♪ ♪ rachel: good morning, everybody. it's 8:00 eastern time. you just saw a shot of the intrepid museum there, and we're so happy to be here this morning, will cain, pete hegseth, good morning. pete: good morning. it's october 2nd. fall is upon us. rachel: yeah, it is. pete: will is wearing his beautiful minnesota vikings purple today because he lost to me in fantasy football last weekend and appropriately has delivered on his side of the

deal, and i want you both to know that don't count on me in the back half of the fourth hour of this show, because the vikings' game starts at 9:30. rachel: that's so early. pete: they're playing in london. so i'll have the game on my phone, you guys carry the show. will: i'm glad you clarified, there are people asking why i'm wearing tennis shoes with my suit, if i'm going to copy pete. all the way. [laughter] i lost a bet. i lost a bet to pete. he beat me at fantasy football, so i am sporting minnesota vikings' gear with, and you've got a london a.m. kickoff. you'll be watching football while we do the muse. rachel: and, boys, explain what the bet and if you lose fantasy football team. pete: well, the bet is, i don't know that a will's committed ye- [laughter] rachel: come on, will. let's be daring, join the bet. pete: neither of those are true. will: that i'm going to wear a

dress? pete: if rachel is number one in the "fox & friends" fantasy league, and right now are you 2-1? rachel: i'm not doing bad. pete: -- then i will wear a dress on this show hawaii's how confident i am that there's no chance she wins. todd piro, he's doing well. rick -- rachel: you were last last week, right? will: i'm in bad shape. pete: i think you're almost last. rick's doing great, 3-0, doesn't care about his lineup, so we'll see. we're glad you're here. it's sunday morning, and we're happy to be here. will: you are familiar, of course, with defund the police. new york city residents had enough. ready to defund politicians. this after a veteran fdny ems attendant fate fatally saabed while on duty. a subway attack -- pete: there was another one in

the subway -- rachel: hers was outside in the street. she was on a break, but she was checking on something, and in the process was stabbed by someone who now claims he's mentally ill. really sad story not just for the people that she works with, she was somebody who checked in daily on her elderly parents. we can imagine how hay feel right now, horrible. pete: there's also that subway attack that happened, to totally up unprovoke ised. i don't know if we're going to show video, but just a brutal assault on a woman who may lose her eye as a result -- rachel: and a state representative saying, oh, stop exaggerating how bad it is in the subway, and that woman responding saying, look what happened to me, i'm about to lose my eye, and saying she doesn't believe that representative uses the subway. because anybody who uses the subway and public transportation here knows that it's dangerous. people are taking ubers because they don't want to be in the subway. pete: and even if you just think it's dangerous because it is, it

changes the way people live their life. here isth president of the officers' association talking about the environment of criminality. listen. >> well, i don't buy defense he's starting to put up already that he's mentally ill. he knew what he did was wrong. he took a hero, a loving, beautiful person away from us. crime is definitely going up. i believe mayor adams inherited this problem, and we need to fix it before it gets far worse. will: so -- pete: the defense of insanity, they're going to try to use. will: no doubt. you've without the new york pos- pete: yeah, i'll hand it to you with. will: so this is see no evil. a democratic politician says, yeah, quit whining -- rachel: that's what i was talking about. will: it is -- pete: he's a socialist too, by the way, defund the police socialist, city council. rachel: you get what you vote

for, people. i feel bad for the people many new york city, will, but, boy, they put these people in office. will: this person, councilwoman tiffany tweeted: subway violence in a one in a million event. i still think that that's one too many, but let's not let fear mongering politicians and corporate media outlets scare us into thinking we have a dangerous, scary public transit system. pete: let's hear what the victim thinks. this is elizabeth gomez who was attacked in the subway saying: the subway system is dangerous, and for her to post something like that seems to mentioner as you said, rachel, that she doesn't want to ride the subway. she doesn't understand what it is, it's just getting worse and worse. and it's the feeling you have in the city, on the streets and in the subway where you, you can't feel safe, and you have to be vigilant. rachel: he's what she actually -- here's what she actually said. she directed this at governor

