storytelling was reagan's quick -- great quality. trump when he gets going can tell a great story and he's funny. people want to laugh again. they want to laugh and have a good time. >> when people hear a joke from him they take him serious. america understands they don't need the strainer of the media to tell them what trump is about and i think nikki haley nailed it, expand the base. republicans aren't enough. tell the american people about your message. >> trump is expanding the base and democrats, boy, when the new york times says it's divisive times for the democrats and unity for the republicans, it's great stuff. great to see you both, that's it for us tonight, six -- stick with fox news for jd vance his speech. we will be back tomorrow night, special coverage on the final night up next. fox news alert, the third night of the rnc is underway and

soon jd vance will be making his way on the stage for his big address. donald trump also in the building. the former president was seen sizing up -- earlier as he gears up for his speech tomorrow night. is persons dodging an assassin's bullet, or as he's calling it, the greatest earache he's ever had. has the details keep dripping out we have more questions. tonight we are learning that the gunman was on law enforcement's radar for three hours and a secret service designated crooks a threat ten minutes before trump took the stage. the secret service never said mister president, don't go out there. they let trump take the stage anyway. eight minutes later, he's shot. crooks first aroused suspicion at around three saturday when security saw him with a rangefinder passing through the metal detectors. police say they had an eye on him until he disappeared. crooks was later spotted for a second time. this time by a sniper looking up

at the roof, observing the building he scaled and shot from. this was radioed into the command center. at one point a sniper saw crooks sit down and start scrolling through his phone. and investigators believe he may have had two phones. more on that later. this is when crooks looks so suspicious that a local sniper team took this picture of him an hour before he opened fire. all of this information was being sent to the secret service command team at the rally. a trump supporter in the crowd then caught him on camera lurking around. watch this. >> if you take a closer look, you will notice someone in the background. the time stamp's 5:06 and the video appears to show 20-year-old thomas crooks lurking near a building just passed a perimeter of the event itself. as the video pans to the crowd, you will notice law enforcement vehicles stationed in the area as well. as the camera moves back towards the building, crooks appears to be seen again, blink and you may

miss it but it likely shows crooks was in the area for more than an hour before the shots were fired. >> another local sniper teams although shooter return to the building, this time with a backpack. again, the locals alerted the secret service command post who still had not done anything. then at that point crooks climbed up an ac unit and hoisted himself atop the building. once he was on the roof, the secret service was alerted that there was a designated threat on the roof. again, the locals had to take the lead. two officers responded and this is how it went down. >> when a boat -- he was able to pull his head up over the roof he did in fact see an individual on the roof with a weapon. >> he saw the shooter. >> he did. >> what did the shooter do? >> turned towards him, pulled up his weapon, pointed it at the officer. >> at that point the officer is hanging on to the side of the roof? unable to pull a gun out? >> unable --

>> unable to defend himself or reaches radios. >> any of that. >> did they realize there's a threat right now to the former president? >> they did. boast the boosting officer and officer that fell were on the radio indicating that there was an individual on the roof that did in fact have a weapon. >> who did they radio? >> there was a blanket tactical channel. >> everyone heard it. >> anyone who was on the channel heard it, yes. >> trace: every secret service agent and every local officer knew there was an armed threat on the rooftop. secret service protocol requires the president to be evacuated immediately. but they let the president step on stage like a sitting duck. a 20-year-old with no military training was able to outfox a secret service team and local law enforcement for three hours and opened fire from a roof of a security watch post 150 yards from the most famous man in the world and the secret service was aware of this guy the whole time. all they had to say was mister

president, sit tight for five, don't take the stage at, we have a threat we need to handle. they apprehend crooks and trump keeps his ear. but that did not happen. former secret service agent dan says he has an unimpeachable source that says the plan was to have someone on that roof. >> a high-level source reached out to me last night and said to me that the rooftop that's a shooter engaged from was actually supposed to be posted by a local police department born on secret service counter sniper team. for some reason, that local tactical counter sniper team did not make it to the roof. what i'm hearing from sources is that that tactical team positioned through a second floor window, which seeds the high ground. and nobody noticed? nobody noticed that that post was unmanned?

