expressions of love that a society can make toward its children is to invest in their education and by extension their teachers. >> so why does it matter? a growing number, 29 states now offer programs ranging from vouchers and tax credits to these educational savings accounts which allow parents to fund all or part of a private education. 14% of catholic students use these and 71% of parents support the idea. so parental choice groups give harris and f fearing she will parents but gets an a from teachers unions who she has promised a pay raise. >> going to be close. we have a good ground game. >> we're used to close elections in pennsylvania. we understand this election likely will come down to tens of thousands of votes.

>> this will be close. i would much rather be playing our hand than theirs. we have a better candidate. >> dana: governors of three swing states, safety nets for democrats and harris is trying to shore up support. there is a dead heat. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. i know it's blue wall. >> bill: are you feeling it? >> dana: i was like blue -- wall but i do know. don't worry, america. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning. both sides revving up the engine as the race enters the final stretch. harris across the rust belt hitting all three states she needs to win to get to 270. a day after former president trump went viral working the fry station at mcdonalds in pennsylvania before a steelers game in the evening. he goes to north carolina today to see the devastation of helene and update on recovery after and

a meeting with faith leaders in concord, north carolina. doesn't sound like he is exhausted to me. >> dana: vance discussing the race with us last hour. >> what we've seen in our polling for weeks and what kilometer hair is seeing in her polling for weeks is kamala harris's policies just aren't popular. people are trying to run away from it as much as they can. kamala harris casts a deciding vote of trillions in new spending, signed ont the open border policies of the last 3 1/2 years and trying to run as a change agent. kamala harris is more of the same. >> dana: senior white house correspondent peter doocy covering the harris campaign live in royal oak, michigan. hi. >> good morning. this is the first time this cycle the vice president has visited all three blue wall states in the same day. the democratic ticket seems to think they can persuade

battleground state voters who haven't made up their mind yet by putting the vice president next to during a series of moderated conversations, liz cheney is who we'll see three different times today and expect there to be an emphasis on the importance of good manners. >> good samaritan that we have learned and should live a life where in the face of a stranger, we see a neighbor. but that's not what we see on the other side of this equation in this election. it is constantly about berating people and belittling people and name calling. >> and that's becoming the harris closing argument. less about policy proposals and more about comparing the way she talks to the way trump talks. >> the policies that kamala harris is running on. i want a commander-in-chief like kamala harris who wants to talk us up and lift us up, not knock

us down every single time they get the microphone the way donald trump does. >> in pennsylvania today harris and liz cheney will try to regain control of a news cycle flooded with images of donald trump there yesterday working a mcdonalds fryer and drive through window. cheney still describes herself as a conservative but elected republicans are making sure nobody confuses vice president harris with a conservative. >> every republican supporting her? what the hell are you doing? you are supporting the most radical nominee in the history of american politics. i can't take four more years of this crap. when you support here you support four more years of garbage politics. >> with today's travel we're noticing a lot of urgency from the democrats to reach as many battleground state voters as they can as quickly as they can because early voting is now underway here in michigan.

dana. >> dana: i love that mid morning sun and the tattoo shop behind you. let us know if you stop in. thanks. >> bill: on the board here, here is your blue wall blitz, ms. perino, all right? if she takes the blue wall and one electoral vote in nebraska and she will get to 270. milwaukee today, areas of detroit today and philadelphia today all for kamala harris. put all the polls together now, super close. pennsylvania, trump is up.8%. michigan trump up is 1.2%. wisconsin it's less than one point between the two. really, really close. historically this is something else, right? what was the old commercial ask mikey because he likes it? remember that? this is pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan. going back to 1992, all three states voted for the same candidate all three times.

