here is karine jean-pierre responding to questions about the president's age. >> i've said this many times and my colleagues have said this. the president says this. if you watch him, if you have seen what he's done the last two years, this is a recent has had a historic administration. >> sandra: she then came at everybody with the many accomplishments they say that he has achieved under this presidency. ben. >> that's just completely backward looking. it's also something i think is not representative of the concerns the american people have about potentially re-electing this president i don't think you can find confidence he's going to finish out a potential second term. people don't like to see the presidents they elect suffer through these things, even if they are republicans, or independents, you don't want to see a president who has these types of struggles and i think the, as much as the washington media can't avoid asking these questions anymore, given how obvious the gaffes are, karine jean-pierre is not going to be able to address that with a list of bullet points about var

so, what do you make of what karine jean-pierre was saying there in the briefing, jonathan? >> well, it was an extraordinary moment. the level of denial has reached a pathological level. i mean, she's talking about an investigation that just produced evidence of $20 million passing through 20 different companies and accounts and getting money transferred to biden family members, including grandchildren. you just had devon archer say that the president is saying something categorically false saying he had no knowledge of business dealings, all of that is the recent developments and you have the pre saying they found nothing at all. dangerous for president biden, you can sort of boot strap earlier misdealings and misconduct into your presidency. it can become an impeachable manner when you have white house staff spreading false accounts and some people are saying it's clearly false, the white house is trying to now pursue a new narrative, but that narrative is also falling apart. every time we have new evidence come forward, we have a new narrative, that narrative collapses an

karine jean-pierre, she is gaslighting us. he is go, go, go. we can't keep up with him.hen she says that, you can't believe another word out of her mouth. when i was a judge, used to say someone has lied to you once you don't need to believe another thing they say to you during the course of this trial. they took advantage of him and they protected him during the election. covid and the pandemic allowed him to come in and say i am energized and i'm vital and vibrant. we just accepted it. on faith. but right now, we understand that it isn't, as you say, both jesse and piers. it's not about age. it's about mental acuity. the ability to get things done. the fact that when people are asked, is he too old to be president, as a release or donald trump, 77% say joe biden is. 51% say donald trump's. now, that's a 25% difference. i believe that 25% difference is due to the fact that people are looking not at the age but rather at the mental acuity. finally, this whole idea that he works day and night and all that. apparently this year when there was a problem with the banks jen p

it >> karine jean-pierre had more age questions to deal with. how biden has admitted to aids that he felt tired at times and how striking it is that the president has so few public events before 10:00 a.m. karine jean-pierre brushing off questions on biden's light morning routine. >> is this why we are seeing in recent weeks. has the president admitted to you? >> the last part? because of this excerpt? >> of the book is suggesting that the president tells aids he's tired. and that that's why there've spent so few public events. >> that's a ridiculous assumption to make. >> dana: rfk jr. no stranger to his personal fitness. walking around with our own fitness guru, jesse watters. >> this job requires people to be in good shape and have mental acuity. i think that if he feels these up to that, he should debate me. a >> jesse: [laughs] do you feel he's up to debating? >> i'm not going to -- i don't think it's good for the american people in the don't because of the democratic party if the only people that he has to talk to to end this election are

karine jean-pierre was worse with jake tapper, she said we travel abroad, it is hard for us to keep up with this president, that should tell you about the level of her dishonesty behind the podium everyday. she said, watch him, watch him, she giggled. we do watch him temperature is not about his age, biden's, not about that number. it is about his faculties, his cognition and quite obvious decline and deterioration because every american can watch him who is every american who has taken care of an elderly relative or parent who was adult and in decline regardless what you want to call it. i've taken care of relatives who had dementia and alzheimer's disease and you can see this man at 86 would not be a self-caring adult. >> what happened with mitch mcconnell yesterday was stunning and startling bad to watch. it was sad and stunning and it happened in his home state of kentucky, he is senate minority leader. what if the leader of the free world had a similar freeze and there was joe biden standing up there and froze? what kind of look for the united states of america if the president co

