joe concha. think that pretty much says it all, i think if any of this was donald trump, we know what would happen. >> it would be wall-to-wall, we wouldn't hear anything about that. the hypocrisy from the media is truly astonishing. i would love to sam surprised, but i'm not, because it's what they've been doing since the day that donald trump came down the escalator. they have applied a total double standard to everything that has to do with him. they've given joe biden and every other democrat a complete pass. they spent two years investing all of their time in the total russia witch hunt to destroy the president and when that failed, they moved onto the next scandal and when that failed, they moved on to the next fake scandal. every single time they find the tiniest little thing, they latch on and try to destroy the president but guess what? he is still standing, he continues to do a great job, and the reason they have to give joe biden the past is because they know he cannot handle even the

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let's bring in the hill media reporter joe concha. welcome back to the show, joe.ack to the democratic national convention last week, elizabeth, and the fact they had dozens of speakers over four nights and, of course, kamala harris and joe biden on wednesday and thursday night of last week and not one speaker, not one person from that party broached the riots that we're seeing in portland, seattle, might be cap lis, atlanta, new york, chicago. ic go down the line as far as all the cities, and i'm sure people are watching at home saying this is a major deal. every night on my tv screen i see is police being attacked, i see protesters attacking other protesters if you want to even call them protesters at this point, and i see buildings burning down. and at least one party hasn't been talking about this, joe biden just got around to it this week as far as somewhat condemning these riots. in other words, he put out a video on his twitter field and, boy, that's suppose to be good enough. this ends up being now probably a top two issue going into this election i along w

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welcome to the show, "the hill" media reporter joe concha. great to see you, joe, there is pushback against nancy pelosi, "washington post," your publication "the hill" magazine. your reaction to this story? >> it seems nancy pelosi isn't very good at taking criticism or anything resembling a tough question. when ever that happens, elizabeth, she fires back at interviewer attacks them being a shill for the gop or somebody who isn't asking a fair question. look, there is a reason why, elizabeth. nancy pelosi approval, despite usually fawning media coverage is only at 37%. 52% disapproval. that is a 15-point gap. you look at her tenure as house speaker when she took over in 2018, what exactly has she accomplished for the american people since she was elected? yeah, she has done things saying vitriol i can things about the president, tearing up state of the union address. that was this year. feels like 10 years ago. she gets cheered by some media figures for being tough own the president. the american people are saying what have you done for me l

joe concha is a man that i want to talk about for the newspaper, joe, very objective the new york times post, ap, abc and all the rest. what do you think? joe: that wasn't even half of it, you also had as if the memo went out, declaring we want to make sure that kamala harris is betrayed as a moderate for the new york times, and pragmatic moderate. as a centrist, drive the point home seem to be the message, the associated press, and adding harris to the ticket, he can point to her relatively centrist record on healthcare in her background on law enforcement, okay let's look at those two things that were going to look at the associated press in the way that they are portraying kamala harris, she wants healthcare for the undocumented, she and everybody else raise their hands when asked the question, she also supports medicare for all, is that a centrist position on healthcare? don't think so. finally we talked about in terms of her career law enforcement as she spoke of the first half-hour of the show, if you remember during brett kavanaugh hearings, this is really incredible, the new yor

"the hill" media reporter joe concha joins us now. s listening. joe, i made my lilies what i think they should do, then i want to hear yours. i think they should pump in crowd noise. they have been doing that a lot of sporting events. it makes a big difference. there is my list. i think you need a little walkout music when you go out there. you get to choose your song. something upbeat. my favorite thing, i think there should be a lucky viewer, family who gets to chat live with the president, not a delegate, like a regular person. what do you think? >> melissa, you're like martin scorsese. this is good stuff. i didn't know you had a background in theater. melissa: yeah. >> i'm with you all three of those points. also i hope if the weather is like it is today, quite frankly, here in the northeast, 80, sunny, at night, it goes down to the 70s, almost all these events outdoors. the south lawn, you've been there before, where they have the easter egg roll. that is quite iconic scene not quite pumping in crowd noise with major league teleca

