inflation is on the downward trend. but a white house administration official said yesterday that president biden would not invoke federal law to stop a strike. that official said this in a statement. we support collective bargaining and believe it's the best way for american workers and employers to come to an agreement. that's why we encourage all parties to remain at the bargaining table and negotiate in good faith. we have never invoked taft hartley to break a strike and not considering doing so now. it would allow president biden to order a cooling off period. order the workers go back to work while negotiations continue. he won't do that. so now we're waiting to see if those talks will continue. as of this moment, there are no talks scheduled. wages are a major sticking point and the union said yesterday they are confident they'll get a landmark deal even if it means a

strike on october 1st. back to you. >> bill: good to have you on the story and we'll see where it goes. >> dana: fox news alert here. border chaos and national security are front and center this hour on capitol hill. lawmakers are set to examine the border policies of the biden-harris administration and how they have impacted our safety and security. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. good morning. >> bill: good morning i'm bill hemmer. a day of potentially dramatic and heart wrenching testimony coming your way. the house hearing will get underway hearing from the mom of rachel morin, the mother of five who was raped and murdered on a hiking trail in maryland allegedly by an illegal immigrant from el salvador. >> dana: the border and illegal immigration continues to be a key issue heading into this year's election amid growing concerns for the dangerous harm to national security. >> encountered members from many different criminal organizations and terrorist organizations

throughout my time in san diego. they are bringing in smuggling in anything they can make money on. they are businesses and they use whether it's narcotics, human trafficking, anything that they can make money on. when agents are pulled away from the border and it is open, those people can come in unfettered and set up their businesses within the united states. >> dana: griff jenkins has more on today's hearing. good morning. >> good morning. house republicans say this hearing about to get underway any moment now will lay bare the grim realities of the past four years of the biden-harris border policies and the committee chairman mark green is concerned the worst may be yet to come. >> one of the biggest, i think, national security threats created by the decisions made by this administration on the border is the fact that the f.b.i. director told me he can't guarantee in the 2 million gotaways they aren't people who want to harm americans, hamas,

etc. >> this comes at more than 8 million migrants have been encountered on the biden-harris administration. a 237% increase over the trump years. and the number of individuals hitting the terror watch list surging to record numbers. lawmakers are hearing from the grieving mother of rachel morin who blames the biden-harris administration for her daughter's death. the former border patrol sector chief you just heard from there in the intro , as well as a san diego county supervisor who says his area has become the epicenter for the border crisis. >> we're the doormat. border patrol is so overwhelmed that they just don't have the time to properly vet or screen these people that are coming across. so they really don't know what we're getting if these people mean us harm or not. >> with immigration among the top issues on voters' minds recent polling is showing broad support for trump's mass deportation plan with a majority of americans behind it, including even a quarter of

democrats. >> dana: consequences for policies indeed. griff, thank you. >> bill: today is a huge day for the economy. federal reserve will give its decision expected around 2:00 today on interest rates and the cut that may come for the first time since march of 2020. you have 48 days from an election, central bank is trying to curb inflation without causing a recession. they call it a soft landing. see whether or not it happens. fox business and charles payne. he has the analysis, rich edson has the reporting and starts live in washington and rich, hello to you. >> good morning, bill. this is the federal reserve's final interest rate meeting before the election. the fed is supposed to be beyond the reach of politics. it is now in the middle of it. just this week three democratic senators urged jerome powell to cut rates by 75 basis points. they write for months we've been calling upon you to cut the

federal funds rate. it may be too late. your delays have threatened the economy and left the fed behind the curve. this summer former president trump said the feds should not cut rates before the november election. a cut in interest rates signals the u.s. is flaming inflation with prices up 20%, a cut could also boost the economy. trump's allies charge this is all political. >> if they are going to do something they could have done it this summer or even this spring or wait until after the election. they have a meeting in november. just days after the election. they could have done a big one then. no one could have accused them of playing politics. >> many democrats and republicans in congress say they trust the fed with a slowing job market if they think it's time to cut they should cut. this as vice president kamala harris tells americans what she would do with the economy. trump has called her plans marxist. she is tagging to the center calling for tax cuts for the

