♪ ♪ mike: the race to the white house heating up with 2024 gop presidential candidates hitting the campaign trail this weekend making stops this key states and giving their pitches to voters, and some hitting the airwaves this morning on the sunday talk shows. welcome to "fox news live," i'm mike emmanuel. former president trump drawing a massive turnout at his rally in pickens, south carolina, yesterday taking shots at president biden and claiming credit for this week's major supreme court decisions. senior correspondent steve harrigan is tracking the latest

campaign '24 developments. hello, steve. >> reporter: mike, the former president showing he can still draw a big crowd. pickens, south carolina, population just 3,000 and yet more than 50,000 according to local police turned up to hear nutes at midday in ther 90 sweltering heat. many of them arriving in the predawn hours. they heard the former president take credit for recent supreme court decisions. >> somebody that hasn't done nearly as well and perhaps has not worked nearly as hard will not be taking your place in school, at a college or university, they're in the going to be. we're back to the old merit system that that built our country. >> reporter: in the meantime, trump's competitors took shots at him from multiple angles. nikki haley, former governor of south carolina, said she expected trump's massive lead mt. polls to evaporate by the fall. >> it's not about how many people show up at your rally,

it's how many times you show up and how hard of the questions you answer and is how many hands you shake. and that's what we're doing. >> reporter: and florida governor ron desantis released a video criticizing trump for his support of the lgbtq community, and that exchange was eventually targeted by chris christie, former governor of new jersey. christie saying the exchange between the two was undignified. >> it is a teenage, you know, food fight between ron desantis and donald trump, and i don't think that's what leaders should be doing, and and it certainly doesn't make me feel inspired as an american on fourth of july weekendful. >> reporter: the most recent fox news poll shows former president trump with 56% support among republican primary voters. that's more than double his nearest competitor, desantis. mike, back to you. mike: steve harrigan, many thanks. the biden administration still reeling from the series of setbacks dealt by the supreme court this week with the high

court ruling against the president's student debt relief plan as well as striking down affirmative action many college admissions. alexandria of is lye on the north lawn of the -- live on the north lawn of the white house with the latest reaction. >> reporter: hi, mike. the student loan decision in particular, democrats are expressing clear disappointment. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez sounding off today while seeming to provide a bit of a conflicting take. listen. >> the president very squarely has, as well using his secretary of education, the ability to cancel student loans. we have justices saying that the supreme court is going themselves much too far. they are expanding their role into acting as though they are congress itself. >> reporter: the thing is the supreme court's decision on student loan relief actually upheld and amplified congress' authority determining that the president could not unilaterally implement the $430 billion plan without congress' approval. the president's new plan to reduce student loan balances

uses the higher education act. this was introduced on friday. the administration says it will allow the education sec e tear to waive or release loans under certain circumstances. the details on how this would work or who would qualify aren't quite clear yet, and it's likely to face similar legal challenges. challenges to race-related affirmative action in college admissions prevailed on friday. republican congressman burgess owens feels the practice was insulting in the first place, and its undoing was overdue. >> this is 60 years, 60 years of a policy that said one simple thing, that blacks cannot think as well as white students. we don't see affirmative action on the football field the, basketball or other sports. it's always in the field of intelligence. >> reporter: democratic congressman jamaal bowman said without affirmative action, colleges should not give preference to children of alumni or donors. >> we're allowing them to continue a legacy admissions process that disproportionately

supports the wealthy and white individuals, and that's why we have a bill to cancel legacy admissions at all higher education institutions. >> reporter: now, exempt from this bill titled the fair college admissions for students act are minority-serving institutions like historically black colleges, mike. mike: alex, the the white house announced upcoming overseas travel for president biden. what do we know? >> reporter: yeah, the a week from now the president's embarking to the u.k., lithuania and finland, and lithuania is for a nato summit. in in-- finland, it's a u.s.-nordic leaders' meeting, but in the u.k. the president's going to be sitting down with king charles, expected to discuss climate change. mike: alex, thanks very much. for more on the fallout from the supreme court's landmark decisions, let's bring in today's political panel. with me today, mark gillespie, the founder and principal of blue stack strategies, and brad

