news. you can always find us at the ktvu news app. check that out the meantime, have a great sunday everybody and great week as well. >> i'm trace gallagher. pr president biden plans to put his climb bill on the topic. the white house celebrates as the inflation reduction act becomes law. >> the promise to america is real and just beginning. >> the president planning to travel the u.s. soon to sell the bill to voters. this as governors across the country prepare for back to school season facing a teacher shortage, and more changes to cdc guidance as the agency gets candid about its struggle to manage the covid-19 pandemic. >> we didn't reliably meet expectations along the way.

>> we'll ask new hampshire's governor about the cdc's plan to reorganize and state of play in his state's republican senate primary. and we'll also ask energy secretary-general about it governor sinunu only on fox news sunday. then a divided country awaits new details about the justification for the fbi's search of mar a lago. we'll ask our sunday panel about the former president's legal strategy, the leak and the heated rhetoric around the fbi. >> we can hold the attorney general accountable for the decision that he made without attacking rank and file law enforcement personnel. >> plus, we'll dive into fox news polls on what's top of mind for voters in critical states as

republicans aim to take control of the senate. all right now on fox news sunday. and hello enfrom fox news. the fall midterms are fewer than three months out andhe white house is hoping its big climate and tax bill will ease voters' doubts about democrats. but the administration is still battling high inflation and low approval numbers, and now this week biden's cdc director is admitting the agency came up short in its handling of the pandemic. and biden's education secretary is sounding the alarm, as teachers quit in droves. in a moment, we will speak with new hampshire's governor about the cdc fallout and about how states should handle the teacher shortage. but we begin with team coverage. mark meredith with the latest on

the fbi search of mar a lago. but first peter doocy traveling with the president in delaware. peter? >> reporter: trace, president biden's summer has been pretty eventful. he signed enough big bills into law that his chief of staff is comparing him to kennedy and roosevelt and lbj. his approval rating is still hovering in the low 40s, but it's improving slightly. >> the american people won and the special interest lost. okay. >> reporter: the inflation reduction act, now the law of the land. but actual inflation reduction isn't happening anytime soon. >> why would it? it's not. we never see anything happening immediately. like today, turn the switch on and off. >> reporter: the bill is really about other priorities. >> this bill is the biggest step forward on climate ever, ever. >> reporter: the cdc is taking a step back, admitting they were

unprepared for covid. >> it might have been little bit messy along the way. >> reporter: still, no regrets about lockdowns, but just regrets about how they were explained. >> we need to be more nimble but we stand behind the content of what we said. >> reporter: a looming problem this back to school season. a shortage of teachers. >> this time of year, when we're welcoming back millions of students and educators and parents are excited, this is going to be a year full of promise and possibilities, we are dealing with a shortage issue. >> reporter: no shortage of optimism as the president legalishes recent wins and sees more reason for hope ahead of november's mid terms. >> i know there are those who hold a dark view of this country. i'm not one of them. another big announcement on the about forgiving student loan debt will happen bm wednesday. trace? >> peter doocy reporting from

delaware, thank you. now let's turn to mark meredith. he's in palm beach, florida, for the latest on the search of mar a lago. >> reporter: former president trump said soon his legal team will be filing a motion challenging the legality of the search here at mar a lago. this comes as we are waiting to see what federal prosecutors may decide in terms of redactions to the criminal affidavit which targets trump. lawyers for rmer president trump claim federal agents violated his fourth amendment rights by searching his florida home and remove multiple items including cases of classified and top secret documents. >> the fourth amendment requires particularity. it requires narrowness to the intrusion on the person's home. >> reporter: a federal judge signed off on the search. this week the same judge will decide how much of a criminal affidavit detailing the government's case against trump can be released. multiple media organizations but not trump himself argued last week in court it should be made public. >> that is the publiinterest. we are entitled to monitor the

