>> want to try it? >> brian: that was good. you almost got it. >> it's a worm burner. denise, thank you very much. enjoy the last week of summer. >> dana: breaking news right now. florida under hurricane watch. tropical storm idalia is for cast to be become a major hurricane today before making landfall later this week. floridians should be completing hurricane preparations. we expect an update from the governor any minute and give it to you as soon as he takes the podium. two high stakes hearing involving donald trump's election interference cases set to unfold this morning. in d.c. the former president's legal team and jack smith's prosecutors fight over when the

trial will begin. special counsel smith wants january 2nd. less than six weeks before the iowa caucuses. trump questioned april 20, 2026. in georgia willis is focusing on mark meadows and his push to have the charges moved to federal court so he can assert immunity. but first. >> victor shokin says you accepted bribes. is that true? are you okay with your son accepting millions of dollars from russia, china and ukraine? >> dana: president biden ignored the questions. a new series of explosive allegations could be harder to deflect. i'm dana perino. bill is off today and i have a fun partner today. good morning to you. >> great to kick off the week with you. i'm sandra smith and this is "america's newsroom." victor shokin is putting president biden and his son on

blast. he says they accepted bribes and he was fired for investigating burisma, the ukrainian gas company where hunter was a board member. >> i do not want to deal in unproven facts. but my own personal conviction is that yes, this was the case. they were being bribed. the fact that joe biden gave away $1 billion in u.s. money in exchange for my dismissal, my firing, isn't that alone a case of corruption? >> dana: more to come on this interview. let's go to florida where governor ron desantis is having a press conference talking about preparations for hurricane idalia. >> this is going to be a major impact and floridians should expect that this storm will be a major cat three plus hurricane. so please prepare accordingly. the national hurricane center

currently has hurricane watches in effect for the gulf coast from sarasota county all the way up to franklin county in northwestern florida. and this track, if you look at how the models are, there is a general agreement on the track that it is going to take. there is a lot of agreement that it is going to be somewhere between north of tampa and tallahassee. but anything that wobbles with this storm could change that. so pretty much anybody on the west coast of florida, you can see major, major impacts. so please prepare accordingly. we did submit a pre-landfall declaration to the federal government last night and we anticipate that will be approved. i have expanded our state of emergency, the executive order, to include 13 additional counties. so that will be 46 that are under a state of emergency. of course, on the gulf course but also as you look at the track of that storm, you areing

to see northern florida, north central florida and northeastern florida counties affected as well. all of those counties are under a state of emergency. our state eoc is operating at a level 124-hour operations, it is what we do. all counties in the path of -- please request aid from the state as soon as possible. there is a relatively limited window here. if you request aid, kevin and his team are going to get it to you. but if you wait until 6, 8 hours before the storm hits it will be much more difficult to make that happen. so tell us what your needs are. submit those requests, and kevin and his team will work to fill the requests as expeditiously as possible. evacuation orders. i urge floridians to heed the admonitions and heed the

directives from your local officials. there are going to be evacuation orders issued in all these gulf coast counties in the a and b zones. all the barrier islands, places that are low lying on the coast, you are going to be told to evacuate. so just understand that. that will be true probably from pinellas and manatee all the way up through the big bend. keep in mind, if you are told to evacuate, you do not need to drive hundreds of miles. you don't need to leave the state of florida. you basically need to go to higher ground. almost every instance you can go tens of miles to a shelter, to a hotel, to a friend's house, whatever works for you. and you will be able to ride out the storm. the key is not be in the areas that will be hit with big time storm surge and potentially have life-threatening situations. and so tens of miles, not

necessarily need hundreds of miles. and the more people that do a more limited evacuation, the more local evacuation, you won't have the highways and roads clogged. it is not necessary to try to outrun the storm. just get to higher ground and in a structure that can handle the hurricane, ride it out and you'll be able to go back to your property and inspect whatever damages. so more local evacuations. you do not need to flee to alabama or georgia or drive hundreds and hundreds of miles. fuel, we have 35 bob tails and 15 tankers of fuels en route to central florida to pre-stage with a couple hundred thousand gallons of fuel. we had limited fuel interruptions with hurricane ian, but you never know how it works so we want fuel to be able to get it back on target as soon as the storm passes. we have seven urban search and

