bus with me to fort lauderdale. it's the united states senate. he should be held to a higher standard. >> i was reading that before this formal dress code was asked. he was asking shouting his votes from the hallway so he wouldn't have to wear a suit and ty. can you believe that? >> that's a thing. like you are heckling someone on a subway platform? hey, mets suck. what's going on here? >> carley: good they got that one in order. not good. >> todd: hillary clinton getting her poor central unveiled. pop up the full screen of the portrait. this is for her work as secretary of state. jimmy, shouldn't portraits be reserved for winners? >> yes. i'm more concerned that hunter sold the overseas painting for a million dollars. >> todd: with a straw. >> carley: thank you so much for joining us. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a great day, guys. ♪ ♪ >> listen, it's still the best

system known to man and we should not apologize for it. >> biden's green new deal agenda is good for beijing and bad for detroit. >> america and the dream, it is alive, it is well, and it is healthy. >> if you come here illegally, we will apprehend you and we will send you back across the border. >> if they don't keep the government open, they should not get paid. no pay, no budget. >> china is going to surpass us this decade. as your president, i'm not going to let that happen. >> donald, i know you are watching, you are ducking these things. you keep doing that. no one up here is going to call you donald trump anymore. we are going to call donald duck. >> restore hope. the family, america ♪ a racist country. >> we are only going to get declaring independence from china which i favor if we actually win. >> what have you got, honestly, every time i hear you i feel a little bit dumber for what you say. >> people are striking in detroit is because joe biden's interference with capital markets. we are subsidizing electric

vehicles. batteries come from china. >> ron desantis is against fracking. he is against drilling. he always talks about what happens on day one. what happens in day two is when you are in trouble. >> i'm lucky to be born in america. >> i'm the only one who has gotten in the big fights and delivered big victories. [cheers] >> lawrence: what's up, guys? what's up, guys? [applause] >> lawrence: what's happening? what's happening? what's happening? [applause] >> lawrence: hey, good morning, family. we are in befferd, new hampshire. [cheers] we are at the copper door and i tell you folks are fired up because they watched the debate last night and not happy with the direction ever the country and wondering who is going to be that breakout candidate that can go against donald trump or maybe donald trump still remains the big guy in the room. it was a fascinating debate.

i'm sending it to you guys in new york so we can break it all down. >> steve: we are going to do it. right now the post game show for the big debate last night. so, lawrence, you are there at the copper door. i have been there. there is a great bar behind you which i sat at during the 2016 primary up there. were those people there all night long or is this a new batch this morning? [laughter] >> lawrence: no. they weren't here all night long. they came in early this morning. we're so grateful for it. and they are the first group that are going to join us. the reservations are just full, guys. so they had to do two sets of reservations. so this is the first group. >> steve: that's cool. >> lawrence: they watched the debate last night. they have thoughts. they have been watching the direction of the country. we can't wait to speak to them all. i have already spoken with some of them this morning. there is a big group here this morning. >> brian: think about it, lawrence. if you survive iowa, then you have to survive new hampshire and get yourself to south carolina. there is so much pressure on the people of new hampshire, and

their 1 million plus to come up with a candidate. and governor chris sununu says by the time they get to new hampshire, i only want one or two candidates up there. it's better for the republican party to do what the democrats did. it's going to be tough. we have at least seven. last night everyone talking about being disappointed. i wasn't disappointed. i want to see how it goes. i saw seven people that desperately want to win. they said this is my moment. my donors will leave. my polls will drop. i will not be back unless i do something special. and that's what i saw. >> ainsley: so i love a debate and i know everyone was focused on that first debate. always fun to watch the first debate. it was wonderful to watcher the second debate, too. the moderators did a great job trying to keep them from talking over each other. they were doing their best. what i gathered from this with all of them talking over each other throughout the night. they are all trying to get a word in. to your point, brian, they know this is crucial because, eventually, people are going to start falling off the edge of the stage. and they want to be the last man

standing. so they were desperate to talk. talking over each other. they were trying to throw out those one liners, mike pence was talking about well -- first of all, it was chris christie was talking about how biden has been in bed with the teacher's unions, the president was sleeping with the head of the teacher's union with randi weingarten. just saying they are in bed together. >> brian: with jill. >> ainsley: i thought they were talking about it the head. i didn't mean literally i meant that randi weingarten is running the country when it comes to our schools and masks. then you add mike pence who says i have been sleeping with a school teacher for 38 years. i see him as such a christian holy man. >> steve: 120 minutes there was a lot of cross talk. but because there is a lot on the line third quarter fundraising. that number is about to come out there are and, brian, you are right. you touched on the donors and that is why people needed a

breakout. you know, and throughout the morning here in about 20 minutes, we're going to have lee carter with us and she is going to tell us about the people who watched it and did the dials. >> ainsley: did you like it. >> steve: the debate? i thought it was pretty good. ultimately, once again, i think ron desantis was crisp, he was measured. he had a good debate. nikki haley, again, once again h a really good debate. you know, the interesting thing and we're going to go in do you the d duels through the night. nikki haley and tim scott on the campaign trail they shook it up. he went after her about spending $50,000 on drapes when she was united nations ambassador. >> ainsley: lawrence and brian and steve, shear did not buy those drapes. the "new york times" did a big barrel it. >> steve: i saw that. >> ainsley: they had to retract it because it was the obama administration put these drapes in that first avenue apartment where the u.n. ambassador lives. >> lawrence: such a good point.

