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 know how to do, they know how to fix it and

extreme part of the republican party that is holding this, holding this, because they want to ram through extreme policies. that's going to hurt the american people. so, we are going to continue to be very clear about this. we have talked today about the food safety, you've heard me talk about education, housing, law enforcement, meals on wheels, head start, so much more will be affected by -- affected by this if the shut down, this republican shut down happens. so we are going to be very clear about it, and it is, you know, it is something that they can fix. they can fix this. >> the president needs to be messaging more to the public about this? >> i mean, look, the president was very clear early this summer when he put the deal together, a bipartisan deal, two-thirds of republicans voted on. and that's what the american people want to see. we saw that in the midterms, right, that's what they want -- they want to see us work in a bipartisan way. that's what the president did. now we are going to continue to be very clear this. is a deal that they all agreed upon, not

too long ago just a couple months ago, and now they can't stick to the deal. so we are going to be asked the question,ens an it straightforward, lay out the facts but this is something for congress to fix. >> dave, you are up front today. >> i am, first time in first seat. good to see you. >> i want to press you on what you said, you said the president supports the auto workers. does that mean that the president is siding with the auto, woulders -- workers over the companies? >> we are not going to get into negotiation. that's something for the parties to decide on, something for them to discuss. but me saying the president supports the auto workers, that's not anything new, when we are talking about a president the most pro union president in history, it is nothing new for the president to stand by the workers. that is nothing new for the president to say i'm going to stand by the men and women of uaw, make sure they get their

fair share, a win-win agreement here. we believe this agreement can be a win-win agreement for all, but we are not going to get -- we are not going to litigate the specifics of the negotiations. >> following up on that, though, a strike could have potentially huge impacts for the economy, according to nbc news polling. 37% of registered voters, just 37% approve of the president's handling of the economy. 56% disapproval, highest of his presidency and 74% of registered voters say they have major or moderate concerns about the president's age and mental fitness. how troubling is that? >> here is what we are going to focus on. what you just asked me, right, the first question. how do we continue to support the workers, right. we are not going to get into the litigation of the negotiations here, but what we are going to do is continue to show how much this president is working for american families. you just heard from secretary here who laid out what it means if there is a shutdown, and why

it is so important for republicans to keep to their deal. that's what we are going to focus on. you see the bidenomics, i get it, i get it, americans have been through a lot, through the global pandemic we are coming out of, been through what we have seen because of russia's war in ukraine, and we saw inflation spike, we saw what's going on with what americans are feeling every day. this is why, this is why this president has been so zeroed in, so laser focused on lowering costs for americans and we have done that, and a lot of the policies that the president has put forward are indeed popular. i mean, bidenomics has worked so well that you have republicans in their own districts, in their own states, taking credit for things that the president pushed forward, policies that the president has pushed forward, legislation that they didn't even vote for, if you think about the american rescue plan, inflation reduction act. so i get, i get the polling you are laying out, i get that, but

we can't -- we can't be focused on that. we also have to be focused on really speaking directly to the american people. the next three days you will see the president go to three states to do just that. >> 37% approve? >> i hear you, i hear. you but it is -- look, our focus is going to be on what we can do to continue to deliver for the american people. polls are polls, right. they are going to be all over the place. they are going to -- they are going to, you know, they don't tell the whole story, actually, and that is just the way a poll is. what we are going to focus on is how we can continue to do the job the president promised that he would do is make americans' lives a little better, give them that breathing around. i'll go around. i know i always forget to call on this side. >> you just said the president doesn't want to get into the specifics of the negotiations, but is he perhaps interfering in these negotiations by visiting

the picket line tomorrow? >> we are not -- we never get into, you know, into the specifics of negotiations, not in public, we are not going to do that. that is something for the parties to decide on when it comes to negotiations. we have always been very clear about that. they are meeting, they have been negotiating and we are pleased to see that. when it comes to the president going to the picket line, he's doing it because he wants to stand in solidarity with the workers. which is something that this president continues to do and has done for the past several years is stay on the side of workers. and you see that, you see that with his policies and see that tomorrow. >> and one quick one on covid. people are struggling to get appointments, confusion with insurance companies, is there some sort of concern at the white house that this shift in responsibility to the commercial market from the federal government has not gone as smoothly? >> so, we are certainly aware of consumers having experience,

