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counties and the state mobilized the national guard. it will reach the gulf coast of florida on wednesday and move close to the carolina coastline on thursday. we'll have more on this throughout the hour as people get prepared. >> protest is working. what exactly is this protest? the american working people out in the streets finally, non-violently, non-aggressively but using their voice, their anger. >> dana: the migrant crisis sparking a fiery protest as new york city opens a new shelter inside a former school on staten island. hundreds of people gathered outside making it clear they do not want the city dumping hundreds of migrants in the middle of their neighborhood. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. bill hemmer is off. hello to you in d.c. >> bret: good morning . i'm bret baier in washington.

this is becoming a point of resistance where 100,000 migrants have arrived in new york city from the southern border. not just residents there fed -- >> dana: new york's top business executives are demanding president biden take full ownership of the mess he created. the front page of the "new york post" summing up the plea deal calling on the biden administration to help us. we have full coverage on fox. new york congresswoman stefanik will join us. >> good morning to you both. as city and state officials as well as business leaders ask for more from the biden administration, the department of homeland security is now blaming new york city for its handling of the migrant crisis. a dhs appointed team evaluated the city's migrant response. look at this. dhs statement says the team has provided recommendations for improvements including data

collection, case management, and increased communication with migrants on work authorizations. meanwhile take a look at this. 400 people protested on staten island yesterday. they are upset about migrants being housed at an old catholic school. one of the protestors says they aren't against immigrants like some people think. >> it's ground 0 for this whole illegal immigration insanity. it is illegal immigrants. remember the key words is illegal. if i hear one more time that we are anti-immigrant protestors i will lose my mind. it is not about that. >> more than that 124 new york city business executives are also applying pressure on the biden administration. in an open letter to the president and congress, the group called on more federal funding saying border security is clearly a federal responsibility. dhs says new york is receiving $140 million in aid this fiscal

year. this all comes after a violent protest outside grayci mansion on sunday. the nypd arrested several people. after fights broke out you see here over the city's handling of the migrant crisis. some protestors called on mayor adams to house migrants at his home. the city is operating over 200 emergency migrant shelters. over 59,000 migrants are currently in new york city's care. we'll send it back to you, dana. >> dana: thanks for the update. >> bret: new york congresswoman stefanik is here. you see the front page of the "new york post" and see business leaders reaching out saying help us. it is real for these communities and they have been dealing with it for some time. >> let's take a step back. this is a crisis of the democrats' making. we have seen historic surge not only at the southern border but the northern border as well.

5.8 million illegal crossings since joe biden took office. new york including the governor and mayor adams welcomed illegal migrants into new york state and new york city and now they are reaping the crisis and havoc this is causing. not only don't we have the resources to pay for this . 82% of new yorkers say it is a serious issue in new york state. my colleague on state en malliotakis this is serious. our healthcare facilities are overrun. we need to secure the border. we passed the strongest secure the border package in our nation's history. chuck schumer and joe biden fail to act. >> bret: 82% of new yorkers call recent influx of migrants a serious problem. 51% disapprove of governor hochul's job addressing the influx. talk about immigration and oftentimes it's used by both parties as a political issues.

republicans have done it many times. is there a way to come to something around the edges that deals with this problem directly now? >> house republicans have. we passed hr2. the border security package. we believe we need to secure the border to stem the crisis. then we fix our broken legal immigration system as one of the constituents from staten island said, this is not opposition to legal immigration. it is opposition to illegal immigration. we need to be based on the rule of law. we know what a secure border looks like and the effective poll seals of the previous administration and many of the policies we included in our bill. >> bret: the problem is you don't have any democrats signed onto that bill. >> isn't that shameful? now you see -- they need to show courage and political spine saying it's a border crisis. joe biden's policies are not working. work with us to secure the border. that bill was on floor and it's

