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the president is simply out of touch, and this is a fox news alert. >> inflation rate month to month is just up, just an inch, hardly at all. >> employers are not raising people's salaries fast enough to cover all the, you know, the inflation. >> food is so expensive now. >> for the last several months it has not spiked, just barely. >> trying to cut back on our groceries. >> the fact is that we have created 10 million new jobs, we are in a sense -- >> biggest challenges for small business is, you know, recruiting and retaining staff. >> it's all personal tax, it's about motive. >> maga republicans have made their choice. >> it's not by disagree with you on the subject matter. >> they embrace anger, they thrive on chaos. >> i think it's fair to say that we have not had a president like the last president who has made

all of it so personal. >> republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this country. >> john: from the economy to unifying the nation, critics questioning whether the president is anywhere near on the same page with american families. >> sandra: the president saying inflation is not so bad as americans can continue to shell out more and more for food, energy and beyond. >> john: sandra, let's bring in ro khanna to break this all down. so the president, congressman, seems to be ignoring the big number on inflation, which is 8.3%, focusing instead on the month to month number, let's play again what he said yesterday. >> let's put this in perspective. inflation rate month to month was up just an inch, hardly at all. >> congressman, is that a message that you are excited to take to voters this fall? >> look, i'm not going to deny

the obvious. obviously inflation is an issue, people are still paying too much for food, for basic products, for their needs. but how do we solve this, wages rise and prices come down. only one way, we have to make more things in america, we have to produce more, we need productivity to go up and a lot of the president's policies, particularly the chips act and the inflation reduction act is about bringing manufacturing back to america and solving supply chains. >> sandra: i hear you saying it's still an issue as if it landed in the administration's lap. most americans when polled say they hold government spending accountable for the sky high inflation. unless we hear the president acknowledge it's his policies that have gotten us here, how do we expect he's going to fix it? >> honest of what the causes of inflation are. first of all, the fed was buying back mortgages way too long,

larry summers and others have said that. second, yes, government spending but it was both under president trump and under president biden, it was in response to an historic pandemic, 3 trillion spent under president trump, there was about 2 trillion spent under president biden. now we can say was that all necessary? i believe it was, to get us out of a massive possible recession, and to help get us back. the biggest cause, though, has been the supply chain crisis. how can we not make baby formula in america, not build masks, semiconductors, make more things here will solve inflation. >> john: you talk about inflation, and the fed has said 3% can be accounted by the massive increases in spending and this administration wants to spend billions of dollars more on new plans and social handouts as well as forgiveness of

student loan debt and it's causing some democrats, looking forward to maybe tough races in the midterms to say you know what, that's an agenda i don't want to be attached to. are they right to walk away from that? >> most of the spending that we are passing is productive spending. it's to build semiconductors here, battery plants here, solar panels here, not in china. >> john: what about student loan forgiveness. nothing to do with that. that could be a trillion dollars. >> no, that was one study, most people and economists put it around 300 billion, over ten years. so it's -- >> john: responsible federal budget puts it at a trillion. >> i disagree with those numbers. i think the economists who looked at it, i think it is around 300 bill over ten years. 30 billion one year. the student loans were in default largely, and it says

those people's credit should not be destroyed and we can discuss the morality of it but it's simply not inflationary and most economist, even those who say it's inflationary, say .1%. >> sandra: the reality most americans are living through. not only the broed number, 8.3%, but gasoline up 25%, groceries up 13, car prices up 10%, just to put a roof over your head. prices are up 6.2% for shelter. americans are now living paycheck to paycheck, 60% of the population, it's a record high. just to make up for that inflation cost hitting them. more americans are working two full-time jobs. 440,000 as of august. that's more americans than ever working two full-time jobs to pay for this inflation.

the president just took a victory lap on this inflation reduction act that you support. by your calculations, how much are the prices going to come down? take the headline inflation rate, how much is that massive amount of spending during inflationary times, how much is it going to bring down prices? >> it's going to bring down prices but not immediately. >> sandra: how much? >> i'm going to be candid about it. save 2 to 300 bucks on energy cost for people, especially as they get new heat pumps and electric stoves, bring down some medicare costs for prescription drugs. you said car prices are up. why, because we are not making enough semiconductor chips here. you said gas prices are up, why is big oil paying a windfall profits tax in europe, proud and fine to help europeans, we are basically pay --

