>> gillian: i wonder how the kids are going to feel? with all those extra eyes on the field tonight, there will be a lot of pressure on the kids, too. >> john: there will be. but this thing went through the legal process, the supreme court decided in his favor. there may be some people who don't agree with him. >> gillian: i'm sure there will be. probably some protestors out there. too >> john: see you at 3:00. >> gillian: we'll see you at 1:00. >> john: sandra smith is in for harris >> sandra:. we're awaiting the president on the economy. he is expected to speak live from the rose garden to take a victory lap on the jobs added in the just-released august jobs report. likely pat himself on the back for what has been dubbed biden nom ickx. in is the "the faulkner focus" and i'm sandra smith in for harris. 187,000 jobs is how many were added last month.

the unemployment rate with an unexpected jump from 3.5 to 3.8% all pointing to an economic cooldown after that post pandemic boom. experts reacting this way. >> the 3.8% is the biggest surprise. the unemployment rate is actually a pretty meaningful indicator. a lot of times that's one of the first places that we see a recession coming on. so jumping to 3.8 is potentially the start of something concerning. >> unemployment rate is pretty shocking. the uaw goes on strike as many anticipate, i guess we might cross over 4%. there is no doubt the yellow bankruptcy impact of the numbers. >> sandra: we heard the trucking company yellow filed for bankruptcy leaving 30,000 people without jobs. the actors strike in hollywood and white house announcing new regulations with more negative impact on businesses, new wage standards for construction

workers and extended overtime pay. steve moore, former economic advisor to president trump joining us ahead of the president's speech a few moments from now. this is likely to be a bit of a victory lap on the part of the white house. they touted bidenomics as the policies under this president that they say are working. what did this jobs report tell you? >> well sandra, there was good news and bad news in this report. the good news is to me the most important thing was that we had almost half a million new people entering the workforce. sandra, you and i have been talking about for the last year a big problem is so many people not entering the workforce because they were getting all the government benefits. it is a good thing we're getting people off the sofa starting to get to the workforce. i like that. but you know, the number of jobs that were produced, there was 110,000 reduction in the revision so this was not really a very good jobs number at all. of course, the biggest problem

of all with this u.s. economy right now is that although wages have slipped a little bit above inflation in the last month, for 22 of the last 24 months wages are behind the rate of inflation. what that means, sandra, is that the average family today is about $5 thousand poorer today than they were when joe biden came into office. so he has a tough selling job to the american people the say look at all the wonderful things i've done for the economy when most people are poorer. >> sandra: interesting observation. i wanted to note i put in a request to the brain room to calculate what they call real unemployment. it is not a number put out by the government like that headline number but as you well know, steve, that incorporates those who are discouraged from looking for work or perhaps under employed as in working part-time because of the economic conditions and that actually spiked a 7.1%.

that's something to keep in mind. meanwhile, steve, we have heard president biden beating the drum that bidenomics is a key part of his 2024 campaign. listen here. >> president biden: the plan is working. bidenomics is just another way of saying restoring the american dream. that's what it is. financial times and "wall street journal" don't meant as a compliment started referring to it as bidenomics. guess what? it's working. [cheers and applause] >> sandra: a look at the big picture inflation up nearly 16% from january 2021 when biden first took office to last month. and food at home, groceries are up nearly 20%. "new york post" op-ed inflation is rising again and bidenomics is still to blame. consumer price index was at 3% in june. rose to 3.2% in july. that's the reality of the

situation people are living in and steve, that's why when polled, most voters right now say that's their primary concern, inflation, the economy. they are feeling that. >> yeah, i think it's almost like the president is out of touch with main street america when he runs around the country saying how well his policies are working when you have two out of three american families saying no, these things aren't working for me. i'm in worse shape than i was four years ago. i think there is kind of a detachment from reality. you were saying, sandra, you have your back of the envelope calculation for the real unemployment rate. i have my own back of the envelope calculation for the real inflation rate. what i like to look at is food, i like to look at rent, mortgages, utilities, gas prices. guess what, sandra, those aren't growing at 3 or 4% but at 10%. americans understand that. the real inflation rate that they are facing is putting a

