joey: it is the 8:00 hour of "fox and friends" weekend starting with this. biden's big moment came and went and democrats are still

panicking over his campaign as biden says it would take a lot to make them step aside. >> will you stand down? it depends, if the lord almighty tells me that i might do that. lisa: tropical storm beryl rocking mexico is a category 2 hurricane. will: a former space force commander saying he lost his job and pension for standing up to training. ♪ lisa: thanks for letting us be here. we survived two hours and they let us stay here.

joey: there is not much going on. vacation and not a weekend. will: we never kicked someone off the couch mid show. i'm willing to make some adjustments. one of the hosts is gone. and make it that way. thanks for filling in. let's get right into it. president biden sitting down, the first interview since his disastrous debate performance. will: it would take a message from the lord almighty to exit the race.

joey: here is the scoop on this. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview with george stephanopoulos, president biden maintains he has the capacity to serve four years. >> you said going back to 2020, watch me, to people concerned about your age, 50 million americans watched that, seemed to confirm fears they already had. >> president biden: after that debate i did ten major events in a row including until 2:00 in the morning. i did events in north carolina. i did debates in georgia. large crowds, overwhelming good, i had a bad night. i don't know why. >> reporter: the president did say donald trump was shouting which distracted him. when pressed by stephanopoulos whether he would be open to taking an independent medical

examination the president said there is no need. >> specific cognitive tests and a neurologist or specialist do an examination. >> president biden: no one said i had to. they said i'm good. >> would you be willing to undergo an independent medical evaluation that included neurological tests and release the results to the american people? i have a cognitive test every single day. >> reporter: new york times see nr poll shows registered voters preferred donald trump to president biden 49%, 45% say he should be replaced as a nominee. the president suggests only by divine intervention would he leave the race against trump. >> president biden: i'm convinced i'm the most qualified person and i can get things done. >> if you can be convinced that

you cannot defeat donald trump, will you stand down? >> president biden: depends, if the lord almighty tells me that i might do that. >> reporter: the president's defiance raising alarm on capitol hill. senator mark warner is trying to get a group of democratic senators to urge the president to drop out. hakeem jeffries will hold a virtual meeting tomorrow. a nato summit could be his next big test. joey: the president sat down for an interview. he is an incumbent president who has to prove to the american public and to his donors and supporters that he is of sound mind and body. not that his policies are

something, but whether his competency, that's not just brush over this moment in history. lisa: i imagine chuck schumer sneaking into his room saying this is god, time to drop out, that's how bad this is. the good news for joe biden is he has an insurance policy, kamala harris. there was a call with democrat operatives and donors, one of the donors said a comatose joe biden is better for them with swing voters been kamala harris. that's the problem democrats find themselves in as they say we get rid of joe and someone like kamala harris, you can't say we messed up not only with biden but the vp, she solves the age question but does she get them killed in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. that is part of the challenge for democrats.

joey: i don't think he gets replaced or bows out unless physically debilitated. i don't think anyone else gets the nomination but if you watch the debate and juxtapose it to 2016, go back to 2012 and paul ryan, even when joe biden was crazy uncle joe he has done well in debates, against paul ryan and trump. when you wonder is that decline just us, there is something you can look at, you can pool the tape from four years ago. are you the same man as that guy who did well in those debates and this is his answer. >> reporter: are you the same man today that when you took office? >> president biden: in terms of successes, yes. i put together a peace plan for the middle east. i am the guy who expanded nato

and improved the economy. i had or i fulfilled. that was true then, just announced 200,000 new jobs in the direction no one has ever taken on. you know this from your days in the government, took on big pharma. all the things we got done we told we couldn't get done. restore decency to the office. with trickle-down economics, from the bottom up, the wealthy define how everyone does better. will: i was on your podcast. you are more concerned about his policies.

many supporters attempt to paint that. it is in league with that line, don't let 90 minutes ruin 31/2 years of work. the vision he articulated. that is a hard sell for americans. recovering from covid everyone understands the negative impact when it comes to inflation. then you meld the two to gather. if the world is the way i feel it could it have a relationship or bad ideas in policy but bad competency and leadership. joey: gavin newsom is 56. he is driven the state into the

ground, highest unemployment, high taxes, multimillion dollar budget deficit. look at obama, russia and crimea, red lines meant nothing. insert any democrat and we would be as bad off, the policy is the issue but what is substantial is mark warner, senator from virginia, he's not a rabble-rouser like aoc, he's building a coalition to nudge president biden out of the race. warner is telling democratic senators biden can no longer remain in the election and the weight of his faltering debate performance. people familiar with private conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity, he is deeply concerned that biden is not able to run a campaign that