adams and -- mayor adams and golf hochul. >> i want to know how they're making sure we have the proper security we need in our city that something like this has to happen. a person has to lose their eyesight, has to have a change of life, have to think about where they're going to go here on forward if i don't have a way to get my eye sight back. rachel: to a woman. pete: brutally and savagely attacked. wisconsin -- will: my gosh. pete: and this guy runs up, nope, i'm not helping. will: you know -- rachel: i can't, i can't -- as a woman, this is, like -- will: stomping. rachel: this is your worst nightmare, and you're in a public space. pete: and what you find in every one of these cases, these are repeat offenders who have been coddlinged by system. and yet as you said, rachel,

they vote for it. will: you know, we just -- there's so many things to take away from that, you know? the victim is a minority, right? that is all too often a, the reason that's worthy of being brought up is because they paint these crime issues as race issues, you know? as though it's racist to point out the perpetrators are a certain race or to focus on crime. what about the victims? what about the victims as well? you know? i mean, that's who's suffering. and the second thing is you and i just did a whole thing where we broke down populism movements across the world, and crime is one of the issues. why people are turning to these populist movements when politicians say, come on, it's not that big of a deal. pete: and you know what, crime -- and this is why, we're going to get to the border in just a moment. this is why the border matters. when you begin with allowing people to commit their first illegal act when they enter the country, you're creating a daisy

chain of results where criminality and illegality is permitted. i'm not saying everyone that crosses the border commits crimes. it all is a cascading we peck. a. rachel: -- effect. really really people come to country often times because there is no rule of law in their country. and that is what's happening here. and this is, like, now my new credo. whenever i hear race, i know it's really about class. the people who are promoting this, you know, defund the police and is and letting the criminals out, these are people who can afford ubers or black car services. they don't have to take the subway as this young minority or this minority woman had to. often it is the poor, it is the working class, and they are the ones affected. and so they try to rope us into this race stuff, but it's really about class. and guess what? if when we talk about the border, it's the same thing. the elites want illegals over here because as nancy pelosi

said yesterday, we need the cheap labor in the fields, or as, you know -- pete: picking crops. rachel: -- joe biden said we're tacos. it's really about class. they are covering up policies that benefit the elite -- pete: the marxist critical theory was with always premised on class. they twist it into race because they thought our background was more conducive to that kind of fracture fracturing -- rachel: but it's not just corporations that they need people, as she says, cheap labor in the fields or in processing plants. it's also cheap labor in their homes. and many of the elites want to keep that system, but they want to wrap it up in is some sort of, you know, faux compassion play that they're make right now as you saw in martha's vineyard. will: well, pete, you brought up the border, the daisy chain of events. of course, fox news' bill melugin has been at the border for years, highlighting this issue. this time, though, he's taking the border issue to washington,

d.c., and he confronted several democratic politicians about the border. watch. >> reporter: 250,000 unaccompanied migrant children arrived at the border since president biden took office, some of them trafficked, some of them drowning in the river. any issue with that? >> [inaudible] >> reporter: ma'am, is the border secure? do you agree with the administration that is border is secure? we'll let you go. chairman, one question, in your opinion, is the border secure? >> i have to go give a speech. didn't you hear me? >> reporter: just a quick question, is the border secure? bill melugin, fox news, do you have a few moments to talk about the border? a few moments of your time, reached out to your office last week, they blew us off. >> i appreciate it. >> reporter: it's 900,000 gotaways -- >> thank you. >> reporter: no comment, sir? >> do you believe that the border is secure? >> i believe that we have to have a secure border, and i think that we are trying to address -- the president has a plan to address that. [laughter] will: why are you --

pete: so bad. that last, we believe the border should be secure. will: i know. it's not even a smooth, like, dodge. pete: not even close. and he was sitting right in the front row, and she know exactly who that was. same with mayorkas. melugin and griff are his worst nightmare, bringing the truth to the american people. rachel: imagine being alejandro mayorkas. you really are, you are so bad at your job with. so right now the southern border is the most deadly border crossing in the world. we just had kamala harris at the d the mz zone between north korea and south korea, that's safer than -- the. [laughter] that's safer than our border. people are dying every single day, and the same people who were so upset about people being in detention centers under donald trump don't seem to give a damn about the people who are dying of dehydration in the desert, the children who are being thrown into sex trafficking, the people who are