unexpected at least with insurance coverage denials at the point of service. we are aware of that. hhs as you know is working with insurance plans and pharmacies to resolve this quickly. look, it's a top priority for this administration to assure that everyone can access this updated vaccine, and so hhs is working through that. and so any -- any specific additional questions about that certainly i would refer you to hhs. but we are taking this very seriously and hhs is working through that. >> thanks, karine. a government shutdown could have a negative impact on the country's credit rating. -- [indiscernible] is the president concerned the political brinksmanship we have seen is hurting the country's reputation, specifically the economy on the world stage. >> look, i'm going to leave the economic analysis to others. i'm not going to get into it

from here but we know and have said this a couple times that what we are seeing from republicans in the house, especially the extreme republicans in the house what they are going to do potentially leading us to a shutdown is going to hurt the american people and if you think about it, 3.5 million jobs created under the president, under 4% unemployment rate, we do not understand why they would put our economy at risk. that's what you are laying out. why would republicans in the house put our economy at risk. when we have seen the improvements over the last two years. so i'm going to leave it to the experts to speak about the economy and what that looks like. but you know, this is a question for them. this is something that does not have to happen. it does not have to happen. >> student loans, i know they are restarting on october 1st potentially the same day a government shutdown could start. is there any consideration of pushing that date back or is

there any guise that you have for borrowers what they should expect, workers at the department of education to assist them. >> when it comes to student loans, obviously a top priority as specially as we talk about the president's economic plan and giving people breathing room, especially on their monthly payments. that's why the president also launched as you know the most affordable repayment plan ever, the save plan. so if this happens, if republicans in congress, you know, go down this road of shutting down the government, we n anticipate key activities at student aid will continue for a couple weeks. if it is a prolonged shutdown lasting more than a few weeks could disrupt the return to repayment effort and long-term servicing support for borrowers. so the department of education will do its best to support borrowers as they return to

repayment, but an extreme republican shutdown, if it occurs, could be disruptive and to maybe more, more than 28 million federal student loan borrowers restart payments. this is something that does not have to happen. these are political games we see from the other side of pennsylvania avenue and it does not have to happen. it does not have to happen. and so that's how we foresee this moving forward. >> i wanted to further understand a little the president's trip tomorrow. it seems like by going to stand with workers at a picket line the president -- >> john: ok, as karine jean-pierre continues to answer questions about why the president is going to stand in a picket line and does that amount to him supporting the workers over the companies, we are going to come back to the studio here.

you are there every day. what got yur interest. >> i did not hear questions about the border, the day after the dhs secretary goes to the border, a show and attention of the administration while the president is getting a 23% approval rating on his handling of the border, i didn't hear that, and i think that we should probably talk about that more with our guest who is down on the border. >> john: in fact, why don't we do that just now. national border patrol council president brandon judd. thanks for hanging with us through the briefing. i know it's really hot where you are. so, griff jenkins is down there on the border, you are in arizona, so you might not have run across him yet. he reported that over the weekend we saw 11,000 people cross in a single day. eagle pass mayor has declared a state of emergency and el paso mayor, a democrat, says his city is at a breaking point. listen to how he put it. >> the city of el paso only has so many resources and we have come to -- we look at a breaking point right now.

so, this is something we have been prepared for but the numbers have escalated a lot quicker than we anticipated. >> john: the biden administration led us to believe toward the end of may all of this was taken care of. hey, nothing to see here and then it's worse than it's ever been. what's happening? >> this is exactly what we expected post title 42. we saw the cartels understanding what the ebb and flow of our politics are. the cartels scaled it back knowing if they would have crossed mass groups after title 42 it would have cost a huge uproar. so they allowed a lull to take place and now we are seeing exactly what we expected post title 42. seeing a mrush to the border, ad across our entire southwest border. san diego, arizona, new mexico, it's happening everywhere. and that's unprecedented.