>> steve: you have got these two from south carolina nikki haley and tim scott on the campaign trail they have really been cordial until last night. and the irony is -- and they went after each other. the irony is it was about 10, 11 years ago. nikki haley actually appointed tim scott u.s. senator when jim dement retired. >> ainsley: she prefaced it i really like you tim scott. tim scott and i worked together allot before she blasted him. >> steve: boom. >> brian: asked by the moderators to take each other on. they did. marco rubio was mentored by jeb bush. i can't believe you are in the race i'm in the race. it's my time. not their time for anyone. you have a monitor over there, lawrence. right? the total minutes of speaking time so far it looks like ramaswamy again for the second straight debate most time 12 minutes. desantis right behind him. the last was doug b burgum. greatest moment forced his way in electric cars and what we are

really doing with the auto industry and why the people on the picket line wasting their time they have been left out to dry by this administration. followed by scott is the third. he got the first question. nikki haley was crisp on -- was strong on almost every topic ready to go. chris christie is the most comfortable in the format. he got nine minutes plus followed by mike pence. i don't necessarily think the total time talks about how successful you were. i think it was pretty clear, ainsley, that they were upset at vivek last debate. they thought as though he got away with a lot. they were all going after him. hence, he got the most time. >> ainsley: vivek, he said what i did learn and y'all might have learned the same thing, not as many zingers this time. did i learn a lot about their policy. vivek talked about ending birthright citizenship. i have never heard him say that before. >> brian: 14th amendment. >> ainsley: if dint i can children diplomats in the united states if their children are born on u.s. soil. their children don't get citizenship. why should illegal children born on u.s. soil, why should they

get citizenship? so i thought that was an interesting point. mike pence was talking about crime. he said he wanted to pass a federal expedited death penalty for mass shooters and he talked -- he said ron desantis you got the parkland shooter is he still behind bars for the rest of his life. he wants a mandatory quick death penalty. >> steve: over the next three hours, we are going to be taking apart a lot of those conversations. in the meantime, our producers were up all night long. they put together a montage. here you have quote. so feistiest exchanges between the seven on the stage last night out west. watch. >> we need to win elections. and part of how we win elections is reaching the next generation of young americans where they are. so, when i got into office, i have been very clear, kids under the age of 16 should not be using addictive social media. >> this is infuriating because tiktok is one of the most dangerous social media alps we

can have. >> yes, it is. >> what you have got, honestly, every time i hear you i feel dumber for what you say. >> last debate he said we were all bought and paid for. i thought about that for a little while and i thought i don't know how you could say that knowing you were just in business with the chinese communist party and the same people that funded hunter biden millions of dollars was a partner of yours as well. >> this is nonsense. do you know what i did with my first company? we opened a subsidiary in china. do you know what i did that was different than every other country we got the hell out of there. >> ron desantis is against fracking and drilling. did you it. he always talks about what happens on day one. you better watch out because what happens on day two is when you're in trouble. >> that's just wrong and let's just get real here. my plan will get the job done. >> talk about someone who has never seen a federal dollar she doesn't like. ten cents on the g gallon in soh carolina as the u.n. ambassador.

>> bring it, tim. >> $50,000 on curtains. and a $15 million subsidized location. next? >> you got bad information. they were there before i even showed up at the residence. steve and lawrence, she was right. it. >> lawrence: yeah, bring it, tim? that really tells you what the debate was about last night. there were a few debate moments that were big. i got say there was some policy talked about. burgum, who i don't know a lot about had some moments, if you know what? if it were a different time, this guy would have gotten more oxygen. we are in such a polarizing time right now. donald trump obviously takes up a lot of the oxygen. you have got ron desantis who has his record as a governor. you have nikki haley who is probably the foreign policy establishment candidate in the race. i think what we're going to see and the rnc hasn't released what

