special guest at this arizona rally tonight. probably not beyonce. before that rally, trump will be at a las vegas restaurant today to promote his no tax on tips proposal. trump then wraps his week of dnc counter programming at that arizona rally. ari, i come to you for final analysis. >> republicans are from mars, democrats are from venus, and we should never forget that. democrats are energized. they watch that convention, they loved it, and they've fallen in love with kamala harris. republicans look at it and go, she is devoid, she has no ideas, no policies, so republicans think it was a bomb and a failure. that's not necessarily the case. republicans have to up their game, the trump campaign, especially president trump. she can win otherwise. >> optimistic final message. >> thank you for joining us, and now here is "america reports." >> sandra: emily, thank you.

nearly six weeks after the attempt on former president trump's life, several members of the secret service have been placed on administrative leave. fox news has now confirmed one is a member of trump's personal protective team, and four are members of the agency's pittsburgh field office. >> john: what does all of this mean for the investigation into the assassination attempt against the former president? we will speak with former fbi officials nicole parker and bill daly coming up. >> rfk jr. is a guy he admires. he has known him a long time, and they have talked. if rfk jr. were to endorse donald trump today, he would certainly welcome that, absolutely. >> his supporters are independent-minded people who value freedom, who are concerned about what president biden and vice president harris have done to our country. >> democrats have basically been telling everyone they are worried about this threat, because they have been aggressively trying all over the country to go to court to keep

him off balance. >> sandra: reaction rolling and as we await a highly anticipated speech from independent presidential candidate rfk jr. he is set to speak in phoenix moments from now, and announce the end of his campaign, a decision that could shift the political landscape. makes things very interesting, as we head into the weekend. hello and welcome, everyone. i'm sandra smith in chicago and it's great to finish the week with you, john. >> john: i love it, sandra. everyone else is leaving chicago, and you go there. i'm john roberts in washington and this is "america reports." saves money on the airplane. rfk jr.'s campaign saying he will address the nation to that his path forward in the election, and that is fueling speculation he will drop out and support president trump. the candidates running mate openly discuss that possibility earlier this week, hinting that the two sides could join forces. >> sandra: some analysts predicting the move could benefit team trump if supporters of rfk jr. vote republican, especially in swing states were

only a few points separate the nominees. we have an all-star lineup to take us through the next two hours as we await this potentially game changing decision. >> john: fox team coverage for you. mark meredith is following former president trump in las vegas. first let's go to our national correspondent, griff jenkins, for a preview of rfk jr.'s big speech. chris? >> hey, john. his running mate, nicole shanahan, is not only hinting they may join forces, that she's calling today's announcement the biggest event in american election history. we'll see about that. here's what we know. kennedy will be in arizona in less than an hour, not far from where trump will be hours later. kennedy waged a strong independent campaign, polled at 10% at one point, that his campaign is mired in multiple lawsuits. he's running short on cash, and there are signs it could be ending. yesterday arizona secretary of state tweeting that kennedy's campaign is formally withdrawing from the ballot, amid reports he will drop out entirely and endorse trump. but it's unclear, john, what

impact that might have on the race. let's take a look at the critical swing state of pennsylvania. quinnipiac has harris leading trump by three in a three-way race. look close, rfk jr. at 4%. former speaker kevin mccarthy thinks this could benefit trump. >> he gets disgruntled democrats. i think those people are more open to going at president trump and going to harass, because she is so far left, and picking walz, it is such a liberal ticket. i think the kennedy voter, it would be good if you got out of the race and endorsed trump. this race is so close, every vote will matter. >> meanwhile, the harris campaign downplaying all of t this. >> rfk was obviously funded in large part by maga donors. he inherited a lot of maga talking points throughout the campaign. it wouldn't come to any surprise if he formally endorsed donald trump donald trump today. >> we will see where we get in less than an hour. john, there are even reports -- or rumors, i should

say -- that kennedy could find a role in the future trump administration. we will see what happens. >> john: this could be a big finger in the eye to the democratic party who treated him so badly. we will talk to marianne williamson about that coming up. same kind of thing happen to her. sandra? >> sandra: meanwhile, former president trump is hitting the trail to step into cobattleground states, one of which just happens to be arizona, where his campaign is teasing a special guest for a rally today. team coverage continues with mark meredith in las vegas for us. the first stop on the former president's agenda. hey, mark. >> sandra, good afternoon to you. former president trump will behave in this restaurant in las vegas a little while later this afternoon. he's likely to double down on his message that he would like to end federal taxes on tips. it's an idea that generated a lot of buzz on the campaign trail but is also getting a lot of attention specifically here in nevada. we have so many hospitality workers who rely on tips to make their living, and we expect the trump campaign is only going to try to keep that message front and center going forward.

