decline when she got done a border invasion, run away inflation, the american dream, dead. >> todd: 15 seconds to you, who else are you planning on as opponents for donald j. trump? >> well, whoever else the democrat party puts up, we will be yesterday to expose their record of supporting joe biden's disastrous policies over the last four years and, also, all democrats have been complicit in the greatest life american public in history that joe biden was fit to serve when we now know he was not. president trump has been right about that since the beginning. the american people know it. that's why they trust him. and that's why he will win on november the 5th. >> carley: 106 days to go until the elections. who knows there still be could more twists and turns to come. care lyon, karoline, thanks fors have. great day. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> todd: bye-bye everybody. ance ains another historic

>> ainsley: another historic moment in the 2024 election. joe biden announcing is he dropping out of the presidential race just 107 days before the election. >> >> brian: the move comes amid all new reporting this morning suggested biden hesitated to deron out because his team didn't think vice president kamala harris could handle taking on former president donald trump. >> endorsement shortly after dropping out. harris pulling in $49 million in less than 29 hours according to the campaign. >> steve: she has money to run on. news outlets reacting to this moment as we see the 50-plus political career of joe biden come to a less than ceremonial end. it says the end. joe is out. biden out. you get the message. it's all across the country. it is the biggest story of this week and we have had a bunch of really big stories. we have live team conch this

morning. doug luzader is live in washington, d.c. how the democratic party is starting with the news. we start with jacqui mine rick who is in rehoboth beach, delaware where the president this morning is still recovering from covid. we think. jacqui? >> jacqui: good morning to you guys. the president's decision came together in less than a day but it followed mounting pressure that stemmed from one of the most consequential decisions of his campaign, and that was holding the first presidential debate before the convention. that was on june 27th, and then his interview with abc news on july 5th did not do enough to recover him. on the 12th, major democratic donors starting pulling out and over the coming weeks, leaders like chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, hakeem jeffries, barack obama all communicated their fears that biden staying in the race would take down democratic majorities in both the house and the senate. but the president maintains that he was staying in publicly. >> you got me, man.

ha ha. i'm not going anywhere. >> i'm staying in the race. [cheers and applause] i'll beat donald trump. >> are you 100 percent undo undoubtedly running for re-election? >> 1,000%. >> president made his decision saturday afternoon after two closest aidsry shetty and mike donlin went over data saying his race was doomed. new concerns from lawmakers on updates on a fundraising operation that had slowed considerably. they carried the campaign's own polls which came back this week and showed his path to victory in november was gone according to five people familiar with the matter. the president then called one of the last men standing in his corner, congressman jim clyburn and revealed his intention to back his vp, clyburn said in an interview last night that the president made that call and said that to him before he went public with his announcement,

now harris will have to earn the nomination formally at the convention. as about 10:00 last night 531 had already endorsed her. the machinery is up and running behind harris. she posted this last night. but it first hit the internet a full day earlier from a different account. >> he is a world leader and temper tantrums. she never loses her cool. this is trump. this the anti-trump. >> just seven hours after his campaign had made announcement act blue $7.4 million small donations showing the base is reenergized now amid all the speculation about who might be her vice president. we are going to see harris on the south lawn today standing for biden naacp event on the south lawn of the white house. that was preplanned because biden is still recovering from covid here at his beach house, guys. >> steve: jacqui, quick question

it, recounting what the decision-making and a number of outlets who go inside and talk about there was only a couple people that actually knew and then at the end of saturday they all said okay let's all sleep on it. they reconvened most of the staff from the campaign found out one minute before the big announcement. but, according to everything i have read it sound like joe biden really p.o.ed because so many democrats stabbed him in the back and would not stand with him. >> jacqui: a number of lawmakers had spoken with the president since he made his announcement. they are sad. this feel stabbed in the gut and back by the closest people around him and this decision didn't come lightly. i ran into steve richetti in an elevator last night. he was the person in the room with the president drafting this letter in the overnight hours of saturday before it went out and surprise to everyone except those three people, the vp, the chief of staff, and his campaign manager on sunday afternoon.

