treadmill, and my daughter, was like tucker, tucker, tucker, we watched tucker on fox news. good job, baby blake. >> we are getting there, she has a future president, you know. >> great to see you. >> wonderful to see you. >> cheryl, great to have you, too. that's going to do it for us on "outnumbered." how do you fox news? see how "america reports" does. >> i fox news right here. "america reports," president biden set so sign the democrat's massive tax and spending bill into law this afternoon. a major legislative victory for his party heading into the midterms, despite the fact that bipartisan experts agree it should not be named inflation reduction act because it won't. >> gillian: both john and sandra are off today. president biden was on vacation

in south carolina, and billions in new climate spending. >> bret: president biden will hit the road to promote the legislation but yet to see if vulnerable democrats appear alongside him. his poll numbers are around 40%. >> gillian: peter doocy is with us to kick things off from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. what part of this bill are officials hoping to highlight this afternoon? >> peter: it's not inflation reduction so far, gillian, even though it is called the inflation reduction act. instead the president is teasing this bill signing by highlighting the green impact. he tweeted the inflation reduction act will position america to meet my climate goals, saving families hundreds a year in energy costs and take advantage of clean energy and electric vehicle tax credits, more than twice the savings. the package was more than twice this size but even the slimmed-down version, the

democrats in congress negotiated so it could pass, has republican colleagues nervous about what comes next because economists, largely agree the last big biden spending bill, the american rescue plan, contributed to current inflation. >> we know that more government spending leads to more inflation. unfortunately, the democrats just passed a partisan bill that significantly increases government spending and grows the size of the government. so, we are going to see more inflation now because of more bad policies by joe biden and the congressional democrats. >> peter: republicans on the house ways and means committee, they see about 20 billion on the horizon on new taxes of people making under $400,000 a year. if thas the case, it will break the promise. >> making the large corporations

in america pay their fair share, no more taxes on people making under $400,000 a year. >> president biden is flying solo, the first lady has covid. she stayed behind in south carolina and so we expect the president to land here shortly from a south carolina vacation. sign the bill and then a little after that, head on to delaware for a vacation there. gillian. >> gillian: peter doocy kicking us off from the north lawn. the house gop audit of the legislation found that about 60% of the new audits are going to target americans who make less than 75k a year. >> bret: that's the big issue pointing to, critics of the bill as it's going to get signed into law. the other thing, 87,000 irs officials, agents and officials. if you add it up, the irs at the end of this will have more employees than the pentagon, the state department and the border patrol combined. that's pretty amazing.

>> gillian: and doubling of their workforce. >> bret: concern about government overreach and expanding government is real as this goes into effect, administration obviously touting the climate change aspects of this, that the president has been fighting about for a long time. grover norquist a little bit later this hour talking about that here on fox. meantime, voters in wyoming and alaska are heading to the polls today. key primary races in both states will be another test for former president trump's influence, and the most closely watched contests may be congresswoman liz cheney's bid for re-election against trump backed candidate. rich is in casper, wyoming taking a look at the race. what are the candidates up to today? >> rich: we have no idea, neither campaign will share what the candidates are doing, nor what they have been doing over the past several days we have been here. we are at a polling place we expect congresswoman liz cheney may come vote but have not seen her yet.

polls have been open 3, 4 hours so far. you mentioned when you talk about what this election, what this primary means, house minority leader kevin mccarthy is in town for a fundraiser and says it's a referendum on congresswoman cheney and the january 6th committee work. and called president trump and his behavior and on that day and surrounding january 6th a domestic threat to the united states. her opponent, trump backs her as does mccarthy and about 100 other house republicans. they have refused repeated requests for interviews, neither candidate has held an open campaign event or say where they have been in wyoming. largely focused on cheney's work on january 6th committee and writes you don't have to be cynical to suspect she's using

the house seat to run for president in 2024. federal election data says cheney has raised more than $16 million, broken multiple fundraising efforts, and has only spent about half that. feeding into speculation she may use the remaining funds to run for president. last month on fox news sunday, bret, you asked cheney whether she planned to run for president, she would not say either way. polls close 7:00 p.m. local tonight, 9:00 p.m. eastern. back to you, bret. >> bret: rich was from wilson, wyoming. >> gillian: the judge overseeing the search warrant on president trump's estate have scheduled an in-person hearing for this thursday. comes after the doj asked the court to keep the affidavit secret. they say releasing it publicly could interfere with the ongoing investigation. pennsylvania congressman brian fitzpatrick is weighing in, the

only former fbi agent serving in congress. begin with mark meredith. what do we know, what can we expect to learn in this hearing? >> we know the hearing could be pivotal to decide how much if any additional information will be released in this controversial case. the former president announced he wants the affidavit released and if that happens, it would be a stunning turn of events. it would also give both him and the public a much better idea of where the government's investigation stands. on truth social, trump posted "in the interest of transparency, i call for the immediate release of the completely unredacted affidavit pertaining to this horrible and shocking break-in, also the judge on this case should recuse." now, the government has already filed a motion asking a judge to ensure this affidavit remains sealed. it argues if released it could compromise the investigation,

and he is under investigation for possible obstruction and violation of the espionage act. several high profile lawmakers say they are frustrated congress has been kept out of the loop. >> show us the goods. what did they get when they claim they have classified documents as a national security threat, was there. so show us the affidavit, let us know what you told the court you would find and show us what you found, let's see those boxes. >> now even if the judge chooses not to seal the affidavit, it's possible he could allow release of some additional materials tied to the search warrant and the justice department has returned three passports belonging to the former president, apparently removed last week, and two of the passports were expired. i know it's also getting a lot of buzz. gillian. >> gillian: it is indeed, thanks so much. >> bret: reporting on the passport situation this morning. >> gillian: bret, turns out for diplomatic passports issued to government officials, they are owned entirely by the u.s.

