>> that is so good. >> congratulations on your book. everyone go out and get it. make something tonight. how about uber eats? >> simply happy cookbook, the simply happy cookbook. >> we're simply happy you would buy it and join us tomorrow. so long. >> bill: thank you. new inflation numbers out a moment ago hotter than expected. what the latest data tells us about the economy and how we're doing and how the u.s. could be looking at a supply chain setback. we thought it was behind us. two hours ahead. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm anxious to get started i jumped the gun. ifm owe dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." this is not so great. consumer price index shows inflation higher than expected. up 8.3% from a year ago, five

times higher than when president biden took office. >> bill: threatening to make it worse a possible strike by tens of thousands of railroad workers. could happen as soon as friday. stoppage would cost the economy $2 billion a day. that leaves about a third of the u.s. freight in the lurch. >> dana: biden administration is working to broker a deal between unions and rail companies. the dispute is already impacting service with amtrak suspending some trains. kelly o'grady has the latest on the possible rail strike and edward lawrence reporting on the inflation news from the white house. >> the inflation year-over-year 8.3% ticks down a little bit. the federal reserve would like to see the number around 2%. the federal reserve is going to be focused on the core inflation. inflation without food and energy prices. that number went up for the first time in five months and rose substantially to 6.3%.

that will spook the federal reserve. the biden administration will tout the overall number as a success saying his policies are working. the fact is if you look at where inflation was when the president took office and you look at where inflation is now, that's the problem. listen. >> the democrats have no plan for inflation other than to make it worse to spend trillions more and drive inflation up even more. gas prices their plan to reduce that to make it worse by hammering american oil and gas production. >> within the inflation number the things we buy more expensive. eggs up 39.8%. baking products up 16%. flour up 23.3%. overall the number will likely mean the federal reserve will raise rates by 3/4 of a percentage point or more and these kind of interest rate hikes haven't happened since they went to the model they're using now. last week fed chairman hinted

at more aggressive rate hikes could continue through the rest of the year, listen. >> the longer that inflation remains well above targets, the greater the concern the public will start to naturally incorporate higher inflation into its economic decision making and our job is to make sure that doesn't happen. we're committed to doing that job. >> that next rate hike will happen next week. back to you. >> dana: anything else the fed should be doing right now, then? >> what they're doing is shrinking the balance sheet. no, their main tool is using interest rates to get -- to raise interest rates to slow down the economy. this core inflation number is really going to put pressure on them to possibly move a full percentage point up. they want to get inflation down. the core number means that inflation is entrenched in the economy. the volatile energy numbers up and down are not affecting this

number. core is really entrenched and that's what the fed is really worried about. >> dana: thank you so much, edward. appreciate that. >> bill: the railway labor dispute and the ports could threaten an economic disaster. we're live in wilmington, california with the story. >> good morning, bill. both the rail and the dispute at the ports have the potential to impact inflation and our supply chain negatively. starting with the rails, friday marks the end of what is called a mandated cooling off period. that means that railroad workers could strike if no deal is reached. now, while just two of the 12 labor unions are holding out, the biggest most politically powerful. executives saying following protocol some railroads are beginning to halt transport of hazardous material to avoid sensitive car goe left unattended. a nationwide strike would cost

$2 billion a day and require 467,000 long haul trucks on the road. a number of industries could be paralyzed. many agricultural companies already evaluating shutdown of processing plants. more trucks as the solution poses challenges. the industry is already short 80,000 drivers and the trucks don't exist. if no agreement is reached by friday congress has the authority to sfep in and the white house is planning to engage in further senior level talks today. railroad industry experts are urging action if talks do fail. they told fox business failure to idle more than 7,000 trains daily and widespread manufacturing shutdowns, job losses and disruptions to thousands of passenger rail customers. another union negotiation is taking place at the west coast port. while the situation is not as imminent as the railroads, concerning is brewing to the

11-day lock out. it cost the economy $11 billion. the white house's involvement poses an interesting challenge. it poses the two top priorities against each other. the biden administration has been pro labor unions but you don't want a shutdown of the economy. interesting to see how it develops. >> bill: kelly, nice to see you up early in california. thank you. >> president biden: donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundation of our republic. maga forces are determined to take this country backward. maga republicans are destroying american democracy. >> dana: president biden earlier this month portraying a big chunk of the electorate as a threat to the foundation of our country. the warning may ring hollow given a new "washington post" analysis of mid-term campaign spending finds democrats have

shelled out $53 million to help so-called maga candidates in republican primaries figuring they are so far right they'll be easier to beat in november. interesting tactic. fox news contributor marc thiessen. former speech writer for george w. bush and fox news contributor. here is what we have from senator schumer. his pac in new hampshire spent 2.3 million against state senator chuck morris. they think he is the more moderate choice harder to beat in november. they are spending so much money to elect semi fascists, mark, a curious strategy. >> it is a curious strategy and gives lie to what president biden says. he gave the speech in front of independence hall warning that maga republicans don't respect our constitution, don't want to accept election results and his party, which he leads, is spending tens of millions of

dollars to make sure that maga candidates are the ones who are nominated in these g.o.p. primary contests. he complains about january 6 and all the rest of it but they are trying to defeat republicans who voted to impeach president trump which is what they said all republicans should have done. they have done it in colorado, michigan, new hampshire, california. they're doing it across the country. if maga represents such a threat to our democracy, how are they actually funding indirectly funding the campaigns of the candidates who are doing and holding the positions that they say are such a threat? >> there will be a very interesting postmortem come november 9. it's a lot of money. "washington post" with an editorial today calling on john fetterman of pennsylvania to show his cards. the headline. fetterman needs to debate more than once for u.s. senate. it goes into the piece and says

what you are doing right now is not good enough. so then does fetterman change in the next 55 some odd days? >> i don't know how he gets away with not doing it. i used to work in the senate and was good friends with mark kirk, a senator from illinois. mark kirk had a stroke that put him out for -- took him a year to get back to the senate. brain surgery. a more serious stroke than john fetterman. he had two debates when he ran in 2016 with his opponent and he was fine and able to debate. he didn't win but at least he stood up to debate. how can john fetterman? debating is the job of the united states senator. how can he do that? his campaign is telling voters he is healthy enough to run, healthy enough to serve in the senate. you can have reasonable accommodations if he needs audio processing equipment

because he has audio processing problems or teleprompter, that's fine. but you have to debate more than once. you have to debate before voting starts on september 19th in the state of pennsylvania when the mail-in ballots start coming in. he said i'll have one debate at the end of october after people have been voting for a month. he has to debate and do it now. >> dana: all voters are being asked in these senate races to invest in somebody as their representative in the u.s. senate for the next six years. it is not unreasonable to ask him to debate the opponent that he is attacking on social media and in ads. one of the things that he would have to defend in regards to fetterman is he has called for releasing a third of inmates. we're in the middle of seeing crime increasing in big cities but also small cities across the board. that would be just one of the things that he would have to talk about, marc.

