families arriving here informing them of the new policy and finding transportation. >> bill: we'll see how it goes. molly line at logan in boston. >> dana: president biden's inner advisors are circling the wagons mounting an effort to save his campaign. house democrats leaving the closed-door meeting discussing the president's chances of winning a second term. i'm dana perino. that hour went by quickly. >> bill: good morning. i'm bill hemmer, good morning. today is a pivotal day we should learn where the democrats stand on biden's future in the bid for four more years. their first time meeting together in person since the troubling debate performance of a week and a half ago. >> dana: chad pergram is live with more. have we heard anything? >> right now democrats are just starting to filter out of this

meeting. we saw jerry nadler, a democrat from new york as well and steve cohen who indicated that he thought there was no consensus there. i talked to another democrat off the record this morning saying we're still trying to figure this out. here is the problem for the president and democrats. there are many opposing opposition to president biden. here is an example. >> joe biden all the way. >> you still support joe biden? >> yes. >> joe biden is the nominee. >> other democrats with competitive districts or states are putting distance between themselves and president biden. that includes ohio democrat who believes it is time for the president to go. others are elusive like susan wild of pennsylvania. >> we saw your statement earlier today. your statement said you thought it was a problem.

>> my statement speaks for itself. >> did you express some of those concerns on the call yesterday? >> my statement is my statement is my statement. >> the party has spent nearly two weeks worrying about the fitness of the president and not hammering former president trump. some democrats welcome the debate about president biden. >> could that diversity of opinion cost you the election? >> no, i think it strengthens the likelihood of victory. >> you are in better shape now than a week and a half ago? >> well now, you going to ask one question and i'll give you an answer and you run it down so well. we'll be in better shape by november. >> a senior house democratic leadership source says president biden will not meet with congressional democrats this week. the reason the source said, quote, because he does not want to meet with people who will say things he does not want to hear. bill. >> bill: you are watching the

tally here, chad. virginia democrat buyer is reportedly backtracking now previously saying he wanted biden to step aside. where is he now? >> he was pretty frank after that conference call that democrats had on sunday afternoon. he said he had grave concerns about the president. he had trouble stringing two sentences together. he described him as fragile. then he dialed that back in a statement and i posed some questions to him about that in the hallway. >> well, i am very committed to joe biden. it certainly looks like he will be our candidate. >> what was reported was that not accurate? some inaccurate reporting there? is there any consistency? >> i don't want to characterize the reporting one way or the other but i want to make clear with the statement i made yesterday. >> house republicans are about to have a press conference next door. i walked over there a few moments ago and this flyer was

of every house reporters from the house republican conference and says that joe biden is not fit to serve. bill. >> dana: chad pergram, thank you. bryan llenas is live in doral, florida. you have more. i just said to bill, i think the democrats have made a decision and sticking with biden for better or worse. >> yeah, and it seems like based on former president trump's interview on hannity that he believes it could be very well that biden is going to stay as the candidate. we'll see. no one really knows. we do know that we expect the former president tonight to really lean into this issue of how long the white house has been, quote, covering up the declining mental acuity of president biden. that has been an issue according to surrogates who have been on tv talking about the very same thing and we also expect the former president to lean in a little bit more on attacking vice president kamala harris.

this idea that if she were to be the nominee that she would be even more extreme and radical than president biden. florida senator marco rubio will be at tonight's rally here in doral amid speculation he could be trump's vice presidential pick. rubio is thought to be on the short list of v.p. picks including senators j.d. vance, tim scott and governor doug burgum. last night trump suggested his pick -- >> i haven't made a final decision but some ideas where we're going. a little bit -- we wanted to see what they are doing to be honest. it might make a difference. i think probably within the next week, week and a half probably sometime i would love to do it during the convention, my people say that's a little complicated. >> meanwhile the republican national committee voted and approved it party platform yesterday but not without

controversy. for the first time in 40 years the platform doesn't include calls for a constitutional amendment banning abortion. this year's platform only says the party opposes late term abortions. some pro-life delegates are upset saying the platform vote was rushed. >> i want something that says the unborn baby has a fundamental right to life. that can't be infringed. that's pro-life and that's not in there. if we had met we could have made some little fixes and ended up with everybody happy instead of just voting it through and not giving us a chance to read or amend it. >> pushing back on the criticism six major pro-life groups signed onto a letter endorsing the rnc platform. tonight's rally is for the former president's first in 11 days. that might be by design trump campaign source telling fox when democrats are in disarray why get in the way of them shooting

