and mccarthy's early books are quite indebted to faulkner and faulkner's style. so when mccarthy's first manuscript came across the transom at random house and mccarthy sent it to random house, he sent a what i found in the archives described as a poorly typed manuscript of his first novel. he just sent it into random house. he addressed as envelope to random house and eventually the manuscript reached erskine's desk. erskine had read the manuscript and he saw something that he recognized from faulkner, something in the style that that spoke to him in a similar way. and he thought, here's a writer that has something special. and so he worked with mccarthy through that first book, through the next several books. and in each of them, he thought these books were great, and he thought they deserved a major audience. and a big reception. and he worked erskine worked to help mccarthy continue to write by using erskine's own networks with writers like robert penn, warren, ralph ellison, saul bellow, and many others to get mccarthy fellowships and foundation prizes, incl

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the indictment follows a year-long investigation, 75 witnesses and 98 pages. the fulton county district attorney. >> the indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgia's legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn georgia's presidential election. >> harris: so in those 98 pages the indictment targets 19 defendants with a total of 41 charges. the former president faces 13 of those 41 charges himself. prosecutors say they have various emails, texts, phone calls as evidence against all 19 plaintiffs. trump's co-defendants, the 18 others include some of his attorneys at the time and his former white house chief of staff. the district attorney says she hopes to go to trial in six months and try all 19 at the same time. fox news contributor and legal expert jonathan turley says the two tiers of justice as plain as day. >> the contrast is extraordinary. trump is being indicted for everything short of ripping a mattress

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." again today so far eight candidates have met all three criteria to be on that debate stage. they have the polling. they've raised the funding. they have the number of donors for that and they have signed the loyalty pledge to support whomever the republican nominee is no matter what. not everybody, but eight of them. >> once this debate happens this week it is off to the races. >> i will be the only one on the stage that ever done it before. if i'm nervous they should be petrified. >> it will be a vigorous exchange. >> we're excited to be on the debate stage. >> i feel like i've been preparing for this first republican presidential debate my whole life. >> we'll continue to do what we have been doing. >> people know i'm the biggest threat. >> we have to offer an alternative vision of our own and that's what i'll do on the debate stage. >> harris: former president donald trump said he will not be there. "politico" is reporting the former president, quote, might regret passing on the fi

i am harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus," special counsel jack smith handing trump's third indictment and the timing is per usual just went devastating information pumped about hunter biden and his dad, the president. against trump, four new charges, obstruction and three conspiracy counts against the former president. there are also alleged attempt to interfere with the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. his attorney says, again, the timing is not a coincidence. >> we have the criminalization and the weaponization of public policy and political speech by one political party over another. and it is not surprising when it comes. it comes on the heels of unbelievable allegations against mr. biden and his son. >> harris: republican lawmakers in agreement. >> there is a double standard here without a doubt. it is not coincidental. speak with the department of justice should say, "hey folks, let's tap the brakes here. it is not only a foreign president but a sitting candidate who is the leading voice and the leading political candidate against her boss." >> i see t

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the house oversight committee following the money in the biden pay to play investigation. a new statement, the committee has now identified over $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the biden family and their business associates. republicans saying the timing is key. some of those foreigners seem to be rewarded with access to joe biden. one example, a russian oligarch paid out millions weeks before then vice president biden had dinner with that same oligarch at a washington, d.c. restaurant. house speaker kevin mccarthy saying americans deserve answers now and they should come directly from the president. >> i would think the president would want to clear that name rapidly. give us his bank statements. enough proof out there the biden family needs to show there wasn't a pay to play. america deserves more and americans want to know. the one thing i will tell you is as this congress, the people's congress, we'll follow the facts and provide it to the american public just like

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." it was fiery on that milwaukee, wisconsin stage. the republican candidates got into it on almost everything from foreign policy to abortion. when i say got into it, it was dramatic at times. they also were going after each other every chance they got. i mean every screen grab that -- they almost all looked like that. hands in the air like they didn't care. political newbie vivek ramaswamy took the brunt of the attacks. but he showed he could dish it out, too. >> let us be honest as republicans. i'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and paid for. >> i have news for you. i've been in the hallway and west wing. we don't need to bring in a rookie and people without experience. >> we don't need a president who is too old and we don't need a president who is too young. >> i have had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like -- the last person in one of these debates and who said what is a skinny guy with an odd last name was barack obama. we're dealing with the same amateu

