college, working the small job is education, it's a trade, a skill, something you build through your family faith and investment in you knowing who you are so you can earn income. what happens when the scaffolding is taken away and no only fans. >> i'm not even going to touch that. >> just hypothetical. >> well, that's going to do it for us, have a blessed weekend. "america reports" now. >> the dam is finally breaking for the bidens. >> devon archer, very close business associate is going to be deposed by the house oversight committee. >> there is reporting in miranda devine's piece he wants to tell the truth, put it out there. >> if he testifies, this is firsthand information. >> john: three days from now, hunter biden's former best friend and business partner devon archer will expose what he says is president biden's involvement in his son's foreign

business deals. >> sandra: archer is now in hiding fearing for his family's safety for going against the bidens. so what will be the political and legal fallout when he does speak. we'll ask karl rove, republican congressman darrell issa and daily mail.com senior reporter coming up. >> unbearable. >> hot. a lot of teas. >> been running the a.c. window unit nonstop. >> we call them the dog days in july and august. >> feels like every summer is hotter and hotter. >> i'm from brazil, it's too hot. >> john: baby, it's not cold outside. americans sweltering in hot weather, excessive heat pushes to the northeast. i'm john roberts in washington and sandra, we made it to friday. you a little earlier than me. >> sandra: good day to find a cold pool, right, for a dip. good to be with you, john.

happy friday. sandra smith in new york. this is "america reports." we are watching this weather coast to coast. right now, roughly 155 million people are under heat alerts. in arizona's maricopa county alone, more than two dozen heat-related deaths. >> john: the extreme weather not only an immediate health risk but the largest electric grid operator in the country has issued an energy emergency alert as the tremendous demand for electricity increases. >> sandra: get right to it with c.b. cotton. it is one of those days you walk outside and stops you in your tracks. you just -- it's tough to move in this kind of heat. >> hi, sandra, that's right. it's getting really hot here in central park and not only is it pretty uncomfortable, it's potentially dangerous out here today as millions of americans face another day of heat alerts. from southern california to the east coast, record breaking

temps. the heat extremes gave way to some dangerous thunderstorms overnight in the northeast, trees and power lines were knocked down and as clean-up continues, air conditioners, you bet, will stay in overdrive, causing concerns about whether power grids can provide enough electricity. the nation's largest electric grid operator, serves the bulk of the east coast and midwest, issued an emergency alert with demand expected to peak today. in new york, people are being asked to set air-conditioner units to 78° or the lowest of the cool settings. >> oppressive, can't get a good breath. >> i could not agree more and sandra, you mentioned the oppressive heat happening in the southwest and phoenix, some good news, people there could get some much needed relief. the national weather service predicting rain in the upcoming forecast. back to you. >> sandra: c.b. cotton live in new york's central park. thank you. >> john: it is hot out there in

just a few minutes, president biden will try to shift the focus from the investigations into his family to his economic agenda by selling bidenomics to voters in maine. trying to turn the page after a bombshell court hearing for his son hunter and impeachment inquiry into him looms in the background. karl rove, former white house deputy chief of staff and fox news contributor. the president tried to change the subject but after what happened with the plea deal and what we learned from the plea deal that's a big hill for him to try to climb. >> absolutely. the president does have a big bully pulpit but this is a big issue and will not go away quickly. republicans have to be very careful about this. we saw the political impact of overreach in 1998 where all the attacks on bill clinton resulted in the democrats gaining seats in the midterm election, not losing seats. and similarly, if the republicans overreach on this,

that is to say jump to conclusions too quickly without a lot of evidence being built up to support those conclusions it could be hurtful to them in the 2024 presidential race. >> john: the flip side of the coin is the department of justice is going after the president so hard, i mean, do the two things kind of cancel each other out? >> well, to some degree they do, they cause both sides to sort of go to their corners. but my point about the biden -- the talk about a biden impeachment is it's premature. we need to know more, we need to hear from devon archer, even if he makes accusations about president biden we need to make sure that those are firmed up and backed up with evidence. we need corroboration, if you will, on these things, the republicans would be better off saying we want to investigate this and get to the bottom of things and pay attention to each of those steps before they start talking to the "i" word. >> john: devon archer expected to give testimony before the

