reasons, and you can order his book on fox news books, and joey, so thrilled for you. well deserved, well earned. >> it's for the ten people in the book and read their stories, please. >> we will, it's an incredible book. jerry, carly, harris, dream time. here is "america reports." >> my son has done nothing wrong. i trust him, i have faith in him. i'm confident. my son did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong. i never discussed a single thing with my son about anything having to do with ukraine, no one has indicated i have, we have always kept everything separate. i've never discussed my business or their business, my son's or daughter's. >> i've never spoken to my son about overseas business dealings. >> john: house oversight committee chairman james comer

confirming to fox his committee expect's devon archer, hunter biden's former business partner, to appear this week. expected to tell congress he witnessed the president's son dial in then vice president biden on speaker phone at least two dozen times into meetings with his overseas business partners. >> could his testimony make it crystal clear the president was unfaithful -- excuse me, untruthful in repeated denials. jonathan turley to discuss. >> john: count down to the first 2024 presidential debate, less than one month to go until the candidates square off in milwaukee. we are learning which candidates are expected to secure a spot on the big stage. i don't know roberts here in washington, good afternoon to you. >> jacqui: good to be with you, john. jacqui heinrich in for sandra

smith. six candidates have met the polling and fundraising criteria laid out, that includes former president trump, desantis, ramaswamy, tim scott, and chris christie, nikki haley. >> john: mike pence has met the polling criteria but is short of the required donations. complete coverage now, juan williams and mary katherine here to break down the state of the race. >> jacqui: griff jenkins, new fox business polling shows the former president has a strong lead in the early states. do we expect to see trump on the debate stage? >> good afternoon, jacqui and john, and good question, jacqui. i mean, that's the burning question. will the front-runner, who has a commanding lead show up in less than a month, trump has not committed one way or another but one of his rivals is calling him out. >> i think i want trump in the debate and the reason is i think the american people deserve to

know what their options are and it's offensive for a candidate to say they are not going to be on stage. you are basically trying to earn the support of the american people. you can't earn the support of the american people if you are absent. >> fox business latest polling, haley is in second place behind trump, desantis 13%, tim scott 10%. fourth. in the hawk eye state, 46% of iowa gop caucus-goers back trump. scott, 11%, ramaswamy at 6%. pence is in sixth place at 4%. even worse, the former veep, he tops the chart in iowa among those who say they would never vote for him. >> i know that some of the pundits and the pollsters think it's different out there, but i have to tell ya. based on the enthusiasm and the support we are seeing, not only

across new hampshire this week, but iowa, and states around the country, i'm absolutely convinced that we are going to have a new standard bearer in this party. >> as history shows, national polling in june of 2015, jeb bush led 22%, donald trump was at 1%. see if he decides to take our stage on august 23rd. jacqui. >> jacqui: a lot can happen. >> john: bring in the panel, juan and mary catherine, great to see both of you. put it up on the screen so folks can follow along, who is expected to be on the debate stage. expected to qualify in terms of what the polling numbers are and the number of donations. on the bubble, though, mike

pence, asa hutchinson, doug burgum and larry elder, the former vice president i know is working hard to try to get to the threshold of donors. will he make it, will he be on the stage? >> look, i mean, he's been through campaigns before. he's done this many times. he can sort of drum up support but running a campaign that is bizarre in that it is aligned with the trump administration of course because he was the veep. but because of his july 6th -- january 6th stand, which is that the president lost and shouldn't have tried to win by man handling the vote, he's in opposition to many trump voters so it makes it hard for him to pick up support and i think that's what you are seeing. people want to turn the page, those that want to turn the page will not vote for him. and those that love trump will not vote for him. a tricky position at that point. >> john: when you take a look at the polling juan, maybe it's

inaccurate, jeb bush was leading, and donald trump was 1%, and july of 2007, hillary clinton 45%, barack obama at 30%, could we be in a different place six months from now depending can on how this debate and others that will come after it go? >> absolutely. debate is a big deal. let me explain to you from a pollster point of view why we see a difference this time. the key is that none of those candidates in 2007 or in 2015 were the former president of the united states, and that's donald trump who is running in these primaries. so he has a solid base. he is -- he has name i.d., donors all lined up and so what's really taking place here, john, you have a competition for second place, the alternative route to the nomination to

