gillian turner at the white house. we start in bedminster, new jersey now with nate foye. >> former president trump will fly down to miami later today to meet with lawyers and discuss the legal strategy coming after a busy weekend on the campaign trail. he made two speeches in georgia and north carolina and again defended his handling of classified documents. look at video from those speeches at the gop conventions there. the former president called the 37 felony counts against him baseless and ridiculous and referred to the indictment as election interference. late last night on truth social he wrote, hard to believe that the leading candidate by far of the opposition party got indicted. this is strictly third world. maga, federal prosecutors say trump was personally involved in moving classified information from the white house to mar-a-lago. prosecutors say he misled investigations and on two occasions showed people without security clearance essencetive defense information. trump is the first former president every

gillian turner is in for harris. >> gillian: fox news alert more than 75 million americans are locked in a dangerous haze. toxic clouds from the massive canadian wildfire is triggering major air quality alerts. i'm gillian turner in for harris, she is hosting fox news tonight all week long. major leagues sports is postponing games and faa is grounding flights. in the thick of the danger that forecasters say will increase before it gets better. air quality reaching hazardous levels in new jersey, washington, d.c. new yorkers were faced with the worst air quality in the city's history, yesterday. >> the smog, the smell. >> i feel i am getting a headache. >> feel it in my eyes. my must is more compromised than i am. >> asthma. >> when i got back from school my head was hurting. i was having bad headaches and my nose started bleeding. >> gillian: look at the time lapse that shows how bad things really got in the big apple yesterday. over the course of just a few hours, you can see the world trade center disappearing into an orange haze. winds are pushing that toxic cloud that was over new

gillian turner is in for harris. >> gillian: fox news alert more than 75 million americans are locked from the massive canadian wildfire is triggering major air quality alerts. i'm gillian turner in for harris, she is hosting fox news tonight all week long. major leagues sports is postponing games and faa is grounding flights. in the

gillian turner, what's the latest? > gillian: secretary of state tony blinken wrapped a presser in which he appeared to confirm china has been operating a spy base inside cuba or trying to and it is part of this broader effort by the communist party to ramp up espionage against foreign countries. take a look at the statement, given to fox news by a biden administration official on saturday. they say the people's republic of china conducted an upgrade of its intelligence connection facilities in cuba in 2019. this is well-documented in the intelligence record. an issue this administration inherited. now, this statement like i said was given to us saturday. two days prior national security spokesperson john kirby was on tv, he shot down reporting that this base even existed all together. listen. >> i'm saying -- i'm saying we have seen the report. it's not accurate. we are focused on making sure that we can mitigate any threats from china in the region. >> gillian: asked about the claim the biden administration "inherited

. >> good evening from washington i'm gillian turner in for bret baier. history at the supreme court the justices struck down affirmative action in college and university admissions in 6-3 votes. chief justice john roberts says policies at harvard and the university of north carolina violate the constitution, justice society a may or as says it decades of progress and precedent. president biden weighing in he severely disagrees with the ruling. our coverage begins with fox news legal correspondent and anchor of fox news sunday shannon bream, at the supreme court tonight. hi shannon. >> hello gillian. in the wake of the decision applicants will still very much be able to share their personal stories in their essays and statements and that can include stories about race and ethnicity and they're alloweded to consider those but they cannot be used as an end run at the heart of today's decision. >> let us embark on this transformative journey towards a more fair inclusive educational landscape. >> the supreme court made clear today race can no longer be used

gillian turner joins us from the white house.n have to the say about it allsome. >> reporter: well, stu, yesterday the president took to the white house microphones to insist that the u.s. playeded no matter whatsoever in the failed mutiny undertaken by the wagner if group inside russia over the weekend. take a listen. >> we made clear that we were not involved, we had nothing to do with it. this was part of a struggle within the russian system. >> reporter: the president also insisted that as he goes forward now, his number one priority is going to be the staying in lockstep with the ukrainian president, zelenskyy. >> no matter what happened in russia, we, the united states, will continue to support ukraine's defense and its sovereignty and its territorial integrity. he and i agreed to follow up and stay in constant contact. i'm also in constant contact with our allies to maintain our coordination. >> reporter: now, the president's national security team is focused on gauging putin's intentions when it comes to the his military'