committee on monday. how big do you expect that could be, karl? >> that could be very big. this is his business partner of hunter biden. in january of 2014, devon archer, who is very long standing relationship with the then secretary of state john kerry, sort of a political bag man, close associate of john kerry's and business partner to hunter biden, he goes, devon archer goes on the board of burisma, corrupt ukrainian company and he suggested several months later his business partner, hunter biden, join the board as well. this is while hunter biden's father, then vice president joe biden, is in charge of the obama administration's efforts to encourage ukraine to crack down on corruption and his son has just gone on the board of one of the big targets of the corruption efforts in ukraine, a company whose ceo was forced to flee the country and go into exile in dubai because the authorities wanted to get ahold

of him and talk to him about the corrupt practices burisma was involved in. >> john: karl, i mentioned we learned a lot reading through the plea deal. you also learn a lot of the transcript of the court proceeding, including how much money hunter biden made from his business dealings with china, which stands in sharp contradiction to this moment from the 2020 debate when president biden said this. he said my son has not made money in terms of this thing about what are you talking about china. the only guy who made money from china is this guy, points to donald trump. he's the only one, nobody else has made money from china. that statement, karl, did not have the added benefit of being true, and the president has said a lot of things about hunter biden, including i never talked to him about his dealings, and now the white house is saying the president was never in business with his son. does biden have statements

coming back to bite him as the election campaign really gets underway? >> oh, absolutely. and amazing one, i never talked to my son about his business dealings. first of all, i don't believe that. but if it's true, that's even more damning in a way. he should have been talking to his son. he should have said to his son i heard you joined the board of this company in ukraine, you have no background in ukraine, no background in corporate governance and nothing in energy, what this company is all about and besides that, it's a corrupt company we are encouraging the ukrainian government to crack down on, son you need to get off the board. he had to have known about it, it was a public issue, made public in may with a news release and coverage in this country that if the vice president did not talk to his son is damning. i mean, it's like go do anything you want to use the name biden to enrich yourself, i'm not going to bother telling you if it's a bad idea, that's horrific. and remember this, the

investigation of hunter biden was delayed, we now know, by the whistleblowers, so long that hunter biden did not have to pay back taxes on his earnings in 2014 and 2015 from burisma so he gets to pocket some of the cash from the corrupt ukrainian company because of the statute of limitations had run out on his failure to pay taxes on it. but yeah, president biden made a misstatement in that debate, whether it was deliberate or not, it was inaccurate and made other statements like i've never talked to my son about his business dealings, troubling if true, and troubling if not true. >> john: next week is going to kick off with a bang, karl. hope you make it through the weekend and have a good one. thanks for joining us today, appreciate it. >> i'll be on fox news sunday, it will be a good one. >> sandra: we are going to have josh boswell, senior reporter for dailymail.com, and darrell issa, california congressman

will also join us coming up on that. john, a lot of breaking news there, and a preview of what we are going to hear early next week. >> john: and looking forward to all of that ahead right here on a friday edition of "america reports." >> sandra: you feeling it yet? okay. a california criminal so notorious he's earned a nickname, slithering his way into more than 50 businesses to steal from them. after just a few months in prison he is back on the street. why his victims worry the snake burglar will strike again. plus this. >> devon archer, hunter's business partner is getting ready to tell the house of representatives that joe biden dozens of times talked with hunter. >> john: lawmakers gearing up to hear from hunter biden's former business partner. who exactly is devon archer and what might he tell them. josh boswell reports archer has been in hiding over what he has to say to congress. he joins us coming up next.