dying, cooked alive in trucks going across the border, the sexual abuse, the assault and everything else, all the other disruptions it's causing. it is the deadliest border crossing in the world. thank you, joe biden. pete: yeah. and i love that griff -- or bill asked benny thompson, chairman of the january 6th committee, and what does he say? i have to give a speech. very important. you know, that's how washington works. speeches, i don't answer questions for people like you. will: didn't you hear me? pete: indeed. all right. 12 minutes a after the top of the hour, and we're going to go back to florida because with rebuilding and rescue efforts are underway there after the mass devastation left by hurricane ian. will: before and after photos now showing the wrath of the massive category four storm. let's turn now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth. rick: hey, guys. i want to show you a couple things first. just a new, little discan turbans has popped up that we're

going to be monitoring. don't like to see one this close in towards the u.s. generally, october can be a fairly active period. a little bit closer to our shores, so we're going to watch that closely. we're still looking at about 867,000 households without power in florida, still is some in north carolina and virginia from ian as well. all right, take a look at some pictures, want to show you a map of some of the images that we're going to show you. so fort myers, fort myers beach, sanibel island and the causeway island, this is what we're going to show you. now take up our first image, this is before. take a look at all of those boats that you saw that were tied up on those piers, all of that gone and all of those boats now pushed up right across the shore. this is amazing. all of this, by the way, is on noaa.gov. you can see a whole series of these images. here's fort myers beach, this is before, this is what it looked like before, and take a look at

what it looks like now. completely gone. you see the pier gone, all of buildings behind the pier gone, everything fully covered in sand and mulled, and the ocean color has completely changed. it'll get back there eventually, but it's gone. i think the next one is a little island there towards the causeway, and there you go. fully gone from this. you see the water has consistent a path all the way through it. and then go on to the next one. i think this is in sanibel. you get aned idea, there's your before on the left and your with after on the right. all those little barrier islands are normally always a changing because of water, because of tides, because of storms, but we've built on top of those, and then we try to keep them contained in their space. but storms come in like this and those barrier islands that were always meant to be moving, we have them all up and down all of our coasts especially on the

atlantic, and here you go. that's what you end up going. will: really good, rick, thank you so much. let's turn to a few additional headlines. at least 174 people are dead the after fans stampede at a soccer match. crazy video out of indonesia shows riot police using tear gas as angry fans storm the field after hair team unexpectedly lost. at least five police cars were damaged and setten on fire. indonesia suspended its top soccer league until security or procedures are reviewed and improved. california's plan to ban gas-powered cars will be, quote, difficult to achieve. he says battery-operated cars will take longer to phase in than most people hi. gavin newsom's policies state all new cars, trucks, suvs in his state have to be electric or high progeneral powered by 2035. the program also requires the majority of cars to be electric or hydrogen powered by 2030.

so the majority by 2030 and all new cars by 2035. now to college football. tempers flaring at ohio state. a fake punt by the buckeyes late already blowing out rutgers. coach greg schiano not happy after fourth quarter -- pete: fair hit there, i think. will: yeah. in the big 12 the texas honghorns run -- longmorning wi. >> in trouble, flushed but lets it go. deep into the enzone -- >> nice concentration. >> it is caught, it is touchdown, it is worthy! will: also georgia survived yesterday. they had a scare, number one team in the country. and if that wasn't enough for you, we've got a full slate of nfl games today. the washington commanders take on the dallas cowboys at 1 p.m. eastern time. pete: rarely play at 1:00.

will: you know, commanders, it's so generic. i like names that either have tradition or are tied to where you're from, you know? military industrial complex -- pete: the commanders. will: i don't know, it's terrible. check out this poll, by the way, we're sharing this with you many morning. how many -- what percentage of sports fans pray for an outcome of a sporting event? 23% of all pro sports fans pray for their team to win. 15% of nonreligious fans -- [laughter] rachel: just in case. pete: just in case the big guy -- will: i don't do that. obviously, i'm a huge sports fan, right? i don't pray for my team. rachel: really? even i prayed for my nephew to win the stanley cup. will: gold does not take sides -- god does not take sides in sports. pete: i'm thinking that's a catholic thing.