>> sandra: i asked you a question, you have thrown your support, you read through this, you are supporting it. by how much will it bring down the headline inflation rate that is now 8.3%? and when? >> well, i think it will bring it down a bit, but i don't think that the biggest reason i supported it is because it's going to allow us to make more things in america. solar, batteries, wind energy, electric vehicles instead of china. i don't think the ultimate source of inflation is going to be this act that will bring it down. it's going to be fed policy. >> sandra: it's called the inflation reduction act. that's fine, you said a bit. quantify that for us. >> look, i think everyone trying to predict the economy, that would be foolish. i think where it will bring down prices is prescription drugs, energy prices, and deinflationnary impact by making more things in america. but short-term if you want to tackle inflation, largely fed

policy. that's common economists it's driven by monetary policy and second go after the high prices. you want to go after gas prices, why is it no one is saying big oil so making profits. in europe, a wind fall profits tax but here no rebate or share back to the consumers. >> john: by definition, economyist do forecast, many of them do, by the way, not just the committee for responsible federal budget that pegs the cost of the student loan forgiveness at a trillion dollars, it's also penn wharton. >> the person who did that was a bush appointee, he has a political motive. i trust joseph stiglitz, i took out $100,000, and i paid it back, and i understand why

people are on the other side. i don't think pointing to the inflation context it makes economic sense. with we can have a moral debate. >> john: you are talking about the border, what kamala harris said a week and some other democratic colleagues have said. >> the border is secure. >> it's wrong, she's dead wrong on that. anybody says our borders are secured, that is not accurate. i've been there. >> the border is not secure, with all due respect to the v.p. we get thousands of people along the border, from 6 to 8,000 people a day. >> john: so i know you didn't have the benefit of seeing the monitor, that was joe manchin of west virginia and henry cuellar, who encompasses el paso, they are drowning. is the border secure? >> i recognize their voices, senator manchin and representative cuellar. i think we can do more to secure the border. comprehensive immigration reform.

>> john: is it secure? >> it's securer, but we can make it securer. >> john: how is it securer when 2.35 2.35 million people, by the 31st of this month will have come across the border illegally? >> well, there are more border agents down there in my view by the numbers than were even there under president obama or president bush. why is it not secure? let's have an honest conversation. one of the reasons is you have employers here saying come, come work for us, people are trying to come across the border, they are coming without the paperwork and many want to go back but there's no process and we had comprehensive reform, a process, george w. bush's proposal, and a bipartisan deal if we really want to solve the problem, why not do that, and there are many of us willing to work to do that. instead of just yelling at each other, does not solve the

problem and worse and worse every year. >> tom homan was on last hour asking the question wrshgs is vice president kamala harris. she was appointed the border czar, we have not seen her at the border or communications on the border and she's giving interviews most recently last weekend saying the border is secure when you've got this major, major influx of migrants pouring over our border to the point you've got governors of american states trying to figure out what to do with them. >> first of all, what they did to migrants, whatever your view on the border and shipping them somewhere, i think that was wrong and i hope people can agree that's wrong. regardless, look, we are a nation that believes every person is endowed by their creator with dignity, and whatever you think on the border, we ought to treat every person with some dignity. i just think that's who we are as americans, and what i disagreed with governor desantis by doing that, is forget the border dispute. just treat people with dignity

when they are in america, whether they stay in america or not. but look, i agree that we have a challenge at the border and the challenge is hurting those of us who care about -- >> sandra: the question of kamala harris, do you think she's doing a good job with the border? >> i think we need a better solution on comprehensive immigration reform, what i would say to the vice president is mep lead to get comprehensive immigration reform done. there is a proposal by george w. bush in the early 2,000s. and the house has passed a proposal to allow people to come as guest workers and then go back. it's not even path to citizenship. why can't we at least do things like that to reduce the tension. i understand the ranchers on the border, i understand people are coming over, they are destroying the property in many cases, they are unsafe, i'm sympathetic to that. i understand that has to be fixed. at the same time, many of these ranchers want people to hire.