i asked richetti how is he doing? is the president okay? he gave sort of a node and tight smile and say he's okay like that. he seemed pained to say it, guys. >> ainsley: he was one of the ones that went to rehoboth over the weekend to go and meet with joe biden and draft this letter. i'm sure there were a lot of tears in that room over the weekend but it's something that americans were calling for, especially democrats. thank you so much. >> lawrence: i'm personally over the tears and the sadness. i mean, if there's anyone that should be crying it's the american people. we are the ones lied to for over, what three years about the moment. obviously, you know, i wish the president well. i want his health to be in order. i think that should be the main priority of the country making sure he gets the help that he needs. again, we still have not seen joe biden. there was no video. there was no photo of the moment. all we got is a statement that he clearly didn't write. and, you know, no office to the

president, but this reminds me of the moment when diane finestein was going down. she was ill. everybody knew that she was ill. the staff put out this statement about her retirement. all the capitol hill reporters started questioning and going, you know, madam senator, you know, you just shut out this statement she goes what statement? she didn't know the statement at the time because, obviously, she was ill at the times. i don't think it's too much for us to request some type of press conference or some type of video from the commander-in-chief to figure out if he is the one who really signed this letter. >> brian: i think he knew he had no choice to get out. he was fighting to the end. then he realized showing the data no way you can win. he reluctantly called his chief of staff mike donlin to draft a letter with steve richetti they sat there and worked it out on saturday, they organized it and informed anita dunn and her husband. anita dunn a lot of people vilified one that got him or didn't get him ready for the

debate and thought it would be a good idea to have that june debate go. down as one of the biggest disastrous decision in the history of politics. either they didn't know or wanted him to go up in flames in front of the american people. since that time, he has had almost no support outside chris coons, jamie harrison and a handful of people because they don't think he physically can do it. they say it's the polls. but it's two things. he can't win. the money is dried up. and the polls show and also, he is not well. and i also think when you come out and have the other democrats say i looked at him and i didn't recognize him anymore. that's an issue you can't outrun and outspin. >> steve: that's been going on for a while. apparently to those three in the room he did talk to a number of his friends, joe biden's friends said essentially, you know what, joe? you are risking your legacy. and you don't want the democrats to scapegoat you in november if you lose. and what's interesting is --

okay. so, joe biden is dropping out with 107 days before the election, i remember because i'm old enough, i was watching lbj on tv when he announced at the end of a very long speech on vietnam he wasn't going to do it. >> ainsley: he served out the remainder of his term giving him the race would allow typically focus on presidential debates they might say in biden's case too. >> truman dropped out and coolidge over a year time is of the essence. what is curious is while a number of states have already endorsed kamala harris. four of the top democrats not said whether or not they're on her side hakeem jeffries has been quiet. barack obama quiet. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. >> ainsley: what does that say? >> steve: it says they want somebody else. >> ainsley: right. >> lawrence: this is the democrats last night and yesterday evening, praising joe biden as a patriot.

let's watch. >> he has put people over politics and patriotism over personal position. and this is another heroic act. in a long running series of heroic acts by joe biden. >> you know, the president took the honorable path. and i think yes, this will be about his legacy. >> today's decision by joe biden to not seek re-election shows the difference between a selfless president and donald trump a selfish person. >> i think today we should focus on joe biden's incredible legacy of service to our nation. his selflessness, his accomplishments,. >> today is about what joe biden did. he gave america a lesson in patriotism. >> lawrence: i think it's quite discussing. >> ainsley: he gave us open borders and high crime. >> lawrence: they wheeled him