real dent in the income. look what is happening to credit card debt and the ability for people to pay off the credit card debts. people are going more into debt to maintain their living conditions because prices are so high. >> sandra: as they go into more debt to pay for this inflation, the interest rates on that debt are going up to try to get the inflation down. it is the ugly cycle that we can get in and seems we are in at this point. meanwhile, steve, a new report shows 4 to 10 high income households, those earning more than $1 hundred thousand a year are still living paycheck to paycheck. steve, i know you will watch the economy and you watch the politics of all of this. if that's the reality from american families right now living paycheck to paycheck, so many of them, surely there will be political consequences to this if it is still the situation as we get closer to

election day. >> i am old enough to what happened in 1980 when we had a democratic president jimmy carter running against ronald reagan. reagan looked right into the camera in that famous debate and said are you better off than you were four years ago? inflation was so high back then people said i'm worse off. that's exactly -- if it turns out to be trump versus biden that's exactly what donald trump will say. do you feel better about your economic conditions and your finances today than four years ago? if those polls are right, sandra, 70% say no. >> sandra: it's interesting. if i could get to a preview what we'll hear from the president. laughing about bidenomics. he said "wall street journal" coined the phrase. i brought in jerry baker in the days the president start evidence using bidenomics from the "wall street journal" and he said it was originally used to describe what was a government picking winners and losers, a

situation the federal government should not be putting themselves into. they seem to be owning this and we know that when the president speaks a few moments from now, there is good data out there and they will likely present that to the american people as a result of their policies. what do you expect we are going to hear and sort of how should the country digest what that is? >> to be fair, the job market is still strong, sandra, no question about it. there are jobs out there. if i were writing that speech for joe biden i would be talking about the fact that there are jobs available for americans. that's a good thing. i never root against the american economy. the stock market. you cover this a lot. has been on a tear lately. that's good news. but i think it's hard to persuade people that their lives are better off. remember that issue about debt is so critical because half of families now are saying they are not going to be able -- they are struggling to pay their credit card bills and other debt.

look what has happened to mortgage rates. if you looked at that one it was 2.9% for a mortgage when trump left office. it is 7.1% now. biden talked about the american dream. isn't owning a house part of that? guess what? the middle class can't afford a house now because of these new rates. >> sandra: the average home price in the country is topping $4 hundred thousand. with interest rates going up, that makes affordability really tough. meanwhile personal savings are taking a dip. pre-pandemic almost 9% took another dip in recent months to 3.5% as of july. so this is sort of a snapshot of the entire picture right now. we'll likely hear from the president a few moments from now. steve, thank you. good to have you on today. labor day marks the unofficial end of summer. americans expected to hit the road in droves as gas prices have been slowly ticking back

up. the average is now at $3.81 a gallon as of this morning. garrett tenney is live in chicago with more on what to look out for this weekend. hello, garrett. >> one thing to look out for is traffic. more than half of americans are expected to get out of town for the holiday weekend and due to inflation, almost 42% say holiday travels look a bit different. a lot more cars are likely going to be on the road. >> we do anticipate a lot of road trips especially a lot of shorter road trips. so many people are sort of wanting to get back into the fall routine. not wanting to travel as far away. but that means that local roads are going to be congested. >> driving may be cheaper than flying but gas prices aren't anything to be cheering about. the national average for a gallon of gas today is $3.81. a bit higher than a month ago and roughly the same as last labor day. for many families, it is

becoming a factor in their holiday plans. >> incredibly high. for the last two weeks they've been going up. >> i just want to hop on the public transit but not everybody has the time to hop on public transit. >> whether i take some of those road trips. do i need to use the car as much. >> today is supposed to have some of the worst traffic for the weekend since the combination of them hitting the road for the weekend and those heading to work. aaa says if you can wait until tonight or tomorrow morning you can potentially miss out on some of the extra headaches. >> sandra: we'll be watching all of it and may the traffic be with you as you head out this weekend. garrett, thank you. all right . democrats are turning on the biden administration as the migrant crisis overwhelms blue cities and states. republicans are gearing up to take action against president

biden. >> i think there is consensus in the conference now we have to go to impeachment inquiry. that will be speaker mccarthy's call. i feel like we're there now, sean. i feel like it's imminent. >> sandra: a new lawsuit alleges that thousands of emails showed vice president biden used fake names to talk business with his son. tammy bruce will be joining us live on set next. are you a veteran,

