>> todd: house oversight committee set to vote today on resolution forcing president biden to hand over documents about his family's foreign business dealings. you're watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. a top republican joined us this morning to tell us what he wants to know about the president's involve mentz and his son's shady affairs.

>> what he says doesn't match the facts. joe biden was communicating with hunter biden and his associates. we've heard the voicemail where the president was keeping up with the investigation. the facts don't match what the president continues to say. >> carley: brooke singman has the developments ahead of today's vote. >> brooke: will vote will decide if president biden has to hand over documents. 32 senate republicans writing a letter to merrick garland asking david weiss to receive special counsel investigation. evidence is mounting hunter biden committed numerous federal crimes including but not limited to tax frud, money laundering and foreign violations. it involves the president's son,

we believe it is important to provide special protection to allow him to investigate potentially criminal conduct. houseoversight committee james comer's request was denied. unauthorized disclosure of information can undermine potential or ongoing investigations. on 60 minutes, president biden claimed his son has not caused any conflict for the united states. >> president biden: i love my son, number one. no, there is not a single thing i've observed at all that would affect me or the united states relative to my son hunter. >> brooke: house oversight committee james comer believes it will expose democrat

hypocrisy. listen. >> this will be a difficult vote in the hypocrisy category, think of all the time it is democrats have spent investigating trump, investigating trump's children, when they never had any concrete facts. what we have with hunter biden are facts. people have come forward, who were in business with hunter biden. we've had his ex-wife come forward. >> brooke: many have been criticized on whether president biden has been involved. >> todd: democrats are divided over police funding. nancy pelosi push to crease funds being met with pushpack from the progressive left. claiming the new bill would give police departments a blank check, she says the answer is not just putting more money in. did you hear about this? jailed in her state, washington

states refusing to take in felons as they grapple with staffing shortages. bounty hunters delivered felons only to have them denied by staff, one sheriff warning the problem could get worse. we have staffing shortages, covid outbreak require us to shut down individual be units and staffing is the main reason. >> carley: this will wake you up, coo of beyond me is facing battery charges after allegedly biting a man's nose after a football game. dave ramsey started -- facing terroristic threatening and battery charges.

>> todd: i thought beyond me was opposed to eating animals. and monday night's match up, scary moment brought the game to a halt, dane jackson taken by ambulance after a hit in the head from his own teammate. >> dane received friendly fire from edmond who came in at the end. >> todd: you hate to see the neck bend backward like that. he has full movement, thank god. ja len hurts run the minnesota vikings, hurts leading with 390 total yards in the win. the big win out of all the players in the fox and friends

fantasy football team, guess who had the most points week number two. >> carley: you're looking at her. >> todd: fantasy football freak, she was talking about the lineups, you were intense. >> carley: i was into the x's and o's. >> todd: pete had a good week, your husband? >> carley: he did. is he running or not? president biden does not seem to know the plan for 2024. >> watch me, if you don't think i have the energy level, mental acuity, watch me keep my schedule. is it a firm decision i run again? that remains to be seen. >> todd: what? does that sound like somebody who can lead through the midterm or will republicans run through them? strategyist ned ryan is next. is.

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>> watch me. if you think i don't have the energy level or mental acuity, that is one thing. it is another thing to watch and keep my schedule. is it a firm decision that i run again? that remains to be seen. >> todd: president biden shooting down claims he's too old to run for president in 2024, stopping sharp of confirming he will run, leaving uncertainty ahead of the midterms, less than 50 days away. ned joins me, biden says watch me, we're watching. what is your reaction to what you just heard?

>> the 60 minutes interview was pretaped, i would love to see how many takes that i had to do to get even those terrible clips. he's unfit now, in two years, will it be downhill or bottom drop out into the abis? it is clear he will be unfit for it. he will be 80 in 2024. will his handlers decide it is good for him to run in 2024, if he remembers he's president at that point. i would remind you, if he and his handlers decide he will run, he will be hard to beat, i point to jimmy carter who was deeply unpopular in the summer of 1980 with challenge from ted kennedy and won handily and you see gavin newsom and others counter running shadow campaigning, even gavin newsom announced, i will