middle class and small businesses, housing assistance and child tax credit and ban on price gouging that republicans call socialist price controls. >> dana: let's bring in charles payne, host of making money on fox business. this is happening at 2:00 today when your show is on fox business. what do you expect to be covering? >> i think it will be a 50 bases point cut. steve moore saying they should have done it already. i agree. the problem with data is always in the rearview mirror. more importantly, the data we've been giving from the government over the last couple years is so awful the revision -- if you are waiting on the data, you have missed it already. it is like those objects in the rearview mirror may be closer. they are on top of you. if you think about all the

action they took a snowball becoming a boulder. that's what is happening. the labor market is worse off than government data suggests and powell knows this. as far as inflation is concerned, it's accumulated. nothing they have done has curbed inflation for food. people are having to use credit cards to buy food. we don't want them to use credit cards to buy food and pay 23% interest on it. >> bill: 48 days away from an election. you say half a point. everybody around the building has their own guesses. i say a quarter point with bullish language because the language the fed uses is significant. is that a fair read? >> jawboneing is a significant tool. arrow in the quiver, no doubt about it. this is the same fed when inflation erupted and everyone felt it only started with a 25 bases point rate hike. next meeting they went 50, the next four meetings they had to

go 75. you could see the emergency actions. so they were so far behind, you know, why not go stronger at the beginning if you are concerned? i know jay powell is concerned. they have a lot of room to work with. they can go 50 and also massage the language saying we'll continue to watch from here. we just had a revision in the jobs report, 818,000 fewer jobs. we can't afford that right now. we will barrel into a recession. the ultimate 1-two punch for the average american is fighting with inflation that's destroyed your real purchasing power and maybe losing your job after that. >> dana: i want to show you the board. the rising prices under the biden-harris administration. if you are just -- i could read everything about the fed 20 times and still don't quite understand it. if you are a single mom raising two kids trying to make ends meet and look at these prices. out of all these categories

food, shelter, auto insurance, energy, pet food, if the fed takes this action today, where might somebody like her get relief? >> there won't be any relief any time soon and why the argument that it's political, i think honestly republicans are missing the real story here. the real story is forget about the fed and whether jay powell is trying to help the administration. today's action is an s.o.s. on the u.s. economy. that's the bottom line whether they go 25 or 50, today is an acknowledgement our economy is in trouble. if the deeper the rate cut the more trouble we're in. don't try to massage it as powell is helping biden. tell the truth. it is something more important than that. this is jay powell coming to the rescue or attempting to of the average american who is suffering. >> dana: right. >> bill: call for number three. we heard from lydia hu in new jersey talking about the port strike. i don't think it is on anybody's

radar until today. what j.p. morgan is saying, economic impact is too big to ignore. surprised if the strike lasts more than a week. >> biden wants that union vote. we haven't had anything like this since 1977. listen, i understand where the long shoreman are coming from. a big massive port strike like this. these guys make $39 an hour. -- they work really hard and work overtime. they know automation is coming for their jobs. they know robots are coming for their jobs. this is their last bite on the apple. what i'm concerned about is the retailers not being prepared for this. inventory to sales data. across the board less inventory for sales for a lot of

categories whether it's furniture, food, clothing, general merchandise. maybe there won't be that much demand because demand has been going down for some of these things. a lot of retailers on the east coast have been caught flat footed with this thing. a painful christmas potentially for americans on the east coast in particular. >> dana: people know about supply chain disruptions and want an 80% raise. >> bill: big show today. 2:00. >> huge, everyone needs to tune in because it's a decision at 2:00 but q and a and 2:30 and that's what moves the markets. >> bill: it will be crazy. fox news alert right now from the hill. we're watching this house republican press conference is now underway. we're listening for headlines. want to learn a lot more about what the house homeland security hearing is all about regarding the border and need to hear more about the assassination attempt in florida. coming today again. a phone call will happen early