>> karine jean-pierre answered question after question. she didn't say much but added a little more here. watch. >> i will say this. you've heard this from the president. he loves his son. and he is proud of him overcoming his addiction and how he's continuing to build his life. i don't have anything else to add to that. >> so today david weiss begins his first full week as special counsel, the same david weiss that saturday in a courtroom with hunter biden and prepared to enter a plea teal with him. the case will move toward trial in washington d.c. or california where hunter biden lives or possibly both. >> if the now special counsel decides not to go by the deal, it will money that he or they decided that something other than the facts and the law are coming in to play. >> hours ago, republicans released a transcript of an interview from july 17 with former fbi agent unnamed who claims that that planned interview with hunter biden in december of 2020 was sidelined after the fbi reached out to the secret service and transition team. the

how many times have we heard karine jean-pierre stand at the white house press briefing room and say the department of justice operates independent from the white house. we have no involvement in the trump matter. no involvement whatsoever. really? what happened at this meeting? was jack smith there. was he the proxy or the go-between? we don't know. we want to know what took place. it's not supposed to have any type of appearance of this kind of thing going on. what happened at this meeting? who were they talking about? what took place. that's what we want to know. that's what the american people want to know. >> eventually the media will have to start covering this. it just looks very convenient. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> meantime gold star families continue to demand answers about the disastrous afghanistan withdrawal in 2021 that took the lives of 13 servicemembers. marianne rafferty is live with the latest on this. good evening. >> very emotional testimony from the families. the house foreign affairs committee hearing from the families today. t

we want a fox news alert to the white house, as promised, karine jean-pierre is taking to the podiumtaking a question on getting kids back up to speed in the classroom following the covid pandemic. let's dip in and listen. >> to making sure that education for all of our children regardless if you are in rural america, urban america, all across the communities is a priority, and the students and the kids get what they need. and it's not just education, right. we talked about mental health, right. we talked about kids making sure that they're getting healthy lunches. that's something this administration has provided. and so we've seen the data, the numbers, what it means to us is more work needs to be done and we are committed and this president and administration is committed to doing that work. look, we are going to hear as i mentioned secretary cardona is going to go on a bus tour, across the country as school is opening up. he's going to lay out what the department of education is doing to continue to improve our schools so make sure that students get the education and get the righ

white house press secretary karine jean-pierre responded to concerns about biden's age. >> and open enduestion, the response has to do with how old he is. white house officials plan to demonstrate that, do the job at that stage. >> appreciate the question. i get it often. what i would say i say many times, the president says this. if you see what he has done the last two years, the president had a historic administration. stuart: the president appears to be in cognitive decline. do you think he will be the democrats candidate? >> voters are saying please don't make us vote for this guy, the democrat voters hard and fast but when karine jean-pierre says if you watch him, when he is given an opportunity to be presidential like commenting on maui fires, no comment which he can't string it together. you talk about his economic policies which are a disaster and he can't explain those for anything worth its salt but two things here. one, donald trump is not far behind him. this is not just about the number, his age, this is about his ability to get up and do the job. then this opportunity for

in the interim, press secretary karine jean-pierre continues to defer questions about the hunter biden investigation except to claim the president views the investigation as a private family matter. jacqui heinrich joins us from the north lawn of the white house. jacqui, does the team at all appear concerned about the probe ramping up as the president's seeking re-election? >> well, gillian, one point to note, yesterday the press secretary was asked if the president is frustrated his son's plea deal is falling apart and that hunter biden would be facing a criminal indictment just as his father is heading into election season. and interestingly enough, karine jean-pierre in her answer responded to allegations about president biden's involvement in all of this. >> if you think about what republicans in congress have tried to do for years, right, making claims of, and allegations, right, about the president on this front, over and over again and what's the result of that if you ask yourself what we have seen from that, they keep turning up documents and witnesses showing the president was

i am joined now by white house press secretary karine jean-pierre.ou so much for joining us. that was really difficult to listen to. i'm not sure how much of that you heard. but that gentleman went back into those fires, tried to save people, and he just saw bodies, including childrens' bodies. i'm wondering, as president biden is about to head to hawaii on monday, what will he do during his visit to really help these people who are still dealing with these terrible disasters, including first responders? >> well, sara, thank you so much for that reporting. i think it's really important for the entire nation to see what the people of maui, what the people of hawaii are seeing, and as you just stated, on monday the president and first lady are going to be visiting maui. they will see firsthand the impact of the wildfires, the devastation of loss, the devastation of land, the devastation of culture. let's not forget that as well. he'll hear directly from local officials, state officials and survivors what it's going to take to recover. look, the preside

and peter just had a chance to ask karine jean-pierre before i came on the air about this. you'll play it back later, i'm sure. to paraphrase her, said the administration considers this whole operation a huge success because they were able to intervene with the smuggling group but again, that was only after these people had already come inside the united states. john. >> john: well, why wait any longer. we have that exchange prepared, gillian, and here it is, between peter doocy and karine jean-pierre. >> how is it possible that isis sympathizer is sneaking people into this country? >> i'm assuming you are speaking to the cnn story, right? ok, want to make sure that folks are watching understand the question. so i want to be really clear here. so the intelligence alerted us to a human smuggling network. we moved fast and successfully to disrupt it. >> john: successfully disrupt it. but as gillian pointed out, after those people had already come into the united states. this was not prevented ahead of time. >> sandra: it's a serious question and something that should continue