>> only president trump has a plan that ends all taxes on service workers' tips. president trump -- he's on your side. >> that is a new ad that came out today. vice president harris also coming out in support of ending taxes on tips. trump is claiming that he's dumb actually stealing his ideas. as to what voters think, latest polls show trump with only a slight edge in nevada. a poll of likely nevada voters taken this month shows trump with a 1-point lead. it's a state he lost twice, so flipping the state with six electoral votes to be a huge gain for the g.o.p. trump also returned to arizona. he was just there yesterday on the border. tonight it is a rally in the phoenix suburbs. it is the same spot where the harris-walz campaign held its event earlier this month, and he has been teasing special guests joining at the event in arizona. as we are expecting here, it's a small venue, not a rally set up,

music like "ymca" going. we expect the former president to talk you later this afternoon. >> sandra: will be watching for that. it's a short time away. mark meredith, thank you. john? >> john: review dumb ugly rewind back to july 13th, at least five secret service agents now on leave. we are also learning more about the agency reaction to iran's threat against the former president. former fbi special agent nicole parker joins us in just a few minutes, but first, justice correspondent david spunt here in washington. what are you hearing about all this, david? >> this is big news. one of these people is a special agent in charge of the pittsburgh field office for the secret service. another person placed on leave as part of president trump's personal security detail. now, these are likely more people either on leave or will soon be on leave. of the five people, four i with that pittsburgh field office, as i have said to him including the

special agent in charge. it is notable that the trump team and secret service were well aware of the plot, as you mentioned, originating in iran to kill the former president, yet he still went on stage in butler pennsylvania on the 13th. to be clear, there's no connection discover between the shooter in pennsylvania and iran, but the former president receive what one source because a steady stream of threats since he ordered the killing of this man, general qassem soleimani in january 2020. that specific plot was credible and apparently foiled, according to sources, meaning to try to kill former president trump. now these five people and perhaps more will have to answer for their lack of security on the day of the shooting, knowing there was this threat from iran looming. i also want to point out there is a separate fbi investigation, john, that is a criminal probe looking at the shooter and whether there could be any criminal charges perhaps filed for negligence. the attorney general, merrick garland, in an unrelated announcement, was asked about this overall probe. watch. >> this was a security failure,

and there is both an internal and an external independent investigation of what happened. there is a congressional task force on the same subject, and hopefully -- i know that they will provide lessons learned to prevent such a failure from happening in the future. >> yesterday the former president praised secret service agents who risk their lives to save his. he says mistakes were made, but overall had good things to say about the agency. the bottom line, we are waiting to see what the fbi probe has to say, because that will be a criminal probe that is looking at these agents. the secret service probe is really just an internal probe that could perhaps hire someone or put them on leave, but the actual fbi doj probe could charge someone. it is unlikely now, it seems, but it's possible. >> they are playing to the best. thank you. sandra? >> sandra: for more on this, let's bring in nicole parker, former fbi special agent and fox news contributor. tell us your thoughts on this.