that's something we have never seen before. and it's strictly because this administration's policies are allowing these individuals to be rewarded for violating our laws. all of those people you are looking at right there, they are going to be released into the united states, given a reward, and if you offer that, they are going to continue to come and see the chaos. but it gets much scarier than that. we are dealing with all of those individuals, taking our resources out of the field and giving control to the borders to the cartels and when we give control to the cartels, that's when they cross their more dangerous products. fentanyl, critical aliens, and border security is all about the safety and welfare of the american people and when we give that up, we see chaos in the united states and that's why so many people died of fentanyl overdoses over the last two years. >> jacqui: brandon, the white house pins this issue on congressional republicans and they say, you know, we can't do

anything more until republicans will pass comprehensive immigration reform. but you hear the president talk about what he wants to do and things like fast tracking processing, expanding legal pathways, increasing total refugees, supporting sanctuary cities. did they make any effort -- did mayorkas or dhs make any effort to meet with cbp officials on his trek down to mcallen, texas? >> there is no border security measures in everything the president has announced. all he's doing, announcing more magnets that's going to cause even more people to cross illegally. they continue to forget all -- everything that's necessary to secure our border and they continue to incentivize more illegal immigration and more cartel activity. no, secretary mayorkas is not in communication with anybody willing to tell him what is necessary to secure the border. they are going to secure to use talking points to pander to open

border activists rather than do what's right for the american people. >> john: the former dhs secretary in the obama administration jay johnson said over the weekend if the numbers continue as they are, it's going to create a real mess, could hurt biden politically in the election next year. >> this needs to be all hands on deck issue for the federal government and purely political terms, you want to maximize donald trump's chance of re-election, fail to deal with this problem. this will turn our politics upside down. >> john: brandon, hold on that thought for a second, karine jean-pierre is answering a question about the border here, listen. >> you just mentioned, they issued a read-out of their conversation with the mexican government over the weekend so regarding their engagement, so certainly would have you reach out to them and they could lay out specifically how that engagement went and also refer you to the readout more

specifically as well. >> thank you. so in a recent meeting with the prime minister of south korea, xi jinping expressed his support for resuming annual tri lateral summits, with -- >> john: the only thing she was asked. listen to what jay johnson just said, if this continues at the pace it is now, it could present a real problem for biden in his re-election and just seems to be turning a blind eye to it. >> yeah, anybody that's willing to have an honest conversation about this issue is going to tell -- tell anybody that this -- this issue is a huge problem for president biden. president biden also recognizes he's going to alienate his base. he risks not getting his base out to vote and that's why he continues to do this. he's calculating bringing more people open border activists to

the polls than what he's going to lose on the current path. every single honest individual willing to have this conversation is going to tell you that this is a huge political time bomb for the president but this administration continues to ignore, and karine jean-pierre, she continues to deflect. she could have answered that question directly but she doesn't. she deflects. >> jacqui: seems like some democrats are starting to have that realization this is going to be a giant problem, including henry cuellar. >> repercussions at the border, show images of the people being deported. >> jacqui: he's a border state democrat, and we have been, you know, looking to hear things like that from other democrats. do you think that's going to break through to the administration at all that hello, our own colleagues on the left are starting to say there

are alarm bells going off? >> no, it's not, he knows he's already lost texas. he's not putting stock in texas and that's where he comes from. so, until you have people from california, until you have people from new york, until you have people that come from his base that stand up and say the issue has to be fixed he's going to ignore it. he knows he has lost the electoral votes out of texas. he wants to maintain the other electoral votes in the far left states and if he were going to hard core measures he's worried he's not going to bring people to the ballot box. this is about his political aspirations. he cares more what's best for him rather than what's best for the country and it's monstrous, disastrous, and seeing it play out every day. >> john: as we leave you there in the arizona desert, ever since kamala harris was named border czar, 5,515,000, 896 people have crossed the border

illegally. brandon, good to talk to you and for hanging out with us. >> you think that, appreciate it. >> john: new jersey senator bob menendez in the answering anyquestions after he tells the press he believes he will be exonerated. how does he answer for questions he and his wife were involve in the corruption. >> jacqui: not adding up. baltimore schools postering dismal test scores. does the system need more money or parents need more choices? not long ago, you could pay off a car in a few years. now, car loan rates have climbed to 15% and can take five years to pay off. so get this, the newday 100 va cash out loan. our lower rates let you use the equity in your home to pay off high rate car and truck loans.

