girl. he was doing her job but the 30th seed of this year's open allowed the tennis balls to bounce off her and fall to the side repeatedly. >> dana: why? >> i have think she was ticked off because she was losing. she apologized after her straight set loss and called her behavior terrible. listen, she owned up to it. >> dana: it has been a weird u.s. open, would you agree? >> bill: yes, i would. points to her for apologizing. >> dana: it is not easy to become a ball girl or boy. have you seen the competition to get in there? >> bill: tough stuff. i love the american woman who knocked off cocoa, a really good player. >> dana: i never forget her name. john roberts is in for harris today. >> john: fox news alert now. president biden invites

president harris facing big bash lash over their response to the brutal murders of six hostages held by hamas terrorists. some say they are both showing the world that america doesn't actually have israel's back. this is "the faulkner focus." i'm john roberts in for harris. the idf found the bodies of the six hostages in a tunnel in gaza over the weekend. one of them, 23-year-old israeli american hersh goldberg-polin, the deaths bringing fresh attention for the need for a deal to get those in captivity at home. instead of blaming hamas terrorists, president biden said this. >> mr. president, do you think it's time for prime minister netanyahu to do more on this issue? do you think he is doing enough? >> president biden: no. >> well netanyahu heard that and fired back during his own news conference. listen here. >> it's really an out rage that people say that. no one is more committed to

release the hostages and fight more for them than i. i also served, so please let no one teach me a lesson about such actions. >> john: is hostage death sparked massive protests about israel and anti-israel chaos in new york city. demonstrators also gathered outside of vice president harris's michigan campaign event. earlier in the day she was meeting with the president in the situation room. she called the deaths brutal and barbaric and say they will pay. reports say the white house is putting her in the foreign policy spotlight ahead of november. senior white house correspondent peter doocy has more. >> we are not getting very much by way of an explanation as to why it is president biden thinks

that he should be tougher on netanyahu at the negotiating table than on the leaders of hamas. >> will you explain why you think prime minister netanyahu is not doing enough to help the hostages? >> he was very defiant and said -- [inaudible] >> president biden: we're still in negotiation. not with him but with my colleagues from qatar. [shouted questions] >> those talks he referred to with qatar and egypt about a take it or leave it deal that the united states is hoping as urgency to the process but putting out the word that they could walk away from the talks all together if it falls through. republican critics, though, quit to point out there would be no need for a cease-fire if there was no war and this war was started by hamas.

>> truly hamas is the one that has rejected every cease-fire proposal. all the deaths in gaza lay at hamas's feet. israel wouldn't be -- israel wouldn't be in gaza right now if 1400 of their citizens weren't murdered by hamas. of course they'll respond and have every right to. >> not to be lost in the political considerations six more innocent hostages lost their lives. governor tim walz wasn't ready to say anything about that on sunday. >> what's your reaction to the six hostages being found dead in gaza? >> thanks, everybody. >> john: and we're going to be getting something becoming increasingly rare around here at the biden white house. that is remarks from president biden. they are telling us it will be about his investing in america agenda. that would be the first chance to hear a stray comment from the president about the cease-fire today, john. >> john: we're supposed to get a white house briefing as well scheduled for 2:30 this

afternoon. see what karine jean-pierre has to say. thank you for the update. now ambassador nathan sales, former ambassador at large and former acting undersecretary for civilian security, democracy and human rights as we dig deeper into this. netanyahu points out that the white house had been very complimentary of him for agreeing to the terms of a cease-fire which hamas repeatedly rejected and now biden says that netanyahu is not doing enough? how do you decipher that? >> apparently nobody thought to put a teleprompter in front of the president before he answered the question. it is clear who is responsible here, hamas. they have said no to every cease-fire proposal the united states has put on the table and israel has said yes to. last week israel said yes again. hamas picked up the ball and went home. it is easy to see why. every time the white house publicly criticizes netanyahu or