government. it's often the case that former presidents get to keep theirs current for life as a courtesy. but still owned by the government. >> bret: we have learned more little pieces to this kind of drip drip drip about what has been in the search warrant, what they talk and now what they have returned to the former president. >> gillian: the truth has a way of sort of seeping through the cracks, you know. >> bret: pennsylvania republican congressman brian fitzpatrick, the only former fbi agent in congress. congressman, thanks so much for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> bret: let me just get your thoughts 30,000 feet where we are here as this judge now considers this effort to possibly unseal the affidavit part of the search warrant. where do you think things stand? >> well, i will tell you the -- in the standard case, clearly is not, but the standard problem --

protocol, they would not be unsealed until they are filed. this is not a run of the mill case. but one of the reasons we want to see the affidavit is not so much whether probable cause existed for the search, that's a low standard, but more importantly, on the continuum collection of materials, and extreme, the dynamic execution of a search warrant happened here and things in between, you can do to collect evidence. a forth with subpoena, you present it at the door, don't enter the premises but demand production then and there. why did they choose the most extreme, risky and high profile evidence collection technique, does the evidence match that up, one place and one place only, in the affidavit of probable cause. >> bret: here is senator lindsey graham on our air earlier talking about this effort.

>> show your cards, merrick garland can't have it both ways, he can't give us the inventory or the warrant without telling us why it was necessary without the affidavit. we are flying blind in the dark at a minimum, give it to the intel and judiciary committee to have senators on both sides look at it. >> bret: congressman, in the doj filing they write about not releasing the affidavit at this time. disclosure at this juncture of the affidavit supporting probable cause would by contrast cause significant and irrepairable damage to the criminal investigation. we learn more possibly where this is heading. what do you think about that as in the doj filing? >> well, that is the standard protocol, but this is not a standard run of the mill case, this is exceptional. a case of first impression, never before in the history of our country has a search

warrant, dynamic search warrant have been executed on the personal residence of a former president. these are different circumstances here and what needs to be reconciled, bret, is there would need to be the apex of classified level information, known as the sap program, sensitive access program, limited to nuclear operation, covert sources and operations, and how is it possible myself, mike turner, the gang of eight were never briefed on this. if it was such a grave national security threat. a lot of open questions and a lot of uncertainty and unrest in our community here and across america. so transparency has to win the day here and it's important to note the legal presumption supports transparency. the burden is on the prosecution to go back to the court and repeatedly ask the court to keep this under seal, so the burden is on them to do that. >> bret: there's been a lot of

questions and skepticism about past investigations, the russia investigation and all that transpired throughout that. raising, especially in the trump world, a lot of questions about this. the former president says he wants to turn down the temperature and he'll do whatever he can to do that, but also he's also saying at the same time that this was an assault on a political opponent by fbi agents. you were in the fbi. you listen to all the things that are coming out on social media and around the country. what's your message about all of this? >> number one, respect law enforcement across the board. local law enforcement was disrespected tremendously, their lives were put at risk in the summer of 2020 with all the unrest that occurred there. that was wrong. federal law enforcement agents are now put at risk, that's wrong. violence is never ok. threats to law enforcement are never ok.

that's not what the country is about. that's number one and most important. second, bret, is this is tremendously hurting fbi agents' ability to do their job. counter in terrorism, cybersecurity, every job is more difficult than last week. fbi agents cannot do their job without the support of the public. we need you to work with us, introduce undercover agents into criminal networks, we need the public when we go door knocking in neighborhoods, invite us in and share information with us. if that goes away, if we have a situation where every other door we knock on gets slammed in our face because of politics, our national security apparatus is undermined at that point and that's what i worry about and another reason why it's important the affidavit get released. if there is justification, the public should know that. an overreach, they should know

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>> gillian: president biden is set to sign the highly anticipated spending bill momentarily, $80 billion in new funding for the irs to beef up tax enforcement. a whistleblower says it will most certainly target middle and low income earners despite the white house claims to the contrary. grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform. sir, let's kick off with the details surrounding the 80 billion for the irs, the white house insists none of this new funding is going to be used to amp up audits on the lower and middle classes, from a house gop audit, 60% will target those who make less than 75k, and 10,000

more individual audits on people who make under 75,000, and 236,000 more audits making between 75 and 200. where does the truth bottom out? >> the irs has long said they expected the small businesses and independent contractors were their target. they want 1.2 million more audits done here. well, there are only 700 billionaires and 500 members of the fortune 500 large companies. that leaves an awful lot of space for 1.2 million audits. there are not that many rich people, there are not that many big corporations in america. they are targeting people that they keep telling us they think are -- restaurants and barber shops and so on. that's their target. and we know this because every single democrat in the senate voted against, to defeat an amendment which said this law

will not allow any increase in audits on people making less than $400,000 a year. biden's promise. every single democrat voted no. so we know what they think this will do and who they are going after. they voted that way every single democratic senator. >> gillian: the treasury department says about $600 billion in taxes go unpaid each year, they say most of that is rich folks who pay attorneys and accountants to help them, you know, invest money overseas and get out of paying it. they say by spending this 80 billion on the irs they are going to be able to recoup 400 of the 6 billion annually. if that reality is the truth, that sounds like a pretty good deal, no? >> well, that's not what they put into the budget. they claim the 80 billion is going to get them $200 billion in higher revenue. 80 of that eaten up by hiring

the irs workers. the left has been arguing for years that there was dollars not being paid. it does not make sense but this has been something they have imagined, but again, when you ask what they are doing, they are doing that thing where everybody has to have, if you have a $600 payment in venmo or paypal or facebook market, that goes straight to the irs, presumed to be become. it may be something entirely different, may have sold an old motorcycle, bike, cost more than you got for it. but unless you have the receipt from 15 years ago, that little note that says you have $1,000, that's all income. and it's on you to prove it wasn't. it's a vast expansion of paperwork and one of the challenges we have with the irs, they have not earned people's trust or respect. when tens of -- thousands and thousands of people's audits and their personal income over ten years was released a year and a