we expect karine jean-pierre to take to the podium, and we will be listening for that. john. >> john: we'll see who actually is interested in this. >> sandra: indeed. >> can he didn't lose our whole home but lightning struck and lost a lot of it, about 15 years ago. >> i don't want to compare difficulties but we have a little sense, jill and i, what it's like to lose a home. almost lost my wife, my 67 corvette, and my cat. we had to be out of the house about seven months while repair because so much damage was done to the house and half the house almost collapsed. >> sandra: as communities in florida, georgia, and south carolina assess damage from idalia's trail of destruction, president biden is facing criticism for the overembellishing of a kitchen fire in order to relate to victims of recent natural disasters. peter doocy is reporting live at the white house for us at this hour. peter, how is the administration responding to the storm and to that criticism today? >> sandra, president biden phoned ron desantis again in this political ceasefire to let him know federal

white house press secretary karine jean-pierre tried to downplay concerns about president's age.>> it is the hard for us to keep up with this president who is constantly, constantly working every day to get things done and is making sure that we are delivering for the american people. and that's what -- and i think that's what a matters. stuart: you know, guy benson joins me now. that was not a strong response about the president and his problems with his age. what is it, 77% of adults think he should not run for a second term. why can't they just -- what are they going to do about? ? -- about this? the cognitive decline is irreversible. what are they going to do? >> no one believes what she just said. no one actually believes that the9 white house staff comprised of much younger people for the most part every day are scrambling, trying to keep up with joe biden. he has spent much of his time this summer on vacation, his is schedule is exceptionally light for a president. don't preend tend like something's happening that we can all see isn't. joe biden likes to say watch me when

the press secretary karine jean-pierre also came out to preview president biden's remarks -- rather his response in this cabinet meeting happening right now about maui and florida. >> did you guys realize the initial hawaii wild fire response was not that good or is it just easier for people to get help from the white house when the president is not on vacation? >> so the premise of your question and the way you posed the question, i disagree. the governor of hawaii, the senators of hawaii, the folks on the ground, they would say that the president reacted in record time. >> and obviously they are -- they know the vacation during the maui wild fires was a sore spot with a lot of the people that were dealing with the fires in maui. they're not ready to pulled down a planned trip to rehoboth beach this weekend. that could change. >> gillian: thanks, peter. joining me now, will cane, co host of "fox and friends" weekend. you have a long and deep connection to maui that i want you to tell us about. also your response to president biden earlier in the hour. take a listen. >> we're not only b

maria: time for the morning buzz, that was karine jean-pierre telling peter doocy that the administration the border, this is a fact a record number of illegal migrants crossed since biden took office. were talking about 7 million people on joe biden's watch. even alexandria ocasio-cortez admitting the biden administration is failing at the border. she told the new york times immigration is arguably the weakest issue, she's also dodging the question on if and when she will go back to visit the border. this is all in plain sight, you people coming across the border on terrorist watch list. >> last month they were 132,000 encounters with illegal immigrants, those of the people the border patrol and counter and there are many, many more who crossed without being encountered and did you how to report this week that in isis linked smuggling group smuggled is pakistan nationals into the country and those nationals were released into parts of the country and it became such a serious concern for national security officials that the biden cabinet have to be briefed on it because border patrol allo

fox's jacqui heinrich asked white house press secretary karine jean-pierre if the administration will how can the white house assure people that the case involving the president's son is being handled fairly. >> the department of justice the is independent. that is what the president believes. he believes that this white house will not plight size the department of just -- politicize the department of justice. this was done under the leadership of a trump appointed u.s. attorney as you know. i'm not going to add anything else to that. cheryl: congressman, what did you think of her response to that yesterday? >> it's absurd. i mean, the department of justice has been protecting the biden family and the bidens for years and we know that. they wouldn't bring forward -- i mean, literally every level of government, whether it's the leadership in the irs, the department of justice, the fbi, all of them have been working in tandem to protect this president and to hide the truth. i mean, i'll tell you a real quick story. obviously, in the district a lady came forward, one of my constituents t

that is your -- your, i don't know, how you are perceiving that. >> griff: peter also pressed karine jean-pierre is fronting the bill for hunter wants secret service detail in malibu. she referred peter to the secret service. brian, ainsley, steve? >> brian: when are we going to find out what is in the 5400 emails? >> griff: we don't know what is in the content of any of those files and we reached out to nara to get our own records. right now it's with that southeastern legal foundation. they have yet to publicly put those records out there. so we don't know right now. and we have inquired. >> brian: we know if it's between hunter and his dad it's about the weather that's all they talk about. i can't wait to see what else is there. >> ainsley: in 5400 emails. >> steve: thank you very much, griff. according to the people who have seen him so far the interaction with joe biden with the various pseudonyms. >> all right. >> ainsley: thank you, griff. >> brian: leave his mic all morning, please. >> steve: so far the people have seen the email between joe biden and pseudonym and others it's just the s