we like more joe. concha. thank you for being here. briefing." >> dana: we begin with a fox news alert. we are waiting for one of the biggest decisions of the campaign season. joe biden is set to announce his 2020 running mate any day now. and we wait. hello, everyone. i'm darron. dana perino. this is "the daily briefing." with the democratic convention a week away the former vice president has met with at least one potential running mate in person. begin with peter doocy reporting live from wilmington, delaware. how is wilmington

media reporter joe concha from the hill is here. do is magical what it will be like. the president saying i'm worried about the election. they jumped down his throat. what about the debates. what has the media done with joe biden? nothing. >> almost nothing. each week chris wallace for instance asked the biden campaign for introduce always something else to do. not available is the excuse. look, brian, debates are seen by presidential debates by 80 million people. 90 million people. talking super bowl numbers here. joe lockhart how just played a former press secretary under president bill clinton. so best unintentional comedy i have ever seen. the president will, quote, repeat lies and biden will, quote, need to correct him over and over again. in a related story joe lockhart provided cover for a president literally impeached to for lying to a grand jury. do we want joe biden fact checking. he said during the debate primaries 150 million people had been killed by gun violence in this country or half population. he also recently said

guests in my present in los angeles she is host of the game iris in show and in new jersey we have joe concha he is a media reporter and columnist for the hill rules of that that means he can jump in in coming what now is appreciated let me go to joe 1st here joe over the last 3 and a half years we've been fed this russia gate hoax and it's bait and it's very basis it is leaks that are giving up given to prefer news outlets from the powers that be well we'll call it deep we have opinions a new way and those we have a lot of bloopers in retrospect be the the leaks that no amount to anything or dead ends or basically wrong and then you know the flip side is over the last let's say 2 weeks and i have we're getting real facts i even to the point of hand written notes something attached to a name a face a big here we have congressional records that have been released or madam ships. investigation with all of his witnesses and the names are attached to the words under oath and never mind it doesn't make any difference it's keep moving on i mean i find it really quite astounding that you know we wer

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guests came i present in los angeles she is host of the game iris in show and in new jersey we have joe concha he is a media reporter and columnist for the hill rules of that that means you can jump in anytime what now is appreciated ok let me go to joe 1st here joe over the last 3 and a half years we've been fed this russia gate hoax and it's bait and it's very basis it is leaks that are giving up given to prefer news outlets from the powers that be will call it. we have opinions a new way and those we have a lot of bloopers in retrospect they the the leaks didn't amount to anything or dead ends or basically wrong and then you know the flip side is over the last let's say 2 weeks and i have we're getting real facts i even to the point of hand written notes something attached to a name a face a big here we have congressional records that have been released or madam ships'. investigation with all of his witnesses and the names are attached to the words under oath and never mind it doesn't make any difference it's keep moving on i mean i bided really quite astounding you know we were told that t

know, you've also got bernie sanders there on stage talking about how he's worked with joe biden, joe conchaat about their unity pack which includes all sorts of ideas that are way to the left progressive, so did that resinate that joe biden is supposed to be moderate and then the media is also saying kamala harris is supposed to be moderate meanwhile she's voted the most left in the senate? >> pragmatic moderate is the way "the new york times" put it, maria, and, yes, as you said most liberal center in the country in 2019 and as you said, joe biden is also tracked way to the left, you look at the green new deal. just yesterday he did an interview not with chris wallace but not with maria bartiromo but where cardi b and basically endorsed universal health care. given all the money we spent during the pandemic and given all the money that joe biden and kamala harris want to spend, you to believe that the only way to generate that sort of revenue to pay for it all is to raise taxes on all levels of income but what i found interestingly last night and you mentioned obama and hugo did as well, s