half ago, the irs said we are on it, we'll expose this, this will stop. they have exposed nothing. when the senate has asked them, please tell us what's happening, they say it's a secret. and what is the word to everybody in the irs, doesn't matter if you violate the privacy of people. we saw this happen in the past, they go after conservatives who made contributions to political campaigns that the liberals did not like and then they get attacked publicly because they are private contribution to say churches or other organizations get made public through the irs workers, auditors, breaking the law and sharing it out to get them and they are not firing people and not disciplining people. and getting rewarded with more cash. >> gillian: i want to quick, a couple seconds left, tease out something you mentioned a moment ago. if they laser in on the electronic payment transfers, like venmo, you mentioned, paypal, facebook, who does that

impact the most? >> independent contractors and small businesses and they know that. there's not a lot of that at ford motor company. >> gillian: we have to leave it there. grover, thanks for your time. appreciate it. >> bret: coming up, should the assassination attempt on salman rushdie's and iran's plot to kill two officials in the u.s. be a wake-up call to the white house? we'll talk to massi alinadaj. she says iran is trying to kill her on u.s. soil. >> gillian: and one year since the u.s. withdrew and the taliban took over. general jack keane joins us next. >> most significant military operation of the entire war,

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>> gillian: it's combn a year >> it's been a year since the takeover of kabul, tens of thousands are still stuck in country. fox exclusive with one of those afghans, former u.s. embassy employee who remains in hiding now. trey yingst is live from kabul. how does today right now compare to this time last year, you were on the ground at both moments. >> gillian, good afternoon. on this day last year, the u.s. embassy in kabul released a security alert warning all americans left in the country to

shelter in place. the taliban was roaming through the streets of this city. today taliban controls the entire country, and governs from kabul. >> we are on patrol with the taliban, no question who is in charge here. the group says the security situation in afghanistan has improved over the past year. american allies still here feel anything but safe. this man, for example, worked at the u.s. embassy, in a senior finance role. before that, he was a translator for usaid. >> life-threatening, you know, it's death basically. >> we are withholding his identity, he remains in hiding, waiting for the state department to approve his special immigrant visa, a process he says has so far failed. >> it was poorly handled and specifically it showed lack of value and importance to the lives and to the work and to the

lines that we have established. >> 15,000 special immigrant visas issued since president biden came into office. 160,000 eligible afghans are still waiting to be processed w no u.s. presence in kabul. this is the u.s. embassy in kabul, now deserted. on buildings nearby, the taliban flag is raised near to where american flags once flew. in a press conference last august, president biden discussed his perspective why the u.s. had to leave afghanistan. >> we succeeded in what we set out to do in afghanistan over a decade ago. and we stayed for another decade. it was time to end this war. >> the fact is, the taliban is back in power just as they were before the u.s. invaded. as for those american allies left behind, the national security council tells fox news the biden administration is

committing to helping those individuals. gillian. >> gillian: trey, thank you. >> bret: bring in general jack keane who was in the pentagon on 9/11, oversaw wars in afghanistan and iraq. thanks for being here. >> glad to be here. >> bret: a sound bite from the state department, ned price, talking about the anniversary of the u.s. military withdrawal from afghanistan. take a listen. >> ending the longest war in american history was never going to be easy. but one year later, stronger position as a country because of the president's decision, better able to focus on the threats and challenges but also the opportunities of today. >> bret: i would like you to address that. a stronger position as a country. >> incredibly stunning comment and does not represent the facts whatsoever. and it's irresponsible to make a comment like that, frankly, bret. i mean, when we went into

afghanistan, the taliban were in charge, and they were protecting the al-qaeda sanctuary from where 9/11 occurred. so we have now left afghanistan, it is a year later, the taliban are in charge, and as we have seen as a result of the attack on zwahi, they are obviously protecting the al-qaeda sanctuary once again. how could anybody argue that is a more secure position when the stated purpose of al-qaeda is still to attack the united states and we are not even discussing isis who has the same aspirations and who has a much larger organizational presence inside of afghanistan. it is just manifestly a false statement. >> bret: general, i've heard you before talk about this moment a year ago, and how it sent signals around the world that it project weakness of the u.s. and

perhaps had an impact in russia's decision to go into ukraine, china's decision to do what it's doing with taiwan, and iran's decision to thumb its nose at the world, or continue to, do you think it had a broader impact than just afghanistan? >> yeah, i absolutely do. i mean, first of all, just on our allies itself, all the nato nations there with us, providing twice as many force as the united states were and our contribution was modest, 2,500, no longer involved in combat operations, they all to a country had recommended to the biden administration to stay and maintain the status quo we had. why would they make that recommendation, because it was in their national interest to protect their people from radical islamist attacks out of afghanistan. you can imagine what, how they felt when we abandoned the situation, our nato allies, but also other allies. after all, bret, we were

fighting side-by-side with an ally in afghanistan for 20 years and we just walked away, period. so, impact on allies is significant, and still out there. not trusting the united states the way they really want to trust the united states and believe us, and when it comes to our adversaries, i don't think there's any doubt -- look, we are not the head of our adversaries so cannot tell for sure. but actions, russia, ukraine, right after, several months later they invade, china, taiwan, accelerating their maligned behavior, intimidation and coercion, and certainly iranians as you mentioned have gone after using their proxies after israel on a much larger scale to become more aggressive in the region. it all relates to the weakness of that incredible strategic decision, not to say anything of the fact that we abandoned the afghans to the taliban, there's

80,000 back there who we wanted to get out and just dismissed it because of the date certain. i'm convinced, that is such a stain on our national honor. it would take generations for us to deal with the harsh reality of what that means in terms of people's lives. >> quickly, general, we mentioned china. the u.s. military said today that it carried out a test of a minute man three enter continental ballistic missile, but it delayed that to avoid escalating tensions with beijing during china's tests or whatever you want to call it, the provocative actions of its military with taiwan. your thought on the test today and that delay. >> well, we have done that more than one time. i mean, these are schedules tests, our adversaries know we are testing our nuclear systems, we do this routinely, and why we would shut it down. the facts are that when you show

weakness and appeasement in the face of aggression, you don't get less aggression, you get more aggression, and that's the problem we have with that. this is self-inflicted wound, made no sense whatsoever and i hope we learn from it. >> bret: general jack keane, appreciate your comments always. thank you. >> great talking to you, bret. thanks. >> gillian: is beijing teaming up with jetta to hit american consumers? phil flynn says 100%. >> bret: and new border numbers are out. arrests hitting another record high and the amount of fentanyl seized is more than the previous five years combined. staggering numbers as we go live to the border next. >> talk about horrific conditions, go to the southwest border and see what texas and arizona are dealing with if you really care about these people.

