homes. it makes it difficult for millennials and first time home buyers to get into the market. we have a stalemate. things not getting better now that rates keep going up. >> bill: there is a developing story with long-reaching repercussions. good to have you on it from new jersey. going to become an election issue coming up to campaign season. >> gillian: we bought our house five years ago and my husband is like we're never moving, gillian, never. >> bill: smart man maybe, right? hour two starts now and we have a high stakes court appearance for the man accused of murdering four college students in idaho last november. this story is brutal. the defense asking for more information about genetic evidence and how it was used to identify potential suspects. also pointing to possible problems with the grand jury. going to watch every twist and turn on this. good morning, everybody. it's friday. welcome. dana has the day off. i'm bill hemmer and we welcome

our colleague out of washington, d.c. >> gillian: good to be here. five degrees cooler than d.c. i'm glad to be here. i'm gillian turner. lawyers from brian kohberger are seeking a trial delay slated to start in october. he is charged with four counts of first degree murder as well as felony burglary. defense is claiming he was out driving alone when those four students were murdered. prosecutors say they want details including specific places he claims to have been at the time of the murders and witnesses to back up his alibi. >> bill: nancy grace joins us for a deeper dive into the hearing and the evidence and what she expects but first to the story and news and dan springer outside the courthouse in moscow, idaho. >> brian kohberger has been at the other pre-trial motion hearings and expect him to be in court today six weeks before the start of his murder trial. a lot of loose ends in the case to tie up before this thing can

go to trial. his defense lawyers are going to ask the judge for a stay to delay the trial while they attempt to challenge the grand jury indictment. they allege the prosecution made a series of errors when instructing the grand juries. one of the jurors checked a box she didn't understand english. prosecutors say it was a mistake and she filled out the form and participated. the defense says the standard of guilt was too low arguing they should have been required to find kohberger guilty beyond a reasonable doubt instead of probable cause that he committed the murders. the other big issue involves how the police handled dna evidence and how they used investigative again et he can genealogy to identify kohberger as their suspect. defense lawyers are asking for all the genealogy material to be turned over in discovery. in her motion the lead attorney wrote it remains unclear what the police first relied on in focusing their investigation on

mr. kohberger through the lack of disclosure and motion to protect genetic genealogy investigation the state the hiding its entire case. the prosecution said if defendant wishes to explore the theory his dna was planted on the knife sheath he is free to do so. the family tree created by the f.b.i. has no relevance to that theory. we're not anticipating that the judge will make a ruling today on the five motions that he will hear but you know, bill, this has to be resolved soon. the clock is ticking on this trial supposed to start october 2nd. a lot of people think it will be delayed from that start date. >> bill: dan springer from moscow, idaho. nancy grace coming up shortly. >> gillian: president biden is touting his own policies lately specifically bidenomics. he insists it is working. high grocery stores costs have a lot of americans telling pollsters now they are less than thrilled with the national economy. more than half of voters in the

latest fox poll say grocery prices are a problem for them. what exactly is the president bragging about? utilities straining family budgets and a lot of voters say the president and his policies are to blame for that. let's bring in alexis mcadams joining us from des moines this hour. hi. >> every voter we talked to on the ground in iowa brings up the economy paying more from everything from groceries to utilities than they ever have before. >> honestly, everything is more expensive. i have three kids and so just getting diapers is really expensive. >> according to these new fox news polls 38% of americans say the economy is the most important problem facing the country. more than half say grocery prices are a major problem followed by gas prices and utility costs. >> gas has gone up just yesterday so it's pretty high.