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also there is a press conference underway. you've got some critical votes coming up. election 48 days away. things are popping on the hill. watching all of it. headlines in moments. we want to get to this from yesterday. kamala harris in philadelphia for a rare sit-down interview. >> we can't afford to buy a home. you know, we grew up our parents had the ability to somehow believe the american dream was attainable. not so much for younger working people. i recognize that. so my approach is a new approach which is to say let's take this and deal with it head on. >> dana: so vice president kamala harris struggling to outline specific policies during an interview before the national association of black journalists. harris faulkner was one of the moderators for former president trump's appearance before the group. you will remember that and she is here sitting next to me.

let's get to jackui heinrich at the white house with more. >> vice president harris does plan to do more interviews but temper expectations for any big tv names any time soon. she is looking to less traditional outlets in part because it is where her campaign believes voters are getting their news and because there is no urgency to take any risks. quote, aides say ms. harris is more likely to spend time answering questions from smaller audiences that include many voters. interviewsers are drive time radio hosts and anchors from the evening news like the television reporter from philadelphia tend not to ask follow up questions if she filibusters or dodges questions. that was a vp's formula yesterday interviewing with moderators. even when they tried to pin her down on things like if she would change u.s. policy toward israel to distinguish between

aggression and defense? >> i absolutely believe that this war has to end and it has to end as soon as possible. and the way that will be achieved is by getting a hostage deal and cease-fire deal done. >> is there a specific policy change as president that you would do in helping israel? >> we need to get this deal done and we need to get it done immediately. >> notably trump took the same approach when asked about russia's war against ukraine. his answer generated a cycle of critical news conference. >> do you want ukraine to win this war? >> i want the war to stop. i want to save lives that are being uselessly -- people being killed by the millions. >> harris's aversion to traditional media is a page out of president biden's book, although he threw that book out when his campaign was tanking. harris has not held a traditional news conference at

this point so far trump has held three. >> dana: it is becoming the story. thank you, jackui. >> bill: 59 days, in fact. harris faulkner is with us now. good morning. i didn't know they had two events ever, maybe they do. there was one in chicago two months ago, you were there. play a clip in a moment. then the event yesterday was in philadelphia. both nabj with an audience. it seemed like yesterday's audience was smaller based on what i was trying to gauge there. >> harris: what you saw in chicago was their annual conference. it would have been much larger than a campaign stop. by the way, they came out in all its language that this was a journalism event and that this was not politics. on all the campaign materials, this was a campaign stop. so that's -- what did we get yesterday? more of what she says on the campaign. i watched you guys earlier. you can do the side-by-side and see how she keeps repeating

herself. my big question today is you had -- this is no disrespect to eugene and garin and tanya doing the job. you did not have network anchors who do vt every day and a different feel about it or the pressure cooker type of what we do. having somebody not answer our question and pushing back. you didn't have that. >> bill: here is what you had in chicago. >> harris: we have a little bit of that. it was very different for trump. >> bill: rachel scott, abc, leads off the question. >> you attacked black journalist saying 6789 you have had dinner with a white supremacist. my question now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that? >> first of all, i don't think i've ever been asked a question

so -- in such a horrible manner, first question. you don't even say hello, how are you. >> you were there. >> dana: i remember that moment so vividly. the opposite of what anybody would do. anybody would show you civility. this was july 31st. july 13th he had been shot in the first assassination attempt on his life. the journalist couldn't even start there with we're glad you are okay, this is your first opportunity to talk with this group of people. and we are glad you have come today. you know we'll ask tough questions. you know there might be some in the audience who wish that they were asking the tough questions right now. i think that's how you put it. the part that you didn't show is the very top of that when we all sat down first and the comment was from the abc news reporter there, this audience didn't want you here. are you aware of that? it was actually a little less pleasant than that. but that was first out of the