so, how do we fix this? well, a guest worker program would solve a lot of it. it was not my idea, it was not a democratic idea, it was a republican president, george w. bush, i'm saying let's pass that and take a step forward. >> john: congressman, i want to move on to the 2024 election, but final button to put on this quickly. so, maybe he's not sending them to martha's vineyard, that was obviously an attention-getting act on the part of ron desantis. but the democratic mayor of el paso is bussing illegal migrants to new york city saying we are full, we can't handle this, but no one is saying anything in criticism to that, but they are criticizing desantis, ducey, abbott. >> i think what was criticizing desantis was it looked like he was trying to make a political point out of it. >> john: clearly he was. >> and other ways to make a political point. i don't think you should do it

at the expense of people who are vulnerable. even republicans, people on the right who disagree with my policies on the border don't believe you should be manipulating people. so, but i agree it's a problem, we have to solve it, and the way to do it is comprehensive immigration reform. >> john: on to 2024, president biden said yesterday he's not sure whether he's going to run for re-election in 2024. would you encourage him to? >> he has so make that decision but i believe that he is convinced that he is the best person to beat donald trump. i think donald trump is going to be the nominee of the republican party. every poll i've seen shows he still has a tremendous amount of support, especially among working class republicans, so the question is who can beat donald trump on our side. president biden has beaten him once. i believe he is going to run but it's his decision to make if he is the best person to beat him. >> sandra: he's raising some eyebrows with some of the things

he said in a new interview over the weekend. this specifically on the pandemic, interesting timing. listen. >> the pandemic is over, we still have a problem with covid, we are still doing a lot of work on it, it's -- but the pandemic is over. >> sandra: so are those in his party, all of them, going to get the memo, are they going to end the mandates and the restrictions still happening in many states? >> i think what the president was trying to say is that the worst of the pandemic is over. look, when you give a lot of interviews and every word is dissected as i know, probably my twitter feed after this. >> sandra: a lot of interviews might be a stretch, considering we have not seen him sit down for an interview -- >> john: he gave one. >> obviously still long covid, people who are vulnerable who have issues. i just got my booster shot for omicron. i don't think we can be complacent about it.

what he was trying to say, life has largely returned to normal. >> sandra: no, he said the pandemic is over. >> john: that was -- >> i would phrase the worst of the pandemic is over, and that is my view what the president intention was. obviously he's entitled to his expression but i think they have done a tremendous job to get a lot of people vaccinated. why can't we come together in this country, say look, president trump and his team helped develop some of those vaccines and president biden helped distribute them and this is a success of america and let's put the partisan politics aside and give credit to people in both administration's. >> sandra: i think it's a fair question. >> john: wouldn't that be nice. >> sandra: wouldn't that be nice. do you think this president has followed through on his promise to best effort unite this country? >> we are trying. look, forget the blame for a second. i am concerned about china and the 21st century, as a son of

immigrants, my parents came here and said ro, you were born in america, you won the lottery, this is the greatest country in the world and i want to make sure it is, and putting aside politics, that's why i get criticized for coming on fox news and i say how are we going to start to talk to each other. do i think we can do more to bring this country together, of course. but we all have to start trying. >> john: we appreciate the fact that you and your colleague debbie dingle are willing to weather the slings and arrows from your own party to join us on fox. >> sandra: from scary us. >> i appreciate you letting me on, appreciate it. >> sandra: it's a good note to end on. we appreciate you joining us, see you soon. >> john: it is true, there are so many democrats who say what are you going on fox news for? you know why? there is a huge swath of america, whether they be republicans, democrats or whether they be the big middle of the country, independents,

who watch us. >> sandra: i think it's important our viewers know our invitations are out to both parties, lots of democrats every single day. there's a select group of them who do come on and we welcome them. >> john: a lot of people may not agree with ro khanna's politics but we appreciate the fact he comes on to talk about it. >> sandra: indeed. another story at 2:00, and a warning for democrats from comedian bill mar. one issue he says makes people so angry it could have his liberal friends in hollywood voting republican in the midterm elections. >> john: and some are throwing out all sorts of accusations bussing of migrants, even things like kidnapping. so do they have a case? jonathan turley is here to lay down some law. >> sandra: plus we are continuing to monitor breaking news in puerto rico at this hour where the rainfall from hurricane fiona is not measured