out and knew he wasn't ready they put him on a debate stage and knew he couldn't. >> steve: the cover-up. >> lawrence: he didn't remember some of these people's names. and now you are telling me that they just found out that he was mentally in decline on the debate stajt. kamala harris, which we are going to get to later, has a weekly meeting with the president in person, and she didn't know what was going on? >> ainsley: she kept saying he was fit to be president. is he just find. good health. >> lawrence: runs circles around people. >> brian: two things going on here. not running circles around people, jon stewart his first day back said can we see that guy that you are describing? number two, is there is nothing heroic about what happened. he didn't want to go. he got pushed out over the ledge, as he was falling down isn't it great for him to decide to go on his own. >> lawrence: unbelievable. >> brian: it shows a lack of character to stand up. james clyburn said on saturday morning. he said i'm going to stand by him as long as he wants to stay

in the race. and then as soon as he says i'm out of the race, okay, let's look, leaning towards harris. lean towards an open process. other people like nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, and now hakeem jeffries, they are all moving behind the scenes. the person that looks terrible is barack obama. he didn't tell the american people the truth, but, behind the scenes he was. >> lawrence: orchestrating it. >> brian: the end of joe biden's career. if he really cared about the country he would have said it earlier. lastly this, this is why they are holding off now. they want to make it seem like it's somewhat of a democratic process. they said well, there is 14 million people voted for joe biden. let's make this -- open this up. okay. if they pick another one like they picked -- hillary clinton was made sure to win because they destroyed bernie sanders. sanders starts winning. they make biden the winner, they destroy bernie sanders. now, biden nominee. biden shouldn't be doing it. if they turn around and pick

kamala harris they look terrible. ultimately, they have no choice but to pick kamala harris. >> steve: if they just appoint her, it looks so bad, so there needs to be a process and that's where we're going. >> ainsley: if they don't appoint her that looks bad, too, they are passing up what would be the first black female president. >> steve: will people in november remember what happened in august? that leads us to this. >> brian: doug lieu zared joins us on how the members of the party are reacting to the news? doug? >> doug: vice president kamala harris will speak today actually for the first time since all of this broke yesterday. she is scheduled to give remarks around 11:30 eastern this morning at the second annual white house college camp i don't know's day event. jamie harrison laid out a path. in the coming days the party will take transparent and orderly process to move forward as the united democratic party with a candidate who can defeat donald trump in november. this process will be governed by established rules and procedures

procedures of the party. however the democratic party is noticeably divided over whether its members will back harris for president. former president obama issued a statement praising biden's work in office without mentioning harris. instead he called for an open processor big names aren't falling in line house speaker nancy pelosi, house minority leader jeffries, chuck schumer. the "new york times" editorial board joining that list saying, quote: there are other qualified democrats who could take on mr. trump and win. adding there is still time to put leading candidates through a process of public scrutiny before the convention next month in chicago. that's something a democratic south carolina congressman jim clyburn apparently agrees with saying this to cnn last night. >> let's go forward with these improvements that we have been making in this party, opening this party up to everybody. and keep it open to everybody.

the process is there. and i think we ought to utilize that process. >> okay now we talk about this obama-clinton rift. the clintons say they are, quote: honored to endorse kamala harris. they aren't alone with 178 democratic lawmakers. following suited with their endorsement. but, she is not the nominee, yet. meanwhile independent senator joe manchin tells us is he considering reregistering as a democrat to throw his hats in the ring to win the nomination, a candidate needs to secure 1986 delegates as of 10:00 p.m. last night, 10:00 p.m. eastern, 531 have already endorsed harris. that's a pretty good head start, back to you guys. >> brian: i just have a question, you might not know the answer because it's brand new to all of us, they are doing a virtual nomination before the actual convention? do you know? >> there has been some question about this. because this is to make sure that they remain on the ballot

