within miles of each other on the beach with the gilgo four representing the middle of the map. the gilgo four were found three miles west of where we are this morning. three of those four women are the cases where heuermann is charged with murder right now and he has pleaded not guilty. send it back to you. >> bill: nate foye on the scene along the beach of long island. >> the rest of this primary election will be in reference to trump. we can't keep dealing with this drama and the negativity and dealing with all of this. >> bill: that was nikki haley, presidential candidate with us yesterday on our program as federal prosecutors say former president donald trump is the target of a january 6th investigation. brand-new hour begins right now. first hour flew by, didn't it? >> sandra: it did. >> bill: dana is out today and back tomorrow. i'm bill hemmer. big welcome back to our

colleague and partner in crime here. office mate of sorts. >> sandra: great to send the morning with you. we spend a lot of time together sharing that wall up there. sandra smith, good to be with you as the former president deals with his growing legal troubles while campaigning for the white house. the crowded field for -- of republican challengers are working to respond to the latest headline involving the frontrunner as they chart their own course to the white house. >> bill: aishah hosni is looking at that. president trump's town hall. big showing in iowa. good morning to you, aishah. >> the former president says the whole thing really bothers him. democrats are trying to prevent him from returning to the white house. >> it is election interference. never been done like this in the history of our country. what is happening to our country, whether the borders, elections, or things like this where the d.o.j. has become a weapon for the democrats, an

absolute weapon. >> trump got a rock star welcome in cedar rapids, iowa and told sean hannity that president biden is compromised and should be impeached. the former president usually sees a big bump in polling after news of an investigation. we'll see if that happens again. but look at this. new university of new hampshire poll shows trump's grip in the granite state over governor desantis has slipped to 14 points. back in april a similar survey had him ahead by 20 points. something to watch there. desantis spent yesterday hoping for a campaign reset, bill, in the first in the state of south carolina. instead, yep, he spent the day defending his rival. >> he should have come out more forcefully. of course that. but to try to criminalize that, that's a different issue entirely and i think that we want to be in a situation where you don't have one side just

constantly trying to put the other side in jail. >> tim scott talking about the weaponization of the d.o.j. holding a town hall in new hampshire where he is polling in third place. less than six gop candidates say they'll be on the august debate stage. the rnc hasn't made an official announcement yet, bill. >> bill: thanks, aishah hosni in washington set us up nicely for this one. >> sandra: joining us now jessica anderson is here, president of the fentanyl action fund and jessica tarlov co-host of "the five." good to have you here this morning. first up, what will the impact do you believe, jessica, what do you believe it will be on the trump probe on the election? will it help or hurt? >> right now it is helping the former president. everyone supporting him and his base and see the two-tier justice system in place. the d.o.j. going after parents

and pregnancy resource centers and now after a former president who is really running the field. the political opponent that is against him is directing all of it. base voters on the rice see it and it helps trump and feel like they could come after him yet. it only helps in the primary. but the general will it help? the verdict is out on that. >> bill: speaker mccarthy was with jesse last night. >> every time president trump goes up in the polls they come after him. this is one of the fundamental reasons why when we took the majority we created the weaponization committee. we're going after this. this is wrong. >> bill: from one jessica to the other. >> this shift is what the two-teared system of justice in america means is so astounding to me. we used to talk about there was a two-tier system of justice for black and brown young men put behind bars and now talking

about white billionaires who were presidents of the united states of america. it is so utterly off base what's going on in that description and speaker mccarthy, someone on tape talking about how they did the benghazi hearings to lower hillary clinton's polling numbers in 2016 when he was talking to sean hannity about that, he knows a thing or two about diversion and it is not what's going on here. >> bill: the dual system of justice is scene because they look at the laptop and think all the information is there. here is your evidence, act on it. >> the last was presented to donald trump's administration. his f.b.i. director that he hand selected after he fired jim comey, christopher wray. bill barr declined to do something about it. his a.g. this isn't some large liberal biden conspiracy. >> bill: when the whistleblowers show up today at 1:00 it will be continued then. >> i welcome any legitimate whistleblower to tell their

story about what has happened. the republicans are running around like alease stefanik and others saying jack smith did this yesterday because he was scared of what gary shapley had to say. this is the result of grand juries, not unelected officials standing there saying i hate this guy. how many indictments will it take for people to admit that maybe this man has been committing a lot of crimes? >> bill: if it's trump and biden there could be a third party out there. they are making noise in new hampshire. david axelrod says this is so disingenuous. you have 19% with ross perot. no labels will be spoilers and highly likely in favor of trump and the republicans. why do they think a third party works against only joe biden? >> they are making a ton of progress right now. they are getting on the ballot in battleground states like arizona. not just in the northeast.