only one time was it a republican. that was trump in 2016. now you understand how the blue wall got to become the blue wall, right? here it is. michigan in 2020, biden less than three points. super close. michigan this is pa in 2020. biden 1.2 points. michigan is looking like a blow-out right now. wisconsin from 2020. .6 points for biden. again, all three, three for three going back to 1992. let's swing here and we'll bring in our next guest to give us our best analysis coming our way. >> dana: i love having kayleigh mcenany on monday. a co-host of "outnumbered" and permanent monday status. you help us kick off the week. we know that harris has no plans to campaign with biden. i think that makes sense. >> total sense. cnn said one of her most popular moments in the debate according

to internal polling is when she said i'm not joe biden. we've all seen the data and saw nbc where 25% say biden's policies have helped them and 44% said that about trump. the data is clear and she is loyal. your loyalty might cause you a cross-country trip back to california, a move back in january if you keep that. >> bill: speaking of california, the governor, newsom, about how you can't do it. she tried to tell peter alexander this on friday when she was in michigan because she had that comment about even mike pence was loyal to donald trump. hard to get a separation between the two. here is newsom making the point. >> she sees the world with her own set of eyes and experience and own journey. she is a generational and change candidate in that respect and also the vice president of the united states and i think it's almost impossible position to be in. if she separates too much it becomes then the new narrative

where we zigzag to that narrative and not what she wants to focus on. >> bill: i think a lot of what he says is right. >> yeah. >> bill: do you think she will stag and zag successfully? >> he has a point. i thought her answer to peter alexander was her best answer yet on the topic. it is not helpful to the relationship between a president and vice president to have the separation and went on to say i prioritize housing and medicare in a different way. that's a good answer. but why didn't you do that the first time and the second time? why has it taken this long to get to that answer which i think is the honest one. >> dana: in a way, if i may say, the burden is not necessarily hers. biden, when he said this is my decision, even if it wasn't, and i will do this, he should have given her permission to say you can distance from me, my feelings won't be hurt. i know you are a loyal person but that didn't happen. speaking of the switch. nancy pelosi is not happy.

there is a new book called american reckoning and she says she is not happy the only bloody fingerprints on the knife were hers when it came to getting biden out. and that bill clinton, barack obama and other democratic leadership were in on it but didn't take any of the hits. >> 100% correct. when you look how the saga played out. a july 5th comment by nancy pelosi saying it is a legitimate question to ask whether biden had an episode or condition and july 10th on morning joe with the famous comment where she says we're all waiting on biden to make his decision after he made his decision to stay in the race. that was like a bomb that went off and gave permission to distance themselves from biden. schiff comes out and it all happens. not until july 18th that we get one signal that obama is not on board via a story in the "washington post" that popped during the rnc. nancy pelosi led the way. where was obama and schumer.

very late to the game. >> dana: she is not afraid. >> bill: i thought obama waited a week because he didn't want to have his fingerprints on the gun. i thought that was his strategy. >> dana: they also thought perhaps having a mini primary was better than the situation they have now. >> bill: at the time many of them felt that way. this is still the best political story yet to be written in the united states. >> absolutely. that book says if they would not have floated the idea of a mini primary a lot of dems wouldn't have got on board if they knew it was kamala. >> bill: a lot of folks are voting. out of tel aviv, idf reporting it has just intercepted five different drones over the mediterranean sea. the israeli airport. main airport has been closed for landings and takeoffs for now.

that's a live look at beirut where there is some sort of action happening right now. just after 5:00 in the afternoon there. but further south in tel aviv the big international airport has been closed as a result of the interception of these drones a moment ago. we'll be on it and let you know how it goes throughout the day. meanwhile this is one whale of a story here. u.s. officials investigating a reported leak of classified intel that allegedly outlined israel's preparations and possibly its plan for an attack on iran. rich edson from the white house, north lawn has more on that. good morning. >> good morning, bill. these u.s. intelligence documents reportedly ended up on an iran-linked telegram channel on friday. the white house is anticipating a israeli response to iran that for the missile attacks earlier. one of these leaked documents details recent israeli

exercises, a second according to the times described itsly weapons deployments to prepare for an iranian response. that agency analyzes u.s. space satellites. israel's former prime minister says this leak is a problem. >> such a leak is of considerable concern from our perspective. when we have an operational plan we don't want it to leak. we want to do it, not have it leaked to anyone. certainly not to our enemies. >> president biden confirmed friday in germany the u.s. knows when israel plans to hit iran and what kind of targets it has chosen. he has warned israel against hitting iran's nuclear site to prevent another escalation. unclear how much the u.s. may know about the plans, who leaked the information and house republicans say they are looking