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>> gillian: you may have heard about that wedding, more than two decades in coming. according to new reports now, multiple outlets say jennifer lopez and ben affleck are going to have a second wedding ceremony. the power couple tied the knot in an intimate ceremony last month in vegas, then went on to honeymoon in paris, where affleck was reportedly "freaked out" by the intense media attention. he called it "almost princess diana level". the pair famously canceled their wedding in 2003, citing the media, about you now reportedly have the big lavish three-day wedding this weekend at affleck's private property in

georgia. sometimes one wedding is not enough. >> bret: happy for them. i never thought the a-rod thing was going to work, a-rodifer did not have the name. sglil not the ring toit. decent predictor of marriage in hollywood as any. >> some fun celeb in there. >> bret: border patrol agents have made 1.82 million arrests so far this fiscal year, going back to october. and there are still more than two months to go. it's the second year under the biden administration and arrests have broken a record. bill is live in eagle pass, texas. bill. >> bill: good afternoon to you. what the new border numbers highlight the fact that the administration strategy of telling migrants not to come to the united states, it's just not

working. they continue to come and they come in huge numbers and it can be dangerous for everybody involved. case in point, take a look at the video we shot here at the bridge, yet another water rescue. a group of 4 or 5 migrants got into the water, got swept away, they were struggling to keep their heads above water, screaming for help. there was a border patrol boat as well as texas national guard soldiers on hand, they threw them life rafts and saved all those folks from drowning, but that happens very often out here. back to the july numbers, reporting just under 200,000 illegal crossings in the month of july. two-thirds of which were single adults. we have seen that on the ground here. there were only about 74,000 title 42 expulsions, that means most of the people who crossed were released into the united states and now 1.9 million illegal crossings in fiscal year 2022 and still have two months left to go in this fiscal year. pull this graphic up, we'll talk

about known or suspected terrorists arrested here at the southern border. ten hits on the terrorist screening database in july. we are now up to 66 total hits since fiscal year 2022 began. that is more than the last five years combined. certainly concerning when you consider we have had more than half a million got-aways since october as well. and take a look at this wild footage out of laredo. a human smuggler off of a highway, you'll see they pull off and a huge amount of illegal immigrants bail out of the vehicle, one after another. there were more than 20 illegal immigrants in that vehicle who went running off into the brush. that pursuit ended in a residential neighborhood and texas troopers did take the human smuggler into custody. and take a look at this concerning photo, out of tucson, arizona, abandoned bag full of weapons, had an ar-15 in it, as

well as na-k-nine, a pistol, and 300 rounds of ammunition. and back to the del rio sector, border patrol announced over the weekend here they had more than 800 known got-aways. one weekend, one sector here at the southern border. >> just doing the math here, since president biden took office, you have more illegal immigrants crossing the border than the population of los angeles. and more got-aways that they just never got than the population of seattle. >> yeah, the numbers are pretty remarkable. when you take a rough look at them, more than 1.7 million illegal crossings last year, 1.9 million this year, a little more than 3.5 million. then you throw in 900,000 known got-aways since the beginning of fiscal year 2021, so we are well

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large out-of-state corporations have set their sights on california. they've written prop 27, to allow online sports betting. they tell us it will fund programs for the homeless. but read prop 27's fine print. 90% of profits go to out-of-state corporations, leaving almost nothing for the homeless. no real jobs are created here. but the promise between our state and our sovereign tribes would be broken forever. these out-of-state corporations don't care about california. but we do. stand with us.

>> gillian: white teachers in minneapolis school districts will be first in line to get laid off when staffing cuts are made. this is regardless of teacher performance and seniority. the new process is thanks to an agreement struck between the city's teachers' union and the school district that mandates minority teachers take priority over whites in keeping their

jobs. let's bring in fox news legal analyst mercedes colwin. so, take a look at this. the district says we are being forthright about what we are trying to do here, we are not starting from a level playing field. they say up front "students need educators who look like them and who they can relate to." this language gives us the ability to identify and address issues that contribute to disproportionately high turnover of educators of color. they also say up front they are trying "to remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination." so, factor all that in for us, what do you think of this new process? >> well, let's begin with the premise the school district had. they looked at the student body and over 60% of the student body are part of the underrepresented group and you put that against only 18% of the teachers are from the underrepresented group. so, obviously they are coming from a place that there is a

compelling interest in making certain that they diversify the workplace and allow these teachers to be diversified. they put in language here, gillian, i looked at the language of the policy, they are trying all they can to make sure that they can actually rise to the level of the challenges, undoubtedly will happen. you will have caucasian teachers come forward, they will challenge this policy as unconstitutional under the equal protection act, say it violates 14th amendment, put all of that against, in these challenges. but, the school district looks and says it's a compelling interest in dissifying our workforce, number one. number two, we are not just doing race-based. it will not overcome constitutional muster. >> gillian: where does the student interest factor in? you read new policies, it's very teacher centric, very concerned about levelling the playing field for teachers and

administrators. the reality is there's a nationwide teacher shortage right now. so, is this really the best moment for students to possibly be losing teachers who are against this policy who might otherwise stay in the system? >> that's such a great point. and where -- if you are going to make other factors, whether it's race and actually they did not just put race, they put race, lgbtq+ status, and other things in the bubble to diversify the workforce, they can try to overcome the constitutional challenges they will have. but ultimately, the big issue, if you are going to lay off really good effective teachers and then keep those individuals, those teachers that are not, it's a problem for the students. >> gillian: we have to leave it there. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure, thanks for

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>> gillian: seems one of america's long time strategic partners is now teaming up with china to deliver a big middle finger to the united states. but as more of the world turns its back on the west and cozy up to china, a preview of the new world order. i'm gillian turner, great to be

with you. >> bret: bret baier, we are in washington. word the saudis are set to roll out the red carpet when china's leader arrives this week to make sure the welcome message sends a message worldwide. >> gillian: an analyst suggests saudi arabia is out to get the united states and is now using oil prices as part of a trap. what he says is a big threat to not just the economy but also national security. brand-new at 2:00 ahead. >> bret: begin with another battle that is closer to home in a fox news alert. >> gillian: it's another primary day and fox news is covering every race, every angle of democracy 2022. wyoming and alaska might not boast the biggest populations, they have two of the biggest names in the republican party vying for political survival.