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." republicans are saying that david weiss is not the man for the job. they point back to the five years weiss has already spent looking into hunter biden's alleged tax and gun crimes. >> we sent a letter. i was one of those that sent a letter saying we should have a special counsel. on the other hand, i have some question about weiss doing it. >> this appointment is camouflage and it is cover-up. i think it's disgraceful. david weiss was the u.s. attorney handpicked to lead this investigation who spent the last five years covering it up. >> this is a joke. not only did weiss drag his feet for five years and try to negotiate a sweetheart plea deal with the president's son, he also let the statute of limitations run out. >> harris: critics are accusing the white house of avoiding questions on all of it. karine jean-pierre, the white house press secretary, last held an official press briefing july 27th. there is one on the schedule for today 3:00 p.m. eastern. we'll cover it. in "focus" th

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the official positions they will stand on stage is based on polling numbers. center stage ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy. to the left and right, mike pence. voters in the host city of milwaukee are ready, too. they told fox news what they want to see tonight. >> i have not made my mind up yet. i would like to hear from all the candidates. >> like ramaswamy, too. he is bringing a different energy and different vibe. >> dana: chris christie. maybe scott. >> curious to see desantis. >> pence will be very cool under pressure. he is so well versed having been vice president. >> a very divided country and i would like to see if we have someone on the stage to give us a path toward healing. >> harris: fox news correspondent alexis mcadams is on site at fiserv forum. alexis. >> that's right. all eyes will be on that debate stage here in milwaukee, wisconsin. we're confirming a few moments ago that doug burgum, who will be one of the eight up there who qualified, we don't know if he will mak

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." those fires have left a wasteland of obliterated neighborhoods and landmarks and think about the economy there with the businesses knocked down. they don't know when they can get in there and when tourism will be an option again. the historic city of lahaina, once hawaii's royal capital, is charred ruins now. survivors stunned at just how fast hurricane dora's winds helped the flames to spread. >> people are found in houses in a huddle. there was nowhere to go. >> beyond any other tropical storms, 100 times, covid, everything for our small town. >> people lost everything, homes, jobs, their cars, some their pets. there are still people missing. i have never seen something ravaged so fast. >> harris: take a look at the video. look at the sheer scale of damage. rescue crews now combing through the rubble of the destroyed areas and people and tourists who have come to visit that beautiful land are now trying to be evacuated. there is one airport that will cain from "fox & friends", who j

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the president and first lady stayed for about five hours. they met victims and emergency workers. what they were exposed to was surreal. 114 people confirmed dead. at least 800 missing and what will likely be the deadliest wildfire in u.s. history. some signs greeting the president were honest and tough quote, you are late. another no comment. a reference to his initial answer to a question on the deaths of the people on that island. some very angry, many of them at the pace, the slow pace of federal help. >> a little too late. it's been two weeks since we've seen him. he missed his window of opportunity. >> i want to support him because i want him to support our community. we need help right now. >> he was here just for -- i don't see why he should be here. >> what happens after this? what happens next? we're all watching. >> harris: well, he said to watch him and look what we see. the president now is promising to rebuild maui but then vintage biden. >> president biden: i don't want

i'm harris faulkner. you are at "the faulkner focus." devon archer describes in great detail what he calls the biden brand and how it was used. details on those 20 plus phone calls, speaker phone calls now. president biden was on speakerphone four. and in the interview, republican congressman andy biggs asked archer, when you say biden family, you are talking about joe biden? archer responds, "yeah, that is fair to say. i don't think about it joe directly but that is fair." that routes the most value to the brand. hunter biden used his data as "defensive leverage for foreign business partners" pure democratic santa missed the sayg he was talking about the weathes key, archer says they were to talk about the weather. and that was signaling them to be powerful. goldman then asked, "this was about to protecting the allusion to access to his father, is that right?" archer says, "that is correct." >> i understand the democrats have to play defense and pretend they don't understand it. but to any normal person, this story is not complicated. y

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." president and first lady stayed for about five hours. they met victims and emergency workers. what they were exposed

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." last month police in roanoke, virginia arrested two people when a discussion about transgender rights got out of hand. the d.o.j. got word of it and wants to offer what they are calling conflict resolution counseling. governor youngkin says that's just the d.o.j. overstepping its authority. this is not the first time the justice department has gotten involved in a virginia school issue. you may recall this is the video of loud on county school board meeting that targeted parents trying to speak out and advocate for their children. f.b.i. director christopher wray is still getting pressed on what happened there two years later. >> this committee's investigation concluded the justice department's own documents there was no justification for the attorney general's directive. any reason to dispute that conclusion? >> no. >> so we had an investigation of parents. we had a sweeping mobilization, a federal power against the most protected core first amendment activity, the right of citizens

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i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." wisconsin stage. the republican candidates got into it on almost everything from foreign policy to abortion. when i say got into it, it was dramatic at times.