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>> john: a fox news alert now and just getting word of a fairly strong earthquake in mexico. it was so strong that there was now tsunami warning for parts of mexico's west coast. the quake reported about 250 miles south of puerto vallarta. >> sandra: initial measurements, shallow 7.5 on the richter scale, people could feel in mexico city, some 300 miles away. reports from the capital city of people running into the streets there as buildings swayed and shook violently from the shock waves. we are waiting on video right

now from the scene and when we have that for you, we'll turn that and play it out for you. this is an unfolding situation and we will stay on it. >> john: about ten kilometers, pretty shallow. >> it's been 606 days since joe biden took office and this problem has done nothing except continue to develop. this is a national problem and the governors along the southern borders are faced with trying to address it. >> john: south dakota republican senator slamming the biden administration handling of the border as more busses arrived in new york city. florida governor ron desantis to fly them to the blue oasis of martha's vineyard, some are calling on kidnapping charges. jonathan turley says those claims are legally absurd.

charles, what's the latest on this? >> florida governor ron desantis appears unfazed by democrats who have called him inhumane for sending several dozen venezuelan migrants on flights from texas to martha's vineyard, he has people talking about what he says is a largely neglected crisis at the southern border. >> when you have criminal aliens across the border and they then go and victim ize american citizens, they want open borders, and want you to deal with the open borders but want to be immune from the consequences of the policies. >> the governor's challenger has called on democrats to call on the doj to open up a human trafficking investigation into claims that migrants were lured on to these planes last week after being misled about work

opportunities. crist has also filed a florida records request related to the unauthorize aliens relocation program. and questions whether desantis illegally spent $615,000 tax payer dollars, flights originated from texas and only stopped briefly in florida. >> funds to move from texas to massachusetts, none were in florida, it's inhumane, let's not forget that. luring people in with lies. >> migrants have been moved from martha's vineyard to cape cod, where they are receiving help. and the governor's office says they have been working in accordance with the relocation law, they believe is in accordance with federal law. >> sandra: bring in jonathan

turley now, george washington law professor and fox news contributor. so the democrats are calling for a legal case against desantis, saying what he is doing is unlawful. do they have a case? >> i don't see a case, unless they can establish systemic coercion or fraud, there is really not a federal crime here. they can find individual cases that might be somehow actionable, but what the state has said is they have express consent for these flights. there are rational reasons why someone would want to leave the border area, which has been, it has an influx of undocumented migrants and go to areas that might have better employment possibilities or better levels of support. and you know, what they are arguing here is that this is an illegal transport of migrants. if that was the case, joe biden would be the biggest coyote ever. he's transferring thousands of

people across the country, also public interest organizations transfer migrants. all of them are saying, as they need to, and need to establish, that this is done with their consent. but there are rational reasons why migrants would want to go to new york or chicago and away from the border areas. >> sandra: not to mention in the case of the president, these flights are happening in the dark of night in some cases as we saw right here north of new york city in west chester county. the case in martha's vineyard, that was in broad daylight. jonathan, i also want to put headlines on the screen and ask you about this. gavin newsom is asking the doj to consider kidnapping charges after the gop governors shipped migrants out of state. charlie crist says doj should intervene after desantis disgusting and vile move, and u.s.a. today talks about massachusetts human trafficking

probe targeting desantis over the migrants. what about a case to be made there, do you see one? >> no. human trafficking is usually transferring or transporting someone for the purposes of exploiting them for sex or labor. that's not alleged here with governor desantis. transportation of officials occur all the time. governor newsom when he was mayor, i believe, transferred homeless people to other states. was he kidnapping them, was that human trafficking, the answer is no. they were vulnerable, but they're allowed to make the consensual choice. once the migrants are released by the federal government into the country, they have the right to go anywhere they want, and therefore, groups like public interest groups or states can assist them with their consent. >> sandra: really interesting. and now hillary clinton weighing in. listen. >> some politicians would rather not only have an issue but

exacerbate it to the extent of literally human trafficking. some people, like the governor of texas, would rather have an issue than be part of a solution. >> sandra: i think you can make the case the republicans solidly want a solution, they have been pushing for one for quite some time. they have been put in position, you can make the case, they have to do something. final thought. >> well, you know, what's really concerning for me is that this is not literally human trafficking. that is literally nonsense. and we do have some obligation to tell the public what the law is. this was a political -- some people can call it political stunt, but the federal code does not make political irony a crime. deal with it as a political matter, not a criminal matter. >> sandra: jonathan, we got to a lot there. >> john: always interesting when it's jonathan. virginia governor glen youngkin

promised to get woke out of schools in his state. now the administration is taking action. tell you how. >> sandra: bill mar slamming fellow democrats for being obsessed with all things woke. he warns the strategy could be driving voters away. ian prior up next on that.