telling that every democrat voted against it. when we talk about all states are a border state and all communities are border communities, the vast majority are coming across our southern border and talking about new york city. they are trying to transfer these to update new york. it is a disaster. republicans who stood strong against that were smeared by democrats. now democrats are back pedaling. >> bret: for those governors who transferred them to other states. now they are feeling the effects and actually turning the tide here. >> they are feeling the effects because not only do they see the polling but we don't have the fiscal resources. new york is a state that's on the trajectory toward bankruptcy. we don't have the resources. this has impacted the rule of law and real people's lives. kathy hochul under her leadership and mayor adams transferred illegal immigrants to eerie county in western new

york. two very high profile incidents of vicious rapes and now you see the democrat county executive say he doesn't want illegal immigrants anymore when he welcomed them to the community. it is tied to the crime creels is in new york state. voters of all political affiliations know it is not working and a crisis that the democrats created. >> bret: they turned a number of districts in new york republican in 2022. it is pretty red. is the hope it will stay that way in this current cycle? because potentially of this issue? >> we'll run and win. you see it is not just republican supporters we're earning votes. independents and democrats who saw the failure of single democrat rules. we are in a strong position to hold them and flip more district. new york state and joe biden has failed. it ties into the crime crisis. you saw the polling.

82% of new yorkers don't approve -- they believe it's a serious issue. 50% disapprove how new york state has handled that. they'll make voices heard at the ballot box. >> bret: we appreciate your time. >> dana: this is a first. president biden will be in alaska on september 11th this year instead of being in new york city at the pentagon or in pennsylvania. the first president to honor the victims of 9/11 outside the white house at one of the site of the terrorist attacks. the press secretary points out president bush and obama's past commem commemorations in maryland and washington. >> they decided they would bring two federal cases so close to each other that donald trump wouldn't have the ability to defend himself. they've moved for early trials in both cases. they moved for january trial in

d.c., they moved for a january/february trial or maybe march in florida. you are talking about tens of millions of pages of documents. so they are piling on trying to smother him. >> bret: mark levin on this show last hour blasting the biden justice department for scheduling former president trump's trial around key primary voting dates. rich edson live in washington with more. >> good morning, bret. federal judge rules against the trump team. the former president's trial calendar keeps him in a courtroom for a significant stretch of the republican primary season. the bulk of the republican nominating contests follow the opening of trump's criminal election interference case the day before super tuesday. trial is in new york and florida are scheduled to begin before the gop convention in july. some of the former president's rivals say a trump rematch would tank gop chances next fall. >> we'll have a guy running for president who from march 4th and

probably for the next 4 to 6 weeks will be every day in a courtroom in washington, d.c. and not campaigning against joe biden. this is disastrous for the republican party. >> former vice president mike pence and tim scott are heading to iowa this week. ramaswamy is defending his foreign policy proposal including ending russia's war on ukraine by ceding control of russian occupied ukrainian territory. >> i worry we're driving russia closer to china's arm and the russia/china alliance is the single greatest threat that we face. >> former u.n. ambassador nikki haley has led the criticism over ramaswamy's proposals. >> i won't get into the childish name calling or whatever making fun of my name that he is doing. he of all people should know

better than that. i've given up on him knowing better than anything at this point. >> ron desantis has canceled some campaign events to return to florida as hurricane idalia is tracking towards his state. >> bret: thank you, rich. >> they want answers. they want accountability. they want to know what happened to their child. they are very angry and they are angry at the administration about the way they've been treated. >> dana: the gold star families of american heroes killed in the terrorist bombing during the afghanistan pull-out could finally be getting some answers from the biden administration. we'll have a live update. >> bret: nascar is launching a drive for diversity offering a paid diversity internship. white candidates need not apply. is that legal? >> dana: president biden returns to the white house after spending most of august outside of d.c. majority of americans agree he is just too old for another four years.

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>> of all the democratic candidates out there why vote for the one with the least political experience. >> you shouldn't because i have the most political experience. >> dana: ramaswamy, a resurfaced clip shows him challenging al sharpton over the 2004 white house run and still the question on voter's minds today. here is how he defended his experience level last week. >> it will take an outsider. we have professional politicians in the republican party running from something. now is our moment to start running to something.