challenge trump. and none of the others who have qualified to get on that stage really are known to voters, they don't have high name i.d., you know, you think about it for a second and you have to say when it comes to town hall meetings, when it comes to interviews, and especially to the debate, this is the moment in which they are going to introduce themselves to the american public, to the republican primary voters in specific and make or break for them in that moment. >> john: yeah, and of course we are all hoping that president trump will show up as well, or former president trump will show up as well to see how he does against the crop of newcomers. there is new information in the hunter biden investigation, put up "the new york post" cover from earlier today, sets the stage here, phone a friend. apparently devon archer, used to be hunter biden's best friend will appear, according to james comer, before congress this week how he saw hunter biden dial in his father in conference calls

with overseas business partners at least a dozen if not more times. how does this change the whole investigation, mary katherine? >> the question is how close does this get to joe biden, and the issue has been up until now, whether it's hunter's laptop, whether it's text message, whether it's investigations that grassley has done in the senate committee about this, people are trying to obscure the hunter investigation by saying hunter is just his son, it doesn't matter. well, it does matter if he's pedalling influence and involving his father. we have millions of dollars from foreign entities, flagged to say these look suspicious, looking into that, and his own text messages, and his laptop, a massive attempt to censor this investigation. voters are worried about other things and a question whether he's treated equally. whistleblowers last week with the irs, many fronts people are

saying hey, is this guy getting the same treatment someone else would get or someone pulling strings to protect the president. i would like the answer to that. >> john: according to the federalist, the fbi told david weiss, the u.s. attorney in the state of delaware, it had corroborated part of form fd-1023, in particular what the controversial human sources quoted about meeting with burisma executives, according to this article that human source did meet with the burisma executives. could -- this is only a single source, we should point out, but could this begin to change david weiss and the rest of the country is seeing that form fd-1023, which democrats have done their best to describe it? >> well, i think it's more than democrats. you know, even republicans say it's unsubstantiated. we just don't know, and this is

coming -- based on what was a blind source, the fbi said they did not want that document released because of sourcing, but it's one source, it's not substantiated, and i think mary katherine is on to it, this is a people who don't like biden who are trying to undermine biden and want it to go forward. but it's the lack of substance. it's like conspiracy, is someone saying nepotism is a crime, no. how many presidents back to trump, you know, his children benefitted from the fact that he was a famous man and he was president of the united states. it's just not a crime. >> not a crime -- we chased russian ghosts four years and there is information here and i would like to have it substantiated as much as possible and we have the opportunity to do that by asking more questions and not stopping the questions. >> john: devon archer does appear before congress, maybe we will learn more about all of this. as always, thank you for kicking it off this monday.

jacqui. >> jacqui: biden administration is targeting hot water heaters as part of the green energy agenda. rolling out a proposal, new efficiency standards for hot water heaters. critics argue the plan will backfire by making appliances more expensive. lydia is live in the new york city studio. lydia, how soon could the new standards become a reality? >> jacqui, if the new standards are finalized, they would take effect in 2029. the biden administration also claims in addition to the cost savings long-term, that the proposed standards for hot water heaters will cut more than 500 million metric tons of emissions over 30 years. proposed mandate would require most electric water heaters use heat pump technology and gas powered heaters use condensing technology. but industry sources say the energy efficient hot water heaters are already available on the market and they are more expensive to buy and install. in fact, a search for the

products shows an energy efficient water heater can cost as much as two times more than a standard water heater. and if these rules are finalized, they could force some currently available cheaper energy efficient gas water heaters off the market which will limit consumer choice. i talked with the president of a company making gas water heaters right here in america. watch this. >> we have 450,000 consumers today that buy noncondensing tankless water heaters that come five years won't be able to buy that product anymore, and either have to go down to a less efficient tank or spend more to get to condensing tankless water heater. >> this is the latest appliance to be the target of regulatory mandates. other potential rules at gas stoves, washing machines, air conditioners, refrigerators. 2027 for dishwashers and washing