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new data shows the dire state of schools in baltimore, maryland. listen to this. in 13 schools, 0, big fat donut students passed their annual state math exam. 0 students. but it's not a one-off incident because same thing happened in 2017, and a lot of folks say data like this makes the case for school choice, including george washington university law professor and fox news contributor jonathan turley. but first, mike emmanuel has more on this. what's the reaction here from community leaders? i can just kind of hear them yelling from afar. >> john, some suggesting sadly they are not surprised, one community activist in baltimore describing it as educational homicide. says it's not a money or resources issue, but a lack of accountability is the problem. our fox affiliate, wbff fox 40

obtained the unredacted test scores, the list of the 13 high schools with 0 students who tested proficient in math. that's 40% of baltimore's public high schools. the problem doesn't end there. at baltimore's top five public high schools in math proficiency, only 92 students tested proficient out of 809. at the best public high schools in the city, just 11.4% of students are proficient in math, and that's just proficient. 0 students achieved the top category, distinguished. >> it's a total clown show in the baltimore city public school system. even the best schools are at the bottom of the pack when you look at national rankings across the country. we are only looking at the bare minimum for what a school is supposed to do, teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. >> we reached out to the system for comment but have not told

back. it told fox 45, we acknowledge some of our high school students continue to experience challenges in math following the pandemic. the work is underway to improve outcomes for students. some are now calling for major changes in school leadership. john. >> john: yeah, i would think. master understatement there in that statement. challenges? i think it's worse than that. mike, thank you. jacqui. >> jacqui: seeming to point to the pandemic at that. let's bring in fox news contributor jonathan turley. jonathan, you wrote a piece on this and for our audience, i want to read a line from it, you make an interesting point. voters do not blame the leadership, whole generations are lost due to the inability of the districts to reach mere proficient on basic subjects,

many seem to think it's the fate of inner city children as politicians focus on other issues. why is it on other issues rather than this one, which is staggering. >> it is staggering and incredibly unseting for all of us. whole generations left with little future. we talk about this in the clinical terms about proficiency, they are forced to continue a cycle of poverty. it's cruel and it's wrong. but you know, the response of the school to this result is even more maddening. to blame the pandemic, it's the teacher version of the dog ate my homework. this was a problem before the pandemic. it's not the pandemic. we have been throwing billions of dollars into cities like

baltimore and that money has evaporated without any appreciable success for most of these students and each of these data points is a ruined life. that's what it is. when you can't bring a student up to bear proficiency, you are releasing someone into a truly ruined life with a very close ceiling on how far they can go in this economy. >> jacqui: and to your point about people becomie comply sen sent play sent -- complacent with this, it would suggest complacency there. i do want to get to the second subject, the menendez indictment and the press conference he gave earlier, because you know, we have you on so we have to ask you, you know, you make the point chuck schumer and democratic colleagues on -- in the senate bear some

responsibility for continuing to keep menendez, senator menendez in his post as the chair of the foreign relations committee despite this history of, you know, stuff he's had to fight here. not his first rodeo. is this different, do you think? the second indictment? >> oh, it's different. but everyone is doing their best impression of claude rains and saying shocked, shocked this could occur. well, this has been the ongoing narrative of senator menendez for decades. and they made him chairman of this committee twice, and i said in one column for someone with his history, putting him in foreign relations is like making an arsonist the head of the international paper company. i mean, these -- he's dealing with countries with histories of bribery, and what the prosecutors are saying is he went right at it and started to did this. and i thought his press conference was rather pathetic.

i agree with him, that he has every right to a presumption of innocence, but we can't ignore the evidence ahead of us. the best he could come up with, he is almost this quantity old fashioned habit of stuffing hundreds of thousands of dollars of his clothing and portrayed it like he's the 1967 version of a ford mustang, that he's just a classic item. well, this is viewed by many of us as old style corruption. this is the way it used to happen, you know, wads of cash and gold bars. this city is more sophisticated. it's not less corrit's just tha being jettisoned by his colleagues, not for his corrupt inclination, but for his

conspicuous consumption. >> jacqui: it is gripping capitol hill and one has to wonder after he stepped down if he recognizes this time is a little different. >> john: capitol hill may be embracing sneakers and sweatshirts, don't expect the white house to follow suit. the latest in the dress code debacle just ahead.

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>> jacqui: you won't catch john fetterman in a suit and tie any time soon thanks to the senate res rules, but apparently dressing down is not going to fly in the big apple's finest restaurants. john levine attempted to follow his lead and conducted an experiment donning his trademark hoodie, gym shorts and sneakers, and watch what happened. >> space for two? >> we don't permit shorts. >> you have a dress code?