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>> sandra: a new lawsuit alleges that then vice president joe biden used three pseudonym emails accounts to discuss business dealings with his son huntser. the national archives confirms there are over 5,000 ampullitis mails and 200 pages of records that have to be processed for the lawsuit. house oversight committee trying to get their hands on email between the bidens. the national archives sending some of those to aides of former president obama and president biden for approval. the republicans stay key information might be delayed and

blocked in the process. >> we have requested these documents. we have legislative jurisdiction over national archives. they have stonewalled into biden mishandling of classified documents and now we hope they don't stone wall us in these pseudonym requests. there are 5400 emails. >> sandra: david spunt joins us. >> this lawsuit was filed days to go. it is not unusual for public figures or political figures, republicans and democrats, to sometimes use pseudonyms in emails to keep their email inboxes from filling up. this case is a little different because this group, the southeastern legal foundation, is not focused on the pseudonyms but on what was sent in those emails. this group claims that then vp biden talked business with his son, hunter, via email. fox news hasn't independently confirmed that hunter was copied

on these emails. according to the lawsuit the national archives is sitting on thousands of emails messages from biden's office with the following sued nipples, robin ware, and robert l. peters as pci.gov. national archives responded to the group. we've performed a look for those requests and identified identified 5,138 emails and other records that must be processed in order to respond to your request. >> our goal is to get these and put them out in public. maybe there is nothing in them. maybe it's one of these nothing to see here. i doubt that. why else would you use an alias? >> a source with the national archives says there is a multi-year backlog requests for records of this volume. and certain restrictions of

information act and law enforcement matters. emails from the biden vice presidency fall under the presidential records act. that means as you mentioned in your intro that former president barack obama's representatives, also the current president, joe biden, who was vice president at the time. representatives for him would have a say on what could be released. it is possible these won't be released. the group is suing and they've been sitting on it for over a year with no response and they are still in the queue. >> sandra: david, thank you. let's bring in tammy bruce, fox news contributor. great to have you here and thank you for joining us. what do you make of all this? >> it seems strange to me they talk about national security issues and they have to be vetted and people have to know and have to check to make sure there is nothing serious in them. and they are using g-mail. open public servers for these alias emails which should be the first things available to the public, should be immediately

mate made. when you are using a pseudonym there is a reason for that. the american people deserve to know. if it is to keep your email box from being overflowing. they converse with these fake names. let's not talk about national security and that they've got to vet them when these were emails that were clearly not secured or moved through any kind of secured network. one of the reasons hillary's servers was an issue. wanted to avoid this dynamic. if there are thousands and backlog they will try to push this off for years and may be successful unless the republicans step up and sue and get this to the supreme court. >> sandra: they are pushing. the president was asked about this, tammy, yesterday speaking at fema headquarters about the storm. he laughed off a question about those bank records. this happened yesterday. listen. >> president biden: you want to talk to me about -- do you want

-- let's talk about why i'm here. >> sandra: how much longer do you believe the white house can avoidance erg questions on this? >> when the democrat party turns on him. he can laugh it off because he has been protected for 50 years. no reason why he thinks any of it will move. legacy media is not covering it in a sensitive way. if they covered it at all. so you will see more and more happening. when he acknowledged his granddaughter was only when "the new york times" when you had that editorial piece condemning him for that. there are certain signals in the legacy medias. this is what goes on in our country that tells the most powerful man in the world what he should be doing. that's what we have to look for. that's the only time it will happen. >> sandra: as far as the whistleblowers and their claims being stonewalled when there is request for more information, this is the i.r.s. whistleblower's lawyer saying garland called his client a