howard, a democratic strategist. welcome to both of you. so we are seeing that the progressive left is in full-on freakout mode. here's more from congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> they are expanding their role into acting as though they are congress itself. and that, i believe, is an expansion of power that we really must be focusing on, the danger of this court and the abuse with of power in this court particularly as it, particularly as it is related to the entanglements around conflicts of interest as well. mike: is emphasizing the supreme court one thing republicans have done right over the years? >> you've seen a short turnover -- or a great turnover in a short amount of time, you know? four new justices in five years, and i believe as president obama has said, you know, elections have consequences, and the republican party was able the take advantage of an opportunity to elect those three new

justices in a short time period. so, yes, it will have an impact on elections, and it should moving forward. i think to what the former congresswoman was saying, you know, just because you disagree with a decision doesn't necessarily make it wrong. mike: from a fox news poll in terms of confidence in the supreme court, 48% have it, 52 lack it. that's down significantly from 2017 and 2019. here's former vice president mike pence today on the affirmative action rulingsing. rulings. >> the decision by the supreme court today was an acknowledgment of the incredible progress that minority americans have made, their extraordinary educational achievements, and i have every confidence that african-americans and other minority americans are going to continue to compete and succeed in universities around the country. mike: brad, in terms of public confidence in the high court,

would tightened-up ethics rules help in. >> absolutely. i think a lot of americans were alarmed to the learn that the supreme court is many charge of the ethics around itself, and investigators, no congressional oversight there. i think democrats are smart to pursue ethics reform for the supreme court, because i do think that will add confidence to it legitimateses city in its operation. -- legitimacy. it all started around when mitch mcen connell blocked president obama's appointment of merrick garland to the court and held it open for almost two years. that's an extraordinary step that was way out of line with constitutional norms, is that kind of started this effort. and this is a court, this court for the first time in decades has started rolling back rights that americans had. we haven't had a court do that in a very long time. if you look at the democratic base, lgbtq voters, african-americans, young people, my hope is that this is a galvanizing force for democrats around the country. this court is no accident. court, are republicans and conservatives have been building toward it for decades between outside groups funneling money

into elections, between electing presidents that have made the supreme court a top priority. we've got to do it as democrats. now is our time to respond, and i'm hopeful this will galvanize our base heading into the '24 election. mike: okay. in this political season, hunter biden has to be weighing on some of the president's political advisers. from the fox poll, doj treatment of hunter biden, not tough enough, 55%. too tough, 7%. fair, 4%. mara, how big of a political liability is the first son? >> it's absolutely a political liability for the president, but i also think that for voters to look at this drama that is surrounding the first family and think, okay, is this what we want for another four years? i would say the answer is going to be no because the attention is focused on his scandals, his getting to use his dad's name and the nepotism at play here and not on the issues that are impacting everyday americans like inflation and rising costs across the board of different

things. that's going to be a concern for people as they get to the ballot box. mike: brad, your thoughts. >> number one, i think it's ironic for any republican to really accuse someone of nepotism when you look at the trump children. secondly, it isn't the biden -- focusing on this issue, it is house republicans that have made in the top priority in the house. there's no plan to address inflation, higher education or student loan rates. it's hunter biden all the time, and i think voters have to ask to the previous speaker's point, is this really what you want congress focusing on for the next four years? it's not. i think republicans are taking a huge risk. they can't find any dirt on the president, so they're trying to attack his son. i think that's going to backfir- >> i'd love to weigh in there. mike: go ahead, mara. >> i've said countless times if you're frustrated by the nepotism in the biden white house, then trump's not your candidate.

if you're lamenting the fact that biden is in his 80s and president of the united states, trump is not your candidate, if you're threatened by the the threats to our democracy, trump is not your candidate. i've said it countless time, and i think we have other candidates we should be looking at. mike: okay. to horse race on the gop side, trump 56, desantis 32, ramaswamy 5, pence and tim scott at 4%. here's former governor chris christie on trump and desantis. >> i'm not comfortable with the way both governor desantis and donald trump are moving our debate in this country. their debate is trying to make this country smaller. they're trying to divide us further. and it's wrong. mike: brad, does governor christie need to really take the fight to the candidates who are higher on the polling? >> i think all americans should appreciate governor christie's efforts here to holding everyone accountable. i think it shows a lot of courage in an environment where that's not often rewarded.