one another? tonight's rally starts at 7:00 p.m. >> dana: joining us for more is mary kathryn hamm. apparently the democrats have left this meeting. chad just said one of them said the president doesn't want to meet with anybody who will tell him something he doesn't want to hear. not the team of rivals to say the least. it seems maybe he is deciding he is the guy, not leaving. we make the most of it and go for it. >> yeah. clearly the president is bunkered up with his closest advisors, many are in his family. however, he has democrats where he wants them if they are coming out of this meeting basically in awkward silence and grumbling and supporters are more loud than critics. inertia is king. if he is the incumbent replacing them as i said a week ago they require unanimity of purpose and plan quickly. it is now more than a week after that debate and they do not have

that and these ideas of sort of a blitz primary where you have celebrities hold town halls is so outlandish i think none of this is landing with democratic leaders and i think it is important that the congressional caucus call that they had where the president came onto that call was pretty supportive of him and you will see some of those voices be supportive of him. that caucus speaks for a huge part of the coalition, an important part of the coalition for joe biden. >> bill: we'll see who speaks on his behalf whenever that happens. look at donald trump for a moment here. he has a big decision to make on his vice president. a big week next week in milwaukee. what he told sean last night. he said we wanted to see what they are doing, to be honest, because it might make a difference. how do you interpret that? >> i interpret that as former

president donald trump always knowing what good tv is. he wants to keep us all in suspense and frankly he should because there is no reason to put a giant story out right now while democrats are in their circular firing squad. let them do that. get to the convention, be -- republicans should be as normal as possible in pitching policies and have a big moment where you pick your guy. i think that trump is likely still undecided and he might decide next week. he is very unpredictable in this way and he will keep us all on p hooks until it happens. >> dana: you mentioned the democratic coalition. to live through a political realignment is interesting. you can remember this is -- the blue collar workers going more towards republicans. college educated voters going more towards democrats. that different in the last 18, 25 years or so. nate coyne showed republicans

are doing better with younger people ages 18-29. remarkable. do you think in your reporting and out and about a lot, is this even anecdotally true in your world? >> i think there is a lot of disappointment among young voters with biden and his administration. there is a lot of disappointment about non-white voters. those numbers on 18 to 29 jeer olds have to be hard for democrats. even if you can't get that you get huge percentages of them. if you end up with hispanic, black or young voters splitting or even with trump leading a bit. that's a huge problem for democrats and biden has not illustrated that he is a guy who can change the game at this point. certainly not with any of these speeches or interviews or

calling into morning shows. it is not moving people. >> bill: thank you for being on and talk to you next week, too. milwaukee will be very interesting and we'll get a lot of comparisons between 2016 in cleveland and 2024 in milwaukee. they are different worlds. >> dana: then you go to chicago and comparing 1968 to 2024. a lot of math as well. >> bill: thank you. >> dana: it's been -- we'll have live coverage of the rnc convention beginning on sunday. "america's newsroom" will be there in milwaukee as fox presents five days of marathon coverage. we start sunday at noon with you so we'll see you there. >> bill: don't miss that. >> dana: democratic new jersey senator bob menendez could learn his fate as closing arguments begin in his trial. >> bill: sante fe, new mexico, another case we're watching closely set to begin this hour. they'll start jury selection today in the alec baldwin involuntary manslaughter case. how will his defense fight the

charge? >> dana: plus reporters are fed up over the lack of transparency from the white house press podium. is the biden administration facing a p.r. crisis of its own making? >> there is no reason to go back and forth and be in this -- >> i'm miffed around here how information has been shared with the press. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ you were made to find inner peace. we were made to track flight prices to paradise.