>> yes. >> inside -- >> don't allow shorts. >> is there a dress code here? >> jacqui: levine was denied entry and asked to leave several of the restaurants. so not good for some of the finest in the big apple but apparently to preside in the senate. >> john: relaxed dress code only applies to elected senator, does not apply to anybody else, right? >> jacqui: sure. >> john: there you go. how exclusive is the dress down club? only 100 people get the chance to do it. the white house and the biden campaign, answering questions after biden's performance is hitting new lows. a whopping 56% of voters disapprove of biden's job as president. even more troubling for biden, 62% of democratic voters want to see somebody else run in 2024.

the president himself did have a chance to respond to all of it earlier today. listen. >> we have to move out, so everyone, please, thank you very much. thank you very much, everyone. thank you very much, everyone. >> john: his running mate is not making it any easier. another poll shows only 11% of people have a positive feeling towards kamala harris. let's bring in fox news contributor steve hilton. steve, if you were running a campaign for your old boss and you were seeing numbers like this, what advice would you give him? >> first of all, change the policies. underlying problem here, it's not the perception. these guys in the white house and the biden team, all summer long they have been fanning out across the country, they told us they were doing this, selling bidenomics, and all of them

selling bidenomics. and the verdict is in from the american people. bidenomics sucks. and that is the underlying fact of the polls. the economic data in these polls is a disaster for biden, on every measure. what is it, 75% rank the economy negatively, food prices, 91% of americans rate the biden performance negatively. best number is on unemployment, even there, 60% negative. the real story, issue after issue, every aspect of the economy things are more expensive, a direct result of the policies. on serious things like healthcare and housing and education, and these fundamentals of life, things have gotten unaffordable as a result of too much government intervention, so the real answer is a changed direction on

policies. >> john: and your old boss, david cameron, 56 years old now, so biden has another problem he would have never had which is the age issue. some of the top lines from the poll, reads as a litany of horrible. approval, 30%, disapprove, 64%. biden on immigration, approve 23%, disapprove 62%. state of the economy, approve or positive, 25%, 74% of people view it negatively. personal financial situation, better off, 15%. not as well off, 44%. about the same, 39%. and then there's this number, call for number 5, when asked who would you vote for for president, 51% said trump, 42% biden, led the "washington post" to say well, we believe our own poll is an outlier. i have never seen a news organization run so fast to discredit their own poll as they did with this one.

>> absolutely, and also abc news. "this week with george stephanopolous," political director rick klein rushing over the numbers bad for biden and stumbling through to convey to viewers you shouldn't take it that seriously, it may be our poll but it's an outlier and the numbers are not right and so on. it's just embarrassing. the narrative they have been pushing for so long is trump is the one completely unelectable and biden is cruising to re-election, he's done such a great job but the reality is he hasn't and people experienced that and it doesn't matter what they say with the ridiculous speeches about bidenomics, and none matters because the reality is so bad and what you are getting on top of that is the opposite of leadership from biden. from bad to worse in terms of

his personal performances and the end result is a total collapse of confidence in this administration. >> john: steve, great to get your take on things. you have a terrific background in all of this, you know what you are talking about. thank you, appreciate it. >> thank you, john. >> jacqui: customs and border patrol is reporting alarming new numbers. single highest day of illegal crossings in recent memory. daily tallies shows the flood of immigrants seeking u.s. asylum is not slowing down any time soon. robert o'brien to join us and talk about national security concerns at the southern border. i'm at a point now where i've outgrown my house. growing up, every me i'd get out of the shower, i would itch. my first experience with goat milk soap, it kinda was like a light bulb moment. tiktok is a fantastic platform for diy. if you'd have told me three years ago that i would own my own business and be expanding into a separate building,

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>> jacqui: brand-new video obtained by fox news from inside a border processing tent in eagle pass. congressman tony gonzalez shot

it on friday. he says this facility has a capacity of 1,000 people, but when he was there on friday, there were more than 4,000 migrants in custody. cbp sources tell griff jenkins a whopping 11,000 migrant encounters at the border in the last 24 hours alone. robert o'brien, sir, this is just unbelievable, the numbers we continue to see and with your background, understanding the risk, can you lay out for us, you know, when you're at capacity like that, is your ability to properly screen people diminished? >> it's absolutely diminished, jacqui, thanks for having me on. look, this is not an immigration area, everyone is from somewhere, o'brien is not a choctaw name, so we love our legal immigrants. but this is a national security issue.

