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biggest fight yet but as i have stated throughout this whole process, i firmly believe when all the facts are presented, not only will i be exonerated but still will be the new jersey senior senator. >> john: bob menendez not stepping down as he defends his 17-year record days after the feds charged him and his wife on several counts of bribery and conspiracy. i'm john roberts, welcome to monday. >> jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich, sandra smith is off. gold bars, mercedes benz, nearly half a million dollars in cash, details read like a script from "the sopranos." >> john: senator menendez remaining defiant, saying all he's asking for is the presumption of innocence. he spoke at a news conference in union city, took no questions

from reporters and walked off. >> jacqui: chad pergram with more on what is ahead for the senator. what is ahead? >> he did not say it directly, but apparently re-election. menendez took no questions at the press conference, he was defiant, the senator said he wasn't going anywhere. despite facing serious charges for the second time in eight years. >> the court of public opinion is no substitute for our revered justice system. we cannot set aside the presumption of innocence for political expediency when the harm is irrevocable. to those who have rushed to judgment, you have done so based on a limited set of facts, framed by the prosecution to be a salacious as possible. >> the feds say menendez had nearly a half million dollars hidden in a jacket but he claims there were reasons for that. he tried to tie it back to pressure he's faced from havana.

>> for 30 years i have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account. which i have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in cuba. >> democrats do not think new jersey is a seat they need to worry about in 2024. it wasn't montana or ohio, but now the garden state is in play as democrats cling to a 51-49 majority. >> it's a nightmare for the democrats. democrats shouldn't have to worry about that. and this diverts attention from people like john tester and sherrod brown, you know, democrats who really are running in very, very tough constituencies. >> menendez faces charges in court wednesday. he'll return to d.c. this week

to help avert a government shutdown. jacqui. >> jacqui: chad pergram on the hill, we'll keep watching that. >> john: andy mccarthy, people are looking at the menendez indictment and saying wow, what was he doing with gold bars and cash stuffed in his clothe in his closest. how the senator explained a short time ago. >> for 30 years i have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account. which i have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in cuba. now this may seem old fashioned, but these were moneys drawn from my personal savings account based on the income i have lawfully derived. >> john: he's saying it's emergency walking around money he wanted close at hand. what do you think? >> look, he'll get a chance to

see if he can persuade a jury of that. i remind people, john, this is not his first rodeo, right. so his last corruption case, there's been a lot of reporting about how, you know, it ended as if he were cleared and he was never cleared. he actually got a hung jury the last time in 2018. so you know, we'll see what a jury thinks of this. but the unfortunate thing is that people draw equivalent of what it requires or what should be required to convict someone. he's quite right to be insisting he has the presumption of innocence because he does and he'll get his day in court. but that hardly means that he should be deemed qualified to be a united states senator, much less the head of the -- one of the most important committees in the senate, the foreign relations committee, that's staggering. >> jacqui: andy, one more on the sound bite, did he make a mistake for explanation how the

cash appears in the envelopes in the pockets, a line in the indictment says some of the envelopes had fingerprints of his driver and one of the egyptian businessmen. that seems like something that now could be held against him in court. >> jacqui, that's exactly right. unless he vetted what he was going to say with his lawyers so that everybody was absolutely confident that they could prove what he's saying in court, he's really making a mistake, making any representations because that statement can be used against him at the trial if it turns out not to be true. now, i want to be clear, these are very hard cases. public corruption cases are hard cases for the justice department to win. often a lot of very unsavory evidence but it doesn't necessarily mean that beyond a reasonable doubt somebody performed what the courts have narrowly construed as an official act on behalf of whoever was paying them off. so, it's a tough proof, but you don't want to help the prosecutors by making statements

they can use against you. >> john: so during that news conference senator menendez was saying i held egypt's feet to the fire on human rights, their relationship with russia, buying russian arms, etc., etc., on and on and on. here is what the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york alleges that menendez was doing as it related to egypt. listen here. >> indictment alleges that senator menendez used his power and influence, including leadership role to benefit the government of egypt in various ways. allegedly provided sensitive, non-public, u.s. government information to egyptian officials. and otherwise took steps to secretly aid the government of egypt. >> john: the question is, can both things be true, he held egypt's feet today fire on some things but aided them on others. >> it could be true, and menendez point i imagine in his