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i am deeply listed in faulkner -- was deeply interested in faulkner for about 11 years. it was not completely irrelevant to my later career writing about science, writing long, complicated books about things like island geography and extinction. or in the tangled tree, i wrote about molecular genetics, the redrawing of the tree of life. these are long, complicated books filled with scientific facts. in the stories, and they are carefully structured, although they are not obviously structured, they are structured in a way that i hope draws the reader forward, picking up one thread of a mystery story and shifting to another place and time, cleaning up another threat of a scientific story -- picking up another thunder bay center stripe. and tingles all of them with threads of narrative, history, and science. i have said this before. i do not think i would've been able to structure those books if i had not spent years looking closely at the novels of the involved or -- novels of william faulkner. absalom, absalom turned out to be great training. host: where are you doing you

i'm harris faulkner. you're in "the faulkner focus." shining a huge spotlight on this issue, former baltimore police commissioner daryl deseussa. >> i went through that storm in my life. this is the way the criminal justice system is supposed to be, again, i have to say that, you know, i wanted to own up and take accountability for what i did. this is the way the justice system is supposed to be designed, then it should be -- everyone should be held accountable across the board. they should be held at the same standard as me or someone else that, unfortunately, had to go through this. >> harris: he was sentenced to 10 months in prison on tax fraud charges. very similar to hunter biden's, and he faced the exact same prosecutor who cut hunter biden that sweetheart plea deal. leo terrell on "focus" yesterday. >> the weaponization of the department of justice and the f.b.i. basically is taking place right now under the biden administration. we have the transcript release of archer. and guess what happened? president trump is going to be ind

and i did my graduate work on the structure of william faulkner's novels and. so i, i learned to be able to write long, complicated science books partly studying william faulkner. anyway, no outline, just started to write. and who's the first voice that would help me tell this story? the murmurs in december of 2019? well it's that fellow henry easley, the chinese scientist who is now in philadelphia studying, coronaviruses in the lab of susan weiss, a great coronavirus researcher. so i talked to henry lee about what he had learned through wechat from his friends back in shanghai in, the closing days of december 20, 20. and i talked to susan weiss and she heard from henry lee that. this is a coronavirus. so she immediately we're going to work on it, order some masks, order some more gowns, order some more personal protective equipment. we're starting as of january 2nd to work on this virus. and then there was marjorie pollack, who was the deputy editor of an internal national infectious disease alert service known as promed, who picked up rumors about this on ne

i learned to be able to write long, complicated science books, partly by studying william faulkner. anyways, no, outlined just started to write. and who is the first voice that would help me tell the story? the murmurs in december of 2019. , well it is the fellow, henry easily, the chinese scientist who is now in philadelphia studying coronaviruses in a lab of susan, whites the great coronavirus researcher. i talked to henry lee about what he had learned through wechat, from his friends back in shanghai. and the closing days of december, 2020. i talk to susan, wise she heard from henry lee that this is a coronavirus. so she immediately said, we are going to work on. it order smart, masks order some markdowns, order personal protective equipment. we are starting as of january 2nd to work on this virus. and then there was marjorie pollack, who was the deputy editor of an international infectious disease alert service known as promed, who picked up rumors about this on new years eve of 2019. through a network of 80,000 people around the, world including me, subscribers to this. and a s

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." big claims that the so-called big guy long suspected to have been v.p. joe biden was selling the biden brand. archer told members of the house oversight committee yesterday that the then vice president biden was on the speakerphone during more than 20 business calls. and he attended business dinners. he says if not for the biden brand, it would have been the end of burisma. archer also told lawmakers when the ukrainian energy company burisma got into trouble, hunter or burisma executives just called d.c. to get the prosecutor looking into the firm fired. republicans are saying the proof is right in front of you. >> the brand was totally joe biden. the guy with the power and connections in d.c. we saw joe biden has lied to the american people. he knew exactly who his son was getting those millions of dollars from. >> the more stones we overturn the more scandals we uncover. >> do you think the president of the united states is compromised? >> based on archer's testimony? >> i think so.