was it about time, in your opinion? >> i think it was about time. unfortunately we are in an environment where a lot of federal agencies, there's not a lot of countability. i do appreciate that congress and, frankly, the american citizens said no, we want to understand what happened and we want accountability for what occurred on july 13th. my guess in my suspicion, having worked these types of investigations on the fbi side, is that anyone who signed the operations plan involved in the details of what occurred on jule they are the ones on suspension. pittsburgh field office, it was their operation. likely to lead advance agent they are in charge of the overall event, the rally, and their supervisor, a supervisory special agent, and above them, and assistant special agent in charge, and about them the special agent in charge. and then we understand there was one more suspension. but i think that there is a problem that, frankly, in all of our government agencies right now, when there are missions other than what the agents are sworn to do, and in this instance to protect the protectee, it takes away the

focus from what truly matters. i know the fbi, there was an issue with dei. i've heard the simile thing for many people at the secret service, as well. they are more focused on the diversity of those that they hire rather than the quality of those that are performing the mission. >> sandra: nicole, to your point, the secret service agents put on leave, one from the trump personal protective team. for those keeping track, four from the pittsburgh office, including the special agent in charge there. james comer who, as we know, has issued subpoenas, they been trying to get to the bottom of this and have some accountability for all of this. he said this on those agents being put on leave. they must be accountability at the secret service for its historic failures that led to the attempted assassination of president trump. holding negligent employees accountable as a first step. i look forward to the task force findings of its investigation. we must ensure the secret service does not fail again. how do we make sure that does not happen, nicole? that we learn from this and that we improve the secret service.

>> again, it comes down to the quality of those you are hiring and it comes to leadership at the top and the leadership on every single level in the organization. so i would say all of these agencies, specifically the secret service, who are entrusted to protect someone -- in this instance, president trump -- your number one focus is on the mission of protection. it is not on diversity. when you are getting all of these outside distractions, it takes you away from what your true job is, and i do put that on the shoulders of the leadership although at the top of the secret service, of the fbi, and all these of agencies. it would be my number one thing. get back to what you're supposed to do. hold people accountable, and sadly, sandra, i wouldn't be surprised if these types of errors had occurred on other rallies previous to this one. it's just that this one, the cracks showed. the vulnerabilities were very apparent, because it was a bad luck day for president trump and for those that attended, and really for corey, who lost his life. a citizen lost his life. sadly, i think the sloppiness in

this agency is not anything particularly new. it may have been occurring many times, it's just that they got lucky. the vulnerabilities were not exposed. but i will defend, there are outstanding secret service agents. they are outstanding leaders at the secret service, as well. we don't want to make a blanket same it for everybody. that would be unfair and not appropriate. there are people that jumped on president trump to save his life. so we honor those individuals. those that are not performing their jobs up to par, you need to go, and they need to be accountability. until there's accountability, nothing changes. >> sandra: i think it's fair to say the former president showed a lot of grace, to your point about those that have done their jobs. he said this. final fight after this. >> i had great respect for secret service. the job they do, including a month and a half ago when they were jumping on top of me with bullets flying right at them. mistakes were made, and they're going to learn from the mistakes. >> sandra: so critical of the decisions that were made that dn

very gracious towards those who risk their own lives to protect him. final thought, nicole? >> i agree. president trump is extremely gracious, and that is who he is. he knows the good individuals of the secret service had protected him, and president trump cares. you want to support them. he supports law enforcement, he backs the blue, he supports the secret service, frankly. again, individuals need to be held accountable. leadership, you need to give your agents proper technology, proper training, proper resources. hiring the best quality individuals out there. you need to lead by example. >> sandra: nicole parker, thank you very much for joining us on that. we will see where it all goes next. john, there are those demanding more credibility marketability. james comer is one of them, saying this is just the first step. chris swecker, it is interesting, he joined "the faulkner focus" earlier and he said they were on sale for 90 seconds. the former president was on stage 90 seconds after the first shot was fired. he called it amateur. if this was a professional assassination attempt or even a reasonably competent individual, they would have taken him out on

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>> john: less than an hour from now, robert kennedy jr. set to address the nation from arizona. overnight, kennedy took himself off the state's ballot, fueling speculation that he will end his white house bid and endorse foreign president trump. his likely exit could potentially alter the election. former 2024 presidential candidate marianne williamson joins us now to talk about this more. full disclosure, you and i are personal friends, but that would never prevent us from having a spirited political discussion. let me ask this question. robert kennedy jr. was treated terribly by the democratic party, which is what he bailed and went independent. he received similar treatment from the democratic party. they would never even let you gain a foothold. what do you think about what he's doing now?