gillian turner is live at the state department with the latest there.ood morning, gillian. >> good morning, bret. nice to see you this time of morning. it turns out the national security team in washington did not know and did not believe that putin would cave so quickly to a negotiated deal with the wagner group. they were taken by surprise about the concessions putin ended up making. listen to the secretary of state. >> this is an unfolding story. i think we're in the midst of a moving picture. we haven't seen the last act. we can't speculate or know exactly where it will go. we do know putin has a lot more to answer for in the weeks and months ahead. >> the intelligence community walls aware for some weeks the wagner group was likely planning a mutiny against putin's forces but did not believe putin and prigozhin would ultimately strike a deal. >> it came as a surprise to u.s. intelligence. they were surprised when the russians put up no resistance, allowed prigozhin to go into their military headquarters and then they were surprised again by how qui

gillian turner at the state department. gillian, thank you.s were off today as the fed chairman hinted at further interest rate hikes. >> the dow fell 102. the s&p 500 lost 23. the nasdaq was down 165. federal trade commission is suing amazon for what it calls a year's long effort to enroll consumers without consent in its prime program. the ftc says amazon then makes it difficult for people to cancel those subscriptions. is says amazon uses deceptive designs to trick its customers. amazon so far is not commenting. a former fbi analyst who has now been sentenced to almost four years in prison for illegally retaining national defense documents. kendra kingsbury pleaded guilty to the charges last year. she admitted she kept sensitive government materials including classified documents at her north kansas city missouri home. up next, why the white house has missed a deadline to turn over information about the covid-19 origins. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. wfxt in boston guard member jack t

gillian turner at the state department and how the biden administration administration is responding to the turmoil in russia. benjamin hall is live in london. what's been putin's reaction so far today? >> good to see you this afternoon. today we finally heard from both putin and putin was giving a normal talk to a youth group, and saturday he was talking about mutiny and he was threatening those who were going to attack him. that being said, what we have seen over the last few days is the worst cracks to his regime over the last 23 years. we saw wagner moving to within 120 miles of moscow. they shot down at least four russian helicopters. they took over a major city, rostov, a population of a million, and control center in ukraine. what was amazing, crowds greeted them when they arrived and marching to moscow. today we also heard from prigozhin, says he had done this because wagner was ordered to be part of the formal russian army here is a sound bite. >> we did not have the goal of overthrowing the existing regime and the legally elected government, which was said many times. we tu

gillian turner is in for harris. you can take my rant from here. >> gillian: i can also thank dana and bill, which is nice. fox news alert. moments ago the supreme court struck down president biden's student debt relief program. 6-3 decision split alodge ideological lines. the president lacks the legal authority to provide billion else of dollars in federal student loan forgiveness without authorization from congress. i'm gillian turner in washington in for harris today on "the faulkner focus." john roberts writing in the majority opinion, this court has never drawn the line the secretary suggests and for good reason. among congress's most important authorities is its control of the purse. justice kagan with dissent writing the majority overrides the combined judgment of the legislative and executive branches with the consequence of eliminating loan forgiveness for 43 million americans. i respectfully dissent from that decision. white house says we'll hear from the president directly on this ruling later today. in the

now to gillian turner at the state department. it's almost what is interesting and what they're not saying than what they are. >> that's right, neil. so the state department briefed reporters here just a short while ago. they revealed that they don't know where prigozhin is. for do they know where the roughly 25,000 troops under his command are now headed. they also declined to call what happened over the weekend a coup. president biden over at the white house said it's too soon just yet to do much of anything. take a listen. >> we're going to keep assessing that fallouts of the events. it's still too early to reach a definitive conclusion about where this is going. the ultimate outcome of this remains to be seen. >> so the u.s. national security team did not believe putin would agree to a deal with the wagner group but they did know from intelligence for some time that putin's relations with prigozhin were on the fritz. >> didn't need a classified briefing to know that there were tensions with prigozhin and the russian ministry o