into it. >> we're following it closely. i talked to my friend prime minister netanyahu yesterday to encourage him. he has done an extraordinary job, i think, prosecuting that war and if he had taken joe biden's advice they would be in a much weaker position right now. >> this follows the case of an air national guardsman who a few years ago leaked on the discord messaging app u.s. intelligence on russia's war in ukraine and he just pled guilty to that. >> bill: a lot to track and we shall. rich edson from the white house. >> dana: terrorist leader goes underground and the idf releasing dramatic video. it shows the late hamas chief sinwar fleeing with his family into a tunnel below his home in gaza only hours before the october 7th massacre last year. he hid there for a year as the war raged. it's all part of his record since those terror attacks back in february the idf posted video of sinwar hunkering down for the

long run in the tunnel. notice how his bunker is fully stocked with all supplies, food from the united nations relief agency and in charge of palestinian affairs and armed to the teeth with weapons and ammunition. israeli forces killed him last week. we brought you that story. they found mime in a ruined building in gaza. of course, bill, that was after the six hostages who were near him for human shield purposes were executed. >> bill: we looked at the drone video a lot on friday and here it is again. the puff of smoke the drone enters the room and he dies alone sitting in a chair almost in a camouflage with the clothing that matches the chair. the woman in the tunnel was his wife carrying a bag and something else coming out of the tunnel there and yes, i do

believe she was identified as his wife. how long they were there but he has been accounted for and that man is no longer on this planet. we have yet to get a promotion for another leader of hamas. >> dana: who wants that job? who will raise their hand? >> bill: some suggested whoever that is, they will be outside of gaza as of now meaning they are living outside of gaza to be the apparent -- heir apparent to sinwar. >> dana: we're talking about daniel penny, the defendant arriving in court right now in new york. jury selection begins today. it was about the man who died after penny said he was protecting people from this man. it's a big case and bring you more as it comes. >> not tax on tips.

the overtime, that's a great one. you have a lot of people now you stuck working numerous part-time jobs. >> two and part-time three jobs and making less than they did five years ago. >> bill: former president trump making his economic pitch inside a barber ship. one on the side and three on top. the big changes he is pledging coming up. >> dana: a gigantic migrant caravan making its way toward the u.s. why officials are concerned. >> this is america's fast growing criminal enterprise. the rise in sex trafficking. at e been the spouse at home, you understand what i'm talking about. your spouse has earned the right to apply for a va home loan. the newday 100 loan allows you to borrow up to 100% of your home's value. so if you're in a situation where you need some help financially, give us a call.

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now in the past almost four years now i'm losing my business basically. >> it's your business? >> it's my business, i started it for the past ten years. the only time i knew i made it was when you were in office. i can speak for myself. i don't know what more to do. how can we make the economy come back? >> how do you get to the bottom of this? >> here is what we're doing. number one it will begin with the oil. they screwed around what i did with oil. we were energy independent. you remember back four or five years ago $1.87 for a gallon of gas. we had it lower than that for your car. $1.87. now it's at 3 1/2, but it was much higher. they brought back my policies to break even but by that time the damage was done. now you have to inflation and the costs so high. they haven't gone down. we are going to do two things. interest rates are going down. going to be brought down and brought down fast more

importantly and quicker we'll drill baby drill. >> bill: from the barbershop. former president making his pitch in the bronx, new york alongside lawrence jones from "fox & friends." mark tepper, ceo of strategic wealth partners. i highlighted two things. the emphasis on the energy policy definitely. that's what did it. but we are about three bucks a gallon nationally now. better than we've been. the other thing was it's my business, this guy said, i started it ten years ago, the only time i knew i made it was when you were in office. i thought that was a powerful statement. go ahead and talk about that. >> i track small businesses very closely. i'm a member of entrepreneurs organization, member of young presidents organization. small business optimism, bill, is as low as it's been in a long time. now for 33 consecutive months during the biden-harris

administration, we have seen small business optimism come in well below the 50 year average of 98. i lot of it has to do with the fact that per president trump's comments about energy, when gasoline prices are higher, when energy costs are higher, that falls through to the cost of the food we are put on the table, the products that amazon is delivering to us and then it is all about how much money the consumer has left at the end of the month. you have less money for discretionary purposes. that's a huge issue. it is one of the reasons why consumers are now reaching for credit cards to wrack up credit card debt and working two doors for uber, door dash just to tread water. it's tough. >> bill: last hour, i'm sure you were watching in cleveland. democratic senators in wisconsin and pennsylvania are running ads about how they agree with donald trump on certain things.