>> no doubt. he did an interview before his stroke in 2021. he did an interview where he was asked if you could wave a magic wand and solve one problem what would it be? his answer was i would end life without parole. i would release convicted murders. if he could only do one thing. release convicted murderers. if you gave pennsylvania voters a magic wand and said if you could solve one problem they would say i would solve inflation, the rail strike, the supply chain crisis. i would lower gas prices. there are a million things they would come up with that would be ahead of their list ahead of releasing convicted murderers. >> dana: we'll see what happens. interesting situation. debates across the country but this one this pennsylvania race is a big one. thanks, marc. >> bill: especially with this wrinkle with regard to health. people in pennsylvania are paying attention. see what impact it has. have a ways to go but not a lot

of ways. >> dana: chris sununu will be on at the 10:00 a.m. hour. a big race there today. maggie hassan is a vulnerable democrat. incumbent. but we have republicans split in that state. we'll ask the governor about that. he has chosen to go for morris but the people seem to like bolduc. >> bill: ukraine is on the march. why some are concerned about putin's response. we'll check in on that. >> dana: a potential red flag for democrats. "the new york times" warns that the same polls that overestimated joe biden in 2020 could be skewing expectations for the mid-terms. kellyanne conway and marc penn are here to break it down. >> abolishs cash bail for almost every offense. kidnapping. armed robbery and other things.

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. >> dana: ukraine's counter offensive in gaining ground against russia. people there flying ukrainian flags and celebrating as president zell says his troops have reclaimed russian occupied land. we have an update. >> it's not even just the amount of land ukrainian forces are taking back. it is the speed at which they're doing it. president zelenskyy saying all of these gains from this latest counter offensive happening in

two weeks' time. when you look at some of these images showing the results of their efforts, it is incredible to see these powerful videos. you see people crying, hugging ukrainian soldiers and raising up blue and yellow flags for all to see. but even with russian troops apparently pulling back from the kharkiv region. they're still hitting the area hard from afar. ukraine's president zelenskyy is reporting homes and other civilian targets are being hit by russian strikes leading to death, power and water outages. he voiced his frustration the world is not recognizing russia as a state sponsor of terror. >> with this end of the activity state can still go to europe to rest and go shopping and still get european vest yeahs and no one knows whether there are executioners.

>> russia is admitting troops are withdrawing from the area but they are taking the troops to focus further east in the did donbas. even with those excuses, they are facing fierce criticism from bloggers and pundits on russia state tv. >> dana: stay safe and keep us posted. it is so interesting to see it's not all of a sudden but once that hard power started to get there and all the weapons were in country zelenskyy's forces could figure out a way to use them effectively. >> bill: long rain rockets matter and the ukrainians have them now. a look from arizona. >> has he done a good job? >> you know, you know, first of all it is not my job to give him a report card. i would say mixed reviews. >> bill: that's an arizona senator answering a question about joe biden. that's mark kelly, one of a growing number of dems keeping

their distance from the democrats on the trail. kellyanne conway former advisor to president trump and mark penn. "new york times" is in on it, too. democrats mid-term dill emotion that. how to back biden and shun him, too. how did mark kelly do answering that question? >> he did terribly and they're all doing terribly and fumbling through the answers. they vote with joe biden 95% of the time. mark kelly voted 94% of the time. that's not keeping joe biden at arm's length. he pretends he is like kirsten sinman, independent maverick down the middle. he voted for the inflation reduction act and as an arizona senator voted against senator portman's bill that would have detected illegal narcotics and tried to reduce their flow to arizona and elsewhere and voted against senator scott trying to

prioritize the hiring of border patrol agents over those 87,000 i.r.s. agents. and something else that's going on here. they say in the "new york times" article the democrats, including mark kelly's campaign, claim that they want to stay close to joe biden's issue agenda and base and not him. that's really odd because joe biden is spending trillions of dollars of money we don't have on things we don't need and mark kelly is right there with him. i think masters has a great shot at beating kelly. you'll see more outreach an ads. if you make this election and biden and kelly biden and fetterman, you don't let the democrats slink away from an unpopular president. in 2018 the mid-term for president trump couldn't keep up with the demand to appear on the stump with all these candidates. he actually gained seats in the senate, which was hard to do

after they tried to ruin brett kavanaugh in those hearings. this is different. people aren't asking joe biden and kamala harris by and large, the president and vice president to campaign with them. not the case for trump and pence four years ago. >> bill: can they walk this beam successfully and still keep the balance as necessary? >> well, they have to because the president's ratings, you know, at about 41% and in the 30s on inflation and others, they can't really walk arm-in-arm with biden. i think so far they've successfully differentiated from biden basically put biden to the side say hey we're running on democratic issues and running on the student loan forgiveness and running on prescription drugs and running on abortion. abortion has come up as an issue. democrats are trying to make the race about trump as though trump is on the ballot.

republicans are trying to put biden on the ballot. maybe the issues will get discussed somewhere in here. so far it looks like a very close race. some of those recent special elections showed very close numbers, closer than expected. and so so far this strategy is holding up. >> bill: we thought this next topic was perfect. we talked about it yesterday. "the new york times" piece from nate cohen says the polling warning signs are flashing again and democrats are polling where surveys missed most in 2020 two years ago. kellyanne, you start. you read the piece. are pollsters on to something or still just pad? >> i think pollsters and chief political operateives are never held to account. no apology, no accountability for getting these races so wrong. here is the problem, bill.

