that inflation rate but we're talking about a fractional amount here when you look at the overall year to year build that is what you're seeing what they're dealing with. egg prices the wholesale level, chicken eggs 44% higher from last year and i've heard stories of egg shortages in grocery stores. all that filters into the economy, inflation on one side and americans dealing with that and that includes rent and mortgages, that's shelter in the report, on the other side you have the threat of job losses and it's a very real thing. we've been talking about that actually for weeks over on business about the fact that companies are really going to cut. >> carley: griff i know you want to get to another topic with cheryl but quickly you just reminded me the cost of food i was recently out to dinner with

my husband and looking at the menu, the cost of scallops was $60. i was like those scallops the side of this table. i've never seen anything like that in my life. it blew my mind. >> griff: i wonder if there are scallops on the menu at the presidential kiawah vacation. we have to investigate that. and i do need to look at the topic because i was looking at this new job opening at the irs and cheryl it kind of reads like a campaign for signing people up for the navy seals or delta commandos. >> i know. i don't want my armed irs agent to be anywhere near me. a possible hiring splurge at the irs with 87,000 new jobs created if the democrats say this spending package goes through, this has been leading to interesting job listings from the agency. this one in particular creating some uproar on line for an irs criminal investigation agent.

requirements include working a minimum of 50 hours per week which may include you are rely hours and be on call 24-7 including holidays and weekends. sounds like a news job. >> carley: it does. >> sounds like our lives. but you may have to quote carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force if necessary. yeah, this woman claudia tenney joined us last hour on this. >> wow, how many people do you know that may owe a couple thousand, $500, $2,000 to the irs are dangerous and they need to weapon eyes 87,000 new officers? that makes the irs the size of the u.s. marine corps and now they're armed just like the u.s. marine corps. >> and they're going to be going after small businesses. that's another topic. anyway the proposed inflation reduction act includes 80 billion for the irs to expand audits and enforcement. >> griff: i wonder if the requirement involves wearing a

headband and carrying a rambo knife in your mouth while you swim in treacherous waters. >> carley: i know, when you think of the irs agent, the thing that was interesting about this is you actually do have to be an irs agent. you need to have an economic, like, econ finance background and you also have to have a law enforcement background so it's a really super specific person to have this job. also, cheryl, nancy pelosi, she's been speaking out against china, has received a lot of bipartisan support for that but now we're learning that her son, paul pelosi jr. apparently made a lot of money off of china. >> we're learning a lot more about her son, in particular his travel schedule. nancy pelosi's son paul pelosi jr. who secretly accompanied his mother on her controversial trip to taiwan, is the second largest investor in a $22 million chinese telecome company. now these revelations are erly similar to hunter biden's overseas dealing as the son of a

prominent democrat, pelosi sitting on the board. miranda devine calling out hypocrisy in this. >> to hear that paul pelosi jr. is, similar to hunter biden on, you know, having a lucrative board seat on a chinese company. china is doing this because they want influence at the very top level of our government. >> to be clear here, again, you know, her son went with her, she says, her office says in response, well, it was because her husband konta company her as her escort but, you know, again, here we go with the son of a prominent democrat using those -- that tie and that clout to make a little money. >> carley: yeah. >> serving on a board. which by the way is like the easiest thing in the world to serve on a board of a company. >> carley: i just live for the day to serve on a board. that's when you know you've made it. our your parents have made it. cheryl thank you so much. >> you bet. >> carley: are you having trouble paying your bills? how do you feel about president

biden and his scandal plagued son hunter living it up in a $20 million mansion for free? >> griff: that's right, the first family is enjoying a fancy vacation and congresswoman nancy mace is here to tell us how she feels about that but first let's check in with brian kilmeade to see what's coming up on fox and friends. >> griff, you stay for free at the border in your free time, let's be honest and trans barn that and you seem to enjoy it. no pool or accommodations or overhead shots but you do have a drone team >> let me tell i you what's coming up in the next three hours beginning in ten minutes. we are awaiting the release of the doj documents for the raid of mar-a-lago as attorney general merrick garland says he personally approved the warrants, looks like the trump team will not stand in the way and they say release all the information. congresswoman elise stefanik will be there that's her picture plus president biden is bragging about zero inflation so why are we passing the inflation reduction act we're asking chip

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they are just friends. >> south carolina congresswoman nancy mace joins us now. congresswoman, your reaction. i want to welcome the feel kiawah. if you haven't come to visit visit our neck of the woods. we depend on tourism in the low country. the other thing i want to say about this i hope that president biden learns something on his trip down because when you travel down to kiawah you travel by and over some of the most rural and poorest areas of south carolina. families that workers that are really struggling through covid-19 can't pay their rent. can't afford gas or groceries, having trouble helping their kids get to school. we are really struggling there but one of the other things being a red state with a conservative governor, while he is on kiawah, he has clean air, clean beaches, clean water. and i hope can he learn from that trip as well to see that conservative leadership is great leadership. it's safe. we enjoy law and order and we

fund our police. great opportunity to showcase all of the beautiful benefits living on the beaches of south carolina. >> carley: also the raid the mar-a-lago that just took place and hunter biden is on this trip in south carolina. his house never got raided near did hillary clinton's. are these things just a coincidence or is there political motivation within the fbi? you saw after the raid first 48 hours it spectacularly back fired not just with conservatives but those on the other side of the aisle. had you classically liberal talking about how grave this precedent was being set. i'm glad to see merrick garland say something publicly yesterday. i agree with the former president and the doj, we want to see those records unsealed so the american people have more information this never happened before and you saw merrick garland doing damage control yesterday afternoon server with

classified information on it. sandy berger also part of the clinton administration, his home was never raided and he stole classified information from the national archives out of the building. you see the left is never held accountable on the issues. that's part of the reason to believe people are so angry about what happened the other night. >> griff: congresswoman, people are going to start getting angry if they start getting more audits. the reduction act. 80 billion to beef up the irs which could add a lot more irs agents who will likely go after lower and middle income people more than millionaires. >> right. 87,000 agents. the third infantry division is about 21,000 soldiers. we are talking about four infantry divisions of irs agents that are armed that are spying on your venmo, your bank

account. they say they are not going to go after those making less than 400,000 a year. we have been told a lot by the biden administration that just hasn't been true over the years. and people are really angry about this. if they were hiring them to get their refunds faster, i think we would all be cheering for joy. because there is a huge backlog at the irs. i get calls every single day about it but, instead, they are going to be going after hardworking americans. and you're a small business making over $400,000 a year as an escort for example. you will have less money to reinvest as a business or employees or research and development. it's going to make inflation worse. inflation is caused by spending. you can't solve it by more spending. >> carley: are you hearing from any democrats that might vote no on this inflation reduction act? >> not so far. and i just flew in late last night for the vote today. i am deeply concerned about the deficit spending in this bill and what it is going to do over the next 5, 7, 10 years.

i haven't heard a word. we will see what happens on the 'bill. >> griff: thank you for being here. great insight. carley, it's been great to be with you as well with todd on a much deserved day off. >> carley: yeah, it's great to see -- we do this split screen thing we have to see each other in person again. meanwhile "fox & friends" is going to start right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ living each day one day at a time ♪ ain't making no worry any bigger than it is >> ainsley: that is joe nichols or the stage is getting ready for joe nicoles. he was getting micked up yesterday for the show.