gate. it was hostile. it felt like an ambush. look, he took the bait. there is no denying that. it turned into right off the top a caustic situation. what would any of us do if you think you are walking into making history at the nabj not in a city that you would choose because it is on the campaign trail, philadelphia. but you are going into the largest audience of black journalists all year long. that was big. so my big question for kamala harris is why didn't you do better yesterday? it was a love fest. and it wasn't like what it was like for trump. >> dana: can i play one other part for this? call for number five. one of the things she needs to do is try to win back support of some black voters who say they won't vote for her this time around. watch. >> what is your message to young black male voters who feel left out of this economy? >> so i appreciate the spirit of the question but i will tell you i have often been asked this

question in a way that i have had to respond by first saying that i think it's very important to not operate from the assumption that black men are in anybody's pocket. i'm working to earn the vote not assuming i will have it because i'm black. >> dana: the tone and tenor understanding she needs to try to win their vote >> harris: first words i appreciate the spirit of the question. what is she saying there? when i asked trump the first question i did i said look, there are many black communities, we're not all the same. we vote differently and do things differently. i set it up in such a way this is your audience. why did she go there if she hadn't intended to talk specifically to question asked about that audience. if she didn't want to be there that would be one thing.

black men in particular are a soft spot for her. spart is the lack of specificity is how to change life. for people suffering right now. another area i thought was a tender spot was the palestinian situation. hamas versus israel after hamas invaded and had a massacre on october 7th against the citizens of israel. they are fighting back. that's a war that the world would like to see come to an end. i'm sure israel would, to. they have to take out the killers first. she was asked what specific policy change as president would you make in helping israel? that was the question. she said we need to get this deal done and we need to get this deal done immediately. that's my position and my policy. we need to get this deal done. they aren't any closer to getting the deal done. unlike trump when he is asked the question about how you bring both sides and the ukraine and russia war together he would do

it as president elect. a phone call. you watched the debate. you know. no specificity on a place where did you know that washington state has 1 hundred thousand uncommitted voters from the primary? i get it for minnesota and michigan. that's the number -- she might have wanted the reach out to that. bottom line is nobody pressed her. she didn't feel challenged. she sat back and seemed very comfortable and it was different than how they treated the republican candidate for the white house. >> bill: she needs to answer more questions. it might help her. might not. >> dana: thank you for coming on our show and see you in your show is 34 minutes. >> bill: thanks for being here. >> dana: it is a virtual coin toss for the 2024 candidates. who has the best path toward the magical number of 270. kevin mccarthy is next and do you remember this? >> we have to have a buyback program. i support a mandatory buyback

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>> dana: welcome back. house republicans are still doing this news conference. there is so much on their plate now. speaker johnson is up answering questions about the spending plan. i think the democrats would love to see a government shutdown of speaker john ton trying to avoid that. we'll see what he says. we'll monitor that and bring you new information as it develops. >> bill: you know the magical number is 270 electoral votes. nate silver says it may not be cut and dry. he writes harris has a two in three chance of winning the popular vote but a 25% chance she wins the popular vote but loses the electoral college meaning the election is a toss-up. we've seen that before. former house speaker kevin mccarthy. good morning foe. thank you for your time, mr. speaker. i want to show viewers at home the deal is underway, okay?

tomorrow is september 19th. on the 19th of september wisconsin starts to send out absentee ballots. wisconsin obviously is one of the battleground states. on friday, the 20th of september, virginia starts early in-person voting. all the other states have different rules for september early voting. do you believe with the democratic edge in previous national elections that republicans have been able to cut into the advantage that democrats have had for some time? >> we can. the republicans need to hear that you can vote early. don't wait until election day. let's bank that vote. if you look at the current polling, kamala harris is actually one point below where hillary clinton was at this time and five points less than where joe biden was. remember, joe biden only won the electoral college by 48,918 votes. i still believe it comes down to pennsylvania and georgia. there are more opportunities for