>> we don't know for sure what he's going to do in this press conference. we do seem fairly confident that he's dropping out of the race. that seems to be certain. whether or not he is going to endorse trump, it is a rumor, it's out there, but there was also a rumor that beyonce was going to be at the democratic national convention last night. if -- bobby has to do what bobby has to do. bobby has been poorly treated, and you're right, it's not okay. i think the democratic party has realized that you create what you defend against. anybody who is qualified, according to the constitution of the united states, who chooses to run for president, has a right to share their views. a lot of people don't like what bobby kennedy has to say, but bobby kennedy is a qualified citizen of the united states, and also i think he did some radical truth-telling. whether you want to vote for him or not, it deserves to be heard. >> john: i mean, a lot of people didn't like what you had to say in the campaign. a lot of people liked what he had to say, that you are never

even allowed to voice those policies under the democratic rubric. >> there are battles, and there is a war. so the battle for me to have greater exposure, that battle is over. what lies in front of us now is the election between kamala harris and donald trump. for me, i'll be voting for kamala harris, because she is the only viable option to donald trump. and i am someone who believes donald trump is really bad for this country. >> john: all right, so you are waiting until her speech last night sort of make a decision on how you really felt about her. what did you think of her speech? >> i wouldn't say i was waiting to see how i really felt about it. what i believe and are the basic traditional principles of the democratic party. did i hear support for people who need health care the way i would like to hear it? no, i didn't. did i hear support for how we are really going to do with all the floods in all the storms and other hurricanes? and climate change? no. did i hear a conversation about

the u.s. military and foreign policy? now. however, once again, i think that we have to recognize there are two separate dynamics here. one is the horse race. in the horse race, i'm voting for kamala harris, but there's a deeper dynamic here. in that deep or dynamic, the american mind i believe has got to mature beyond his black and white thinking. two things can be true at the same time. emily deeply disturbed by the way the establishment democratic party is operating, and people keep saying to me, you need to endorse her. this is interesting. i'm not endorsing anyone, because what i want to endorse is the american people thinking for themselves. but i will tell you this, for those so eager for me to endorse her, with my audience, it is more to her benefit for me to say we have to do it, guys. because trump is too big a threat. >> john: she's been called very thin on policy so far.

there wasn't a lot of it articulated last night. in your post says "no plan kam, big on vibes but light on policy. her website has no policy. you went through everything, and protection all the way down to women's issues. there's plenty of places on her website where you can donate, but there are no places where you can find out what she really stands for. >> unfortunately, particularly in today's world, with the incredible power of the media and social media, he who controls the narrative controls the world. so the narrative was created as a way to nullify and suppress my campaign that i didn't have any policies, i didn't have anything specific to say about anything red plus blacklisting on cnn and msnbc, et cetera. and you are right. i don't believe that somehow we are all supposed to fall in line on this issue. i believe that kamala is served

by democrat saying come up with some policy. i understand their strategy is to the conversation sort of shallow and to rely, as you said come on vibes. i actually don't think that's good political strategy. >> john: in 2019 she was relying on vibes and running neck and neck with bernie sanders, then people started delving into her record and her policy, and she flamed out in epic fashion. do you think they are concerned that could happen again? >> i think the political establishment -- and come in many ways, this is true -- listen, i'm not letting the republican party off the hook here. i have equal if not greater criticism there. however, there is a way that the entire political establishment is really resisting the american people getting as deep as we need to get. when we has a deeper conversation about what is happening in america, we are not following slavishly in line with either political party. we have the conversation now.