liar. >> garland has called supervisor shapley a liar. not those words but in essence saying weiss has always had this authority and weiss has sent letters trying to follow the lead of the attorney general. garland has put himself in the position of making a lot of representations that have one-by-one proven not to be fully accurate. >> sandra: if that's the case a tough position to be. the justice department politicized hunter biden probe interference by garland's department keeps piling up. >> something being politicized. everything is, right? this is our government. the difference is when we see it being used to deflect any kind of real justice. that's what the american people don't like. we aren't done. we don't think everybody here is thinking only the best and will always do the right thing. politics is politics. we see it being weaponized. that's a word being used a lot

because now they are being blatant with it. efforts to stop investigations, efforts to smear perhaps whistleblowers. efforts to keep people from getting to the bidens. that's when the system begins to be used as a defense mechanism for one party or a few people when it is supposed to be for all of us and to keep our system safe and reliable and something we can trust. >> sandra: the ongoing migrant crisis as people are affected all over the country today. massachusetts democrat governor is now ordering the national guard to help at emergency shelters because of the overwhelming number of migrants in her state. and we know new york is facing its own migrant mess. democratic leaders there are pointing fingers at the feds. >> questioning our capabilities while withholding the crucial resources that we have asked for does not reflect the american solidarity we have consistently demonstrated.

we need the federal government to respond to us just like we are responding to them. not with just critiques but with actions. >> sandra: the white house deflected when asked why president biden hasn't met with governor hochul yet. >> there is a lot going on and his chief of staff met with -- was part of that meeting. i believe secretary mayokas was part of that meeting. some of his high-level senior staff participated in the meeting with the governor. every time we're in new york, practically every time the president engages with the governor. they have a good relationship. look, the president has a lot on his plate. >> sandra: how do you interpret that? >> there has been a lot of question who is running the country. maybe it is the chief of staff. we don't know. but what's interesting here is that new york has a massive homeless problem. it has a massive -- we see it on the street. not just california and san francisco, it is new york, los

angeles. and 245s why when you try to have a strong sate. if there is an unusual thing that happens like the migrant crisis you can handle it. what this set up for is more federal dollars being distributed to these states that still have a crisis and don't utilize money properly and still don't help people living on the street. there are new yorkers living on the street while migrants are living in hotels. with massachusetts, 20,000 migrants, their average homeless population is between 15,020,000 people. if they are going to use the national guard to help with services for the migrants, what about services for the people of massachusetts who are living on the street? so we get into this weird thing where the priorities are and why are americans living in tents and on the streets on drugs with nowhere to go and migrants are being treated in a very different matter. >> sandra: this is right down the street, the scene on the

screen now. i drove by there just two days ago and it doesn't look much difference. this has been going on for quite some time. that's all around the block there that roosevelt hotel. this is the press secretary to the president asked about this in the middle of all this blame that is going around she said this yesterday. >> look, the president has done what he can from here. while he is taking steps on his own, republicans have made this an incredibly political issue and have turned this into a political stunts that we've seen over and over and over again. >> sandra: she is blaming republicans for the border mess. by the way, these are the border crossings and boy, are they continuing to go up. southwest border encounter numbers show and reveal in may there were more than 200,000

encounters, 144,000 in june. 183,000 in july. the fiscal year-to-date custom and border patrol reported more than 1.9 million encounters. that's almost reaching 2 million now. >> those are the encounters. what are they not catching? these are again you have a dynamic where there is clearly an open border. there is no vetting. you have people saying templates about how they need asylum and it's checked and told to come back for a hearing in 5 or 6 months and this is ruining not just of course crime is going up. it is ruining those people's lives who find themselves in a dynamic where they are waiting outside hoping for a hotel room and then maybe becoming effectively the equivalent of servants when they get a job for $15 an hour and go find an apartment or housed in some kind of factory fashion. we don't know. but the system can't handle this

right now. you have crime going up, those individuals, the sex trafficking still, the drugs, what is happening with women and children, people indeed looking for a better life being used as political pawns. it is complete chaos. for some reason the democrats think this is useful. i have said from the start this in some ways was punishment for the people who supported trump and trump for caring about the border for that being a major issue for the country was to say as abusers do, they are going to hurt the thing you care about most and this is -- seems to be what is unfolding. i think that all of this is performtive from democrat cities because they want federal money to flow in. their budgets are awful. who knows what it would really go to. >> sandra: it's a massive and growing number of people coming into the country and it is not -- no longer just border states or community issue, it is all over the country now. major political issue heading into the election.

tammy bruce, thank you. the pentagon rolling out a one stop shop website for declassified information on ufos after a former top intelligence officer accused it of hiding evidence. plus another hoax on capitol hill has washington worried. >> you have to stop and think this is the second person in the united states senate, senate minority leader, senate terms are for six years, that's a long time. it does raise serious questions.