israel, hamas thinks you know what? why say yes now? we'll hold out. we're going to hold out and try to get a better deal that lets us stay in power to live to fight another day. that's exact will i what they've said they will do. october 7th they will repeat it again and again and again. we can't give them the opportunity to do that. what the united states has to do, what the white house has to do is stand resolutely behind israel to help them finish the job. >> john: the death of these six hospital acknowledges over the weekend is a change in tactic by hamas after the rescue of the three hostages weeks ago that israeli forces were closing in on them and they were executed by the hamas terrorists. how could any of the blame lie on israel? are you blaming them for trying to rescue their hostages? >> it is present verse and victim blaming. israel has been the victim in this war from the beginning. this war wouldn't happen at all if hamas didn't invade southern

israel and butcher 1200 israeli civilians. we know that hamas has now put out orders. they have bragged about it, that if israeli defense forces are close to rescuing hostages, kill them. that's exactly what happened. your hearts go out to the victims and their families. what we need to do is make sure that every single hostage is either rescued or brought home in a cease-fire deal that makes sense for israel. the reason there isn't one has nothing to do with netanyahu and israel. everything to do with hamas sensing an opportunity to exploit divisions between washington and jerusalem. >> john: opinion piece in the "washington examiner" said biden is wrong. negotiation won't work with hamas. "wall street journal" editorial board hamas murdered six hostages. israel blamed. they were killed in rafah where biden and harris had threats and withheld weapons. they argue the choices are heavy and israel's leaders don't need

u u.s. -- israel is offering strategic concessions and risk soldiers' lives to free hostages. the u.s. pressure should be on hamas who took hostages and murder them. why ask israel for more concessions? say enough is enough with hamas. you execute hostages. we'll come down with the full force and might of the israeli military on you with the full backing of the united states. stop the equivocating. support the hostages by saying hamas, you have to let them go. >> that was the approach we took during the trump administration. voters have a choice in november what kind of foreign policy they want. >> john: by then it might be too late. >> it might be. this is not just about israel defending israel. america needs to step up to protect american citizens, too. dozens of american citizens were killed by hamas on october 7th and we lost another one shot in

the back of the head this weekend, hersh goldberg-polin lost his life along with five others. what will we do to protect americans? biden is talking a great game about justice and responsibility but i think we'll see an abbey gate situation. the president writes checks he doesn't deliver. when will we hold isis accountable for killing our warriors? we can't afford a are he peat of that situation here. >> another biden administration foreign policy misstep back in the news. three years since the botched afghanistan withdrawal. 13 of our nation's service members killed in the bombing at abbey gate. former president trump marked the solemn occasion at arlington with some of the gold star families. democrats, including vice president harris, then accused trump of playing politics with the tragedy. the v.p. posted the former president disrespected sacred ground all for the sake of a

political stunt. those families invited the former president. as for the current administration senator tom cotton said this. >> where were they? joe biden was sitting at a beach. kamala harris was four miles away. she could have gone to the cemetery and honored the sacrifice of those young men and women. she hasn't. she never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them. >> she met with him -- they were with them at the -- >> but they weren't. nbc news had to issue a correction. vice president harris was not at the dignified. blasted the vice president. >> our kids were murdered because of your administration. >> you are not at dover for the dignified transfer. no time have you reached out to me, to offer condolences, to offer thank you for the

sacrifice at service. >> 13 families who have been waiting over three years to so much as get a phone call. so much as hear our kids' names said aloud. >> you failed for three years and eight months to acknowledge our kids. where were you and joe biden on august 26, 2024? nowhere near arlington cemetery. you couldn't be bothered to be with us or even say our kids' names. just as you have done for the last three years. >> vice president harris, i ask you, why won't you return a call? >> john: trump was invited by the gold star families, showed up and helped laid the wreath. they were both invited to come, they didn't show up. yet harris complains about it? it blew up in her face. >> it speaks volumes about the priorities of this administration and the priorities of former president trump. whether they will admit it or

not, biden and harris have to know that the afghanistan withdrawal is a colossal black mark on their record. a colossal stain on america's reputation and still dealing with the fallout from that decision years ago. after the attack at abbey gate where we lost 13 of our finest warriors, the president went out in front of cameras and said we'll hunt you down and will not rest. that was three years ago. do you know how many drone strikes we've done in afghanistan since then? one. and not against isis. it was against the new leader of al qaeda. bravo for taking out the new leader of al qaeda but we're in no position to actually do what is necessary to bring justice to the families of these 13 members. it is not an accident. this is a deliberate policy of this administration to wake away from battlefield and leave isis in control in huge parts of afghanistan. >> john: ignoring it won't make it go away.