hard to go places. >> how does that affect everything going on with your day-to-day activities? >> you just don't go as much. >> so 52% of democrats say joe biden has made things better, up from last july. most republicans and majority of independents tell us he has made things worse. that's a 17-point shift coming more from an increasing number of democrats being dissatisfied overall. voter dissatisfaction with the direction of the country dropped by 17 points over the course of joe biden's presidency. 70% are unhappy with how things are going up from 53% who said the same at the 100 day mark of biden's term. according to our polls biden's ratings are nearly identical to former president trump's from four years ago. 43% approved and 56% disapproved of trump. let's go to this. live shots coming in as the fair comes to a close. we see presidential candidate perry johnson on stage in des

moines. one of the last politicians as the fair wraps up. others are moving their campaigns to other state. mike pence out in georgia talking with voters today. back live in iowa we can tell you we expect to hear all the candidates as they continue to cam tan to talk about the economy. such a hot topic for voters. iowa once it all wraps up all eyes shift to milwaukee, wisconsin where we will all watch that debate. >> bill: alexis mcadams in des moines for us. thank you. >> president biden: my grandpa biden who died very young. he died in the hospital i was born in six days before i was there. pittsburgh is a city of bridges. i watched that bridge collapse. he said you travel an average 117 days a year round-trip, 300 miles a day, 36 years that's 1,285,000 miles. >> gillian: a lot of travel. president biden accused once again of making false claims

about his past during a speech earlier in the week if milwaukee. comes as more and more democrats now say they are concerned about his age and fitness to serve a second term. let's bring in "wall street journal" columnist kim strassel and author of the biden malaise. >> great to be here. >> gillian: i will quote you when harry met sally. the democrats are putting forward their weakest nominee in decades. it makes jimmy carter look competent. scathing. >> here is the thing. democrats are making this extraordinary bet if you think about it for a second. they are essentially saying your candidate, meaning donald trump, is worse than our candidate and therefore we will win the election. that is making bets on a couple of things. one, that donald trump is the actual nominee. right now the frontrunner but uncertain that dynamic might not

change. but two, that americans are just going to look past the problems of the biden white house and there are so many if you look at this president in isolation. there is the age question, the economy question, hunter biden and the baggage of that. this is a guy who has a lot of political problems in his own right. yet the party seems unwilling to make a change. >> bill: there was one democrat who is. dean phillips, a democrat from the western suburbs of minneapolis. he said why democrat dean phillips says biden shouldn't run. i felt compelled to raise my voice in the face of what i consider to be an unwillingness to confront the truth right now. god forbid the president has a health episode or something happens in the middle of a primary. he is deep in the minority to your point. >> he is. i thought that was remarkable. he said an unwillingness to confront the truth obviously. we as a nation are looking at this unwillingness of a party and most of the media to confront the fact this is going

to be the oldest president whoever ran for reelect electric. clear mental decline issue. an open topic of conversation with a not great economy for many people. we heard your reporter talking about inflation and gas prices. and here is the thing that democrats have some other people who could certainly step up and win a primary against him or step up if he were to say he is not running again. but nobody wants to do that. it is kind of crazy. >> gillian: it is a bipartisan talking point in washington as we all well know. the guy on the other side of the aisle is not far behind the president. republican frontrunner former president trump. take a look at this, kim. this is what voter feedback about the top reasons why they say they disapprove of the president right now. number one his handling of the economy. number two his policies. number three his age, mental state. number four his dishonesty and

corruption and the last item there on the laundry list is his border and immigration policies. what do you make of that list? >> there is another poll that came out earlier this summer which seven in ten americans who were asked if they thought joe biden was too old to be president and he was not shouldn't be in the job anymore. look, the whole country is looking at this election and the prospect of a biden/trump repeat. trump isn't far behind him in age and a man if reelected would be term limited to just another four years given the constitution. so i think there is an eagerness out there as expressed by representative phillips for new faces and fresh blood. i guess we'll have to see how the dynamics of this play out. on the one side you have a gop primary which people are dividing the vote. on the other side you have an incumbent who won't get out of the way. >> bill: breaking news, too. just in the last 20 minutes or

so we got a ruling in the carol civil trial. the woman accused him of groping and raping her at an apartment store in new york. the civil trial is on the calendar for the 15th of january, a monday. trump's team is trying to get it postponed and the judge denied that request minutes ago. they called the claims frivolous. the 15th of january is the date of the iowa caucus. here we go with a packed calendar. a quick thought. >> this is going to -- you will see this in the other cases brought against him as well. his team is working hard to get those delayed but you will have some judges like this one who say no. i don't see any way donald trump avoids a number of court appearances at the height of the primary and caucus process. >> bill: thank you so much. check out the piece in the "wall street journal." thank you. we'll talk soon. a reminder we host the first