at both political conventions, if you look up at the top, huge corporate forces who are buying these vip suites for at least $500,000, sipping on champagne and looking down at the rest of us like suckers. >> john: talking about the working class. >> exactly. while both parties are talking about helping the working class, and the people in those vip suites are saying, you only do it to the point where you're not disturbing our bottom line. that's a conversation we need to be having. it is beyond post-partisan, it is post-shallow. >> john: you mentioned you were blacklisted by some other news channels. you are always welcome to come on with us here. >> ironic as it is. thank you. >> john: i still you from cavuto. marianne, great to see you. >> god bless you. >> john: so that's it. there were things to be concerned about with both parties and things to appreciate. >> sandra: great discussion. really appreciate that. as you were speaking, we are running that banner, that the harris website doesn't list policies. i keep checking. you would think they would get the word by now that we are

covering that. you cannot go to the harris-walz website and learn what their plans are for the american vo voter. meet kamala harris, meet tim walz, take action, store, donate. you can donate money but you don't know what because you are donating to. >> john: there's plenty buttons you can push for $5, $10, $50, $100. or if you want to learn what she thinks about immigration and what should do about the economy, how she will differentiate herself from joe biden, nothing there. >> sandra: we will see if that changes. we'll be watching that. john, meanwhile, multiple secret service agents now on leave after the attempted assassination of former president donald trump, as another thread on his life is revealed. it happened live during these hours yesterday. former fbi investigator bill daly a head on whether trump is getting the proper protection. >> john: plus, the dnc is over and we now have some of the details on vice president harris' tax plan. some of the details. but how will it impact you?

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one of the other candidates? will talk about that coming up just ahead as we anticipate this big announcement. now this. >> intends to announce what is in effect a national sales tax, call it a trump tax, that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year. [boos] welcome instead of of a trump tax hike, we will pass a middle-class tax cut that will benefit more than 100 million americans. >> sandra: the dnc wrapped last night with vice president kamala harris diving deeper into economic road map, which includes a tax hike on businesses. some analysts say it would kill jobs and spike prices. so how will that play out for the millions of americans who are already struggling with the high cost of living? let's bring in austin berg, vice president of marketing for the illinois policy institute and iron light cofounder. you have amazing thinking on

this entire concept. i want to bring it down to the local level. born and raised in the city, people have been priced out of the city. the very people that are responsible for paying the taxes in the city are getting driven out. there are some looking at these tax plans laid out by kamala harris and saying, look at the democrat policies in the city and what those at the national level can do to this country. your thoughts? >> absolutely. look at the outcomes here. your story is incredible, being forced out by property taxes. think of the average mother of two or three in the chicagoland area. if she's going to the store to get back to school clothes, she sang the highest sales tax in the nation on those. and she's going to the grocery store, paying a grocery tax on that, filling up your car and paying the second-highest gas taxes in the nation. she gets home, opens up her mailbox, getting property tax that's almost as big as her mortgage, and can't hear friend to tell her about it in her cell phone plan is taxed at the highest rate in the nation. these things really add up, and it is hurting the illinois

residents that need help the most. in the chicago metro area, the unemployment rate is the worst in the nation. 100,000 people. >> sandra: when harris lays out her tax policy pitch to the american people, which includes raising the corporate taxes in this nation from 21% to 28%, also raising the corporate minimum tax rate, what would that do at the national level to jobs, to prices? >> it makes us less competitive. we have seen this in illinois. it makes us less competitive. we have the second-highest corporate income tax rate in the country here in illinois. i told you what the result of that are. we also have the highest commercial property tax rate of a big city in the country right here in chicago. so i really think the results speak for themselves. again, you see a lot of these plans that are just kind of throwing revenue ideas at the wall. we saw this, and their brandon johnson right before he took office, there was the plan

infamously called "first we get the money," a "scarface." tax hikes. none of those have passed or been introduced because they are so unpopular. i think the administration would be wise to recognize that. >> sandra: i want to play out this, the impact of harris' tax policy. this is what he says happens to the job market. a former obama fund-raiser. listen. >> what that would do is reduce entrepreneurship. who do they think are creating these jobs? businesses, small businesses, midsize businesses, and entrepreneurs that create the jobs america needs. if you tax businesses, as history has shown us, what will happen is job production will go down. >> sandra: i mean, can you blame him? that's the reality of a situation like this. i look around at this city, and you and i have so many personal stories in the city. the building my uncle lived in, we had a family celebration down there at smith & wollensky's.