nobody had any idea? >> jesse: we reached out to the secret service and they told us, no comment. i thought the roof was too sloped. now we are hearing the counter sniper's plate hooky and nobody noticed. and the secret service were the ones who set the perimeter so no excuses. the perimeter was set so that when bullets started flying, the responding officers were trapped watch this. [ crowd noise ] [ inaudible ] >> jesse: not only was the building rooftop wide-open, they did not have any security outside of the building either. the washington post reporting

tonight that local police had alerted the secret service before the rally that they did not have the resources to station officers at that building. the secret service did not do anything about it. but cheadle says she did everything she could, kind of. >> was every element increased after you learned of this credible threat? >> what we increased was what we felt we thought was appropriate for the former president and for that particular event on that day. repent increasing the assets and resources and so staffing that we've been providing to the former president since he was a presidential candidate and then the presumptive nominee, that's what i can tell you. >> that sounds like a know. >> i'm not saying no, i'm saying we have continued to increase the resources we've been providing to the former president. >> jesse: cheatle doesn't even sound like a secret service director but an evasive politician. today there was a closed-door briefing to congress and they said the assassins search history showed searches for "-- trump rally dates and the dates

of the dnc. this is kind of like how he's a registered republican who donated to democrats. weird right? we also learned that two secret service agents posted on the rooftop behind trump, that famous photo, were to the ones who unloaded the kill shot, it was another sniper who entered crooks his life. but they won't tell us where he shot from. it's so bizarre. now we are getting leaks from the intelligence community that the iranians have a fault while on 45. and "there may be more attempts on trump's life in the coming weeks. this is completely unacceptable. texas senator ted cruz joins me now. senator, you were briefed today. what did you hear? >> it was utterly maddening. we had a briefing with all 100 senators and the head of the secret service and the head of the fbi. it was a 45 minute briefing and they spent 30 minutes filibustering, walking through all the different things they did that day, walking through a

detailed timeline of every other factor of what they did in the field, what they did on the stage, what they did backstage, everything except how they did not stop a man with a rifle from shooting the president. and that detail they just omitted. what's frustrating, you played the head of the secret service. let me be clear, she should resign today. to be honest, joe biden should fire her yesterday. what does it take to get fired by joe biden? it was an absolute security catastrophe. after this briefing we had a chance for questions but they only allowed a handful. i tried to ask a question but you had to hit a number on your phone, they never got to me, they never got to the conservatives. here are the questions i would have asked if they'd given me a chance, number 1, why weren't more officers assigned, why wasn't their adequate protection? why was the rooftop not secured, why was there not an agent on the rooftop? why were there no aerial assets, why were there no drones,

helicopters. number 4, when you spotted the shooter, i will not use his name, that name should be forgotten by history. when you spotted the shooter, why was he not detained? why did you let trump go on stage when you knew you had that risk? she would not answer any of this and bizarrely enough she continues to claim everything was just fine. it is a complete lack of accountability and it is utterly disgraceful. >> jesse: you are a texas guy, we remember the scene and dallas years ago. there was a cover up there. we never got the full picture, a lot of people have a lot of questions. a lot of people now have questions about this incident. is cheatle there to cover this up, because anyone with honor would have handed their resignation letter in. >> absolutely. i don't know. i just finished recording a podcast with dave mccormick who's running for senate in pennsylvania. he was not the rally. and so dave told a story of being firsthand they are and

what i laid out is listen, the leadership of the secret service was utterly incompetent on this and i want to draw a distinction. the agents who were their birth -- behaved heroically, they put their bodies between a bullet in the president so i'm not impugning the agents, but the leadership, it was either utter incompetence or what i'm very concerned is that it was political. that this administration, remember this is the same secret service and same department of homeland security that until this week denied a secret service detail for rfk junior even though his father was murdered by an assassin,'s uncle was murdered by an assassin and everything the biden a ministration does is partisan politics. i believe the senate should have emergency hearings next week, we should have the secret service director there, we should have the head of the fbi, we should have the secretary of homeland security, they should answer these questions and they should also answer the questions how many threats have been lodged

against donald trump? i believe he's probably the most threatened person in the world and the secret service management, they utterly failed in their core job. >> jesse: when you say this could have been political, are you saying that resources may have been denied or diverted? >> yes. so listen, let me be clear i'm not suggesting some murky conspiracy that the secret service was in on, that's not what i'm saying. >> jesse: we don't have any evidence of that. >> there's no evidence and i still believe enough in america that i refuse to even contemplate something like that. what i am suggesting is that this woman is a political appointee. this call today was all about avoiding accountability. she was asked on this call how did the shooter get to the roof and she said i don't know. how did she not know? is there a more important question to answer? she was asked to do you have drones? she refused to answer, she said well, we determined that the counter snipers were adequate mitigation for the rooftop.