rescue teams ready to deploy to impacted areas. of course, we have florida highway patrol, florida department of law enforcement, florida fish and wildlife, all those folks will be ready to go as soon as the storm passes, they will go on the ground helping out floridians. we have 2500 guardsmen and airmen pre-staged. 3,000 more are currently being mobilized and on the way for a total of 5500 and have at their disposal 2500 high wheel vehicles and aircraft. kevin is asking from other states and we anticipate those requests will be fulfilled. schools, hearn and owe county schools are closed today and citrus and leavey tomorrow. more counties to come in terms of school closures. parents, just understand that's coming down the pike. that, of course, is a local decision that will be made on a district by district basis.

i think people should anticipate school closures along the gulf coast of florida for both tuesday and wednesday and perhaps even beyond that. power, there are tens of thousands of linemen that will be staged and resources will be staged. >> dana: you've been listening to governor ron desantis suspending some campaign events so he can focus, as he needs to, as a governor on that hurricane that is headed toward florida. we'll monitor the press conference for additional news and check with local officials and sources if you wonder about anything. schools might get closed. worried a little bit about power. they had suggestions what you should do to get prepared. we'll bring you more of that. want to get you back to the story we started with. the former top ukrainian prosecutor who got fired came ott swinging against the bidens, hunter and joe biden. that was in an interview with

brian kilmeade on saturday night. alexandria hoff is standing by. this racket netted the bidens more than $17 million. is that right? >> there were a lot of accusations that were thrown out as part of this interview from the former top prosecutor in ukraine. what's interesting is for all of the drama that has taken place for the past couple years when it comes to president biden, then vice president at the time and victor shokin, what stood out to me is how shokin seemed to be during the obama administration. the state department praised his efforts to combat corruptions in ukraine. by 2015 biden made it clear it was shokin who was corrupt and must be removed from his position. by march of 2016, shokin was fired as ukraine's top prosecutor one year after being appointed. that came after vice president biden threatened to withhold a billion dollars in aid from

ukraine. he discussed this very transaction back in 2018. watch this. >> i had gotten a commitment from poroshenko that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they didn't. they said they were walking out and i said we're not going to give you the billion dollars. they said you are not the president. the president -- i said call him. >> ukraine did get the billion dollars because shokin was ousted. he said he was fired for overseeing an investigation into burisma. where hunter biden served on its board. >> i was performing my job. i developed a very understanding of the fact that the vice president was only acting in his own interests. he generally speaking handled ukraine like it was his own

backyard. >> the interview he did not provide evidence of his claim that the biden family accepted bribes. the white house called shokin a former ukrainian prosecutor general whose office, his own deputy called a hot bed of corruption. drawing demands for reform by vice president biden and u.s. diplomats, international partners and added shokin's office was not investigating burisma when he was fired and shokin said he was. there was a board member being the vice president's son. >> dana: thank you so much. let's bring in nancy mace, republican from south carolina. great to have you, madam congresswoman. let me play for you sound from speaker mccarthy on with maria yesterday morning. >> republicans took the majority have we found out what president biden told us when he was running for office is not true.

he said he never had any dealings with his son's business. that he never even talked to him. we have now found out not only did he call into the meetings he went to dinner. we also have a d.o.j. that gave -- tried to give a sweetheart deal to hunter biden. a natural step forward you have to go to an impeachment inquiry. >> dana: congresswoman, the white house basically said a natural step forward based on what saying kevin mccarthy is threatening to impeach biden for not turning over documents they've never requested and calling it a crazy exercise rooted not in facts and truth but in partisan shamelessness. how do you respond to that? >> well, i have a message for joe biden this morning. we're coming for you. if you will not answer the questions for the american people, the oversight committee will answer them for you with regards to the investigation we'll be conducting. it is time for joe biden to start telling the american people the truth. why wasn't the white house on