when you show joe biden winning florida and he loses and he barely wins wisconsin it depresses turnout. it depressed a lot of republican donors from otherwise viable senate candidates like georgia, and elsewhere. the polls are wrong. i don't buy stuff that it's impossible to fix polling. you have to make people feel comfortable. but this is why the polling -- they underrepresent the strength of the trump voter because we never examine that that we disdain. the pollsters who are pro-biden won't figure out how to talk -- >> bill: mark, do you see it similar as kellyanne does? >> we had last time at the harris poll the most overall national polls. i had state polls i threw away. in some of the highly charged senate races with hundreds of millions spent, that the voters

stop answering polls correctly and i think there are a lot of shy republicans. i think this is a factor. i don't know how big it is. it was there last time. i think the times article may have some truth. you have to watch the polls carefully for this effect. >> bill: good to have you both. no polling in the governor's race in new jersey last november and it came down to that much. thank you kellyanne and mark. see you again next week. >> dana: county official accused of murdering a las vegas journalist due in court today. he is still drawing a six-figure salary. we have the latest on that case ahead. plus chicago mayor lori lightfoot accused of hypocrisy after sending texas my gantz sent to her sanctuary city and moved them to a republican suburbs. the migrants just a fraction of what border towns are season. >> in texas they're encountering 100,000 aliens.

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. >> bill: this is when we say oh, nellie. we got a barn burner now on wall street. stocks are down well over a point and a half on the dow 30. on the nasdaq it's much worse. close to 3% right now at the open. this is because that inflation number was not as low as a lot of investors had hoped for. yes, it was down but just by a nudge. 8.3 year-over-year is nowhere you want to be in an election year and consumer trying to get better money for gas mileage. the average price is below $4 nationally but this inflation number is too high for the american consumer. investors are worried today. you have pressures in europe, england and germany and what happens more shutdowns because

of covid fears in china on the main land. >> dana: affecting people when you buy groceries. eggs are up 40%. baked goods up 18%. you add that up and ripple effect throughout the country is profound. i would imagine the white house this morning is thinking all right, we won't be able to run on the economy. what will we run on? he will have an inflation reduction act at the white house today. >> bill: we'll see how we go throughout the day. the markets are down now. >> dana: the man accused of killing four people in a memphis shooting rampage is due in court today. he along with the suspect in the kidnap and murder of eliza fletcher and the suspect in another murder in california this month all repeat offenders who got out of jail early for prior crimes. now officials in one state are taking steps to address criticism of soft on crime policies alex hoff in washington >> this varies state by state when it comes to sentencing and

how long a prisoner much serve. thee examples but they have sparked a national debate over the early release of violent offenders. hepder son is accused of the kidnapping and murder of fletcher. he was convicted of a similar abduction in 2000 and sentenced to 20 years behind bars but released four years early. the 19-year-old kelly from the shooting spree in memphis pled guilty to aggravated assault last april and sentenced to three years but only served 11 months. we spoke from the heritage foundation. >> the problem is when people hear somebody is sentenced 20 to life. for the most part that's not what they get. so there really is very little truth in sentencing. so the american public for the most part is being sold a false bill of goods. the time people are being sentenced to is not the actual time they end up serving.

>> in may tennessee's truth in sentencing law went into effect. if kelly and henderson were still in prison then they would have remained there. in virginia lawmakers excluded violent offenders from sentence credits. some states have gone the other direction. california has expanded good behavior credits to shorten the sentences of violent offender. byron floyd served a term that would have ended in 2026. but he sended up free to kill again, that is. >> dana: thank you. alex, in washington today. >> as of january 1, 2023 the following things will go into effect. abolish cash bail for almost every offense including but isn't limited to kidnapping, armed robbery, second degree murder, drug induced homicide, aggravated d.u.i. threatening a public official and aggravated looting. >> that's the mayor of a suburb

of chicago on a new illinois bail reform law that will take effect the first of january. that will make illinois the first state -- we talked about cities, but the first state in the country to eliminate bail entirely. for a lot of crimes he just mentioned robbery, arson, kidnapping and some murder charges. the mayor is also running for congress in the district there in illinois. good morning to you and thank you for your time. i imagine at the moment there is no way you can stop this. how can you warn the people of your state as we have seen example after example in various american cities so far? >> i think the way we want them is exactly what we're doing now. we have been passing resolutions in the suburbs to let the towns know and let the legislators know that this law needs to be repealed. the most important thing that voters can do is vote these people out of office so on

january 3 when new legislators come into power they can overturn this horrible law. >> dana: let's show everybody the list where you can get zero bail. kidnapping, burglary, robbery, arson, drug-induced homicide. aggravated d.u.i. and even second degree murder. threatening of a public official. the governor there is very left wing democrat, governor prytzger. is he listening to any of you? >> he is not listening to us on this and historically he doesn't listen to any of us. he does what he feels like. he did the same thing through covid. it is not a surprise he is not listening and also not a surprise they passed this back in january of last year and waited until january of 2023 to put it into effect. it is because they knew the impact this would have and didn't want to be running an election after seeing the impact of such a horrible law. >> bill: you have to think that people in illinois are paying

attention to the story in memphis where that mother of two was out jogging at 4:00 in the morning and she is now dead. the guy who is accused of killing her, he should have been behind bars. the same thing happened for this mass shooter just within 36 hours later. why do those who support this law, why do they want it in illinois? >> i have no idea why someone would want this. it clearly puts citizens and police officers at risk in the favor of criminals who are violent and it gets worse than being released on bail. when this goes into effect january of 2023 you won't -- a police officer will not be allowed to remove someone from your property for trespassing. they can take residence in your shed, pool, business and all they can do is ticket someone. by law they can't touch them and remove them from the premises. think about how dangerous that will be with people taking the law into their own hands.

