liz: biden malaise, bill mcgurn coined it. thank you so much, bill mcgurn.parents getting ready to fight again against schools, turning themselves into these weird laboratory and incubators and ideologies that had nothing to do with education. is this all making the u.s. less intelligent? we have a virginia dad of six going to give us his take and byron york will john kerry and is he subpoenaed in a potential biden impeachment inquiry. we're going to explain why. let's check in with dagen and guy benson who's in for sean duffy. we want to hear about their jam packed next hour, the hit show the bottom line. dagen: rick perry is here to try and explain why sloppy joe biden is sucking up to venezuela and iran for oil but not embracing our own energy producers here. michael shellenberger join us on the latest move to blame colonial moves for the fire. >> we have more of that on top. see you then. the biggest ideas inspire new ones. 30 years ago, state street created an etf that inspired the world to invest differently. it still does. what can you do with spy? ♪

bill mcgurn, "wall street journal," thank you. ♪ >> bill: now, dana, did you sing that in a karaoke eventve never done karaoke. i would be so bad. i know my limits. i'm good at a couple of things. singing is not one of them. i hear where you are going. >> bill: that queen classic was dropped from the greatest hits collection called fat bottom girls. beloved 1978 track about full figured women. it has disappeared from its greatest hits album. no comment yet from universal music. left to guess the song was considered fat phobic these days and perhaps a bit of cancel culture in effect. fat bottom girls, which i think queen considered their fourth best song ever. they had a lot of great songs. >> dana: this is ridiculous, right? >> bill: you know when you get all the best hits of a singer or artist and put it on one place. this one is not on there. i have a theory. i think it will be the new number one song in america. this is the pattern. it happens this way. >> dana: sorry, oliver anthony. we have to go back a few decades and get this back on. he would agree with that. how many other people

let's bring in columnist bill mcgurn with "the wall street journal".n interference on january 6th. ful bill mcgurn, what's your reaction in. >> i haven't read the charges closely, but they do seem glimpsier. i think -- him fromsier. i think the whole problem is i think as a rule if you're going to indict a president or ex-president, it should be so overwhelming and compelling that even people in his own party agree. instead, this is just piling on, it's going to inflame republicans, probably build trump's support. and next year it looks like we're going to have a battle between an impeached president and an indicted president. it's really debase our legal tools. elizabeth: bill, you know, so this comes, you know, two and a half years after the fact, and and it comes right as den archer, biden insider, testifying to house oversight about president biden being on 20 phone calls and dinners with hunter biden's business associates. and that's just devon archer saying that. we don't know what else has gone on, bill. >> right. it was very damning. i don't kn

bill mcgurn.'s hearing and it was outrageous and disrespectful they didn't call him and calling that botched evacuation a success? >> i watch it had and it was gut wrenched and a wartime tragedy is terrible and the amount of times he's going to walter reid and women who lost sons in iraq and commander in chief and top military brass just ignored them or weren't solicitous of their needs and that came through with all of them and it was on that point. liz: they're saying to the white house stop the insanity and make it better for soldiers and their families. if that disastrous botched withdrawal, they're saying too that, you know, this isn't and shouldn't be rocket science and that's where biden's poll numbers should recover. >> yeah, and remember what theye nar that and that seemed to froth some. at the time, i thought being atrocious and that happened largely because he wanted the troops out so that 9/11 could give a speech saying he was a guy that got the men out of afghanistan. they ignored a l

let's bring in our panel, damn heninger and bill mcgurn, first, the treasury department on wednesdayame out with a three page memo on the inflation reduction act, virtually nothing in it was about reducing inflation. all about spending more on more regulations, both of which, spending or more regulations are inflationary. what do you make of that? >> reporter: >> president biden has a habit of saying or whispering that he thinks it is true but nobody else knows that it is untrue, bidenomics with the inflation reduction act is working, roll it back to when they were passing this act. they did call it the inflation reduction act. don't ask me to defend the economics, inflation was rising, $2 trillion, a lot was transfer payments to people and the idea of giving people money to help them pay these higher bills, therefore, inflation is reduced, the inflation didn't come down, people didn't see prices coming down for them and support for his policies are one third of 1%. david: i want to read one sentence from this memo. our first year of implementation the treasury department has focused

bill mcgurn. good morning to you, bill. >> good morning. >> great to have you here. for coming on. do you think this is premature? i know there have been others that have talked about impeachment inquiries but this isn't official. these are articles of impeachment. >> i think it's a little premature. i think there's a basis for all those claims but at this point a little bit of the stretch. i think what the country really needs is to find out the truth and congress is doing a pretty good job in oversight. the ways and means committee father rotting out this situation. i would like to see if there going to be impeachment official inquiry first. help them get information. obviously wrong that even some there are a couple of things that need to be done. one, we need to have restore trust in our institutions impeachment is one of them. we have to get to the truth. that's the most important thing. we have been lied to for all these years. we need to get to the truth. >> ainsley: you are right. what do republicans, are their hands tied now that there is special counsel wit

bill mcgurn is with us. did archer implicate the president directly? >> i would not say directly. biden discussed the business deals. on the other hand, he implicated him, what hunter biden was saying was the brand, brand biden. joe biden brought value to that brand. it directly involved, saying i have access to the vice president any time and have these clients, the vice president willingly participates weather by speakerphone or dinner, whether he took a dime, it is a bettinger his son's scheme. if you are an official and your son did that once, you might talk and when you get home, say never do that again. you put me in a terrible position but devon archer said it was like 20 times. stuart: in a terrible position. i get the impression that the impact of hunter biden investigations is fading. very difficult for people to understand who said what to who and when and what are the implications. we get lost in detail. very difficult to report. >> yes and no. we have a congressional inquiry, more than the fbi, if you compare what they are saying today, the excuses, to what president