thank you for coming in. the fight over free speech going global. brazil -- mark zuckerberg admitted the biden administration pressured facebook to cover covid conduct. how hunter biden's lawyers plan to defend him against criminal tax charges. the former acting attorney general matt whitaker in "focus" coming up next.

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his attorneys argue the president's son's drug addiction affected his decision making that he could not have intentionally committed the crimes. it is tax evasion and filing false tax returns. he pleaded not guilty to all the charges. already convicted on gun charges in delaware. some say the worst is yet to come. >> it's not going to be pretty and it will cause he and his family a lot of pain. >> he faces very severe criminal penalties if convicted on the tax charges. it will put out all the dirty laundry that hunter biden was spending money on. >> he has gotten more sweetheart deals than anybody in america. if he weren't joe biden's son he would be in prison as we speak. >> john: investigation into his taxes began four years ago and charged at the end of 2023. earlier this year a judge denied

a bid by his attorneys to dismiss the charges. jury selection set to start on thursday. matt whitaker, former acting attorney general, with us now. hard to believe that 13 months ago hunter biden thought he would wash his hands of all of this with this crafted plea deal that blew up. >> good to be with you, john. the plea deal taking the gun charges and tax charges and given him probation and pay a fine and had deferred prosecution agreement with these gun charges that he was convicted of. now facing years in prison. remember, we know so much about this case, john, because of the i.r.s. whistleblowers that came forward and shared so much of the inside the room decision making where charges were allowed to laps because of the statute of limitation had run. the most serious charges. burisma money was allowed to never be considered. this is not part of this trial.

>> john: there will be other things that come to light. his attorneys with mount the defense he was an addict and in such bad shape he didn't know what he was doing. he couldn't have intentionally not paid his taxes because he is an upstanding citizen. that defense fell apart in the gun trial. what do you think will happen this time? >> i have a feeling the jurors are going to look at this defense that is trying to be made and be a little critical as to why they are telling all of this drug and addiction testimony and why he still was coherent enough to file taxes. the problem was he tried to deduct things not close to being allowed under federal law. at the end of the day it was those decisions that will what get him in trouble. >> john: his father said a couple of times he would not

pardon his son. that was back when biden thought he was running for re-election. do you think he could change his mind before he walks out the door on january 20th or if kamala harris were to win the presidency could she do it or a gesture of good faith in trump won do you think he could pardon hunter? >> i think that what president biden said was politically expedient at the time to get him past that story and through an election. now not a candidate i would expect he would pardon hunter biden after the election. certainly that would be the timing. i don't expect that president trump -- i haven't talked to him about it. i don't expect he would pardon hunter biden. i can't imagine the agreements that kamala harris made with joe biden in order to get him to move aside. i think there is a lot we don't have visibility to but i don't think hunter biden will go to four or five years in federal prison. >> john: that's probably a safe

bet. the fight for free speech is expanding across the globe. the latest front brazil. the country's supreme court has just upheld a ban on x, the platform formerly known as twitter that blocks the site for tens of millions of users. grady, what is this all about? >> x's owner is not happy with the court's ruling in brazil to put it mildly. musk fired off several posts on the platform since the top judge banned x and its supreme court upheld that ban. in one post musk says free speech is the bedrock of democracy. unelected pseudo judge in brazil is destroying it for political purposes. musk also suggested he should be impeached and locked up for imposing the ban. brazil's highest court ordered the country's telecom regulator to shut down x accusing the company of violating court orders and allowing hate speech