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>> john: former president donald trump is facing three new charges in the classified documents case. special counsel jack smith's updated indictment accuses the 2024 republican front-runner of trying to erase mar-a-lago security footage to keep it out of the hands of the grand jury. national correspondent griff jenkins is live outside the u.s. district court in watch and griff, have we had any reaction to the former president to the new charges? >> john, good afternoon. we sure have, he spent much of his friday lashing out on truth social with multiple posts not taking these charges lightly. here is a little bit of what he's been writing. this "at the direction of

crooked joe biden and his weaponized doj, deranged jack smith is attempting to destroy the lives of two fine people who have worked for me and done a great job for a long time. they are being persecuted with one goal, to get trump." now this comes after jack smith added three new charges for trump, two ob junction of justice charges that relate to alleged efforts to have video footage deleted and one charge for willful retention of national defense information pertaining to what sources have confirmed to fox news is a highly classified iran war document. smith also adding a new defendant in the case, carlos dellavera, the property manager at mar-a-lago, charged in the video deletion as well as charges for making false statements to the fbi. one interest exchange pertaining to the video, on page 29, he allegedly told an unidentified mar-a-lago employee the boss wanted the server deleted and

the employee responded he did not know how to do that and does not believe he had the right to do so. it's unclear whether or not that employee in the indictment is cooperating with jack smith's team. meanwhile, we are outside the federal courthouse here in d.c., we have been watching this grand jury that's been looking into the january 6th and 2020 election interference, they have not shown up today, they are not meeting as far as we can tell right now. so, no new movements but of course we have the indications we might have seen it yesterday after smith's team met with trump's lawyers, but no new details right now. if we get them, we will bring them to you as soon as we get it. john, send it back to you. >> all right, griff, is it hot out there? >> it's funny you asked, right before we went on, it's 96 here and i asked nick coleman my producer, what's the real feel? he said 106. so we are going to get out of this heat and try and get in the sat truck. >> john: all right, god bless you, griff. thanks. see you soon. sandra. >> 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. >> i've been asked this question a million times, the answer is not going to change, the president was never in business with his son. >> sandra: the white house continues to shift his narrative on president biden and his son's business dealings but expected to hear a different side of the story when hunter's former business partner goes before congress early next week. devon archer is expected to reveal then vice president biden was in fact tied to his son's foreign business dealings. our next guest is reporting archer is now in hiding and fearing for his safety for what is expected to be bombshell testimony. josh boswell, thanks for joining us. what can you tell us about this? he's had to go in hiding? >> thank you, yes.

so, i've been getting information from sources telling me that devon archer has not been at his new york upstatehouse or his brooklyn townhouse and was "in hiding." you know, other sources have said he's not in hiding but also afraid for his safety, his family's safety that he has received threats ahead of this testimony that he is going to give on monday, and that testimony really could be explosive because devon archer, he had a front row seat to all of hunter biden's overseas business dealings and he is expected to testify that joe biden was directly involved in this. >> sandra: this is just some breaking news we are running on the bottom portion of the screen as a fox news alert, this is just in to us. via "the new york post." the white house has apparently, josh, snubbed gop demand for detail on biden, the president's

knowledge of his son's business dealings. obviously we have seen and heard this shifting narrative coming from the white house over whether or not the president had ever discussed his son's business dealings, the case was always no from the white house, never discussed. that then changed as you heard in the exchange with karine jean-pierre, changed to he's not in business, nor has he ever been in business with his son. well, elise stefanik, james comer, judiciary chair jim jordan, jason smith, they have pressed the white house counsel in a letter, sent july 20th, about national security and ethics implications if the president was involved in any global wheeling and dealing. they have now been snubbed. what is your reaction to that? >> well, my reporting shows that there is a ton of evidence to suggest that joe biden not only knew about and spoke with hunter