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>> bill: we're listening and watching this. house republicans having their weekly press conference now. everybody is back in d.c. including republicans, not just democrats. tom emmer out of minnesota giving remarks. mike johnson is the speaker. if he goes to the microphone we'll go there. we action from the hill. >> dana: democrats weigh the president's political future.

in a meeting this morning to discuss whether he is fit for the top of the ticket. on monday reporters relentlessly questioned karine jean-pierre on president biden's health and medical appointments only to be met with crickets. >> can you state very clearly yes or no, was that expert here to participate in anything surrounding the care of the president of the united states? >> we shared that the past three years every year that he has, every year that he has had this exam. there were no findings which would be consistent with any cerebellar or other central neurological disorder. >> asking a direct question. >> hold on, wait, wait, wait a second. there is no reason to get -- go back and forth and be -- >> i'm miffed about how information has been shared with the press corps here. >> dana: crisis management expert is here.

a wonderful person to talk to about all things crisis management and politics with experience in both. how do you thigh white house advisors are trying to get through this particular time frame? >> you know, there is a lot of things you can survive in presidential politics. you can survive being hated but one of the things you can't survive is ridicule, being laughed at. what we're dealing with now is an episode of curb your enthusiasm where you cannot believe what you are watching. and i think that the white house recognizes that in order to win an election, being laughed at is something that is not going to be sur mountable. i think what was is interesting to me was yesterday's news conference when the questions about the doctors came up. look, i remember 40 years ago doctors were going in and out of the white house, experts on cancer and aids and you can address that. but when the press secretary and you have been there, dana, is asked is the president seeing

parkinson's doctors and the response is you are being aggressive in your questioning, my look at that analytically is there are different levels of sin in terms of what a white house spokesperson can do. there is outright lying and the next level that is not quite as bad is not being helpful. what they are trying to get away with and it will not work is not being helpful because there is probably -- definitely a very easy answer to what type of doctors the president is seeing. yet the mystery is being clarified through the lack of commentary. i have think the white house press corps, nobody is more angry than a white house press corps that feels it has been deceived. >> dana: she has another press briefing at 1:00 today. i got the sense yesterday might have been the first she had ever heard of a neurological doctor visiting the white house. >> you would know better than anybody.

i think that's probably right. another trick is often to not let a press secretary know. the problem in a situation like this is we are dealing with such a potential catastrophe that not preparing your press secretary and hoping they will go out and work magic, this is something you and i have seen in our fields. this notion that well, let's send a communications expert out there to do that thing they do. well, the joke is there is no thing that we do. there is no magic. and we are in a situation now where she was probably caught flat footed and i think it's very likely what happened. >> dana: the worst thing you can do is hide information from a communication's person. that's a terrible practice. they think they have a communications problem when in fact they have a fact problem. the last question i wanted to ask you is you have had experience dealing with people who are in power, positions of power, not just politicians but

people, all sorts, captains of industry. when they don't want to hear bad news, like we heard today chad pergram said there is a democratic member of the house joe biden doesn't want to meet with anybody who would tell him something he doesn't want to hear. what should the communications people do at that point? >> well, i think -- i know when i've been in situations where i have to say if i'm not given more and i don't know what i'm dealing with, i will have to walk away. one of the problems whether you are advising a president or a corporation is the people in that situation often feel it is in their best interest that in order to protect their job not to tell inconvenient information. so their loyalty is to their jobs, not necessarily to the country or to the company. but you have no choice but to have a showdown. the problem is, there is a great assumption that the central

principle in the scandal understands the problem he or she is in. one of the biggest problems i have had in my career is convincing the principle that they are in the situation that they are in because the capacity for self-hypnosis is unlike anything you can imagine. >> dana: powerful drug indeed. eric, thank you for being here today. stay in touch. >> bill: getting reaction from democratic lawmakers. to that in a moment. first the house speaker mike johnson. >> example after example. leading democrats and noteworthy democrats on the hill who haven't been in the dark about this and saying things i think most of them understand is simply not true. they've misled the american people. this is dangerous. we have the nato summit going on. the 75th anniversary of nato here, all of our guests from around the world. what we're projecting from the white house is not strength right now. at a very dangerous time around the world and that's why the american people are so alarmed by this and why the polls say

that most of the americans understand that joe biden is not fit for that office and it is a terrible thing. the democrats have misled us and need to be held accountable for that and also been misleading everybody about the save act on the floor that you've heard about this morning. a very important piece of legislation. they are claiming to oppose the bill because they say it will make it harder to vote. they know -- they know that is not true. many of the democrats want all these illegals to participate in our federal elections. they want them to vote. no other conclusion that you can draw. when the white house announced they would veto the bill they handed our elections over to all of these illegal aliens that have come here. the number is far greater than what is being reported. we were in conference this morning . one of our colleagues from the state of kentucky was down at the texas border over the last week and he was there with top border officials, down south of laredo and he said that he and colleagues that were