>> dana: another note the mayor lori lightfoot is frustrated and angry at governor abbott for busing illegal migrants into her city. so she went ahead and forwarded them on to another suburb there near chicago and this is the mayor gary grasso, you probably know him from burr ridge, illinois, recipient of some of the migrants. he didn't get a heads-up. >> just the arrogance of the state to presume they can do what they want. they invite people to come to this state and then they just willy-nilly put them in the suburbs without even giving us the courtesy of letting us know. >> dana: what would you do if she sent some migrants to your town? >> well first and foremost if i ran against gary grasso in the congressional race for the primary so i know him. you know, lori lightfoot is -- they've established a sanctuary city and then migrants are sent there and they immediately ship

them to a suburb. if they came to our suburb the first thing we do is make sure the migrants are housed humanely. we won't put them on a bus like cattle. to treat people like that is inappropriate regardless of their circumstances is wrong. we have to make sure they're safe first but then think about keeping our community safe in the fact those people as we know are not properly vetted and we turn around and have a law that doesn't allow people to be kept behind bars. what in the world could possibly go wrong with all those factors being put together? >> bill: interesting race. see how it goes. caston is a democrat. slightly redrawn to favor democrats. we'll see whether or not you can upset that. >> dana: it's an interesting year. >> bill: good luck. >> dana: know end in sight for the illegal migrants at the border.

the democratic challenger in a crucial battleground state is struggling to shore up her coalition. the high stakes races in georgia are next. >> i think stacey abrams is more worried about what her donors in new york and california want her to do than what the people in georgia really need right now. asy as on. one: call newday. two: talk to our team to see how much cash you can get. three: borrow up to 100% of your home's value with the newday 100 va loan. with home values near all-time highs, use your va benefit to turn the equity in your home into cash in the bank.

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>> dana: another close match to watch georgia, between brian kemp and stacey abrams. recent polls show kemp with a three-point advantage within the margin of error. abrams says she needs overwhelming support particularly from black male voters to close the gap. let's bring in richard fowler, fox news contributor. he recently interviewed abrams and a spokesman for governor diehl. >> you had a chance to talk to her yesterday. her need to attract more black male votes. the fox news survey black voters supporting stacey abrams was 98% and now 78%. she said we need to say black men count and we need their engagement in order to win an election. the issue is vote share. when black men vote they vote

for me. what else did you learn yesterday? >> it was a wide ranging interview. listen, i think the minority leader acknowledges that she is behind in the polls. she points to incumbency as part of the problem. all pointing to the fact she is not looking at the polls. she is trying to build a new electorate. she acknowledges there is a long way to go but she is creating the largest voter outreach campaign ever and really trying to recreate the biden coalition. it is worth pointing out in 2020 her nonprofit fair fight was part of the building blocks and the cornerstone of the biden coalition in georgia and trying to rebuild that and try to make it stronger than ever to hopefully get her over the hump in a potential defense against brian defrm and also pointed to a laundry list of issues that she will attack the governor on. one for the past eight years in the state of georgia 14 hospital closures, six of them

have happened under the tenure of brian kemp. that's part of the reason why there is a lot of dismal health stats in the state of georgia. >> dana: brian, let me go to you. she might have a formidable outreach campaign and that's true. one of the things that governor kemp said last week a lot of that support is not coming from within georgia and if you want to win statewide you have to win in the state. >> yeah, absolutely. beyond that, she is out in the past week doing events with black male voters including an event on friday where on the stage with her was someone who was a rapper in a well-known criminal gang here in atlanta. that will hurt her building the rest of the coalition that she really needs to have to win. if she is out having to court members of her base, you have to assume both black male voters would be she is campaigning of a position of real weakness here and needs to focus on atlanta and the

northern suburbs. recapture some of those highly educated more affluent white voters many looked to her in 2018. a lot of those folks are unhappy with biden or the direction of the country and some of the luster has worn off of stacey abrams' star. those people, that group of voters are the ones who have put her over the top and right now she is not focusing on them. >> dana: there is an op-ed in the "new york times" headline, democrats black male voters problems, the trend appears to be bigger than just georgia. we've seen a similar thing between black men and women's votes on the national stage. it should be noted black men vote democratic at a higher rate than other men but the slippage is concerning for democrats. if you were to analyze, could you point to a couple of the issues that is the result of these slippage in support. >> there is no question i think there is a slippage in support.

in 2020 we saw the trump campaign gain double digits among black men. we talked to a pollster and he acknowledges that part of the reason for that is everything to do with the fact the democratic party has blinds when it comes to black men. stacey abrams is trying to do as well as teaming up with warnock, the senator from that state, they're trying to make inroads in the community talking about the issues that concern them. a couple of those issues is one, dealing with access to higher education and technical colleges. two, access in capital. so many african-american men trying to start businesses and she wants to create a $10 million capital campaign to reach those voters. it is worth pointing out in the 2020 runoff race where we say the gains for warnock and ossoff was in atlanta and the atlanta suburbs due to african-american voters why she is spending so much time and attention trying to get them back out again. >> dana: brian, if there is slippage for her with black men

in georgia, are republicans able to win their vote or are they just not voting at all? >> it's a little bit of both. i tell you this, brian kemp will break into that coalition. he has been very intentional about nominating black males and women to state boards and putting them into positions of political office when there is an opening. he has been very purposeful in diverse filing the picks as has happened in the last with republican governors. he has made a real effort. >> dana: very interesting discussion with you both. a state to watch. thank you so much. >> bill: the last pieces in the primary puzzle about to fall into place today. one of the primaries happens in new hampshire. the governor is chris sununu is

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trump team experts named. the legal battle over the unprecedented f.b.i. search is far from over. david spunt has the latest at d.o.j. with us now. good morning. >> good morning to both of you. this is a legal scuffle. it continues. it is delaying the process. this according to the department of justice. the trump team says it is necessary. i want to show you the candidates proposed by the u.s. government to serve as the third party master. the two candidates proposed by the government are retired judge thomas griffith and retired judge barbara jones. the former president's legal team announced in filing yesterday it has a problem with both choices. we don't know why. attorneys want to wash out the issues behind closed doors with the federal judge and federal prosecutors. trump's team proposed a senior federal judge who is retired named judge and an attorney.

the government in a filing last night announced thumbs-up for the judge as a candidate. d.o.j. does not believe the other is suitable given his experience. trump team filed a response to the government's argument that a special master should have limited powers, trump's team disagrees calling it a document storage dispute that spiraled out of control. she wants judge cannon to reconsider her ruling telling investigators to stop examining documents seized from mar-a-lago until a special master reviews them first. it says they compete efforts to see if there were any other records not being properly stored. the judge's order according to the government poses a potential for ongoing risk to national security. the d.o.j. announced an appeal to the 11th circuit court of appeals already in atlanta. >> bill: all right. off we go. nice to see you at d.o.j.