well, that was obviously wrong, the rooftop sloped away from the counter snipers. zero accountability, zero recognition that she screwed up, her leadership screwed up, and this administration, why is joe biden not firing her quake seriously. you look at afghanistan, the catastrophic withdrawal, nobody gets fired. what does somebody have to do to get fired? there is no accountability because it's all political. >> jesse: i understand we don't believe in conspiracy theories, there's no evidence of that as of now, we hope there is not, but when this is such a blatant and catastrophic security failure, when they allow the president to take the stage after they know there is an armed threat on a rooftop within 150 yards, that makes a lot of people think why. >> and i think it is a combination of incompetence and at the senior level i fear partisan decision-making, denying trump the protection.

it was reported right after this attempted assassination that part of president trump -- president trump's detail was redirected to first lady jill biden, on the day of the shooting because she was also in pennsylvania. to be clear, the first lady needs to be protected but the political decision, a question that needs to be asked is, were they treating donald trump simply as a former president or were they treating him as the likely next president of the united states and someone for whom after a decade of demonization from the radical left, calling him hitler, the devil, there is a lot of animus towards him. i think they made, i fear they made a political decision not to provide adequate resources to protect him and we've seen the tragic consequences. >> jesse: thank you senator ted cruz, texas, have a good convention. >> fantastic convention and one word summarizes this year, unity. this party is united. >> jesse: a beautiful thing, thank you.

host of mornings with maria joins me now. do you want to add anything to this conversation? >> i think it's so extraordinary if we had a more honest media out there we would hear more outrage over this. we want answers. i don't know if they hearings are going to bring us the answers we need, but this is outrageous and everybody on both sides of the aisle should be outraged. >> jesse: so we have a lot of breaking news today but i want to get to this. the media does not really trust the injury. they think trump might be making this up. here is msnbc talking about i guess what we are calling eargate. >> we have not received a medical report from the hospital or the campaign or from the trump organization about the extent of the damage to his ear. if he was shot by a high caliber bullet, there is probably little year there. we would like to know that, is

there a cosmetic surgery involved or what is the prognosis for recovery, were there stitches? what is the extent of the damage to his ear? there are a lot of questions around that year and yet there has been no response to that. instead just showing the image of the man coming into the hall with the wounded ear. >> jesse: msnbc wants to sea trump's medical records but not biden's. >> and it's just incredible. i think the media is so tangled up with this narrative that they've been driving since he came down the escalator in 2015, they can't get out of themselves , they can't get out of this entanglement, and the momentum here and the momentum for the republicans, beginning here and really as we've seen the unity get stronger and stronger, is overwhelming them. they don't know how to deal with it and they don't want to get away from this narrative of hating donald trump so much that

they can't get out of their entanglements, they just can't do it. >> jesse: jd vance will be coming up in just a few moments. what do you think he needs to say tonight to really bring this message home? >> i think look, he's going to tell us a bit about his upbringing but i think he also has to show the fight, fight, fight that donald trump has shown us. people want to see he will be a fighter, that he's going to search for truth and he's going to make sure to get this country back on track. but the momentum is so strong, so many people get it. investors, look at the market, the other day doubt industrial up 740 points, today another 200 plus points. investors are betting that donald trump returns to the white house and implements those economic policies that get a growth trajectory back in place for this economy. i think he's going to talk about policy, unleashing energy, securing the border, tax extending -- extending the tax cuts. all of those things that will

get the economy back on track but he also has to have the strength and the fight that donald trump has as well. >> jesse: we just heard peter navarro take the stage, as you know he was imprisoned over refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena for january 6th. the noise in this arena was outstanding. he brought the house down just walking out. he said he got a maga tattoo in prison, i won't ask where, but what does it say about this movement that navarro came back and just brought the house down? >> resilience, resilience for the trump team and also the way that they reacted to him, you and i were watching it live. i mean what a reception. basically saying you are a fighter, you are strong, you are a leader and we will be on your team. >> jesse: okay, someone who's not much of a leader, joe biden, very confused, yelling all yesterday, let's listen, you talked about the split screen. watch.