any of the sunday shows yesterday? why won't they answer the questions and joe biden avoid the questions? when he answers them he lies to the american people. the american people just deserve the truth and nothing but the truth. >> dana: did anything shokin say to brian kilmeade surprise you, add anything to the story? >> well, certainly having his testimony or his speaking to brian kilmeade on fox news, sharing that information, very important. i want to talk to shokin next. i would like to see evidence he has aside from joe biden saying in a microphone several years ago bragging about firing shokin. i would like to see if he does have any evidence of this because every time joe biden has answered the question he has lied about it. because the oversight committee is not allowed to show the suspicious activity reports from the treasury because they are confidential we have to go after bank records. i would like to know what banks we need to be talking to and what banks do we need to request financial records from to show

the american people what's been going on. >> dana: i always remember last february or so it was that you and a couple of others went to the treasury department and got to see documents and fair to say you were shocked. is that what you were trying to say? you aren't allowed to show it to us but you're saying if you go to the bank records and able to get those, we would get the same information that you were able to see? >> correct. correct. i would say that. the shock and awe comes from the amount of money laundering that we are talking about is staggering. i have said this a couple of times. the amount of money the bidens benefited from will be over $50 million. 17 million from ukraine alone. much higher than that when we talk about romania, china, russia. just one report in one of the sars reports, there were 170 plus, was tends of millions of dollars and then some. a staggering amount of money we're talking about between the

biden family and business associates and corrupt countries. it is insur mountable in my opinion and im disgusted the mainstream media has not investigated it. >> dana: they are very incurious. great to have you, congresswoman nancy mace. >> thank you, dana. >> sandra:, protestors. police trying to keep the crowd under control. it ended up arresting several people in the meantime. all of this as new york's democrat governor comes under increasing fire for her handling of this chaos. alexis mcadams live in new york city on this. where do things stand this morning? >> hi. people here in the city aren't happy about this migrant surge. they feel like there is not enough resources and migrants are on every street corner across manhattan. not too long ago we saw lines of migrants outside of what used to be an iconic hotel the roosevelt

hotel. if people are fed up the protests are continuing. take a look. [shouting] >> that was the wild scene outside of the mayor's mansion yesterday. protestors clashing over the migrant crisis. when officers tried to keep the crowd under control some people threw punches. they are upset about the migrants. scenes like this grow more common. lines of migrants waiting outside the roosevelt hotel has been cleared out but not forgotten by people who work and live around here. 100,000 migrants from the southern border flooded the city. the city adding tents to randall's island taking away from recreational space for kids. not a lot of room for people to

play around here. they all go out to randall's islands. the tents are over taking the fields. it can hold up to 3,000 people there part of the state-funded facility as new york city says we're running out of resources calling on the state for help. eric adams, repeatedly called on the white house for help, added at least 200 emergency shelters to house the migrants coming in as new york struggles to keep up. voters not happy with the way the crisis is being handled across the state. take a look here. a new poll. 82% of new yorkers say the influx of migrants is a serious problem. 51% of voters disapprove of the job kathy hochul is doing to address the issue. voters are also not happy with the way that mayor eric adams is handling the crisis even though he says helps hands are tied and looking for the biden administration and voters aren't happy with the way the white house is handling. people in the city want answers but they see groups and lines of migrants all over the place.

>> sandra: taxpayers, residents of the cities. more than half don't like the direction it is going. thank you, alexis. >> dana: president biden and vice president harris continue to campaign on the economy but the threat of further rate hikes has americans concerned. >> sandra: the san francisco crime crisis forcing another big store to pack up and leave. how the mayor is pledging to get things under control. >> dana: an update from hawaii. how a utility company may have hampered the investigation into the devastating wildfires. >> everything is different. nothing is the same. nothing will ever be the same. old lahaina, it will never be the same lahaina. the heartland of america. we rely on hard work and honest manufacturing to deliver high quality, heirloom inspired bedding, bath towels and more, all made in the usa. experience the farm to home difference for yourself.