the rules are going to be for the next debate. but i think that it's going to be a coalescing. they're gonna want to see nikki haley. they are probably going to want to see moron desantis. they are probably going to want to see r vivek ramaswamy. like president trump. they want the main character so they can figure how the is going to be the trump alternative. again, not enough time to really hear them dive into those specific policy points. >> brian: i think that's the point, lawrence, seven people on the stage last time at this point we had two stages. we had one and two about 14 people. we are lucky to have seven at this point. but it makes it really tough. and desperate candidates with so much on the line and obviously it's their goal. they are going to go out there and they just kept talking. the thing that struck me, this is the time -- sometimes you cross talk and then you have to pull back. nobody was pulling back. they were just going on and on

and on until it was deafening. >> ainsley: last one talking, right? >> brian: then you say to yourself am i by not jumping inside here. you saw one side of the stage not do that. >> did you notice how they went after each other. i went d. some fact-checking this morning to find out what was correct and wasn't. chris christie said donald trump only built 52 miles of the wall mexico might have paid for it if they only known 52 miles. >> mike pence said no i was there during that period we built hundreds of miles of border wall. and i negotiated the remain in mexico. nikki haley was calling out desantis for being against fracking and if you read articles, politifact says when desantis ran in 2018, he did campaign on banning hydraulic fracking and oil drilling off of the coast of florida. he opposes fracking out there in the water off the coast but not everywhere else. he kept saying that's not true. that's not true. >> brian: couple of fact-checks

the "new york times" took that on. first off, you are right about the wall. chris christie has to stop saying it because 52 miles of new wall. each the "new york times" says it's 458 miles. including secondary barriers. he says much is replacement barriers, it's true. but there is no comparison between old railroad ties which you step over and 30-foot high ballards. so i think that's a democratic talking point that chris christie should drop at this point because it's just not true and if you talk to the border patrol. they are so thankful to have the 30-foot barriers and they look wistfully at the piles of metal that we paid for that joe biden is selling off. >> ainsley: is true that trump added 7 trillion in national debt? >> brian: it's a little bit more. but it's also kind of crazy to add in the pandemic money when you are told the first time in history for the country to stop working and we will pay you not to work. >> ainsley: that was a real

outlier. >> steve: it was, indeed. >> brian: joe biden just over 5 trillion already and no pandemic and a recovering economy and a vaccine. >> steve: one of the other things, one policy. when we look at the polls, the number one issue with everybody in the united states seems to be the economy, inflation, stuff like that. and you know, bidenomics should have been a punching bag last night. it shut have been a piñata. >> lawrence: not a lot of talk about it. >> steve: there was not a lot of talk about the economy. i'm sure they are popping champagne corks at the white house. well, bidenomics, we got a pass last night. and, information, i read some of the comments that mark penn made. he had been hillary clinton's pollster over on foxnews.com. they got a pass. the winner was joe biden some have said on the political left. but, when it comes to something that we didn't see in the first debate that we saw last night, was the seven on stage last night actually went after a couple of them, went after donald trump. and that is one of the things

that we have seen chris christie do. but we haven't seen ron desantis do it. his donors, his backers have been pushing him to do it. here are the two governors, desantis and christie. christie, of course, former in the great state of new jersey. going after the former president of the united states. >> joe biden, he's completely missing in action from leadership. and do you know who else is missing in action? donald trump is missing in action. he should be on this stage tonight. he should be here explaining his comments to try to say that pro-life protections are somehow a terrible thing. i want him to look into the eyes and tell people who have been fighting this fight for a long time. >> donald trump hides behind the walls of his golf clubs and won't show up here to answer questions like all the rest of us are up here to ena. he put 7 trillion on the debt. [applause] he should be in this room. donald, i know you are watching, you can't help your 1678.

i know you are watching, okay? you are not here tonight not because of polls and not because of your indictments. you are not here tonight because you are afraid of being on this stage and defending your record. you are ducking these things. and let me tell you what is going to happen you keep doing that, no one up here is going to call you donald trump anymore, we will call you donald duck. >> brian: that wasn't the best nickname. donald trump said this on truth social anyone that would come up with the nickname shouldn't be running for president. donald duck. and the president is the master at that. [laughter] >> ainsley: he gives that a thumbs down. >> steve: i don't think donald trump liked the republicans on the stage criticizing him because after the debate last night, chris loss individual da who is one of trump's senior advisers he called the rnc and said you need to get from the former president, we need to cancel further debates so the party can focus on attacking president biden not donald

trump. >> brian: see if he shows up in alabama next, lawrence. >> lawrence: yeah, ron desantis actually challenged the former president on sean hannity's show last night at the debate 101 debate. i think that's interesting. people have been looking for that moment right there where ron desantis would start to take donald trump on. obviously they are the two leading candidates. the question is, is it too late? i mean, i would have expected him to do this months ago. if he is the big elephant in the room, you should be going after him. if the other candidates aren't really relevant. that's what he should have done earlier. brian, i just wonder if it's too late for that strategy. it was nice to see, but is it too late? >> brian: you got to have a balance. you know, chris christie is nonstop going after trump, but, you have to know that seven out of every 10 people that you are talking to like trump. they just have to like you better. so you don't have to leave