affairs of our government at all levels. >> reporter: federal prosecutors releasing too much information may compromise an on going investigation and endanger witnesses cooperating with the government. officials are also concerned about potential attacks on law enforcement. fbi corrector christopher wray telling the wall street journal, quote, i think most people rightly condemn violence and threats of violence but there are a noisy few who seem to believe otherwise. the former president continues to fund raise off of the search as well as the investigation. there are reports he has raked in a lot of money in recent weeks. but he's mostly avoided the cameras. instead, posting mostly on social media. we have learned he will hold a political rally in the battleground state of pennsylvania over labor day weekend. trace? >> mark meredith reporting from palm beach. thank you. joining us now is new hampshire's governor. governor, welcome to fox news sunday. >> morning, brother. >> sir, i want to start with the cdc external review out this

week, finding deficiencies in their covid-19 response. they admitted they have at times put out confusing guidance, to say the least. now they're planning an overhaul to become a more rapid response public health agency. you've been a governor navigating this pandemic. is that enough for you? do you think with this they can rebuild public trust? >> did we really need a taxpayer funded external review to determine that the cdc is all over the place? for the last two years they say one thing, they do another. they tell us one thing privately, they do another. these guys have been constantly backtracking. so i guess the only good take away here is they're acknowledging it. i think they're starting to realize that we are really out of this pandemic. we're moving forward as a country. local control and local decisions are best made by parents and families. are we going to have covid surges coming? of course we are. we have the tools. we have the vaccine, therapeutics. we have all these tools in our

tool box. i guess it's great they're finally acknowledging it. but it's something the rest of america has acknowledged for the last 18 months. >> the reason i talk about public trust. it's only a few months ago the cdc director said, listen, when we said to follow the science, we never said the science was exact. and my response would be, you kind of did say the science was exact and those who failed to comply were all listed as, at least from the left, were all listed as public health threats. >> look, when officials co out from the national governnt and talk about science, there's an implied understanding, the guy who went to mit and studied science and engineering, when you say science, you're saying data. you're saying we know what's happening. we understand it. here's the response we need. you cannot come back out and say something totally different down the road. most importantly, we don't want to have the cdc, people have no trust in the cdc. we don't want that, but unfortunately that's where we

are today. as a governor, i was on those calls with the cdc director, with the white house. we'd hear one thing on the phone and something totally different would happen. we had to buckle down and make our decisions. we kind of listened to what they said. okay, i hear you, but this is what we are seeing on the ground. i think overall governors did a very, very good job, at least in the red states. i can't speak for some of those blue states with all the excessive lockdowns. because, again, they kept doing whatever the white house and the cdc was telling them one week and then shifting the next week, eroding trust with what should be a really responsibility branch of government. >> you talked about children earlier. the cdc is also out with new covid guidelines for schools, just as kids head back to the classrooms. they no longer recommend routine testing for grades k-12 unless community transmission is high. do you support that change, governor? >> yeah.

look, locals and schools and parents have to make the decisions for themselves. i live in new hampshire. we believe in local control. we believe in schools making those decisions for themselves, not having the federal or even the state government come down and push certain answers on to them and certain protocols on to them. especially where we are now, knowing we have all these tools in the toolbox, knowing folks are working collaboratively with their school districts to understand what these issues are. yeah, local control is definitely the right approach. >> and the other major back to school story this week is the big teacher shortage in the u.s. nationally. we're talking about 280,000 fewer teachers than before the pandemic. in new hampshire, in your state, you have renewed more education credentials this year. so what exactly is driving the trend nationally and what are you doing different in new hampshire to have different results, sir? >> nationally, whether it's

teachers, nurses. there's a couple professions that have burned out. we understand that nationally. over what's happened over the past couple years. in new hampshire, we're different. we really -- on that local control. we work collaboratively. we don't fight it. we put more dollars in public education for students than ever before. and we passed school choice. and we're creating more opportunities for kids in public schools to get credentials in a work force type environment that they want to enter into. we're just not doing things traditionally. when you support that local aspect, you let teachers have some say working with those parents. local control is really the answer. any time the government gets overly involved in education, it normally doesn't go well. so we take that push back approach. we believe in parents and teachers. teachers now want to be here. we're the only state in new england that's growing in population. businesses are flooding in. we've really focused on the individuals, individual towns, individual schools. that allows i think kind of rising tide floats alloats