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>> john: midterms just seven weeks away now and many parents are heading to vote with their kids in mind. virginia emerging as ground 0 for hot button education issues over the past few years, with national implications. the governor making headlines for rolling some power back to parents. mike emanuel joins us now. >> what governor youngkin is insisting on is that participation in school programs and use of school facilities like bathrooms and locker rooms should be based on biological

sex. youngkin education policy says they must be referred to in the name and pronouns in official records unless a parent gives consent. and reach out to parents, and progressive liberals are trying to push parents out of their children's lives and push parents out of any decision that is material in their child's life. the youngkin administration is criticizing the previous democrat, governor ralph northam's administration, says was a viewpoint aimed at cultural and social transformation in schools and disregarding the rights of parents. about this new policy, the youngkin administration says the code of virginia reaffirms the rights of parents to determine how their children will be raised and educated, empowering parents is not only a fundamental right but it is essential to improving outcomes for all children in virginia. a fairfax county school board member running for virginia delegate blasted the policy

change on twitter writing we will not remain silent as young skin tramples the rights of lgbt qia students and families, he should be ashamed. this proposal is subject to a 30-day comment period that opens later this month. >> john: gender issue is one thing in terms of that. but the thing about records, we had youngkin on recently and he had not really heard about that what fairfax county was doing, he said he was going to address it. looks like he is. >> he has gotten all over it, clearly some parents are encouraged that the governor is giving them an opportunity to weigh in on these important issues. >> john: good to see you. >> sandra: the schools issue weighing in on liberals out west in hollywood, bill maher -- >> you can get creative with a novel, a tv show or movie, but

history books, that's not supposed to be fan fiction. how we teach our kids history has become a big controversy these days. >> sandra: he is also weighing in on parental consent. bring in ian prior, former principal deputy director at the justice department under president trump and senior advisor for america first legal. ian, great to have you here. what do you think, is this driving the vote for some liberals out there who just don't like what they are hearing is happening in the classrooms? >> ian: i really do think so. and when i hear bill maher speak on these issues, i'm hearing a lot of the same things that i heard from some of the very people that helped get glenn youngkin elected in virginia. these are democrats, democrats their whole lives. i'm sure if i had a conversation on a host of issues we would disagree on issues. but when it comes to the trend towards wokeness, how schools are handling it, trying to

indoctrinate children and push parents out, there is a lot of agreement between traditional democrats, classical liberals, conservatives and independents and i think that's one of the things that put governor youngkin over the top last november. >> john: and maher believes it could push some to trump or other candidates he is behind. >> i know people who say i have kids, and i don't like it when they come home and say they divided the class today into oppressors and oppressed, and if i change my sex i don't have to tell my parents. there is [bleep] like that going on. >> john: idea of keeping sex education, sexual preference, gender preference away from parents is really locking them out of the whole decision making process with their own children. this was a big motivator in the election last year there in the commonwealth of virginia. do you believe it will be a big

motivator this fall as well? >> ian: yeah, i really do think so. i mean, i don't know if you saw the recent "new york times" poll, but it said 70% of those surveyed said education about sexual orientation and gender identity should not be in elementary schools. you know, i saw a tweet recently over the weekend about what governor youngkin did in virginia and the tweet said 133 counties in virginia and trans kids in all counties, and there are also parents and if you are shutting parents out of the decisions that could have life altering effects for their children from a mental, emotional and physical standpoint down the road, you are going to have very motivated voters and you are seeing that across the country. what happened in virginia last year has really spread throughout america and wherever you are, red state, blue state, it does not matter, it's happening. >> sandra: and bill maher is giving a big voice to her. more from him. >> portland public schools has a plan now to teach kids that the