i didn't see that one coming. on abc on sunday this is the pennsylvania governor, democrat. this is the wisconsin governor, democrat, and they also i think had gretchen whitmer, michigan, a democrat as well and how it went on the economy in the blue wall states. >> when he had the keys to the white house before, he failed the american people time and time again. >> but to that point, again, back to those polls, the economy, immigration, by far those people who were polled trust donald trump. >> donald trump has done nothing for the state of wisconsin. and we have the best economy we've ever had. >> you say we're in good sap? people i talk to in this state, in your state, your state, don't seem to be feeling that. >> bill: that's the golden question. the governor can pitch one thing. but what the people and voters are feeling and then acting on

those feelings is where this election lies. >> the best economy we've ever had. to put it in perspective. the economy last quarter grew by 390 billion. only 500 billion in deficit spending to realize that growth. if i did that as a business owner i would be bankrupt. it is about how consumers people and how american people feel. i will tell you, consumer confidence today is 30% lower than when trump was in office. and probably the best bar am tear for quality of life is real wages. your wages when you subtract out inflation. and that piece during donald trump's presidency was up 10% during his four years in office. it is down 1.4% during the biden-harris term. people don't have as much money. they don't feel as good once you factor inflation. >> bill: thanks, we'll bring you on again.

nice to see you. thank you. >> thank you, mr. president. >> nice to see you, hi, darling, how are you? >> you made it possible for ordinary people like us -- >> you are not ordinary. i can see. >> dana: look who is working the deep fryer. former president trump serves up frys at a mcdonalds in pennsylvania sending democrats and mainstream media into a fit. the wait goes on. cbs still not releasing the transcript of an interview with vice president kamala harris despite criticism over deceitful editing.

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dana. >> dana: it's an important issue. thank you for covering. thank you. >> i love mcdonalds. i like to see good jobs and i think it's inappropriate when somebody puts down. that she worked at mcdonald. she never did. mcdonalds just confirmed that again. >> you have worked at mcdonald now. >> now i have worked at mcdonalds. 15 minutes more than kamala. >> why would they lie about that? >> because she is lying kamala. >> dana: maybe the picture of the campaign. >> bill: working the deep fryer at a pennsylvania mcdonalds. classic stuff as he cast doubt on vp harris's story she worked there as a teenager. kennedy and guy benson. if nothing else, it was fun, right? you have the bib, right? it matched the red tie with the

white shirt. a family from brazil and india take in a little more of that. >> that's a good looking group. hello, everybody. what a nice family. >> bill: i'm thinking kfc this weekend. >> this is a little taste of actual joy on the campaign trail. we've heard that word used a lot as a touch stone. he was having clearly the time of his life. i think people watching and sharing the content, this was mega viral yesterday. it is enjoyable. people can relate to it immediately. i've seen some of the critics. they are really angry about this because they probably know deep down it was a win for him. this was staged. no kidding. that is how campaigns work.