>> dana: 20 years is a long time. we have almost known each other 20 years. vivek tweeted this morning i'll give the 18-year-old version of myself a pat on the back for eliciting the most responsible words coming out of that man's mouth. 20 years later how the tables have turned. >> bret: it is something to see that clip. he is doing better than reverend al did. that was 2003. it puts him at 16 on 9/11. 16 years old. just in context of things. >> dana: indeed. thinking in 2003 is when you and i met. happy anniversary to us as well. >> bret: exactly. all right. later today the house foreign affairs committee will meet with the families of the 13 u.s. service members who were killed in kabul two years ago. those gold star families are demanding answers about the biden administration's botched afghanistan withdrawal as the

taliban took over that country. aishah hosni is live on capitol hill to tell us more. good morning, aishah. >> good morning to you, bret. the gold star families are coming to capitol hill to put pressure on this administration to get answers finally, which this administration has only been giving them condolences so far. this is the second time in one month these families will share their emotional stories. fox is told that today house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul plans to announce some new information he has received from the state department in the past few days here about the events leading up to that tragic bombing at abby gate. he says these families are way overdue for answers and accountability. >> we have greater intelligence that the i.c. warned about isis-k plotting this in a hotel room. they asked for permission for an

air strike and it was denied. these families deserve answers >> congressman of florida had articles of impeachment of lloyd austin saying he ignored key intelligence and pushed forward with the withdrawal writing. congress must start taking real action to address the complete failure of this administration and bret, we know many of these families want some of these leaders to step down so we'll follow what revelations come out of today's testimony. >> bret: aishah hosni live on the hill. thanks. >> dana: president biden under some fire for spending most of the month outside of the white house and taking a beach vacation while the residents of maui suffered from deadly wildfires. it comes as new polls show a majority of americans believe the president is too old for a second term. retired nypd inspector paul mauro joins us now. you can't get away from these numbers. white house tried yesterday.

let's put it up here. 77% of voters and 69% of democrats say he is too old to run for a second term. how do you -- how do they answer that without figuring out a way to show the american people they're wrong? >> it's a tough one. all the presidents take vacations. this president, let's be frank, has to overcome the perception of his age, right? he has to take some affirmative steps here to show i got my arms around this thing. we've had a couple of real crises pop off here while he has been eating ice cream in delaware. we had the maui situation that he didn't respond to quickly. he was on satellite delay. he should have had all the facts quickly, made a statement and showed -- hawaii occupies an unusual space in the american psyche. off the pacific, these are things you want to grab. >> dana: during that time i thought even if he rightly didn't want to go to maui right away you could call a cabinet meeting even by zoom and say i

want the full force of the federal government to be there. housing, small business, education, energy, interior. >> and an investigation that caused it. people were telling him this is the move. that's what we should do. yet it still didn't happen. you have to say to yourself why. >> dana: here is cnn on biden's time off. biden spent office trying to escape office but september realities await him. i don't need to read the rest saying he did pilates, fine, i don't want to do that. the second story, paul, i'm a little freaking out about it. the national archives is saying he has 5400 biden emails in which the president potentially used fake names to forward government information and discuss business with his son, hunter >> he used a couple different pseudonyms. 5400 emails.

some of them are pretty ex cull pennsylvania tore. hunter biden is ccs by official white house personnel. john flinn puts hunter biden on a cc with a call to poroshenko. not long after joe biden pulled that leverage and said you want that billion dollars you have to hire the prosecutor looking into my son's company. that is very, very close to a smoking gun. here is my other question. this is the national archives who were very aggressive towards president trump saying we want all of those documents. where are your classified documents. we want them. it has been a year since the legal organization southeast legal foundation asked for these documents and they still don't have them. congress should get all of these. comer asked for them unredacted and be able to put together a

paper trail. there is a lot going on here. this is only known because of the laptop and going through the laptop they found the other email addresses that don't look very kosher. >> dana: bret will remember this. imagine a scenario. this actually happened. during the bush administration one of the things you will hear about the hatch act. you can't do official campaign business when you are officially working for the government and separate them. there was this scandal of crazy proportions, okay, that some people that worked in the bush white house on the political side when they were email with the rnc didn't remember to switch their address. were they doing it on official government business or doing official government business on their private emails. it went on forever. i want to challenge every one of those reporters who reported on that at the time and made me answer a thousand questions a day about this, all the documents we turned over and time we spent. let's see how much the media does on this. >> they won't do much.