we need to pay attention to it. i don't think joe biden needs help lowering the desperate cries of the american people right now. they see the left and what is presented and the right, voters do. they'll be very clear about what will it take to turn around our country, to secure the border, to help the economy? a third party candidate won't scratch that itch. usually these things fizzle out. history has borne that out. i think it will happen again now. what i would watch is how the left is using election law changes like the support for rank choice voting in some states begins to confuse voters about how they are supposed to go about their election process. these two things the rise of rank choice, the third party will muddy the waters, if the republican party was smart and double down and make sure it's easy to vote, hard to cheat and people have a clear pathway to vote. >> sandra: senator manchin says it's about voters having

options. political parties have gone too far to the extremes. here is manchin. >> we're here to make sure that the american people have an option. the option is can you move the political parties off their respective sides? they've gone too far right and too far left. that can't be done unless they're threatened. you need people out there that says listen, either side can't win without the independent. >> sandra: it would pose a threat to two political parties going toward more moderate positions to their path to victory. >> it will shave off the right amount of percentage points from the democratic side to insure whoever the republican is, looks like it will be donald trump as the nominee is going to win. the no labels party is dark money funded. we don't know who is backing it. joe manchin loves to rail against dark money but happy to sit with them have shown the map of what they think they could pick off. if they pick up those states joe

biden loses, states like arizona, georgia, states like michigan. so it's very disingenuous the way he is presenting it. i think he is scared of jim justice and what's going on in his home state. >> this is what joe manchin does. >> bill: we'll see how it goes. i like the new set up. thank you, ladies. we have this image now from washington. fox news alert. kevin mccarthy house speaker walking there a moment ago with israeli president herzog. he arrives at the capitol. joint session of congress will address in 50 minutes from now marking israel's 75th anniversary. that happened a moment ago. wanted to share that with you from washington. we are three hours away, meanwhile when two whistleblowers will testify on the hill with hunter biden and his family. the i.r.s., no stranger to controversy of allegations to

bias back in the spotlight. edward lawrence to find out how they are reacting on this day. >> exactly the i.r.s. in the middle of this debate now about weaponizeing government agencies to protect the current president and go after opponents. likely these questions will come up at the house oversight committee hearing today which will reveal the identity of that second mystery whistleblower. the attorney for the first whistleblower detailed this morning some of the internal obstructions. listen. >> one of the big problems is that every time some investigative step was proposed, that naturally led to joe biden or some other foreign influence, they were stymied by the prosecutors. they were told they couldn't take that step. >> we're expected to hear how the d.o.j. restricted the investigation into hunter biden allowing the statute of limitations to run out on some cases and limiting the scope of other investigations that led to

what some call a sweetheart plea deal. >> will the president be monitoring at all or get updates on the house oversight committee when the second i.r.s. whistleblower will be testifying? >> the president has a busy day tomorrow. >> is the president concerned about the impartiality of the i.r.s. in terms of their work and their investigations that they do? >> i'm not going to speak to the hearing that's happening tomorrow. no comment from here. >> republicans criticized the i.r.s. for making a house call to journal lift matt taibbi's house the same day he testified about the twitter files. during the 2016 elections only former president donald trump had his tax records leaked. no one ever punished for that illegal act. under the obama administration the then head of the i.r.s. criticized for only auditing or going after a majority of conservative groups. the i.r.s. a lot of questions to answer around that agency. >> bill: we'll be watching in less than three hours. edward lawrence, nice to see

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>> sandra: the biden administration is suspending u.s. funding to the lab in

wuhan, china, the center of a heated debate over the origins of covid. the stonewalling of handing over documents about safety and security. grady trimble from fox business is live for us in washington. what are we learning, grady? >> the biden administration says the wuhan lab didn't follow safety protocols and wouldn't hand over documents about the safety protocols when the federal government asked for them. the health and human services department in announcing the suspension of funding to the lab says the national institutes of health's conclusion that wuhan institute of virology research likely violated protocols of the nih regarding bio safety is undisputed. as such, there is risk that the lab not only previously violated but is currently violating and will continue to violate protocols of the nih on bio safety. so hhs says the wuhan lab won't get another dollar from the u.s.