you can't tax them to death. they will take their ball and go home. that said they have happen here. he's pointing out the obvious nature of raising the corporate tax rate in this country, and what that would do to our competitiveness. >> chicago, i think, is the greatest american city. it truly is, but it's also the worst govern. nowhere is that more evident than in our tax policy. but hopeful note, chicago is the first to reject a "mansion tax," taxing all real estate transactions over million dollars. when governor j.b. pritzker tried to pass a progressive income tax and spent $58 million to try to pass it, it was rejected. the people are starting to wake up that these policies are hurting the city and we need to grow our way out of these problems. >> sandra: i believe we have a full screen showing where trump is on these issues, because he had seen him in polling favored when it comes to issues on the economy. when it comes to chicago issues, those worried about crime, they favor trump. those worried about guns, they

favor trump. he's been talking a lot about this, and who is mostly affecting the city. when it comes to the economy, overwhelmingly that goes to trump, as well, and on immigration. wow, has immigration become a huge issue, so far away from the southern border right here in the windy city. final thought on that? >> what is encouraging as this hasn't been seen as a red and blue issue. you saw the cook county state attorney, the protege of kim foxx, the person she picked to succeed her, she lost to a centrist and more moderate candidate. was a democrat, but more reasonable. i think everyone talking about these tax policies would be wise to take that into account. >> sandra: great to meet you and to have you here. thank you. john? >> john: sandra, big announcement that could change the course of the 2024 campaign, just minutes away. we will take you live to phoenix, arizona, where rfk jr. begins to speak. >> sandra: almost there. plus, a big shake-up at the secret service. several agents have now been placed on leave. former fbi investigator bill daly ahead with his

brand-new reaction to that. >> clearly the special agents in charge of pittsburgh responsible for this is ultimately responsible for the security at that event.

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out of the race, will be formally endorsing former president donald trump. we are watching all of it. about 15 minutes out from that. we will have it for you live when it happens. john? >> john: looking forward to that, sandra. meantime, back to our top story. the secret service placing at least five agents on administrative leave in connection with the attempted assassination of former president donald trump. it comes one day after the arrest of a man accused of threatening to kill the former president in the same arizona county where trump was inspecting the border yesterday. bill daly is a former fbi investigator. we have learned a little bit more via our justice correspondent, david spunt, about this. all five have been placed on administrative duties, which means that they are not allowed in the field. they are still employed, which means they are still being paid. they can only tell only tele- work and they can't be involved in any investigations. according to the secret service, delay and taking this action was because the fbi was busy interviewing them and secret service didn't have an opportunity to interview them

until after the fbi had completed its investigation, at least with those five individuals. so what do you think about all of this? the fact that, again, they were employed, they are being paid, yet taken off duty. >> it is normal standard procedure. first of all, we are looking at maybe five weeks or so out from the butler incident, and between the investigation both by secret service itself and the inspector general, they have identified that these individuals need to be placed on administrative leave. it will be further reviewed by the office of personnel management, personal responsibility, to take a look and see what exactly these shortcomings are, that they are now being put on administrative leave, so to speak. i would say, from my view, it also suggests, are these individuals not following proper procedures? we have heard different anecdotal comments and stories from local police about radios

being left for secret service and not being at meetings. is that something that was a failure on the individuals' behalf, or something more endemic? are there certain procedures that weren't there or that they weren't following? so i think all this stuff needs to come to light. to get your fingers behind the wallpaper. is there something else besides what perhaps these five individuals did or did not do that is lacking with regard to security, whether president trump, the current president, vice president, or any of the candidate. >> john: we certainly don't know, but they spent plenty of speculation among people very familiar with secret service procedures. that this may not be the first time something like this has happened, that is been a gaping hole left in security. it's just that there was nobody there to act on it. we saw the opposite yesterday in cochise county arizona when an apb went out for an individual in the southern part of his or his darin lahood threatened to killed

president trump. here is sheriff marked annals on what happened. >> we identified who it was, couldn't find them, but we continued on all the way up to trump's visit here. we even stopped the motorcade at one time because he felt he was coming in to her president trump was. after the event, we found him, we got a helicopter over the top of him, and we took him down as he was trying to leave a property. >> john: after what happened back in butler, you get another person out there who posts on a social media site that he wants to kill the former president. police acted very swiftly and proactively in this particular case. though they didn't get him until after he completed his event in the montezuma valley there. >> 24 hours ago it was a chilling moment, down by the ball at the same time there is a manhunt with his individual going on. at least according to reports, two threats via social media