trump. you have to convince them that you are better than him. because you agree with probably 75% of what he did. i think it's a real tough subtly. if you go out too hard. people go okay, you are just one of the masses who is critical of donald trump, but if you say i like what he did and here's what i would do better, that might be the strategy. and i think last night that that looked like the old ron desantis last night. >> ainsley: it is interesting to watch the debates. i wish donald trump had participated. but i feel like i'm watching the vice presidents debate. i know they don't want to hear that they say no we are running for president. i think we are just trying to choose who donald trump is going to pick and best for our country. waiting in the wings all these court cases something hans and he is not able to run and one of them can jump up and be able to da it. same with the democratic party. i'm watching gavin newsom on with sean hannity after the debate. here is in california. is he asking him are you going to run? would you put your hat in the ring? no, no, no.

i feel like the same thing is hang in the democratic party too. how about in the end dana said you have a piece of paper in front of you write down the name of the candidate you want off the stage we all kind of agreed we don't want to do this and shoot within the tent. then she said i noticed you, chris christie you wrote something on your paper. i will tell you i wrote trump. i walked him off the stage. >> steve: ainsley, you are absolutely right. given the fact that donald trump is so far ahead in the polls right now, it really and you got nikki and you have got ron desantis and tim scott and everybody else kind of clumped up in the mid double digits. last night was a fight for second place. >> ainsley: when is the next debate? do we know? >> steve: it's going to be a while. >> brian: next month in alabama i thought. >> lawrence: just to put a button on this, one thing miss from the debate last night, and guy back to 2016, is to focus on the forgotten men and women of this country.

people shouldn't be afraid of donald trump. they should be afraid of the people that support him. this is what the candidates should be afraid of. and they have to win those people over. and those people don't feel like anyone in washington or in state government are fighting for them. so how do you win them over? talk about the issues that matter to their hearts. i feel like the candidates have an opportunity to do that last night. they just didn't take advantage of that moment. they were so focused on each other that they forgot who the main audience was, clean-up is the forgotten men and women of this country. >> brian: lawrence, what makes it worse is it looks like they are attacking the one guy that is going to bat for them with four indictments, 91 counts, and now personally and civilly. so you are making it personal. you are dismissing me as a voter. and then you are dismissing the one person who i thought had my views and had my back. that's what is upping the anger

level to a dangerous level. >> ainsley: hey, lawrence, you didn't get any sleep because you were watching the debate. getting ready for the show this morning with the diners. you have heard our analysis. we have all weighed in on what we thought. it's always great to hear from the diners. i know you are going to be talking to them all morning long. i look forward to hearing what they thought because they're the voters. >> steve: that's right. in the meantime, watch this. the candidates cord a lot of ground last night. we have been talking about that for 21 minutes. >> brian: bill melugin live with at the ronald reagan presidential library with more key moments. bill? >> bill: good morning to you guys. you guys have it covered. there was a lot of bickering going on at the debated last night. a lot of interrupting as well. seemed like the knives were out for vivek ramaswamy. he tangled with several of the candidates on stage. one of the topics of the conversation was the ongoing united auto workers strike. several of the candidates critical of president biden for going to the picket lines, visiting the picket lines. each of the candidates were asked where do they stand on this strike? do they side with the union or

do they side with the auto companies? and here's what vivek ramaswamy had to say. >> people are going through real hardship in this country. if i was giving advice to those workers, i would say go picket in front of the white house in washington, d.c. that's really where the protest needs to be. >> bill: north dakota governor doug burgum had a decent answer on this as well. he said the cause of this strike in the first place is because the biden administration has been subsidizing electric vehicles with batteries essentially made in china. here's part of his answer. >> the batteries come from china. china controls 85% of the rare earth mineral. china is moving 100,000 pounds of earth in indonesia, in africa. they are literally destroying the planet so we can make a battery that's in a car subsidized here. >> bill: china was a huge topic of conversation throughout the debate last night, particularly

the national security threat. it poses to the united states. several candidates asked how they would handle china. nikki haley had this answer about how she says her former boss, former president trump failed when it came to china. take a listen. >> this is where president trump went wrong. he focused on trade with china. he didn't foundation on the fact that they were buying up our farmland. he didn't foundation on the fact that they were killing americans. he didn't focus on the fact they were still billions of dollars in intellectual property. they didn't focus on the fact that drones in america are chinese. we have surveillance cells. we need to start focusing on what keeps americans safe. >> bill: school choice another topic of conversation last night as it has been with the conservative base for years now propelling glenn youngkin to a win. ron desantis had a great answer on this. basically saying look what we did in florida.