in ohio. and there is a question about whether ohio will change the rules to allow for all of this to happen. but, there is this deadline in advance of that august 19th convention in chicago. >> steve: that's right. there is going to be a meeting wednesday, the dnc 2:00. and it's supposed to be live streamed. just like watching you, mr. luzader. thank you very much for the live report. >> lawrence: looks like there was already talk about that virtual convention before. >> steve: right. shove joe through. >> lawrence: exactly. i do find it interesting. you about hear about all of these leaders of the democratic party when it comes to joe biden. normally it's the president, the liter, and smopsz retired and hakeem jeffries. it's very clear that barack obama is the leader of the democratic party. and then you got nancy pelosi who is essentially the enforcer. meanwhile, you had all these people that were in leadership at one point saying they supported joe biden. you had chuck schumer, but it looks like barack obama and

nancy pelosi got exactly what they wanted. they just let it all unfold. >> ainsley: america heard all of the news after lunchtime yesterday it. didn't take long for the media to start fawning over kamala harris. watch this. >> i was national co-chair for kamala harris for president. we're so damn excited my phone is blowing un. >> it's going crazy. >> this is a woman who has great public values. she know what she is in the game fighting for. she is fighting for people being left behind. >> she is broken and smashed glass ceiling after glass ceiling. now we have a prosecutor who they say is going to prosecute the case against donald trump. >> and she delivers. i think somebody like is really frightening to donald trump. >> only person i will get out there and break my back for and campaign for and believe in who is capable and qualified is vice president kamala harris. >> look, it's not about what this country was or what it is, it's about what this country can be. donald trump cannot do that because he is a prisoner of his age. kamala harris can. >> she is going to be really

talking about sort of the power that she can have and leaning on the biography that she has to really bring people in and make people understand that she is relatable to a number of americans. >> brian: she has got some issues. for the green new deal. $10 trillion green new deal. 369 billion was impossible to tolerate. she is also against fracking. >> ainsley: how is that going to help her in pennsylvania. >> brian: oh, i was wrong? okay. we will see what her policies are and what joe biden policy's are. and that's why barack obama and others have not signed up for her. >> lawrence: axios has a piece they just broke about 40 minutes ago even joe biden doubted her ability to win, which is what took him so long to get out of the race. >> steve: right. >> lawrence: we not forget that democrats had a primary four years ago. the first person out of that race was kamala harris. >> ainsley: december didn't even make it to 2020. >> lawrence: don't try to shove someone down the democrats' throat. i don't think it will work the way they think it is. this is the candidate they like

the least. >> steve: when she ran for president opposite of joe biden. she did not get one single delegate. regarding kamala harris, apparently the night on saturday night in rehoboth beach when the president's advisers were there, they did look at the polling data and it's been very clearly closely held to the vest. we don't know exactly what the numbers are. but, according to nbc, in their polling, the private polling, harris vs. trump, she actually did better than joe biden. ultimately, you know what i think? i know joe biden came out immediately to endorse her, because he didn't want to feel -- her to feel the same betrayal that he felt from barack obama. when barack obama endorsed hillary clinton over him. and that's why he quickly told the party she is my choice. ultimately, i don't know if joe biden wants the democrat whoever the democrat is to win, base wants to prove, look i told you

that i was the only one who could beat donald trump, you stabbed me in the back. i didn't run, and the democrats lost. and, you know, logic would say if you're ego you could say okay. i can understand that. >> ainsley: some unanswered questions. homp is the nominee do they still debated donald trump in september? joe biden was the one that agreed to it. does this person have-to-that agree to? >> steve: not necessarily. >> brian: he said the exhibition should be on fox. i would like to second that frank biden the president's brother said. they said i'm happy to spend what time we have left with my brother on sunday. says he is happy about it self issue willly i will have him back to enjoy whatever time we have left in our lives. what does he know suddenly? >> lawrence: family shot back and said he doesn't know anything, he hasn't talked to the president because he is a drunk. that's what they said. >> brian: who said that. >> lawrence: family released a statement saying he has an alcohol problem and hasn't spoken to the president if i got