>> dana: democrats pouring millions into republican races supporting candidates the president himself has called a danger to democracy. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. see irony in that? >> dana: yep. >> bill: democrats are using the strategy throughout the primary season in hopes it will make their party's path to victory easier come november. >> dana: "washington post" reports democrats have spent $53 million on republican primary candidates in nine states this year. marc thiessen, last hour. >> they've done in colorado, michigan, new hampshire. done it in california. if maga represents such a threat to our democracy how are they actually funding the campaigns of the candidates who are doing and holding the positions that they say are such a threat? >> bill: today there is a senate primary in new hampshire. democrats have put millions

before retired army general bolduc running against the state senate chuck morris. will face maggie hassan in november, who is said to be right there on the line as to whether or not she can win reelection. >> dana: governor chris sununu is standing by with analysis. hillary vaughn is in new hampshire. >> incumbent democrat new hampshire's senator maggie hassan was asked if she thinks it's hypocritical for democrats to meddle in mid-term primary races and spend donor dollars boosting a republican candidate they call a threat to democracy. she says she can't control what outside groups do. but the guy the democrats are boosting because they think he would be easier to beat don

bolduc voted in strat em. we asked him about that? >> do you think it's hypocritical for democrats to spend donor dollars on your campaign but then turn around and say you are extreme and are you a threat to democracy? >> i think it's a bad strategy for any outside organizations on the republican side or democrat side to try and influence a primary. >> he says no matter who wins today she doesn't see a difference. she is already branding whoever her opponent is as extreme. >> who would you rather face? >> both of them are very extreme and way out of step in new hampshire. both would be a yes vote for national -- >> i talked with morris and bolduc and asked them if they would support a national abortion ban. they agree with the supreme court, it is up to individual states to set those laws at the state level. >> dana: that's very interesting. great to have you on the road

for us, hillary. >> bill: chris sununu is with us now. welcome back to our program. maggie hassan won her race six years ago by a mere 1,000 votes. bolduc is saying you are afraid of him because he doesn't favor any special interests. to him you would say what as to why you are not supporting him? >> this is a race about being results driven. senator morse, who is running, has stood with me to rebuild the mental health system and rebuild our treatment and recovery system here in new hampshire, stood with me to buy the mental health hospitals to make investments to invest in infrastructure. he got it done. no one in washington has a great record of doing anything. folks in new hampshire want somebody that understands the issues and been in the state and engaged in the stuff with a record of results. so that's what it is all about.

not to mention chuck morse without a doubt can win in november. the polls all say that. i think senator hassan is in real trouble. she can complain all she wants but she hasn't been here for five years. how would she know what the people in new hampshire want? she hasn't even been on the ground. you can't show up in year six and spend a bunch of money and think it will work out. her approval numbers have gone from 42% up to 42%. people want her gone and both of our congressional delegations gone, too. >> dana: before you get to the november general there is the primary today. our understanding is that bolduc has a great amount of support in the state. he has supporters who will walk over coles for him and we've seen it in some states when you have low turnout primaries somebody can get through. here is what he said. call for number three about his race. >> the reason they are afraid of me is they can't control me. i am not a career politician.

i don't favor special interests. i scare them. so they call me names, right? not being a serious candidate, well, i'll leave that to the granite staters to decide. >> dana: he is getting support from an unexpected place from chuck schumer's pac spending $3.2 million attack ad against the candidate you support morse. they spent $19 million across eight states in these types of things. what do you think of their strategies to highlight candidates they consider to be semi fascist. >> look, can you imagine being a democrat donor knowing your money is supporting the most extreme candidate? because here is the other problem they'll have. in some of these races they will get what they asked for. they really are. they are going to get what you could call extreme candidates winning in november because people are fed up with inflation, fed up with gas prices. it is horrible strategy and i think it should be banned. i hate the dark money stuff, i

hate super pac stuff and with 98% of america when i say that. folks who want to raise money for their campaigns that's fine. you have to bring some reforms in to fix this sort of thing. i just think this strategy will massively backfire on the democrats. >> bill: interesting to watch after the whole mid-term is decided and we look back and see how it goes. i know you support chris morse and in your piece earlier today you say we need a republican nominee who will win. we have to get this right. do you think if bolduc is the candidate he can't beat hassan. >> no, pretty much all the candidates in the republican primary could beat senator hassan. i think chuck morse has the best chance and the won that will win by the biggest margin. with him and myself on the top of the ticket we'll pull in a lot of state races and a red wave in new hampshire as well as congressional seats no doubt. everybody in new hampshire

wants maggie hassan fired in november. that's no doubt. any of the republicans could beat her. >> dana: when it comes to inflation i would imagine cost of living the number one issue. abortion is also an issue in the races. how does it work for somebody like maggie hassan? can she get a good turnout number based on that issue? >> no. it fires up in her base. there is a 24-week rule here in place. nothing has changed at all because of the dobbs. other states it's more extreme and having real fights over it. here it is business as usual. it is not an issue that will drive the independents to the polls because there is not a fundamental shift in it. what there has been a fundamental shift is inflation and gas prices and the cost of electric electricity and food. those are the things that will drive people to the polls in november.

>> bill: we'll see what happens later tonight. thanks for coming back. >> dana: take care. >> appreciate it. >> dana: lets he go to battleground pennsylvania where senate candidate john fetterman is under fire from the left leaning "washington post" editorial board writing that fetterman must release his medical records and debate challenger dr. oz before early voting begins. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel joins us on this. >> pressure coming from an unlikely source. the "washington post" expressing concerns about the fitness of fetterman. he has been halting in his performances and stamers, appears confused and keeps his remarks short. he has held no news conferences and says we wish him a full recovery but the lingering unanswered questions about his health and his hesitation to debate are unsettling. fetterman suffered a stroke in may and did not campaign for three months. since then he has done little

campaigning. the "washington post" editorial board is pushing fetterman to debate dr. mehmet oz in the coming days and quote we believe there fetterman should release his medical records for independent review and debate mr. oz before voters start casting their ballots. dr. oz is keeping the pressure on fetterman. >> what everyone should be arguing for democracy to survive you have to debate and answer questions. so he has to agree, they argue, for multiple debates to prove his ability to serve starting immediately. >> he has complained about oz's campaign mocking his health struggles. >> i truly hope for each and every one of you, you didn't have a doctor in your life making fun of it, making light of it, or telling you that you are not fit to serve. no? but unfortunately i do. i have a doctor in my life

