♪ ♪ griff: president biden set to arrive in florida any moment to tour damage left behind by hurricane idalia. the category three storm slammed into the florida coast earlier this week as officials are now focused on restoring power to the tens of thousands along the west coast. welcome to "fox news live," i'm griff jenkins. hour two, great to have you, mike. mike: you sound fired up. florida governor ron desantis' office releasing a statement saying the governor and mr. biden will not meet, adding

that the necessary security would hinder recovery efforts on the ground. lucas tomlinson's live at the white house with the latest. hello, lucas. >> reporter: that's right, president biden and the first lady set to arrive any moment now, they'll be going to hive oak located halfway between tallahassee and jacksonville. as you mentioned, governor desantis will not be there to greet him. president biden spoke to reporters on the ramp before departing from andrews. [inaudible conversations] >> i don't think he's going to be there. >> reporter: do you have a message for him in. >> we're going to the take care of florida. >> reporter: a spokesman for governor desantis' office says the governor will be in dixie county today which includes horseshoe beach, one of the hardest hit areas, about an hour south of where biden will be. a spokesman said, quote, we don't have any plans for the governor to meet with the

president today. in these rural communities, the security preparations, as mike said, alone would go into setting up such a meeting would shut down ongoing recovery efforts. that's not what we heard from the president yesterday. he said to to answering a shouted question from a reporter, he looked forward to meeting governor desantis in florida. a spokesman for the white house said, quote, their visit to florida has been planned in close coordination with fema as well as state and local leaders to insure there's no impact of response operations. now, earlier this week we saw governor desantis from horseshoe beach taking a call are from president biden. here it is. >> we're in horseshoe beach now, it's pretty rough here. there's a lot of folks putting stuff together, but we will let her know. all right. thanks so much, sir. >> governor, has the biden administration offered any assistance so far? >> we're all good. >> reporter: now, mike, disaster politics dates back nearly a century after the mississippi river flooded in 1927.

president calvin coolidge declined to visit despite urging by senators and governors. in november of that year there was another flood in coolidge's home state of vermont. again, he didn't go. many both cases he did dispatch his commerce secretary by the name of herbert hoover, of course, coolidge had announced he would not be running for re-election after the death of his son. mike: you can always count on lucas tomlinson to make it educational. many thanks. griff: all right, mike, time for our political panel for all things campaign 2024. with us today is tim head, the executive director of the faith and freedom coalition and scott bolten, the former d.c. democratic party chair. tim, scott, thank you for being here, guys. i want to get deep into our panel, so much to talk about. but, scott, i just wanted to take a moment, in the last hour we reported the sad passing of bill richardson, the former ambassador, the governor of new

mexico, a real rock star in the democrat party. your thoughts. >> just one of the finest human beings i've ever met. i'm a former state party chair for d.c. i've had dinner with secretary richardson over the years off and on in new mexico at attorney functions, and he's got -- he had some stories about post being u.n. ambassador, getting americans out of really hostile countries and just a swell human being. del alforeign leaders, whatever the regime, loved and respected him. we're going to miss him, and we need more men like him and elected officials like him in 2023 as opposed to what we have on both sides. griff: that's for sure. he will, indeed, be missed. all right, let's dive in. now, of all the things campaign 2024 i thought we were going to to the talk about today, this one was not one of them. mask mandates and covid coming back. dr. fauci popped up on another

network today with this warning. take a listen. >> we're starting to see a surge of cases, as you mentioned, about an 18 or 19% increase this hospitalizations. certainly going in the wrong direction what looks like a late summer and into the fall surge. how bad it's going to get, we don't know. griff: he also said he hopes that mask mandates would not come back as a recommendation from the cdc, but you never know. tim, what impact does that have on the campaign trail? >> well, gosh, where to start? i would say, you know, one of the kind of perilous things about this, why it's so important for our government officials to be neutral and have credibility is because sometimes we do have legitimate health scares just like, you know, what we had for some of 2020 and may be dealing with now, you know? some of the challenge here is that dr. fauci has lost enormous credibility, and so, you know, a lot of people across the country