president trump to win electoral vote than there are for kamala harris. she has a harder time. she has to play more defense than he does. >> bill: let me show you that, okay? on the board behind me. if you want to take the example of pennsylvania and georgia, i think those are two key states, right? if trump is able to flip georgia and then also flip pennsylvania, he is real close to 254. he could say -- >> you add in north carolina. >> bill: if you add in north carolina you are at 270. let's look at kamala harris. pennsylvania, north carolina and georgia away and what is her easy path? this is just simple stuff here, okay? you hold wisconsin, you hold michigan, you win pennsylvania. she is at 269 then you take that electoral vote in nebraska district two and she is at 270. there can be many deviations, start and i'll follow up. >> what else would be

interesting let's give trump nevada, arizona. let's give him, because there are two districts in maine, he picks up one. what if he picks up the popular vote there and add that in? then you will see a whole different outcome. why are we giving up on omaha just yet? i think there are many paths to 269 that makes the house decide at the end of the day as well. >> bill: you said back a little bit for trump. if you take pennsylvania out of the mix, right, if he flips georgia and he hangs onto north carolina. he goes to arizona and now you are at 262. you will give him nevada. in this scenario you're shy at 268. where else do you go? is it michigan? >> no, no, what about this happens? what if he gets the popular vote of maine. two congressional districts. he will win one, she wins the other. two more electoral votes he would get if he got the overall

most votes of maine and that's a path to victory. >> bill: we have to create a whole different set of graphics here. quickly you are giving money to house races. >> yes. >> bill: tell me what's happening with that? >> i gave 4 million out today. the difficulty that i see. we started strong at the beginning of last year but in the last cycle even though we were in minority we had more money than the democrats did playing in the house. we have fallen behind that in this cycle. and so money directly to candidates is very powerful because candidates can reserve tv time at a lower rate than the parties can. the democrats have had much more money in the cycle and we sit in the majority, we should have more. i handed out $4 million directly to candidates and also to the nrcc. i want to make sure this majority that we worked so hard to build that we keep it and trying to help speaker johnson get there and continue to help

raise other places. if anybody wants to help, give me a call. >> bill: it is razor thin now. trump is in new york today. pennsylvania went to biden by only 81,000 votes four years ago. really that's where you go to win in 2024, we can be sure of that. thank you. we'll talk soon. dana has breaking news. >> dana: there is a hearing on capitol hill. the mother of rachel morin killed by an alleged illegal immigrant is delivering her opening statement here. let's listen. >> summarize her opening statement. >> thank you, chairman, ranking members and congressmen. i appreciate this opportunity to tell rachel's story. it started august 6th, 2023. i was in kentucky. we had a grand baby that had just passed away from sudden infant death. we got the phone call and the phone call went something like this. hello, mom, there is somebody

here that would like to speak to you. okay. hello? hello, mrs. morin? this is defective so and so. there is no easy way to tell you this. we found your daughter's body. i had just learned a few hours earlier that she was missing. we didn't know she was missing. she went on a trail in our town that's very public, very small. we walked it for over 25 years. she grew up walking this trail. an illegal immigrant that was a gotaway from el salvador had waited for her on the trail. i was told that they grabbed her, dragged her through the woods, raped her, strangled her, murdered her. we were told that her body was blanketed in bruises and i can tell you from looking at her when i went to the funeral home, that it was probably the most

graphic thing that i've ever seen. these murders are very horrendous. he then stuffed her into a drain pipe. when the detective called and said mrs. morin, we found your daughter's body, you know that she is dead. it was such a complete shock to our whole family. it took ten months for them to find this suspected illegal immigrant. they used dna because this man had attacked a 9-year-old and her mother in los angeles. if they had done the border protocols that were in place but was set aside of just a simple dna swab they would have known that he had an interpol warrant for murder in his home country and that's why he was fleeing to the united states. they say that the borders are safe. we live 1,800 miles away from