about his overseas business dealings but may have actually been involved. just the day before the election, last year, we published a story from an anonymous whistleblower said he was on a conference call with joe biden, he was acting like the chairman of the board of the company dealing with online gambling in latin america. some of the business partners in that have denied it, they said it's a complete fabrication, but this source was saying no, i was on that conference call, joe biden was asking about profits, revenues, and this was while he was vice president. you also have multiple business partners of hunter in the dealings with the chinese, tony, rob walker, both told investigators that joe biden at least spoke with hunter and business partners about the chinese oil deal that hunter was working on, and that's multi-million dollar, $10 million oil deal. you've got hunter biden's texts that were revealed by the irs whistleblowers where he says i'm

sitting right next to my father, joe biden, you know, who we both want you to follow through on this $10 million deal, i'm paraphrasing. >> sandra: yeah. >> a lot of evidence here. >> sandra: on that point of evidence, our own reporter, aishah hasnie had a really interesting exchange with congressman jamie raskin on devon archer's testimony expected early next week, you are saying is in hiding, receiving threats ahead of that. this is a very telling exchange, watch. >> nobody has produced a single iota of evidence suggesting that president biden was involved in any corruption or any criminal -- >> what if devon archer does? >> that would be a different day, of course. >> sandra: that would be a different day. does this testimony change things significantly early next week? >> i think it really has the potential to. because as i said, devon had a front row seat, he would be a

firsthand witness. one of the things i would be asking about is what did you discuss with joe biden when you met with him at the white house, devon archer, days before your board seat on burisma was announced and just before hunter's board seat with burisma, the ukrainian gas company, was announced. i also think it's interesting that there is this repeated narrative here, statements from democrats saying that there is absolutely no evidence. there is plenty of evidence. i would say maybe not proof yet, and i think it would be for a jury or congress to determine truth, but there is plenty of evidence that joe was involved in hunter's business dealings, we just need to find out for sure whether we can prove that. >> sandra: well, elise stefanik is vowing to continue on saying the administration's continued stonewalling of the republican investigations into the biden family influence peddling scheme and biden's involvement will not deter us.

we will leave no stone unturned and use every stone to deliver accountability. >> john: concerns on capitol hill over aging and ill lawmakers, like this moment with sen senator diane feinstein. >> just say aye. >> it comes after senator minority leader mitch mcconnell froze during a news conference. should lawmakers step aside with age or poor health. >> sandra: and the economy, will that rev up his campaign? david and richard are revved up and will join us next. ( ♪ ) can't stop adding stuff to your cart? get the bank of america customized cash rewards card, choose the online shopping category and earn 3% cash back.

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>> sandra: all right. a few hours from now, gop

presidential candidates will be sharing the stage in des moines, iowa, speaking at the annual lincoln dinner. david and richard on governor desantis shift in messaging and whether it will rev up his campaign. but bill live from des moines, a chance to see some of the candidates together for the first time. >> sandra, good afternoon to you. the very first time during this campaign cycle that all of these gop candidates are going to be in the same room, the same location together. now, obviously some of them have been very critical of each other, now they are going to get a chance to come face-to-face. what's going on tonight, take a look at this, all the candidates, more than a dozen of them will be here in des moines for the annual lincoln dinner, hosted by the republican party of iowa. it happens every year. chris christie will not be here. each candidate is going to get ten minutes on stage to talk to the audience and make their pitch to voters.