machines if adopted, 2026 for air conditioners. jacqui. >> jacqui: lydia hu, thanks for that. >> john: and meanwhile, if you saw the "new york times" article last night, china is burning coal at the fastest pace ever and building new coal fired power plants. >> jacqui: this administration obviously wants to walk the walk on green energy and it's one thing to crack down on things like gas stoves and water heaters and refrigerators and what not, until you do something about china and india when it comes to pollution, what difference is it really going to make? >> john: coming for your salt, for your stove, water heater, what's next. case of adding insult to injury, a georgia lowe's employee gets beaten up by a group of shoplifters and then fired tore trying to stop them and it's not the first time something like that has happened in recent months. why are people being punished for trying to do the right thing? leo terrell will be here to sound off.

>> jacqui: more ominous discoveries inside the home of an alleged serial killer. could some of the gilgo beach victims have been killed inside the suspect's house? nancy grace is here to explain next. >> still a lot of recovery we have to do inside the house and other parts we are going to go through the next um could of addition. . or push through the pain and symptoms? with ubrelvy, there's another option. one dose works fast to eliminate migraine pain.

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there's not a soundproof room. there is a vault where we secured numerous amount of guns. >> jacqui: police giving an update about the ongoing search in the suspected gilgo beach killer's home. they believe they found a vault where the suspect stored several guns and are investigating whether the victims were ever in

the home. nancy grace, crime stories on fox nation and all things like this, nancy, the information got out, a secret room, turns out to be a vault, what does it tell you the police are looking for in terms of how this room was used? >> the police are referring to it as a misinterpretation like cross wires. according to a colleague of rex heuermann's, he had a room specifically built in his basement that was cement, reinforced, cement poured in around it. that even his wife was not allowed to enter. whether it's called a vault or a soundproof room, in my mind, irrelevant. what is relevant is what, if any, evidence is found in that locked room. i understand that the back porch, the deck as many are calling it is being torn apart, tile by tile, and very

interesting they have brought out ground penetrating sonar. a few weeks ago i was working with that myself on a cold case and what it does is it kind of does an x-ray of sorts, what it looks like, or ultrasound of the earth in his back yard to determine if it has been disturbed, in other words, anything buried there. not just a body, but souvenirs, body parts, bones, that is what they are looking for now. they are excavating the entire back yard and got their sights on vegas, south carolina, and now atlantic city in similar case where bodies were found close together. >> john: nancy, when we heard about the soundproof room as it was reported, seemed to be entering "silence of the lambs" territory but all the searching they are doing around the house there is still suggestive of that sort of macabre serial killer. what the sheriff said about the

potential that some of these crimes or maybe even just one of these crimes was committed inside the home. listen here. >> we do know that when his family was away was when he committed these crimes. the fact any of these crimes were committed in the home i do not have any evidence nor have i spoken to any members on the task force that do. >> john: he says nothing is suggest anyone was killed inside the home and we have asked the question, didn't the wife or family members notice anything, but if he committed all of these crimes, allegedly, when the family or the wife was out of town, maybe that would give us an indication she was in the dark about all of this. what do you think? >> they don't have any evidence that these crimes were committed in his home, then why are they tearing apart the back deck and excavating the back yard, all right? you don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure that out. they think activity, criminal

activity happened in the home. i don't care what he said in front of the camera. they are tearing the house apart down to the studs looking for evidence. and his wife's hair was found on three of the victims. i'm not suggesting she took part in this, because i don't believe she did. but her hair was transferred to one of thewe now know that torture porn has been found

in the home. the point of that is to derive satisfaction from hurting someone else. and i believe that took place in a room of some sort. >> jacqui: speaking of motive and drive your satisfaction from, the btk killer wrote to fox, he says he's got some similarities to the suspect here, says i was arrested age 59, married, two kids, husband, dad, long time serial killer, stalker, lives in a neighborhood undetected, dna and electronics his down fall much like me and the sheriff also weighed in on the suspect's personality, tell you what he said as well. >> he seems like he is -- his personality is one that he wants to dominate. he's an extremely, extremely large man, not only in height but also in weight. and i can see just from the few visits that i've had with him that he could be not only an imposing or intimidating figure