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jennifer griffin has more on that for us live from the pentagon. >> the pentagon has pushed back on that whistleblower testimony but the issue of whether there is life out there, whether ufos exist or as the pentagon likes to call them uap, has obsessed the public since the first airman came forward a few years ago and said they were seeing things they could not understand or explain. now after months of delay, the pentagon has launched a website where the public and members of the military can report any suspected ufos. they were required to do so by congress under the 2023 national defense authorization act. after videos like this began to appear. the website for what is being called the pentagon's all domain anomaly resolution office has finally been made public. >> what you see today is what has been declassified to date. it's focused on the facts,

taking in information, reviewing the facts and then when possible declassifying that information and making it available. >> it was so popular that the website crashed last night. it is back up now. this website will provide information including videos and photos on uap cases as declassified and approved for public release. the website's other things have links to official reports, transcripts, press releases and other resources. the pentagon has had an office to deal with these issues. when whistleblowers began to testify that the pentagon was hiding evidence, something the defense department denies, they were forced by congress to be more transparent. >> sandra: interesting stuff. thank you. big concerns over the age of our nation's leaders after

81-year-old senator mitch mcconnell froze again during a news conference this week. doctor medically cleared him to work but it hasn't stopped critics who point out the advanced ages of some members of congress like senator dianne feinstein and even president biden. according to a recent poll 77% of voters and 69% of democrats say the president at age 80 is too old to be effective for four more years. mike huckabee says this. >> we require airline pilots to leave the cockpit at age 65 in this country. when many of them are at their peak of performance and they have 30,000 hours or more of flying experience. but we force them to get out. we're afraid they may not be able to perform. maybe it's time we look at that for people who are in office. if they can't do their jobs, whether it's fetterman, feinstein, mcconnell, joe biden, doesn't matter what party, maybe

it is time to say got to go. >> sandra: lucas tomlinson has more for us. fair to say this latest unfortunate incident with the senator sparked quite a debate about age? >> that's right. rich if the oldest president in u.s. history were to knock his age and speaking at fema yesterday. president biden called him and offered his support. >> president biden: he was his old self on the telephone and having a little understanding of dealing with neuro surgeons and people and one of the leading women in my staff her husband is a neurosurgeon as well. the response that sometimes happen to mitch is not unusual. >> nikki haley wasn't as sympathetic. >> we do need mental competency tests for anyone over the age of

75. these are people making decisions on our national security. they are making decisions on our economy, on the border. we need to know they are at the top of their game. you can't say that right now. >> new book by atlantic staff writer says biden, quote, in private would occasionally admit he felt tired. some democrats including former bill clinton advisor mark penn defended the remark. saying all presidents are tired in the job including his former boss. >> being tired, president clinton barely slept. he was tired most of the time particularly during impeachment. so i don't know it was much of a shocking revelation to me. >> this week marked the two year anniversary of america's hasty withdrawal from afghanistan. biden's approval ratings sank. he went against the recommendations from top military advisors and nato