now at the same time, vice president kamala harris is also here in des moines, meeting with activists about abortion rights and abortion legislation. she is strongly criticized florida in recent days for the new curriculum on black history, which teaches that some slaves benefitted from slavery because it taught them useful skills. now, she's not alone. gop presidential candidate tim scott, the only black republican in the senate also on the campaign trail in iowa, he also rebuked governor desantis and the state of florida for the new standards. take a listen. >> slavery was really about separating families, about mutilating humans, and depraving their lives. it's devastating. so i would hope that every person in our country and certainly the president would appreciate that. >> it doesn't stop there. florida gop congressman byron donalds who has endorsed donald

trump also criticized, saying the new african american standards are good, robust and accurate. that being said, the attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong and needs to be adjusted. that obviously was not the goal and i have faith the florida department of education will correct this. florida governor desantis here in iowa, he responded to congressman donalds while on the campaign trail. >> at the end of the day you have to choose, are you going to side with kamala harris and liberal media outlets, or side with the state of florida and i think it's very clear that these guys did a good job on the standards. don't side with kamala on that, stand up for your state. >> and again, former president donald trump will also be in attendance, a rivalry with governor desantis, and tim scott criticizing desantis, and

possibly some drama when the candidates come face-to-face. doors will open at 4:00 p.m. local time and we'll be here for the coverage. >> sandra: that would be some moments. john. >> john: governor desantis's focus has mainly been on culture wars, but next week travel to new hampshire to unveil his economic agenda. for more on this, david avella and richard, the spat between byron donalds and ron desantis. donalds is saying he likes the new standards but obviously it needs some adjustment. desantis is saying who are you going to side with, kamala harris or the state. your take. >> one, i have read the new standards, all 216 pages. and also on capitol hill yesterday to a press conference held by the congressional black caucus and i don't think this is a partisan issue. i think it's a clear line in the sand whether or not slaves benefitted from enslavement and

call a spade a spade. enslavement was not a trade school where you to be a blacksmith or shoe maker or farmer, people were taken from their home countries, brought to the united states, raped, mutilated, brutalized and happened for 400 years compounded, and for you to say that people benefitted is not only ridiculous, it's outrageous. the fact that donalds and kamala harris and scott are on the same page -- >> john: the one point they are on the same page. not on the same page with the overall standards, though. >> byron donalds hit it well. the standards are moving in the right direction. that doesn't mean there doesn't mean to be tweaks to it and corrected. >> john: for desantis to say you are going to side with the state or with kamala. >> it's a misstep on his part, frankly, but you see the desantis campaign and message adjustments in august are fine,

desperation in december, and why you see him next week going and moving to his economic message. >> john: what the wall street journal said about all of that, particularly after ron desantis had to get rid of 38 staffers from his campaign in a reboot to make it leaner and meaner. said the florida governor can still decide to run as the successful executive he is, the governor can't beat mr. trump by running as a more competent sane version of trump. he has to offer voters something better. he's been fighting the culture wars battle, the central plank of his campaign. now pivoting to the economy. that a recipe for a reboot? >> i disagree today -- must be outside -- >> the heat. >> and here is the reason why i agree with them in the moment. if you zoom out, to run the united states you have to engage in more than just culture wars. you have to create a governing

vision speaks to the economics, social issues and foreign policy and you'll you have seen governor desantis do is social issues with glittered headlines but not actually shown how he will govern the country. the slavery is one example, don't say gay bill, parental rights is another example, six week abortion ban is another example of things he would do that says oh, wow, this sounds cool and interesting, now people are asking, can he run the biggest corporation in the world, the united states federal government and there are questions on that. >> is it good to pivot for the economy for him? >> absolutely. campaigns are not overly complicated as you know. desantis is wise in a state where it is seeing some of the biggest influx of americans moving to because of the quality of life that you can have, because of the job opportunities you can have, because of the life you can have in florida, as governor policies that he has helped put in place that have led to that and he should be talking about that.

you know, we often forget about 2016 and 1 of the reasons why trump went so fast to quickly in raising up in the polls was because he says look, i'm a businessman and i know how to create jobs, and republicans said yeah, we like that. f for desantis he can say i'm a governor that created one of the most strongest economies in the country. >> i think david is right. and florida has the highest level of inflation in the country, talk about an economic record, yes, job growth and construction booms in florida but also record inflation in that state as well. how does your governing doctrine deal with inflation in a world your state has the highest. >> john: it's something we need to know about, inflation is bad right now. i wanted to get to the aging politicians but they are not getting any younger, an opportunity to talk about that in the future. great to see you, gentlemen.