. >> sandra: first to gillian turner, live at the state department with the latest from there. hi, gillian. >> gillian: it turns out that president biden apparently believes president xi jinping is a dictator, revelation that came during a political fundraiser along with new intelligence disclosures about the infamous chinese spy balloon. the president reportedly told donors the reason why xi jinping got upset in terms of when i shot the balloon down with the two boxcars of spy equipment in it, he didn't know it was there. no, i'm serious, what a great embarrassment for dictators when they didn't know what happened. now, china's foreign ministry today is calling biden's dictator comment irresponsible, extremely absurd and a political provocation. yesterday secretary blinken confirmed a leak that revealed china and cuba are indeed planning a new joint military training facility less than 100 miles from florida on cuba's northern coast. they could use to gather intelligence and even launch troops. >> this is something we are going to be monitoring very, very closely and we have be

gillian turner following that. what do you got?e president xi is a dictator. this according to new revelations he made last night at a political fund raiser in addition to new disclosures about that now infamous chinese spy balloon. take a look at what the president said he told donors. when i shot that balloon down, xi jinping didn't know what is there. that is a great embarrassment for dictators. china's foreign ministry is saying the dictator comment is a political provocation and absurd. the state department doubled down. listen. >> we won't hesitate to call out areas where we disagree or to be blunt about some of these differences. one of those areas that the president and the secretary have been clear about is the differences between democracies and autocracies and what they have. >> yesterday secretary blinken confirmed a leak that china and cuba are now planning a new joint military training facility less than 100 miles from florida on cuba's northern coast. it could be used to gather intelligence and even launch troops. >>

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gillian turner is in for harris. you can take my rant from here. >> gillian: i can also thank dana and bill, which is nice. fox news alert. moments ago the supreme court struck down president biden's student debt relief program. 6-3 decision split alodge ideological lines. the president lacks the legal authority to provide billion else of dollars in federal student loan forgiveness without authorization from congress. i'm gillian turner

. >> good evening from washington i'm gillian turner in for bret baier.supreme court the justices struck down affirmative action in college and university admissions in 6-3 votes. chief justice john roberts says policies a

. >> sandra: all right gillian turner, thank you so much. trace?trace: first time 25 4 race, fox news power ranking which states will be competitive in the presidential election the number shows 12 states could be competitive. among those, 5 battleground may be the key. arizona, georgia, nevada, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. on the primary front, republican candidate nikki haley one of the 5 candidates heading to new hampshire today. she will be joining us live. first in new hampshire, mark, what are the power rankings telling us exactly? >> could show you the secret to success. presidential candidates, democrats, hope to capture the white house.where we are in new hampshire, primary signals away. multiple republican candidates try to capture early momentum. now thanks to our fox news power ranking we know where the eventual republican nominee spend his or her time if they want to win the white house. 12 competitive states going into next year. these are the most you expect to see wisconsin, pennsylvania, virginia, arizona, nevada. others still wort

first let's go to gillian turner live at the white house. , gillian. >> well, if secretary of state blinken gets to china this time after his last trip was canceled he will be the highest ranking official from this administration to travel to that country. this trip comes at a moment of extraordinary tension between washington and beijing. >> look at what the chinese communist party did in the last couple of years. unleashed this virus on the world, including us and our economy. crushed the people of hong kong which used to be a state of liberty. economic warfare against our allies like south korea and australia. >> he had a phone call yesterday with his chinese counterpart. it claims it was openly hostile and told blinken to stop interfering in china's affairs. asked at the podium karine jean-pierre says they are not getting into it. >> you've heard the president say it's important to have that diplomacy with world leaders. it is important to have that discussion. so we believe intense competition requires intense diplomacy and that's what y