can beat donald trump. do you ever say things and it sounds wrong in your head? that is significant. joey: this is what i think. i think the media specifically and more prominent democrats are being loud and active because now is the time to act. and a couple weeks it's too late. when that point comes they are waiting for the campaign to give them something. a soundbite, tagline, point it back to trump, something they can use to move on from this. that's where we will be in two weeks. in three weeks, in six weeks if president biden is still stubbornly intent on getting the nomination and nothing major has gone awry, you will see the same figures in the media and democrat saying almost the opposite which is look what joe biden has done

for us, they are not ashamed of their policy. when it comes to passing legislation in line with progressive values they are. i don't think most americans are on board with it. i don't think the polls will shift. donald trump's quality will rise. i think the democrats for the most part especially those in the media, they will start making excuses, carrying his water again and telling us this isn't a concern. will: not a rabble-rouser who goes around looking to upset the apple cart on changing power. to put a coalition of senators together is a big deal. stephanopoulos asked biden about mark warner. >> the washington post reported that senator mark warner is assembling a group of senators

to get you to stand down because they don't think you can win. >> president biden: market is a good man. he tried to get the nomination too. mark and i have a different perspective. i respect him. will: mark warner and other senators meeting tomorrow with hakeem jeffries, the minority leader, don't know what will happen on that virtual call. lisa: if nancy pelosi were the minority leader, four democrat saying get out and 2 dozen saying they are ready to write a letter do you think we would be hearing it that way? lisa: the kamala harris problem is why there might be reluctance to get joe biden to drop out of this race. democrats are trying to figure out can she get the job done? it is important not to underestimate anyone.

the democrats have a machine behind them with mail in balloting and getting out the vote. it's dangerous to underestimate your opponent. will: how much of that is behind him? looks like last night's interview did not coalesce everyone behind him. not the other politicians, not the media. the new york times wrote mr. biden is 18 years older, the president arrived friday without a tie, his shirt buttons undone making everyone, every effort to project youth and vitality get a viewer cannot help but imagine the bar. mr. stephanopoulos in the role of the adult son guiding an elderly parent toward a conclusion that may be difficult to accept. it did feel that way. joey: in the moment i didn't feel it that way because i was

focused on what he followed up with a question. is he going to let biden give his answers? i felt like he did backup most of the difficult questions, didn't run away from the idea that he looks like a week older man. i understand going back and watching it again he was trying to hold his hand. lisa: i felt we were watching an intervention. he calls himself a journalist, that's the only difference. he was delivering a message on behalf of the democratic party being look, we have to take your keys away. you can't drive the car anymore. i felt we were privy to an intervention. that's how it felt watching that. to me. will: your point about george stephanopoulos's prior roles becoming a mainstream journalist is well taken.

he could in that moment deliver a message and what was perceived, he was delivering a message. joe concha was talking about -- i think joe biden stylistically looked similar to the debate. horse, eyes a little bit written in the new york magazine, eyes off, mouth agape, tanned this time. joe conger on that performance. >> the refusal the president to take a cognitive test when asked if he would. a majority of democratic voters want him to drop out of the race. three quarters of the country say the same thing. take the test because otherwise you look like you are in denial about what we witnessed on the debate stage in atlanta, why was he so slow to do this interview after 8 days of a new cycle that swept the president

away and his chances of winning. too old, not nimbly enough for the job or keep up with donald trump on the campaign trail. the election is held today trump wins. lisa: let me defend ross from friends, if you tone it, tanned it. if the election were held today donald trump wins. i don't know. lisa: it's easy to say that. joey: it is a close race in november. there are a lot of people that would not vote for a sack of potatoes over one or the other. the smartest thing if donald trump wants to win, campaign like he is 5 months behind. will: police say they have arrested a suspect of should -- accused of shooting and killing three people including two children at a texas carwash. officers say they should out started after an argument.

two sisters, 4, and one year old died after being caught in the crossfire, three others heard including the suspect. tax authorities denying an application for the movie rust, incentives were worth $1.6 million, going to be used toward a legal settlement between producers and cinematographer halnya hutchins who was killed by a prop gun baldwin those holding in 2020 one. the involuntary manslaughter trial will begin tuesday. a former space force commander up in arms after he says he was fired and lost his pension for speaking out after serving in the military for a decade. matt lohmeier accused of affecting military readiness. he joins us now.

>> senior military leaders especially under the current administration decided because of the climate of fear we created they are to treat my criticism of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives as partisan and holding me accountable for speaking out against it. will: dei in the military could cost $114 million this year. those are your headlines. joey: the interesting thing get is they are not just imposing dei but rash on your buddy if they don't agree with us. that is not how you build morale. they get kicked out i guess. rolling back the red carpet from migrants. our sanctuary cities realizing that residents don't want to pay millions for migrant care?