>> i know you said joe, -- congress, told me i couldn't pass the inflation reduction act, told me i couldn't -- anyway, we did. more children in america died of gunshot wounds than any other reason. that is stunning and that is sick. i said we would build 2 million affordable homes. corporate landlords can't -- got -- anyway, i don't want to get going, i get very upset. i know what the best job is, the vice president of the united states. >> jesse: that was joe biden, maria bartiromo, your thoughts on how the current president is handling the rnc week. >> the comparison could not be more stark. you've got joe biden completely plummeting, now he has covid, but even before going into

covid, you've got donald trump strengthening and the unification behind him is getting better and better. so people are seeing this, the media may not want to report it, the legacy media, but everybody here knows it and most people at home are watching it as well. huge comparison, what a difference. >> jesse: the numbers for joe biden right now are atrocious, sending out numbers that say not only does kamala harris beat donald trump, not that we believe that, better than joe biden would, but a slew of democrats would perform better. it looks like they are trying to give him the polling that he had once claimed said would get him out of the race. >> i would only say that you know that the other side is going to stoop to whatever levels they need to stoop to to stop donald trump. we don't know what's going to happen in the next 100 days but i would not be underestimating the other side on this because they see what's happening, the democrats are not stupid, i don't know what kind of october

surprise is coming but i can't imagine they will let this stand. >> jesse: at this point i think trump is october surprise proof. after surviving an assassin's bullet i don't know anything else they could throw at him that would surprise anybody at this point. rhea, thank you. great to see you. mornings with maria. let's talk about a fox news alert. maria just mentioned it. president biden testing positive for covid. he's been trying to show voters that he's fit enough for another four years but now the campaign, now the campaign is basically off. excuse me, you know what, before we get to joe biden i believe that east palestine ohio mayor is speaking, trent conway is taking the stage. let's listen in. >> 2023 began like any other midwestern day but i heartbeat everything changed. i'm trent conway, the proud

mayor of east palestinian, ohio. -- east palestine. when the train derailed, spewing flames and toxic chemicals to our town, faced a disaster unlike we'd ever seen, in the chaos we witnessed a clear contrast between leadership and incompetence. our first responders did not hesitate, they raced to the scene, they battled the flames and evacuated our citizens. and for that i want to thank everyone of them tonight. [ cheering and applause ] unfortunately the biden administration's federal response was much different. it consisted almost of entirely of meetings and press events. they talked and talked but they delivered little help. then there was a clear

difference between former president trump and president biden. for the longest time, the white house was silent. we never heard a word from vice president harris. i guess we weren't there type of folks, no hollywood elites or wall street billionaires live in east palestine, just hard-working americans. [ cheering and applause ] >> but donald trump cared. first he called to ask permission to visit, not wanting to intrude, and then he asked how he could help. when he arrived with fresh pallets of drinking water, he met with everyone from first responders to local officials and residents. he toured to the derailment site, he listened to us and he shared a meal with volunteers at a local mcdonald's. his presence was genuine, his concern was real. after a year of criticism, president biden finally did show up. his appearance was brief, forced and scripted.

he met with a select few and then left. we needed so much and he delivered so little. i know a thing or two about train wrecks now and let me tell you, that is what the biden administration has been. [ cheering and applause ] before president biden derails our entire nation, we need to act. we need a leader who values small-town communities as much as big cities. we need a president who loves all americans. [ cheering and applause ] we need donald j trump. thank you. [ cheering and applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, the governor of north dakota, doug burkum.