but, you know, this is what happens when you have a party that is not really focusing on issues. like, the republican party at large is trying to create a lot of problems where they don't exist, and they're focusing on wokism and all this other kind of stuff when americans are hurting. like, where are the republican plans for inflation? where are the republican plans to deal with the situation in ukraine? where do you see these efforts to address issues on gun safety, on climate change? they're absent. so in the absence of real issues, you start getting into these character assaults and these attacks on minority voters, and i don't think it's going to be in the long-term best with interests of the party. mike: mara, full disclosure, we're both from jersey, we understand chris christie. your thoughts on what brad said and on christie taking the fight to the guys higher in the polling. >> there are some candidates who have focused far too heavily on wokism, but there are plenty of candidates running for 2024 that have rebuffed and, quite frankly, appealing policy plans and proposals ready to go.

and someone like chris christie is going to speak truth to that and is going to call people out who are focusing on issues that don't do necessarily benefit the american people as a whole. so, yes, i think there are definitely candidates that we need to look at, and christie is always going to speak his mind. and as a fellow new jerseyan, i appreciate that. mike: all right. we will poll it. brad howard, maura gillespie, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. ♪ mike: two people dead, 28 injured after a shooting broke out at a baltimore block party shortly after midnight last night. officials say no suspects have been arrested. c.b. cotton is live with the details. hello, c.b. >> reporter: hi, mike. maryland governor wes moore just put out a statement in the last hour saying maryland has had enough and offering his con to doll lenses. police have their work cut out for them with this crime scene. witnesses said there were hundreds at this block party

which ended in gunfire. baltimore police say the shooting happened at 12:30 a.m. at that party in a neighborhood in the southern part of the city. witnesses telling our fox affiliate there were anywhere from 20 to 30 shots fired. police say when they arrived on scene, it was pure chaos. to recap, a little more than two dozen people were wounded including three in critical condition and two people died. some victims were taken by ambulance and others walked into area hospitals. baltimore detectives are working with other jurisdictions to figure out a motive, and there were no arrests immediately after the shooting. the mayor urging people to provide tips and promising answers. >> and again, we will not stop until we find those cowards who decided to just shoot dozens of people causing two people to lose their lives. we're going to be here until we find them, until we hold them accountable. >> reporter: yeah, a lot of urgency with this case. we're hoping to learn more about the holiday weekend tragedy as

the day continues. reporters from our local fox affiliate say the police are still working at the scene, and there are dozens upon dozens of evidence markers. mike. mike: devastating story. c.b. cotton, thanks a lot. riots on the streets of france for more than five days with hundreds of police hurt and thousands of protesters arrested. we will get a live report from the ground in paris just ahead. ♪ ♪ uh... here i'll take that. -everyone: woo hoo! ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein, one gram of sugar. enter the nourishing moments giveaway for a chance to win $10,000. try killing bugs the worry-free way. not the other way. zevo traps use light

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mike: violent protests in france reeving hundreds of -- leaving hundreds of police officers hurt. the wave of unrest sparked after a 17-year-old was shot and killed by police earlier this week. troy i didn't think so is live on the ground in -- trey yingst is live on the ground in paris. >> reporter: police are bracing for yet another might of unrest following a week of violence that saw more than 2,000 people arrested. the riots here in the is suburbs of paris ban on tuesday following the shooting of a french-algerian teenager during traffic stop. video circulated online prompting thousands of people to loot stores, burn buildings and torch cars. the violence continued overnight as rioters rammed the house of a

suburban mayor and lit the home on fire with his family still inside. friend. authorities have deployed an additional 45,000 police in an effort to quell the violence, and french president emmanuel macron was forced to the cancel a state visit to germany. last night clashes occurred in marseilles and lyon. they have historically strained relationships with law enforcement. today in the suburbs it's been quiet today and downtown tourists are viewing the sites, but authorities are preparing for yet another night of riots across the city and across this country. mike? mike: trey, i saw a photo what looked like emmanuel macron at an elton john concert jamming out to the music. i'm a fan too, but i'm not running france at a time of crisis. what about that? >> reporter: yeah, mike, that was on thursday night in paris. french president emmanuel macron