debate wednesday night. bret and martha your moderators out of milwaukee. dana and i will be there. we have the pre-game at 8:30 prior to the big show at 9:00. join us. it will be a big night and we'll learn a lot. what that is we wait to see, right, gillian? >> gillian: everything can turn on a dime. >> bill: yes indeed. >> i think it's true there is a double standard and our justice system is more aggressive in pursuing republicans than democrats. >> bill barr and what republicans call a two-tier system of justice. a special counsel investigating biden's handling of classified documents could bring it closer to balance or not. that's next. >> gillian: overseas sexual extortion plot leading a teenager to take his own life in the u.s. we'll talk with his father ahead. >> bill: the attorney for the

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>> gillian: a summer of special counsels. don't forget about robert hurd investigating president biden's mishandling of classified documents out of the spotlight. details on how that investigation is shaping up. >> it is still ongoing. a source familiar confirms robert hurd was at the justice department yesterday in person for meetings. not where he typically works. not unusual but it is still notable. he is the man looking into the classified documents found at multiple properties connected to

president biden. the penn biden center in d.c. and the president's home in wilmington, delaware. documents were found at his home in his garage near his car prompting these comments back in january. >> the material was in a locked garage. >> president biden: yes, as well as my corvette. but as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. >> the president went on to say he believes that there is really no there there. there are reports that hurd's team is negotiating a sit-down interview with biden signaling the big interview which is usually toward the end of a probe is under negotiation. meanwhile both the president and his son have their own special counsels assigned to them. special counsel david weiss looking into hunter biden following the plea deal that failed last month. may refile misdemeanor tax

vehlations and a felony gun charge in california where hunter biden lives. we reported it on special report. the judge overseeing that failed plea deal in delaware dismissed the tax misdemeanor case. it doesn't mean hunter's problems are over. both sides expected this to happen. special counsel david weiss can bring charges outside of delaware which appears to be what he is looking to do. >> gillian: david spunt. thank you. >> bill: 20 minutes past the hour. the suspect in the idaho college murders back in court today. brian kohberger's lawyers are trying to get a stay in the case. an investigation of possible issues with the grand jury is what they are trying to show today. nancy grace host of crime stories with me now. good day, good morning. a couple things here. let's get to the issue. this is what the prosecution says their evidence is against him all right? you have a knife sheath found inside that house, dna on the

knife sheath, phone ping near the home 12 times. phone ping the home around 9:00 a.m. the next morning and authorities say they can trace his phone near the scene dating back to august. they want a motion to stay the trial, nancy, and they also want a motion to compel prosecutors to share certain evidence. do we know what that evidence is or is it obvious based on the details that i just read there? >> this is what i'm gleaning. the defense has a two-prong attack. one attacking the grand jury indictment. they are claiming that the grand jury was biased and they are claiming that this grand jury was given the incorrect standard of proof by which they were to hand down a true bill. the standard should be probable cause. it is in idaho and many other jurisdictions. the defense wants it to be beyond a reasonable doubt.

that's what that means. look at this. this is probable cause, i need that much evidence. this is beyond reasonable doubt. you need that much evidence. see what i mean? so that is not going to work. forget that. it will be thrown out. that's the first bone of contention. second and much more problematic is the attack on the state's dna evidence. we know that evidence was obtained outside the kohberger's pocono home that matched kohberger's father that indicated the only possible donor of dna on that knife sheath is the biological son of the father. they then went and got a swab out of his mouth and got a one in five october tillian match to brian kohberger. they are fighting that. they want all the names used in that genetic genealogy. think about it. this could include people that

gave their dna. let's pretend 23andme but they never agreed for law enforcement to use it. that's a hypothetical. all these people's names would come out. what if there is someone born out of wedlock and the family secret. that will come out. they want the names and communications about the gathering and the keeping of the dna. let me tell you something, there will be a problem. under the constitution, the defense has a right to all test analysis. that could include all of those people of the genetic family tree. that will be a big problem for all those people. >> bill: i think -- i always come back to the fact he was studying criminology, a masters. if this is the man who committed these awful murder evers he is trying to permit the perfect murder. you studied these type of people for decades now.