government. the lab did receive, though, $1.4 million in u.s. grants between 2014 and 2019. but since the start of the pandemic, the lab has come under increased scrutiny because of the controversial gain-of-function research done at that lab and the suspicion that covid leaked from it. the suspension of funding comes as we learn several top scientists who publicly denied the lab leak theory actually believed it was possible, if not likely. that's according to new messages released by independent journalist matt taibbi and others. >> the top advisors to anthony fauci misled congress last week when they claimed that what they were doing was science. the messages show they were engaged in politics, they were responding to what they called higher ups, pressure from their bosses and openly working to deceive reporters.

>> shellenberger and gop lawmakers also claim the federal government was working with big tech companies to suppress the lab leak theory, which, sandra, we now know according to several government agencies, could be a likely explanation for how covid started. >> sandra: grady trimble. thank you. >> bill: we went to bed last night and woke up today with tensions soaring with north korea yet again after the rogue regime launched two ballistic missiles. the launch and apparent response to america's di employment of a nuclear sub to the southern part of south korea for the first time in decades. retired general jack keane is with me now. nothing really happens in the hermit kingdom without the approval of beijing. this follows a move from a week ago where they tested an icbm. what's happening now, general? >> well, this is about showing

north korea that the united states obviously is a nuclear power but demonstrating visibly for them to say it is a nuclear ballistic missile submarine. we haven't parked one in south korea in 40 years. the primary reason is to establish deterrents. we want north korea when they look south to not even think about going to war because it would mean the destruction of the regime. the second reason here, too. because of north korea's belligerence through the years we want the people of south korea and their military and government to understand they are under the nuclear umbrella of the united states much as japan is under that nuclear umbrella and don't want them to have any doubts about it. there has been some talk in the south korean government about acquiring nuclear weapons themselves. we don't want that proliferation to take place. that's a very effective message, i believe, that is being sent by the united states. >> bill: the u.s.s. kentucky

arrived first time since the 1980s. the flight distance of the two missiles fired in the past day roughly match the distance between pyongyang in the north and the south korean port city where the u.s.s. kentucky is now in port. in the meantime we have this american who something happened along the dmz. his name is travis king, private second class. here is defense secretary austin responding to what we think we might know at this point. >> what we do know is that one of our service members, who was on a tour, willfully and without authorization crossed the military demarcation line. i'm foremost concerned about the welfare of our troop and so we will remain focused on this. >> bill: he was stationed in south korea. one report said he was in jail recently. another report said he committed

vandalism against south korean police cars. we don't know what the truth is here or what happened with the incident on the dmz. what have you learned that you can add? >> first of all, i don't think we know his state of mind and that's the real issue here. likely he is under some kind of distress. he was being escorted by the military to customs when they let go of him. as opposed to getting on his airplane to head back to fort bliss in texas, he departed the airport. the next day he wound up on this tour. it is likely he was facing potential separation from the military, having committed a crime that he served time for in a south korean jail, supposedly assault. also an allegation that he kicked in a police car and damaged it severely. and it may be that, you know, going home and being disgraced like that was too much for him

to cope with, particularly the impact on his family. we don't know that. get somebody to talk to him through the swedish embassy who does our work in north korea to determine his state of mind and does he have the freedom to depart, or is he being detained now, which is likely under the kim jong-un regime? i think based on what we've seen in the past, kim jong-un will use this for propaganda value and also likely to try to get some concessions from the united states before he would let this young soldier depart. >> bill: that could take some time. general, thank you, good questions you asked at the end. thank you, sir, jack keane in d.c. nice to see you. >> they just are very, very professional and credible. i'm excited for the american public to see that. it will became evident it is the a-team. >> the attorney for 1 of 2

whistleblowers. will their appearance bolster claims the fed turned a blind eye to hunter biden's business dealings. a texas troopers calling the -- how governor greg abbott is responding. responding.