doing that. >> it's not just his republican opponent now, the "washington post" is asking if fetterman is fit to serve in the senate. dannah. >> dana: mike emmanuel, focus on the mid-term voting. it's early voting. it's already underway. so the "wall street journal" writes this. sending mail ballots after labor day to anybody who asks when candidates and the media are most engaged. stretching the timeline into election months hurts challengers less well-known with less money and can't afford to spread advertising out over many weeks. it is hard to argue the weeks of early voting have made americans feel better about elections or their choices. that's right. >> bill: the point they're making, it extends into, what is it, it's 50 days in pennsylvania. 47 in wisconsin. that's a long time. you haven't had a single debate.

the candidates could change. issues can change. inflation number could go higher. it could go lower. it could influence who you would like to see in office. i think that last line is very telling, dannah, as you just read. it is hard to say whether or not americans feel any better about elections or their choices. >> dana: in some of the states you can't even count those early votes before election -- until the polls close, which is why it takes so long to get results in some of these nations as you stand on the board. early voting has its uses in some places but doesn't need to be 50 days long. >> bill: check it out. vindication for a family-owned business falsely accused of racism. one of the more liberal colleges in america now forking over a staggering amount of money to a school in ohio. details on that defamation case coming up. >> dana: a teachers going woke on the first day of school. why parents in one district are outraged over a controversial lesson plan.

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>> dana: 17-year-old arrested in a shocking hit and run caught on camera. the warning, the video may be disturbing to some viewers, including me. a pickup truck plowed straight into a man with a wheelchair in a parking lot last week.

he warned drive and was dragged across the pavement. the driver skips a curb and takes off. the suspect is now charged with several felonies including injury to a disabled person. we wish that victim all the best. he is in serious condition. >> bill: clark county administrator robert telles said to be arranged today in the stabbing of a reporter. he is being held without bail but still drawing a $130,000 salary. to break it down and set it up william la jeunesse has the story in our bureau in l.a. what happens today? >> prosecutors file their murder charges yesterday. alleged killer will be arraigned in 20 minutes. police have a motive and a mountain of evidence including not just the disguise that he allegedly used to kill the reporter but video of him near the scene and police found his dna under the reporter's fingernails suggesting a fight.

telles stalked and then stabbed investigator reporter jeff german seven times in retaliation for stories he wrote that caused telles, elected democrat to lose his wife and job. details of a hostile workplace and an inappropriate relationship with a female staffer. last week police released surveillance video of a suspect wearing a sun hat and carrying a giant duffel bag near the crime scene. prosecutors claim they found the hat and bloody shoes later at telles's home while serving a warrant. a maroon s.u.v. was circling the house the morning of the stabbing matches one owned by telles that police found in his driveway. defense attorneys today will ask for reduced bail. the d.a. is considering charging telles with first degree murder making it a

possible death penalty case. clark county is still paying his $130,000 salary needed for attorney fees probably. but because -- why is that? because he lost the june democratic primary, he doesn't actually leave office until january so they have they have to pay him. clark county is working on how to freeze that salary between now and january. >> bill: what a story this is. william, thank you for that. appreciate the setup. geraldo rivera joins us now. good morning to you. one defense attorney says if you find him guilty of lying in wait, it automatically goes to first degree murder. how do you see this case, geraldo? >> well, i think that first of all the death penalty is on the table because of aggravating circumstances. you talked about him stalking and lying in wait. you also have the fact that the victim in this case, jeff german, was 69 years old.

he is an older victim and under nevada law an aggravating circumstance so it is conceivable he could be charged with first degree murder and get the death penalty assigned. although it's extremely rare in nevada. 2006 was the last time the state actually used the death penalty. this is truly, bill, is it not, adding insult to injury? the death of this crusading journalist and who nailed this guy, telles, really exposing him for creating a hostile workplace and having an illicit affair for disrupting everything. it was very clear when telles lost back in may that he was very angry, exchanged all kinds of ugly, vicious tweets against the reporter. so the german's colleagues at the review journal, the

newspaper, suspected telles immediately. this guy with this bizarre disguise. did you ever see a worse disguise with the rain coat and hat and so forth, bill? >> bill: telles, a democrat, lost that reelection bid and that's the video to which you were referring a moment ago. now you have the question why he is still getting paid. the clark county commissioner with an explanation on that. okay. my bad. he said for now he is still an elected officer and get paid while he is in jail. we can take the scope of work away from him. as far as having the title and getting the salary, it is that way because the voters picked him. that's another issue, separate issue i guess. you could ask yourself what justifies the payment while sitting in court and charged with first degree murder. >> well, the irony, the way the law is being interpreted, is

that the only way to -- remove him from office -- this outrageous salary that he is collecting despite fact he is a bloody murderer, this salary will stop when he is finally replaced in office in january when the person who won the election takes over. but i think the real story here, bill, is how german's colleagues at the newspaper helped the authorities, they helped them find the s.u.v. they did a global tracking. they did it all, these reporters helped the las vegas authorities and a half hour they reported their findings to the cops, they arrived at telles's residence all in swat team body armor and so forth and took him down. the worry now among german's colleagues is that telles is a