it was not an organic thing. it was staged. a photo op. one of the most successful photo ops i can remember in a presidential campaign. >> dana: maybe ever. there have been some. the bull horn thing or whatever. this one for this particular campaign absolutely. call for number two as well before we get kennedy in here. >> we'll take from these ones first. first in, first out. >> keep her tight. never touches the human hand. nice and full. these guys are good instructors. >> i appreciate it. >> i want to give a really big one. look at that. they are just pouring out of there. how good is that? >> dana: you know what, kennedy, when democrats and some of the media complained about it don't be a karen at this moment. bravo. in tennis when somebody gets a

good hit. yeah. >> see if you can come up with a better troll than that. one of the trolls it was a big facial disgrace against the vice president. that's stolen valor if she hasn't. i don't think she could have carried off this stunt on her own even with the training and everything shut down. it put him in a position to be spontaneous and natural and talked to people excited to see him and also give a little dignity and respect to food service workers. also maybe the biggest one of all a win for mcdonalds. i gladly ate mcdonalds fresh fries yesterday because i craved them after seeing these images. >> bill: i went -- this is 60 minutes explanation two weeks down the road as to why a separate answer was given for a

question to her, okay? the network says former president donald trump is accusing 60 minutes of deceitful editing of the octagon 7th interview of kamala harris. that is false. 60 minutes carve an excerpt of our interview to face the nation that used a longer section of her answer that on 60 minutes. a different portion of the response. face the nation aired sunday morning. 60 minutes airs that night. is this sufficient or do you need a transcript? >> i don't understand this. this is absolutely baffling. we're two weeks on from this. what we saw in the clip versus what aired, they were different. and if cbs is going to put out a statement about this, the entire statement should be thank you for your concern. here is the full transcript and then copy paste. why are they not just putting the transcript out and let everyone judge for themselves?

i don't think that there is something disastrous lurking in the transcript that they are hiding on purpose. i don't think that's true. the more they do things like this the more i wonder. >> dana: it wouldn't be surprising if her answer was meandering. >> no, but also if it were a different subject i think it would be acceptable to have a shorter answer in the broadcast. but we're talking about the united states relationship with israel particularly with netanyahu. it is very important for americans to know where she stands and what her diplomacy would look like. my fear is that they saw the conservative backlash after what they had described as a word salad on the face the nation excerpt and i worry that "60 minutes" reacted to that and gave her a better answer. when you say it's the same answer to the same question, it is not. it is a completely different part of the answer. and when you abstract the one that we originally saw, it looks like you are hiding something. i knew in their statement that "60 minutes" would say president trump didn't sit down with us.

that's a different issue. you can take him to task for that. that's legitimate but it does not keep you from guilt in terms of this selected incident. >> if trump is not telling the truth about this or suggesting something that is untrue about this being edited or whatever, they have it fully within their capacity and power to disprove him with the transcript. so just give it to us. >> as they have done in the past with other big high profile. >> bill: may not be over. >> dana: what a power panel we have. israel squeezing hezbollah striking financial institutions linked to them in lebanon. the u.s. investigating an intelligence leak that may have revealed israeli plans to strike back at iran. >> perhaps the individual or individuals responsible may be planning to leak more intelligence. this is of grave concern and it is also puts a chilling effect on our espionage operations

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>> dana: israel hitting hezbollah where it hurts right in the wallet. the idf launching a wave of strikes seth beirut across lebanon targeting the financial arm of the terror group. we have our guest here. you were outside tel aviv. taking away their ability to fund their terror operations is what we are talking about here. how do you describe it for people watching this saying is it expanding the war? >> yes, dana, it definitely is. it is acting upon years of

collected intelligence whereby israeli agents and intelligence organizations, idf and mossad have been following the trail of dollars from iran via various front companies and financial institutions in lebanon and outside of it and then finally making its way into lebanon into called the hezbollah-owned bank or financial institution that is now where most of the focus is. it is not limited to there. exactly as you said, hitting hezbollah and the iranians where it hurts and also denying hezbollah the ability to pay salary to its fighters and to keep maintaining themselves as a country within a country separate from the lebanese system. this is strategic, long-term damage for hezbollah. >> dana: it makes sense to me and we'll pay attention to that. i want to ask you about this. vice president harris is pushing once again for a cease-fire

following the death of sinwar. listen here and get your reaction on the other side. >> it will be difficult but we have got to get this war over with. we have to get the hostages out. we need to war to end. in fact, we're sending tony blinken secretary of state out next week to meet with the parties there and the death of sinwar, i believe, has removed an obstacle to that end. we have to work at it and through diplomatic means. >> dana: what do you think of that? >> i think that there definitely is an opportunity now for the united states to apply pressure on qatar, to apply pressure on hamas. there is a rare opportunity here. as long as sinwar, the late leader and terrorist of hamas was alive he had all the power of hamas and focused it inside gaza. now most of that power has shifted out of gaza and most of