that correct for few days so they don't know what he is talking about. >> ainsley: brother said health played a role dropping out. >> brian: perfect business partner for hunter. here is j.d. vance if the president can't run should he be out now, watch. >> you would investigate the people who hid joe biden's condition? >> i think somebody has to look at it. look, you had people who lied to the american public. i tell you what, you ought to take a look at his doctors because his doctors keep giving him this wonderful report. i'm not a doctor. i saw him the other day he was unable to get up the children's chair air force one. >> is it a coupe against joe biden? >> i think it is. look. there is a constitutional process, the 25th amendment. if joe biden can't run for president, he can't serve as president. and if they want to take him down because he is mentally incapable of serving, injoke the 25th amendment. you don't get to sort of doing this in the most politically beneficial way for democrats if it's an challenge problem they

should take care of it in the appropriate way. >> lawrence: look two ways, ainsley, looking at what is best for the country, if a president cannot run a campaign, then he can't be the president of the united states. but if you are looking at the political. >> ainsley: let's be honest he hasn't been running the country the last three and a half years. whatever is going on behind the scenes think that is working until he stands up on the district attorney bait stage and then they have to go different paths. here's the problem if the cabinet invokes the 25th amendment, kamala welcomes president she would run as incumbent. the first female black president. and she would run again. and that would be a big deal for women. so they have to be careful with this one, i think. because the political process needs to play out in a fair way. this lady was one of the first to drop out if not the first. >> lawrence: the first. >> ainsley: she gets picked to become vp and become the

president without having to vote that would be the luckiest son of a gun. >> steve: more with jesse's interview with the former president, perhaps future president in j.d. vance tonight on his show at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. do you have your wallet? >> lawrence: i do. [laughter] >> lawrence: well played, steve. i don't carry cash. >> steve: the bet has been driving us crazy for three weeks. what was the bet? what was the bet? >> lawrence: if joe biden got out of the race then i owe you a dollar. and gentleman always pays his debt. >> ainsley: under joe biden that's not going to pay you much. >> steve: i don't care. i want the dollar. venmo me a buck. >> lawrence: i will venmo you a buck maybe a two for the lateness. i should have gave it to you first thing. >> ainsley: have you been waiting to say that here we are 23 minutes into the show. when you look at the headlines, this is the one that got me a

dollar. i got it, joe's out. the end. look at that across the "new york times." biden drops out. endorses harris. doocy gets a dollar. >> lawrence: this is true. you were right. >> steve: i love you. >> ainsley: congratulations. hours from now secret service director kim cheatle is set to be grilled on the hill. a live report on that. >> brian: now 106 days left democrats in disarray. in search of a new nominee, marc thiessen on the announcement. and hesitation over kamala has something to do with it dot, dot, dot. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> lawrence: a fox news alert. few hours, secret service director kim cheatle is set to testify on capitol hill about the assassination attempt former president trump during a rally in butler last week. republican senator ron johnson releases the most detailed timeline yet for what happened. we have live team conch. c.b. cotton. we begin with lucas tomlinson for a preview of today's testimony. hey, lucas.

>> good morning, lawrence. outside the hearing room on capitol hill. just over a week after the assassination attempt on donald trump. house oversight chairman james comer earned a subpoena to get the secret service director kimberly cheatle to appear here before the committee. many republican lawmakers want her to resign cheatle says she is happy dom here saying in a statement, quote: we are eager to cooperate with the independent security review of the u.s. secret service's actions related to the july 13th assassination attempt of former president trump in butler, pennsylvania. i look forward to the panel examining what happened and providing recommendations to help ensure it will never happen again. comer saying in a statement quote while we give overwhelming thanks to the individual secret service agents who did their jobs under immense pressure, this tragedy was eventable. the secret service has a zero fail mission but it failed on july 13th and in the days leading up to the rally. the secret service has thousands

of employees and a significant budget that now become the face of incompetence. and that budget, lawrence is, $3.1 billion a year ahead of cheatle's testimony, dhs announcing a, quote: bipartisan independent committee of law enforcement experts to conduct a 45-day review of the july 13th attempted assassination of the former president. here are some of the headliners. former dhs secretary janet knap, townsend adviser it opresident george w. bush. mark flynn a former judge and deputy general to george w. bush. lawrence that, hearing get yundzway on capitol hill at 10:00 a.m. certainly get a lot more busy here on capitol hill as we approach that hearing and hope to see the secret service director before she appears in the hearing, lawrence. >> lawrence: wow, thanks, lucas. let's go to cb to the ton live from butler as to what went wrong. c.b., what are you learning?