here in new hampshire. we have the strongest economy in the country. in the first quarter of 2022 we were the only state with the positive gdp. everything is moving forth in a positive direction. we don't get caught up in the overly political aspects of thing. again ungkin had it right. parents matter. teachers matter. we've been able to foster that here. we're proud of the fact that we've been able to increase the number of teachers over the past couple years. >> what do you make of florida governor ron desantis proposal to recruit military veterans and first responders without teaching degrees to help fill the vacancies down in florida? >> look, i love the idea of focusing on military, focusing on veterans, focusing on folks with real world experience. you get them into those classrooms, you get them into a job. go through the credential lyily.

stream lining the regulatory and certification process, whether it's teachers or manufacturers, that's an opportunity every state has. we're doing it here. we're stream lining our whole thing. reciprocity we have with places like maine, vermont, make it easy for folks to come over the border. i love the concept. the country has work force shortages. let's stop allowing government get in the way of getting these people on the floors, in the classrooms, whatever they have to do to give them a job. and get kids or get the product out. that's what it's all about. it's about the kids. >> i want to change gears to midterm, new hampshire politics. maggie hassen is up for reelection, the gop primary weeks away. polling has retired. jen baldic leading. you said she is a conspiracy theorist that threatens your

party's chances at winning back the seat. are you concerned? is there a worry in your party that gop could be missing out on a golden opportunity? >> senator hassen's gonna lose in november. she has spent $25 million. her approval rating hasn't moved. i hope she spends $100 million of the democrats money. we have seen races. we have seen national discussion. when you elect the wrong individual, it makes it much harder to win in november. you have to have good candidate, quality candidates at the end of the day, whether you're running for a planning board, u.s. senate or president. you have got to get quality candidates that can cross the line. winning in a primary means nothing. you can't govern if you don't win in november. that's all that matters. i focus on winners. i want to best candidates that can win. i want the best candidates that have the best shot at beating maggie hassen. that's why i'm focusing on other candidates. i don't want to happen to new

hampshire what we've seen happen in other states where that gap becomes too big. you're seeing it in pennsylvania, georgia. i still think those republican candidates can win. but they're having a much harder time of it than they should have in what should be a wipeout year. nationally, the problem is this. we are talking about things that aren't mattering, that don't matter to the voters. the voters care about kitchen table issues. they care about high price. they care about inflation. they care about having options for their kids in schools. mar a lago is a very important issue. january 6th, what happened there is very important. those aren't driving folks to the polls. those aren't driving folks in the voting booth. we have to get back to our kitchen table discussion. if we do that, republicans across the brd can be very successful. >> you talk about politics here. former president mike pence visited new hampshire this week. so did republican stphaeurt tom cotton. a huge roster of potential 2024 candidates have visited your statin recent months. it's a great state. you wonder why they're coming.

>> there's a couple outside the studio waiting to talk to me right now. >> we got chris christie, nikki haley, tim scott. it really, the list goes on. it's a long way to 2024 getting a bit crowded in the state. they're knocking on the door trying to get you to help them. what do you make of this? have you talked to anybody about why they're coming to new hampshire? >> oh, yeah. no, i talk to all the candidates who want to come, i'll happily sit down with all of them. here's the deal. if we don't close the deal in 2022,.24 ain't gonna matter. we have to start focusing on making sure we cross the finish line. winning back the senate. i think we're going to get the house. the senate, new hampshire should be that 51st vote now. i think it's going to be. we really got to make sure we close the deal. the other issue is, how we campaign here is a little different. you got to look people in the eye. the running joke in new hampshire is, hey, you gonna