attending a concert while there were fires burning across this capital city. he has held three security meetings over the past week, and it is quite intense in some parts of this country especially in the southern part of france. there are riot police in the streets preparing for the possibility of more riots tonight, so certainly french authorities want their leader focused on the unrest and the possibility of that violence taking place across the country. mike? mike: let's hope peace returns soon. trey yingst live on the ground in paris, thanks very much. ♪ mike: a 24-year-old marine vet is now recovering in a kyiv hospital after suffering serious head injuries during a russian missile strike last night. he was in ukraine on his summer break delivering humanitarian special supplies, medical supplies at the time of the strike. senior is foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in kyiv with his story. hello, or greg. >> reporter: hey, mike. yeah, that gripping story in a moment, just a very quick update

of what's happened here in the last 24 the hour hours night in kyiv. we saw the first attempt at russian strikes nearly two weeks, 111 cruise missiles -- 11 cruise missiles launched and shot down. there was some damage, some injury and a russian tank being targeted ask and blown up amid very tough progress all along the front line. and, yes, as you noted, mike, americans here at a very high risk. take a look. a russian missile hit a crowded restaurant in eastern ukraine last week killing 12, injuring 60 including the man in this widely-seen video sprawled and bloody on the sidewalk, an american, a 24-year-old undergrad from upstate new york, a marine veteran using his summer break to deliver humanitarian medical supplies. >> he went there completely for free. he wasn't paid a dime, he just, he literally just wanted to help. >> reporter: hundreds of americans have come to the war zone, some to pitch in on the

fight, some to aid the needy, and some are caught in harm's way. he's in a kyiv hospital being treated for serious head wounds. his sister prays for him. >> he's a total sweetheart. he's my baby brother. every single summer he volunteers somewhere. he's a very hard worker. he really has aer is is haven't's heart. -- has a servant's heart. >> reporter: we are told, mike, that christian know, or chris, is recovering but still can't be moved so his family is going to come here and help out. a lot of folks here have been helping out all along the way. ukraine friends, they played a big role, prayers, of course, for chris, prayers for everybody who's struggling here during this terrible, terrible war. back to you. mike: amen. wishing him a full and speedy recovery. thank you for bringing his story. greg palkot live in kyiv, thanks so much. thousands of twitter users reporting problems reaching the site as ceo elon musk unveils a

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unverified accounts to 600 and new, unverified accounts to 300. shortly after that announcement, musk relaxed those rules. so as of now, verified users are limited to viewing 10,000 posts a day and unverified can view a little more too. fox news did reach out to twitter to see how or if these new user restrictions will impact police, fire and ems, agencies that share critical information during emergencies. will they be limited to a number of posts that they can view per day. now, we are waiting to hear back from twitter, waiting for a response. meantime, users were clearly frustrated that they couldn't access their accounts temporarily on saturday, and some were annoyed by these new restrictions. however, elon musk did not seem fazed by it, he seemed like he was still in a good mood at least on social media. he shared this tweet that was posted to his parody account. quote: the reason i set a view limit is because we are all twitter addicts and need to go

outside. i'm doing a good deed for the world here. also that's another view you just used. now, it is unclear how long those temporary restrictions will be in effect, but as for that parody, i agree, go outside, put the phone down. [laughter] mike? mike: good advice. christina coleman reporting live, thanks a lot. for more i'm joined by jake denton, research associate in the tech policy center at the heritage foundation. jake, welcome. >> thanks for having me. mike: so this twitter change without any announcement beforehand, at least i didn't see one, i just thought twitter was malfunctioning. your thoughts on the change and the backlash and his reaction to it. >> yeah. if you think back to the tucker carpalson interview that -- carlson that elon musk had just a few months ago, he mentioned all the ways these a.i. companies were conflicting with twitter's business model, just generally driving traffic away from the platform. so this has always been the plan, to try and find a way to make sure, you know, users are