-- burgum. >> hello milwaukee! and hello north dakota! it feels good to be here. the last time i was in milwaukee in this building standing behind a podium was for the debate and i stood on one leg for two hours. guys might remember i blew my achilles the day before. but to kick things off i have a question for you and i need your help answering so nice and so loud that everyone at home can hear you. are you ready? who will make america energy dominant? again, who will make america energy dominant? that's pretty good, but it's after 4:00 pm in dc so how about

one more time, loud enough to wake up joe biden. who will make america energy dominant? [ cheering ] >> that's right because when president trump unleashes american energy, we unleash american prosperity and we ensure our national security. serving as a governor with president trump was like having a beautiful breeze at our back. he cut taxes and he cut red tape. serving as a governor under joe biden has been like a gale force wind in our face. biden's war on energy hurts every american because the cost of energy is in everything we use or touch every day. biden's red tape has raised the price of the gas in your car, the cost of food on your table, the clothing on your back, and it's even raised your rent.

biden's green agenda feels like it was written by china, russia and iran. let's look at biden's ev mandates. where do nearly all the batteries and rare earth minerals come from? china, you know. and the day that biden halted permits for clean u.s. natural gas export facilities, just think about the party they must have thrown that night at the kremlin, because biden's policies are making russia and iran filthy rich. and they are using that money to fund wars and terrorism against our allies. at home, biden is acting like a dictator, he's using mandates to shut down reliable baseload electricity. that's why your electric bills have soared upwards as our nation's electric grid reliability spirals downward.

four more years of joe will usher in an era of biden brownouts and blackouts. imagine no electricity for your fridge, your lights, your air conditioning. president trump will ensure that there is power for you and importantly that we have the power as a united states to beat china in the ai arms race. [ cheering and applause ] unleashing american energy dominance is our path back to prosperity and peace through strength. teddy roosevelt encouraged america to speak softly and carry a big stick. energy dominance will be the big stick that president trump will carry. yes, president trump will make

sure that america is selling energy to our allies versus buying it from our adversaries. innovation has always been the source of american greatness. president trump champions innovation over regulation. last year, over that whole year, my wife catherine and i traveled all across america. as all of you know, it's rural america that feeds the world, that fuels the world, and that defends the world. small towns with a huge impact and rural america is trump country! [ cheering and applause ] in north dakota we know one thing for sure because we'd seen him do it, and that is not the hardest working president in

american history is donald j trump. [ cheering and applause ] president trump cares deeply about every american. rig workers, truck drivers, roughnecks and yes, america's great farmers and ranchers. president trump cares deeply about you. we know that he will fight for us, he will fight for our families and we know one more thing, he will let all of you keep driving your gas powered cars. [ cheering and applause ] when president trump unleashes energy dominance, he will make america affordable again, he will make america strong again, and went president donald j trump and jd vance together, they will make america great again.

[ cheering and applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome... >> jesse: that was governor dug burgum on the vp shortlist for quite some time making the economic pitch for donald trump. before that you heard the mayor of east palestine say that trump took action and he remembers. a sharp distinction from joe biden. let's bring in the wacker of america's newsroom and my cohost on "the 5" dana perino and fox news contributor mark deason. as we watch this beautiful show of unity and affection in milwaukee, schumer and jeffries reportedly are telling biden to bow out? >> not only that, i have updated information. apparently, let me find it here, one of the things that's happening is you have reporting now that biden is starting to go

from asking if he can win to asking if kamala harris can win. so i have been for a while saying that the events from the debate to the failed assassination attempt are accelerating the likelihood that biden will be pushed out of the race and every ten minutes when you look up here you see this. cnn just said something like a bullet did not stop donald trump but covid to stop joe biden. that's not coming from us. that's coming from within. >> jesse: shouldn't laugh, a serious affliction. >> it's like the polar opposite of unity versus disunity and they are four weeks away from their convention. >> jesse: marc thiessen you seen these things before, you think they will give biden real polling. this is a kamala harris landslide, i will see you next year? >> they are trying to get rid of him but the problem is that won't solve their problem because of joe biden is not on the ticket, americans are still paying $125 for a 100-dollar

basket of groceries. every time they get gas it's 20-$30 more than when joe biden came into office. the problem isn't the person but the policies and the democrats can't walk away from that. if you think you can, ask the tories in great britain. they got rid of boris johnson, they got rid of liz truss and ran with rishi sunak. they lost everything because people are not going to forget what happened over the last four years. it's not okay do over. >> jesse: a great distraction, biden's age, debate debacle, trying to say this has nothing to do with inflation, open borders on crime, this is just biden is a little old and we need to slap a new fresh pace on this. >> and he's mad he's not getting credit for the accomplishment see feels he deserves. the other thing is, i just tweeted this, the democrats are running a lemon law election. they know that they are selling you a bad product if you are a democratic voters but they are still going to ask for your money and they will ask for your