they were giving kayleigh mcenany a tough time. there is a double standard when it comes to the republicans. everybody is a lawyer and split hairs on the hatch act. when the vice president, current president seems to be doing business with his son on official emails. >> dana: a different thing about getting coffee on tuesday. >> those were other problems when they did that in washington. >> dana: great to have you. >> bret: i was one of those reporters asking dana questions. here comes hurricane idalia. florida bracing for landfall as the storm barrels for the gulf coast. an update on its track next. you could call it the year of the union. workers across the nation going on strike driving a hard bargain. what's behind this? mike rowe weighs in coming up. to get cash...surprise. some lenders charge hundreds

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>> dana: hawaiian electric denying the claims in the lawsuit accusing the utility of sparking the most deadly wildfire earlier this month. the utility said it shut down its power lines hours before the inferno broke out and pins the blame on the fire department for not putting out the flames. anger over the wildfire response is not going away. >> the fact is people are confused. it has been three weeks, jesse, and there has not been any clearances. these people lost everything. their homes, their families, their loved ones, their children, and they are crying for answers. they need answers and unfortunately the response from the federal, state and county governments have been pretty quiet. >> dana: the wildfires killed more than 100 people. hundreds are still reported missing and waiting for word on those. >> over 20 shelters open and additional 20 special needs shelters are mobilizing or on

stand by throughout the state of florida. we have 5500 national guardsmen that have been activated. you still have time this morning to be able to make your final preparations. if you are in one of those areas that is in line for some of the major storm surge and you are told to evacuate. >> bret: florida desantis giving the status as the hurricane moves to the gulf coast. it is expected to strengthen to a major hurricane before making landfall tomorrow morning. new this hour florida state university in tallahassee canceling classes and the governor of north carolina declaring a state of emergency ahead of the storm reaching his state. britta joins us from tampa to tell us what's happening there. >> it's hard to imagine that there is a monster storm that is strengthening in the gulf of mexico. this is old tampa bay behind me,

part of the tampa bay area and tranquil. hot and humid. all we have is a light breeze. this spot is going to look dramatically different in 12 hours. the outer rain bands will hit this afternoon and wherever you are tonight in the state of florida is going to be where you ride out the reality of hurricane idalia, a historic storm for the state. the big bend where we expect landfall have never had a category 4 hurricane hit the big bend ever in history. that's possible. right now the national hurricane forecast has it as a category 3 storms with winds stronger than 120 miles-per-hour. let me tell you the water out there is so hot reaching almost 90 degrees. straight gasoline for this storm and could see it reach category 4 strength before landfall. get out as people have asked you to leave. zone a has been evacuated. the problem with this area is

storm surge. it is particularly vulnerable. with landfall being in the big bend it could be worst case scenario. that means we'll have all of that water moving into tampa bay. possibly seven feet of storm surge. that is not survivable. this spot i will be wrapping things up in the next couple hours and moving inland to a safer location. but this will be a historic storm for the state of florida. tampa has gotten lucky in the past several years going back to 2017 is when irma went through and they had reverse storm surge. old tampa bay emptied out. you could see the sea floor. this time around it is going to be the opposite with water moving in. to make it a little eerie, bret, that storm, irma, the name was replaced by idalia. >> bret: people have to take it

seriously. >> dana: organized labor is back in a big way. unions for actors and writers aren't the only ones going on strike. so far this year more than 320,000 workers have taken part in at least 230 work stoppages and soon be joined by the auto workers in detroit. mike rowe, from the uaw twitter feed saying the moment is ripe for labor to try to claw back losses of the past few decades and gain protection and benefits for the future. the tight labor market and popular support for trade unions and all coming, mike, at a time when a.i. and manufacturing, robotics is on the rise as well. >> yeah. there is a lot to unpack. this thing is a tight rope for me. i have been in the screen actors guild for 30 years. that union is on strike now. that union has helped me a lot in various commercial campaigns over the years.