defense, he could have done things in a way of using his influence on behalf of the egyptians without having done what the courts have narrowly construed to be an official act on their behalf. the u.s. attorney mentions he gave them sensitive non-public information. the word i was strange to hear but did not hear was classified information. the reason it's an important distinction, no criminal law that says you can't pass along sensitive non-public information. so there's a lot of stuff here that sounds very bad and undoubtedly is unsavory, and certainly calls into question this guy's fitness to be a united states senator. whether that means they can get a criminal case across the finish line is a very different question. >> jacqui: his defiance at the press conference clashes with stepping down as his chair at the foreign relations committee, a cloud hanging over him and he

wants folks to believe it's not going to impede his job in the senate. we'll keep watching. thanks, andy. >> good to see you. >> jacqui: we are awaiting a white house press briefing as a record breaking number of migrants are crossing the southern border into the u.s. cpb sources tell fox, a whopping 11,000 migrant encounters in the last 24 hours, single highest day in recent memory. speak with national border patrol council president brandon judd on what he wants to see from the white house. but first, griff jenkins live from the border in eagle pass, texas. hey, griff. >> hey, jacqui. i've covered the border for a long time. never ever has it been this high. we had more than 4,000 migrants walk past my camera this weekend and of course that number 11,000 in a 24-hour period, unheard of. no one i've talked to can ever remember that happening. let me take you, though, to our fox fly team in the sky and see

a dramatic moment in the last hour, and that was a group of 100 to 200 migrants were gathering on the riverbank and there was wire put here by the state of texas trying to deter them, it was not deterring them. migrants, women, children, trying to go through the wire, suffering heat exhaustion. border patrol left with no choice but to cut the wire and let them through. and what you are looking at now is the several hundred migrants, most of them from venezuela gathering here underneath the bridge just a few feet from where we are right now. humanitarian crisis the likes of which have we have not seen as it has grown and built over the last two and a half years. they will be processed, but many of them will be released. in fact, the majority of them, because this administration has favored a catch and release policy and that is the main driver, the pull factor, if you will, that's bringing them. now, the agents are also dealing with not only being overwhelmed and overworked, they are dealing with some assaults and over the

weekend in the rio grande valley sector, i want to show you some pictures of an agent that was assaulted by a smuggler. the smuggler, that's the agent, you can see him bloody, and the smuggler moving migrants had the word rata, spanish for rat, tattooed on his forehead. took three border patrol agents to get this guy into custody. we spoke with a congressman august pfluger, and what he had to say about this. >> that is a horrible image to see an officer assaulted and yet know they are not being given everything that they need to actually protect us. that's why we are here, that's why you are going to see congressional members here today to take a stand and tell joe biden no funding until you secure the border. >> and the news just in the last hour, new york governor hochul will add additional troops and the numbers hear in the pole you see absolutely whopping

disapproval of 62% disapprove of the handling of the situation at the border, and you have governors like hochul having to call in additional national guard troops, most of the migrants will not stay here, jacqui, they will head north to other places. send it back to you. >> jacqui: and we have been hearing from the leaders in the other states now after a very long time. griff jenkins, thanks so much. >> john: it is extraordinary that governor hochul of new york is deploying the national guard in the state to help out with the asylum claims and take pressure off the system. mayor adams says new york is being destroyed by this. >> jacqui: and the president did not take time to meet with mayor adams, but met with kathy hochul but nothing beyond that. and the same images we have been

seeing for years now. >> john: we are going to talk a lot more about this, including with the governor of arkansas who joined together with 23 of her republican colleagues to send a letter to the biden administration saying we need information about what you are doing and we need it now. so all that coming up. meantime, more than 18,000 auto workers on the picket line as talks with the big three car makers seem stuck in the mud and the work stoppage may now expand to more plants. >> jacqui: waiting for the white house press briefing, concerns whether joe biden is the right pick for 2024. sarah sanders who knows what it's like at that podium next. >> if it is someone other than biden, they have a month or two if they want to be on all the ballots. this is the time they have to get going.