volunteer hours and ask you to go out there and vote for a product they know not make it awful lot, certainly not for four years, maybe not even for the next four months. and so now you have a grassroots joining up with some of the congressmen saying we don't think we want to do this, in fact there's a portion of the north carolina democratic delegation organizing right now to revolt at the convention. in north carolina, one of their battleground states. >> jesse: and insurrection. marc, we are hearing now joe biden was out west talking to katzenberg, he says the donors in california have had it and he's on thin ice. could the money also be the thing that pushes him over the edge? >> money, polling, all of it. their problem is, who's the alternative? kamala harris is not -- has been less popular than joe biden in all of the polls. the rcp average for the last three years. they can't get rid of her, the

party of identity politics will not kick the first black woman vice president to the side and believe me, if they try to she's going to call them racist just like she called joe biden a racist. >> jesse: and they are now talking about a debate and harris wants to debate jd vance. what did jd vance say? >> on "the 5" yesterday as we were talking about it it occurred to me, why would vance agree to a debate with her on august 12th when their convention is not until the end of the month? we are looking at every ten minutes a new development of them thinking that they want to push biden out of the herd. so what the vance people said today is we will wait. we want to give a fair shot to everybody else in their party. a really good line they had. and vance tonight will show a bit of a preview of what kind of fire he can bring but i don't think it will just be fire. he has a lot of range and he's only 39 years old but he's lived a lot. he's lived and experience from his early years and then american dream that makes him a

really compelling speaker. he has a chance to introduce himself to america tonight. >> will they have a debate? the democrats? if kamala harris wants to run and all these people want to get into it, don't they have to have a process, a debate? >> maybe they will have a smoke-filled room. >> jesse: perry 21st century. thank you, i will see you tomorrow. we are awaiting jd vance in his "primetime" speech on a night three of the rnc.

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>> jesse: another fox news alert, president biden testing positive for covid. he's been trying to show voters he's good enough for another four years but now the campaign tour is over and a need to

isolate and rest for several days. shortly before testing positive a tired biden was seen taking selfies in a mexican restaurant in vegas. he was then tested after showing symptoms like a runny nose, a persistent cough and general malaise. the president is vaccinated and boosted but is returning to delaware. here he is gingerly taking the short stairs up air force one just before he told reporters how he's feeling. listen. >> how are you feeling? how do you feel? >> jesse: this is biden's third bout with covid. biden did say if he had a medical condition that would prevent him from running he would step aside. i don't know if this qualifies but who knows. now cnn reporting that joe biden is reportedly more receptive to leaving the ticket. let's bring in fox and friends weekend cohost and my cohost on "the 5".

pete, covid and joe biden. >> you might say covid brought him into the presidency and covid might take him out. i don't know. medical issues is what they been floating recently. we pray for his health and hope he does well but it's not a reflection of strength. a general malaise, i had to look that up, generally don't feel good. how long does that last? >> jesse: four years of the carter administration. >> it sounds like a carter diagnosis. that news is pretty important because he's shown little daylight and then showed a little daylight on medical issues. now you have this. with the rumors of chuck schumer and other people coming on board, this could be the beginning. i thought he would stick it out but i could have been wrong. >> jesse: never say that, you are never wrong. we are hearing that nancy pelosi when she heard about the covid diagnosis told joe biden to inject bleach.