there personally witnessed nine illegals cross the border and disappear into the woods. and two border patrol agents tried to follow them on foot and they lost them. and they came back and our colleagues then asked well, how will you account for those numbers to send to dhs to add them to the number? we can't count them. what do you mean? the secretary and dhs does not allow us to count anyone unless we can say conclusively that they didn't cross back over the border and go back. we lost them in the woods and we don't know. they don't count in the gotaway numbers. this is how it's being done. whatever number you think, whatever number is being reported is grossly under reported. i've been saying for some time i think its close to 16 million and it's a serious problem. we can't allow to be -- sign up for taxpayer benefits and check a box and say i'm a citizen and

want to vote. chip roy has done a great job and others have preparing this and getting it ready. we have to make sure that we don't -- we don't have an election that is flawed in this way. in states trying to catch these criminals they are identifying thousands of illegal aliens who are registering. >> bill: the color from republicans right now. they will have the bill on the floor to prevent illegals from voting in elections. democrats will vote against it. some of the democrats who left the meeting said there is, quote, no consensus on biden. another democrat said quote, we are still discussing. the meeting is largely ongoing although some members have left because we've seen them. aishah notes good attendance inside. debbie dingle is a congresswoman from michigan. she has been by joe biden's side

in a very loyal way. i would say especially over the past two weeks. aishah said is there a consensus inside there? she says they're still talking. what does that tell you? we are united and our caucus is united in support of each other. does that include the president? that would be the next question to go to debbie dingle. right now we don't have that answer. they are hashing it out behind closed doors. what they say at the microphone will be rather telling when it happens. 26 past. let's move to this one now. >> end of the day it is decisions, not conditions that determine the fate and future. campaigns are about shape shifting. >> there is speculation the governor, gavin newsom, has presidential ambitions. he is hitting major battleground states for biden. how is he being received? interesting as the list of top democrats doubting the president's fitness for the job grows. we'll fire up the board as we

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we will not give up until no one is left behind. >> bill: house democrats holding that closed door meeting and see what they have to say when they come to the microphone. not many are choosing to speak so far. we'll see. we mentioned the word no consensus. that phrase that aishah got from democratic leaders. where the power play moves are right now within the democratic party. these are the six calling for biden to step aside. that includes angie craig out of minnesota. she represents the southern suburbs of minneapolis and st. paul. she came out over the weekend with her opposition. these are two, including derek golden from northern maine saying biden will likely lose. he represent a district in maine that doles out an electoral vote. it could be critical in a close

election. party leadership. you know them by now. nancy pelosi carries a lot of weight. jim clyburn was the one who gave joe biden the push in south carolina four years ago and barack obama and hakeem jeffries. the inner circle ron klain and bruce reed go back decades for joe biden and by his side for a long time and with him now and join anita dunn part of the obama team in the white house. this is what the "wall street journal" is saying today. how biden's inner circle worked to keep signs of aging under wraps. get into all the details what's been happening inside the white house. check that out. karl rove joins us now. good morning to you. you've been watching all day. what do you think right now? >> well, i think right now yesterday was a momentous day, a day that biden went out and basically dared people to come out in opposition to him and he knew that by doing so he made it more difficult for people like

hakeem jeffries and leader schumer to come out in opposition to him. discouraged senator warner of virginia from pulling together a group of colleagues to play the role that barry gold water and hugh scott played in 1974 with richard nixon when they went to the white house and told him tp -- it has swung back into the hands of biden and more difficult to get him out of the race. they know what's happening. they can read the polls like anybody else and know that his debate performance was disastrous and not because it was a moment but because it was an explanation of his current state of mind and abilities and yet they can't bring themselves to say to him it's time for you to go. >> dana: it seems like they feel like they've got it all covered. everything will be fine, no problem. i want you to comment on that. can they just get away with that? the question on my mind is if