gillian turner with more from the white house. >> hi, house oversight republicans have now released all slough of whatsapp messages from the same year, 2017, that purchase port to show hunter biden communicating with this chinese business exec he cantive and involkswagen his father's power and influence as it relates to these deals. at the white house the president was just asked about all this a moment ago and here is what he said. >> how involved are you in your son's shake down text message? were you sitting there? >> two days after the president's son pled guilty to federal tax crimes he appeared at a white house state dinner. asked about that as well a hunter's trip with his dad to camp david the white house said this yesterday. >> every other administration and every other president this president has a family and he did exactly what many prior administrations have done. beyond that i don't have any comment on this. >> fox digital is reporting the white house policy omits biden family members from the visitors logs. >> we need to have a clear presentation of these records, how man

gillian turner is live at the white house. >> hi, great to see both of you in the chair together. the president is so supportive of his son, hunter, he invited him to an official white house state dinner two days after hunter pled guilty to federal tax crimes. when asked yesterday the president again insisted he has never had anything to do with his son's foreign business dealings that underpin those crimes. lolls en. -- listen. a 2017 whatsapp message revealed an i.r.s. whistleblower testimony says hunter claimed to use his dad in leverage with nice negotiations with a chinese business executive. president biden has long reiterated the same response when asked about his son. >> how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings. >> president biden: i have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. >> the white house said this yesterday about the president's decision to include hunter in official events at the white house. >> hunter biden wasn't the president's son, would he have invited someone who just reached a plea agreement

a >> gillian: thanks for joining us at home, i am gillian turner. >> john: and i am john r john robertsverybody. i am martha maccallum and this is "the story," jim jordan from capitol hill, andy mccarthy on the reported grand jury now looking at the mar-a-lago document case. weighing in on his take on that case and whether or not an indictment is coming for the former president. also chairman mike gallagher with his take on the latest aggression from china as he oversees the commission looking

first to gillian turner with the breaking new details on this from the white house. hi, gillian. >> hi, martha. so aside from what we all just saw play out at the white house, i want to flag that it's important the secretary state himself just a short while ago confirmed the existence of the chinese spy base inside cuba. he said it's part of a broader chinese effort to ramp up espionage of the united states. take a listen. >> they're seeking an upgrade of their intelligence collection in 2019. i can't get into every step we've taken but the strategy begins with diplomacy. our efforts have slowed down this effort by the p.r.c. >> this admission comes now just four days after john kirby had initially completely shot down reporting about this spy base. here's john kirby just a moment ago. >> we were as forthcoming as we should have been at the time the first stories appeared. there is -- the sensitive nature of this information is such that we just simply couldn't go in to more detail. >> normer dni john ratcliffe insists claims that the chinese ran a spy base during pre

a >> gillian: thanks for joining us at home, i am gillian turner. >> john: and i am john r john roberts. "the story" starts now. >> martha: good afternoon, everybody. i am martha maccallum and this is "the story," jim jordan from capitol hill, andy mccarthy on the reported grand jury now looking at the mar-a-lago document case. weighing in on his take on that case and whether or not an indictment is coming for the former president. also chairman mike gallagher with his take on the latest aggression from china as he oversees the commission looking into chinese activities for the u.s. but first we go to london, prince harry back home to face cross-examination in court, some heated moments at times and reportedly struggling to recall some of the details he was being asked about on the stand today. and he has a first member of the royal family to give evidence in court since edward the seventh showed up to testify and a slender trial over a card game back in 1991. then princess and made an appearance in 2002 and had to plead guilty after her dog bit to two children in windsor park. so now t