vote for president trump? i don't know. i have only met him twice. right? you have to be able to integrate with folks in their lives rooms and their businesses. if you do that, you can be successful. i'm kind of like the referee. >> the referee who sauls very popular in your state. looks like your race is going very well. have you talked with any donors about 2024? >> you mean in terms of what? who they're going to be supporting? donors come up all the time and say, what do you think of this candidate or that candidate? yeah. >> maybe you're running for something else, governor? are you concerned, you have all these people coming in. they've all said the same thing, if chris sinunu runs for president, that changes the whole dynamic, right? >> it is true. no. >> no. it's all flattering. people are talking. i get it. '22. that is my message to everyone

in this country. stop worrying about '24. knock on doors, pick up the phone. that has to be done. then we'll have plenty of time for 2024. the political landscape today will be totally different just one year from now. even that will be six months from the first primary in new hampshire. >> you mention january 6. you mention mar a lago. you have said you are not anti-trump but many said you were a thorn in the former president's side. former vice president mike pence touched on the backlash after the fbi searched mar a lago. here he is. watch. >> our party stands with the men and women who serve on the thin blue line at the federal and state and local level. these attacks on the fbi must stop. calls to defund the fbi are just as wrong as calls to defund the police. >> what do you make of the search of mar a lago, sir, and of this fierce backlash?

>> so, couple things. i think the biggest issue is what we've all been talking about. the fact that when you are going to go into a former prident's house that clearly biden and garland, they had no strategy, no anticipation about saying we're going to take unprecedented action, so we better have an unprecedented plan for disclosure. the fact that we are weeks in now. they are not showing any cards. the lack of transparency is infuriating. that's where they have absolutely blown it. that's where they've lost the trust of the american people because it just looks political. i get this whole thing, well, you don't want to disclose things if it's an active investigation. that should have been thought of before. if they didn't anticipate this type of response from the american people, well, they're morons. they really are. they're absolute fools. you cannot walk into a former president's home, raid his home like that and then say, we'll get back to you later. not acceptable to the american people. so i think mike pence, by the way, great guy, has done a -- did a phenomenal job as vice president. he's right.

we shouldn't be talking about defunding fbi and police. we're republicans. we support law enforcement every single time. but it was a disaster and they have to own that. >> thank you for your time this weekend. we appreciate it. up next, as the president signs his massive climate health and tax bill into law, critics debate whether it will help lower inflation or make it worse. we'll discuss with energy secretary jennifer granholm next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> the white house says help is on the way for working families because of the newly signed inflation reduction act, including lower costs for healthcare and energy. but will some of those tac credits get to the people who could use them the most? with us now u.s. energy secretary jennifer granholm. you have said in recent weeks you hope gas prices will continue to fall, but now nbc is reporting this morning, and i'm quoting here. behind the scenes officials

worry prices could rise again as they keep looking for ways to get more oil on the market. given the issues with refinery capacity and the war in ukraine, can you give us, secretary, any more certainly that prices will keep falling? >> yeah. as you know, gasoline comes from oil. oil is traded on a global market. so we are at the whim, if you will, of what happens globely. however, this president has moved in dramatic ways to increase supply. by releasing 1 million barrels a day from our reserve, as well as calling on domestic producers, as well as international producers. we will be at record amounts of production next year. all of that is to say our energy information administration has projected by the fourth quarter, gas prices will be around $3.87 on average. today they're about 3.-- excuse me, $3.78. today they're at $3.90.