>> good morning, lawrence, while we wait to hear secret service director kimberly cheentle's answers to what is being called a security failure here in butler, pennsylvania, lawmakers are waste nothing time to get answers of their own, republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin has released his own preliminary finding into the shooting. his office now reporting that secret service did not attend a sniper team the morning of july 13th. local law enforcement said units siloed and not in direct contact with secret service. local law enforcement notified command about crooks prior to the shooting and received confirmation that secret service was aware of the notification. she's, again, apparent security lapses come in the senator's 13-page report. also including photos of the gunman, thomas crooks. we told viewers before these grots circulated at least 30 minutes before the gunfire.

now johnson's office says a local sniper took the pictures nearly an hour before the shooting. and johnson's office says a local sniper also took this picture a little more than 30 minutes before the gunfire of a bike and bag near the building that thomas crooks fired from senator says it's not clear what happened to these items after the assassination attempt, we spoke to one rally goer who wanted to remain anonymous and this man he helped for the rally set up. listen to what he had to say. >> one of the volunteers was so upset by the lack of security he went home that night and told his wife he is not going in. he stayed out in the parking lot helping people park and he never went in because of the lack of security. >> a bipartisan group of lawmakers continues to call on the resignation of director cheatle. we also know that house homeland security committee chair mark grain will be visiting the rally site today with other committee members.

that's going to be happening at 11:30 local time. we will be looking out for that and staying out on the ground to learn more. lawrence? >> lawrence: they knew 30 minutes before. still let the president get out of the motorcade makes no sense. thank you, c.b., excellent report. all right, steve, you got more on our top story of the day. >> steve: i do indeed, lawrence, thank you very much. a fox news alert. moments ago donald trump hitting back at president biden and his party posting, quote: the democrats pick a candidate, crooked joe biden, he loses the debate badly and then panicked and makes mistake after mistake. told he can't win and decide they pick another candidate. probably harris. they stole the race from biden after he won it in the primaries. which is a first. these people are the real threat to democracy. meanwhile, no sign of president biden as he remains out of sight in delaware with nothing on the schedule as his shocking exit yesterday got an emotional response from the democrats and some in the media. >> excuse me.

i'm sorry. this was a very difficult decision. >> and then you just cry because this is somebody that you love. this is somebody that you care about. i have to say it's bittersweet. >> president biden will be remembered fondly for it. i do think it's incredibly selfless thing that he did. >> my first impulse was to feel profound sadness. >> this is another heroic act in a long, running series of heroic acts. >> steve: tears on tv. fox news contributor marc thiessen joins us right now. marc on tv talking about how is he a hero. it sounds like on saturday, nancy pelosi spoke to joe biden on the phone. then on sunday, it was apparent to senior biden aides that apparently chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries were both about to come out and say joe, you got to go. they might cry on tv, but they are stabbing him in the back

behind the scenes. >> yeah. it's emotional taking the car away from your grandfather when he can't drive anymore. i get it. look, they perpetrated a hoax on the american people. it's not like he had a stroke or something. this guy was cognitively impaired on the first day of the primaries and they we would him out and told the american people yeah he can do it. go ahead. he can still drive. he will dry our country's car. and then all of the sudden the debate happened and they got caught in a massive, massive fraud on the american people. and now they have pushed him out, ruthlessly, in favor of kamala harris. and they are trying to crown her. he got 14 million votes. do you know how many primary votes she got? zero. in her whole life. she didn't -- not only did she not run in this primary. she wasn't -- she didn't even make it to iowa last knight time because she was such a disastrous candidate. do you know who has more primary votes than her dean phillips