and misinformation to spread online. any individual who is found to be using a virtual private network to get around the ban could also face a fine of about $9 thousand. the ban will remain in place until x appoints a legal representative to work with the country's government and pays millions of dollars in fines. several republican lawmakers have spoken out against the ban but some democrats are seemingly praising it. minnesota attorney general keith ellison posted on x with no context thank you, brazil prompting musk the say the democratic party wants to ban the first amendment. you remember last week the owner of the social media platform telegram was charged in france for allowing illegal content on the platform. meta founder mark zuckerberg admitted to censoring content during covid under pressure by

the biden-harris administration. >> john: grady, thank you. colorado's democratic governor accused of gas lighting on this terrifying video of a vicious apartment invasion allegedly by a migrant gang. plus classes begin at columbia university today. students are nervous after the anti-semitic chaos last semester. >> there is literally no plan that has been outlined by the columbia administration in order to restore order and safety to campus. i have 0 reason to believe that anything will change going into this school year. >> john: anti-israel protests are escalating at columbia and only day one of what might be a very long semester. ben domenech in "focus" coming up next. then psoriatic arthritis. who knew they could be connected? for me, cosentyx works on both. cosentyx helps real people find clear skin. and in psoriatic arthritis, can mean less joint pain,

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>> protestors as students head back to school at columbia. they marched near the front gates with signs and masks chanting things like columbia your hands are run coming months after the campus descended into violence. columbia's faculty released a report that detailed the harrowing experience for jewish students during that time. it found that they were chased out of their dorm towers, spat on and got death threats. one student said this. >> the double standard is glaring. it is hard to imagine that at this point 11 months later we could still be shocked again by what we're reading and yet that's how i felt when i was reading it. the university is failing to uphold its end of the sacred covenant between university and students, which is namely to insure a safe and healthy and productive learning environment

for all students. >> john: alexis mcadams is at columbia this morning. how is it looking there now? >> feels like i never left. only a few months ago we covered the campus protests at columbia university. you can see over my shoulder it is happening again. not just on the campuses here but also across -- i checked in with some protestors who would talk to me what they are doing here. watch. >> why are you here today? >> we're here because there is still an ongoing genocide that the united states is materially and politically responsible for. >> are you a student here? >> i am a student. >> just wonder do you think it will be a lot of protests this year. people thought it was disruptive and they were upset. what will happen this year? >> we've been clear it won't stop until columbia has divested

from israel. >> across manhattan when people were getting back from holiday weekend on monday. we saw a lot of people out across the streets of new york city chanting that united states is complicit in a genocide blaming kamala harris and joe biden. this is some of what we saw yesterday. watch. now we go to this. one protestor was seen carrying a hamas flag. others saying long live hamas. 5,000 protestors marched through the streets. those chants erupted hours after the murders of six more israeli hostages, okay? their families heartbroken speaking through tears including hersh goldberg-polin's mom. the fame lalls had to say their

final goodbyes. back live at columbia's campus trying to check in with the protestors. as they are learning, gaza is burning and asking them to divest from israel. they say they won't stop until the university listens to them. they thought they didn't listen last year. jewish students said simply they don't feel safe. some of them don't know if they should have applied or even come to this school. >> john: great reporting and thank you for chasing after the folks. in "focus" now ben domenech "fox & friends" and spectator editor at large. curious to know if any of those protestors yesterday or today are outraged about the murder of six hostages at the hands of hamas. >> they certainly don't sound like it, john. they sound completely on the side openly of hamas. a terrorist organization. one that deserves to be

destroyed and it is in the interest not just of israel but of america to see it destroyed. look, the lesson we can take away from these most recent killings is that there really can be no negotiation. there is no path to some kind of deal that has existed for a long time as a fantasy from the biden administration. i think that these students are just a reminder that this faction within the left is not going to shut up or go away. they are going to stay around and going to be an active problem and a thorn in the side of those who would like to see the democrats prevail in the fall and be able to navigate this coming sprint toward the election without any kind of hiccups. in chicago the protests were there. i was among them for quite some time. we heard similar things echoed there. i think once people start coming out and this nice weather going back to campus they start to start making a lot more noise