i'm harris faulkner. you're in "the faulkner focus." shining a huge spotlight on this issue, forme

this is "the faulkner focus," julie banderas and for harris today. we are learning more hunter biden's longtime business partner eric visited the obama white house far more than previously thought. the new review bumps the number up from 27 to 36 visits. all of this could mean republican lawmakers want to hear, of course from him asap. devon archer interview quite the trove of information of joe biden's ties to hunters business dealings and now fox obtained a 2011 a letter showing how close then vp biden was to archer and one line reading this, "i hope i get to see you again soon with hunter." hunter don't make the biden family has some explaining to do. >> this is about paying for the biden family. do you believe we are looking at a bribery scandal with joe biden wwho is now president? >> i don't know any other family that puts together the government 20 show incumbents the vice president of america. my family has no show incumbents. there is enough proof the biden family needs to come forward and show there wasn't a pay to play. america deserves mo

to launch its own presidential data, especially if we see a rematch of 2020, i'm here for harris faulkner, this group no labels founded in 2010 is working to become registered in as many groups as possible ahead of next year's election, already that organization's secured organization in ten states including arizona, in that state is a swing state, and it was pivotal in 2020, maryland's former republican governor's moves is no labels national cochair, here he is talking about all of this earlier this week. >> i think we are at a point that we have never been in this country, with two-thirds of the people are not interested in voting for the republican or democratic nominees. if they are the nominees is very likely that no labels will get access to the ballot you will offer an alternative. and if most of the voters do not want number one and number two, we have an obligation to give the number three. >> mark meredith has more from washington is creating a lot of agitation. mike in some circles there. >> this'll be fun to watch no matter what. for years they've tried to gain ground with vot

"the faulkner focus" is next. julie banderas in for harris. >> julie: historic hurricane idalia slamming florida's gulf coast as a monster category 3 storm just hours ago. the most powerful storm to ever hit the state's big bend region. unprecedented event currently at a category 2 status with more of the state in its sites. this is "the faulkner focus." i'm julie banderas in for harris. listen up. the biggest risk right now the life threatening storm surge. 12 to 16 feet for that big bend area, on top of that destructive winds, torrential rain, and tornado warnings. scenes like this one close to where the storm made landfall. rushing water risking away the boat house here. we could hear from florida governor ron desantis again today. his message this morning. >> wherever you are, hunker down and don't take anything for granted here. this is a very, very powerful storm. there will be impacts far beyond the eyewall. those will extend to places like tallahassee as well as places like northeast florida. we have alrea

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harris faulkner joins me now.aulkner focus" and kicking off democracy 2024 families and focus. she interviewed vivek's wife and now she's going to sit down with the first lady of florida, casey desantis coming up. great to have you with us. >> thank you. >> martha: it's so important for people to see the families. it rounds out the candidate. they go oh, i get it. i see them together. i understand. so tell us a little bit about this. >> to be honest with you, we've seen a lot of the families of the left but we haven't seen the conservative and republican families put in that same type of light. while i'm going to talk to everybody that i can from every area politically, it was important to start with conservatives. we've seen a lot of negative coverage of particularly the women. look how they have treated casey desantis. i remember how they treated seiarah palin. these are the people that the candidate goes home to each night. they get dragged on the trial. the conversations that they've had about leading this nat

harris, you reported this on "the faulkner focus." five to 10 inches of rainfall. this is in a day. >> harris: the reason that the flooding will happen if the ground is saturated, it's a slick surface. that's what they are seeing in parts of arizona. it's been a punishing monsoon season. more lightning then rain in some areas and we've had this extended heat wave. it's been a blessing to get some water but when it all comes, a year's worth, as you pointed out, in one day. it can be a lot in those areas that need it so much, the water just runs away and goes to the lowest points help loom tucson tucson for instance, that's ravines. at least they can capture it, so that's a blessing. >> bill: they had a lot of snow this past winter. a lot of snowmelt. this is on top of that. >> kayleigh: earthquake. you're getting hit with your first tropical storm in 84 years. >> cheryl: it's good for water. as harris knows, there is an issue with water. in arizona. >> harris: they can capture it. >> cheryl: california really dodged a bullet. five major refineries in the los angeles