the white house says you are only -- the president is only dependably engaged from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. his national security spokesperson said and reassured everybody he is lucid, i'm amazed that we are in this position that i feel like this is much more a national security emergency than people are taking it. >> yeah. look, this is an important moment for our country. the fact that the president of the united states is so selfish and his family and close advisors are so insular that they can't put the country first is really dispiriting. but think about it from the perspective of an individual from congress. it took guts for angie -- you have to know or the house, you have to know this will be a big problem for the democrats that probably means a trump presidency, it probably means that the democrats lose more

seats in the senate than they were going to otherwise. it may mean the republicans hold onto the house and have all three, the house, the senate and the white house, but the -- what happens to one member who steps forward and says this as opposed to the leadership or a large group of members stepping forward collectively, you know, that one member gets a lot of -- the president biden has made it clear he is calling these people bed weters and saying i'm not getting out and raising the stakes and making it more difficult for any individual member to step forward and say what all of them are probably thinking, which is this is a real problem and we are in deep electoral trump if he remains at the top of our ticket. >> bill: the logic has been if he were to get out kamala harris would ascend and the easiest transition because she would have the staff and money. the "wall street journal" goes to logic why biden would stay in until chicago.

he has 100 million reasons to stay in. he can't shift his war chest to harris until he is the official democratic nominee. do you buy that logic you stay in now? >> well, that was a piece by charlie speas. i can argue this round or flat. my view would be if he were to withdraw yes, he has a bunch of -- a stranded pocket of money in his campaign war chest bust that campaign, once he withdrew could transfer it to a new super pac that could spend the money on behalf of the presidential campaign. it would pay more for every television ad than it would if it were the official campaign. there is a way to access those funds. i also don't think-kamala harris is a terrible candidate and saw it when she ran for president. if they pick somebody like a

mark kelly, senator from arizona, or gretchen whitmer, governor of michigan, yes, they could keep kamala as the running mate but whoever heads that ticket would have an enormous burst of energy and enthusiasm. think back to nikki haley. when she looked like she had a shot at the republican nomination, what was it in the national polls? it showed that she was beating joe biden by the high single digits or low double digits and we didn't know much about her. the people in america were so desperate for somebody new other than biden and trump said she sounds reasonable, the u.n. ambassador and governor, let's go for her. same thing would happen with a new face in the democrats. >> bill: an interesting case you make. >> dana: you know what you win today? back drop of the year. that's very good. wherever you are, it's looking good. >> santa barbara and we saw a

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>> bill: now jury selection begins today and we're watching alec baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial in mexico accused in the deadly shooting of halyna hutchins on the movie set of "rust" three years ago. the prop gun he was holding

during rehearsal discharged a live round. he maintains he never pulled the trigger. judge janine pirro with us here now hosting a fox nation special on the case. he says -- let me get this right. he said he pulled back the hammer and not the trigger. and the gun fired. >> the problem with that is that the f.b.i. and state prosecutors, state forensic experts have said there is no way that gun would have gone off unless he actually pulled the trigger. here is one of the problems that is an age-old problem. first you never speak to the press. you never do interviews when there is a death involved. you can call it an accident but just because it is an accident doesn't mean it isn't a type of homicide. so what we have is alec baldwin charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter on the theory that he negligently used a firearm and the theory he was proceeding without due caution. the jury can pick eats one of

those. one is the large-scale how the whole set was handled and the second is more specific about the gun. the armorer, hannah reed, she was charged as the armorer with involuntary manslaughter and was convicted. she was convicted. the same experts, dana and bill, that they used in the hannah retrial will be using in alec baldwin's trial. there is an issue. she got 18 months, the max, 18 months, $5 thousand. she is in jail right now. >> bill: if they find baldwin guilty he could serve 18 months and a $5 thousand fine. what i find interesting about this is aside from, you know, the legal issues, is you have the cultural issue. you have alec baldwin coming in this hollywood guy in sante fe, a small town. bringing in these new york city expert lawyers and, you know,

they will go against these local prosecutors, local experts, and it is going to be kind of a culture clash. the case is significant because it not only represents the death of an individual on a movie set, which is horrific in itself. but it represents the whole issue as to whether or not these kinds of guns, these prop guns that were supposed to be cold, in other words, that didn't have a live round in them, can be responsible and used on a movie set. there should have been any live rounds anywhere near that set. but we know there were people who walked off the set, walked off of it because of the danger that was involved in live rounds being shot at that location as well. >> dana: peter and i are not mystery sleuths or anything and not investigators but when alec baldwin said i never pulled the trigger, that was weeks after the initial incident. he never said that initially.