they have fallen every day of this summer. we're hopeful that will continue. but if china opens up significantly after covid, there will be a more pressure on demand. more pressure on demand means upward pressure on prices. so we're watching what happens globally. but we are doing everything possible to try to stablize supply and demand to try to keep those prices coming down. >> at the bottom of the screen it says prices falling below $4. lot of places, like in california, gas is right near $6 a gallon. different places, different situations. i want to keep going on. this article goes on quoting here to say, there is no indication that biden's other efforts like publicly shaming oil and gas companies over their record profits, calling an emergency meeting with ceo's and threatening to pull unused drilling permits have had any effect on price or production according to industry experts. so national gas prices, as we said, below $4 nationally on average for the first time since

march. but the treasury department said last month the releases from the strategic oil reserves only lower gas by anywhere from $0.17 to $0.42 a gallon. what do you make of that? >> well, first of all, the prices have dropped, as you said, more than $1. they are now at $3.90. they were over $5. clearly there has been an impact on increased production. president has done two thing. release of 1 million barrels a day is the biggest tool at our disposal. when russia invaded ukraine, that pulled millions of barrels off of tlobal market. since oil is traded globally, we have to make up for that lost amount of fuel. that's why the president has called for this increase in releasing and increase in production. as i say, we'll be at record production, 12.7 million barrels per day, by next year. >> yeah. i want to move on to the inflation reduction act signed.

it includes tax credits for people who buy electric vehicles. but as you know, one of the critiques here with these credits is that the prices are high, right? and the supply is mited. what is the practicality? it seems like there's a disconnect. what's the practicality for everyday americans in this kind ofenefit? >> yeah. great question. there's two implications here. one is, for example, if you want to buy a used electric vehicle, you can get $4,000 off at the dealership today. if you want to buy a new electric vehicle, there is a $7,500 credit for those that are assembled in america. so today there are 21 models that are assembled in america. but additionalal restrictions will kick in starting in january, requiring domestic contents. meaning the materials, the supplies for those vehicles, will also have to be built in america. why is this important?

because the president has said that we need to manufacture stuff in america. that we can't rely upon countries who don't share our values for the batteries, for example, for electric vehicles, which contain critical minerals, critical materials. he wants to reshore manufacturing. it's not just in electric vehicles. the notion of creating and enhancing our manufacturing base, our manufacturing back bone is huge. it will be in solar panels. it will be in wind turbines. it will be in transmission. it will be in electric vehicles and the batteries for those electric vehicles. a whole supply chain and ecosystem, energy ecosystem, built up in the united states because of the incentives in this inflation reduction act. >> you talk about incentives. maybe it's the messaging. people don't quite get it. fox asked people whether they plan to take advantage of the

tax credit and here's what they told us. we'll get your response on the other side. watch. >> i personally wouldn't buy an electric car with that much money. >> we're not going to even think about it because we don't have the income available to buy a new car, even with the incentive. >> what really is $7,500 against the cost of an electronic car? >> really, you could make the same argument, we were talking about tax breaks for adding solar panels, energy efficient windows, appliances, heat pumps. families simply can't afford this stuff in the first place. >> number one, for your home, yes, there are significant incentives in this bill, which is great to reduce people's energy costs on a monthly basis. so if you are low income, you can get your home entirely weatherized through the expansion from the bipartisan infrastructure law. significant exnsion.

you don't have to pay for anything. if you want heat pumps, insulation, new windows, that is covered. if you are moderate income, today, you can get 30% off the price of solar panels. those sor panels can be financed, so you don't have to have the big outlay up front. when they're financed, they're financed in a way that reduces your energy bill even though you have solar panels. it's a significa incentive. same thing if you don't qualify for the weatherization program, you will be able to, starting next year, get rebates on the appliances and equipment that will help you redu your monthly energy bill by up to 30%. this is all about reducing costs for people. >> and yet the electricity prices continue to go up, secretary, governor. you know this because you have dealt with these problems. how do you get electricity to various states? i was talking to governor sinunu

earlier. he was pointing out, to build a transmission line, especially an interstate transmission line, you're talking 7 to 15 years. the prices keep rising. that is a major problem when you're talking about telling people to buy electric cars and then wondering how you're going to get them electricity to power those cars. >> okay. first of all, number one. you are totally right about permitting. it is ridiculous. part of the inflation reduction act is driving toward reducing permitting times. that's ano second bill that we'll follow in september. and the inflation reduction act also provides incentives to lower the time and the cost and the wait time for permitting. so that was just given to us. we want to accelerate this push to clean electricity. the reason we want it to be clean, in addition to the climate, is because solar wind are cheaper in most places across the world, but definitely in the u.s. >> but they're unreliable. they're unreliable.