500,000. marianne williamson. uncommitted has more primary votes than her. yet they want to crown her as the nominee and be done with it. >> steve: let's see what happens. joe's younger brother frank talked to abc and he said. this. it really boils down to this. it has to do with his, joe's, overall health and vitality. not anything cognitive but he is a proud guy and if -- his language, it pisss him off that he shustlesz when he walks is it. >> yeah i'm sure it does seasm guy the last three years. this wasn't sudden. they knew about it this whole time. the idea that he was going to serve out four more years is a joke. he was not odds were he wouldn't make it. kamala harris was the nominee

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♪ >> brian: so the question you have. and your family has and your friends have is what comes next now that president biden shocked us all by saying is he stepping aside and endorsing vice president harris in let's take a look at exactly the timeline of events. we know about the announcement at 1:46 in the afternoon. biden then after a first page saying i'm out. he says put my support behind hairs, which means they get the biden-harris money already in the covers. she works the phones and she has got about over -- over 30 democratic senators willing to

support her. 153 as of this morning. and 53 democratic coming people. she needs 300 signatures to officially become a nominee. that will not be a problem. when it gets to the convention, they put the nominees out and they say do you have a vote? and if she gets over 1986 votes she gets through. if not it goes to the super delegates and they start again. only other people who seems to be thinking about putting their name is joe manchin. the only question we have is what does she stand for? well, we know. this push for voting rights. went absolutely nowhere. few zoom calls lost interest. border czar one time. wanted to get to the root causes of it. every single year the three major countries with illegal immigrants coming tour oborder has risen. this is where her strongest voice has been. the voice of abortion. we she visits abortion clinics. she makes abortion seem like everyone aspire to which in democratic circulation seems to be a good thing. engaging in efforts. delegates our democracy founder

chris dempsey joins us now. chris, great to s see you. >> great to be with you. >> brian: how close is harris locking this up less than 24 hours she found out she would be up for it? >> our organization has spoken to hundreds of delegates in recent days across the country. there is certainly a lot of of amyrtle beachation for president biden and the decision he made to withdraw from the race and also a lot of excitement about kamala harris being the presumptive nominee of the democratic party. >> let's think about this though, nancy pelosi has nod said anything, barack obama has indicated we should have an open process, hakeem jeffries just praised biden and chuck schumer has been invisible, does that matter? does that show you where the party is at? >> president obama is exactly right. we should have an open process, and that's exactly what we have. any democrat in the country, including me, or any of my democratic friends, could put their name forward right now. call 300 delegates get them sign a piece of paper and be on the

ballot for the convention in august. we have an open process, we don't yet have a competitive process. i think that speaks to at love the vice president's strengths. >> brian: competitive as not close. you mean no one legitimately has a shot at beating her? is that competitive. >> any democrat in the country could put their name forward, senators, governors, there is really great talent on the democratic bench that could be out there right now asking for delegate votes. what we see instead is them saying that they have met kamala harris. they have worked with her. they like her. they think she is the right nominee for the party. >> so, here, take a look at the state delegations right now that are in her corner, new hampshire in, north carolina, south carolina in. tennessee is in. and as i mentioned, you got about 30 plus democratic senators, is it important for democrats to look like this is an open process because they had 14 million people already pick a candidate, and they were told without their say so that that candidate no longer eligible

because of party pressure. doesn't that look terrible for the democratic voter that cared and came out in the primaries? >> well, i have been surprised that president trump has been saying that exact talking point for a guy that wants to make america great again. this is how we pick presidents for centuries. you know, i'm a democrat. my favorite president ever is president abraham lincoln, a republican. do you know how many votes he got in the primaries? exactly zero. we didn't have primaries back then. we had a convention. delegates chose a great republican candidate. put him forward and served as one of our best presidents ever. that's the process in place in democratic party today. the process that you are going to see in august in chicago. >> brian: you are saying the lincoln process with the republican party is the process the democrats will have in play today? >> that's exactly right. the delegates are from all over the country. >> brian: okay. >> they come to a convention and have a roll call and vote. president lincoln was not the top. >> brian: could have saved a lot of money and time if you told