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>> dana: breaking news right now. florida is under hurricane watch as tropical storm idalia is forecast to become a major hurricane today. governor desantis has been giving a press conference. updated on the news. if you want more information the best thing i have on my phone download the fox weather app, go to hurricane hq right there. use the qr code or go to fox weather.com and download it there. >> sandra: accusation of evidence tampering in the mayy fire investigation at 300 people

are still missing in what lane yo. washington host is reporting ho hawaii electric is accused of hauling away fallen power lines before investigators could get there. will cain co-host of fox and friends weekend he has family there. you have many stories to tell and extensively covering all of this. what is your reaction to this reporting from the "washington post" that says quote, the hawaiian power utility believed to have started this deadly fire removed damaged power poles and other equipment from a key fire scene potentially affecting evidence that is part of an official investigation into how this blaze ignited, will. >> yeah, my reaction to that is everybody is very interested in finding accountability and many want to find a bad guy in the story. hawaiian electric is not doing themselves a favor in casting themselves in the role of the

villain. there are questions here about hawaiian electric. why was their electricity continuing to flow to lahaina throughout that day? electricity and power was lost at 6:00 a.m. and came back on at various times. there have been surveys of the electrical grid that day and it looks like, you know, there is a revelation of pops or outages right when the first fire broke out early in the morning at 6:00 a.m. and there is video as you know, most people watching have seen the video of downed power lines sparking dry grass. the power lines often with hawaiian electric were old, rick ety, road power lines and 80 mile-per-hour winds and thrp on notice. a big fire in 2018. since that time the power lines weren't put underground or upgraded to big reinforced steel structures. so you had a catastrophe waiting to happen. to know that after the fact according to the "washington post" they already removed some

downed polls and lines from the suspected start of the fire sure makes you look guilty. now there may be reasons and they say we wanted to get power back to the public as quickly as possible and needed to clean up for safety the area. but there are protocols and procedures. they broke all the procedures of removing the equipment after the fire. >> sandra: to have removed this would impair the ability to carry out an investigation. that's according to lawyers in the "washington post" that the maui utility may have compromised evidence in this fire investigation. meanwhile, will, there are many that we know -- we know this as a fact had no warning, no way out in these maui fires. we know there was sighing fief can't failures that occurred including emergency sirens that were never used. road closures prevented people from escaping. some had to clear barricades to

survive. there were evacuation orders that were given just too late, will. >> uh-huh. that's all very true, sandra. you say why? why was there such extensive failure? that's what everybody is asking. how could you have such system-wide failure to the point many look at this and start to go that much failure looks intentional. let me tell you what i've been told and come to understand. hawaii as a government system and public service often is filled with patronage. people get jobs because of who they know are related to because of what family they are in. it doesn't breed an environment for come pretense or merit. no competition. simple human error and also cascading catastrophes. i've talked to people who are working with, counseling the guys on the ground that day pointing people toward front street instead of down the highway. it was a downed power line but

it would seem to be the most immediate catastrophe or threat. in retrospect cut that line. hawaiian electric stop power flowing into the town. get people out of town on the highways. nobody appreciated how fast that fire would barrel through town. i've been told it was going from house to house the way it went through a field full of wild grasses a mile a minute, boom, an hour and it was through town. nobody appreciated that or those on the grounds were appreciating that's the immediate threat. human error. for the fact there is a ton of guilt and a ton of reconciliation happening right now from some of the people that made those bad decisions, sandra. you have patronage, incompetence, human error. all kinds of things contributing to the worst disaster in american history in the last 100 years. >> sandra: far too many listed as missing even at this hour. we're praying for them and hoping for the best.

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shooting saturday in jacksonville, florida. two women and one man. we are getting our first look at one of them. 29-year-old gerald gallon. >> sandra: the gunman was a white man who authorities say took his own life and left behind a hate-filled manifesto. some people booed florida governor ron desantis, the 2024 presidential candidate when he tried to speak. >> dana: a councilwoman stepped in asking the crowd to let desantis speak. he addressed the shooting again at the top of his news conference this hour. >> to increase security on campus as i've said for the last couple days. we won't allow our schools to be

targeted by these people and we'll provide security help. >> sandra: tropical storm eye dahlia is focusing on preparing his state for impact. as we saw in the news conference a short time ago james freeman, fox news contributor. he just concluded the news conference, by the way talking to floridians about what to do should it turn into their state. evacuations may be coming. but the canceled campaign stops. he shines in these moments really, desantis? >> he has done well. the main case he makes to voters that he has done very well in his day job, his current job as governor. we remember roughly a year ago hurricane ian ravaging southwest florida. i think there were a lot of people in our industry who wanted to report that he botched the response. he didn't. and that's part of the reason that he is essentially the main