>> they are not unreliable. >> they are unreliable on the grid because it takes a lot of energy, electricity, to get them into the grid or fossil fuels to get them on to the grid. at night time, we don't have the battery power to store it. you have to use it or you lose it, so it's unreliable in states like texas, they found out. that's a problem. we need to come up with battery power to store that stuff. >> okay. texas is the largest producer of both wind and solar, or one and two. they are extremely important to adding clean energy to our grid. with respect to the intermit tency. the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't blow. but the battery technology is also incentivized in this inflation reduction act. the technology is there. we just need to make sure it's implemented. when you combine solar or wind

with battery, that becomes base load power that is reliable which is very exciting. other forms of clean energy are also incentivized like nuclear power, like hydroelectric power, geo thermal power. all of those are incentivized in the act which will make us as a nation energy independent. which will allow us to get to our goals of 100% clean electricity by 2035 and net zero carbon pollution by 2050. >> it also seems like nuclear power has also been villainized and innoccentivncentivized. >> i know this is not your reaction. but i wanted to get your take. the reaction of the cdc over how they handled the pandemic. governors followed with the cdc guidance, often following the mask mandates, the school closures. it impacted every american. many are still confused.

if you can put your governor's hat back overy quickly for us. is this explanation enough for the cdc? >> they're taking action to correct. i applaud any agency, any governor, any news organization that decides that they have got to improve. good for them. they've acknowledged it and they're moving forward. >> secretary granholm, thank you for your time. >> you bet. >> up next, in just days we could see unsealed documents with details on why the fbi searched former president trump's mar a lago home. we'll bring in our sunday group on the search and the fallout and what's next. so we need something super disctintive. dad's work, meet daughter's playtime. wait 'till you hear this— thankfully, meta portal helps reduce background noise.

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guidance around the pandemic. time for our panel. jason chavitz, jessica tarlov and juan williams. welcome to you all. jason, to you first. the cdc this week admitted that some of their covid guidance was, quoting here, confusing and overwhelming. they're reorganizing and promising more plain language. i mean, my question to you is how should americans feel about this? you could not disagree with the cdc, jason, or you were banned from social media, you were called a public health threat. you had to comply. >> yeah. you had to comply and if you didn't, you were demonized and literally shut down on social media. look, until the agency actually has a sweeping change at the top, that they change management and put out some new faces, i think this administration will continue to struggle. it's sad, trace, because we need

to centers for disease control when there truly is something dramatic going on to have the confidence of the american people. they lost that trust. they had it. they lost it. they deserve to be fired. they shouldn't be in this place. >> i wonder what your take is son this, juan. this reversal doesn't validate some people who really resisted a lot of these heavy covid mandates. >> trace, i think the review is wrong. the cdc needs to do a better job of messaging. but anybody who takes delight in their problems is playing just brassy politics here. the cdc was doing their best to find answers to a novel virus. no one had answer early. the scientists were doing science. they were trying to figure things out. as they tried to figure things out, they made some mistakes. but do you know what? their job was made far more difficult because of president trump, who said this thing was

gonna be gone in two weeks. he said it was like the common cold. he he attacked the cdc. he attacked the nih and dr. fauci. he politicized mask wearing and social distancing. so it became a political game. i think that political game made it more difficult for anybody who was trying to deal with a historic crisis, a pandemic, in our nation at that moment. i think the cdc can do a better job. but let's not take pleasure in their problem. their problem is our problem because we're going to have future medical issues to deal with and we want them to perform in a better way. >> i don't think anybody is taking pleasure in it. nobody's taking pleasure in the mistakes the cdc made. what they are saying is there there were other opinions out there. those opinions were shut down. the cdc we know now was wrong on many occasions they were wrong. but if you had a differing opinion and a different point of