staying on the platform and also to make sure that a.i. companies aren't getting free product, free goods from twitter. you know, if they're going to scrape these model, i'm sure elon's going to find a way for them to pay for it. in the meantime, this is going to help with advertiser attention and other aspects of the business, all hope any to drive more profit to twitter. mike: support coming from jack dorsey writing, quote, running twitter is hard. i don't wish that stress upon anyone. i trust that the team is doing their best under constraints they have which are immense. it's easy to critique the decisions from afar which i'm guilty of, but i know the goal is to see twitter thrive. it will. what what about that, jakesome. >> yeah, you know, ultimately at the edge of the day everyone want -- end of the day, everyone wants twitter to be a place where we can go and receive news and it's reliable. this is just one step towards making the platform better. you know, if we allow for these a.i. companies to scrape all of our internet for content

constantly, they're going to drive a lot of these businesses into the ground. if you're allowed to just take data with no compensation, it's going to hurt a lot of businesses. so twitter is taking a step, reddit took a similar step just a few weeks ago that caused similar outrage, but these are things we have to deal with as a.i. becomes more mainstream. these tools are built upon all of the data on the internet, and with that there's going to be a lot of costs whether they're obvious or not. this is one of them. so you can subscribe to twitter blue and get a few more tweets, but in the meantime, there are probably going to be the limitations to how to we use the platform. mike: okay. among the concerns from the national weather service, quote, due to new limits on the number of tweets an account can view per day, we may be unable to see tweeted reports of severe weather and associated damage. please contact our office directly with any reports. what about hurting the ability to share critical weather information on this platform? >> well, it doesn't seem like it's going to limit the ability of an outlet like that to tweet

a notification, but it will limit the audience's ability to receive that information. if you were to have gone through your entire tweet limit early in the morning and there were a tornado in the evening, you wouldn't necessarily see that on your feed. so this will mainly affect the user and their ability to take that information in. in terms of posting, it seems as though an outlet like the national weather service will be able to continue to post. there are going to have to be, you know, a way for critical infrastructure like that to communicate still to these audiences. mike: elon musk spent a fortune buying twitter. to be clear, he can afford it, but has he damaged his investment, jake? >> i think in many ways he's made twitter more valuable already. he's cut costs when it comes to overstaffing, he's gotten rid of a lot of worthless talent that were occupying essentially worthless jobs, right? and now with with with type of -- with this type of move, he's incentivizing advertisers to place ads. if these large language models are taking data and basically

discouraging eyes to the ads, these companies will either pay less for the advertisement placement or not advertise at all, so this all comes back to generating more revenue for the company. and, you know, we still have to give him time. it hasn't been that long. these changes are underway, but it looks like things are getting better. mike: as a sports fanatic, jake, love the background. thank you very much for your time and your analysis today. >> thanks for having me. mike: a push by some house republicans to impeach president biden is in the beginning stages after the house voted earlier this week to send an impeachment proposal to two committees for further investigation. the articles focus on the president's handling of the border. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram has our story. >> reporter: depending on your viewpoint, president biden could be staring at an impeachment investigation or this could shelf an impeachment effort driven by the most conservative voices in the house. >> this impeachment inquiry is manager that the american people are demanding. >> reporter: colorado

republican lauren boebert accused her gop colleagues of dithering, talking a good game about impeachment with no action. >> i'm tired of politicians telling us something that we wanted to hear back home, getting to where we send them and trust them to be our voice and doing something completely different. >> reporter: boebert circumvented gop leaders crafting a special resolution to compel the house to consider impeachment articles with no committee hearings or investigation. house speaker kevin mccarthy was not impressed. >> anytime you take something this serious, you don't just put something on the floor. >> reporter: some republicans accuse boebert of cheapening impeachment. >> we can't turn it into the equivalent of a vote of no confidence9 -- confidence. >> reporter: impeachment may be too extreme for some republicans, so mccarthy diseased the house would vote to refer -- decides the house would vote to refer to the homeland security committee for investigation. >> i've already cited # 11 laws

that have been violated, two court orders. >> reporter: there are also efforts to impeach homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, fbi director christopher wray and attorney general merrick garland. >> they are trying to out-maga and out-extreme each other by pushing measures to impeach, expel, censure, whatever language they'd like to use. >> reporter: lauren boebert says if she doesn't see action, she'll compel an impeachment vote later this year. on capitol hill, chad pergram, fox news. mike: marine veteran daniel penny pleading not guilty of charges stemming from the chokehold death of a man on the new york city subway. we'll hear expert analysis of the case just after the break. ♪