here report it like in this and roll their eyes instead deof actually lean in to learn more. i would say the quick version, i would say, we're till going to see governors making the ultimate calls when it comes to economies, school systems, etc. and, frankly, i think the most governors are going to be the very reticent to pull the trigger on these kinds of things after watching the realities of a couple years ago. griff: that's exactly the question. scott, what do you say, and particularly, does it put democrats in a difficult position if indeed these recommendations for mask mandates, our kids in school, sort of prodoes that pose? >> well, we're not there yet. i mean, we've got this increase. we know a lot more about covid today the than we did 3, 4, 5 yearsing a ago. we were in uncharted territory. whether you like dr. fauci or not, whether you think he's credible or not, i give him a pass in the sense that it was

uncharted territory. i'll even give donald trump a pass, quite frankly. i don't think mask mandates are coming back because we've learned a lot. i think we're going to have to be advantage i city nateed -- vaccinated. i think the numbers are up. we're not counting covid cases like we used to, that the hospitals, whether they're checking waste water, the numbers just aren't reliable. and remember, this disease still kills, so we've got to be vigilant and do whatever we can to protect others so that we don't have loss of life. griff: all right. we'll see where that goes. and you're right, they're not asking us to mask up yet, but i do believe there's going to be a lot of people that won't comply across the entire political spectrum should they. moving on though to the issue that's front and center in this race, it isn't an issue like the economy or crime or immigration, it's simply age. in a recent ap poll, simply said, more than 75% of americans believe that joe biden is simply too old. so how big of an issue is the

age factor going to be, tim, on the campaign trail, and how much do you think voters truly care about the age of our candidates? >> well, you know, i think that there are a couple of elements that are kind of presumed or almost assumed when we talk about age. we use the, you know, kind of the number of years that you've been alive kind of moniker, but really people are talking about competency and also relatability. and, frankly, you know, as voting numbers for younger e voters have continued to increase over the last 12-15 years, the relatability question becomes definitely an issue not only certainly for, you know, presidentials, but also for u.s. senate candidates and down ballot. the last thing i'll say is, you know, instead of kind of talking about should there be laws or restrictions on, you know, upper-end age limits for candidates, etc., i really do

think it's, first of all, better to talk about can they do the job and, secondly, leave it to the voters. the voters don't believe they can do it, voters will not return them to office. griff: scott, what do you say? >> i think we can agree on that. there's a big difference between being older american and being sick. and i've used that comparison when it comes to the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, because i do think he has some health issues. and when he zones out, that's a real problem. and i'm not blaming, ooh i'm not being political about that. i was very concerned about his health because i've lived with someone in my family like that. that being said, there's a huge gap between biden's legislative successes and where he's taken the country from a democratic viewpoint as opposed to how people are feeling. if joe biden is the democratic nominee, 90% or more of the democrats are going to vote for him. if you ask them the question is he too old, would they prefer someone else, then his numbers are not that good.

but again, it's it's about choices in these elections. and if it's biden versus trump, democrats are going to vote overwhelmingly for biden, and the whole age piece and whether he's too old, you know, that almost sounds like age discrimination. mental acuity is the key, until someone finds him, mitch mcconnell or otherwise not having the acuity to do their job, then i think my colleague is right, it'll be up to the voters. griff: you know, i think we can quickly show before we run out of time, we put a list of the top five oldest members of congress. you see there feinstein, grassley, napolitano, norton the there as well, and there's one other, bill pascrell. you add it up, they're more than 435 years old. so my question finally, and i've only got 20 the seconds for you each, start with you, tim. should there be a law, we know there's a minimum required to run for office, should there there be a maximum?

>> i think that that's probably ill-informed. you know, not only for running for office itself, president, senate, u.s. house, but bear in mine we with just had a supreme court justice the serve very ably until she was 87 until her recent passing. i don't think the question was her mental ability. it was, you know, i think it's important for us to focus on performance not just categories. griff: all right. scott, the last word. >> yeah. most big law firms have a retirement age requirement of 70 years old. i've got at lot of partners that are still practicing past 70 an -- at the firm. 435 years on that photo you showed, that's a lot of experience, a lot of wins, a lot of losses. [laughter] and what are you going to do with that prior experience? those are excellent legislators. i don't think you can elect your way out of people serving because people keep getting reelected despite how hard it is to beat an incumbent.