run for president if the president doesn't. >> todd: and taking his jacket off and walking around like he owns the place. this is just over the last few weeks, watch. >> president biden: this is extraordinary story being written by this administration as i step all over my coat. good thing my mom is not around. cancer patient, survivors and don't jump from there. this is the united states of america for god sake. >> todd: ned, how does the most partisan of partisan watch that, everything is fine, four more years? >> it is hard to really look at that and go, this guy has any chance to run. he can't put meaningful

sentences together. it is unbelievable, he hasn't lost his step, he's lost five steps. the trouble about this, todd, consider his remarks about taiwan on 60 minutes and the white house having to walk the statements back. that is the fourth time he's said something in taiwan in the last year and they had to walk his comments back. this is about getting into war with china. not only is he unfit, the words he's saying could put our country in a dangerous situation. if his handlers decides he's still useful, he is running again. >> todd: if we're not sure what he's saying on the side of america, is the chinese have to be scratching their head. what do you think he is going to do? do you think he will wait until after the midterm to make his final call?

>> i think if the midterms are as brutal as i think they might be for the democrats, i think there will be calls for him to not run again. the question will be issue will he be able to resist that? will anybody be able to mount a legitimate challenge? if the midterms are brutal, i think it will make it tenuous for him to be able to run began. we'll see. >> todd: great insight. a man with an ax going bezer over the weekend. he is already on the streets, released without bail. >> carley: wall street on edge over the fed's interest rate, should you be worried today? we'll be asking dan ricottacoming up next. it's sliiiiiiiiii-der sunday! everyone grab a king's hawaiian slider! ...slider sunday?

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>> todd: fox weather alert. hurricane fiona devastates the dominican republic and puerto rico. >> carley: president biden spoke to the governor of puerto rico have hundreds of thousands are left without power. here is the fox weather forecast, what is the latest? >> you mentioned category 1 when it hit puro rico and the do -- dominican republic. it is dragging moisture back behind them and there is rain falling over the last 48 hours, absolute rain maker because of timing and turn of this system, that has been the biggest concern. anywhere from two feet to 30 inches across puerto rico, that caused major flooding, mud slide has been the major concern.

flood watch in effect until tuesday evening before this dragings further north and you'll have a chance to drag off in the area. hurricane watches, tropical storm watches toward the bahamas before the storm catches upper level winds and that is good news and will turn out along off toward the east. east coast of the united states, winds getting up to 140 miles per hour. bermuda needs to pay attention, it will pass there. we will see rip currents alongside the east coast of the united states. still a system to watch and obviously a lot of cleaning up to do in puerto rico and think about those folks. it will head out to sea in the next day or so. >> carley: thank you. president biden issuing 100 executive orders during his time in office and costing taxpayers

$1.5 trillion. dan ricotta joins me now. dan, almost 100 executive orders, almost like he appreciates big government or something, what do you make of this and how will this impact the economy? >> dan: these executive orders, powered by pen, when you think about it, they have gotten out of control. george washington had eight of them, not how we were meant to run the system. if analysis is corrects, adding another trillion dollars is what you are doing through stimulus by pen is basically what is happening here and that can't be good. it goes at odds with what the feds are trying to do issue raise interest rates to cool down the economy. this appears to be moving in opposite direction.

>> carley: student loan for forgiveness will affect this. >> dan: we have a broken system for funding college, no question about that. would have been great for our president to spend time thinking about how to if i can the way american families pay for and afford college. instead we took the easy way, political way out. might be good politics, student loan bail outs is probably bad economics. >> carley: canceling the keystone xl pipeline put people out of a job and signalled how he feels on fossil fuels and several months later, we're in a gas crisis. >> i'm not a politician, i'm more of a business guy and that

probably doesn't make sense. think back to economics class, trying to bring the price down, increase supply or decrease demand. we need fossil fuels at the moment while we transition to a green future. short term, about increasing supply. that is elon musk that suggested the same thing. decreasing supply probably doesn't work well when trying to bring the price down. >> carley: tomorrow the fed will determine if to raise interest rates again, the consensus, they will raise them by 75 basis points. for those home watching, what does that mean? what do you expect out of this meeting and how will it impact american consumers? >> a basis point doesn't mean much to the average consumer, but money has a price, interest,

price of money is going up, like price of everything else is going up. we'll pay more on credit card for interest, pay more on mortgage, and pay more for student loan. price of money goes, up, consumers pay that price every time we access capital and borrow money. we'll be reminded of the battle against inflation next time you get your credit card bill. >> carley: do you think we're at odds with the biden administration over this? >> dan: the fed has a job to do, they came late to the party, as well. s the fed is focused on inflation, seems like they will go to the mat to bring down the price or bend trajectory, while our government seems to be

moving in the different direction, throwing more stimulus into the system. not a good strategy. >> carley: thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. turning now to this. migrant flights to martha's vineyard under criminal investigation. ron desantis is setting the record straight. >> it was clearly voluntary and the nonsense you are hearing is not true. there are jobs available, lodging available in martha's vineyard. >> todd: we have the latest on the migrant mayhem next.