rachel: praying is a catholic thing? [laughter] will: who does god favor? rachel: i think god is an a only nip tent being. he cares about the little thing in our life, the big things in our life, he cares about everything. i don't think he's going to -- i didn't pray that he would alter, i want my nephew to do great, i want him to win and be successful d. will: that's different. rachel: no, it's not. and i want him to win! pete: i never prayed for a sports outcome in my life. will: never. pete: it feels wrong. will: it does. i pray for my sons. pete: you can pray for your nephew, that's legit, but to say may you help the minnesota vikings win today, that's a wasted apb up to the big guy. i don't think he cares. rachel: i don't think any prayers are wasted. pete: will: i can't believe you think god's going to favor one team

based on pete's -- rachel: well, the new orleans guy is catholic, so maybe it might help. [laughter] will: do you pray for your favorite team, let us know. do you think it's appropriate? friends@foxnews.com. rachel: all right. well, straight ahead, silence from michigan's democrat governor gretchen whitmer if after an elderly pro-life volunteer is shot going door to door. republican tudor dixon, she joins us next. ♪

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rachel: welcome back to "fox & friends." michigan governor gretchenen whitmer refusing to condemn the shooting of a pro-life volunteer as police charge the man that they say fired the gun. the suspect saying, quote, she is still ranting and raving, and she's got this clipboard, she's waving it around. so without hiking, i went to club it away with the rifle, and my finger was still on the trigger guard. it went off and it hit her.

joining us now to discuss is michigan's republican gubernatorial candidate tudor dixon. tudor's been very concerned about this. we've seen many attacks on pro-life crisis centers, over 80 attacks since roe v. wade, doing nothing about it. this man claims this was an accident. i'm sure you with remember what happened, how the media treated the mccloskeys who tried to defend their riot when a real riot -- defend their property. why are we not seeing the same kind of media attention and even where is the fbi? >> exactly. and think about this, this is an 84-year-old woman -- rachel: yeah. >> in fact, we haven't heard anything from the governor of our state. but remember, this is a time when she is stirring people up over abortion. she's constantly talking about it. she has all of these fake articles or fake commercials going off on the news saying that if i were elected, i would

put people many jail. all lies. just to get to people and make them believe that they're in some way threatened. so here you have a situation where an 84-year-old woman is going out and talking to people about proposal 3 which would be the most radical abortion law in the country and asking people to vote no on the ballot. and she ends up getting shot in the arm or shot in the shoulder, going around august to people. and as you said, this man is saying that he thought his wife was many danger because this 81 -- or 84-year-old woman had a clipboard. gretchen whitmer has said nothing. rachel: it's without ray juice, what is happening to pro-lifers across the country. great point. i want to play this, because donald trump was in michigan last night at a rally, and here's what he said about you. >> michigan, you need to dump wild-eyed extremist, gretchen whitmer, and put tudor dixon in

the governor's mansion. [cheers and applause] good woman. she will fight for michigan families like no one has ever fought before. i've beener her now for a long time. she's a great person. rachel: one of the things you are fighting on is that we have lost, you say that our public schools have lost their way. a lot of parents agreeing saying our schools are using our tax dollars to racialize, sexualize our kids, rob them of their innocence instead of staying laser focused on academics especially after the pandemic has set so many of them back. your opponent says, oh, no. schools, they're making historic gains, she says. she's patting them on the back. >> no, it's devastating here in the state of michigan. we just had nearly 60% of our third graders fail their reading and writing exams. meanwhile, you have the d. of ed that has put out training telling teachers when kids come to school this year, talk to hem ab their pronouns, talk to them

about their jenner, talk to them about what name they want to use. and if these children, even if they're suicidal, do not tell mom and dad they have a different identity at school. parents are are outraged. we've never been in a situation where we felt we were demonized by the school and we couldn't trust to school -- the school to tell us about what is going on with our child. she has not come out and said anything. our kids are behind. rachel, you have to remember she kept our kids out of school longer than almost my other state. they have not caught back up. she's touting what she's putting into education, she's not talking about what's coming out of education at all. our test scores are some of the lowest we've ever seen in the state of michigan, and the kids are desperate of to have help to get back on track, and she's offering no solution. rachel: she was a gleeful authoritarian with her lockdowns and 40 no one hurt more than the elderly who were locked away often without any love and care and our children.