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bill mcgurn, so we are talking about michael and kitty burke, 1 of 1.4 million catholics in massachusetts, they were denied the application to be foster or adoptive parents, because their beliefs are insufficiently progressive. >> the home study showed they passed in flying colors, take children of different race, ethnicity, all sorts of things. they were even willing to take in siblings. but the study noted that they were not supportive of the -- the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ethos, and therefore they would not be supportive. so because they were not supportive they were denied a child. >> gillian: that's right. john spoke with his guest last hour a little bit, bill, about how the stats show, and they are contested, that about one in every 10 lgbtqia plus child is abused at the hands of their own parents. so, give or take the accuracy of that. it's hard to see an adoption agency risking the physical well-being of a child that they are putting into a couple's care. you know, the whole point of this, reduce risk to the children. >> because of their religion? does -- do the stats

. >> bill mcgurn writes the massachusetts dcf noted that kitty and mike are devoutly roman catholic ando work for local churches as musicians. once upon a time that would be an endorsement. today it's an indictment. they were found unfit to be trusted with a child. lines up with the f.b.i. was doing coordinating with portland and los angeles investigating catholics, right? >> this is a sad story. here you have a loving couple who wants to be foster parents. and evidently the reason they filed suit and i'm so glad they did. the only excuse that the state of massachusetts came up with is their religious beliefs. now, that is not a valid -- you're right. it should be an endorsement. these are loving people who want to love a child and help raise that child. what the state of massachusetts is saying no, we would much rather keep them under the ward of the state as opposed to being embedded with a loving family. a family that says if that child chooses to be an lgbtq person they will still love them. they will love them no matter what. and that is just sad. there is some foster child who is

bill mcgurn rights no catholics need adopt. burks were rejected. here is a quick clip from that. >> catholics and we stand firm in the church's beliefs on traditional marriage and sexuality. and that was pretty clear in their reasoning. >> one of the things of our catholic faith we love one another as god has loved us. i would love that child no matter just like my mother loved me whenever i did something wrong. >> bill: at the top of that she said we're traditional catholics. and that did not fly or hasn't yet, anyway. >> isn't the test for being a foster parent being able to love and take care of a child, right? that's what we were told when it comes to same-sex marriages, two moms, two dads, right? if they are able to take care of the child and they are going to love and look after that child in a responsible manner, that is the test. these people are -- have presented a very strong argument that they would be great parents. it is very discriminatory. would they do that to a muslim family or other traditional religious famil

bill mcgurn is coming up from the "wall street journal."inia but also in the state of new jersey as well. stand by for that coming up in moments. >> dana: the first republican presidential debate is two days away. americans are voicing strong concerns about the state of the u.s. economy and how president biden is handling it. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. good morning. >> bill: bill hemmer. how do you feel about this? >> dana: the debate? let's go. i'm ready. >> bill: let's rumble. president biden is scrambling to convince americans his policies are improving the economy. people seem worried about their own financial future saying the economy is not in great shape. majority 52% think biden has made the economy worse. only 25% say it is

but the very few are facing opposition that score 17 or 18% of the polls and that could change bill mcgurn want to switch gears to a number uncomfortable with the donald trump biden rematch, among them larry hogan the maryland governor who is increasingly looking to an alternative, i want you to react to this from larry hogan. >> trump biden of the nominees is likely no labels will get access to the ballots and offer an alternative and if most of the voters don't want a or b, we have an obligation to give them see for the good of the country. neil: will make that much traction, we talk about an alternative party candidate, never seem to evolve to much. >> did you watch the big opening in new hampshire about a month ago, such a dad, they announced that the running as an insurance policy and not exciting already. in theory would you be open to a candidate who is really good and not part of the usual political structure of either democrat or republican and everyone says yes but the guys like joe manchin, he is unpopular in his own state with his own party and a lot of the other guys are retre

bill mcgurn is also taking up this case in his column in the wall street journal where he questions if the push to cancel some views is leading to more intolerance. headline is no catholics need adopt. he joins us to talk about all of this coming up in the next hour. gillian. >> i believe my optimistic, positive message is rooted in iowa. >> i'm concerned about my retirement and how the economy will be in the future. >> i come from agricultural state that iowa identifies with. >> i want to be able to help people, give fairs and whatnot and i need to pay my bills and it's all harder and harder and harder. >> i think biden has done a good job but i think he's old. i also think trump is old, and grassley is old, i think age limits need to be addressed. >> gillian: candidates are trying to stand out among the crowd at the iowa state fair as fox news releases the latest power rankings. former president donald trump maintains a strong lead in both national and the state polls. voters favored alternative as florida governor ron desantis despite some major recent campaign setbacks. we have fox

mcgurn. turning to you, gentlemen. bill and john, you've heard that interview and what do you make of what's happening now? >> i think it's very bad. look, it's chaos a year before the primary and dumb trump is opposed for the same reason. he's a disruptive force. now we have this talk of new indictment. looks like every prosecutor in the u.s. is trying to indict president trump. in a way it comes so achievely. look at calendar and say, this is monday. there must be a new indictment. elizabeth: what do you think, john? >> remember when trump famously said the wall got ten feet higher? i think every indictment gets trump ten more points among republican voters for the nomination. this is not hurting him but it's helping him because he looks like he's under attack and that's frankly why people want to vote for trump because he'll fight back when under attack. elizabeth: he's become an american folk hero, bill. >> well, the danger in all this is without a doubt, the indictment solidified trump in the republican party and they