griff: great point. with age comes wisdom. thank you, guys, have a great labor day weekend. this week on "fox news sunday," hap nonbream sitting down with jared bernstein as well as former vice president and 2024 republican presidential candidate mike pence. shannon bream. check your local listings for time and channel or set your dvr to watch it later. and on "mediabuzz," howie kurtz discussing the decision to allow cameras in the courtroom throughout donald trump's georgia criminal proceedings. will the the televised trial now be treated as a national sport? that's tomorrow, # 11 a.m. eastern. ♪ ♪ mike: the second gop presidential debate just a few weeks away on the mighty fox business. this as vivek ramaswamy battles new targets on the campaign trail after a breakout debate performance last month. alexandria hoff is live with the latest from the campaign trail.

hello, or alec. >> >> reporter: -- alex. >> reporter: the heated exchanges haven't been left on the stage. told ramaswamy is the sole gop candidate out on the trail. this morning he hosted a breakfast with vivek, that's what the event was called, it was in the amherst, new hampshire. >> there are good people running, i respect them. but in this primary for u.s. president, we do face a choice. the choice is this: do you want to incremental reform or do you want revolution in. >> reporter: yesterday ramaswamy appeared on "america reports" where he ponded to a section of his web site that refers to former u.n. ambassador nickihill lay, a gesture that has been called a racist dog hisst -- whistle. >> it was a playful jest at her

misproannouncing my name. i believe in a little bit of banter on the basketball court. we're having fun in this race. >> reporter: nikki haley didn't have quite as much fun, she and chris christie both spoke out this week. >> it's pretty pathetic. i, first of all, i was born with nikki on my birth certificate, i was raised as nikki, i marrieded a haley. so he can say or misspell, do whatever he wants, but he can't step away from the fact that, look, he's the one that said he was going to abandon israel. >> he says something, he gets roundly criticized and practically laughed at over some of the stuff he said, and then he said i didn't say that, i meant this. this is not the kind of person you want sitting behind the desk in the oval office. >> reporter: so the candidates who have qualified so far for the next debate are are christie, desantis, pence,

ramaswamy, haley and scott. the event is 25 the days away. mike: alexandria hoff, thanks a lot. griff: and some sad news for jimmy buffett fans, the iconic entertainer has died at the age of 76. madeleine rivera is live with more. a sad day for parrotheads, maddie. >> reporter: it is. jimmy buffett's songs not only won him a group of devoted fans, he also turned that brand into a billion dollar empire. margaritaville, which includes hotels and restaurants like the one you see behind me, resulting from the 1977 hit manager' a theville. ♪ finish frozen concoction that helps me hang on, hang on, hang on! ♪ wasting away again in margarita theville. >> reporter: a statement the on buffett's web site says he passed away peacefully on

september 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs. the statement goes on to say he lived his life like a song til the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many. he was 76 years old. the statement doesn't mention a cause of death, but in another statement back in may, buffett referred to a hospital stay that forced him to reschedule a concert in charleston, south carolina. buffett was born in mississippi, however, he found his footing in key west which gave him the inspiration for songs with low key fun. buffett has sold more than 20 the million albums around the world with other top songs like cheeseburger in paradise. the tributes have been coming in from his supporters e. here's what one fan had to say. >> the best memories of jimmy buffett is he's one of those type of people no matter who it is, you're always going to be happy around him. listening to his music, it's just kind of like a family moment. you're always happy when you hear jimmy buffett. >> reporter: president biden

releasing a statement as well saying in part jimmy reminded us how much the simple things in life matter; the people we love, the places we're from, the hopes we have on the horizon. griff: he will be sorely missed, and his music will live on mahdi rivera, thank you very much. florida officials racing to restore power for tens of thousands of residents in the wake of hurricane idalia. we'll have a live report after the break. ♪ ♪ i'm a retired school librarian. i'm also a library board trustee, a mother of two, and a grandmother of two. basically, i thought that my memory wasn't as good as it had been. i needed all the help i could get. i saw the commercials for prevagen. i started taking it. and it helped! i noticed my memory was better. there was definite improvement. i've been taking prevagen for a little over five years. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription.