to women. >> jacqui: you see the similarities there, and why do you think the btk killer would want to inject his name in all of this? >> number one, btk, shut your pie hole. i've heard enough of you. you have a serial don't want to. sadly what he said does compare to rex heuermann. heuermann is intimidating, he's about 6'4", weighs about 260 to 280 and described as looking like an ogre. that's very disturbing. but can i tell you something interesting? when cops arrest him on the street outside of his manhattan architecture building, he was meek and mild as a lamb. he said why? that's all he said. because finally he was up against someone that wasn't smaller or weaker than him. he likes to torture people, he likes to see people hurt. we saw a picture taken out of a

painting out of his home of a woman with black eyes. his torture porn is vile. no other way to describe it. that's what he's into. and it fits hand in glove with these murders. >> john: all right, dennis rader take note, nancy grace has spoken. shut your pie hole. nancy, always great to see you. russia unleashes a barrage of drone attacks on key ukrainian grain warehouses. putin says ukraine's counteroffensive has failed. where does the war actually stand right now? retired general keith kellogg breaks it down for us. >> jacqui: curriculum -- california has a new curriculum. >> the research is wrong and not allowing students good at math to get ahead.

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>> john: fox news alert, police in massachusetts say they have recovered a body off the coast of martha's vineyard, the body of a missing paddleboarder who was seen struggling in the water yesterday, reports are circulating the initial 911 call about the missing man came from the home of former president obama. alexis mcadams has breaking details from our new york city newsroom. what do we know? >> good afternoon. we are trying to confirm if that 911 call did come in fact from former president barack obama's home on martha's vineyard, but what we know so far. we can tell you a 43-year-old paddleboarder spotted struggling before he went underwater never came back up, and not far from president barack obama's estate on martha's vineyard where the investigation is going down. so massachusetts state police tell us before 8:00 on sunday night authorities responded to a

911 call about an adult male paddleboarder had gone into the water without a life vest, submerged and did not come back to the surface. we are trying to figure out who made the 911 call and who the man is. but authorities, john, are saying they are withholding his identity, trying to also get in contact with family members, usually how the process goes here. fox news has reached out to a spokesperson for the obama family whether or not the 911 call did come from martha's vineyard and their home but they have not responded. a lot of unanswered questions, we are trying to figure it all out. they did recover the body this morning around 10:00, they had coast guard out there and lots of authorities and locals are watching this investigation closely, john. >> john: it's a shame that the person ended up dead. all right. alexis, thank you for that.

>> jacqui: california has adopted a statewide math curriculum, focuses on social justice and equity but critics are calling it woke math. william, what do you have on this? >> jacqui, the state says they are trying to make math more approachable to more students. critics say they water it down and will put students years behind those, say, in singapore, because making math easier does not make for better student outcomes, especially among the high achieving students aspiring to get into medicine or computer science. the new curriculum instructs k-12 for social awareness and equity in math class, insulting, immoral and foolish to replace 'rithmetic with an endless river of fads, insert justice and

environmental -- >> math should be about calculating, not politics, political indoctrination or turning children into activists. >> it encourages teaches to take a justice oriented math, and substitutes algebra 2 with data science, also pushes algebra 1 from 8th to 9th grade, prevents students from taking calculus as a senior as required for college stem classes. >> this will not prepare students for courses in math or computer science at u.c. berkeley or stanford, or really any of the strong colleges. >> california's education board declined an interview request but said the new approach

provided new opportunities for those who need more assistance to catch up and surge ahead. jacqui. >> jacqui: all right, william, thanks so much. john. >> john: jacqui, russian missiles blasting ukrainian ports along the danube river, delivering a major blow to a key export route to kyiv. the latest round of drone attacks on odesa infrastructure. keith kellogg, southwest of odesa but a major export port for grain, and russia said because of ukraine's attacks we are going to pull out of the grain deal but the town they have been attacking is literally across from romania, which is a nato ally. >> john, thanks for having me. ukraine, a ferry site and we are talking 200 meters between romania and ukraine, and those,