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immigration office. but pinning down the number of those who actually do that has been difficult to get as far as public information is concerned. the washington times it has it got a glimpse of that data. new federal statistics tracking 2500 migrants apprehended in the days leading up to the end of the title 42 border policy. they say immigration and customs enforcement failed to deliver sum ons to more than 80% of those paroled into the united states. the house homeland security committee holds a hearing this afternoon at the biden administration's border policies and cartel crime. yesterday democrats and republicans argued over a border wall in a contentious hearing. >> when president biden paused and canceled all border wall construction projects in 2021, he demonstrated to the american people that he would prefer to engage in partisan politics. >> numbers have dropped since

the ending of title 42. it didn't take building a wall to make that happen. >> former acting dhs secretary chad wolf says this administration is skewing the border stats. he writes border encounters are hardly remaining low as dhs claims. the key difference is where they are showing up. as the 35,317 inadmissible aliens at the port of entry in may of 2023 is the highest monthly level ever recorded at ports of entry and double in may of 2022. several republicans have called to impeach d.h.s. secretary mayokas. democrats say it's nonsense and congress should be focused on overhauling the immigration system. >> bill: rich edson from the white house. texas governor greg abbott facing criticism after a state trooper described his border policies as inhumane. now the trooper told a

supervisor migrants hurt by razor wire were not given help and claims he was told to push migrants back into the river grand river. abbott tweeted a statement pushing back saying no one was given orders to threat en migrant eva's lives. texas officials tweeted a video of troopers helping a mother and baby with heat exhaustion along the border. >> sandra: house republicans gearing up for a major hearing this afternoon 1:00 p.m. eastern time. two i.r.s. whistleblowers will be giving their first public testimony on the hunter biden investigation. they say the d.o.j. interfered with their work. let's bring in fox news contributor andy mccarthy. great to have you here. set this up for us. what do you expect happens at 1:00 in the hearing room today? >> i think we'll get a compelling pair of human faces on the information that the house has already put out on this, which actually just flushes out something that had

to be the case all along, which is why was there such delay in bringing the hunter biden case? to the point that they actually lost some of the counts that were the most important counts in the case because they let the statute of limitations lapse on some of the important ukraine behavior from 2014 and 2015. it was always you a bun daintyly obvious since the days is not overwhelmingly complex that the reason for the delay had to be that there was political interference that would not be normal in a criminal investigation. these agents have simply come forward and frustrated as they were because it was their work that was frustrated here. they have come forward and explained that's exactly what happened and it is common sense but good to hear it but good to hear it from the people involved. >> sandra: the attorney for the i.r.s. whistleblowers joined us last hour and said this about

what we'll see. >> for a lot of the american public it looks as though someone is not telling the truth in all of this. i think that's a fair question. they can see these guys today and judge for themselves. i hope the members of congress will probe in ways that will allow the public to figure out for themselves how credible they are. >> sandra: what kind of questions do you hope the whistleblowers receive? >> i think there is a fraud going on. i hope it's the -- i hope they are focused on the right one rather than the wrong one. i think what's happening here is they are trying to make this delaware u.s. attorney weiss into the fall guy here. where he goes in and tells the agents i'm not the final decision maker here and garland, the attorney general, says he was the final decision maker all along, all he needed to do was ask and we would have given him any authority he needed to bring cases in any jurisdiction. it looks like weiss is the guy not telling the truth. but the interesting thing here

is that it's not the job of a district united states attorney to ask for authority as a special counsel so he could bring charges anyplace. it is up to the attorney general to recognize there is a conflict of interest and bring somebody in from outside. under the special counsel regulations, if weiss had asked to be made a special counsel, it would have been like being asked to be fired. you are supposed to bring in somebody from outside the government. the issue here is that garland refused to appoint a special counsel in a situation where the biden justice department is investigating the president and the president's family. >> sandra: he believes there will be six hours of questions coming up again 1:00 p.m. eastern time today. there will be opening statements, a portion of the whistleblower's statement. that whistleblower, a male. the identity of that

whistleblower will be revealed to the afternoon. the assigned prosecutors did not file the ordinary process. slow walked the investigations and put in roadblocks from effectively and efficiently investigating the case. we'll hear from that whistleblower. meanwhile quick reaction to this take on jack smith, the special counsel grabbing a sandwich yesterday on another network. listen. >> jack smith going to subway today is a message to donald trump. donald trump tries to intimidate people. he tries to bully people. he tries to scare you away. it was jack smith with no words and a simple sub in his hand saying i'm not going anywhere. >> the imagery was intentional and spoke volumes. >> sandra: what did you make of the sandwich moment? >> makes me wonder what they are putting on the sandwiches they are serving at that other network. look, the smith thing is interesting. obvious he is trying to get in front of the fulton county prosecutor who is supposed to