idea of gender being mainly bynary was brought here by white colonizers. the curriculum guide says when the united states was colonized by white settlers their views around gender were forced upon the people already living here. not even star trek would try that star. >> sandra: pretty amazing stuff. >> ian: yeah, look, what he is doing is he's speaking to common sense. you know, it's funny, you talk to conservatives who never would have watched bill maher three years ago or two years ago but it's pretty entertaining. he is talking about common sense and some of the insane things we are seeing in america right now. and he's speaking from a liberal perspective. so, bill maher is out there, someone again who you would not call him a moderate democrat. he is a true liberal. if he has an issue with that, what do you think parents throughout the country are thinking when they are sending their kids to school looking at this and looking at what they are coming home saying every day? >> john: ian, we will keep

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>> sandra: early voting now underway in pennsylvania. polls there suggesting dr. mehmet oz seems he is closing the gap against lieutenant governor john fetterman. the race, of course, will go a long way in deciding the balance of power in the senate. nate foy is here, he has more on this exciting race. what's creating the recent momentum for dr. oz? >> sandra, a new poll has him within two points of fetterman, and fetterman had a stroke four months ago, a lot of voters are concerned about, dr. oz says they should be debating to prove he's fit for office, fetterman has denied the request but did address it this weekend at a rally. >> the only issue is a lingering issue of auditory processing.

sometimes i might miss a word or sometimes i'll mush two words together and create one that doesn't exist. >> because of that, dr. oz is allowing fetterman to used closed captioning during their only scheduled debate two weeks from election day but fetterman refuses to extend it to 90 minutes. dr. oz says it's necessary because each answer will take longer because of his medical accommodations. >> he's been dodging questions the entire campaign. more and more the average voter is saying what's going on here, and rejecting john fetterman's policies yokes around our neck, dragging us down, especially hard working folks trying to make ends meet with the biden economy. >> dr. oz focusing on the economy and also crime, held a roundtable in philadelphia. the people on the screen are desperate. philadelphia leads the country in shootings this year, and the

city is coming off the deadliest summer on record. fetterman meanwhile is focusing on abortion, tweeting this this this morning, hey dr. oz, stop hiding, as a senator you have to take votes. now is the time to tell the people of pennsylvania how you would vote on the national abortion ban bill. fetterman is back on the campaign trail tomorrow night in western pennsylvania and dr. oz has not announced his yet. >> john: colorado closely watched senate race, fentanyl crisis taking center stage between michael bennett and his republican challenger joe odai. odai says fentanyl is killing kids, democrats don't get it. he's here in washington, d.c. for a couple days and joins us. joe, good to see you. >> john, thanks for having me on, appreciate it. >> john: the fentanyl problem is a huge thing for this country.

there are some people who want to label fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction because of the tragedies befalling american youth. you insist fentanyl and the border are linked. >> for sure, you talk to paul pazen from denver police, he'll tell you the cartels are shipping it straight up i-25, it's killing our kids. my wife and i have close friends that lost a 25-year-old beautiful daughter here a year and a half ago, and really tragic, and so we have to get our arms and the issue and end this issue. >> john: you are seeing some pictures on the screen of the rainbow fentanyl, looks like sweet tarts or smarties, to get kids hooked at the youngest possible age, that's bad enough. a lot of the pills laced with fentanyl you take one and you die. >> you die. it's unacceptable, we have to get our arms around it, it

starts at the border. we have to close the border down, it's a national security issue. colorado is number 2 in fentanyl overdoses last year as a state. we lost 1800 adults, kids, to fentanyl death in colorado last year. and that's just unacceptable. >> john: you say we have to close the border. the vice president insists the border is secure. >> yeah, i just think she's delusional. 2 million people came across the border this year? we have to do better than that. >> john: so far. >> so far, exactly, and we have to do better than that, and people are calling for it. colorado is upset about it. democrats don't seem to care, and this is an issue i'm running on. we need to close this border down, need to get control of our cities. i would like to see us start to reinvest some of the money from the thousands of irs agents, instead of growing the bureaucracy, put the money into the communities. we need more cops and close the border down. >> john: saying we don't need

$87,000 more irs agents? >> not shaking down americans, they can't afford that. >> john: in colorado, michael bennett, is ahead of you by eight points. still listed as a lean democrat state, might be able to pull it out. how do you narrow that gap between now and november 8th. >> i don't believe any of the polls. i've been running as an underdog my entire life. everything i did i had to work for. i'm not worried about that. i built a huge tent in colorado, we have good gop, good trump support, unaffiliated and also moderate democrats. >> john: you have said you don't want president trump to run in 2024. do you risk alienating trump supporters in colorado -- >> look, this tent is huge, there is room for more. and all i have to say, do we want chuck schumer in charge and michael bennett, and republicans are with me and they are ready for change.