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joey: lisa: sanctuary cities rolling

back migrant shelter programs after spending million i little immigrants. migrants under city care dropped 621% with 11 fewer shelter locations. is the city realizing how this is? chicago resident and trump surrogate joins us now. if they are not in the shelters, where are they going? >> they are going to homes where americans used to live. the housing subsidy illegals have is higher than market rent and federal housing good subsidies. they are not renewing leasts of americans and are putting illegals there. people going into the shelter are going into the homes. lisa: illegal aliens have come to chicago since august 2022 over $400 million spent.

that's money going to people who shouldn't be in this country, not citizens of chicago. >> it is disrespectful. we don't understand how people can have this type of privilege when they pay nothing into the tax base of the city of chicago and now the mayor stated he's going to let women and children remain in shelters and that means the men will be put out. we have over one thousand, over a thousand men on the street, no jobs, no resources which means we are the sitting targets because they will eat anyway they can. lisa: you are a trump surrogate, how will these policies impact the election? >> the democratic party and president biden's open border is the best recruitment strategy for the republican

party. people leaving the democratic party in droves because we can see the american people are not the priority of the democratic party. they are focused on the illegals safety and security bow hours is negatively impacted. lisa: "fox and friends" reached out to the chicago mayor's office. we've not heard back. coming up. college students are out on summer break. harvard is under fire for their response to anti-semitism on campus. a cornell professor on how deep the bias runs in ivy leagues. fox weather allard, texas bracing for tropical storm beryl. what you need to know if you are in the storm's path.

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"cavuto" part of texas are bracing for non-tropical storm beryl to hit the coast as a hurricane. storm watchers have been issued past the southern gulf of mexico. officials say no one was hurt or killed. we turn to rick reichmuth for our fox weather forecast. >> reporter: the store has record every record for hurricanes, first category 5 this season, same with category 3 across part of the atlantic. the storm moved yesterday through the yucatán peninsula, hurricane watches across texas. we will see a land falling

storm, probably a hurricane monday in texas. you see not a lot of action here but we are seeing a bit of a flareup around the center. the storm making 48 hours over water, reorganization across the texas coast. some spots 4 to 5 feet of storm surge. if we end up with a stronger storm, the rainfall totals will be higher. we have really wet soil, 20 inches more than you would normally see this time of year. some spots 5 to 10 inches, well, that's going to cause problems for flooding across texas, maybe dallas, east to houston watching for big storm. will: harvard botching their

response to anti-semitic, and dealing with discrimination with traction making things worse to. the dei recommendation tries to play both sides despite pro-palestinian protesters being the primary agitators. cornell professor william jacobson joins us now. they set up a task force under the guise of dealing with anti-semitism but package with that recommendations to take on anti-muslim and anti-arab issues as well. >> reporter: we saw what happened on the campuses. we saw the videos. it was one direction. it was harassment of jewish students, calls for violence against israelis. it was 1-sided but rather than addressing the deep anti-semitism of the pro-palestinian movement, they

bumped to the two together saying we will do with anti-semitism and islam phobia. that wasn't the problem in october. that wasn't the problem on campuses. they are gas lighting as. they are treating it as a both sides issue. will: it was not just that they reveal that they think it's two equal problems. it also exposes this entire thing as a box checking get exercise. they have this dei recommendation, includes intentional engagement with diversity. it must be affirmed as a crucial part of harvard education. what i mean by box checking, down the rabbit hole on dei woke policies and once you are down the rabbit hole, if you

suggest we have to do something about anti-semitism, someone will go even though it's not the issue, what about anti-arab sentiment? if you don't check that box, you don't care about arabism? they are not interested in solving the problem. they were interested in solving the perception of solving the problem. >> that's a great point. this exercise is for cover to say they are doing something when they are not. if you read the recommendations from these two taskforces, they state they are not dealing with strong problems at the university which means they are not dealing with the dei problem or the ideology of intersection now that he and critical race theory which puts people into oppressor versus oppressed and has the motivation and ideology of decolonization which is being weapon eyes did. they will not deal with the underlying structural problems. they want to report that they did something.

will: you brought up the deeper issue. when you boil it all down, we are talking about an ideological issue of seeing the world through oppressor and oppressed. >> they put the united states, one thing i want to point out, these movements are both anti-israel but also anti-american, burning american flags, not just israeli flags and put the jews in the white oppressor category and use that to demonize israel, to demonize israeli jews. that's the problem. joey: will: i find it is spearing -- i misattributed you to columbia. there is some sanity at cornell. glad to hear that.