bring charges in the next month or so. i think it's already complicated smith's life as he is trying to push a case to trial. he doesn't want to let this atlanta prosecutor goth ahead of him in the queue. the january 6th case is a very uphill case. >> sandra: maybe he just wanted a sandwich. >> maybe. >> sandra: thanks so much, andy, great to have you. see you later on. >> bill: wait until i show up at chick-fil-a later on. >> sandra: what message will you be sending? >> bill: trouble in paradise? hemmer celebrity news. a lot of reports indicate the royals will take some time away from each other. harry will go on a solo trip to africa filming a netflix documentary. according to radar online the couple's failed spotify podcast was a game changer in their

relationship. a source tells page six "new york post" rumors of a breakup are literally made up. you be the judge. >> sandra: i always thought from the royals, i follow them closely. i never wish ill will on anyone's marriage. i hope they work things out. however, they've been through a lot and had a grand plan when they left the royal family. that hasn't exactly panned out for them and hasn't gone too well. i would imagine that brings some stress on a marriage. >> bill: if any of that is true and you blame it on a podcast it's weak. have a great trip to africa, harry, right? >> sandra: i wish them the best. >> bill: your words are very sweet. >> sandra: i'm sure it has been stressful. meanwhile staff shake-up in the desantis camp. 2024 hopeful fired several aides weeks after entering the race. is his campaign in trouble, we

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>> bill: so the desantis campaign looking to hit the refresh button. i believe that's f5 on the keyboard. nbc reporting lagging poll number and cash crunch are putting -- >> i was getting a lot of media attention at the time coming off the victory. i was taking fire really non-stop since then because a lot of people view me as a threat. i this i the left views me as a threat. they think i'll beat biden and deliver and people who have their allegiances on the republican side have gone after me. they're trying too hard with this. >> bill: scott walker from wisconsin and he was a presidential candidate eight years ago. good morning to you.

you've been there and made changes. what do you think of what is happening inside the desantis team now? >> well, two big things they need to focus on. going lean and bold. by lean i mean even though he had a great second quarter in terms of fundraising, outpaced the trump campaign, the fact is they're burning up a fair amount of that money. part of the challenge going forward will be much of that fundraising haul has come from higher-end donors. they will hit their maximum soon. the shift they need to be lean and at the same time he needs to go bold. i know this firsthand having a great track record as governor is not enough particularly when you go head-to-head with someone like donald trump. he needs to step out and not just have good performance but light a fire with bold ideas that will help him in the polls but help him with the fundraising at the lower dollar level. you need that to sustain a campaign these days.

>> bill: a lot of good points made in there. republicans are coming to your state in one month. they will be there august 23rd for our debate on prime time. nikki haley told me yesterday thinks donald trump should be there as well. watch here. >> i think that he should be on that debate stage. i have never known him to be scared of anything. i would be shocked if he was scared of the debate stage. we'll see what happenings. i welcome him on the debate stage. the american people need to see the options and the full slate of options they will be choosing from. i want him on that debate stage and the american people want him on the debate stage. >> bill: i think governor desantis needs him on that stage to give millions of americans to see the opportunity to see them one-on-one. go ahead. >> 24 million people. i stood next to him on that stage eight years ago when fox broadcast the first debate from ohio, this time it will be right here in wisconsin.