having an open border nothing to do with immigration. number one, trafficking, fentanyl, cocaine, opioids, the human trafficking over the border, the crime coming over the border it's really concerning. seeing it with more and more of the shootings of law enforcement officers and escapee from the prison. and number two, isis, and disclosed to kevin mccarthy, he has not been briefed, isis facilitator is bringing them over the border. isis is so bad, al-qaeda and taliban don't want anything to do with them. and over 9,000 military age male chinese have come into the u.s., no females with them, they have been just caught and released don't know where they are we may be at war with china over taiwan and we have a division of military age male chinese we know nothing about roaming

around the country. a serious national security issue. >> jacqui: we just did a story of isis and the role of bringing people across the border, fbi probes asylum seekers with help from terror linked group. isis at the border. and a stark warning from the dea chief about the sinaloa and other cartels and the huge threat they pose. what can you tell us about, you know, whether or not people understand the role that they play in, all over the country, not just border communities, but as you mentioned pennsylvania. >> these cartels, keep in mind, many are made up of former mexican military officers and enlisted folks. very capable. they are brutal, they behead people, they play soccer with their victims' heads on the beaches in acapulco, and now

control the southern part of the border and tactical control on the northern part of the border, the u.s. side with military precision. we don't have the man power, don't have the obstacles at the border with the wall, we have nothing to prevent the cartels from basically running their operations not only in mexico but in the united states. it's very, very, it's a very terrifying situation. >> jacqui: why would you say the administration is seemingly focused on, you know, policies that would allow more people to come in rather than restricting illegal crossings? none of the things the president talks about, you know, are to that end, to restrict crossings at the border. >> no, none of this makes any sense. the only thing i can imagine, it's totally political, they have been captured by the immigration activists, equate an open border policy goals but the problem with the open border means we don't have sovereignty and cannot control who comes into the country, can't control criminals, foreign agents, can't

control terrorists, sex trafficking or human trafficking taking place, and i just think the biden administration knows better, jake sullivan is a smart guy, but so captured by the far left immigration activists that don't want a u.s. border. turning a blind eye to it. >> jacqui: does the president? >> take a look at the video feed we are watching right now. there is no border at the southern border of united states at this point. that's clear. >> jacqui: you say jake sullivan and mayorkas are smart people but are defending the president. do you hear differently in circles you are in that there's something we are not seeing in the briefing room every day that they are complaining about this? >> i don't know if they are complaining, but they certainly understand what's happening and they can watch what's happening, the number of just the immigrants, illegal immigrants that are caught, asylum seekers. a lot that aren't caught that get away, so thousands and thousands of people a day coming over the border.

we don't know who they are, we don't know what they are up to, don't know what they want, but again, the radical immigration activists in the country that don't want a border i think have a lot of influence over the democratic party at this point, and that's a shame. we are committing what looks like national suicide to an extent. >> jacqui: all right. former national security adviser robert o'brien and former representative of the u.n. general assembly. thank you for talking about this important issue. appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. >> john: fox news alert, summerville, south carolina, and up there on the stand, the former president of the united states just got a very good poll yesterday from the "washington post" and abc news, showing him with a nine-point lead over former -- over current president biden, i'm sorry, getting my

former presidents mixed up. of course the "washington post" and abc news are quick to say we believe this is an outlier and shouldn't pay attention to that number. but the former president will clearly have something to say about that as he listens to lee greenwood singing. also point out, jacqui, that in the palmetto state he enjoys a 32-point lead over his closest rival, nikki haley. >> jacqui: well, the current president did not want to talk about the polls today. he deflected questions in that pool spray we had at the event and is not keen to talk about polls even when you get him in a one-on-one in very rare interviews, usually dismisses them. i assume we will hear something quite different from the former president because he's now enjoying a nine-point lead over president biden. we were talking about in the break this polling, john, and when you consider that at the end of trump's term he had a 38%

approval rating and now is enjoying a nine-point lead in a hypothetical match-up over the current president. that points to in a lot of ways you would think, unhappiness with biden's policies. >> john: should we listen in for a little bit? >> hard working, god fearing patriots who make our country run. you love our country, you make it run. and it's a true honor to be here at sportsmans boats, we just took a tour, beautiful boats, i think i might have to order one, henry, i don't know. over the past 12 years sportsman has become one of the most respected names in the industry and as i saw just moments ago, every single inch of these beautiful boats is designed and built right here in south carolina. [cheering] by very skilled south carolina hands. i know what that means and proud south carolina hearts. i want to thank sportsmans owners tommy hancock, and brinkley melvin, as well as the