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>> sandra: 2024 republican presidential candidates have their knives out for ramaswamy after his break-out performance at last week's debate on the fox news channel. attacks mostly going after his foreign policy positions. mark meredith has more from washington on that for us. hi, mark. >> sure do. good morning. happy friday. ramaswamy generated momentum after the debate in milwaukee. his fellow gop candidates appear eager to recapture the spotlight and increase their energy and attacks on the 38-year-old entrepreneur. this weekend he will hold

multiple campaign events in new hampshire likely to face questions on foreign policy and experience. nikki haley hammered ramaswamy after an interview where he said he wouldn't send u.s. troops to fight iran if it attacked israel. haley said he have should take his place between the squad and get nowhere near the white house. ramaswamy said we would full le support israel militarily but don't want u.s. soldiers dying in the war. former president trump on thursday called vivek a smart young guy. political experts say voters may be interested in a fresh face but don't know if the enthusiasm will last. >> he doesn't have the baggage that some other candidates have but he also doesn't necessarily have the experience or the

experience that a longer record would bring to the table. >> it is an influx of donations after the debate. the campaign has been benefiting heavily from donations and loans coming from the candidate directly. >> sandra: fascinating stuff. by the way, i'll speak with vivek ramaswamy coming up on america reports along with my co-anchor john roberts. please do join us for that. for more on all of it let's bring in a political scientist at princeton university and an advisor to -- react to those attacks on vivek ramaswamy after his debate performance last week. >> it's an interesting dynamic happening. there is a fundamental annoyance first of all among these candidates that ramaswamy waltzed to the center of a national debate stage and in the

polls he is beating two governors and a former vice president. there is also this sense in which ramaswamy lacks experience. there is definitely an niefsh tee there. ramaswamy shares many of trump's without going after the president. if you don't like him and agree with him why did you work for him. this want to carve out some of ramaswamy 9%. it will go to trump or desantis anyway if he drops out. >> sandra: considering the latest real clear politics average of polls it shows the former president, donald trump with a 40-point lead. that is still a competitor, vivek ramaswamy. he seems to be showing support for him. what do you make of all this and

certainly the developments since the debate last week? >> i think he is a fresh face. voters want a take a good look at him and new on the scene. all the other candidates have a long track record. voters probably know a decent amount about them. once they actually dig into vivek's policies and some of the things he said they realize he has no business being on the national stage. he is unqualified to even run for congress at this point. he doesn't even understand how bills get passed in the senate. he thought mike pence could pass three bills on january 6th, get the president to sign them and then certify the election. he should take a civics class to learn this. he has been very smart. he is not attacking donald trump and very complimentary of him. i would run for a spot in a potential trump administration. that seems like what he is doing. >> sandra: i will let lauren respond to your comment there. but also sort of weaving in ron desantis, the leading contender

on the stage without donald trump there, the "wall street journal" taking up hurricane ron desantis saying this seems to be mr. desantis in his element referencing his recent spotlight with the storm. examining the figures, emergency response plans, covid-19 statistics and synthesizeing it to government policy. the 30-second drive by at the debate but could they get the bridge open? has this been a moment where ron desantis, the governor of florida, really shows where he shines? >> yes, sandra. ron desantis has the opposite problem of vivek ramaswamy. he has the personality issue and a really great track record of executive leadership on a few key things that are part of his platform. but the way the presidential election system has evolved in this country. i teach my students this at

princeton. it requires an element of showmanship and that's why trump really did so well in 2016 without the prior experience. and so ramaswamy, while he lacks some basic policy knowledge that yes, should be some kind of requirement to run for president perhaps, he has these controversial issue positions and comments that whether you agree with them or not do generate attention. and attention is at a premium right now because trump and his indictments and yes, hurricane idalia and the other candidates are taking up a lot of oxygen. it is a fight for that spotlight and he is getting a good chunk of it. >> sandra: let me real in tim scott. donors are worried about his single status and its impact on his 2024 campaign. a polling expert is telling daily mail.

iowa republicans continue much care if the united states is married. whether male, female, young or old not three in ten voters say they think it is important that the president is married. very interesting considering the donors' concerns about that. jonathan. >> there seems to be a huge divide between the donor class and actual voters. smart politicians like tim scott know they need donors but know they have to respond to voters and what voters care about which is why i don't think it will be an issue for tim scott. one of the things he has going for him. he have is a nice, compassionate, warm person to be around. nobody in the senate who wouldn't tell you that tim scott is a great guy. voters will understand that and connect with that and not need to know that he is married or dating or whatever. >> sandra: interesting. appreciate both of you joining us. good discussion and good debate. be sure to tune into the second primary republican debate coming up on september 27th on fox

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