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mike: president biden arriving in florida to tour the damage in the wake of hurricane idalia. the powerful storm slammed the sunshine state earlier this week. governor desantis' team posting a statement saying desantis will not be meeting with the president during his visit adding that the necessary security measures would disrupt the ongoing recovery efforts. as you see, the president there on the ground in gainesville, florida, before he begins that tour. recovery efforts and cleanup is underway in the sunshine state after idalia slammed florida earlier this week tearing down treeses, demolishing houses and flipping even cars. for more on that, katie byrd is

live on the ground in live oak, florida. hey, katie. >> reporter: hey, griff. yeah, we are in live oak today about an hour away from gainesville where the president just landed. but the president and the first lady are going to make their way over here to live oak in about an hour. i can tell you, this town's been busy with people lining up at donation sites, they're collecting water, food, supplies and things like that from the florida state guard at this site where we are. we're expecting more from biden's agenda. he's going to first start with an aerial tour of damage across the state, and then he's going to come to live oak in about an hour where he will tour an impacted community here and get a briefing from local officials and then give a speech. now, this town is the county sweet for suwannee county where people are dealing with wind damage from the storm compared with some of the storm surge damage we've seen that's wiped out towns in nearby taylor and madison counties. stilling some people here have gone day days with no power and

not even a hot shower. >> it's just total devastation. 4-500-year-old oak trees uprooted, there was a pine tree about big around at the corner of my place, it justs snapped it. it's just -- i've never seen this much destruction in my life. >> reporter: yeah. power restoration still a huge priority. about half of this county is still without it, and more than 50,000 are still without it across the state. griff? griff: all right. katie, we'll check back in with you as news warrant withs. thanks, katie. mike: for more we're joined by red cross spokesperson jay bonifee, welcome. >> thank you very much for having me. mike: the red cocross is known for being there 24/7. or what are you doing specifically related to idaliasome. >> sure. right now i'm at our disaster relief operation headquarters here many tallahassee. a lot of those efforts are being coordinated from here.

there's nearly 600 red cross workers on the ground here in florida, also in the carolinas and in georgia to provide that comfort and hope. and that includes taking emergency response vehicles out into some of those hardest hit communities as it gets safe to do so bringing in food, bringing in clean-up kits and things like that. we have shelters open still since the storm hit, over 1,000 people have spent a night in our shelters or in our partners' shelters. we were at a shelter i heard madison mention, i was at a shelter at madison yesterday, and a family was still coming to check in just yesterday. they just could not stay home without power, without air-conditioning and food any longer, so they were still coming to check in, and we want to accommodate for all of those folks. mike: well, our hearts ache for those suffering after this hurricane. are we fortunate there was not a direct hit on tampa or some other major population center, jay? >> well, i think for the folks that are impacted here, it's

just as devastating as something like that would have been. it did hit some more rural areas, but those folks may not have had resources to begin with in some cases. so we're going to be here wherever the storm hits and just be working with our partners to make sure that we're able to provide that emergency assistance. mike: it is hurricane season meaning there could be other storms bearing down on american cities and and towns. do you expect to be busy with hurricanes through thanksgiving or so? >> well,s you know, we're already busy. it's very clearly, you know, we're dealing with a climate crisis right now. we have -- we respond to twice as many large scale disasters than we did 10 years ago, and one of those going on right now in hawaii. there's crews that are doing very similar work to what a we're doing here in florida still doing so in hawaii. and we're obviously keeping an eye on tropics and all the storms that are coming and just making sure that we have the resources, both the personnel, the material and, of course, working with our partners to make sure we're ready to respond

to whatever to occurs. mike: as a first responder with the american red cross, describe for us what it's like when you're able to bring some joy to somebody who's really been suffering. >> you can really see the gratitude in people. first of all, it's very resilient. you see the people and the resiliency that they have and just their desire to recover and to stay and to be able to recover and just deal with this traumatic situation. and to be able to come in, have someone give you a hug and just thank you for being there and to know that you're providing that little bit of comfort and hope as they kind of take these first steps in a long road to recovery, it really means everything. i'd encourage everyone that's out there watching to join us as a volunteer. most of those 6000 people are volunteers, and i'd encourage you to who go to red cross.org/volunteer, see some of the opportunities that are available. you may not be able to come to florida for idalia, but there's going to be another storm or