>> bret: wyoming congresswoman liz cheney, and alaska senator lisa murkowski trying to hang on to their seats as voters decide whether to put them on the ballot in the midterm elections in november. >> gillian: and challengers are backed by president trump, and the parp were among 17 republicans to vote to impeach the former president. >> bret: and he has not forgotten. so far president trump has had 95% success rate in the primaries, 157 races that have come out the way he wanted since 2020. >> gillian: byron york and what the races mean for the future of the gop. jonathan hunt is on the ground in anchorage, alaska. rich, is it busy at the polls? >> it has been, voters have been lining up and members of the

media expecting to see congresswoman liz cheney vote here, but seems that's not going to happen. the clerk's office has confirmed to us liz cheney has already voted in the primary. don't know when or where, early voting has been going on but she has cast her ballot. perhaps one in her column, trying to defeat harriet and many are campaigning against congresswoman cheney, and says it's a referendum on cheney vice chairing the january 6th committee and criticism of the former president. she says she is standing up against the wing of the party that tried to overturn a legitimate election. and some republicans say it's not right. >> i think it's a desperate aspect of cheney's campaign.

>> impact i think it will have will be minimal, we are in wyoming, not in a purple state, so simply not enough democrats if they all crossed over. >> numbers from the wyoming secretary of state suggest some of that crossover may be happening. in january, more than 45,000 registered democrats, 196,000 republicans, this month, 6600 fewer democrats, 11,000 more republicans. we have not seen either candidate yet today, their offices tell us where they might be during the day. early voting the past six weeks. polls close at 7:00 p.m. local, 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> gillian: and now alaska, lisa murkowski is fending off, and

sarah palin is mounting a political comeback. how real is the challenge to senator murkowski? >> it's very real, gillian. senator murkowski has been near the top of former president trump's political hit list ever since she voted for his impeachment. so president trump enthusiastically endorsed the conservative republican challenger, kelly shaboka. we have seen her out voting today, she has been appealing to her fellow voters here in alaska to vote for change and she has been doing her best repeatedly to tie senator murkowski to president biden. listen here. >> she consistently votes along with the d.c. insiders, whatever makes her popular with the friends she's had for 21 years on capitol hill. her friend joe biden, she votes with him 70% of the time or more, but that's not in the best

interest of alaskans and we know it. >> now, for her part, senator murkowski has been appealing to alaskans to tune out the noise from outside, to ignore the fact that former president trump has called her "lousy" to ignore the fact that former president trump has called her "the worst senator in the united states." senator murkowski says she's entirely focused on the interests of alaska. listen here. >> you tell me any candidate, any candidate that will be on this primary ticket on tuesday that can deliver the results for alaska like lisa murkowski. >> so you are confident you will remain senator lisa murkowski. >> i believe i am, i am, i believe people will return me to the united states senate. >> there is also a special election today for the vacant u.s. house seat here.

former alaska governor sarah palin is hoping to fill that seat. she's been conspicuous by her almost total absence on the campaign trail, running almost entirely on name recognition. that has angered her chief republican opponent, he says this is not an episode of the celebrity apprentice. it is a fight for the seat in the u.s. congress. >> gillian: jonathan hunt in anchorage, thanks very much. >> bret: take a look at where we are right now. bring in byron york, chief political correspondent at the "washington examiner," and fox news contributor, taking a look at the calendar, here we are on the 16th and the next ones, florida and new york. as we talk, byron, about the situation out in wyoming, we have liz cheney and harriet

hageman, heading into the day seems the polls were heading hageman's way, and cheney had support outside of wyoming. your thoughts on the race and big picture with its messaging today. >> well, these two republican candidates are running very, very different races. if you look at the major statements that they have made, the big ads that they have made, their closing statements in the debate they had against each other, they are really giving two different messages. harriet hageman is talking about wyoming issues, talking about land rights, water rights, energy, dealing with the federal government, livestock, all sorts of wyoming-style issues and liz cheney is talking about donald trump and january 6th. she has decided to run a single issue campaign and the issue she chose is one that is very, very

unpopular with republicans, so it does look like it's curtains right now for liz cheney, we have had one poll that showed hageman up by 22 points and another more recent poll showed her up by 30 points. but cheney has made this decision, becoming a single issue candidate, and seems to have accepted the idea that it not going to work in this election. >> bret: and also the vice chair of the january 6th committee and you are taking a look at this graphic, ten house republicans voted to impeach donald trump, these are retiring, republicans retiring, and then you have the ones that lost their primary, three of them. only two won the primary and liz cheney obviously is today. but you look at the track record here and obviously the former president decided it was something he wanted to do, go after the republicans who voted to impeach him. >> absolutely. and liz cheney, if she does

lose, will be the biggest trophy on trump's list. he really, really, really wants her to lose and if she does lose tonight, he is going to crow a lot, and so this is the biggest, biggest prize on trump's list, and looks like he's going to get it tonight. >> bret: and she is now tapping into democrat support, trying to get democrats to come out and vote for her. they can do that in wyoming. al franken, democratic senator of minnesota saying he decided to endorse liz cheney for the republican nomination. does not seem, byron, there are enough democrats to make the difference in wyoming's primary. however, is this something that lends you to believe that she is going to run for president in 2024? >> absolutely. she has built up a national network of donors, way more than 90% of her contributions have come from outside the state of wyoming and this single issue