over a two-day period. as the public only knew about them a short time for the president arrived arizona for his meeting at the border. i would say it certainly showed that they were quite dynamic in their response, the sheriff said they did. it was certainly reported by, i'm sure, state police. it's also a federal violation to make a threat against a former president, u.s. code 879. so there's federal resources which i'm sure were helping in the background to identify this man pretty quickly. but i would say, at the same time, president trump went on with his meeting at the border. not taken aback by either being out in public after the incident, or this thing perhaps living in the background. we did see, john, yesterday, secret service took a proactive role. they had their sniping team, et cetera. >> john: the former president talked with our alicia kenya ac,

the platform being held up by the crane. he was concerned about being out there in the open talking to alicia, here's what he said about wanting to do that event regardless of the threat. >> a manhunt is currently underway in cochise county, where we are standing. it is for a man who the sheriff's department says was threatening to kill you. does that make you want to change the way you to events or anything? how do you respond to that? >> i've heard about that, but i have to do my job. it's a dangerous job, but i have to do my job. this is so sad, and you have seen the whole thing today. i hope you report on it fairly. but this border is so dangerous. >> john: he says he just has to do his job, it's a dangerous job. we are getting into the thick of the campaign now. on the candidates are going to be crisscrossing the country, though they will spend most of the time in seven states. are there the personnel to adequately protect the candidates, given the divisions and the rancor in this nation?

>> i think we have talked about this previously, that we now have the current president, a vice president, republican vice president candidate, republican presidential candidate, democratic vice presidential candidate, so all these different teams or individuals who require security teams around them. so the question really is, will they properly have the adequate number of people? we know the secret service has been stressed even before this by their own admission in front of congress about the lack of personnel. so whether homeland security people who provide for the protection or whether they do it themselves, i certainly think those are the questions that, as congress looks further into all of this, the need to continue to answer those questions. >> john: and we know because of recruiting shortages, police at the local level are very stressed, as well. he saw that in butler. great to catch up with you. sandra? >> sandra: a major announcement is now expected any moment now. we are getting indications we

are close. rfk jr. is about to speak in arizona amid reports he is dropping out of the race, and that he will be endorsing former president donald trump. >> john: plus, the soaring cost of homeownership, convincing folks in california to pack up and move out. where they are heading, coming up next. ♪ when the sawdust settles and the engine finally roars the thing you care about most is a job well done. ♪ but when you get your tools from harbor freight

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>> sandra: a lot of folks in the golden state are calling it quits, moving to another state, seeking less expensive homes and a more affordable lifestyle. max gordon has more on this from los angeles for us. where are they going, max? >> sandra, texas and florida have long been hot spots for californians to move to come of it also arizona and nevada. not only are they right next door, but they're more affordable houses in those states and lower cost of living. it's really the costs driving a lot of folks out of california. between april 2019 and may 2024, food prices were up 27%, gasoline up 29%. according to the public policy institute of california, home prices in the golden state are also some of the most expensive in the nation with an average sale price of $838,200 in july of this year, according to redfin. according to u-haul, for four years in rio, california california is the state with an

largest net loss of one way u-haul agreement. they recently moved from the l.a. area to south carolina because they wanted to buy a house and they said that houses in south carolina were a third of the price of comparable homes in l.a. county. >> i think are normal people hitting that point in their life where they want the stability of homeownership and they really making a logical choice, i think it is really hard to look at all the factors honestly and make a decision to stay, unless you have a really compelling reason to do so. >> but could the golden state finally get its glimmer back? new laws aiming to increase the affordable housing stock and for the first time in several years, and 2023, california finally gained numbers and population. sandra connects each a very interesting stuff. next, thank you. john? >> john: just about 4 minutes from now, we are expecting that rfk jr. will speak in arizona, and it is expected that he will announce an end to his white house campaign. what he does from there, we are

not fully sure. we will find out soon. bill mcgurn, darren schaum, mollie hemingway, doug collins will tell us what it means for the tightening presidential race, coming up next.

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