disaster in the future that you might be able to help out and feel that rewarding humanitarian rush. mike: you mentioned the red cross is busy. how are you and your teams holding up? >> everyone, you know, this is what we do, this is what our volunteers sign up for. but again, that's why i would encourage everyone to volunteer because it does become -- a lot of us are away from you are our homes and families, so we'll need to get back to them just like we're trying to help the folks here impacted get back to their lives. the more people we have and be able to rotate those folks through and bring in additional folks to help or bring in another team if another storm were to hit somewhere wells, that's really important. we want to take care of our own people first. you can't help others unless you're in condition to help yourself. mike: jay, god bless you and your team. thank you so much. >> thank you. mike: fox corporation has made a

donation to the hurricane idalia relief efforts and continues to be an annual disaster which enable the red cross to respond heedly to disasters such as a hurricane idalia by providing safe shelter, hot meals, emotional support, resources to aid and recovery. visit redcross.org/foxforward or scan the qr code on your screen. griff: the red cross, they're always there. meanwhile, the august jobs report showing a hiring slowdown. we're going to break it all down for you coming up next.an ♪ : our baby to sleep, so when our windshield cracked, we needed it fixed right. we went to safelite.com. there's no one else we'd trust. their experts replaced our windshield, and recalibrated our car's advanced safety system.

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kester has more. >> reporter: a slowdown in hiring and fewer pay raises does not sound like good news for workers, but it's what the federal reserve is hoping will bring down inflation and prevent another spike in interest rates. >> when i look at what happened to the unemployment rate, the increase in labor force participation, when i look at the slowdown in wage gains, to me, that points toss a fed pause in september. >> reporter: the latest jobs report shows 187,000 jobs were added this month, more than expected but still low compared to the hot job market earlier the year. unemployment rose to 3.8%. >> this jump in unemployment is due entirely to more people coming many to the labor market. -- into the lay labor market. i think that's a sign of optimism, people looking for jobs. >> reporter: the white house continuing to praise bidenomics for preventing a u.s. recession. >> it wasn't that long ago that

20 million americans were out of work. but the american people didn't give up. >> reporter: but the president's critics say he's to blame for high consumer prices and record high are interest rates. >> two out of three american families saying i'm in worse shape than i was four years ago. >> reporter: meanwhile, the biden administration is proposing a new rule that would make 3.6 million more u.s. workers eligible for overtime pay. but business groups are pushing back. the new proposal requires employers to pay overtime to most salaried workers that make less than $1,059 a week. it's likely, however, the rule will be contested in court before taking effect. in washington, rebecca kester, fox news. mike: for more on what a this latest jobs report means, we're joined by president and ceo of the job creators' network, al parade doe ortiz. >> thank you, mike. good afternoon. mike: let's start with president biden talking jobs after the jobs report. >> yeah. >> all told, we've added 13.5

million jobs since i took office. around 800,000 of them manufacturing jobs. we've created more jobs in two years than any president ever created in a four-year, single four-year term. we did it in two years. mike: alfredo, how much of those numbers were people going back to work after covid. >> yeah, absolutely. if you listen to the entire clip and, mike, i never thought i'd actually say this, but i actually agree with biden's remarks this time around because he said and i quote, we've recovered all the jobs lost during the pandemic. we've added a million more jobs. finally he speaks the truth to the american public. they didn't add 13 plus million jobs like they keep saying. they might have given -- i'll give them credit for a million jobs, but most of these jobs were just are recovered jobs post-pandemic. mike: all right. mortgage rates are up. goldman sachs says housing

affordability is the lowest it's been since 1997. your thoughts on that. >> yeah. 2 22-year high interest rates, this is crazy. mortgage rates are starting to hover about 8%, truly unaffordable now for the average american. if you look also at the price of housing, it really keeps going up. and when you look at everything else with inflation, when you look at auto, car loans, 20% of auto loans are over $1,000 a month. i mean, this is out of control. it's not the consumer's not resilient, it's just that the consumer's living on credit, and that credit pretty much is overextended at this point across to america. mike: what's the impact on the overall economy if people are having trouble selling their homes because of affordability and people are not buying new homes? >> yeah. i mean, it really impacts a lot of things. for example, you saw some of the latest reports, you know, from the large home improvement centers, large ticket items just