>> that was that in my pocket. you got a different packet than i did? you always give me a different packet. obviously hope he feels better soon but it does seem like the walls are closing in around him. there schumer team is refuting the reporting that he told him to step down. what he said is that he relayed the concerns of his caucus. you know how many people within the caucus are concerned. i thought the most telling event was when there was a senate meeting and john fetterman said who's with him, because he's a big five supporter. only four other senators raised their hands. that doesn't mean that everyone won't get in line, that they won't support the nominee but obviously people have real concerns about his ability to win in november. >> jesse: we hope he takes his hydroxychloroquine and gets right back out there on the campaign trail because the trump campaign wants biden.

they are wishing him a speedy recovery as we speak i imagine. >> as they should. but they can't win either way. biden is a flawed failed candidate in who he is and his personality. you combine that with the chaos. >> not a failed candidate, he's the one who beat donald trump. >> he will only fall behind more. >> jesse: this is the medal of honor recipient speaking right now. let's listen. >> today i speak across the country on behalf of our military services and i asked parents, i look them right in the eye like i'm looking at you and i asked them, will you give america your sons and daughters to serve in the greatest force for good this world has ever seen, the united states military? i tell them what i learned when i was in combat, your sons and

daughters will be loved, they will be our family, and that bond, that commitment is for a lifetime. their response? well, it's changed in the last couple of years. now they say what about the 13 heroes we lost at abbey gate in afghanistan? now they say what about the desperate civilians falling off the transport airplanes? now they ask, what about the american citizens we left behind for the enemy? they say to me, hunter biden harris, we don't believe you. they no longer see their sacrifice as worthwhile, that their service makes us all

better off. are you better off than you were four years ago? i will tell you what, we are all going to answer that question in november. here's something for you, let's ask it the other way around. let's ask are our enemies better off than they were four years ago? iran and it's proxies, hezbollah, hamas, the houthis, china, russia. well, iran is richer, russia is bigger and china is stronger. and their unchecked aggression proves that the answer is a resounding yes, the biden harris foreign-policy undermines american security, and watching their administration lose the gains president donald trump made overseas not only destroys our morality, it empowers our enemies abroad.

under their watch, a record number of american embassies have been forced to evacuate and military recruitment has plunged and confidence in the armed forces has reached a 20 year low under president donald trump, our enemies will know that american power is as decisive as it is overwhelming. [ cheering and applause ] >> and if you provoke the united states of america, we will hurt you. [ cheering and applause ] >> and if you threaten citizens of the united states of america, we will hurt you for generations to come so help me god. donald trump is a

commander-in-chief that i am confident to tell parents is at the helm. donald trump loves america. he too has bled for the nation that he loves. may god bless america. may god bless our gold star families, thank you for what you've given this country. and may god keep president donald trump safe and in his hands. may god make america strong, may god make america great again. join me in voting for commander-in-chief donald j trump for president of the united states. thank you very much.

>> jesse: medal of honor recipient, one of the most rousing speeches we've heard all week. brought the house down, conveying how great of a commander-in-chief donald trump was and how he had all of our enemies on their heels. let's bring in former assistant treasury secretary for -- affairs and host of bottom line. monica, joe biden has covid. this place is rocking. i think the american people have already decided. what do you think? >> i think joe biden's recent illness of covid on top of his clear cognitive decline on top of his incredible staggering weakness as president of the united states is metaphorical for the decline of the country and i think most of the american people see that. they see it as a simple. they are definitely ready for change. joe biden gave this interview at 4:00 pm where he opened the door

and said if they find a medical condition with me, i would be open to stepping down. 6:00 at night eastern time, they announced he has covid. so good bite biden. >> jesse: do you think it's orchestrated or just falling apart day after day? be met fake news. joe biden is failing. the problem is, he's spent a lifetime trying to get to this place. there is no way he's going to leave. democrats understand that kamala harris can't win, she's a disaster. they need someone else. you have to think about their coalition. it's transgender, it's environmentalist, it's unions, they are held together by bubblegum and glue. you lose joe biden, this thing is going to fracture and collapse. so yeah, they don't like joe biden, but i think they understand it's a broken horse but it's their only horse. >> jesse: the horse that was

keeping everybody together. >> you cannot run a presidential campaign on fumes. so really the thing that's pushing him out the door on top of the bad polling is the fact that the big money donors in and new york and elsewhere have shot their pocketbooks. they understand they can't run this campaign much longer if the money isn't coming in. that's what you are seeing, all of the turn codes in the democratic party turn on him so fast your head is spinning. >> money is pressure but if joe biden is the nominee that money will flow. >> jesse: thank you both. let's bring in trump senior advisor jason miller. has there been anything wrong with his convention, it seems flawless? >> don't jinx it. it has been so good, the team has worked very hard with these every day american speakers. these people have such powerful