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♪ mike: marine veteran daniel penny pleading not guilty to revised charges related to the choke ehold death of a man on the new york city subway. the case has sparked nationwide debate with charges not being brought forward until days after jordan neely's death amid public uproar and protests. for more insight on all of this, joining me now live is attorney lexie rig done. welcome. >> hi, mike, thank you. mike: let's take a look at charges against jordan -- daniel penny, excuse me. second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide. lexie, where do things stand in

this case? >> well, he pleaded not guilty at his arraignment, and i'm not surprised that the grand jury included a lesser-included offense. that happens quite often. it's sort of a safety hatch for the prosecution because if they don't, if a jury ultimately if it gets to trial and they don't find him guilty on the more serious charge, they can convict him on the lesser-included offense. but they cannot convict him on both x so it's one or the other or perhaps none of them. and the criminally negligent homicide carries a much less significant penalty. it's a class e felony, the lowest felony category in new york, and it's up to four years in prison, but there's no actual mandatory prison time in the statute, so it could even be if he were convicted on that count, he could even serve no time in prison. mike: here are some of the attorneys involved in this case talking about it. let's play it. >> daniel penny killed a man. he took a life. and for everyone who thought

donating $3 million would i somehow make this go away or buy his pass, it's not going to happen. >> daniel is the only one on trial. the right and duty to defend one another will be on trial too. mike: what is at stake in this case, lexie? >> well, this is a very important issue, i think, for the city of new york in general. people know the reputation is, and rightfully so, that the subways aren't messily safe places s. and what's interesting is that usually in these cases the defense attorneys want to the move as far away from the venue as possible because it could potentially be tainted by pretile publicity, but his defense attorneys want him tried by a jury of his peers in manhattan. i've never heard before this case, strap hangers who have experienced, that might have experience on the subway and might have been scared themselves on the subway. and when i see people speaking out and calling him a killer and

a murderer and casting blame on him, you just have to wonder if those people would have wanted somebody like daniel penny to step up and help them if they or their loved one was in the same situation in the subway, and i think think the answer would be yes if they're being honest with themselves although nobody, of course, daniel penny induded -- colluded, wanted jordan neely to die that day. mike: an unhinged subway rider harassed riders and jordan williams fatally stabbed him. the only difference would appear to be that both men in the case were black. a grand jury refused to indict williams. your thoughts, lexie. >> well, i think the other difference also that's not necessarily captured by that video is that there was allegedly a physical attack that preceded this attack, and it's kind of similar to to the bodega owner who had stabbed his would-be with attacker, and those charges were dropped.

these cases are very nuanced, and the difference here we believe because we certainly have not seen all the evidence yet, the difference he -- we believe in that case somebody was attacked and in this case somebody wasn't yet, but that's not necessarily the standard for whether self-defense was done reasonably. you don't have to wait to be attacked, you have to evaluate the totality of the circumstances regarding the threat which is what daniel penny said he did and others who have come to his offense said that he did. mike: the daniel penny legal defense fund is approaching $3 million. your thoughts on that, lexie. >> well, we all know that the more, the more you can afford in terms of legal representation, the better. he doesn't is have a public defender representing him who has, you know, 500 cases on their docket. he has people who he can afford to have dedicated to his case 24/7. and we've seen they've made a lot of media appearances and been good spokespeople for him which he's needed to drown out some of the other people that immediately came out ask called

him a murderer and said that he was a vigilante and this was racially motivated. so it's very important for the people that care about his cause that they have donated, and that might ultimately be the difference in how this case turns out. mike: attorney lexie rigden, grateful for your time and analysis today. >> thank you. mike: the united states attorney involved in the hunter biden case is denying that he retaliated against the irs whistleblower who disclosed the details of the investigation. this as the house gop's investigation into the president's son ramps up. david spunt has that story. >> reporter: the clock is ticking for attorney general merrick garland and other can doj officials to turn over information to congress about the hunter biden plea deal. >> i hope that that they just voluntarily come in. i would think that that would be the right thing to do. >> reporter: irs whistleblower gary schaap. ly insists the probe was influenced by politics. he says delaware u.s. attorney david weiss complained about not having full control over the

investigation. >> i even had him preet that, because i knew -- repeat that because i knew how important that fact was, and i wanted to make sure i understood it. >> reporter: but for two years garland has insisted weiss was in charge. >> but he is in charge of that investigation. there will not be interference of any political or improper kind. if he needs to do, bring a case in another jurisdiction, he will have my full authoritied to do that. would be permitted to continue his investigation and to make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted to and in any district in which he wanted to. >> reporter: in a june 7th letter, weiss wrote to house judiciary chairman jim jordan saying the same. it reads in part: i have been granted ultimate authority over this matter if including responsibility for deciding where, when and whether to file charges. shapley says weiss specifically complained about being blocked from the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. last year. a spokesperson for d.c. u.s.