view, even well known doctors, they were shutdown and they were villainized. >> no, they were trying -- i think a lot of people now are trying to say, trump was right. trump was wrong. if you're saying he was righ of things. he was wrong on thingst of things. >> gone in two weeks, trace? everything. that's my point. i want to move on, jessica. mean time, the white house just wants to sell their legislative wince and contrast themselves with republicans. white house chief of staff ron khraeupb told politico the choice couldn't be any clearer and says democrats stood up to big pharma, to big oil, to big corporations, to the gun lobby. is that a strong enough case, given the fact that we are in this crippling inflation? we've got high gas prices. nbc is reporting they could go even higher in the weeks and months to come. what do you think, jessica? >> it seems like it is a strong

enough case for the american people. for the first type since november, the real clear politics averages have democrats inched ahead of republicans in terms of who's favored to control the house after november. we're all favored to keep the senate. mitch mcconnell admitted this a couple days ago. stopped by a reporter and said it wasn't looking good for republicans. lot of that has to do with very poor selection of candidates in states like arizona and georgia, what's going on in ohio, potentially wisconsin with mandela barnes making big strides against ron johnson, leading in the last two polls there. so, yes, the american people are hearing the president and administration loud and clear about these legislative accomplishments. they mean a lot to them. yes, inflation is still bad. it's over 8%. but it is coming down. gas prices, as secretary granholm pointed out, are under $4 on average. hope they get back to $3. the american people seem clear that the republicans have not proven to them that they deserve

to take control in november. 80 days to go, 79 days to go. >> jessica talks about the good things the administration is doing or has done. did all of biden's good news get lost, as we see yet another headline about former president trump. right now we're waiting to see what the redacted affidavit says about why the fbi searched mar a lago. what's the impact in your estimation? >> to your point, trace, i think the search warrant definitely overshadowed biden's big week. if you need any proof biden didn't know about it, that's it. the larger point is, in the short term, the attention on president trump, the affidavit, the search warrant, the judge's decision. i think the ort term may benefit because all the narrative and media attention is on tru. in the long term, i think people seeing the chaos, ever change trump explanations for why he

kept documents that were classified or even just presidential government documents in his home in mar a lago. people think that's chaotic. this is why people got tired of it when he was president. it then extends when you think about the attacks on law enforcement. this talk coming from the right of defund the fbi? that's not helpful. that doesn't help the republicans with moderate voters in any way. so i think in the long term, this could be more damaging. but in the short term, you're right. it definitely distracts from what was major accomplishments in lowering prescription drug prices, doing more in terms of trying to help the american people move forward. >> i just want to get 30 seconds, if i can, from each of you, from jason and jessica. jason, you first. the impact of this. seems to me there have been a lot of leaks. the affidavit could be redacted, blacked out, much of it, maybe 90% of it.

the chance. maybe they're leaking. maybe they're not.the former pr doesn't have is a lot to battle with in the mean time. jason, your thoughts? >> the president is championing openness and transparency. i think it's suspicious that this raid happened 18 months after the president left. it looks wholly political. i think the department of justice has to come out and p provide some explanation. >> final thoughts on this, jessica? >> there's a new nbc poll that came out that showed 57% of americans want the investigation to continue versus only 40% that think it should stop. jason said the president should be open and transparent but that only goes to what he's posting on social media. his lawyer has done nothing in court even though it's been available to them. there have been defenders of president trump who are questioning the legal strategy here and whether his team is up to the challenge. the latest is they want a

special master but filed nothing. haven't asked for a recusal of judge reinhart. he's spinning his wheels on truth social. >> up next the senate republicans seemingly grim prediction on his party's chances in the mid terms. we will discuss it.