have a great weekend. >> sandra: thank you, gentlemen. a serial burglar is accused of slithering into several businesses and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stuff. >> he didn't even break a window. just took a window out and then just like an army crawl, crawling through there to not hit your motion sensors. >> sandra: bizarre. repeat offender is walking free. the details on that for you next. >> john: walking free or crawling free? to be determined. it turns out that some of those scientists who published a paper dismissing the covid lab leak theory actually weren't convinced of that conclusion. that's according to emails subpoenaed and released by a house committee. dr. marty makary is here and he joins us on that coming up next. putting a lot of purchases on your credit cards. those balances can sneak up fast. even worse,

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>> sandra: all right, california soft on crime policy is back in the spotlight after a man known as the snake burglar pleads guilty to more than 50 felonies and walks free. the suspect earning the nickname for trying to slither along the floor of the places he robbed to avoid detection. matt is on this for us live in los angeles. what exactly is going on here? >> well, sandra, here in southern california that career criminal was considered so sly he was dubbed the snake burglar and was linked to more than 70 commercial burglaries. he pleaded guilty to 54 counts of felony burglary and yet he will not go to prison. 32-year-old christopher michael jackson was convicted of stealing from restaurants, health clinics, medical offices and beauty salons in riverside and marino valley.

he got his name the snake burglar, after breaking into the businesses he would crawl on his stomach to avoid detection and alarms. yesterday he was sentenced to just seven months in jail but he was released because of the nonviolent nature of his crimes and the time served since he was arrested. riverside district attorney is outraged, blaming california's soft on crime laws, prop 47 and ab109, writing it is unconscionable a habitable offender can steal hundreds of thousands of dollars admit to it and serve less time in jail than it will take the hundreds of victims to recoop losses. a restaurant owner went to the sentencing to give an victim statement. >> what's going to stop from escalating something and breaking into somebody's house and hurting my wife or

11-year-old daughter. i asked who is responsible for this. >> 12 years of mandatory supervision and ordered to pay back at least $150,000 to vice victims. right now he is essentially a free man, sandra. >> sandra: matt, thank you. >> john: even celebrities are not immune to travel woes, dak shepherd and kristin bell, on the airport floor. >> sandra: college campuses preparing for rush week. stacy is joining us on how some sorority hopefuls are trying to get ahead of the competition. you could save $700 dollars just by switching. ooooh, let me put a reminder on my phone. on the top of the pile! oh. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ i brought in ensure max protein

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>> john: a quick look at auburn, maine, just north of portland where president biden is touting what he says are the benefits of his bidenomics plan. this as the economy continues to grow at a respectable rate, just over 2%, but inflation remains stubbornly high. if he makes any news, we will bring it to you toot sweet. sandra.

>> you have to know how to play it. because greek life is everything at alabama. >> sandra: just a couple days away from greek life recruitment tradition, known as rush week, competitions so intense families are shelling out thousands of dollars for their daughters to get into their sorority. why are parents feeling they need to spend this kind of money to get their daughters into the right sorority? >> that is a great question. the process itself, sorority recruitment has significantly evolved from what it once was. you know, now especially after covid when all of these additional assignments have been included with registration, these girls aren't just showing up looking cute and smiling, they are preparing a year to six

months in advance, gathering over 30, 3-0 letters of recommendation, creating social resumes, writing college admission style essays, short answers, and even having to send in recorded videos of themself months before. >> sandra: wow, that is remarkable. looking at this video on the screen, it certainly has gone viral on tiktok. some of these recruitments at some top sorority houses, that clearly is a delta gamma house there. the wall street journal has taken this up, saying it's a booming business, and how rigorous the applications are, getting into sororities are nearly as competent as acceptance to top universities. write essays, give grade point average and whether they did volunteer work or played high school sports. women submit application packets with as many as 30 letters of recommendation. i don't know, i thought this was supposed to be sort of a fun