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>> john: just moments away from the white house press briefing as new concerns emerge over president biden's fitness for office. recent polls show well over half of those surveyed are not happy with biden. arkansas governor sarah sanders knows a thing or two about holding a briefing. and she joins us now. it's great to see you. >> good to be back. >> john: it's been too long. >> i don't know if it's been too long, i think just about the right amount of time. >> john: probably not long enough for you, right? i fondly remember our days going head to head in the white house. one of the poll numbers from his washington post poll on president biden is particularly staggering. when you take a look at his handling of immigration, 23% approve, 62% disapprove. you are among 24 republican governors who sent a letter to him asking for transparency. letter said in part states are on the front lines working around the clock responding to the effects of this crisis.

shelters are full, food pantries empty, law enforcement strained, aid workers exhausted, as governors we call on you to provide honest, accurate and detailed information where the migrants are being relocated in addition to comprehensive data and qualification rates and successful deportations. we saw 11,000 people cross the border in a single day. that's a new record, i believe. >> it's unbelievable. i want to know who the 23% are that actually think biden is doing a good job on the border. how can they possibly see what is happening in our country and say yes, this is exactly what we were hoping for. it is a complete disaster and it's one of their own making. and now you even have democrats that are coming out and saying oh, oh, enough is enough. because their cities are being overrun and they are seeing what the actual impact is of a completely open border and total chaos in our, you know, southern part of our country. and because the federal

government is failing to step up, because the biden administration refuses to hold the line, republican governors have no choice but to band together, pushback and demand answers, and that's what we are doing. >> jacqui: to your point about democrats starting to speak up about their unhappiness with the president and waryness of 2024, is it realistic to get someone else in there? >> i certainly hope not, the republicans best chance to leave him in there. everything he has touched, every area they have engaged, they have screwed up or made worse or have not done anything at all like the southern border and sets republicans up for a huge victory in 2024, something i think most of the country is hopeful for. >> john: when you take a look at the new york governor calling out the national guard in her state to deal with this, it

really does bring reality to the contention a lot of people made every state is a border state. what's the impact in arkansas? >> absolutely, massive amount of not just individuals but the drugs across the southern border and impacting every community, big and small. the fact that this administration continues to basically wash their hands and do nothing is insanity. we have seen governor abbott in texas step up and put the texas national guard and call on other governors to do the same. arkansas sent nearly 100 troops this summer to help backfill the texas national guard because biden and this administration refuse to engage, refuse to help and so they have left, i feel like governors no choice but to engage, even democrat governors are starting to wake up and see the impact it's having. >> jacqui: do you think it's time for, if you are advising biden, to shake up the people around hip. you look at the polls and he was only slightly better on the economy than the border, 30%

approval rating on the economy and yet you know, you have him tweeting on saturday this stood out to me, concert tickets are hard enough to get you shouldn't have to pay surprise fees on top of that. my administration is cutting down on junk fees. but people are not struggling for concert fees, but for groceries. >> to be clear, i would never be an adviser to president biden here, but free advice, it's time to retire. call it the end here and let someone who knows how to deal with the economy and the border step in and take control. it's clear he is totally incapable or totally unaware of what is happening in our country. >> john: in arkansas something you signed into law and that is a prohibition against new covid restrictions. you've got the president saying well, i think everybody should get this new vaccine that's out there, you have a return to mask mandates in some places, some

universities requiring vaccination. you said people should be terrified by a resurgence of covid restrictions. why? >> we do not want to see our government lock down our churches, our schools, our businesses, our communities. we saw what that did the first time and we are not going to let that happen in arkansas. we are going to push back on any covid vaccine mandates or mask mandates or closures, not going to take place in the state. >> closer to 2024, some headlines, a quote, sanders is among several republicans with national ambitions staying neutral in the presidential primary despite the former president's large lead in early polls but sanders' political complication is complicated by the tenure as the voice of trump's white house. so, when are you going to endorse somebody for 2024? >> look, my focus has been on being governor of arkansas.

only been in office about nine months and i wanted to really put my head down and focus on the things that were impacting our state. we just got out of our first regular session and special session about a week ago. i think president trump is going to be the nominee, i think he is the best chance we have in '24, and look, at the end of the day his numbers are not going anywhere and there's no big challenge facing him. i love the president, and will continue to amplify the great policies he had. i know that our country would be in much better place if he was in office versus who we have there right now. >> john: there are several governors who have come out and supported him, they have decided that trump is going to be the nominee and want to be there pushing him along the entire way. why not join the group? >> you know, again, my focus has been on arkansas. i'll make that decision when it makes sense but i have tried to 0 in --

>> john: anybody else you would support? >> i've only been governor about 15 minutes. so trying to keep the focus there. we have been amazing and big transformational state. >> jacqui: has the former president pressured you at all to endorse him? >> i love the president and -- >> john: great to see you. >> i think this suits you well outside of the briefing room. >> john: well, it's a more intimate environment than we had before. there are not people yelling. not yet. >> i like that better. >> john: give it a little while. we can try to do that again. appreciate it, governor. >> jacqui: house republicans are gearing up to question a top d.c. attorney in the biden administration and helped not to bring charges against the president's son. >> john: and the migrant crisis spirals out of control, one of