this should be the model for republicans all over the country. take a listen. >> our country's education system is in decline because it's focused on indoctrination, denying parents' rights. florida represents the revival of american education. my wife and i, we have a 6, 5, and 3-year-old. this is personal to us. we didn't just talk about universal school choice. we enacted universal school choice. we didn't just talk about parents bill of rights. we enacted the parents bill of rights. south carolina senator tim scott tried to keep going with his positive message about america, saying america is not a racist country. it is a beacon on the hill. here is part of what he had to say. >> if you want to restore hope, you've got to restore the family, restore capitalism and put americans back at work together as one american family. >> bill: another topic of conversation, obamacare and what to do with it. vp mike pence asked directly

would you keep it? would you get rid of it? would you try to give power back to the states? here's what he had to say. >> my intention to make the federal government smaller by returning to the states those resources and programs that are rightfully theirs under the tenth amendment of the constitution. that means all obamacare funding. all housing funding. all hhs funding. all of it goes back to the states. >> bill: and, lawrence just pointed this out a few minutes ago but i thought it was interesting as well. while governor ron desantis was interviewing with sean hannity in the spin room last night after the debate, he challenged former president trump to a one-on-one debate. asserting himself more, trying to take donald trump directly head on the trump campaign responded to that on twitter last night. apparently ron desantis challenged trump to a one-on-one debate. they declined that offer saying that they are not thirsty or desperate for attention,

governor desantis. and then they tied him to governor gavin newsom here in california because of the debate they are going to be doing later on in november. so it was just interesting to sees a lawrence was mentioning. governor desantis finally kind of stepping up and trying to be more assertive in taking donald trump on directly but it doesn't look like the trump campaign is interested in a one-on-one debate with governor desantis. >> steve: doesn't look like it. >> brian: bill, must have looked good to know they were talking about your gig the border. at least it's getting some attention, right? >> bill: yeah. absolutely. i thought it was great we had the live drone down there in the middle of the debate. they are talking about the border and we had the drone down there showing illegal crossings and people being processed. >> ainsley: what was that picture people getting on a bus? >> steve: being processed. >> bill: port of entry eagle pass all week long showing the images of the nonstop crossings. people crossing over illegally getting put on the border patrol

bus and going to a processing center. this time they are probably on a bus maybe headed to you guys in new york city at this point. >> brian: tell them we said hi. >> ainsley: brought up a good point about desantis we heard over the last few weeks he needs to talk about its had record what he did in florida. you are right he did it with education and china. we need to tell the ccp they cannot buy property in the united states like we have done in florida. >> steve: okay, mr. melugin, thank you very much. you were talking about the spin room luckily so bill is outside the library. inside the library is pete hegseth. he was in the spin room last night. a lot going on in there. >> oh, yeah. i'm stuck outside, too. i was if there last night. you are exactly right, because they are cleaning it all up at this point. the spin room was busy, you suspensioned gavin gavin. we had chance to talk to him. next hour we will bring it to you. i find myself agreeing with the california governor that ultimately the big winner of last night's debate was donald trump and gavin newsom says more

or less the same because there wasn't really that breakthrough moment. i watched ron desantis he came into the spin room, sat with sean and came right out. we had a chance to talk to doug burr gowm tim scott, vivek ramaswamy and governor gavin newsom. we will bring it to you next hour. they all spoke to us and said they felt good. ultimately as objective observer, you wonder did anyone bring enough heat to make up a 30, 40, 50 point gap? and that's why the trump team was so confident last night. ron desantis trying to have that balance, right? he was strong. especially that answer about i fought the big fights and i won the big fights that came later in the debate. got a big reaction from the crowd. as you pointed out also decided to go after the former president in a new way last night. how does that bring in more support? and then rams who spoke the most. ramaswamy who spoke the most.

last debate he said you are all bought and paid for artillery come in. this case he said you are good people. i don't want to have it out. let's do regan's 11th commandment and the are a till y come in. some of the candidates may be the last time. limited time and a lot of cross talk which leads to you can't get a lot of incite. >> ainsley: family members behind dana and stuart and ilya. we saw ron desantis wife we know who she is. tim scott's mom a beautiful lady behind dana. do you know who that was holding a little boy in her lap? >> pete: i would have to check the tape. we did get a chance to talk to. it may have been vivek ramaswamy's wife we had a chance to meet. a lot of families in the house last night. >> steve: stand by, in the meantime, lawrence, you have been sitting there at the copper door up in new hampshire for the

last 30 minutes. how about you hop up and talk to some of the folks. >> lawrence: yeah. i'm going to ask our folks to walk with me. listen, we can give analysis all day but it's about the american people and how they feel about it. sir, we were talking earlier, what did you think about the debate? was there any star of the debate? >> not to me. like i said, it's all about policy to me. >> i didn't get a lot about policy. i got a lot of talking. talking to each other. but i didn't see that, that's what i was looking for. like i said before, i want someone to talk about term limits. we need it. >> lawrence: sir, what about you? did you see anything that caught your eye? any candidate that you said, look you, this guy can be the next leader of the free world? >> i think ron is doing a great job. he has demonstrated that in florida. to me it seems like a race for second place at this point. i think trump has such a lead that that's going to be really difficult to change that.