. >> jason: wow, joining where the reaction, maybe a reporter for the hill, joe concha, fox news contributor, joe, yet the worst job in america andor you have to go out and watch this so tell us what you are seeing they are on all other networks. >> i was once a waiter at friendly's and that'sr the worst job in america, no way to take the order and that only teenagers and old people in there. so, yeah, it's a worse. look at, old saying is that the reward for conformity is everyone likes you except for yourself and it's amazing that it's so predetermined even before the rnc started that this thing was going to be called dark and divisive andd there's one person saying, maybe i'll just watch the speech and maybe i'll watch the convention and will come to my own conclusion. i won't worry about what my colleagues say or what twitter says what my viewers say. if they don't like it, screw them. bottom line is, this is incredibly successful convention because the hill and harris success is a pull out tonight it says that president trump support among black voters jumped nine points during the rnc t

joining me now for reaction, media reporter for the hill joe concha and trump 2020 director of communications perini. welcome aboard to both of you. very busy week, we kind of knew what would happen with the media and you have been a very busy guy. we also know what to expect coming up next week which will be that the sky is falling and everything is awful, but how are we going to be able to look at the media and is there going to be any point where we can take them seriously going into the rnc next week? >> you had a great headline on there as far as "the washington post" calling it "award-winning television." i like to look at numbers a lot in the bottom line is that joe biden's acceptance speech was viewed by 218 million people and you say while matt, that's a pretty good number and tell you that put that number into context. 21.8 million for biden is 21% lower than hillary clinton's acceptance speech in 2016, nearly 40% lower than president trump's acceptance speech in the 2016 rnc. then you say a lot more people are watching streaming and watching on their phones, let's do a 2020 apples-

. >> joining us now is media reporter for the hill, joe concha and fox news contributor charlie hurt,hank you so much for joining esper joe, you have the worst job in america, you have to go out and watch all this, so tell us what you're seeing on all these other networks. >> i was once a waiter at friendly's, that is the worst job in america you have to take the order and make the order and then you'll have teenagers and old people in there and neither of those people tip. that's worse than what i do, but it's a close second. the old saying is that the reward for conformity is that everybody likes you except for yourself, i predetermined even before the rnc started that this was going to be panned, it was going to beat called dark and divisive, there's not one person to any of these networks that say maybe i'll just watch each speech and maybe i'll watch the convention and come to my own conclusion. i'm not going to work about what the internet says and if they don't like it, screw them. this was an incredibly successful convention because they have a poll that is out tonight, that s

steve: let's bring in our our old buddy from the hill joe concha from my hometown: joe, how are?y. vision those analysts had watching donald trump. when you listen to the media in general talking about joe biden's speech, the week before, quite a contrast. watch this. >> it was all hopeful, upbeat, optimistic. >> it was deeply optimistic speech. hopeful. >> it embraced the light who spoke against the darkness. >> so hopeful. it's so so positive. >> i think it was important for him tonight to make people feel that hope. >> it was ultimately a message of unity to the country. steve: okay. so, that's their opinion. explain what we just witnessed. >> okay. i know you guys probably saved the tapes on this show so before the rnc began i joined "fox & friends" and i said that dark was going to be the word they would use the most during this week and sure enough, not that that was such a bold prediction. dark or darkness won by secretary trit proportions describing not only the president's speech but speeches throughout the week. you compare that to joe biden. van jones gave away the who

we like more joe. concha. thank you for being here. here is "the daily briefing." >> dana: we begin with a fox news alert. we are waiting for one of the biggest decisions of the campaign season. joe biden is set to announce his 2020 running mate any day now. and we wait. hello, everyone. i'm darron. dana perino. this is "the daily briefing." with the democratic convention a week away the former vice president has met with at least one potential running mate in person. begin with peter doocy reporting live from wilmington, delaware. how is wilmington today, peter? >> pete: a nice, hot day in wilmington. the biden campaign e-mailing the supporters to a grassroot fundraiser with biden and running mate, t.b.d. that comes as the 2016 nominee of the most influential democrats in the era talks about how she picked someone to fill out the ticket last cycle. >> i went it from three perspectives. number one is this a person who could be president literally tomorrow? secondly, is this a person that i could work with, that i want to work with day i