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where they are, i believe they were preyed upon, lured them with promises of a better life, which is what they were looking for. >> jackie: governor firing back at that sheriff's accusations. >> it was clearly voluntary and the nonsense you are hearing is not true, there are jobs available in martha's vineyard, there is lodging available. had they lived up to what they claim as sanctuary jurisdiction, they could have absorbed those people. let's say that is true, what does that mean for poor towns in texas. >> jackie: eric adams says he is leaving no stone unturned. >> our legal team is looking at what legal challenges we can do with texas.

we believe there are options, when you place someone on a bus, we believe that actually skates the law. >> jackie: texas governor abbott tells fox news mayor eric adams should call on the president to take action to secure the border. the partisan back and forth come after 200,000 migrantss were encountered last month, bringing it to 2.1 million, all-time high. back to you. >> todd: unbelievable. venezuela emptying prisons and criminals are entering the u.s. through the southern border. department of homeland security intel report reviewed by breitbart says the venezuela

government is freeing inmates, including some convicted of murder, rape and extortion. >> carley: tomi lahren will react, we don't have diplomatic ties with venezuela, no access to data. only way we know if they have a criminal background is if they say it out right. what do you make of this? >> tomi: when our former president donald trump said some countries are not sending their best, this is what he was talking about. people attacked him for saying that. they are a magnet for peep toll come in illegally and working as a travel agent. we have lawless on the streets, acts being committed by americans and bringing in illegal immigrants with records

and rap sheets and we don't know their background and add to that, the number of gotaways. population equivalent of ireland has come across the southern border since biden took office. if democrats spent half as much time worrying about securing the border as they do trying to keep the migrants out of their city and shelters, we would be better off. they don't have the political motivation to do so, the question is why? >> todd: liberals are aware there is a border crisis. we will see. new york city man set free on zero bail, welcome to new york, after terrorizing a downtown mcdonalds restaurant with an ax.

>> oh. now -- oh. >> todd: all right, the ax man saying in part, "i'm not unh unhinged or psychotic, everybody is talking about how i should be in jail, i did my 18 hours, what else do we want besides freedom to get a big mac and not be attacked with an ax. >> tomi: how does somebody have an ax in their backpack in new york city? not a lot of jobs require that, maybe i am mistaken, that is for you to answer. we're asking the motivation for democrats opening the border, what is motivation for democrats in no-bail policies? they have somebody wielding an ax in mcdonalds and think this

man is not a threat on society? that goes behind the rationale of the lawless policies and think states would look at california and new york with no-bail policies and say this is not working out. you have illinois set to do more in the criminal justice reform come 2023. they are not learning their lesson, you get what you vote for and politicians and prosecutors and da's should be looking in the eyes of con constituents and have to answer why shielding thugs and felons is more important than average individuals that are their constit yentss. voters are not begging them to look in their eye, they are getting away with it. >> carley: governor kathy hochul is criticizing bragg for releasing this guy on no bail, but last time she was asked about bail reform, she said she

is not sure how it impacts the number of crimes happening in new york, but she needs more data. what more data do you need than what we've been talking about for the last two years? >> tomi: you don't. they try to use criminal justice reform and no cash bail reform to talk about how it helps those black and brown communitiess unfairly targeted. i say this to them, what about black and brown communities being terrorized by the thugs and felons, do they not care about the safety and well being of themselves and their families? it doesn't matter color of your skin or pronouns you use, you should feel safe in your communities, your taxpayers to go to. >> todd: tomi lahren, thank you. major blow to big tech and win