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out of the water and to safer ground there. as you can see, as we have watched for the last couple of weeks, the illegal migration into the united states continues with this border crossing in eagle pass seeing thousands of people and then over the weekend we set what we believe is a new record of 11,000 people crossing into the united states in a single day. we'll keep an eye on this for you. in the meantime, the justice department will let u.s. attorney matthew graves sit for a transcribed interview on the hunter biden investigation. house republicans believe he prevented attorney david weiss from bringing charges against the president's son. david spunt here in washington. when is the interview? >> october 3rd, next week, behind closed doors, the same time hunter biden will be entering a plea on the federal gun charges. many house republicans believe

u.s. attorney matthew graves prevented david weiss from charging the first son in the past in d.c. irs whistleblower shapley says he heard mr. weiss complain about this very issue. >> asked when david weiss in october 7, 2022, said the d.c. u.s. attorney's office will not allow us to charge there, and add special counsel authority and was denied. in the meeting i had him repeat that. i knew how important that fact was and wanted to make sure i understood it. >> to be clear, john, david weiss and matthew graves denied the allegation from gary shapley. jim jordan expects weiss to testify in the coming weeks. the original plan was for a transcribed interview for weiss, and public testimony on the 18th. doj write late friday the department is committed to taking this extraordinary step because we remain deeply

concerned about any misrepresent additions about our work that could harm public confidence in the even-handed administration of justice. weiss is eyeing charges in washington, d.c. and/or california for potential hunter biden tax crimes. >> john: david spunt, thank you. >> jacqui: any moment now karine jean-pierre is expected to take a series of questions during the white house briefing over the president's job so far as brand-new polling shows president biden down on the economy when it comes to the high cost of food and energy prices and much more. so, can he turn things around ahead of 2024. bringing our panel. juan williams, and chris bedford. thank you for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> jacqui: juan, start with you. poll looks not so great if you are joe biden. trump has a nine-point lead over the incumbent president, and

trump had 38% approval rating, looks like the unhappiness with the current president is driving the numbers. >> numbers are terrible for president biden. on approval, especially on the economy, it just seems a little bit like it's incoherent, because if you ask people, you know, are you spending money, and answer is yes. the economy is doing well in terms of retail sales, people going on vacations, restaurants and the like, but ask them what about your feeling about the economy, then they say well, nationally, no, i think things are going badly. i think the challenge for the biden team going into this campaign is to, one, convince americans that wait a second, look at your personal situation, let's transfer it to your image of a national situation because again, gdp personal spending, consumer confidence, these numbers look pretty good. >> john: the "washington post" was doing back flips to tell people oh, the poll looks like it's an outlier, despite the

numbers on the poll they did earlier were fairly close in terms of biden versus trump. people saying better off, 15%. worse off, 44%, about the same, 39%. pete buttigieg responded to the poor polling on the economy. >> look, we all know the economic pressure that americans have felt when the president took office the economy was flat on its back. but we are also getting extraordinary results. more than 13 million jobs created, more than any presidential term in american history. >> john: they keep talking about the 13 million jobs created. about 10 million were recap purdue during the pandemic, so the creation number is 3.7. but people are not feeling it to the degree they are. >> no, i got the opportunity to sit down with one of the guys to

predict, and selling your house, do it in the next ten months, as the student loans kickback in, the money consumers have will try up. but you mentioned this pushback against the "washington post" poll and ten points is more than other posts, more neck and neck. but other numbers come through, disapproval ratings, even approval for former president trump. >> john: seem consistent. >> they do, and larry sobato says this is ridiculous, he overestimated how many electoral votes hillary clinton would get in the 2016 election by 125, a big mistake. ab emblematic in the media, one month after trump was elected, folks said let's try to understand why people think that, and that is over. we are now eight years later almost and folks in the media cannot comprehend the race is

close at all. you can never figure out what drives them if you don't know what motivates them. >> jacqui: they shield the president from the media and public engagement to convey what he thinks he deserves credit for. i want to play one sound bite from a montage of voters talking about what matters to them and what we are not hearing him talk about. >> cost a lot more to buy a loaf of bread these days. >> we are trying to survive. can't work two jobs and make i. an i don't think anybody is paying attention to the working man. >> we drove through california yesterday, gas was 6.39 a gallon. >> it's ridiculous. in my opinion. >> people can't afford rent. >> jacqui: that played on abc this week. legacy media, no longer helping the president i guess argue the white house's points. do you think that that signals a