everyone we will pick it at the convention. it's going to be exciting anyway. chris dempsey, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> brian: former president donald trump says is he running against biden's record regardless of who is on top of the ticket. senior adviser jason miller, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ for a family outing! shingles doesn't care. but shingrix protects. only shingrix is proven over 90% effective. shingrix is a vaccine used to prevent shingles in adults 50 years and older. shingrix does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients or to a previous dose. an increased risk of guillain-barré syndrome was observed after getting shingrix. fainting can also happen. the most common side effects are pain, redness, and swelling at the injection site, muscle pain, tiredness, headache, shivering, fever, and upset stomach. ask your doctor or pharmacist about shingrix today.

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♪ >> ainsley: this is a fox news alert. former president trump taking to truth social, ripping biden as he calls it quits. saying the president was not fit to serve from the very beginning and whoever tops the ticket will just be more of the same. how will the trump-vance team pivot for what comes next. jason miller joins us now. good morning to you, jason. >> good morning. >> ainsley: don jr. writing she is more liberal than biden is and less competent. they have the same policies. how does your campaign, how does donald trump handle this? >> well, great question. and when you take a look at the data, because the democrats keep talking about data. that's the reason why joe biden stepped aside. but this morning, still, democrats cannot point to a single state where kamala harris now puts in play where it wasn't before. let me give you a quick example. you look at arizona and nevada, well, kamala harris was joe

biden's border czar. that's going to be a disqualifier. you take a look at georgia, minnesota, where harris is weak on crime policies will be a disqualifier, in fact, in minnesota we know harris infamously raised money to bail out a monday who had been arrested and three weeks later after he was freed went on to kill somebody, now serving life in prison. but then you take a look at harris' role as the chief advocate for the green green new scam. joe biden's green new scam which is going to be a disqualifier in union heavy states like wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. as you go around state by state, the data is actually really bad for kamala harris. >> ainsley: she said she was against fracking not going to do well in pennsylvania. let's get to this add, the campaign has already released an ad saying that kamala harris, she was in on this and she knew about it, and it was covered up. listen. >> kamala was in on it. she covered up joe's obvious mental decline. >> our president is in good shape, in good health. >> kamala owns this failed record. >> ainsley: jason, where was the

accountability? they lied and lied and lied to the american people. >> you're exactly right. how many countless meetings, how many countless hours did kamala harris spend with joe biden covering this up over the last several years? keep in mind kamala harris clearly did not think much of joe biden when they ran against each other back in 2020. of course, harris dropped out before she even reached the iowa caucuses. but kamala harris was the chief enabler for all of this. so, there are some real answers that are owed to the american public here. what did kamala harris know? and when did she know it? >> ainsley: what does it say to you that the obamas still have not endorsed. schumer hasn't, jeffries hasn't? >> they think kamala harris is a loser. in fact for as much as we hear about barack obama saying that he thought that joe biden had the propensity to screw everything up. there is a report in axios this morning says that's the way that joe biden views kamala harris. that he does not think that she can win there are many peer speculating only reason why biden ultimately endorsed harris

is kind of as a -- well, a year number one salute to all the people calling for him to step aside. but there is one thing i want to go back just one moment what you are saying about kamala harris and what did she know and when? the only reason why we are even talking about joe biden's cognitive decline because president trump knocked out joe biden on the debate stage if president trump had not had that debate performance in atlanta many in the media and kamala harris would still be turning a blind eye to the clear, cognitive failures. >> ainsley: the debate would have been after the dnc. i wonder what that would have looked like then. thank you so much, jason. great to see you. >> thank you. >> ainsley: r.f.k. jr. blaming democrats for covering up biden's condition. he's coming up. ♪ it takes healthy joints to be a copilot,

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