>> lawrence: did you want the president to show up to this debate? >> it would have been -- it certainly would have made it more interesting. but i can understand his reasoning for not wanting to compete and move down in the polls. i don't blame him for not showing up. like i said, any time you add donald trump to something it gets more interesting. >> lawrence: thank you so much, sir. ma'am, how did you feel about the debate? anybody catch your eye? overall performance? >> i thought ron desantis did a great job expressing what his vision was and his ideals were an opportunity to hear what people were really interested in hearing. >> lawrence: thank you very much, ma'am, we appreciate it. as you can see everyone in here they didn't like the cross talk. not really a breakout moment from the comments we are talking from the folks that we got. no one duke out donald trump that's the real goal of debate

and become that nominee he was in michigan yesterday trying to get. so blue collar workers and today in iowa you asked when the next debate is it's going to be november 8th in miami that final bit of business. more on the debate throughout the morning. meantime fox news alert. the manhunt for a convicted felon expected of killing a baltimore tech ceo. the details behind the rest coming up. >> brian: plus the majority of americans aren't buying bidenomics. so what's the alternative? >> put people back to work. we're going to open up federal land. >> eliminate the gas and diesel tax so that they have more money in their pocket. >> we're going to open up all of our energy. we will be energy-dominant. >> ainsley: the money man, charles payne, who gave the bes. vision for the economy.da we'r.e going to ask him, comingy up. ♪ sco into a depression.

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headlines starting with a fox news alert. the man suspected of murdering tech ceo was arrested last night at a train station after a two-day manhunt in baltimore. jason billingsley is a career criminal out on parole after being convicted in the violent rape and assault of a woman in 2013. the forbes 30 under 30 mogul was found beaten on the roof top of her apartment building. it is not yet clear how billingsley may have gotten into her apartment building. and happening today, house republicans holding the first biden impeachment inquiry hearing as they release a memo overnight on the scope of that probe. it will, of course, foundation on folks on. forensic accountant whose remarks promise to reveal scandal if it is found and irs whistleblower documents now reveal a 2018 text message from hunter biden claiming he has no money and he is also asking for

financial help from his father. taylor swift will reportedly make an appearance at metlife stadium this weekend as the kansas city chiefs take on the new york jets. the reported cameo come as rumors swirl about a romance pop star and transfers kelsey. she was spotted last weekend with his mom and leaving with him and spotted at post game party with her arm wrapped around his neck. oh my goodness i am blushing. over to you. >> brian: they are dating? i have no idea. it's been so under reported. it's going to be great. >> brian: would you follow that story? >> carley: i absolutely will. my pleasure. >> brian: squeeze carolina out. g.o.p. candidates making the case against joe biden ripping the agenda and the dire impact on your wallet. >> put people back to work. we are using taxpayer money to pay people more to stay at home than to go to work.

that is wrong. >> we achieved energy independence. we became a net exporter of energy for the first time in 75 years. [applause] but on day one, joe biden declared a war on energy. >> we are paying higher gas prices, higher grocery prices, $7,000 more a year for families. what we need to do is i came out with an economic plan. eliminate the gas and diesel tax so they have more money in their pocket. >> we have got to address the underlying problem with bidenomics. the overspending, taking all biden's rules and regulations. i'm going to throw them in the trash can on day one. >> brian: here to react the host of making money charles payne. those are some of the economic points from the seven candidates out there. let's talk about governor nikki haley. a couple days ago came out with her plan to get rid much the gas and oil tax. >> taxes we're overtaxed as a nation there is no doubt about that. becomes counter productive at

some point. also, of course, these are the things that hurt poorer people the most. right? it's not an elegant solution at all. i like where she is going with this. we are talking about the entire economic quagmire that most people watching this show are dealing with. they only mitt it on the periphery. at the end ron desantis got really close there should be a greater focus on how bidenomics has made america miserable. why that schocking poll by "the washington post," abc/"the washington post" has him down so much against former president trump. if you go to the part specifically when they ask about economics, financial. it is an absolute massacre. >> brian: only 23% approve of his economic policies and they are jamming it down our throats. >> charles: what did he do? there has always been this belief on the left that we as human beings and as americans can't do it on our own. they hate the notion of pulling yourself up by the boot straps. >> brian: right. >> charles: so he had an opportunity -- remember the