we went right past the grain sites they are talking they hit right on the river. you load them on there. so they have escalated this, the russians are starting to escalate more and more and those are not really legitimate targets. what you are starting to see is russians continue to push and push and i don't think the counteroffensive for ukraine is going well. that should be a concern for everybody. we talked on the set about them not having the means to prosecute an attack. the ukrainians. because they don't have close air support and it has proven time and time again that's not the case. and when you look at what the defense structure the rush -- russians have, they need 3 to 1 for that.enter the russians are seeing this, putting pressure on the ukrainians in the grain area, looking at a whole way of pushing offensive measures against ukraine, push them into hopefully a position of them for negotiation. >> jacqui: and the ukrainians

have been needing to close the sky since the beginning of the war, and wanting f-16s, and antony blinken gave background on why they have not come forward with that yet. listen to what he said. >> it's not just the equipment itself, it's the training, it's the maintenance, the ability to use it in combined arms operations. all of that takes time. if a decision were made to actually move forward on the f-16s tomorrow, it would be months and months before they were actually operational. >> jacqui: the u.s. also dragged their feet on patriots. why with f-16s too? >> the war has crested 500 days. if it takes months and months, they could have done that, to take a normal pilot, take a pilot and train him in a new aircraft, the most is six months. a year training for a brand-new airplane like the f-16 but still the wrong airplane. when you've got fast movers,

f-16, you want attack aircraft like the a-10 to help do it. and by not giving them closer support, we have marginalized their ability to penetrate and over the long-term, domestic -- >> and paramount plus has a new show, zoe saldana, nicole kidman, morgan freeman, all about a cia agent, a woman, seems to be able to do it all. watch this. >> are you close? >> closer than we have ever been. >> you up for playing outside the lines? >> ready to do my job ma'am. >> if your cover is blown, there is no saving you, you have to save yourself. >> do it quiet and you do it clean. >> be careful poking that bear

or the target will be on you. >> john: ok, same guy that did "yellowstone" but variety magazine sees it unabashed work of military propaganda positions the united states armed forceses a the strong who protect the weak. a group that apparently includes the entire middle east as well as vulnerable members of u.s. society. get you to weigh in. >> look, i've been involved in the special operations almost my entire military career and holiday has nothing on the white house and real activities, and the men and women in the special operations see this program, the cia and special ops, it's a tough business, a hard business and those people are american heroes. one thing you can't fake in life. you can't fake bravery and when i look at the special operations community and look at that series, a few things. one, realistic is the kit they wear, yes. the language they use real, yes. is the actual events that you saw in the opening program last

night real, the answer is yes. so, this is one of those -- tell hollywood or variety, go sit in the back seat, give great credit to the men and women in the cia, it's hard, dirty in the shadows and real. >> you wonder if a review like that hurts long-term aid for ukraine. >> sandra: and militarily recruiting, too. i have a suggestion for the reviewers, get in the back seat, get in the back seat of a hummer in a war zone and then write about it. >> yes. >> john: always great to see you. >> jacqui: hottest week of summer ahead, 250 million americans facing heat alerts or advisories in the days ahead. so, how dangerous could it get, plus this. >> i wish the rest of the states would do the same thing or the policies would change in the federal government itself.

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every summer. why don't people learn? >> john: i didn't know you could lock your keys inside your car these days. >> i guess it depends how old the car is. the electronic cars, it goes beep beep. >> thank goodness someone was able to break the windshield or a death on their hands. >> john: hot temperatures baking parts of the west, max gordon from venice beach in los angeles, i took a sneak peek, it's a beautiful day. >> yes, it absolutely is. temperatures only expected to get into the mid 70s here, a little bit of cloud cover, this is where folks are coming to beat the heat. take a listen to some people we talked to who were happy they were not experiencing the brunt of the heat wave. >> it was 118 in here, and it's 70, i'm not great at math, but