stories, talking about what's happening in our communities with crime, the border, the economy, they are the ones who are carrying this. i think tonight a star will be born with sender jd vance in tomorrow with president trump. these are the big headliners. >> jesse: you barcode denies this convention to showcase what exactly, the average american whose art at work, the theme is safety, prosperity, and you see the republican party growing and unifying in a way that i've never seen it before. 's that's what's driving it? >> absolutely. we want to show how president trump will help every american in the country, whether a trump supporter or not. maybe trying to make up their minds. he can make a difference in people's lives immediately on day one. he can secure the porter, drill. people are skeptical about politics with everything going on. when they see the strength and resilience from president trump especially a few days after an assassination attempt. for him to be here fighting for

them, you see the contrast to what's going on with the democrats in the white house, we could go on and on about that but president trump is ready to deliver now. >> jesse: so joe biden has covid, this is the third time, and is going to sideline him for god knows how long. what does this mean for the trump campaign? >> we keep running the game that we are said to do. a lot of people remember it was a few short years ago we had the great economy, to secure border. putin was not invading ukraine, hamas was not attacking israel. in 2020, president trump said all these things would happen under joe biden. many in the mainstream media said no, we think you are lying, it's awkward to happen. put in joe biden and everything will be fine but joe biden destroyed the country. there's one person who can fix it. >> jesse: have you noticed how the media has changed their posture towards the trump campaign after the debate as they've tried to move joe biden out of there and then after obviously the horrible tragedy

on saturday, have you noticed anything different? >> that has been different and i think part of the reason is president trump has been winning over nontraditional republican voters. as his numbers with african-americans keep going up, as his numbers with latinos and hispanics go up, president trump is winning with hispanics as we speak. 's record-setting levels with black americans, it's making even the media sit up and look. they pulled a hoax on us for the last several years, they said joe biden was fine, that he -- that there was no cognitive impairment issues. at the debate when president trump knocked joe biden out over and over on these issues, biden could not defend his record. president trump went after him and it was relentless. joe biden collapsed. i've never seen a debate like that. >> jesse: there has been a reckoning. the people that said there was no evidence biden did anything wrong, they set the border was secure, they said that joe biden

was fit and ready to serve. right now we are hearing donald trump, there he is. making another surprise entrance. let's listen in. [ cheering and applause ] [♪♪] [♪♪] [♪♪] [♪♪]

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>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome kimberly. >> jesse: we have johnny on the floor talking to some delegates. let's listen. >> walked in and everyone is so excited. we have a delaware delegate to make america strong once again. how are you feeling? >> feeling great. i think making america strong it's about our economy, border and country. >> are you a strong guy? >> you want to see how strong i am? >> we've got a strong showing here from kansas as well. now tell me, are you excited about our vp candidate? >> yes, i am. a young republican and the group

is getting so excited about him. >> what about our current vp? [ laughter ] >> and we have a dog over here, the first dog delegate, how are you feeling? kristi noem was the other night so you should be good. inflation is going wild. how are you feeling? >> i'm not feeling good about inflation. i was at the store the other day and a quart of heavy whipping cream was $8.99. that is crazy because people are hurting. >> we have someone standing in solidarity with the president. >> the solidarity isn't just with donald trump but with all americans. that assassin's bullet did not just hit him, it hit the republic but we are strong enough. >> this delegate is from wisconsin, any parties? >> not for you. >> we will tossed back to jesse. what do we want to tell jesse? >> this is johnny's world.

>> back to you, jesse. >> jesse: i don't like that, getting a big ego, we can't have that. we have sean hannity who's now here, joe biden has covid again. >> i'm going to be nice, i wish the president well. >> jesse: i want to speedy recovery too. >> anyone who gets the china virus as donald trump likes to call it, wish him well. he's got every democratic establishment candidate, it will be part of my monolog, out to destroy him starting with obama, chuck schumer, jeff reese, nancy pelosi, all on board. operation destroy and get rid of joe biden is underway. >> jesse: these people are vicious. you and i would not know anything about that. can't wait to watch her show tonight, we appreciate it. >> it's great, you are in the anchor chair. >> jesse: i grew up. thank you. >> great job. welcome to hannity