motto, the mantra, never let any crisis go to waste. the pandemic was a once in a century crisis, so they seized it. and they put trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars out there and, guess what? it felt good for a moment spent a lot of money. the guy from louis vitton became the richest person in the world. good we but the it on our balance sheet as extra, you know, now we are 33 trillion in debt and we shipped it off, right? but now that is coming down. the only thing still up there are the prices what is around the corner is misery. it's not just economic. this is more on the economics, brian. this is about who we are as americans. do we believe we can do it or do we believe we need big government to do it? biden put that into economic practice and guess what? we are living in misery because of it. >> brian: i hope we get a politician to say i'm just going to give you an opportunity. it's up for you to take it. >> charles: i'm going to create an economic back drop so if you give it your best, you will

succeed that's why america, this upstart nation became number one in the world in just a few years. >> brian: we outworked you and innovated you. yesterday at the end of the first question was okay, when it comes to those men and women on the picket line, who are striking against the big three automakers, what would you say to them? everyone had an an. the best answer i thought was governor doug burgum. listen to what he said. >> when you decide that we are going to take all of your taxpayer moneys. take a billion dollars, su subsidize a certain type of vehicle and the batteries come from china. china controls 75% of the rare earth minerals. they are measured in parts per million. china is moving 100,000 pounds of earth in indonesia, in africa. they are literally destroying the planet so that we can make a battery that's in a car subsidized here. that's why they are striking because they need two thirds less workers to build an electric car. joe biden, this strike is at joe biden's feet.

>> brian: he gets it. >> charles: he gets it. in fact he hit on a lot of amazing fantastic points. anyone out there who feels great about themselves as a good global citizen because they are driving an electric car, no. you are absolutely strip mining the planet. you are putting little kids in the congo out 14 years old into filthy dirty water for 20 hours a way. you are a slave master. you are not a good citizen. stop patting yourself on the back. they are not rare they are expensive to get and dangerous to get. that's why we start mining for them. only thing he missed was the billion dollars. how about hundreds of billions of dollars, right? one quick thing because i'm getting a wrap. i think it's a huge mistake for republicans to start dissing these uaw workers. they sincerely have a legitimate beef here not only about their past pain last 15, years losing their jobs what the governor of north dakota did get right. >> brian: that's why the president was in michigan yesterday to say the union heads don't like me but you guys give me a shot. thanks so much, charles payne.

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♪ >> steve: all right, let's talk about last night's debate seven republican white house contenders faced off for the second time on the debate stage out west g. what do the voters think? here with the dials is partner and president at maslansky and partners lee carter. lee, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: we have got three sound bites and watch the lines explain what they are. >> voter reaction. blue line democrats. yellow is the line that we like to watch the most because ends are the ones that decide the race obviously this is a republican primary so that red line is all important. >> steve: ron desantis had a really good night last night. one of the things he did, for a change, is he went after donald trump. let's see how republicans, democrats, and independents like that. where is joe biden? he is completely missing from action in leadership. do you know who else is missing in action? donald trump is missing in action he should be on this

stage tonight. he owes it to you to defend his record where they added 7.8 trillion to the debt. that set the stage for the inflation that we have now. i can tell you this, as governor of florida, we cut taxes, we ran surpluses. we have paid down over 25% of our state debt. >> you can see there republicans gave it an aa democrats surprisingly gave this a c and independents dialed it down and gave it a d. i was really surprised at the independent line. voters said i want to hear more about what he is going to do than attacks on donald trump. you can see at the end when he started talking about his own record he started to tick up more positively. he did overall have a good night but this was one of his least liked comments. >> steve: republicans gave him an a for going after trump. >> there surface-to-air number of people out there who are ready for somebody besides trump. >> steve: meanwhile, nikki haley had another really good night. she at one point confronted vivek ramaswamy about tiktok. he was talking about why he liked it and she didn't like

that. watch the dials. >> every time i hear you i feel a little bit dumber for what you say because i can't believe. tiktok situation. what they are doing is 150 million people are on tiktok. that means they can get your contacts, they can get your financial information. they can get your emails. they can get your text messages. >> this is very important for our party. >> whether a i'm saying is you gone and helped china make medicines in china and not america. ing kids to go and get on the social media that's dangerous for all of us. you were in business with the chinese that gave hunter biden $5 million. we can't trust you. >> steve: okay. >> that was no nonsense, nikki haley. so republicans gave it an a. democrats gave it a c and independents gave it a c. a lot of people complaining about the cross talk here. >> steve: it was annoying. >> it was really annoying. fair amount of people celebrated this moment said they were so glad to see her strength putting

him in his place. needed to be stronger on china. she came across as slil, yelling, some people called her a karen there was a real mixed reaction there. it will be interesting to see the long term impact. >> steve: it's a tight rope when you go after each other like that. soundbite, tim scott talking about his story, watch. >> i if you want to restore hope, you have got to restore family. restore capitalism and put americans back at work together as one american family. our nation continues to go in the right direction. it's why i can say i have been discriminated against but america is not a racist country. never ever doubt who we are. we are the greatest country on god's green earth. >> you know, that was a great moment for tim scott. republicans gave it an a plus. independents an a and i would even say democrats they say here they gave it a c because it's a