. >> and also guess hosting the "the faulkner focus." and i will also see you at "outnumbered." >> great to have you with us thank you. >> busy day. jill bohnet and in the sun hunted took bribes, shook and was investigating ukrainian energy company as a time when hunter biden sat on the board of the company, this period also overlaps over time, he was then here in washington with the latest on all of this is david. david? >> his name his resurfacing at a crucial time, running for reelection and his son hunter is facing an unknown legal future. as you said they said specifically for about a year from 2015 to 2016 in ukraine, a prosecutor general similar to the attorney general position that we know here in the united states. in ukraine, the job is focus intensely on anticorruption efforts, and he famously claimed that he was fired because he was investigating burisma as we know that is where hunter biden sat on the board of the energy company. he says that then the vice president was directly responsible for his firing, and try to leverag

and there's a color full chapter in this book that starts with a looking at william faulkner, a very famous writer in american history, his funeral and how hot it was in oxford, mississippi in faulkner, heated air conditioning. but air conditioning is the, one of the ways that, that we have been able to manage those temperatures in and, and heat, so to speak. but i'm really interested in the geo political dimensions of that, or even the internal dimensions that have versus have nots in providing what, what jeff calls, you know, cheap, cold air. and, and where are we do you think? and nat geo political divide around the world. because a lot of people in africa was say, hey, we've been here already for a lot longer than you folks. yes, that's true. and i think that, you know, we, we wrote about cut r as a example of, you know, where the, one of the richest places in the world, one of the richest places. so air conditioning is exploding and cut are and, and it's interesting also because it's not just the question of high temperatures. it's also question of the lower temperatures and the

i learned to be ablee to write long complicated partly by setting william faulkner. no outline just started to write. who is the first voice would help tell the story the murmurs in december of 2019. it's that fellow the chinese scientistsst who is now in philadelphia studying coronavirus in the lab was susan weiss a great coronavirus researcher brent talk to henry lee about what he had learned through wechat his friends back in shanghai in the closing days of september 2020 it took to hesusan weiss she heard from hey lee this is a coronavirus sheed immediately said we are going to work on order more masks, order more gallons order or personal protective equipment. we are starting as a generally second to work on this virus. then there was marjorie who was the deputy editor of the international infectious disease alert service who picked up rumors about this on new year's eve of 2019 and spread the word. to a network of 80000 people around the world including many subscribers to this. and aed scientist in shanghai wo studiesnd viruses and who became very concerned ab

faulkner was formed in a different time. it was a function of this, what i called russians, venture capital, foreign policy is outsourcing of tasks. the state wants done, but doesn't want to do it, sell to these nominally private sector entities. and the big question on my mind is, a lot of people's mind is, is this era of the venture capital foreign policy over will these wagner mercenaries simply be absorbed into the russian ministry of defense? that seems to be the conventional wisdom right now. but what's going to go on, but we're going to be keeping an eye on this going forward. that was from whittemore from the atlantic council speaking to me on the wrong. all right, let's look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. they be in 5 minutes, the niche that our language has been temporarily suspended after is riley count upon announced he had talked with her in bryan administer abdul hamid dba. the 3rd, the top diplomat for investigation. the libyan foreign ministry just describes the meeting as a c

"the faulkner focus" is next.> julie: historic hurricane idalia slamming florida's gulf coast as a monster category 3 storm just hours ago. the most powerful storm to ever hit the state's big bend region. unprecedented event currently at a category 2 status with more of the state in its sites. this is "the faulkner focus." i'm julie banderas in for harris. listen up. the biggest risk right now the life threatening storm surge. 12 to 16 fee

this is my partner, emily compagno we missed you and harris faulkner. also joining us "fox news sunday" anchor and correspondent shannon bream and jason chaffetz. we began with the first republican debate in milwaukee. for the first time eight of the g.o.p. top presidential hopefuls took to the debate stage to lay out their vision for america. it is really compelling. we heard that the candidates to tackle some of america's most pressing problems, and it did not take long for the sparks to fly. >> we need to send joe biden back to his basement and reverse american decline! [cheers and applause] >> but we also need to understand is that joe biden's b6 has led to the loss of $10,000 of spending power for the average family. >> when think this country can uses to understand small town values because that is our road back to get this country on track. [cheers and applause] >> if you take out a loan, you pay it back. you commit a violent crime, you go to jail! if god made you a man, you play sports against men. [laughter and cheering] >> if you have broken c