and so we wish you luck and hope you come back before the midterms and tell us an update on your campaign. thank you, i tudor. >> thank you so much. rachel: all right. coming up, a 7-year-old's inspiring message mt. wake of hurricane ian. >> i'm really saving up for a corvette or electric schooler -- scooter, but people need this. rachel: how he is emptying his piggybank to help people in need. him and his proud mom join us next. ♪ ♪ if

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♪ pete: we're back with a fox weather alert, florida still reeling from the devastation caused by hurricane ian. the storm making its way up north and, unfortunately, the death toll in florida continues to inch higher. alexandria hoff is live in fort myers with beach. >> reporter: well, pete, as the sun has come up, we've started to see some people come

back to san carlos island which is part of fort myers beach. they've come back to assess property damage, call i out to neighborses, but there are also some people who were here all along and somehow survived the storm. they're still here and still in need of help. just a short time ago we spoke with one man who ended up thinking the some was not going to be so bad. he ended up using a hot tub cover as a floatation twice as he clung on to a tree. he said the water was about 12 feet high. he's had no means of getting out to get help, says he's being patient that assistance will arrive. lee county sheriff's office, 6-700 rescues were made. the sheriff is reporting about 35 deaths in this county alone. so the numbers we've been seeing statewide might have to rise with the numbers that are coming out of individual counties. and today about 30 minutes north of here the cost guard is going to be operating a rescue mission to help people evacuate from

pine island. so that's going to be taking place today. the national guard has been assisting with contribution sites all around -- distribution sites, supplying water and good to those in need. in lee county, 64% of people still without power. desantis announced that the state is working with elon musk to restore service. >> at the same time, we are working with space, and -- spacex, and we are expecting 120 additional large starlink units to deploy to southwest florida. >> reporter: even four days later flood waters have still been plaguing. this scene is out of venice, florida, in sarasota county. and that's where near a portion of i-75 was shut down after water made it way onto the roadway making it unsafe for travel. ap reports in orlando college students have utilized air mat threatses to rescue friends -- mat are rests to to rescue

friends and grab items from their complexes there. in talking to people out here, there's a lot of trauma associated with what they've gone through even if if they weren't here to ride out the storm. that's part of damage that a storm like this causes, it is truly taking a toll on the mental health of this community. the white house does confirm that the president and first lady will be arriveing here in florida on wednesday. pete? pete: not just the physical, the emotional and mental damage as well. ian's devastation the inspiring many to help those who lost everything including our next guest. >> what are you doing with your piggybank? >> sending it to people in need in florida, because they had a hurricane, and their offices went down and they need more stuff with their houses blow down and they might have nothing. i'm really saving up for a corvette or an electric scooter, but people need this. >> i love you. >> love you too. pete: saving for a corvette or an electric schooler -- scooter, but people need it.

that 7-year-old boy, dominic, along with his mom jacqueline and dad brian. welcome. thank you all for being here. dominic, i bet you had no idea this many people would react to your generosity. why did you do it? what made you say i'll give up my piggybank to other people? >> because they need it more than i do. pete: but i bet you still want that scooter and that corvette, right? >> yeah. pete: it's amazing to see that kind of perspective and general roycety from a 7-year-old. mom, did it surprise you when you turned on the camera? >> it really did and, you know, it all started with a conversation wednesday morning on the way to drop the kids off at school. dominic asked a lot of questions, why i was so upset and what a hurricane was, and i kind of knew where his little mind was going when we got back home. he came to me with the piggybank, i started recording to show my husband because he was at work, and it all kind of stemmed from there. i literally posted that video on

social media just as a proud mom, not ever anticipating the for it to take off the way that it did. pete: and, brian, i bet you were proud when you saw it too. >> very much. very much. pete: dominic, how much was in your piggybank? >> 200. pete: so you're well on the way to an electric scooter. but more people are sending you money, aren't they? to a venmo account. mom, if people want to amplify his piggy bank, how can they do that? >> they can use our venmo which is my first name, j-a-c-l-y-n, dash d-n-a inform r-, the-a, dash 17 or 708-370-9491. pete: so if you want to add a few coins and a few dollars to that pig by bank that's going to