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>> what your plan to turn the campaign around? >> president biden: you saw it today. how many can draw crowds like i have? >> i don't think you want to play the crowd game. donald trump can draw crowds. >> president biden: but what is he saying? joey: president biden claiming rally like the one yesterday in wisconsin are the key to turning his campaign around. this is getting mixed reviews

as a rally go or reach the president with a sign saying pass the torch. biden held the rally, republican congressman joins us now. the president was in wisconsin. how do you feel his message was received? >> president biden went to the most liberal city in madison. when he's going to read a teleprompter for 18 minutes in front of his supporters, things aren't going well. contrast that to donald trump coming to my district, working to grow the test. democrats are circling the wagons, maybe circling the drain on a real problem. the problem the democrats have not only is the person that's leading the charge, president biden, also the policies they are purporting to support,

looking to drive inflation higher and leave the border more secure. not only actions of the president where he shows he's not capable of the job but the policies driving the country further off the rails. joey: it is whether or not biden has the wherewithal. it seems every state has a play in it. does donald trump have a chance to win wisconsin? >> every election is the tip of the sphere in wisconsin could go for donald trump. this is going to be a turnout game in wisconsin. a key is to make sure every republican and every conservative has their voice heard. donald trump talked about this when i got to introduce him in wisconsin last week, talking about making sure we are using all the tools in the toolkit on the conservative side.

this is a persuasion conversation about policies president biden is using to clobber american families contrasted with success under donald trump where we are growing the economy in real terms. the second piece of this is the turnout, we have robust operation here. going to cities like crisscrossing the state of wisconsin we have an opportunity to deliver wisconsin for donald trump and remove president biden from office so we don't have him for four more years. joey: president biden touts legislative victories, the green new deal, a lot of things that happened, republicans have taken the gavel, the leadership has changed our time or two and so has the leadership on the democratic side. no longer nancy pelosi but how team jeffries. numbers of the democratic party

are actively calling for president biden to step down. hakeem jeffries has a meeting to rally the troops tomorrow. i don't know what his strategy is but you are in the halls of congress. what do you think will come from this? >> he is trying to circle the wagons to prevent any more defections. any democrat running a competitive district is trying to avoid the proximity they might have to president biden. they are petrified for him leading them at the top of the ticket. look at madison, wisconsin. tammy baldwin refusing to show up with the president, she has done that time and again. we have democrats petrified president biden is leading the top of the ticket and hakeem jeffries calling a meeting on sunday before congress comes back to work to make sure they

don't have more defections. in the coming weeks you will see democrats running away from their own record, it is driving inflation higher. they don't want to talk about the open border policies that is causing chaos not just in border states but communities across the home state of wisconsin. what we will see is democrats trying to jump ship and the leadership of the democratic party circling the wagons. joey: we will see if we see strength out of the minority leader. thank you so much for joining us today. i'm going to toss it to lisa. lisa: turning to your headlines the family of an american teenager who got off a caribbean princess cruise ship

was lured away by a stranger. aidan brown was last seen leaving the ship alone on independence day at a german port two hours from berlin. after getting into an argument with his grandmother. cruz officials are working to try to find him. 70 people were caught on camera ransacking a gas station at a flash robbery yesterday morning. two were threatened during the robbery and the suspects caused $100,000 worth of damage. no arrests have been made. a wells fargo analyst calling out chipotle for inconsistencies in the chain's burrito holes. a wide variety of portion sizes whether you place them online or not. customers are noticing as well.

>> this i know. >> reporter: there's a lot of that. the company ceo has denied reduction in portion sizes and claims it is on the customer to ask for more ingredients. those are your headlines. coming up, national fried chicken day. instead of getting it kentucky fried, check out these are the source -- delicious recipe hacks. i have them for you.

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you want to pass it in a flower. got to do it. get involved. what you want to do, i love to do self rising flour because that makes it crispy and you don't have to do anything else. the goal is to make it easy. you want to get oil up to temperature, 350, throw it in because this is not even on. i like to use an instant read thermometer. you can put a chopstick or bamboo skewer in here. if you have bubbles, that is how you know it is hot enough. you say i don't want to buy it or go that far, you don't want it to be boiling. you will cook the outside and not the inside.

you cook this until it is 145 but 6 to 8 minutes. 140 is go time. this is it. will: i don't know if this is the yogurt but it is fluffy and looks good. >> it is the self rising flour. lisa: once you get it fried -- >> you can eat fried chicken straight. i love chicken and waffles. however is my hot honey purveyor it is hot honey mixed with maple syrup. i love that. just amazing. you can make the waffles or premium -- i also -- joey: chicken and waffles with honey. >> this is a salad that is

peas, rice, cider, vinegar, tomatoes. joey: all of this sounds like i need to go home. >> that is fried chicken which is great. that's adapted similarly with this tomato pasta. it is great, and you stick under a broiler, olive oil and tomatoes, that is it. a lot of ways to use fried chicken. we talk about having crispy skin. joey: people are making pancakes and waffles by scrambling them. would you do that? >> anything you find on tiktok, be wary of. this is fun. if you want to do it and it is fun for you.

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