and becomes more aggressive and not going away any time soon. >> john: israel has agreed to the terms of the cease-fire. hamas says no we can't have israel forces to prevent us from rearming ours. >> it's a disgrace and we continue to see higher education promote anti-semitic leaders and anti-semitism. as we start the school year this year we need to see moral strong leadership from higher education and these universities to condemn anti-semitis anti-semitic graffiti on campus and yet you still have these universities not showing leadership. this is why it's so important legislatively we use the oversight capacity when it comes to taxpayer dollars funding the

institutions that we rein that in and hold them accountable. >> john: they have had all summer to come up with a plan to deal with this. is it working and is there even a plan? >> clearly it is not. they are still caught in a mode where they're incapable of dealing with this. glad for the congresswoman mader comfortable, if they don't feel safe or feel like they can go to campus or attend their classes, then what is the public interest being served here? why are we sending them so much of our taxpayer dollars and allowing them to exist tax-free?

>> john: we'll see how the protests unfold today. officials in aurora, colorado are pushing back on reports of a gang known as tren de aragua taking over apartments in the denver suburb. the city is giving the green light for officials to order evictions after ruling that recent gang activities were a criminal nuisance. the city also has a law enforcement tax force to arrest these venezuelan gangs. the governor dismissed talk of the purported invasion last week. the "new york post" editorial board says this quote, polis can continue to try to sell the lie that aurora's officials are imagining a gang takeover. but citizens are living the ugly truth. tony gonzalez with this. >> in many cases these tren de aragua they are growing in

prominence. these venezuelan gangs. they are all over the country and seeping their tentacles into our society. we have to get ahead of this and need real solutions. that is holding these people accountable. >> john: the governor of colorado and others are blaming this councilwoman saying she is fanning the flames here and saying things that aren't true. maybe she is even behaving illegally because she must be concealing evidence of illegal activity. we've got the video, ben. we've got the receipts. how can they deny this? >> don't believe your lying eyes. this is one of the situation -- i don't think it is a situation that renounced benefits. there are so many different communities seeing activity like this. i think it is impossible to deny the effects of the biden administration's chosen policy toward the border. they try to pretend right now that given the fact there has

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>> john: labor day is now in the rear view. jobs, wages and high prices are still a top concern for voters. vice president harris and former president trump are playing the blame game on the economy. harris attacked trump's agenda eat. >> if donald trump to be reelected he intends to give more tax cuts to bill airs and big corporations and cut social security and medicare. he wants to impose what in effect would be a national sales tax. i call it the trump national sales tax. >> trump hit back on truth social posting this. under comrade kamala harris.

grocery and gas prices are through the roof. we can't keep living under this weak and failed leadership. edward lawrence is at the white house with more. >> this election could come down to jobs. i will tell you why. right now the administration is seeing jobs they have oaf created 16 million jobs. they believe they have oaf created more jobs than any other administration. the jobs report last one showed real weakness. federal reserve chairman shows the risk to the labor day outweighs the risk to inflation. you hear president joe biden and kamala harris trying to convince americans they have created more jobs than any other administration. listen to this. >> president biden: kamala and i are so proud, so proud of the greatest job creation record of any president in a single term in american history. [cheers and applause] 16 million new jobs so far. [cheers and applause]

800,000 manufacturing jobs. >> however, in a post over the weekend the president's official page got it right. in one post 6 million jobs and miss lead america about jobs in the next post. according to the bureau of labor statistics the economy added back jobs from the pandemic and added 4.6 million and all the jobs temporarily shed in the pandemic and created 173,000 job. in the past few months manufacturing lost 5,000 jobs. >> they know their policies are bad and kamala harris is part of the biden administration that created the policies bad for our countries. the voters don't know that. >> we expect the vice president to talk about jobs at her campaign event on wednesday and thursday. again we'll have to see which number she decides to use. >> john: ed, thank you. 44 days with no news conference

by the vice president and now democratic presidential nominee kamala harris. she did break her media silence with tim walz. now she appears to use a new method to dodge press questions. a pair of ear buds. watch this. so when she have really on a call or was it a faint? harris has a slight lead but that is not really much of a change for polls taken before the dnc. that poll also shows voters trust trump much more on key issues like the economy, inflation and the border.