shift here, that the president can't overcome, juan? >> no, i don't think it's something he can't overcome. saying earlier, the hard numbers, unemployment rate, gdp and the like, the numbers are good. even consumer confidence and spending. that's real what you see there. i think that people are discontented, i think there is a lot of political polarization, and ask people about the direction of the country, people think it's headed in the wrong direction. the issue here, we are asking about biden at this moment. it's like a referendum on biden and all the ills or troubles or perceptions, negative perceptions that any american has and there are lots of them out there. if it's not a referendum, oh, that's a different consequence because then even people who disapprove in a large number, i think it's like most recent polls, like a quarter of those people say well, if it's biden versus trump, i guess i'll vote for biden. >> john: in terms of a

referendum about biden, it seems to be among democratic voters. the same washington post poll, renominate biden, 32% said biden, 62% said someone else. that's democrats. >> it's awful, they saw what happened when kennedy ran a primary against carter, they saw what happened when ronald reagan ran a primary against gerald ford. if you run a primary against a sitting president, if newsom were to stand up and do that, i think the voters wish he would, you weaken your party, weaken the party and the incumbent and lose the general election. so, democrats chose joe biden to try and get themselves out of a bind, to get away from some of the radical politics we saw in the 2020 primaries among democrats, go with someone more centrist and now they are stuck with him. >> i don't think they are stuck as much as they believe he can beat donald trump and he has beaten donald trump. i agree with your analysis.

when the democrats look at the idea, and the democratic establishment of launching a campaign against them, i think they see it as essentially planting a bomb among democrats that would result historically has resulted in defeat. >> majority of the democrats polled wish they could blink and have a different candidates up there. >> they will vote for biden. >> john: samantha stevens used to wiggle her nose. >> jacqui: the president says he doesn't pay attention to polls, maybe he's having a great day to start his week. >> john: united auto workers union president asking for support amid ongoing contract negotiations. who he is asking to join the picket line. >> jacqui: another record breaking year at the southern border as masses of migrants flood into the u.s. more than 2,000 of them coming into the country this past weekend. robert o'brien, former national

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>> jacqui: president biden gearing up to join the picket line tomorrow to support thousands of auto workers on strike. as the union expands the walkout against general motors and stellantis. jeff flock is live in michigan outside a stellantis facility. what are we expecting today, jeff? >> well, you know, it's a sort of a battle for the folks here at these, you know, parts facilities to kind of hold the line and keep anything from coming in or coming out.

that's the whole point. we have some pictures of an incident that just took place not maybe 10, 15 minutes ago, where a truck tried to run through the line and it got a little tense for a moment. you know, the success of the strike is really based on whether they can shut these plants down. there are reports that they brought in nonunion workers, some salaried employees to work inside the parts facility. so we'll see. you know, these parts facilities make a lot of cash for the automakers. already $1.6 billion industry has been cost in the last week of the strike at the assembly plants. we have a picture of what looks like these -- what these facilities look like inside. these are not assembly plants, they are places you get parts for vehicles you already had. so if you take your car to the dealer and say give me a new radiator or whatever that is,

this is where the parts come from. it could shut things down. this is sort of president's week here on the picket line. president biden will be here tomorrow, we are not sure at what picket line he's going to choose, and then the next day president, former president trump will be here to make a speech. he's going to an auto supplier, it's a nonunion auto supplier, he says he wants to talk to the auto workers, union members, i don't know if he's going to get any there, but maybe some that will be shipped in. he's of course doing that to try and take some eyeballs off the fox business network debate that will be taking place at the same hour on wednesday and some people think president biden is coming tomorrow to take the eyeballs off of president trump the next day. it's a domino falling one way or another.