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>> carley: a big win against big tech, upholding texas law from censuring users. >> todd: cheryl casone has details. >> cheryl: censured a ruling that hp 20 signed by governor abbott should be upheld. the governor seeking to limit censorship like twitter and facebook and google, who owns youtube, regulates those with 50 million users or more. judge writing today we reject

the idea corporations have free wheeling right to censure what people say, this will likely end in the supreme court. >> todd: win for the people right now. president o overtly lying about the inflation in america. >> you are not arguing 8.3 is good news? >> no. >> highest inflation rate in 40 years. >> i got that, guess what we are, we are in a position where for the last several months, it has not spiked, been basically even. >> cheryl: so many issues with what he just said, 8.3%, americans are paying 16% more for milk, 40% more for eggs, cheese up 13.5%, bread up 16.1% higher, meat higher.

a mom dealing with crash of the sky-high cost. listen. >> it's a very big deal to me, we pick and choose what is important for us at the moment, we don't have extra to buy extra things we enjoy. i'm basically working part time to make up the difference for groceries and for gas. >> cheryl: remember president biden promised to take control of sky-high inflation. here is the thing, he keeps saying it is month to month, leaning on the month to month. we've been sitting month to month and spiked at 9.1%. 8% is still incredibly high, trying to divert american attention to month to month numbers to be clear, not annual number. >> todd: 8.3, no time to release the balloons. cheryl casone, thank you. president biden sitting down for his first on-air interview with

an american journalist in over 200 days, here is how it went. listen. >> november, you'll be 80 and i wonder what it is that keeps you in the arena? >> president biden: i think what bo want me to do? >> how would you say your mental focus is? >> president biden: it's focused. >> joe concha joins us now, what are your top-line thoughts? >> joe: this was not an interview, this is a foot massage. this is 60 minutes, most successful broadcast news in five decades, once home to one of the toughest interviews for any politician could do outside of maybe meet the press before the chuck todd era. this was pr for this president

and this administration. listen to the intro, in the pretaped package. "summer was going so well for the president, the white house threw a party last week, in august over republican objection, signed largest investment on climate change, law to lower prescription drug prices and student loan forgiveness." what was the largest invest mentz? inflation reduction act, same act that studies show doesn't reduce inflation. this 60 minutes interview will never be confused with your father's 60 minutes, which would have challenged this president and broached the crisis on the southern border and fentanyl coming in, killing 300 americans per day, that matters to so many people. instead this is what viewers got and no one is happy with this interview conducted by scott

pelly. we know why biden's handlers chose mr. pelly. >> todd: bill maher has a tense exchange on increased political polarization. watch this. >> people who supports trump and enablinged trump have something to apologize for and have a lot to repent for. >> you seem like you have contempt for half the country. >> todd: joe, your reaction? >> joe: bill maher has become the voice of reason and common sense for the left, which that is how far gone many of the so-called journalists are, you're telling people 74 million people that you need to go find your priest, go to confession and repent.

you take donald trump out and look at the policy and see why so many people supported this president and why he won in 2016 and why he was largely successful president up until covid and the pandemic turned everything sideways, that is the thing. you can criticize president trump, agree, disagree, when you go after his supporters for supporting him and saying they have to repent, that is a whole ball of wrong, guys. >> carley: bill maher's message is that partisanship is what is killing our country right now, a message everybody could get behind. >> joe: absolutely, this is how so many journalists act these days, they think they are on higher moral plain and could lecture half the country on what they support and it gets personal and that is why there is division in this country.

gallup, i believe, did a poll that found 84% of voters believe that the media is responsible for division in this country, that says a lot and i'll leave it there. >> todd: roseanne barr certainly did not vote for trump, he was harder on him more than anybody. president biden sending clear message on u.s. strategy in taiwan, clear in kwotation marks. where do we stand? congressman from florida, michael waltz in studio next. >> carley: brian kilmeade on what is coming up? >> brian: tell you what is going to happen and i ask you over the income 11 minutes to get dressed. senator lindsey graham will share his thoughts on midterm and his stance he believes republicans should follow when it comes to abortion and hunter

biden. u.s. recorded 2 million migrant encounters this year, harris faulkner just returned from the border and will explain how locals are being impacted and stuart varney reacts to president biden dismissing inflation. when sean duffy and tammy bruce have the forecast, they will be here to talk about it and disagree on something. did you hear this, the pandemic is over? yes, no more cotton bowls needed, mow no more vaccines needed, that is what president biden admitted. shocker, will cain gives us deep thoughts when we come back. see you in a matter of moments. put something on. stealth mode? yeah. [cricket sounds] shh! shh! [light switch clicks] don't pta meetings end at nine? -it ran... late. -oh got lost. the lexus rx built for modern families. ♪ ♪