thanks for listening i'm gillian turner in washington. jesse watters prime time starts right now. jesse this might be the last time i get to say hi to your mom because you're leaving this hour. >> all he cherish this moment. >> jillian: thank you. >> jesse: fox news alert, the supreme court has ended affirmative action. universities can no longer accept or deny college applications based on race. but there's a loophole and we'll have more on that in a few minutes. affirmative action started in the '70s. the idea, good intentioned, make it easier for minorities to get accepted into good schools. but while it got easier for blacks and latinos, it became harder for asians and whites. at harvard a black plicatae cream of the crop had a 56% chance while whites and asians with the same qualifications had a 15%. a black applicant had a higher chance to get in than a top asian or white student t supreme court ruled 6-3 that's unconstitutional racial discrimination probed by the equal protection clause t14th amendment. chief justice john roberts who authored the majority says this, quote.

gillian turner joins us live from the white house. gillian? >> hi, brian.seemingly confirming that china has been operating a spy base inside cuba for years or at the very least that they have been trying to as you mentioned. the admission came from john kirby yesterday at the white house briefing. just four days after he had publicly completely shot down reporting about the spy base all together. take a listen. >> we are as forthcoming as we should have been given the nature of this information. sadly, not everybody seems to take it as seriously as we do because clearly, there's a source or sources out there that think it's somehow beneficial to put this kind of information into the public stream. >> gillian: former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe says there was no such operation on former president trump's watch. >> the idea that this kind of surveillance platform was present and being allowed is just, you know, is just absurd. >> gillian: yesterday in the briefing john kirby appeared to imply that perhaps the problem was that trump admin

gillian turner is here with us now. rding those classified documents. >> gillian: there are some big developments yesterday and today. the criminal trial for compromising u.s. military secrets has a start date now, august 14th. legal experts tell us that is a dramatically expedited date as the case is complicated and it will entail a whole lot of pretrial negotiating. our colleague bret pressed trump about the classified military plans he allegedly stashed at mar-a-lago. >> 31 documents listed, nuclear capabilities of foreign countries, related to military foreign countries, intelligence briefings of foreign countries, why do you want to hold on to those documents after you were president. >> i didn't say i do. in discussions with nara giving them back, and we got raided, against the fourth amendment rights. >> do you know if you have sensitive documents? >> no. >> gillian: they will move the august 14th start date, and allow time to reconsider the legal strategy after the president appears to have acknowledged denying t

. >> steve: gillian turner joins us from the white house with more. od morning, gillian. >> good morning to you guys. the federal criminal indictment against trump references as you just mentioned the specific audio from back in july of 2021 taken at bedminster in new jersey. the indictment says that in it in this will tape what you hear is the former president showing classified information to a writer and publisher about the governor's plan to attack iran. the clip that was leaked last night runs about two anyones. take a listen to this clip. >> i just found -- isn't that amazing. this totally wins my case, you know, except it is like highly confidential secret. [laughter] >> secret information. look at this as president i could have declassified it now i can't. >> eight days ago on this network with our colleague bret baier the former president insisted when he was having this conversation he had no classified documents in his possession. he said what he was holding and referencing were news articles. take a listen. >> i shed i couldn't have. that w

correspondent gillian turner tells us why. >> when i wanted to disable tiktok three years ago, i wasmocrats, and everyone else. >> since former president trump called for a nationwide ban on the chinese owned app. tiktok, president biden and congress have failed in their effort to see it through. >> the president thinks it's an important issue to deal with i don't have anything tolled a beyond that. >> a national ban is nearly impossible since the number of u.s. tiktok users exploded by 50% in the past three years. china critics reveal one of the primary researchers is the powerful pro-china lobby on capitol hill. >> it may be the quietest lobby up here but probably the loudest and very influential as well. i think they have infiltrated different levels of the government. >> montana's attorney general talking about his state's tiktok ban says the source of the problem is clear. >> i think we have to look at china's influence in washington, d.c. that is a town that's addicted to chinese cash. >> tiktok's parent company bytedance has spent over 13.5 million since 2019 and is reportedly