go to families affected down in florida, you can do just that. dominic, we're proud of you, impressed by you. and i bet when you go to school on monday, you're going to have some kids saying, you know, great job. i bet you will. maybe they'll give their piggy banks too. thank you -- >> [inaudible] >> we're going to buy supplies and donations at the store today. >> and he is sending this mommy on a journey. i am packing up a u-haul, and as soon as the county of fort myers opens up, i'm heading down there to an office to set up a station of supplies for those affected in the area. pete: well, no wonder -- >> is probably next week. pete: no wonder you've got such a good son, you've got parents leading the way. dominic, thank you so much for doing what you did and, parents, god bless you both. keep it up. >> thank you. >> thank you. pete: very cool. well,you want to help as well,

you can help little dominic, but you can also help fox corporation which has donated $1 million to the american red cross hurricane ian leaf efforts to provide aid and resources to those impacted. our thoughts, of course, and prayers, are with everyone affected by the storm. if you'd like to join fox's effort, visit red cross.org/fox forward. a couple of good stories there. all right, coming up, the nord stream pipeline's reportedly sabotaged with huge implications. k, mcfarland believes russia is behind it, and she'll explain why she thinks that next. ♪it takes two to make it outta sight♪ ♪one, two, get loose now! it takes two to make a-♪ get double rewards points this fall. book now at bestwestern.com. bipolar depression. it made me feel trapped in a fog. this is art inspired by real stories of bipolar depression. i just couldn't find my way out of it.

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will: few morning, one of two ruptured pipelines in the baltic sea appears to have stopped leaking natural gas, but the mystery is only getting deeper. germany now suspecting sabotage as russian president vladimir putin is pointing the finger at the west. kt mcfar lan joins us live. kt, great to have you on the program this morning. you and i have already talked about this summit on the will cain podcast -- can subject. who sabotaged the nord stream pipeline? >> russia. it's pretty simple. and they had a bunch of reasons to do it. first of all, the price of oil was going down after its initial spike because of biden's war on

american fossil fuels. so by doing this, they shot price of oil back up and natural gas. what does that do? it makes russia rich again. russia needs a lot of money to continue to fight this war, and the other reason is this pipeline wasn't useful to them. it wasn't operational, and russia's already sold all all that oil and natural gas to china, to india, to turkey. so it was a no-brainer, i think, from their perspective. will: so i didn't ask you this in our last conversation when you gave me this plausible theory in order to increase the price, why the need for hem to sabotage, to blow up the pipeline. couldn't they have just turned off the gas to germany and had the same effect of constricting global supply and, thus, rising prices? >> yeah, but there are other motives at play here. yes, they could have done that, and they could have done a cyber attack. but what does this do? it sends a warning shot to the your europeans. it shows them, look, we can blow

up these gas pipelines, what's right next to them? fiber optic cables. we can shut down your communication system. you may not want to support yaron, europe, if this is the -- ukraine, europe, if this is the price you have to pay. by having this attack in such a dramatic way, president putin can go to his own people and say, see, i told you, this was america who did this, this wasn't russia. this wasn't anybody else. this was america, and america's out to get us, america's attacking us. and that gives him the rally round the flag motive that he needs domestically. he's fighting a war that's not popular at home, and he's had to call up 300,000 reservists, biggest military a draft call-up since world war ii. he's got a lot of explaining to do to his own people. will: i understand that one. i understand sell the war to your domestic population, show it as an act of aggression from america. i've also heard the argument as well this is a better way to fracture nato.