the southern border. they are not safe. they are not safe. if you have a sanctuary city in your state, you are not safe. i just traveled up to new england, that's where i hail o e rest and i was surprised by the amount of immigrants from the sudan and congo, tens of thousands that are up there. we have then coming in our northern border. we're not safe. and i just hope and pray that you will listen to what we have to say. i'm trying to make my statement as short as i can so i don't cry. i just -- rachel when she was a little girl she was like a little spitfire. tiny little redhead. as an adult she was this vibrant, vivacious, outgoing person. everybody loved to know her. she was so compassionate and kind. she had a stammering problem so

she understood what it was like to be made fun of as a kid. she was very compassionate towards people. she was a mom to five children. she was a business woman. she liked to exercise. she is the american mom. and she is not the only one in our cities that have been murdered. there was another murder by an illegal immigrant from el salvador that happened a year before and that person was just pleaded guilty to four murders, two rapes, and numerous other crimes. they are bringing criminals into our country. they are allowing them into our smallest towns and our people are dying. there is a video that we would like to play. >> dana: we'll bring you back out of that since we aren't able to see the video. patty morin is the mother of rachel morin. she described her daughter,

deceased daughter she was the american mom, she said. describing her there as somebody who was very compassionate and her mother super courageous. she has been a fighter for her daughter in the after math of her death and so this hearing will continue. it is just getting underway on capitol hill. >> bill: we are 1,800 miles from the border and it came to us. we want to move overseas. significant developing story at this hour, much like yesterday. reports of more device explosions in lebanon. mike tobin back live in tel aviv to fill in what we're learning thus far. mike. >> what we're learning so far, bill, they have dozens more explosions and again this appears to be sabotaged electronics. in this case a hand held radios that were part of hezbollah's emergency communication systems after the explosions yesterday. we know dozens of explosions, at least two of these explosions

have taken place at funerals being held for some of the hezbollah operatives killed in the pager attack yesterday. according to lebanese health ministry 12 people died from that pager attack. these are radios, hand held radios that presumably would be held to someone's head trying to communicate. part of hezbollah's emergency communication systems. these radios what we get information they were relatively new like the pagers to the hezbollah arsenal. in fact, they came in about five months ago right about the time the sabotaged pagers came into control of hezbollah. hezbollah now says they are facing a new wave of aggression from israel and they promise that punishment is coming. this comes at a time we just got confirmation through jennifer griffin and pentagon sources from u.s. sources that indeed israel was behind the pager attack. and this is progressing. we know the pagers came from a

taiwanese company. they said indeed they were licensed out to a company out of bucharest. according to the associated press that company is starting to look like a shell company, bill and dana. >> bill: here is what we're learning and go through it together. out of a region in southern lebanon the state news agency is reporting three are killed in the latest device blasts. now you suggested this was some sort of radio, like a walkie-talkie system or do we know that? >> very similar to a walkie-talkie system. they are widely used in military security operations. the brand is icon. presumably what we know about them is they were purchased about the time the sabotaged pagers were purchased and brought into lebanon just like the pagers. >> bill: mike, thank you for that. something we'll keep a close eye on. some of the details that we're learning now that they outsourced them to a company and

the work was done in the country of hungary. you have a second wave. >> dana: infiltration of a supply chain indeed. we keep an eye on this looking at live pictures from beirut. no doubt there will be more of those. >> bill: we opened our show earlier with christopher wray in d.c. saying this about the events last sunday, two days ago. >> we have dedicated full force of the f.b.i. to this investigation and that runs the gamut from criminal to national security resources, from tactical support to evidence response teams, from forensic scientists to operational technology personnel. >> bill: that's christopher wray, the head of the f.b.i. really with some of his first public comments lately about bureau's investigation into the assassination attempt on sunday.