little bit flat but they really like what he had to say. if you want to see americans at their best, listen to this kind of a message. here's the problem. people said it was a great message in that moment but they don't know what tim scott's presidency is going to look like. they don't understand what he is going to do. he did not get his message across being beyond one of hope and it was unfortunate because it just didn't last beyond that moment. >> steve: two debates. in candidates still trying to figure out how to do it. she is going to be back with more dials in the next hour. lee, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> steve: in the meantime outside we go and ainsley has a bunch of guests. >> ainsley: we are talking about what the issues are for these awesome voters. thank you so much, steve. the american education system and particularly universal school choice was a huge topic of discussion at last night's debate. listen. >> so the first thing we have got to do is catch our kids back up. we have to make sure they can read. when we start to focus on that and bring in that parental involvement. that's when we will start to see a difference. we have got to get parents back

include you had. we have got to quit spending time on the dei and crt and instead focus on financial literacy on digital literacy and making sure that our kids know what they need to do to have the jobs of the next generation. >> ainsley: well, we heard from the candidates. what do the voters think? our voter panel joins us now. good morning to awful you. thanks for waking up early with us. >> thank you. >> ainsley: dennis richmond jr. an independent voter from yonkers new york. the education topic is important to you as a teacher. >> right. definitely. >> ainsley: what grade do you teach? >> middle school students in new york. ains awesome. sweet years. good for you. >> thank you. we know for a fact based on data we have in our country that when students do not know how to read, when students are not good at math by the 3rd grade that, it only goes down hill as they get older, we need a candidate who is going to work with that we need a candidate who knows that it's important that there

is parental involvement in our schools that, we know that we are working on a positive curriculum and that we're going to hold not only our schoolings accountable but that we are holding our students accountable for their education. lawrence. >> ainsley: are you seeing that at your school? how are the students in your school doing. >> i'm fortunate to say i'm in a district not just in west chester county but across the country there ♪ enough parental involvement. and those parents who are trying to get involved are being blocked by school districts that won't let them. in we need a candidate who is going to be able to fix that. >> ainsley: stephanie is sitting beside you. education is important to you. you are a former school teacher. live in stanford, connecticut. very democrat area you are register you had as a democrat. you say you are politically homeless and you are homeschooling your son? >> yes. >> how old is your son? >> he is 7 and a half. >> ainsley: how is that going? >> it's going well. we are going into our second year. >> ainsley: good for you. >> for many of the reasons he stated i just didn't feel comfortable leaving my son in a school system where fewer than

half of the students can read proficiently and less than that can do math proficiently. >> ainsley: what did you think last night at the debate when you are hearing many of them said school choice, school choice? >> i think a lot of them were talking about school choice but there is only one candidate who can say that they have universal school choice and they have successfully put that in and that's ron desantis. i think that's very strong going n this field where people can talk about it but he has actually done it and i think school choice we can debate about whatever the financial mechanism is, whether it's vouchers or esas, but kids need choices, and families need choices, and i want to see more of that. >> ainsley: ron says he has done that in the parent bill of rights. jerry lee campus reform correspondent for rutger's college. you are a g.o.p. voter. who did you like last night? >> i really liked ron desantis' performance. one of the things that stood out to me was he wasn't necessarily overly stand out. what stood out to me he got to

the point about what he was going to do if he is elected president. got to the values that he has. if he were president. and he talked about his experiences. he talked about his military experience, his background and he got the message across to voters. that to me was really important. he kept all the checked boxes for me and that's what made him win at the end of the day. >> vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis had message on the border they actually all did. here are clips of those two individuals and what their distances are. >> we do have to seal that southern border. building the wall is not enough. they are building cartel-financed tunnels underneath that wall. >> semi-trucks can drive through them. we have to use our own military to seal the swiss cheese of the south border there demand side on this country too a mental health epidemic. i met a family in iowa. two parents kathy and derek. they lost their son sebastian 17 years old. he bought percocet on snapchat, and then he died.

>> as commander-in-chief i'm going to use the u.s. military to go after the mexican drug cartels. they are killing our people. in florida we had an infant 18 months, parents rented an arab b and b apparently the people renting it before used drugs did. toddler crawling on the carpet and ingested fentanyl residue and died. are we just going to sit here and let this happen this carnage happen in our country? e. who did you like. >> i have to say i didn't care for anyone last night. i think it was a clown show. burgum stood out to me though. as far as the border goes, it's very concerning to me the human trafficking that is coming across the border the children that are being trafficked that come across the border. i don't think that anyone is realizing that aside from