can you get inside of his head? >> as a matter of fact, yes, i can. when you do it for year after year after year and you study people like brian kohberger. right now he and his defense attorney are trying to twist up the state. they are trying to delay the proceedings. all the while listen to this, they filed a demand for speedy trial under the constitution. if the state doesn't go forward within a certain amount of weeks, that being october, he could get an outright acquittal okay? yet he is trying to gum up the works by delaying it. he can't have his cake and eat it too. he can't delay the trial and have a speedy trial demand, no. the judge will put the kibosh on that. >> bill: will we get an answer from the judge today, next week? >> i hope we do. briefs were submitted prior to today. usually judges take it under advisement.

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>> bill: new polling on the u.s. education crisis shows that most voters think that schools are neglecting key subjects while pushing woke ideology. mark meredith has the story. what did you find in the numbers? >> good morning. every since the pandemic we've seen an increase in the number of parents speaking out what is being taught in kids' schools. it shows how voters feel what is happening inside america ace classrooms. voters feel not enough time being spent on reading, writing, math, science, the basics. too much time being spent on gender issues, sexual orientation and social issues. perhaps not surprisingly there is a political punch to these polls with republicans most concerned too much time is being spent on sexual orientation and gender issue. independent voters speaking up feeling they're more concerned than democratic voters on the subject. across the country we've seen

concerned parents show up outside school board meetings to define what they think is appropriate for classroom discussions and parents say they are determined to keep speaking out until school boards across the country address their concerns. >> they don't care what parents think or what the vast majority of parents and students think. they are going to cram their ideology down our throats whether we like it or not. >> bill: virginia governor is engaged in a fresh battle with fairfax county schools. it will defy state policies requiring students use a bathroom to corresponds to their sex assigned at birth. a spokesman for the governor's office expects the district to follow virginia's education policies. the district believes it is complying with federal and state anti-discrimination laws. this is a battle that is getting larger by the day. >> nice to see you mark meredith in d.y.

>> gillian: talking about failing the nation's children. the nation's report card is out from the department of education. a growing number of third graders cannot read proficiently. more states are threatening to hold those students back a grade and make them repeat the third grade in order to catch up to their pier peers. let's bring in bill bennett. a national reading crisis it appears to be. experts tell us that reading by the third grade is a crucial benchmark. it's at that age that everybody needs to be able to read in order to do everything else academically, science and math, literature, everything else you start to do around that age. what do you think? >> yes, that's right. third grade is the crucial grade for reading. if you can't read by third grade your life chances diminish dramatically. you are four times more likely than students who can read to go

to prison. dropping out of school is much more likely and so on. reading is the key. the key subject. so states are right, i believe, to have retained students or as we used to say hold students back if they can't read provided they do something constructive with that time. and some states, like mississippi, have done just that. another thing to think about, though, is summer school. if you are not getting it during the regular school year, go to summer school. the tip of the hat to south carolina. if you can keep your schools open in south carolina during the summer, you can keep them open anywhere. and great leadership there in south carolina and mississippi and so we're seeing some improvement. but you have to have the reading under your belt before you move on. >> gillian: it looks like the trend does not get better as kids advance and get older. look at this.

full screen one. this is also out of the nation's report card from the department of education. fourth graders scoring proficient or higher in reading is at now just 33%. that means all those kids are even more -- the kids who cannot read, 77 remaining percent are at higher risk to drop out of high school and end up incarcerated. >> that's 2/3. better to have held them back. we're doing the math as well as reading. we need work in both. anyway, you are absolutely right. but that's true. we've got to correct it. but this doesn't mean holding the kids back it means doing something. doing the science of reading, doing the summer school program and so on. but look, we've seen a general decline over the last years in

education. education performance and parents are angry at schools and we understand why. >> gillian: bill, it's a real serious problem. we'll keep tracking it and hope you keep coming back to break it down for us. we appreciate your time. >> i will be glad to and do the math as well as reading. >> gillian: maybe i should get extra tutoring from bill. >> bill: it is live tv and you are forgiven. >> it's on the quick. it's on the quick and you have a lot of subjects. >> bill: there is this. are you good? t-swifty taking the case on top grossing tours. have you heard about these numbers? that is today's hemmer celebrity news. gillian. research firm says the singer's tour could cross $2.2 billion in north america alone. the top grossing tour of all