group of people you find your people, sometimes it's the brainier group, sometimes the more social groups. i had evelyn gray on the program this morning, lsu student, a sorority member. i asked her was the high price of doing this, was it worth it? she said this. >> she just helped get me through the recruitment process with all the ups and downs that come with it. i have really found where i belong and found my people which has been amazing. >> sandra: so she was a happy customer. are you finding most are when they spend this kind of money? >> you know, greek life provides preparing for the process provides an invaluable set of transferable skills. greek life is just the enter point, to college and then professional careers. this is often the first time girls learn to network, prepare a resume, and learn how to market themselves, which can be used long into your professional

life. >> sandra: all right. very interesting stuff, just learning the number of applicants soaring 125,000 women, 20, 25% quit or not accepted at all. i guess this is parents in this day and age doing just about anything they can to make their kids happy. i don't know. i love the recruitment process, you learn a lot about yourself and who you want to surround yourself with, not for everybody. interesting story. >> thank you for having me. >> john: fox news alert, calls growing for a special counsel in the hunter biden investigation, this time from an irs whistleblower in a brand-new op-ed. we will ask what california congressman darrell issa thinks about that coming up next. >> sandra: teachers quitting and hundreds of liberal parents outraged after an oregon archbishop asked students to use named and pronouns assigned at birth. >> in fact, it's cruel for

teachers and parents to allow their children in this time of seeking and searching to go down this path.

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>> sandra: fox news alert, we are watching the president, speaking right now in maine. he's delivering a speech on bidenomics. he's touting his economic policies, claiming they are working. he can make the case that we are seeing some steady growth, that is indeed happening. for the first time while touting wages up added after being adjusted for inflation, which is interesting. he has been fact checked, fact checked multiple times on claims that wages are up because they are not, real wages are down 3% since this president took office, ok. at this time kamala harris just spoke in iowa, john, and she just made the claim that most americans can't afford a $400 surprise expense right now.

that seemed to be in direct conflict with the economic message this president is delivering at the podium in maine, pointing that out, and also this speech on the economy is coming on a day where gas prices are hitting an eight-month high, oil prices are topping $80 a barrel, and larry summers is claiming that bidenomics may be worse for inflation saying it's increasingly dangerous talking about the president just a few moments ago, was talking about ending these trade agreements with foreign countries and bringing that manufacturing back to america. larry summers who worked under the obama administration saying it could be extremely danigerou, and prices up 16% since biden took office. >> john: interesting contradiction in messages coming from the number one and number two on the ticket. the white house needs to get on

the same page. people are still wondering if he would indeed not pardon his son if he gets popped for something more than a misdemeanor. meantime, gender identity guidelines sparking outrage at some catholic schools in oregon. critics pushing back after the archbishop of oregon called for students to use names, pronouns and bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth. details on this developing story, dan. >> yeah, john, this is becoming a hot button issue, even in catholic schools where attendance is completely voluntary and even costs you some money. the controversial guidelines issued by the bishop in portland include names, pronouns, facilities used, attire and sports participation should depend on biological sex identity rather than self-perceived gender identity. after issuing the guidance in 17 page letter, the bishop

temporarily closed the three person catholic schools department giving him and the parish priests more direct oversight. some catholics are supported but also a widespread backlash. signed a letter supporting transgender students, some teachers and students say they will not be back in the fall and who principals quit, including the one at the madline school where the pastor agreed with the stance. >> the document doesn't affirm the preciousness of every child. it doesn't go hand-in-hand with our mission statement all are welcome. >> but being welcoming through social affirmation is at odds with the church doctrine. here is what pope francis said in march, gender ideology today is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations and blurs differences and value of men and women. church scholars tend to agree with the guidelines. >> w