but the vast majority of stuff that i've worked on, dirty jobs, somebody has to do it, returning the favor, those were all non-union gigs that were not in the jurisdiction of that. so i've always lived, you know, in this weird other world and gone to where the work is. if i had a message in general. as you know, i'm sort of opposed to cookie cutter advice as a rule. my foundation, we try and stay out of either of those conversations. we train people for jobs that are in demand, people who by and large are willing to go to where the work is and start to climb on the ladder. part of me is very sympathetic to all that labor is trying to accomplish. part of me is also really wanting to talk to this generation about what the opportunities look like and where you can go with a skill that's in demand and not be necessarily reliant 100% on somebody else to make your best

deal for you. >> dana: one of the things that we've been seeing this week is here is bernie sanders on cnn on something not a new problem to america but one the president has to grapple with. >> we have made real progress in a number of areas but the reality is that today 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. >> dana: here is this. call for number four. wage demand. an average full-time offer at 69,000. that's up 14% in the past year. the problem is if you look at number six. wages versus inflation change. wages barely keeping up with inflation and for the first two years the biden administration not at all. people remember that and feel it and they don't have savings. >> yeah. for real. look, i would just say listening to bernie, bernie's macro works. every elected official is macro works.

i have read the study you just quoted. macro study. lots of numbers and trends that affect millions of people. my foundation is micro works. i'm not trying to shoe horn another shameless plug but i don't know what else to say in this day and age other than the opportunities that exist are real and they involve -- in fact, they demand an individual's ability to assess those opportunities separate and apart from the figures, from the studies, from whatever platitudes or whatever the headlines are. we can talk about general trends regarding work ethic and so forth. i have 2,000 people who have gone through a very simple program who are now working in their chosen field. some are union, some are not. some have moved, some have not. so i'm just so lear in general to paint too broad of a brush.

the opportunities are real. gen z is looking at college differently which is encouraging and not looking at a skilled trade with that same knee jerk idea it is a vocational consolation prize. to the extent unions can help elevate that great. >> dana: you and your foundation are hitting the sweet spot at this moment for these young people that needed to hear your message so they could have a great life going forward. always good to see you, mike rowe. >> a million bucks, micro works.org giving it away this month if you want to learn a trade. >> dana: great to have you. >> bret: a list of the hardest working states in the u.s. the top five are in red, north dakota leading the way, alaska, south dakota, nebraska, wyoming. the least hard working states are all in blue. there you have it. new york is in there.

new mexico, new york, west virginia, michigan, connecticut. report takes into account the state's unemployment rates as well as how many hours per week people work. north dakota governor burgum says small town, roll up the sleeves talking about on the debate stage. >> dana: lots of work and opportunities in those states. the families in wyoming are always working hard, shout out. >> president biden: the hardest thing is to come back after three months of not doing any work, not doing any homework and all of a sudden you have a lot to make up. a lot to catch up. >> dana: president biden visiting a d.c. school to mark class. students face bigger challenges to catch up on their education. nascar caught in a controversy over an internship program that some say is illegal.

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>> dana: nascar stirring up a firestorm of controversy over a diversity internship program that exclude white male applicants according to requirements listed on the racing giant's website. applicants must be members of specific ethnic group but doesn't have caucasian. legal analysts say it is blatantly illegal. we'll see if they change that. >> president biden: the hardest thing is to come back after three months of not doing any work, not doing any homework and all of a sudden you have a lot to make up. everybody has to catch up over the last year. >> bret: one thing president biden forgot to mention how hard it is to catch up on learning after being shut out of the classroom. biden rewrites the history of covid school closing. the president takes credit for

reopening. he did nothing to help. let's bring in fellow parent, "washington examiner" national politics reporter selena. it is quite something. good morning. to hear the administration, specifically the president, touting the efforts to reopen schools. there is a lot of critics pointing to his administration and school leaders saying that just didn't happen. >> yes, that's true. as we all know, politicians like to exaggerate situations. however, this is one that really hit a lot of people hard no matter where your political politics lie. it is one that people are still feeling. parents are still feeling the effect of the lack of education. but also the lack of interaction between other people that human connection that helps young people thrive and grow and learn. and that is associated with the