it is in qatar. other parts in turkey. the real center of gravity has now moved to qatar. an excellent opportunity for the u.s. to use diplomatic soft power to apply pressure on the hosts of hamas so that they will tell their proteges to hand over the hostage, surrender and end the war. that's what is on the table. anything else, any conditions for hamas and hamas living to continue to rule gaza from my point of view is not really an option and what really needs to happen is for hamas to understand it is done. they have been defeated militarily and if they want to spare the rest of the gaza strip with the future horrors of war they can surrender, give up the hostages and allow israel to move on. >> dana: thank you for joining us today. we'll follow this as developments are unfolding right now. thank you. >> bill: so pharmacies across america closing at an alarming rate. what that might mean for you, your family, your community.

the d.o.j. versus virginia teeing up a hot one here. what the republican governor glenn youngkin says about removing non-citizens from the voters roles in the commonwealth. >> how can we as a nation and i was a governor allow non-citizens to be on the voter role? this is just not right. it is not just constitutionally correct but it is common sense.

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>> harris: 15 days until the election. former president trump and vice president kamala harris are hitting some key states. trump is in north carolina after serving up fries at mcdonalds in pennsylvania. he is swinging through the swing states. kamala harris is stopping in former democratic strongholds as support is slipping in the so-called blue wall. plus the u.s. is investigating a possible leak of secret intelligence outlining israeli preparations for an attack on iran. it could have implications, big ones, for even the united states.

congressman and army veteran brian mast, marc thiessen, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: virginia governor youfrng kin is pushing back against the department of justice lawsuit challenging his effort to remove non-citizens from voter rolls. >> good morning, the justice department argues this process of virginia has led to some u.s. citizens having voter registrations canceled. governor youngkin is defending actions taken by the commonwealth of virginia. he says americans and virginians are questioning the actions of the justice department in this case. he notes d.o.j. is going after a law signed by then virginia governor and now senator tim kaine, a democrat, back in 2006. the law has been in effect for 18 years. >> it had been used within the 90 day quiet period most recently by democrat governor mc mccauliffe and ralph northam.

it starts with someone identifying as a non-citizen and then ending up on our voters rolls either purposely or by accident. >> bill: early voting is in virginia for a month. he says those being removed from the voter rolls are given 14 days to prove they're a citizen and eligible to vote. florida is suing the biden-harris administration for immigration record verification failures impacting integrity of its voter rolls. >> dana: thank you. interesting. >> bill: thank you, mike. for decades big chain pharmacies seem to be popping up everywhere. now they are shutting down stores at an alarming rate struggling with everything from regulation from the government to rampant shoplifting. fox business, kelly is live in chicago with the story. what did you find out? >> good morning.

cvs will have closed 10% of its retail footprint over the last three years and after filing for bankruptcy a year ago raitt re shall -- rite aid has closed. they tried to rebrand and costly to do. it might be why walgreens new ceo says they are trying to go back to what they are good at. a pharmacy-led company. >> while the decision to close the store is never an easy one, we feel confident in our ability to continue to serve our customers. we intend to follow our historic practice to redeploy the majority of the workforce in those stores we close. in addition to being trusted and convenient we must be relevant to today's consumer. >> shoppers have similar concerns between both cvs and walgreens including products are

locked up to prevent theft. high prices and long lines. now people can get a lot of products delivered finding them at cheaper places like target and wal-mart that their own pharmacies and many more employees. >> bill: thanks, kelly. changing times in our neighborhoods. thank you very much. >> dana: before we go. this happened, 2024 world series is officially set. dodgers will face the yankees after beating the mets to win the national pendant. dodgers and yankees will be in the classic beginning friday night. that's a lot of flying back and forth across the country. >> bill: they're young guys, though. except for the coaches. >> dana: indeed. well, we have a big week in store for you. good to be with you. harris faulkner is next. >> harris: here is what we are watching this hour jus