donald trump surprised that. he needs to be in the ring defending the title. a big mistake for him not to be there as much as conventional wisdom suggests his lead might big him not to be there. he thrives off this kind of attention and i think if he came and blew everybody away as he did in some of the first few debates eight years ago it would shut things down. i hope for the sake of his and others he shows up not only to address primary voters but in wisconsin's case hillary clinton made a big mistake eight years ago in the general election after losing the primary she didn't come back. she lost to donald trump by 23,000 votes. i don't think he wants to make that same mistake with voters here in wisconsin. >> bill: biden campaign spokesperson, you have the debate in milwaukee, then the convention in milwaukee a year later. much like cleveland from 2015 and 2016. he said one year from today republicans will wrap up their convention in wisconsin miles

away from where former president trump promised his american first agenda that would bring a new state -- he has not provided an explanation for his failure to deliver the american manufacturing boom. this is from the biden team. >> they're scared. polls show donald trump in a head-to-head with joe biden can win. they are scared and know wisconsin is key. the more reason he needs to come and make the case to wisconsin voters and a step further key to winning in wisconsin with younger voters is why i do the work i do at young america foundation. each out to the 18 to 29 voters and make the case. if he does that he beats joe biden in a head-to-head and why they are attacking him. >> bill: five weeks from today on the calendar. see you then, governor. scott walker from wisconsin. breaking news, smitty.

>> sandra: john kerry speaking in china meeting with officials on climate change. listen to this first. >> we had very frank conversations but we came here to break new ground, which we think is important at this stage. and it is clear that we are going to need a little more work to be able to complete that task, which we still believe, both of us, is doable. >> sandra: no deal is the takeaway from that. he went over there with a lofty goal of getting them to commit to some major changes. this happening in the back drop of a weakening chinese economy. a tough sell when you see the struggle we have had with the transition here to then go tell china to move away from fossil fuels as they are building new coal plants. it's an impossible sell.

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>> harris: it's difficult to deny or defend, the f.b.i. special treatment of hunter biden a big house hearing today. with the unveiling of whistleblower mr. x. moments if now, israel's president addresses both

chambers of our congress. guess who is boycotting it? you know, we need a name besides squad. how about haters? is the new barbie movie anti-men? joey jones, doug collins, tomi lauren. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> bill: florida house of representatives. the address from the israeli president begins in six minutes' time. so you'll watch it here as we mark the 75th anniversary of the creation of israel. as he makes his way into the chamber. all rise, we say in washington, d.c. stand by, more on that coming up momentarily. >> sandra: we'll continue to watch for that. the president sitting down in the oval office with the israeli

president today. brutal head waves putting a massive strain on the power grid and folks in texas worried about the ability to keep up with the demand and folks crank up the a.c. casey, how are people handling this? >> sandra, doing anything they can to stay cool. it does involving cranking up the air conditioning. the state's power grid has been put to the test but despite these record amounts of demand there has been plenty in reserves or plenty of supply, in other words, according to the agency which oversees texas's power grid. they allowed the weather watch to expire at midnight suggesting confidence in the days ahead. the sizzling temperatures coupled with humidity has put the heat index values close to or over 115 degrees in spots. yesterday here in dallas a church fire went to six alarms because the extreme temperatures. firefighters rotating in and out

taking breaks as the scorcher stretches across much of the south through the southwest. >> from california to texas and portions of southern florida experiencing record high temperatures. so it is pretty expansive and abnormally strong for even this time of year. >> yesterday phoenix breaking a new record, 19 consecutive days of the mercury reaching or surpassing 110. the last time that happened nearly 50 years ago in 1974. cooling and hydration centers have been opened across the region as the heat dome remains in place spelling misery, frankly, for millions and millions of americans. sandra. >> sandra: no end in sight. the heat keeps on coming. >> bill: want to share a sailor stranded at sea rescued after three months lost in the pacific

ocean. a storm scrip lid his boat. they survived on raw fish and rainwater. >> the chopper flew away and came back with a boat, a speed boat and i was very grateful. >> bill: sailor is home but not without the dog. she is staying behind in mexico with the boat crew that found both of them. what a story. >> sandra: the sea is unpredictable and can be very dangerous. a huge afternoon coming up. >> bill: listen, before we go we have this. all right? before we go, check it out. arizona rookie outfielder corbin carroll turns a strikeout into a run against the braves in atlanta. >> swing and miss, rolls away,

murphy is on it and they throw it away. >> bill: he booted it. the carroll drives the run home. sean murphy after the bad throw and arizona the lead and d-backs win it 16/13. see you at 1:00. >> sandra: we'll cover it. thanks for having me, "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. israel's president is set to address both chambers of our congress at any moment now. this is a live look inside the chamber now on capitol hill. it is just minutes away. we'll take you there as soon as it starts. the back drop to this comes with complete aggression, if you will, from the most far left members of the democrats, so-called squad members. even oth