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harris says the border is secure. but stunning new video says otherwise. fox news cameras rolling when several illegal immigrants dressed in camouflage climbed over the border wall by rope. the migrants ran into the desert. still on the loose today. front page of the "new york post" sums it up. you call this secure? bill melugin is live from eagle pass, texas, with an answer today. good morning. >> bill, yet another busy morning out here in eagle pass already. the fox drone, this is what's left over of a massive group of several hundred migrants who crossed illegally this morning. you mentioned it first. we have stunning exclusive video we want to show our viewers and get into it right now. in arizona, in just 45 minutes our team saw well over a dozen illegal immigrants, all dressed

in camouflage, scaling the border wall using a rope to repel down and running into the open desert of arizona. a human smuggler on top of the wall with a cell phone who told us he does this every single morning. these are not asylum seekers, these are people looking to get away. every person you see in this video did get away. not a single one was caught by border patrol. this happened in the tucson, arizona border patrol sector. seen the most gotaways so far. more than 160,000 a dhs source tells me. nays wide more than 500,000 of these gotaways at our board he shall. more than half a million just since october. this as v.p. kamala harris keeps insisting the border is secure. take a listen. >> the border is secure. >> you have two million people cross the border. are you confident this border is secure? >> we have a secure border in

that that is a priority for any nation including ours and our administration. >> take a look at this photo. also in arizona cbp making a major fentanyl bust at the arizona port of entry. 186,000 fentanyl pills and powder and 106 pounds of meth. all of those drugs hidden in vehicles and on and inside human bodies. back out here live we bring it back to the gotaways. since the beginning of fiscal year 2021 we have now had more than 900,000 gotaways at our southern border. that's bigger than the population of san francisco sneaking past our border patrol. we'll send it back to you. >> bill: thank you, bill. yet again bill melugin. the video is stunning to see. >> dana: "new york times" has a labor dispute on its hands. 1300 employ ears refusing to

return to the office. one union worker citing inflation as a reason to stay home. in our office to talk about the jimmy failla host on fox news radio. went by "the new york times" last night. not a great area. crime is not good. but the cost of coming in, the commute is what some of these people are saying they don't want to have to deal with. >> i am fascinated. i wish the times would cover that much time on inflation as they do in emails. part of my thinks it goes beyond inflation. you don't want to be in the office with all the woke maniacs who work at the times. my friends at the times are like what protest are you going to? nobody wants to be around these people. what it really speaks to is this whole caricature thinking journalists are above everyone else. it is more expenseive to come to work and why should we "the new york times" journalists

have to do this? news flash, everyone in america has to do this. if you are really concerned about inflation complicating everyone's quality of life don't get mad at your boss start talking about the people causing it, which they haven't done. >> bill: quote from the union's contract committee. have you seen this "new york post"? return to the office during a period of high inflation means workers will have to spend more money on gas, mass transit and lunches despite the salary not increasing. >> "new york times." this is what we've been saying for the last year and half. inflation is through the roof. talk about it. >> dana: the other thing is i feel like this happens more and more merriam-webster dictionary adding more words. does it happen more than once a

year? >> they jumped it up. >> dana: new ones here. sus is a suspicion or suspect. >> bill: you are sus. that deal is sus. >> it is something like sus. in times square we saw a sidewalk santa. it is september. he is not supposed to be out there. the money is not going to charity but the blarney stone. >> janke is poor quality. >> my wife uses it to discuss our marriage a lot. >> dana: baller, excellent, exciting in a way suggestive of a lavish lifestyle. i feel like >> bill: you are a baller. >> dana: i try to say that word, i can't do it. i cannot pull it off. it doesn't work for me. >> it takes a lot of swag. >> dana: a lot of confidence. >> you have to have a much bigger chain and one bottle of champagne in your hand. if you don't do that you're not

a baller. >> bill: pumpkin spice? >> a dictionary is the one thing that doesn't come in pumpkin spice flavor. >> dana: kids went back to school already. there is one parents complaining in connecticut. look at this. tell us what happened. i think we have a picture. there we go. we don't have anything. i'm looking at it. public schools up there. what happened, jimmie? >> a teacher distributed basically a piece of paper outlining social justice terms. the kids could incorporate that into their learning experience this year. one of the big ones that upset parents is white privilege. that's the one that bothers me. a guy whose alarm went off at 2:30 in the morning to drive a cab. i didn't have white privilege. get me out of the garage and make nothing. but basically i think what parents are pushing back on we don't care with inclusion.

we want people to feel accepted. this is incentivizing unhappiness and teaching kids to look for grievance. go spot these things so you can say you are aware of them but you don't actually have to demonstrate any of it in public anymore. if someone doesn't agree with you politically you don't them your empathy. what i'm giving the teacher a bad grade you are in a bad spot. >> the clock didn't clock didn't come with a snooze button. >> bill: a new one, adorkable. socially awkward in a way that's endearing. >> it sounds like irkle. we have to give it to greg by default. >> dana: he had a birthday yesterday. had to keep it going. >> i got him a new jacket at baby gap. >> bill: thank you, jimmie. president biden wants to celebrate the inflation reduction act while the white

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. >> bill: the dow is off more than 800 points, about 2 1/2%. the nasdaq is even worse, down 455. that equates to 3.7%. so nearly 4% on the tech heavy nasdaq. why is this happening? inflation number came out two hours and 15 minutes ago. it was hot, much hotter than investors like. you have the fed next week

likely raising rates again at least 3/4 of a point. maybe there is some debate whether or not they can go more than that. wow. that would be trouble. president biden set to host a white house event today that is described as celebrating the signing of the inflation reduction act last month. i don't know how you define that today. peter doocy is on the north lawn to take us through that. good morning. >> just to ping off that alert about the dow being down 800 points. this is a president who says he doesn't pay as much attention to the stock market as his predecessor, but it is unclear how much longer he will be able to say he is not watching numbers that are falling like that. something else officials around here do a lot is they brag about gas prices coming down. and they have, but not enough to offset increases in the last month in food and rent. now the president is saying today's data shows more progress is bringing global inflation down in the u.s.

economy. overall, prices have essentially been flat in our country the last two months. that is welcome news for american families with more work still to do. a former obama economic advisor jason fuhrman writes my interpretation, a lot of the things that were supposed to bring down inflation have happened. energy prices, we should be seeing the reverse now. i was and am skeptical of magnitude. labor force returning, good prices moderating but not working. this erases a talking point president biden was trying to roll out last month when inflation month-to-month was actually flat, remember this? >> president biden: i just want to say a number, zero. today we received news that our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of july,

zero percent. here is what that means. while the price of some things go up, went up last month, the price of other things went down by the same amount. >> about four hours from right now there is something on the president's schedule that is described as an event celebrating the passage of h.r.5376, the inflation reduction act. they will be celebrating inflation reduction just a few hours after the president himself said inflation flat. >> bill: try to square the two. nice to see you. >> dana: washington state senate candidate tiffany smiley is a republican who supports the state law posts in closing the gap on democratic senate incumbent patty murray. she has been a senator for 30 years. tiffany smiley joins us now. our fox news power ranking call for number two shows it as a solid democrat race. but you are within striking