attorney matthew graves denied interference. fox news obtained a letter from hunter biden's attorney, abby lowell, to house ways and means committee chairman, republican jason smith. lowell accuses smith and other republicans of going after hunter biden as a way to get closer to investigating president biden. lowell writes in part, quote: your release of material violated the spirit if not the letter of the tax laws and federal rules governing investigations, enquote. smith responded in a statement vowing to continue his investigation. in washington, david spunt, fox news. mike: celebrating the fourth of july at america's favorite independence day bash. we're getting an inside look at preparations for the 43rd annual capitol fourth, next. ♪ unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health.

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performing, and what does this mean to you? >> well, i'm going to the take them in the reverse order because it means so much to me. [laughter] i'm going to the start by saying that. i grew up here in alexandria, virginia, right across the potomac from d.c., so fourth of july has always been a real big deal. i remember all the way back to the bicentennial, i was a little bid -- kid, but it was a big one. so to be a part of this show and be at the epicenter is amazing. i'm singing -- not only did they call me up and ask me, but they'd can ask if i'd sing a younger song called let freedom can ring. it was barry manilow, i think, about 20 years ago. i'm looking forward to it. mike: for people who haven't watched this special recently, what else should they look forward to tuesday? >> well, first of all, like you say, there's going to be some great stars there. chicago's going to be there, boys ii men, belinda carlisle. some muppets are going to be

there, so a whole lot of wonderful performances. but i also have to say that it's just the stage design, everything is just done to perfection. really celebrating this country and the way that it deserves. i've always found it besides just being fun on the day, very moving. so for me, being on stage and singing -- [laughter] right in the middle of it, it'll be emotional. it'll be meaningful, and i'll just try to hang on and the do the best i can. mike: you are a star the, my family knows you well from outer banks. but you have an impressive credit list. any added nerves for this performance though because it is the nation watching, and it's back home? >> yes, absolutely. i mean, but always the good kind of nerves. i mean, when i was early in my career, it was the bad kind, the crippling can i do this kind. now i know whatever happens will happen. i know that i'm there not about me. i know what i'm there for, and it's once again to celebrate

this country. august you can do is bring your heart to it, bring your best talents to it. it's the kind of excitement is more what i would put it than nerves. i get this career and i get to do a these things where again and again i get to go to this new thing that i haven't done before x. this is definitely that. but i'm more thrilled than anything else. mike: a shot of adrenaline is always a good thing. charles, i wonder if there's a moment to reflect on your career. you got into an industry that's impossible, nearly, to break into. and here you are back with home on this national celebration. what does it mean to you? >> well, i was always in the tortoise and the hare, i was always the tortoise. when i went to hollywood, i said to myself, this is what i want to do in terms of the acting and the music, and it didn't happen real kickly. i've always been able to support myself, but slowly this career has come around and taken me places. i was able to play buddy holly

when i was very, very young. that took me to the white house under the first president bush. i got to perform as buddy holly there for the joint chiefs of staff. so this is kind of a splendid bookend to that. [laughter] i'm not saying i'm all the way at the end of my career, but it's been a few years. that was the early '90s, so this is kind of beautiful in the way these things come together. mike: charles, grateful for your time. i know you're going to be great. we look forward to the show. >> thank you so much, i appreciate it. mike: have a wonderful independence day. that is all for this hour of "fox news live." "fox news sunday" with shannon bream is up next. i'm mike emmanuel, thank you for watching. is have a wonderful independence day holiday and god bless america. ♪ ♪ ide nutrients to support immune, muscle, bone, and heart health. everyone: woo hoo! ensure with 25 vitamins

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