alternative to donald trump today. >> dana: he is the governor and several in the gop primary several former governors as well as a former president and reminds everybody this guy is needing to execute on a job. he is missing two campaign stops today, both of those in south carolina. why does that matter? voting first starts in iowa, then it goes to new hampshire and then south carolina. one of the reasons he was going to go there. the polling is shedding a light on the makeup of the possible iowa voter. likely republican caucus goers in iowa asking what they would say to describe themselves. pro-life 80%. in iowa. not a big surprise. afraid for the constitution. 77%. disgruntled with government up there as well as 77%. traditional conservative at 71. exhausted by politics 71 as well and down from there. it was an interesting poll and

the way to phrase the question as you start to think about who the voters are and who they might choose. >> exhausted by politics would probably be a representative of the country as a whole. but i think it is a good point about the nature of the iowa electorate. they are unapologetically pro-life conservative and we talk a lot in our industry about the politics of abortion in terms of what is the right way to thread the needle and get a majority support. the impact of supreme court decisions, etc. but i think there is a pretty strong message from at least the iowa republican electorate that this is a moral issue and maybe not so interested in the most elegant compromise at this point. >> sandra: really interesting. half of likely gop caucus goers at the tail end of what dana was reading off there identify themselves as maga republicans. 46% of likely gop caucus goers.

23% are anti-trump in that new poll. >> yes. i think what's also interesting is it's trump within the 40's. not a done deal. room for other candidates. but he also has, believe it or not, a fair number of people who would consider him as a second, maybe third choice. i think this will be surprising to a lot of people. you may think of the trump voter as rock solid and locked in. i think we talked about the impact of these prosecutions and i think maybe there are some of those people who are saying they are kind of making up their minds is this a crook and we need to rule him out or are these unfair prosecutions and we shouldn't hold it against him? i think that's probably the debate some of them are having right now. >> dana: trying to think ahead to 2024 who can beat joe biden. james freeman, great to see you.

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>> dana: one of the remains found at the site of a plane crash was prigozhin. it went down last wednesday. he was instrumental in the rebellion against putin last month. general jack keane. not much of a mystery here, how about you? >> not much surprise here. any surprise at all is the fact the retribution didn't take place sooner or immediately following the mutiny on june 23rd. i think most people were stunned that putin was factoring a deal with the president of belarus and also with prigozhin that he would go sort of into exile into belarus and be permitted to live and support the belarus military. but i think his fate was

absolutely cemented when prigozhin began to jet around between moscow and st. petersburg and multiple trips to africa shoring up wagner's dealings in the central african republic and libya. putin didn't want that. he wants him to be under control of the military defense and why prigozhin started the mutiny because he objected to that. so yes, i think we all expected something to happen in terms of retribution. it has. >> dana: on june 26th bremmer said he was a dead man walking. i can't imagine the people who got on the plane with him were excited about being on a plane with him. these people have died under suspicious circumstances after crossing putin. you can see all these faces here. why i say it wasn't a mystery what happened here but now we know for sure that prigozhin was on that plane.

sir, this morning i used the audible function on the "wall street journal" editorial page and listened to your words about kiev and ukraine and the counter offensive and what you think the biden administration and generals should allow the ukrainians to do. let you talk about that here. >> well, what i wrote that op-ed simply because there has been leaks to the media here by anonymous sources in the pentagon, military officials criticizing how ukraine is prosecuting the war and suggesting a better way to fight the war by focusing all of ukrainians' resources on one axis. what got me going here is first of all we have held back significant equipment from ukraine. they didn't get all the tanks they wanted. they got a small amount of breaching equipment to get through the mine fields and obstacles. so much so they are removing mines by hand at night. you can imagine how treacherous that is. our 31 tanks abrams another

after the counter offensive is likely over and the weather changes. they are operating without air power. russia has the air power. ukraine doesn't have any of it. then we criticize them for their tactics. that's why i took exception. if the criticism was valid and they were suggesting it better was one thing. it is invalid. we have never, ever conducted an attack against a comprehensive defense and not attacked on multiple axis because we want to pin down the ability of the opposition to maximize their capability against one axis. doesn't that make sense? it goes all the way back to what we did in world war ii. the people who are criticizing it have never done anything quite like this. the ukrainians have 18 months of experience. i say give the ukrainians all that they need, dana. and get out of their way and let them get the job done. >> dana: let them do what they need to do. thank you for being on the show this morning. >> great talking to you.