ceo of the south carolina boating and fishing alliance, get us brandon, you know who that is, and thanks to the great governor, a great governor, he kept this place open. but he really kept it open. he didn't say gee, i kept it -- no, he kept it open. henry mcmaster and peggy, thank you so much for being here. these are -- it's a great, a great couple, great people. what a great governor he's been. it was one of the reasons i got her out of here so i could make him governor of the state. i never said that. that was a big deal. let her move, and look at henry there, and people are very happy about it. henry was with me right from the beg ampaign early on. i thought she would be with me but she went a different way and i said wow, that's unusual and he was there and then we won in a landslide, and i said i'll take henry any day, i'll take

henry any day and got him in. henry, you are doing a great job as governor. thank you very much. another man always there, always, i'll tell you what. when i need help on the left, he's great. he's great. and he's my friend, too. lindsey graham. wherever you are, lindsey. thank you. oh, no, no, he helps me on the left. we need help sometimes. republicans shouldn't need help from the left but he helps me. also somebody i think you love and i love him, i remember a little burst of real anger and heart years ago in congress, i'm sure nobody remembers that, representative joe wilson. joe, thank you. they went after him for that, he didn't realize even at the time how popular that made you, joe. you were only telling the truth and somebody i'm so proud of, we came in and together, this is a

guy that's going to be fantastic as a congressman, russell fry. thank you, russell, and friend of mine, a congresswoman a job like few others, courage, and courage of her conviction and yes, she has and she does, takes a lot of heat sometimes, but she ends up always being right, marjorie taylor greene. marjorie, thank you. [cheering] [applause] great job. another friend of mine who has done fantastically in the campaign, she's campaigning as hard as i am. she wants to see a big victory in south carolina for us, lieutenant governor pam evan. and treasurer, curtis loftis. my ambassador who really does a

good job. i sent him to a country where they have the greatest desserts in history. ed mcmullen. see how slim you are. this is not a good thing. that's okay. and today i'm honored to receive the endorsements of your attorney general, alan wilson. thank you, alan. thank you. a big endorsement. that's a big endorsement. your secretary state, mark hammond. thanks, mark. i appreciate it. delighted to announce that your lieutenant governor will be heading up the launch of our brand new coalition small business leaders for trump. thank you. thank you very much. great. with your help, we're going to win the south carolina primary by a lot. we're up by about 50 points. but we don't want to take it for granted. henry said never take anything for granted, right? we're going to win that primary

big. we won the state twice by record numbers. literally record numbers. we're going to do it again. we did phenomenally here. we've always done well here. we're going to do it at a level that nobody has ever seen. so we broke the record twice, going to break it a third time. we're going to break our own record. so less than five months from now, we're going to defeat crooked joe biden, we're going to take back our country and make america great again. [cheers & applause] so we have come today to the perfect place to talk about how we're going to end the economic catastrophe known as bidenomics. he thought that was good. it was bad. it was in the financial pages to talk about how bad it was. he said i love the name. now he talks about it like it's good. it's really bad.

i spokes to the incredible owners of sportsman. so different now than three years ago. sportsman and other boat buildings exemplify the american manufacturing muscle. how big a boat business is in this state that will help turn the biden economic back to the big trump boon. we had the most successful economy in history. under my leadership, we had the biggest economy in the world. we did it twice. now we're going to do it a third time. it's going to be bigger, better, stronger than ever before. we had the greatest economy in the history really of the world. we had -- covid came in and we had to do it again. we did a great job with covid. nobody knew what the hell it was. we did a great job and handed it over after a horrible, horrible -- we got many millions more votes.

if you got the same number, you win easily. we got millions and millions more. we got the most votes of any sitting president in history and they say we lost the election. i don't think so. terrible what's going on between bad elections and open borders, what's going on in our country. that's the least of it. you can go through point after point. nothing good happening. in four short years, we passed the largest tax cuts and reforms in american history. we killed more regulations than any administration in history. broke every record. we slashed the price of gasoline down to $1.87 per gallon. we created 20,000 manufacturing jobs right here in south carolina. we delivered 140 million to ensure that charleston has the deepest water port on the east coast. henry would drive mera