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>> bill: shocking video out of southern california. l.a. yet again. a thief dragging a 75-year-old woman across the ground by her purse. she was attacked apparently after leaving a bank. local reports suggest that. a couple of bystanders tried to help. the thief took off. police say it's just the latest string of similar robberies. they believe the same purse snatcher may be involved in the

other cases as well. broad daylight across the pavement los angeles. >> gillian: this. we're keeping an eye on mexico's west coast. hurricane hillary is a category 4 storm. national weather service says it will weaken by the time it hits the u.s. right now the winds are clocking in at a scary 140 miles-per-hour. fox meteorologist joins us with the latest. >> this storm really intensified overnight as we see a nice eyewall off the west coast of mexico. these waters are really warm helping to fuel this and getting the winds up to 145 miles-per-hour. typically storms head out into the pacific. that's not going to be the case this time. storm being forced up towards the north. ultimately it will interact with the baja, california and running up into portions of the united states. you see how the wind speeds decline as it closer to the u.s. waters off the coast of southern california people who surf are

always wearing wet suits is cold water and it will kill at least some of the wind with this. it is still going to bring a whole lot of rain in areas that don't typically see this much rain in the summer. the desert southwest areas like las vegas. widespread everything in the orange 3 to 5 inches perhaps. don't be surprised if isolated areas see eight inches of rain. a summer's or year's worth of rain coming in a couple of days. this drags fairly far to the north. it could be a big rain maker and it will be something to pay attention to. we look at flash flood threat on your saturday. very likely running you into sunday. really sunday and monday is when most of the heaviest moisture will arrive and you are at the extreme for flash flood risk in southern california. it stretches across a large area here. a lot of moisture will be lifted up into this part of the country. it is something you almost never see. in the last 120 years all the way from 1900 within 200 miles

of los angeles only ten named tropical systems have approached within that 200 miles. two ever made landfall in the united states. it is incredibly rare and something we'll pay close attention to here over the course of this week and early next week. >> gillian: we'll keep an eye on that. thank you. bill. >> jordan demay paid what he had, $3 hundred. samuel continued his threats demanding more from jordan. a few hours later, jordan told samuel that he was now taking his life. to those engaging in this crime, understand that we will travel the world to find you and hold you accountable. >> bill: in this case that's what they've been trying to do. a u.s. prosecutor vowing justice for victims of sextortion. two nigerian brothers have been

charged and sent to michigan after a scheme to extort money off line from that high school senior you see right here. one of the victims was jordan demay and he took his own life. the incident prompted jordan to kill himself and jordan's father is with me now. john, good morning to you. you are from the upper peninsula. the trial is in grand rapids and where we find you today. i understand at the beginning you lost your son in march of last year. and it would take up to a year to bring these gentlemen into a courtroom. it happened in three months. so you were in court yesterday. what did you learn, john? >> good morning. thank you for having me and sharing jordan's story. it was a very fast extradition process. they were -- the department of justice and d.a.'s office was keeping us in the loop preparing for 9 to 12 months or longer.

the three months is almost historic at this point. >> gillian: one of the many shocking things about this case, john, is the degree to which this is not some freak incident or anomaly. this kind of thing actually happens often especially to american children. you say you have spoken to hundreds of other parents who were through something similar. what do they say to you? >> that's correct. it was overwhelming after we went public with our story originally and once we had the national legs for the story, the messages came pouring in. text messages, facebook messages from victims. victims' families. many of which who paid many. many of which who didn't. many of which who sent content to these perpetrators and it feels like it is happening to everybody especially young people on social media. they are ripe for a target for

this thing. >> bill: i saw a note where you almost lost it in court yesterday. it has to be overwhelming for you, john and the rest of your family with two young ages 7 and 9. you are doing this for a memory of your son and it strikes me that you will pursue justice until you get it. >> 100%, yeah. i'm pretty confident that the case that the u.s. attorney's office has right now we'll get convictions with the two we have and the one other pending extradition charges in nigeria. i'm confident this will play out and hopefully it will be a swift trial. there was some evidence that came up in the pre-trial conference yesterday that sounded pretty strong for us. sounded like they made some admissions during the interview process with the f.b.i. in nigeria when they went there to interview the suspects. a lot of photos that they have initialed and different things.