early voting starts in just three days in north carolina. almost 40 states begin early voting this month including seven battleground states. the last two cycles indicate more than 2/three of americans will cast ballots before november 5th. only 29% of people voted on election day in 2020. 30% voted early in person, 41% mail. we have our power panel now. so let's start with you, matt. this could be a big problem for the republicans. they've always lagged behind the democrats in early voting. they like to do it on election day. by that time as we pointed out so many votes have been cast and polls could change significantly now and november and kamala harris is taking no chances by putting herself out there in any way altering the outcome of the election. what are republicans going to

do? >> first of all that video you showed reminded me when they show the nfl quarterbacks walking in before the game with headphones. look, this is why the debate on september 10th is so important. her advisors will hire away. they don't want her in unscripted scenarios. the debate is so important coming up on september 10th. president trump has to make sure he prosecutes the case and able to press the case why the 3 1/2 years haven't worked. >> john: all the absentee and early ballots started being counted and the direction of the election changed in 2020. do republicans have any plan to try to fight the democrats one-to-one on early voting and absentee voting? >> i would be the wrong person to ask as a democrat to ask.

i don't know what republicans are doing. i look at the sufficient jock poll this morning that has kamala harris leading on national level by 5%. it's not double digits but a number outside the 3% margin of error. here is one of the problems where republicans and i hate to use shot themselves in the foot is the saying because you have them saying we don't want this, right? we don't want mail-in ballots and early voting. we want everybody to have same day voting and they changed it. matter of fact former president trump himself voted early the last time he voted in the state of florida. so you can't have those mixed messages like that to the voters. i think it is confusing. also democrats, i have to say for my party we have had that ground game for a very long time to get to everybody, people who are doing mail and voting early as well as those who show up. democrats do have an advantage over republicans with that.

i don't know how republicans will counter that this late in the game with the messaging they have had for so many years. >> john: president trump doesn't like it but needs to stop talking about election day but election season because that's where we are. president biden emerging out of the campaign trail. he dropped out race after george clooney wrote an opinion piece calling for biden to exit. clooney head lined a fundraiser for biden earlier in june. he finally commented on biden's decision to step aside this weekend. listen here. >> the person who should be applauded is the president who did the most selfless thing that anybody has done since george washington. that's true. what should be remembered is the selfless act of someone who, you know, is very hard to let go of power. we know that and have seen it all around the world. and for someone to say i think

there is a better way forward, that's all the credit goes to him and that's really the truth. >> john: to quote jonathan turley, has clooney wiped the blood off the knife yet? >> apparently. joe biden will get trounced and historical loss both presidency and down ballot for democrats. selflessness? no a political act of self-preservation. george washington could have been president as long as he wanted. the compareston is ridiculous. please, joe biden and kamala harris campaigned together forever. the more they are reminded their poll seals of high grocery prices and interest rates and mortgage rates way up. that's helpful to republicans. >> john: the selfless thing that george washington did was against his better judgment decided to run again for president. leslie, there is no question here that very powerful democrats like clooney and obama

and nancy pelosi basically threw joe biden off the bus, off the cruise ship, off the pier, cliff, however you want to put it and saying it is a wonderful selfless act. >> i don't agree with you that they threw him off the bus. with all due respect i am one of the democrats on phone calls and inside the room as the democratic strategist and when george clooney came out with that we were horrified. he is an act or. who asked, stay in your lane. i live amongst all these celebrities and they like to dip their fingers and toes, in politics. president biden made it clear if he either didn't have the health to go forward or shown a pathway where he couldn't win he would step aside. the latter happened and it happened by key democrats in our party, not george clooney. >> john: we have to run.

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