that i was talking about happens to be an issue that does appeal to democrats and to some independents and the relatively small number of anti-trump republicans. so, the fact that she has built up this big war chest, and she has not spent anywhere near that amount in her campaign, which means she's sitting on a lot of campaign money she could use in the future. the fact she's done all those things has suggested to people she might be planning a presidential run in the republican primaries in 2024 to sort of raise the banner of opposition to donald trump and try to gather all the opposition into one force behind her. >> bret: talk quickly about alaska. alaska incumbent senator lisa murkowski. alaska is a little different in that it's a jungle primary and she only has to get through a certain amount. she can get to the general election. she's had that happen before and pulled it out in the general election. she's kind of got a base there

that supports her. she's also been, you know, pretty spoken out, outspoken, rather, about the former president. >> yeah, she voted to remove donald trump from office. that's a big deal. but lisa murkowski is a real survivor in alaska. and they not only had this jungle primary in which the top four, a non-partisan contest, the top four finishers will move ahead to the general election. she's going to do that, one of those four and then they have rank choice voting in the general election, alaska adopted that in 2020, which means when you go vote, you vote for the first choice and list a second and third choice. and over 50%, they win outright. if nobody wins 50%, they take the lowest candidate, throw them out and distribute their votes according to their preference among the other candidates. all of which may help lisa

murkowski survive for another six-year term. >> bret: byron, as always, we will have complete coverage throughout the night. >> gillian: another fox news alert now, take a live look at the white house where president biden is about to take a break from his summer vacation, to sign the new tax and spending bill before heading out for a second week on summer break. but as the president gets set to sign this into law, we are going to cut through all the spin, bring you just the tax facts and what it's really going to mean for american families. that coming up. >> bret: also as writer sal mal rushdie recovers from an attempt to kill him, we will talk with another writer, why she says iran might want her dead but never succeed in keeping her silent. you don't want to miss this. that's ahead.

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the biden administration to curb iran's bad behavior, after an assassination of salman rushdie, iran says regarding the attack against salman rushdie in america, we don't consider anyone deserving of reproach, condemnation, except rushdie and his supporters. iranian government plots to kill former trump cabinet officials. our next guest is an iranian american journalist who said iran has set sights on her, op-ed titled "iran tried to kill me on american soil."

joining us is masih alinejad. confirms that iran had plotted to kill the former national security adviser, and secretary of state, and you snow what john bolton and mike pompeo are going through. tell us about your experience. >> i cannot even believe that we are talking now in 21st century another regime is trying to kidnap, assassinate u.s. citizens on u.s. soil. i myself the target last year when the fbi actually announced that and the department of justice in america announced that they stopped the kidnapping plot, i thought i'm going to be safe. but again, just two weeks ago, the fbi arrested a man with a loaded gun in his car, and in front of my house. so we have -- >> gillian: we have some footage of that, i believe. at your home. >> it was shocking when i heard that, when i heard the terror

attack on salman rushdie, it just came to my mind that there's below normal a fatwa, 30 years ago, kohlmeini, he issued it against salman rushdie. the current leader of the iranian republic repeated it three years ago on twitter, and the professor of overland college, former ambassador at the united nation, which, for the islamic republic who now lives in america, he promoted it against salman rushdie. so all these created foundation of islamic terror. so for that, iranian people are furious, all condemning the terror attack on salman rushdie. >> gillian: i'm sorry to interrupt, what do you mean by that? you have said that before, that these fatwas from the iranian regime create the foundation for islamic terror.

what do you mean? >> i mean when you go to the page of the person who attacked salman rushdie, you see he put the picture of kohlmeini, those who promoted, who issued the fatwa. so journalists in the west say with the motive behind the terror attack is not clear. it is clear. for many of us who know the islamic republic and lived under sharia laws, and the threats, assassinating is in the dna of the islamic republic. i'm sure you invited me to talk about my experience but i'm going to be honest with you. i don't have any fear. i'm not scared of my life. i don't want to die, don't get me wrong, i am scared of the democratic countries who are watching the islamic republic assassinating, killing, murdering, kidnapping, innocent people on western soil like right now that i'm talking to you, german citizen was

kidnapped and now he's in iran to be executed. >> gillian: masih, how would you like to see the biden administration respond? >> so simple, not too much to ask. i want the u.s. administration to see this as a bipartisan issue and do not bury human rights, imagine it was not me, imagine it was, i don't know lady gaga, or relative of president biden. what would they do? they just keep silent? i mean, imagine -- i'm going to tell you, the engine of the islamic republic, the murderers, the killers, if they need to take blood, they don't care whether you are republican or democratic party, or left or right, they kill american, they hate america. i want the u.s. government to understand that. british citizens, u.s. citizens, swedish citizen, german, french

citizens are in prison and used like bargaining chips to get the allies of the united states, state of america, united and ask them to downgrade their diplomatic relations to ira republic release all the innocent political prisoners. the family members of the iranian protestors who got killed are in prison. last week, iranian regime brought four women to denounce themselves and to denounce me. every word i'm saying here, i don't know what's going to happen to my brother, my mother inside iran, i risk my life, because i have freedom here and i want to live in a free country without fear, without being like followed by fbi every day telling me that you have to watch your back, you have to be careful. i left my country to be free and safe in america, and i deserve to have a normal life.