he waited until then when he got to the george stephanopolous interview. that's the first time he said that. i always thought it was an interesting gap. >> it is not unusual. he was being prepped by either himself, his buddies or lawyers, we don't know. because any lawyer would have said to him do not do that. there is always that problem when you have got -- you are either political or celebrity and then on the other side is the law. you never play those two. the law always wins. you don't try to convince people of that. >> bill: during your fox nation special you try to go to the heart of the issue. >> the two-part special that drops today. >> bill: can i play a clip? why don't we go ahead and listen. >> you can see right here that alec's finger is positioned on the trigger, not laying next to the cylinder in line with the barrel as would be the proper way to handle a firearm if you don't intend to discharge it. you don't put your trigger on the finger and you know you want

to destroy that target. it is ingrained into you. >> so that's an expert telling you that. but what the prosecutor has is a crew member who saw him pull the trigger. he is the most important witness at this trial. >> dana: interesting. did that witness testify at the other girl's trial? >> i don't know. i know the forensic witnesses did. he wouldn't have had to. the issue is hannah saying it was a cold gun. a fascinating case. >> bill: this will be televised. if alec baldwin takes the stand america will be watching. >> i think it will be a mistake because he is -- i don't think he is in a position to go up against the experts in terms of his cross examination. >> dana: can't wait. see you in six hours from now. >> the president that i see every day, including yesterday a

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>> dana: now to america's housing crisis. data shows the cost of buying a home hitting an all-time high. yes, even got higher. lydia hu is in new jersey with a look at some potential solutions. we're all ears, what are the solutions, lydia? >> those prices really are climbing. we just hit a median price of $429,000. that's because we don't have enough homes. so a big solution here is building more homes. that's what you see in process just behind me in this neighborhood in new jersey. this street has nine lots but

instead of just building nine homes, the builder here, roger, building 18. he designed dupe -- duplexs. he needed special permission from the local zoning board. the process is complicated and takes a lot of time. he wants to build more communities like this but zoning could stand in his way. watch here. >> virtually impossible in this particular case it required a settlement with the fair share housing center to provide for low and moderate income housing at another location off sight. instead of one large home that was here there are 18 new homes, all of which are market rate. >> but zoning is not just a challenge here in new jersey. this is across the country. that's why the national association of home builders proposes easing zoning across the country to increase supply and also improve affordability.

they have other recommendations like improving careers in trade. we need more workers and eliminating excessive regulations that account for 25% of the cost of a new single family home. we need at least 1.5 million homes to get us on balance to meet the demand according to freddie mac. the home industry experts say they know what needs to be changed, these issues. they just need lawmakers to act. we'll see if that happens. >> dana: incredible story. >> bill: you have a high stakes summit for the nato summit. three-day meeting. president biden facing a imagine or test before allies trying to make the case that he is still up for the job. edward lawrence live in d.c. with more on that. nice to see you. >> good morning, bill. the spotlight on president biden bigger than the lights on me right now. the president we will not see

him until his welcoming speech tonight about 4:30 eastern time he will leave the white house to come this direction for that speech. now this summit will have a heavy ukraine focus. trying to counter the moves that russia has been doing. you will also hear a specific path forward for ukraine to become a nato ally. >> you will see some announcements on deterrence capabilities, not just with respect to helping ukraine but boosting the alliance. will you see some announcements with respect to the defense industrial base and how to shore up that and make it more resilient and including our own industrial base here. >> the "wall street journal" reporting president biden went to bed instead of meeting with the german chancellor. knowing president biden doesn't

do things let set an early meeting and blinken showed up at. he was always supposed to attend that event. nato members refuse to talk about what they say. the german chancellor hasn't seen health concerns. they're hearing private and public concerns from democrats. >> they are saying he can't be president now. the hypocrisy is interesting when you get into their arguments he shouldn't serve another term. he shouldn't have the nuclear codes right now. >> we should get a nato statement out of this. >> bill: thank you, sir. >> dana: this just in. democratic meeting has ended. lasted two hours. hakeem jeffries left out the back door. >> bill: and went in the back door. >> dana: we don't know what he is thinking but hope we'll find out later today. sandra smith will take you through the next hour. hi, sandra. >> sandra: fox news alert as w