but what do i do, kt, with, for example, joe biden and victoria nuland's echoing of joe biden's threat to -- he's a little abstract or vague about a it, you know? nord stream 2 will not happen. he said that back in february. if russia invades ukraine, nord stream 2 will not happen. this seems to be a fulfillment of that threat. >> yeah. but let's think that one lu for a minute. first of all, joe biden finish. [inaudible] number two, if they really wanted to take it offline, they could have done a cyber attack. number three, this is an administration that prides itself on its environmental concerns. why should they create an environmental disaster in doing this? look, to me, what's so frustrating about this, will, the answer is so easy. we don't need to go to war with russia. take away russia's ability to make war, and that's because they're rich now because of high energy prices. every time russia's been rich in the last 50 years it invades its

neighbors. now we should have driven their price of energy down, bankrupt russia, war over. will: as always a, i respect and appreciate kt mcfarland's opinion on these issues, even if i carry a tad bit of skepticism, and you can hear it on the will cain podcast. kt, great to talk to you again. thank you so much. >> thank you. will: rachel, over to you. rachel: i am a huge fan as well. i think she breaks down issues in such a clear and plain-spoken way that all of us can up understand. i have skepticism too, but i really do trust her. all right, we begin your headlines with this, chicago police searching for the person who killed this 3-year-old boy in what police believe was a road rage incident. the boy was shot in the head while in the car with his mom and three siblings. oh, just awful. police say the family had just left the mall prior to incident.

his lee siblings and his mother were not injured in the shooting. authorities say the suspect car is either a red dodge charger or a redford mustang. i hope they find that -- i'm not going to say the word. venezuela field seven americans as part of a prisoner exchange, the u.s. swapping them for two nephews of venezuela's first lady known as the narco nephews. they were convicted of drug-smuggling charges back in 2016. president biden celebrating the release of the five oil executives and two other americans. the executives were abducted during a meeting in venezuela's capital in 2017. too bad we're egg -- begging for oil there that evil dictatorship. and coming up, an embarrassing week of blunders in the biden white house. >> jackie, where's jackie? i think she was going to be here. >> so the united states shares a very important relationship,

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>> i want to thank all of you here for including bipartisan officials like representative and senator braun, senator beakerring, representative jackie -- where where's jackie? she was going to be here. >> so the united states shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the republic of north korea. pete: new alliance. joe biden and kamala harris raising eyebrows this week. will: here to react, fox news contributor and author of "come on, man," joe concha. here with us this morning. >> hi. will: what's up? >> that was interesting. will we've yeah. >> those video clips. and it's funny, because if you watch, say, stephen colbert or jimmy kimmel or fallon or cnn or msnbc or a host of other news organizations, you don't see that clip once. which is remarkable, because i'm pretty sure if the 45th

president said something that horrible, you know n terms of a gaffe,s i is have a feeling you would immediate if another hour -- can. pete: it was nonif stop 25th amendment talk if he said something like that on other networks. >> right. questioning his cognitive abilities. with joe biden you could say is, well, it's because he's going to be 80. it is always this way. this is a guy who ran for president 35 years ago and had to drop out. why? plagiarism. we're talking word for word. and throughout his entire career it's things like that, telling a guy in a wheelchair to stand up -- rachel: or when he fell down the shares 12 times trying to go up air force one, if donald trump had done that every single time, they would have played that video over and over and other again. >> and this is why one-third of democrats, people in his own party, only one-third want him to run for president again in 2024, because this is late '70s version of joe biden. imagine if he ran and won, you

would have an 85-year-old joe biden in the oval office, and that's something most americans are like, no -- the problem is the backup is kamala harris, and we saw what happened in north korea or at the dmz. pete: you're exactly right. the new book is "come on, man." it keeps writing itself, but tell us about book. >> the book is about not just the biden presidency, but about his entire life leading up to the presidency, which is remark bl, guys -- remarkable. this is somebody who has failed upwards his entire life. and usually you hit e a ceiling at some point. he got all the way to the oval office that only 46 people have ever occupied. and you wonder how did we get here, why did we settle this these situations for somebody so poor. and the media plays a big role mt. book as far as how joe biden got into office, because we were so focus on donald trump. they were, right? that they didn't bother to

scrutinize the guy that came in and replaced him, and now we see record high inflation, crime going through the roof, 4 million people passing over border -- rachel: corruption, being compromised by the chinese. the book is "come on, man." pete: congratulations. rachel: new york times best withseller, couldn't happen to a better person. >> thank you, rachel. pete: up next, ken mccarthy.

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