>> gillian: masih, we wish you the best, we hope you stay safe and hope you come back and talk to us again soon. thank you so much. >> thank you for inviting me. >> bret: amazing to hear the passion and obviously in the wake of that to put the political environment in where the u.s. is sitting at a negotiating table with iran again, not only after masih's story but the former secretary of state, former national security advisor under assassination attempts. >> gillian: here on u.s. soil and today reportedly the iranian regime asked for new sort of insertions in the draft deal, they want financial penalties for a future administration should they ink a deal and another president pulls out. >> bret: we'll see where that goes. president biden set to sign the so-called inflation reduction act next hour as the white house talks of claims what it will do

and who will pay for it tweeting it will lower prescription drug, healthcare and energy costs, build a clean energy economy, reduce the deficit and it's fully paid for by ensuring the wealthy pay their fair share. but, that does not line up with independent studies, which shows american families will be picking up the tab, even at lower levels. and even the name of the bill is getting questioned by all sides. hillary vaughn on the north lawn of the white house. >> good afternoon, bret. white house insists the inflation reduction act will cut costs for american families but a catch. you have to spend a lot before you can save a little. >> the family who is thinking, who needs to upgrade their heating system or their air-conditioning or their appliances, those are costs everybody has to do. this bill will give people a tax credit that will make those cheaper and also to put in energy efficient appliances or energy efficient heating, that

means they will pay less on their utility bills going forward. >> families making the switch to clean energy, they think it will pay off, but people that don't, paying the price. several taxes in the inflation reduction act targeted at u.s. energy, $0.16 tax for each barrel of crude oil produced, $900 tax per ton of methane produced, and additional dollar taxed for every ton of underground coal mined. all these will make energy more expensive. telling me this, the taxes will be reflected in higher energy costs in everything from manufacturing to agriculture and will fall disproportionately on millions of small businesses and families who were already concerned about their future prosperity, washington never seemed to grasp that someone ultimately has to pay, and it's not just higher prices that

people may be paying. a super sized irs will be making sure that people are paying the taxes that they owe. congressional budget office saying $20 billion in new revenue from the legislation will come from new audits on people making under $400,000 a year. bret. >> bret: hillary, thanks. gillian. >> gillian: is china now making moves to exploit tensions between the u.s. and saud saudi arabia when it comes to oil production. phil flynn weighs in next. >> bret: and what is the terror threat out of the region a year after the fall of afghanistan. we are joined live next. breakthrough heartburn... means your heartburn treatment is broken. try zegerid otc. it contains the leading medicine to treat frequent heartburn, uniquely designed for absorption. get all day, all night relief with zegerid otc. i typed in my dad's name...

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>> gillian: a fire at a russian-held ammunitions depot in crimea has caused massive

explosions, and another at a railway station damaging the railway there. russian ministry is blaming it on sabotage. hi, alex. >> hi, gillian. russian officials saying the massive explosion caused damage at nearby apartment buildings and forced the evacuation of roughly 3,000 people. the blast blowing up a russian military depot. the explosion captured on camera and footage of the black billowing smoke above the facility, and just last week another explosion in crimea destroyed at least nine russian planes. ukrainian government has stopped short of claiming responsibility for the blasts but has touted tactics to deter russian advancements, like striking ten russian ammunition depots in the last week, blowing up russian supply routes in the east near kherson and taking down a russian communication tower by drone.

the drones have become such a critical military tool during the war, used for everything from strikes to surveillance. >> everything from small handheld drones that you can buy on amazon, up to high level drones. when you move to the front lines, you see drones just about flying everywhere. >> russian president vladimir putin are claiming the u.s. and britain are helping ukraine plan strikes. and they are advancing, the governor in kharkiv warning they saw some of the most intense shelling in recent days and here in the city of kyiv we have heard more sirens than we have in previous days and a strike taking place today just 80 miles from here. gillian. >> gillian: alex hogan in kyiv for us, thank you. >> bret: the biden administration responding sharply to a new house republican review that allegations president biden had

no real plan in conducting the withdrawal. michael mccaul, ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee that published the review. i read through your report and describes a very chaotic, unorganized, basically a mess at the u.s. military withdrawal in the final days. the white house is pushing back, saying that the president refused to send another generation of americans to fight a war that should have ended long ago, and calls your report a partisan report riddled with mistakes. >> we have not presented anything to congress really since the collapse. they refuse to cooperate with my investigation, even though we gave them ample opportunities. many of their witnesses would not talk to us. they -- important documents like this dissenting memo from the

embassy, embassy employees, 23 of them calling to the secretary of state's attention that the situation was so dire that they needed to evacuate at that time. it was chaotic, bret. because they didn't have a plan. they didn't listen to the intelligence community on the ground or our top military officials in the pentagon who kept telling me this thing is going to happen fast, sooner rather than later. the same time, the president says they are not going to evacuate from helicopters like vietnam and that was wrong, and assessment that al-qaeda is gone is absolutely wrong as well. and there are many more points i could make. but the end of the day, there was an offer to allow american forces and nato to take over kabul for purposes of evacuation. that was declined by the white house and they put the taliban in charge of the perimeter, which led to the chaos you are talking about and the suicide

bomber that killed 13 american servicemen and women. >> leading up to that moment as they are making a decision about u.s. forced posture, have you found anybody inside the national security team who was on board with what the president said to get troops out completely. have you -- the commander was recommending 2500 troops, and the defense secretary, and the secretary of state signed on and as did the chairman of the joint chiefs. anybody in the national security team you found buying into let's pull them all out right away? >> great question, bret. the answer is none. and that goes from milley to general mckenzie, i've talked to extensively, to the intelligence community ourselves, and allies. the president said the nato allies were behind us, they were

not. because they knew a complete withdrawal would end up in this chaos and basically unconditional surrender to the taliban, and now we are seeing what that means. that means a reconstituting al-qaeda, women left behind, 100,000 afghan partners left behind we promised we would protect and we didn't and we left them behind to be at the mercy of the taliban as well. and still 1,000 american citizens behind enemy lines in afghanistan. >> how many of those want to leave, do you have a sense of that? >> well, they will say they want to stay in afghanistan, i mean -- i have to ask the question, would you want to stay in afghanistan right now? given the conditions on the ground? i think many of them want to get out. the issue, bret, is they have family members that they want to bring with them and the state department is not allowing them to take their, you know, their families with them.