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assembly some time tomorrow with the war in ukraine expected to take center stage. florida congressman michael waltz good to see you fresh and in person, sir. what do we need to hear from president biden. >> first what we don't need to hear. any more gaffes or policy variations that then his staff has to come in and clean up. whenever we have that, it further undermines the presidency, it further undermines the u.s. on the national stage. we remember when he went to poland and then it was clean up on aisle 9 from that speech. but, secondly, we need some clarity in terms of russia. their sanctions regime, i don't think, is working very well. china is stepping in to replace everything that the europeans aren't buying with russia. and we're on the verge of an economic crisis in europe with russia turning off the gas. what i would love to hear that i know we are not going to hear is a reassertion of an american

energy policy and the export of american l and g and cleaner forms of gas rather than going to venezuela, iran, and other forms -- other dictatorships for their energy, we have got it right here in america. i don't think we are going to hear that but i would love. to say finally calling out putin for the monster that he is. we are seeing war crime after war crime after war crime uncovered as the ukrainians liberty these towns, mass graves, torture centers and putin in response just this week bombed a dam that destroyed the electricity in that part of ukraine, bombed another power station. continues to bomb civilian infrastructure. and be the war criminal that he is. >> todd: china's xi jinping will not being in attendance at the general assembly. china always front of mind these days. whether or not troops would fight to defend taiwan. >> iran makes their own judgments about their independence. we are not encouraging their

being independent. that's their decision. >> but would u.s. forces defend the island? >> yes, if, in fact, there was an unprecedented attack. >> todd: of course, the white house walking this back again. this keeps happening. this is what they said this time the president has said this before, including in tokyo earlier this year. he also made clear then that our policy for taiwan has not changed. county president ever make up for this incons inconsistency se thing and like clockwork his administration says the exact opposite thing? >> it leaves the entire country and world who is in charge? who is writing the teleprompter. we see why biden has gone too long without an interview. his staff doesn't want to because he goes off script. in this case i actually agree with him that we do need to be very clear to the chinese from a deterrent standpoint that they can't just take taiwan.

why is it so important? half the world shipping, 90% of the world's largest shipping flows through the taiwan strait that's the economy of japan, south korea half the world's g.d.p. if they take taiwan the chinese will control. so, at the same time though, we have biden giving us defense cuts and at the same time we have our military about to kick out 20,000 national guardsmen over the vaccine. apparently they didn't get the memo from that same interview that the pandemic is over. >> todd: congressman, you are a student of history. you are a student of war strategy and also a student of our world and how it operates in the current day and age. in the end, will china end up invading taiwan in light of where we are in 2022 and in light of what they saw with regard to vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine? >> chairman xi of china who is about to get reelected this fall for unprecedented third term is telling his country to prepare for war. has instructed his military to

be prepared to defeat the u.s. military by 2027. which is actually accelerating. their navy is larger than ours. their space force is larger than ours.t becoming the world super power. not a world supet weapon the mi. it's economic. they are waiting for us to go off that fiscal cliff and bankrupt ourselves so that we can't be able to compete anymore. so i believe the next president very well could be a war time president. i personally don't want that to be joe biden. god help us all. >> todd: that's scary stuff regardless of who the president is. are we prepared to prevent them from taking the number one mantel or are we confident to say we are going to win on pronouns we don't care about winning the battles. >> first things first, we have got to bring those supply chains back home. right now the chinese can turn off our pharmaceuticals, turn

off our antibiotics and lithium that the left wants to take us into an all green economy. the chinese control the solar panels, the window turbines and the basic materials like that's what we have to win economically and right now america is drunk on chinese money. we have got to get off of it. >> todd: congressman michael waltz thank you for being here. we appreciate it. "fox & friends" begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> texas sheriff launching an investigation into ron desantis. >> i believe that they were preyed upon. >> not only did they not welcome them. they deported them with the national guard. >> really praise him for doing it because -- >> a man with an ax recced mcdonald's. >> not uni did my 18 hours, bro. >> it released without bail. queen elizabeth now at rest. >> dedicated for serving the nation. >> a state funeral filled with pomp and pa general