probably something like 40, 50, 60° difference, i don't know. literally like saudi arabia over there, you know what i'm saying, and over here it's like a little slice of paradise. >> perfect conditions for any sport. so i'm going to go shoot hoops. and then i'll play some football and then do all these things and it won't be too hot. >> it's really a different story inland and across the country. about six hours in phoenix, the city continues the record streak of days at 110° and above. now tallying 24 consecutive 110 plus days. according to the fox forecast center, more than 37 million people reached the triple digits on sunday, 110 or higher. in southern nevada, two hikers were found dead over the weekend. temperatures there hit 114 on saturday. excessive heat warnings and heat advisories in effect across the

west and southern tiers of the u.s. officials telling people if they don't have to be out in the mid heat of the day, be inside of the a.c., hydrate and wear loose, light clothing. back to you. >> john: got to love venice beach. max, thank you. keep it cool. >> jacqui: another case of getting fired for fighting crime. a georgia woman let go from her job after trying to stop a group of shoplifters. why does this keep happening to employees trying to do the right thing? leo terrell is on deck. >> john: and one of the biggest blockbuster weekends in years at movie theaters across america. should the studios be concerned that their biggest overseas audience is reacting with a collective shrug? could wokeness in the movies be to blame for chinese audiences not coming to the theater? charlie arnold is here to talk about that.

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>> jacqui: long time lowe's employee says she was fired after she confronted shoplifters who walked out with over two

grand of merchandise from a georgia location. 68-year-old can donna hansbroe says one of the thieves punched her in the face three times leaving her with a black eye. >> i love my job, loved. i enjoyed working with the people i worked with. i enjoyed helping the customers. i enjoyed everything about it. it was -- you know how you have your perfect job, that was mine. >> jacqui: leo terrell, you hear this woman who thought she was doing the right thing, she gets a black eye for it, and she loses the job that she loves. you understand that these corporations might not want their employees to intervene, liability reasons or whatever, but to fire her? what's your take? >> thank you, jacqui. makes no sense to fire this employee for doing the right thing. lowe's took the wrong action and sends the wrong message.

encourages people to steal and deters the employees from doing the right thing. what you have are encouraging employees to ignore a problem. also will encourage criminals to even commit more crime. and the issue as you said about lawsuits. they are going to sue anyway if they are going to sue. lawsuits are always going to be filed regardless. but this case should be on a case by case basis, jacqui. this employee should not be terminated for doing the right thing. >> jacqui: could she sue now for being fired? >> it depends on the employment agreement. if she was told getting involved in a criminal activity, stopping a shoplifter would be a terminal offense she was aware. but i'm telling you, jacqui, look at what's going on. homelessness, crime, soft on criminals, defunding the police, democratic policies allowing this type of action. you are basically asking

employees to look the other way and again, people who may not want to commit a crime, they are saying why not. i'm not going to get punished. this makes no sense, jacqui. >> jacqui: to your point, aware of the policy and took action, the policy one might argue is asking her to go against, you know, your natural inclination to stop something when you see something wrong happening and not the first time employees in georgia have been fired for this. i want to show video from may, lululemon shoplifters, ransacking a store, and the ceo ended up talking about why those employees were fired. let's play what he said about that. >> it's only merchandise. they are trained to step back, let the theft occur, there is technology and cameras and working for law enforcement. we have had instances and in other retailers instances where employees step in and are hurt.

>> jacqui: basically arguing they fired those employees who intervened so they can demonstrate they take their policies seriously. what do you think about that? >> jacqui, that's a public relations response. let me tell you right now. the democrats have given this image that the system, the criminal justice system is racist. systemically racist. so afraid, they are afraid to take action against actual criminals and i'll tell you right now, that this employee as you correctly stated, she would have to resist what she believes is morally right and what she's basically being told is don't do the right thing, do the wrong thing and let the criminal steal. it makes no sense, jacqui. >> jacqui: it keeps on happening, i'm sure we will talk to you about it again soon. leo terrell, thanks for being with us. appreciate your time. >> john: a lot of people have a reflex to do the right thing and then they are punished for it. republicans say the white house is changing its tune over

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