that's the real issue here. >> bret: you talk about in this report the threat of afghanistan becoming a jumping point for al-qaeda or isis, terrorists overall moving forward. i want to take you now to your old job at homeland security committee and this being what the southern border looks like, just the stats out from border patrol, the terrorism screening database hits in july there were ten. in fy-22, 66. and if that more than doubled from the previous five years combined. these are hits for terrorism screening along our southern border. how concerned are you about that and what's happening about it? >> well, you are right. chaired homeland security three terms during the height of isis and the caliphate, i got briefed on almost a weekly basis to kill americans outside the united

states. we stopped 95% of those, we don't have that, we don't have that i.s.r., intelligence capability anymore as mckenzie said, 99% is gone, bagram air base is gone and china is moving into afghanistan. to the border, we are not -- i would always ask that question. how many special interest lines have crossed, how many on the terror watch list. always a focus of mine and now you are seeing liberated afghanistan for terrorists, if you will, to freely roam, they are back to the old game of harboring terrorists. and who is harboring him, the network, number one terrorist next to the top al-qaeda leader. irony is unbelievable and guess what his new cabinet position is, he is now the minister of

interior for minister of security for the taliban. that border is wide open. they know they can get in through that southern border and they are reconstituting. the white house -- the fact that they are really coming after me shows me we are doing something right, and they know that they are reconstituting. al-qaeda and isis k, and they are misleading the american people about the threat, and that southern border is easiest way for them to get in to conduct these external plots to kill americans, it may take a year to reconstitute fully, but when you talk to mckenzie and milley, they say six months to a year. the same ones that said you can leave 2500 u.s. forces, 6,000 nato, and keep afghanistan stablized and also keep the intelligence there. >> bret: congressman, we appreciate your time. >> thanks, bret.

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>> gillian: chinese president xi jinping is expected to visit saudi arabia as soon as this week, it comes a month after president biden visited jetta, and they say xi is trying to exploit tensions between the u.s. and saudi arabia. the first overseas destination since january of 2020, a dual diplomatic victory. assertion of warm relations with a key energy supplier and allows him to project chinese power without any risk of protests. and saudi arabia has tried to distance itself from the u.s., the crown prince would not take

a call from president biden. now, one oil analyst is putting out his theory the saudis could be using high fuel prices and a plan to hurt the u.s., not just our economy. phil flynn is an oil trader, senior market analyst, also a fox business contributor. phil, talk to me about your theory of saudi arabia and the oil supply. >> i don't think it's a theory, it's actually happening. what we have seen gillian over the past couple of months since president biden released oil from the strategic petroleum reserve, saudi arabia has responded by saying go ahead, sell it all. and what they have done in the last couple of months is they have actually raised the price for their oil in the hopes people would buy that oil, they realize the united states has to buy it back and more than likely buy it back from saudi arabia.

so, saudi arabia is playing the long game here, and they are also using this as another attempt to regain control of the global oil market. the biggest threat to saudi arabia was the u.s. energy producer. they view it as another blow to the u.s. energy producer and another way to gain control of the global market, along with their co-conspirators russia, and now sadly, china. >> gillian: as americans have been struggling at the pump, the saudis have done well, 90% jump in the last few months and in turn used some of that money, 7.5 billion to invest in u.s. stocks. that looks like quite some leverage there. >> it really is. you know, when you think about it, who has been the biggest buyers of stock since it corrected, warren buffett and

saudi arabia, it's incredible. and the last quarter, the biggest corporate profit in history. not only that, probably bigger than the biggest three companies combined ever in history. and they are investing in the u.s. stock market. at the same time, iran is playing the same game saudi arabia is. they are cutting their prices, looking for the u.s. to get more dependent, and they are making record profits for their oil. right now this pullback from the u.s. energy producers doing nothing but giving more power to the middle eastern oil producers is making them rich and making the u.s. consumers poor. >> gillian: now we have xi, reportedly booking his ticket to saudi arabia, the two countries have a very close energy partnership, strategic partnership. they trade with each other about $65 billion a year. do you think that tensions between the u.s. and saudi arabia create more room for that bilateral relationship to

flourish right now? >> it really does. biden administration pulled back from a long-term u.s. relationship with saudi arabia that goes back to franklin roosevelt, right. and he's kind of restructured the power players in the world and shuffled the decks a little bit. china saw this as an opportunity. china needs to buy a lot of oil. they need to buy it from places like saudi arabia or the united states, but they are chumming up with china. they see this as an opportunity. at the same time, i think iran sees it as an opportunity as well. iran is also getting into the mix here, playing this global space. now, we are talking about sanctions, iran is talking about making more money. >> gillian: all the countries are free to do business with each other without the moral constraints we face here in the united states, no worries they are going to call each other out on agregious human rights, or

concentration camps. >> bret: if you feel like you are paying more for your electric bill, you are not alone. according to the energy information administration, your electric bill could see a 6% increase from last year. jeff flock is in eastern pennsylvania with the details. good afternoon, jeff. >> getting tough out here, bret. main street america, in doylestown, pennsylvania, electric bills went up double digits. and they say in the country, that ain't nothing compared to some other areas of the country. take a look at these numbers we have compiled. in ohio, for example, the electric company that services dayton, supplied energy, increased electric bills by 131%, in colorado, raised 37%, florida power and light, almost 20. putting that in real terms, real dollar terms, ohio one we

mentioned, the average bill before was about $42 a month. it is now $95 a month, plus for the same amount of electricity. what is driving all this? well, it's the thing that makes the electricity, and in large part in america, that's natural gas. if you look at the price of natural gas right now, on the futures exchanges in new york, it was about $3 this time in august of 2021, this time last year. it is now closer to $9, so about 100, i guess, do the math, 170% increase, and i point out to you that most of our natural gas or electricity these days comes from natural gas. hi, guys. everybody has something to say today. >> bret: they do. jeff flock in pennsylvania talking electric prices. jeff, thank you. we will be right back. "america reports" rolls on after this.

>> all right. that will do it for us. thanks for joining us. i'm bret baier. see you at 6:00 p.m. for "special report". >> we're looking for better news. we're excited. >> maybe so. >> great being with you today. have a great show later. i'm gillian turner. "the story" starts right now. shannon is in for martha. >> thank you. good afternoon. i'm shannon bream in for martha maccallum. right now on "the story," a new show down over the fbi's search of the mar-a-largo. former president trump demanding the feds release the underlying information that they used to get that search warrant. the justice department saying that could damage its investigation which involves highly classified material. both sides are set to face off in front of a judge. trey gowdy is here and former federal prosecutor. force to mark meredith live in

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