and a power panel with the hill's joe concha and american conservative union matt schlapp on the mainstreamedia touting joe biden's speech last night as hopeful while create you can es say the bar -- critics say the is low for biden. also tonight an angel family mourning a son killed nine years ago by an illegal alien as the dnc promotes illegal immigration. we have representative doug collins on that. and the congressman called for the cbp to his home tate of georgia. i'm jackie deangelis in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ jackie: first, to the latest in washington expect postmaster general testifying before a senate panel, louis dejoy defending against allegations that the usps is slowing down the mail delivery process to impact the election. >> first, i'd like to emphasize that there has been no changes in any policies with regard to election mail for the 2020 election. we recognize that during, during this pandemic, when i arrived there was great concern about the increase in volume, so we further emphasized the interaction. we had over ooh 50,000 conta

let's bring in joe concha, media reporter for the hill. hley, i have to fact-check the president. joe biden is taking questions. he sat down today with cardi b. i believe cardi b. is a singer. joe biden actually revealed his nickname is joey b. these are the things joe biden is talking about. i think the president should say serious interview. does the basement strategy work is the question. the answer is maybe during the sn summer when you are 100, 150 days from the election. now that we are getting closer we are seeing a race that is tightening. cnn poll out today, president trump only trails joe biden by four points. the real clear politics average in june had biden up by double digits. that has sank or shrank as well. this is clearly biden's handlers and even kamala harris, her handlers don't seem to be very interested in doing interviews because they don't seem to have a lot of confidence in their message or their candidates and that is telling. you want to be the leader of the free world and you don't want to take questions? how you g

earlier on "fox & friends first," joe concha, the hill media reporter spoke how trump has all the momentumly what you are saying, steve. take a listen. >> joe biden has done two press conferences in 150 days. you just oppose this with president trump or kayleigh mcenany who do two press conferences a day on most days including weekends. three weeks after you get the nomination out of your convention, you are not talking to the people? you are not talking to the media? you risk being defined by your opponent and that's exactly what's happening right now. joe biden was up by 7 points not even two months ago. so that's where we are at in the state of the race. joe biden doesn't have any momentum. president trump has all the momentum because he is out there speaking to people while the other side is playing not to lose. emily: joe concha there talking about failing to seize the moment and also mentioned the regret that hillary clinton expressed after the 2016 election where she said she failed to acknowledge the huge part that media played. he pointed out joe biden has only given two press con

joe concha, media doesn't talk about it because they are coverings for him. a complete pass. we had rob space smith on brian interviewed him earlier with turning point u.s.a. and spokesperson says that biden's comments show that democrats are using black voters, listen to this. >> every once in a while the top layer of veneer slip and democrats let you know who they are and how they really feel about black americans. joe biden the same that black americans are too stupid to have diversity of thought. he is saying that our community is not as diverse in our thought as other communities. this is why black americans are leaving democrats behind. we are tired of being manipulated. we are tired of being lied. to say and, by the way, we are tired of being traited for illegal immigrants. ainsley: "new york times," even a reporter for the "new york times" jonathan martin he tweeted out that biden's stumbles have unsettled party officials and left them thrilled that there is no real public campaign. leave joe biden in the basement, basically because the gaffes will no

will: joe concha good to see you this morning. pete: hot yoga tomorrow. >> well done. iah: thanks, joe. moving on to another story. cleanup is underway after hurricane laura ravages part of louisiana and texas killing more than a dozen people. charles watson is joining us live from texas with the latest on the storm damage. charles? >> hey, good morning. there are at least 14 confirmed deaths in the aftermath of hurricane laura. president trump today will tour some of the hardest hit areas he is expected to visit both orange, texas and lake charles, louisiana this afternoon. the category 4 hurricane causing widespread destruction through texas and louisiana in a matter of hours. the storm's force shredding homes, flooding communities and causing devastation for miles right now more than 500,000 people are without power, an estimated 200,000 people in louisiana do not have access to water and it could take weeks for crews to restore those utilities. residents and business owners are just twinning to return to get a look at the extent of the damage. >> first time flooded