distance in some of your own polls. what are you hearing and seeing on the ground when it comes to inflation especially? >> you know, we have the momentum in this campaign and to address the abortion issue long before the unprecedented leak came out of the supreme court opinion. i have long said it belongs in the state closest to the voters. i respect the voters of washington state and you know what i can do? i can insure that women have access to contraception, healthcare and childcare and i will get it done. my opponent refuses to address the issues facing washington families every day, economy, inflation, skyrocketing grocery prices, gas prices high. some of the highest in the nation, crime is through the roof. we have a humanitarian crisis going on in our streets in washington state with the homeless crisis. and patty murray does not talk about this and why i have launched my agenda for recovery and reform. most recently political recovery and reform. because the voters have lost

confidence in our system and rightfully so because we failed to deliver results to the issues that they are facing. i am so excited to get into the senate and be a voice for the people of washington state. patty murray is a vice for washington, d.c. i want to enact term limits. i've even said and pretty bold but it resonates and is true. i've been in this position, too. politicians in d.c. if they can't pass a budget they shouldn't get paid. i look forward to pledging to 10 town halls every year in different counties all over washington state. so the voice of the people is heard and that we can find solutions that deliver results. that's what is on the ballot this november. >> dana: before you can do that, then you have to try to win in november. are you going to be able to debate patty murray? >> so, i have accepted four debates and that has been a

little over four weeks. we haven't heard from patty murray. she won't even get on an editorial board zoom interview with me which i think is a direct disrespect to the voters of washington state. they deserve to hear our differing vision on how we will lead washington state and fight for the people in washington anyone can hold us in this fight at smiley for washingtoncom. all spelled out. we have the momentum and the voice of the people behind us. we are very excited about where we're at here in washington state. >> dana: before i lose you, is she refusing to debate or hasn't agreed to any dates yet? >> she hasn't agreed to any dates yet. they are set on the calendar by the debate commissions. we've agreed to the dates and we have yet to hear from her. she has said she would debate but but yet to agree with the dates on the calendar. i understand her schedule. the editorial board, i had to

call them out. if the corporate media here in washington state won't hold patty murray accountable, i will. >> dana: let me ask you one other thing. do you feel like there is enough momentum for change that you are seeing that maybe is not reflected in the polls? because the real clear politics average for washington senate race right now is murray plus six. we saw in the "new york times" yesterday a piece by the political analyst who said these polls might not be right. they might not be capturing what's really happening on the ground. give you a chance to say are you hearing something different than what the polls might be saying? >> yes. parents are frustrated and we recently heard patty murray double down she has no regets being an advocate for school closures. we have a teachers strike and kids are out of school again if washington state. parents are frustrated. people want their voices to be heard. not only that we have issues in the city of seattle with the

homeless crisis and people are not listening to the people on the ground who are facing not only a public safety crisis but a massive economic crisis. you can't even get a cup of coffee on the hometown shop on capitol hill because crime is so bad. >> dana: tiffany smiley. i'm glad we have met and no doubt we'll see you before the mid-term election a little less than seven weeks from now. >> bill: in a moment a nearly six-year legal battle involving an ohio back re and allegations of racial profiling is now over. one of america's most liberal colleges has been forced to pay up in a big way. newday usa. it's called the newday 100 because it lets veterans borrow up to 100% of their home's value. not just 80% like some typical loans. that extra cash can make a huge difference in these times of skyrocketing prices. here's more good news: home values have skyrocketed too. that means even more cash!

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>> harris: primary season ends when the polls close today. the way democrats are playing the game is turning off a lot of voters. a liberal paper going after the democrat in the hospital pennsylvania senate race. the paper telling john

fetterman to debate dr. oz right now and turn over your health records. and the new inflation numbers are out. not good. it's really impacting the markets right now. big sell-off. senator joni ernst from iowa. pete hegseth and charles payne. "focus" at the top of the hour. >> bill: a six-year legal battle between a bakery in ohio and oberlin college is over. it started involving allegations of racism against the bakery and the school eventually lost in a big way. mike tobin has the story from chicago. mike, good morning. >> good morning, bill. the family-owned bakery is an ohio college town is vindicated after being labeled racist. gibson's bakery was the target of protests and boycotts. court ruled oberlin college defamed that bakery and staff including the dean of students

sided with the protestors. at the end of august the ohio supreme court refused the take the case. the judgment of an appellate court stands. oberlin college has to pay $31 million and legal fees and interest stating that a college will pay the judgment a spokesman wrote we're disappointed by the court's decision. however, this does not diminish our respect for the law and integrity of our legal system. the case goes back to 2016 when a student who was black attempted to buy alcohol with a fake i.d. and shoplift two additional bottles. the clerk, a grandson chased him and tackled him. the three later pleaded guilty but police body camera shows at the time one of them claimed to be the victim of a racist attack. >> why am i only being arrested and he is not? >> everyone was on top beating him. >> canceled orders from the university the court rules

gibson's was owed $5 million in damages alone. now with the shelves empty compared to 2016 management at gibson wants to rebuild the relationship with the community and start hiring again but a lot of damage has been done. >> it was very hurtful. it was just -- it was not true and it was extremely hurtful to have that go through the community and be caught and labeled that. >> oberlin says despite the hefty judgment the college can handle it without impacting education. >> bill: wow, what a story and what a trail they have fought. thank you, mike tobin, in chicago chicago. >> dana: quite an ordeal and the family stayed so strong. >> bill: in the early days how many times people were picketing the bakery and outside protesting. those people were dragged through the mud. >> dana: before we go, i was on the janice dean podcast and it

posted today. i think you will see it soon. >> bill: 30 minutes actually. >> dana: she is a terrific interviewer. her skills in radio are incredible. her tone, approach, way of life, she is a joy to sit with. . i hope people have a chance to look at that at foxnews.com/podcast. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. the nation's final primaries are today and delaware, rhode island and new hampshire and we're watching match-ups that could tip the balance of power into the hands of republicans. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". the stakes are particularly high in the swing state of new hampshire. maybe that's why it is the latest election meddling target for the democratic party. majority leader chuck schumer's political action committee spent more than $3 million boosting far