biden administration, with not being forceful in opening the schools and for them in a lot of times bowing to political pressure from the unions. and this is one issue where republicans could take a step forward when they run in the presidential contest next year because this is one where independents, democrats and republican parents all feel that same stress. >> bret: you are in a moment when some schools are already talking about vaccine mandates, mask mandates ahead of a possible other surge of covid. people are saying here we go again. the post covid education gaps we talk about it a lot. some of these studies, reading 4.1 months, math 4.5 months. this is a gap in education for these kids that had to do these classes remotely over zoom. >> yeah, you know, parents want

nothing more than opportunity and good education for their children. and that this was stymied and stifled, that this was taken away from them, they are not going -- i will tell you, they are not going to relive 2020 again. this is just -- it will be unacceptable to parents. if this becomes a thing again, i would really pay attention to parents' reactions no matter where they live. large cities, small towns. this will be a rallying cry that parents want to have power over. >> bret: i want to read from your write-up on the "pittsburgh post-gazette." everyone is tired of politics. there is an absolute fatigue among the american people on politics. it has been a brutal stretch for the country in terms of politics. for many americans there is not excitement or energy approaching 2024. it is more dread.

>> yeah, absolutely. first of all, to the initial point, people are not defined by politics in the way that we often assume in our profession. right? they just don't wake up every morning and think they are on the blue team or the red team. also 2020 is a painful year on a number of levels. not just on politics. their personal lives changed forever. they lost friends, they lost family members, not just to a disease, but also to the cultural impacts of the disease. their jobs changed forever. their kids' lives changed forever. >> bret: yeah, it is really interesting. we'll follow it all. this is rolling on, this campaign season despite the dread. thanks so much for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> dana: always great to have her on. new surveillance program tracking the presence of fentanyl flowing through the sewers. what it is revealing about

america's fentanyl crisis and how it is being used to help. >> we found opiates throughout the whole area, not just certain neighborhoods. it is -- people think it is not in my neighborhood or whatever. i think people will be surprised to see opiates everywhere.

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he has multiple myeloma. >> bret: wish him well. some communities rolling out a new tool to help fight america's fentanyl crisis. testing underground waste water to detect presence so help can be sent to neighborhoods that need it most before it gets worse. it is hoping to help reduce. >> it is growing. governor youngkin in virginia order his health department to deploy this testing statewide to address fentanyl poisoning. we went to new castle county, delaware. a month and a half into testing their waste water for drugs including fentanyl. pulling up raw sewage and sending it to a company. >> they run that like if you had to go in for a drug test yourself. they do the same analysis on the waste water sample that they would on a urine sample except instead of one person you are

testing 2500 people. >> the concentration from collection sites can tell a community where opioid consumption is taking place even if it's laced into other drugs. first got a lot of attention during the pandemic. they could use it to understand how covid-19 was spreading. the company shifted back to their roots in testing for drugs and the law enforcement data allows the department to provide resources proactively rather than reactively. >> the overdose where, at their house or after they buy it. arrest data. where are we catching them with the drugs is not necessarily where it is being used. it gives us a nexus where it is being used and to be a able to out each. >> not an enforcement tool. you can't tell who is taking the substance, just how much use there is among several thousand. >> bret: thank you. >> dana: a way to get information, i guess, bret.

before we go, one, thank you for being up early. we'll watch on "the five" and special report. later tonight late show i will fill in for greg gutfeld tonight. >> bret: the three-show day is impressive. >> dana: you did the all day show last wednesday. see you tomorrow as well. "the faulkner focus" is next. john roberts in for harris. >> john: good morning to you. here is where we begin today. yet another poll showing americans think president biden's age is a problem when it comes to a second term. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm john roberts in for harris. 77% say they don't think he can carry out four more years in the white house. democrats nearly 70%. progressive lawmakers, biden re-election campaign and administration deflecting on the issue. >> age i