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>> john: we want to jump to the who us where karine jean-pierre is answering questions, explaining why the president didn't see the need for a photo op when he had his recent covid booster over the weekend, every though they had photo ops every time. >> facing allegations as the allegations confronting the senator there is any place for somebody like senator menendez in the democratic party. >> i'm going to be very clear. this is a serious matter. we see this as a serious matter. i think, and we believe the senator stepping down from his chairmanship was the right thing to do. obviously, the right thing to do. as it relates to anything else, any decision he has to make that's certainly going to be up to him and the senate leadership to decide.

of course we see it as a serious matter. leave it there for now. >> the trip to detroit tomorrow, what changed, can you give us a sense of what went into the decision for the president to go stand on the picket line and show that kind of solidarity with the workers there? >> as you just laid out, you know, this is something -- well, the president is a union guy, you've heard him say that many times. he is the most pro union president in modern times that, is not something that he has given himself that title, that is something that labor unions have given to him, and he wears that very proudly. and as you all know, the president of uaw invited him to attend and he accepted. but look this is a president that made very, have he clear that corporate profit should lead to a record uaw contract and you know, before the strike

even occurred he made public announcements about this, he spoke to the parties on both sides of this. he has made it very, very clear that he supports union workers, he supports the uaw workers and tomorrow what you are going to see is historic. this is going to be an historic visit and the president is going to continue to show his support, not just from the last couple of years, but as he has been in the public eye as a senator, as a vice president, his support for unions and you've seen this in the last two years with his pro union policies making sure that his pro union policies are indeed pro workers. >> should we take from the visit that the president is explicitly taking the side of the union workers as opposed to the company? >> well, he has been very clear, right. he is pro uaw, he is pro workers, you know, that is -- that is this president. he has said the middle class was built, the union has built the middle class. something he said over and over

again. always on the side of workers. he believes that there is an opportunity here and he is encouraged and pleased by seeing both sides continue to have that conversation. it is their negotiation to make, why he says he believes in collective bargaining and he believes there could be a win-win agreement here. but he's always going to stand on the side of workers, always. i'll come to you after, joey. >> trump's decision to visit the uaw workers play into your decision to go? >> absolutely not. this is a decision, based on his own desire, what the president wanted to do to stand, to stand with auto workers. that's what you are going to see the president do tomorrow and he, as you all know, sean's invitation from last week, accepted the invitation and proud to do so. >> does the president endorse the specific terms of the latest proposal by uaw leadership or is

there room for further compromise? >> i'm not going to get into negotiations from here. this is for the parties to negotiate. we are not going to speak to what's put at the table. what we have said over and over again, we believe there is an opportunity here for a win-win agreement. we believe with corporate -- corporations having record, you know, making record, you know, deals, there should be, uaw should have a record contract and that's what the auto workers deserve, that's what workers deserve more broadly. >> did president biden reach out to the autop companies to tell them he was going to join the picket line? >> i don't is any readouts to calls made regarded to this, as to the companies. we have said he has spoken to the companies, spoken to all parties. as you know, we have -- we have two members of gene, a member

here of the white house senior adviser and acting secretary, julie su have been in touch and regular touch with all parties, as they are negotiating this process. but we are, you know, i don't have anything to read out, except that the president was pleased to accept the invite that was given to him, that was provided to him by the president of uaw and he is always going to stand by the said of workers. >> can you provide more information on the details and the format of the event, is he going to be speaking, and where in wayne county, michigan is he going? >> we don't have any details at this time. this is going to be a historic trip that's going to underscore the president is the most, indeed most pro union president in history, and that's what you are going to see. he's going to be standing, going to join the picket line standing in solidarity with the men and

women of uaw, that is important for the president, he believes, to do. and as they continue to fight for a fair share of the value of -- value of -- they helped create. if you think about what the record -- these corporations kind of -- the record profits they have been able to make, they believe and we believe they are owed a fair share of that. >> thanks, karine. to clarify, since president biden will be making this trip, does it mean he supports 40% pay increase and 32 hour work week? >> i'm not getting into the details what's negotiated on the table, certainly with the parties. what we are saying is we support the auto workers, this is a historic event, historic trip and this continues, continues to show how indeed this president is the most pro union president in history, and he stands by the

side of workers. >> the white house has made it very clear it's on republicans to avoid the government shutdown, not on the white house. but our latest polling shows that higher percentage of americans would blame the shutdown on the president and the democrats, not on republicans. why do you think that is, and should the president be out there speaking more on this issue? >> we are going to be very clear. this will be a republican shutdown, right. extreme house republicans have made it very clear that the chaos that we are seeing in the house, they are marching us towards a government shutdown. that shouldn't be happening. this shouldn't be happening. this is the job of congress. one of the basic jobs of congress is to keep the government open. a deal was made. i mean, i can't speak to your polling but what i can speak is to the facts. the facts is a deal is a deal, it is up to them to keep the government open. something they kno