it sounded like the evidence we got to see a sneak peek of yesterday sound promising for us. >> gillian: do you have any advice, john, for other parents who may be concerned about their children's involvement in something like this or their potential vulnerability or any signs to look for? anything you might be able to share? >> that's a great question. there are probably a lot of signs but difficult to see. most of the scenarios that i've been talking with other parents who have lost their children to this, the unfortunate part there wasn't signs because it happened so fast. jordan received his first text message at 10:15 p.m. and he took his life at 3:45 the next morning. less than six hours. everybody was sleeping. we had 0 chance to recognize what was happening. for the parents watching, i really think you need to understand social media and what

your kids are doggone it. i would recommend you start paying attention what's happening on their phones through other apps as well. there are a lot of apps out there that vanish messages. a lot of apps out there that are just probably not the best place for young teenagers to be on. but if they are on there i think parents need to pay attention to them. >> bill: you are carrying a big burden and not alone as we pointed out. f.b.i. says there were 7,000 reports of this. 3,000 victims. more than a dozen suicides. you are doing god's work. my best to you. stay strong, hug your daughters this weekend and we'll stay in contact on this story. >> thank you so much. >> bill: thank you. john. before we begin an august weekend, we cannot get out of here without this, check it out. >> hold on, boys, what have we got? >> million dollar smile. >> big old boy. >> bill: look at you. that's a florida kid wrangling a

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all right. >> gillian: welcome back. this is something you only see in florida. don't see it in new york. a teen right there taking on a 15-foot long python and winning. jack captured that 100-pound knack during the state's python wrangling challenge. that video has gone viral. let's bring in jack now. he joins us. wow. >> bill: good job, man, wow. >> thank you, guys. thank you so much. >> bill: you are in orlando, first day of school at ucf begins monday? >> monday. >> bill: we're about to make you the big man on campus. >> gillian: i don't think he needs us. >> bill: how did you catch this sucker in the everglades?

>> we have big spotlights and looking for these snakes. we look in the woods and this snake was sitting there with his head stuck up. we ran over to the snake and we knew how big the snake was. the head was the size of a frying pan. i shined my light in the woods and i didn't see where the snake ended. i got in position to jump on this thing. i jumped on it and first it didn't do much. the battle quickly began after that. it was all hands on deck. my uncle and. it was a full on wrestling match. it took all three of us, my uncle and one of the glades boys with us and we fought this thing. i had the head so no one got bit. one of the glade boys we were with made sure the thing didn't constrict me. my uncle was behind me unwrapping it help us get it to the main road where we could control the snake.

>> gillian: that video. this guy is alive during all this. i want to clarify. >> yeah, the snake was alive. it was crazy. one of the strongest things i've ever handled. it was a true beast. after a 20-minute fight with this thing of pure muscle, they are cold blooded and they lose power quickly and after 20 minutes the thing was a wet noodle. it was alive in all the pictures and everything. >> bill: 15 feet long. job well done. i want to point out florida encourages people to catch the pythons because they are invasive. like a lot of people in florida who have them as pets they drive to the everglades and let them go. these guys can produce a lot of babes, can they not >> they can have up to 100 eggs, big snakes like that their babies go out and spread like wildfire in the everglades.

the pythons have wiped out 90% of the small mammals in the everglades. big ones like this take down alligators and deer and a big problem for the everglades eco system. good to go down there and take them out. >> bill: a great way to end your summer. >> it sure is. i left home and went off with the bang and now about to start school on monday. >> bill: good luck in school. thanks for sharing your story. the python wrestler in orlando. good to be with you. >> gillian: thanks for having me. >> bill: john roberts working for harris, see you monday. >> john: bill and gillian thank you. nightmares for the next 60 minutes over that snake lawyer. the first tri lateral summit between the united states, japan and south korea. president biden will welcome both of them. nations looking