. >> gillian turner is joining us from the north lawn of the white house on this warm wednesday. and she has the very latest. gillian? >> it is already warm out here. i will tell you that. so, guys, the biden team this week is really totally committed to trying to promote the president's economic agenda. they are calling it bidenomics. the president himself is taking that show on the road with two different trips in just three days this week. the white house though still dodging questions about the criminal indictment of former president trump. take a listen. >> was the president able to listen to that tape of his predecessor talking about classified documents and did he have any particular reaction to it. >> i'm not simply going to go here and refer to you the doj on this matter. >> leaked audio from 2021, allegedly reveals trump disclosing the nation's military journalist at his club in bedminster. neither of those people have security clearances and the documents were not legally in the former president's possession. here he is responding to the audio last night. >> isn't that

gillian turner in for sandra today. this is "america reports." subhouse committee is hearing testimony from the dhs inspector general, tasked with staffing and morale challenges with border agents over the last couple of years. >> john: accusing the white house ill equipped to handle the end of title 42. but the democrats attacked the i.g.s reputation. aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill with the latest. seemed almost like a tale of two hearings. >> it was a wild couple of hours, adjourned a few minutes ago, and trying to talk about staffing issues at the border, and morale issues at the border, and democrats were telling him to get his own house in order. first time kafari testified on capitol hill since a big shake-up at dhs, tate johnson is retiring at the end of june and raul ortiz announced he is leaving as well. now, all while the border crisis continues to stress cities coast to coast, in fact this week, john, california governor gavin newsom appeared to threaten florida governor ron desantis with kidnapping charges over migrants flown i

. >> comes as we hunter biden at a holiday party gillian turner has the latest for us. >> three of the g.o.p. in the senate demanding that attorney general merrick garland appoint a special counsel to investigate the biden family's finances. they want limb to take a look particular bribed and some hunter. the senators write given concerning alleys that come to light we urge to you appoint a special counsel to investigate any wrongdoing by president biden and his family and their business dealings. now, the white house was asked again about this issue in a briefing this week they insist there is no merit to any of these claims. listen. >> is the white house aware of any recording in which the president might be on tape speaking to a burisma executive? >> so, the president spoke to this. i think he was shouted a question about this at the thursday press conference. and i'm just going to quote him and say it's malarkey. >> a new fox news report finds hunter biden and his business associates visited the white house for a holiday party back in december 2015, just a few days after then v.p.

grow the middle class," said he did not come up with the name, if i could play off this sound, gillian turner the question to the president earlier today. listen. >> sir, you said you didn't know what the hell bidenomics is. can you tell us what it is? >> sure, first time i heard it used was by you guys in the press. let's get it straight. first time used in the wall street journal, ok. i don't go around beating my chest bidenomics, the press started calling it. i like it, it's fine. >> of course i called gerry baker, and what was your intention of the use of the word, massive overreach and government spending on green initiatives and beyond and taking taxpayer money to push their own agenda to and stifle others, basically picking winners and losers and not allowing the free market to work. that was the term of the bi bidenomics. >> this morning i spoke to a family from arkansas and telling me how important the high speed internet process is going to be to him. it's going to improve his education with his kids that he was missing during covid, it's going to bring new job opportunities for him

gillian turner, the meeting, when is it going to happen and who will be there?confirmed by the fbi, the director will bring the original 1023 form to the hill to view in a secure facility, called a scif, instead of lawmakers going to fbi headquarters as originally planned. fbi said the fbi has demonstrated to working with the committee to scheduling briefings and calls and allowing the chair to view information in person. james comer had released a statement yesterday morning indicated he was going to hot foot it over to fbi headquarters monday but fox news has learned that is off the table now. the fbi director has made this accommodation out of convenience for members of congress as they have already seen the document in question. listen to chuck grassley. >> i read it. let's put it this way. there are accusations in it but it's not for me to make a judgment whether the accusations are accurate or not. my job is to make sure the fbi is doing their job. >> gillian: standard form, 1023, used across the bureau when someone comes forward with an allegation or tip.