>> there's probably a greater likelihood the house flips than the senate. senate races are just different. they're state wide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. i think when all is said and done, we are going to have an extremely close senate, either our side up slightly or their side up slightly. >> senate minority leader mitch mcconnell with a bit of candor on whether or not he thinks republicans will retake the senate in the midterms. we are back now with the panel. jason, the recent fox poll shows mark kelly up over challenger blake masters in arizona. the poll has democrat mandela barnes up over ron johnson wisconsin. i know it's early. we talk about this a lot. still some time. are you concerned, jas, about the state of the senate races for the gop? >> no. look, both sides of the aisle are concerned. the balance of power is gonna

come down to a few races and potentially just a few thousand votes here or there. i think when voters focus on the issues, on what's the reality of the inflation reduction act and there isn't inflation reduction in there. it's the green new deal disguised as something else. people will be irate. they'll vote for what's going on with inflation, energy, immigration, crime in their cities. the democrats, i don't think, have an answer to all of that. they can spend $1.5 billion to put trees in urban areas in the latest bill but that a't gonna solve the american people's problems. >> juan, we also saw one poll this week showing democratic congress woman val tkeplings up over marco rubio in florida. what do you make of that? is it true? is it an outliar? your thoughts? >> >> i got to think it's an outliar at this point. it's part of the splashing lights i think for republicans

and for national politics. we thought this was going to be a red wave year, people voting against the party in power the democrats because there's a lot of discontent in the country. e red wave at this point looks like a red drip or a red ripple. and the reason reflected in florida and thraces you were just talking about with jason is that more and more people are thinking, do you know what? we see the benefits now coming, the results coming, the legislative progress coming from the biden administration. we have a sense that things are somewhat chaotic. you think about the abortion decision coming from a republican majority of justices on the court. you look at the decrease in gas prices, inflation and the like. you have senator mcconnell and rick scott of florida playing the blame game and shifting money, putting money into ohio, a state people thought was pretty confident to hold for the

republicans. so i think this is -- we are in the midst of some shifting political landscape at the moment. >> we are also in the midst of a pretty deep inflationary downturn. gas prices are dipping a little bit. there's other stuff going on. crime is just unfathomable. jessica, congress woman liz cheney lost her primary, as we know, after taking on former president trump. she lost by a pretty good margin. so here's what she said the morning after. watch. >> i believe that donald trump continues to pose a very grave threat and risk to our republic. i think that defeating him is gonna require a broad and united front of republicans, democrats and independents. that's what i intend to be part of. >> so what coalition can she reasonably build, jessica? and can she really take on president trump? >> i don't think that she can take on president trump. we saw this in the wyoming

primary. harriet hazelman who defeated her by land slide numbers was trump backed. people turned out on that basis. i should add liz cheney isn't your average never trumper. she's the vice chair of the january 6th committee. so these are extenuating circumstances. in terms of her chance to win the presidency, i don't think that will beappening. if she did run or someone like andrew yang with his new party, more of a coalition idea, are just gonna shave off votes from democrats, which i'm not in favor of. but donald trump is obviously incredibly important still to the party. i do belie what's going on with january 6th and the search of mar a lago is going to hurt him though. i'm glad that he's not announcing before the midterms. i think that would throw a whole other spanner in the works there. but he's important. until he retires from politics, that will continue to be the

case. >> i have got about 25 seconds if you want to wrap this up, jason. >> look, donald trump is still the biggest dog in the hunt right now. what he does. i gotta tell you, republicans focus on issues, win on issues. that's what's gonna win the day. >> panel, thank you. we'll see you next sunday. up next we'll have is a final word.

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>> well, that's it for today. i'm trace gallagher. before you go, you may have heard your colleague, a tremendous journalist, really one of the best. shannon breen will take over this chair permanently. she will follow in the footsteps of tony snow and chris wallace. shannon will also continue in her role as fox news legal correspondent. she will have a very busy career coming up. but every sunday you will see her here beginning september 11th. until then, you can find shannon week nights on fox news channel anchoring fox news at night. have a great week, everyone, and we will see you next fox news sunday.

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