thank you. have a wonderful week. >> sandra: live aerial images coming out of florida where police are responding to a scene a few blocks away from a school after a helicopter went down and injured at least three people that were on board according to the broward county sheriff's office. school officials said the helicopter did not hit any school buildings thanksfully. a very residential area. it happened around 8:45 in the morning. three people were on board. two people are transported to broward health. their condition is not yet known at this hour. but some new pictures are being released by the sheriff's office and the chopper can be seen smoking and weaving in the air before spinning and breaking apart. we're monitoring the situation. when we get an update on the victims we'll bring that to you.

>> look no further than san francisco because this is where you need to be. >> dana: san francisco's mayor is talking up her city despite a rise in crime that is forcing out iconic stores like nordstroms. is gavin newsom becoming a thorn in the side? the potential infighting inside the democratic party.

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it's too much and it's time to hit back. with a newday 100 va loan, you can borrow up to 100% of your home's value to pay off those high rate credit cards and other debt. and you can save $500 a month. that's $6,000 a year. >> sandra: nordstrom's closed for good in san francisco. a series of high-end retailers to flee the city struggling with crime, homelessness and widespread drug use. jeff paul is reporting in the west coast bureau. >> this isn't just an ordinary nordstroms. the san francisco center mall. ute it is a retail memory.

large brick and mortar stores have become a casualty of the pandemic some shoppers and retail employees have suggested homelessness and crime in the city isn't helping, either. however, vendors who rely on tourism say they are hopeful for a future turnaround. >> san francisco has not lost its glow or glamour. people all over the world still love san francisco and still love the trollies even though the major stores might have closed but the magic is still here. >> farther south in los angeles flash mob robberies continue. this is video from the latest incident at the macy's in sherman oaks. so far no arrests there. we should mention this latest flash mob robbery happened one week after l.a. mayor karen bass announced a retail theft tasks force to target the thieves. >> sandra: it is really something to see. for those people who live in the

city to see this all going away. >> dana: when they leave, others will leave, too. require more transparency from companies using a.i. programs. chad pergram is on capitol hill. he is no robot. >> good morning. the bill by senate gop whip john thune will let consumers know when they are interacting with a.i. online. people need to understand when they encounter a.i. but he wants to be careful. >> can overreact and use regulation that is counter to the objective. >> thune is worried about stymieing innovation. senate majority leader chuck schumer has made a.i. a priority for senators and scheduled a set of briefings on a.i. throughout the summer. the hope is that legislation will come from rank and file members but no consensus yet. >> just because an issue is

difficult for congress it is no excuse to turn around because it will have a huge effect on every american and every person in the world's lives. >> congress is still struggling to understand a.i. let alone craft legislation. richard blumenthal would like an agency to regulate a.i. a cross between what we use for nuclear power, the fda and nasa. back to you. >> dana: thank you, chad pergram. big day in court getting underway as special counsel jack smith and president trump's legal team appear for a judge in washington looking to set a trial date on federal charges of election interference. i'm dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. great to start off the week with you. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. they are proposing different time lines. smith wants to can come this january.

defense wants more time to review the evidence provided by the prosecutors asking for a start date in 2026. plus trump has three other trials looking for space on his calendar. >> these trial dates are going to move. it is unrealistic, it's the attics and no judge is going to say that you can be on two trials at once in two different states. a lot of these overlap. they look at the start date of the trial but these are 4 to 6 week trials at the least. so there is no way they aren't going to overlap. they will have to go into october, november of next year. again, by design. >> dana: a court hearing about to get underway in georgia. lots of focus on this because former white house chief of staff mark meadows and fulton county district attorney will lay out her case against trump and 18 other co-defendants. david spunt is live outside the federal court in washington. >> good morning to you both. a bu