aren't being purchased as much. people aren't able to move because, one, they can't necessarily afford to move. and then when they want to the try to actually buy another house after they've sold their house, they can't afford the new house. so people are pretty much stuck. we saw from the jolts report, mike, which came out earlier in the week as well that when you look at the quits rate, the quits rate -- which is really an indicator of how healthy the labor market is -- it's at pre-pandemic levels now. very, very concerning but no surprise to us because our small business intelligence quotient poll was telling us small business owners really weren't hiring. mike: you touched on credit cards being more expensive, auto loans being more expensive. do you worry with all that going up about a hard landing percent u.s. economy? >> mike, i have been worried and i continue to be worried. i mean, just the other day i went into my grocery store, and you can't even afford to the buy a, you know, to make yourself a

turkey sandwich. turkey was at $15 is a pound for deli meat. i mean, this is absolutely ridiculous. you can't afford basically to live from day-to-day, so the average american is really hurting. today basically is have used up their savings, they've used up hair credit, and i am concerned we're getting very close to the point where the economy's going to start really -- dip into a pretty big recession here. mike: and to be clear, inflation may be down from its highs, but prices are till going up, right? >> yeah. and that's the most important part to remember that the actual prices of things are what really matters. last time i checked, i don't pay my bills with percentages, i pay them with dollars, and i have a lot less dollars today than i did a few years back ago because of inflation, right? like i said, a turkey sandwich, you can't even aboard a turkey sandwich. because it's $15 a pound. i mean, this is absolutely ridiculous. it's not that the inflation is

coming down at a percentage that we should be celebrating, we should actually be concerned that it's still going up just at a slower rate. mike: we have fewer dollars in our pockets, what begins to suffer? things like restaurants, going out, that sort of hinge? >> yeah, or absolutely. and i think any kind of discretionary spending is really going to suffer. but we are seeing all across the board where with people are substitute thing from if, let's say, a branded product to products in the grocery store the, they're going out to movies a lot less. like i said, we are concerned that we are going to see somewhat of a recession. it might have been pushed off a little bit a few months, but i till see a recession -- still see a recession, in september i do think they might show a pause, the federal reserve. but we're still at 4.3% if you look at the core pce, the personal consumption expenditure index, that's still double the rate the fed wants to have. if they do pauseingst just going

to be temporary. mike: alfredo ortiz, thank you so much for your time and analysis today. >> thank you so much. happy labor day. griff: great conversation. meanwhile, back to school season is in full swing, but this time of year can mean a big and sometimes difficult transition for military kids headed to a new school. we'll break it all down and how one organization is helping out. that's next. ♪ ♪ life, diabetes. each day is a unique blend of going, doing, and living. glucerna protein smart with 30 grams of protein

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griff: well, kids across the country are heading back to school including many children with military parents heading to new schools. the armed services ymca has programmed to assist with that transition providing school supplies and programs to provide after-school care. here to tell us more about it, vice admiral bill french who has been on this hoe. admiral, thanks for being here. we love talking to you about what the armed services-ymca is doing. by the way, the oldest military support organization in history. i think you were founded back in 1860. we talked last time you were here about childcare, the programs as, with nca was doing, but now we're focusing on military kids and particularly those that are in a new school. a lot of people don't understand that uncle sam will take the military families and uproot them and drop them everywhere. it can be a tough transition. what are you guys doing? >> griff, first of all, thank

you for having me on. so for military kids, military families that move every 2-3 years, as an example, my son had 9 different schools he went to -- griff: wow. >> most of these kids that show up it's not back to school, it's new to school because it's a new school, a new experience for them. we have a program we call operation hero, and it's a program really committed for grades 2nd through 8th. a 10-week program where we really focus on character development, so we teach them about honesty and teamwork and responsibility, those type of things. and along with that, these teachers -- the group size is no more than 8 kids, but these teachers also help these kids with homework. and we think homework, completing homework assignments is essential for being adaptive within the class, accepted by the others, and they have some social interaction at the same time with the other 7 kids in the class. we've had great success with doing this.