we'll have to wait longer for the secret service report on the shooting in butler, pennsylvania from the 13th of july. on we go again, david spunt, d.o.j. to tell us what's up. good morning. >> good morning to you both. we're told that secret service report examining that self-reflection of the famous agency was supposed to be out earlier this week. it seems to be delayed a little bit because of what happened in west palm beach over the weekend in florida. a lot of f.b.i. eyes and secret service eyes on what happened just a few days ago. the butler report has not been forgotten. it is an internal report done by the secret service and will come out in a matter of days. it will look at what went wrong and what can be done better. five people were placed on administrative desk duty and working remotely because of what happened. as for the motive of the shooter 20-year-old thomas crooks the f.b.i. still does not have one and may never have one. he was killed by a secret service agents moments after

taking a shot at the former president july 13th. a husband and father lost his life, two others were injured. it is unusual but not unprecedented to have no definitive motive. seven years later and authorities still don't know the motive of the las vegas hotel shooter. congress is conducting its own investigation and will have its own report soon on july 13th. dick blumenthal said the department of homeland security the oversees the secret service agency is stonewalling. watch. >> i am reaching the point of total outrage. the department of homeland security has to be more forthcoming not only to me but to the american people and it has to do it quickly or it will spew conspiracy theories that are so dangerous to our democracy and undermining its own credibility. >> republican and democratic members of the senate expect to have an interim report out by the end of the month stressing

it is bipartisan and working together to get that out as soon as possible. bill and dana. >> bill: there is a phone call today with the acting head of the secret service. david spunt in d.c. >> dana: let's bring in arkansas senator tom cotton. a lot of breaking news happening today. i want to go back to the story just before that, this other additional breaking news out of israel and the -- it's out of beirut, actually, additional explosions are happening with hezbollah fighters who were not holding pagers today but radios and this is happening. yesterday vice president harris in her interview said she is supportive of a u.s. pause in delivery of 2,000 pound bombs as leverage against israel but articulating israel's right to defend itself. israel has made the decision even though they aren't claiming responsibility that they have to

act pro-actively because they can't wait for the united states. >> it's rich for kamala harris to say she supports israel's right to defend itself while trying to deny the tools to defend itself. it is not just the bombs that israel needs to reach hamas in the buried tunnels in gaza but a host of other weapons. tank rounds, mortar and artillery shells, small arms firearms the administration withheld for weeks earlier this year. if it happened with joe biden it will much worse if kamala harris is elected. what we've seen in the after math of these explosions in lebanon is another example of the biden-harris administration campaign against israel and netanyahu. israel hasn't claimed responsibility for those conclusions. you have american officials going out and leaking to the media details they purport to be

behind the plot. even brands of pagers. why would american officials leak details other than throwing a hissy fit that israel did not give joe biden beforehand. it is because they don't trust joe biden and kamala harris. the same reason ukraine didn't give them notice in advance of their operation across the russian border. a sad commentary what allies and friends around the world don't trust the american president with vital national security information. >> dana: we're looking at live pictures from beirut. a large gathering there. continued confusion. israel is under pressure from all sorts of sides. one of the things that they are dealing with is hezbollah from the north causing them a lot of problems and this show of dominance again not taking responsibility but the show of dominance is meant to deter a wider war. do you think they can accomplish

that? >> well, i hope so because israel can't live with the situation where they have an armed militia dedicated to the destruction of not just israel as nation but to the jewish people on its border, tens of thousands of its citizens are displaced if northern israel for months now. it has been a bad couple days to be a hamas operative. if you don't want your pager or radio blowing up. don't join hezbollah. an example of the biden administration always putting pressure on israel. what are some of those officials leaking on background today? well, this may be a technically sophisticated operation but no strategic impact. really? what do you think hezbollah operatives believe about their leadership now whoever is behind these bombings and how they feel about using their cell phone, turning on car ignition or using

the toaster, coffeemaker or refrigerator. of course these explosions will wreak havoc inside of hezbollah. >> dana: thank you as we have breaking news this morning. we'll talk about all the other news going on to. >> bill: more on that when we get it. republicans trying to help tackle the border failures of the biden-harris administration as we speak. the new effort to block the flow of fentanyl into our country by the day.

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