>> john: joe, we'll be watching your race closely. thanks for joining us, appreciate it. >> appreciate it, thanks. >> john: congratulations on your victory. >> sandra: fox news alert, brand-new reports of tsunami waves now washing on to the western mexico coast following an earthquake that is now reported as a magnitude 7.6. the latest according to reuters, the tsunami waves are reaching up to ten feet above the tide level and a tragic twist of irony, today's date, september 19th is remembered in mexico for two devastating earthquakes to hit, one in 1985, the other in 2017. remembered by mexico holding a nationwide earthquake drill which was held less than one hour before this real quake hit. we are still waiting for pictures and videos from the scene there, and we will update you once we have those, john. but all of this just into us now, absolutely devastating. we are waiting to see the real impact it has had.

these are finally some live pictures coming in. >> john: some live pictures, don't see much going on right now, you see surfing but that's not a ten-foot tsunami, but i have seen on twitter some pictures from downtown mexico city where there do appear to be some buildings shaken by this as well. no sign of any significant damage at this point. we'll continue to watch it. >> sandra: you can remember what happened here when we have a significant event that triggers big waves like hurricanes, a lot of those surfers take the big risk of going out there because they get obviously a lot of movement on the water. looks like perhaps the same in this live picture as well might be happening there. but we are waiting on some pictures from the scene and when we do get those we will bring those to our viewers. >> john: all right, looking forward to that. hurricane fiona unleashing more than two feet of rainfall on some areas of puerto rico, catastrophic flash flooding and sending the entire territory into a blackout. it comes five years after

hurricane maria devastated the islands. fox weather's will nunley is in ponce, puerto rico with the latest. >> john and sandra, from one catastrophe to another, and overwhelming emergency here in puerto rico. by the way, this is making the rescue effort more difficult. the rain will not stop. we have dealt with rain for more than 30 hours at this point relentless really without a break. as we look at some of the latest numbers at this hour, more than 1,000 rescues have taken place. most of this island completely still in the dark without power, and the governor is not even giving an estimate on when the power restoration is going to happen. there are hundreds of people sheltering in more than 128 shelters around the island, only 30% of people have access to drinking water. as we have gone around here in ponce this morning trying to survey the damage for ourselves, you can hear home generators running and everyone trying to

keep things in operation as best they can but those are limited and the amount of days to sustain operation, so there is going to be some desperation as the days go on to get the electric grid established as best they can. guys, still remote parts of the island, especially the mountains have yet to be accessed because of the landslides, the mudslides, so a lot of difficult hours ahead in puerto rico as we try to understand the full scale of the disaster unfolding here. >> john: will nunley in ponce in puerto rico. can't believe it. puerto rico hit hard again, wow. >> sandra: we'll keep watching that as well. john, jam-packed two hours here as we say our final good-byes to the queen and the beautiful coverage we saw of her funeral this morning. john, wrapping a lengthy time of mourning for those there in her country and around the world. it was really something and our coverage here from our colleagues was fantastic. >> john: i spent the first half of my life in one of those

commonwealth countries, north of the border in canada, the queen was a huge part of my life and to see her gone really is -- it's sad, but you know there, is a new era ahead, and we'll see what the reign of king charles iii brings the u.k., commonwealth countries and the world. >> sandra: and night has fallen there. great to be with you as we begin a brand-new week. i'm sandra smith. >> john: see you again tomorrow. i'm john roberts. "the >> martha: thank you both so much, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum coming to you this evening from london. this afternoon in the u.s. that's a live look outside windsor castle. tonight the world has said their final farewell to queen elizabeth. president biden joined many world leaders. in fact, most of the country's leaders were here in the united kingdom to attend the funeral. he's back on his why to the white house after having an