the parents are involved, they have a homework application app where these kids can tell their parents and relate to their teachers, hey, how much have they done and, more importantly, what have they not done so the parents can also help them with the homework. we think homework's essential and success is essential and for integration within the classroom. so we've done this the last 16 years. griff: it's so important, admiral, because a lot of people don't understand that the spouses and the children are part of our service members' sacrifice. and for particularly young kids, not only moving from base to base and the challenges that that come with that, but also the separation deployment of seeing mom or dad having to go away for months on end. is enough being done to support them? i know this program is out there. what else do we need to dosome. >> i think this is part of it. we work closely with dod, and i will tell you the dod leaders that i've worked with,

many of them, are committed to taking care of those families. they understand if those families aren't taken care of when those service members deploy wherever they go, they're more focused or up often times focused on their families not being taken care of. they serve too, it's an inte integral part of what we have to do to make sure our service members can go do the mission they're tasked to do when they're deployed. griff: any american that wants to help, it's asymca.org, i believe, is how they help? >> exactly right, griff. last time we talked about childcare, that's still probably the number one challenge for our military families, childcare. so we do that as well as the other things to make them successful. griff: before you go, admiral, i've got to ask you, it is the military ball season right around corner. i'm going to get off this program, go down to houston to a marine reunion. i've got a daughter born on the

marine corps birthday, move 10th. but you guys are going to help spouses prepare by in some cases donating military ball gowns. >> we do. we do that as at most of our organizations, we partner with an operation called deploy a dress, and that's all they do is allow these young powses to get an opportunity to the get a nice dress, other things to go with the dress, jewelry, shoes, those type of things. so these young couples have a chance to be part of an event where there's great camaraderie for the organization that they're part of. i think it's really important that those young folks have a chance to to go do that. otherwise it'd be very difficult. griff: how do these young wives and mothers and girlfriends get involved in that? they're going to ask me this tonight, you know. >> we have a great relationship, and folks can donate, we have great support from other folks. but if you're interested, to to our web site, and you can see where we have an operation deploy a dress where you can get

a free gala dress to go use, and sometimes they actually get to keep them. but i think it's important we take care of those spouses. they do so much to allow us -- griff: yes, they do. vice admiral bill french, as always, hang for your service and everything you're doing today finish thank you very much. mike: more on that next. ♪ ♪ to the moments that matter. give them the nutrients they need with lipo. it's formulated with ingredients clinically shown to protect your ears from dizziness, ear ringing, and even hearing loss. never miss a moment with lipo flavonoid. which hotel? [ding] ahh! did somebody say “which hotel?” i'm great at this. [ding] dance to your faves in the spa-like bathroom! [♪] [ding] or enjoy local craft beers, with breathtaking views at the cambria. book direct at choicehotels.com. every day, more dog people, and more vets are deciding

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griff: pope francis serving out encouragement with a small population of catholics in angola -- mongolia, coming as there are heightened tensions between the vatican and mongolia's neighbors russia and china. mike? mike: north korea firing multiple cruise missiles toward the cabrera-bello sea this morning according to the south korean military after sanctions on the facilitation of north korea weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs. kitty logan is live with the latest. hi, kitty. >> reporter: hi, mike. yes, south korean officials saying they detect thed these launches early on saturday 5u69 off the west coast of north korea. now, these tests are happening

fairly often, as you know, despite international condemnation and sanctions. since the start of last year, north korea's carried out around a hundred weapons tests, all banned by the united nations security council, of course. now, these latest launches are likely in response to recent joint drills between the u.s. and south korea. both countries monitoring the situation in the north very closely. the leadership in pyongyang has always regarded these joint drills as hostile. north korea also fired two more short-range missiles into the sea just a few days ago while those exercises were ongoing. now the north said that these tests are to stimulate a nuclear attack on south korea -- simulate -- and as these tensions continue to rise, russian defense minister recently visited pyongyang to seek support for the war in ukraine. there's thought to be a very warm relationship between russia

and north korean leaders, and it's interesting to note, mike, that just recently north korea tried to launch a military satellite into space. it failed, but it's understood to be trying again. back to you. mike: kitty logan reporting live. kitty, thanks very much. that is all for this hour of" fox news live." griff: a historic hour. mike: it's been fun. do you think the bosses will let us do it again? griff: mike, it was great. we've got a great show tomorrow, 1 p.m. eastern. mike: thank you very much. safe travels to you, brother. griff: that's right. "fox news live" will continue with rich edson and anita vogel. i'm griff jenkins, joined by my buddy -- mike: mike i man well. thanks for watching, have a great day. ♪ muck it's earned in every wash, and re-earned every day.

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