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joining us now is the white house press secretary karine jean-pierre.t new video. the west wing has been receiving regular reports from the ground from fema administrators. at this moment, does the president believe the administration is doing absolutely everything it can or are there things on the federal side he wants to add given the scale of this tragedy? >> first of all, thanks for having me. i want to say we are praying for those who have lost so much, who have lost loved ones, their community, their household and their businesses. we are incredibly thank tful to the first responders and the really very brave firefighter who is have been dealing with this fire from the moment it began. so i want to be very clear. as you mention ed, you all hear directly from the president. he takes his job incredibly seriously, which is why he mobilized the federal government to make sure that we did everything that we can on the ground. you talked about the major disaster declaration, the president was able to approve that within hours when the governor requested

in a briefing, karine jean-pierre said "we all know the kremlin has a long history of killing opponents0-year-old man is the first ugandan to face the death penalty after being charged with the country's controversial anti-lgbtq legislation passe in may. the man was charged on august 18 with "aggravated homosexuality" after he was alleged to have relations with a 41-year-old man. the 20-year-old's lawyer says he will remain in custody until his case is heard by the high court. the law states aggravated homosexuality involves sex with children and vulnerable people. it can also be deemed aggravated if someone is forced to have same-sex relations, is infected with a lifelong illness including hiv, or in cases of serial offenders. legislation has drawn criticism inside the country, including in the u.s. which imposed visa restrictions on some ugandan officials. president biden ordered a review of u.s. aid to uganda. former pakistan prime minister imran khan's three year sentence for corruption was suspended tuesday. he will remain in jail after a judge ordered his detention in another case

karine jean-pierre quickly removed, but the reason to talk about the fact that in fact the american presidenttwo has not disappeared. biden comes first, as usual. ukraine indicates marginal retailer green biden gives $700 each to poor people who lost everything in the fire, but wants to send another $ 20 billion to ukraine same situation with all survivors and biden gives them only 700 dollars that they will buy with them for the money offers to follow and trump for the money that the baidan did not give, the biden crime family, received more than 20 million dollars from foreign countries at a time when corrupt joe was vice president, and there was probably money much more. biden defenders didn't even try to explain what joe and his family were doing. i believe we have a compromised president. he was bribed, and now he is being blackmailed. he is a manchurian candidate, however, the main topic of this trump video message was just the situation in hawaii biden. the opponent, it turns out ahead of the retaliation is scheduled for 21 august. on this day , the incumbent us president himself will

on weapons between the two countries are actively progressing, while white house spokeswoman karin jean-pierre added that russia was forced to turn to such criminal regimes for weapons and equipment how north korea partially due to the effect of american sanctions , but how russia and north korea can expand bilateral cooperation and what they say about it in the democratic world, we will talk about it with yulia yarmolenko, who is included to us from the white house yulia hello, hello maria please tell us what is currently known about these negotiations, what stage are they at, what exactly is russia asking from the dprk, do you know maria , it is not the first time that the white house has disclosed information , slightly declassified intelligence data about how russia is trying to get military support from such countries as well as wounds north korea why today what is the news actually today today today how did you report john kirby representative of the us national security council the united states received information that indeed, these negotiations between russia and north korea are at a

this weekend, if a reporter asked white house stress carter karine jean-pierre about it would she answerstion. >> i call on people they don'. it is always your brain, right automatically there are 50 plus more people in the room, i tell people, we tell them all of the time if you feel you are not being called on, it probably is because i don't -- >> don't know. >> you she is bad. >> well, i hope she get asked about it let me start with you. we're talking about impact it will have. 7 million plus raised on the mug shot, new things according to "new york post," fox has not confirmed it. an interesting thing, now you have white house who won't talk about it. >> it the press secretary's job to get to know everyone in the white house briefing room. your job is to reach out to all parts of america and different outlets not just those with biggest audience and most well-known, she could do a better job on that. but with president trump, let's remember that it was president biden who "new york times" reported a year and a half ago who was frustrated. over january 6. here we are now with a number

. >> karine jean-pierre insists the investigation.proves president biden did nothing wrong, the hunter business dealings, watch this. >> allegations over and over again. and they were investigating every single angle, and if you ask what we've seen from that. they are turning up documents and witnesses showing the president wasn't involved, never discuss these dealings, did nothing wrong. there's been 0 evidence showing this. that is what we've seen for the past several months so i will leave it at that. stuart: what do you make of that? do you think -- go ahead. >> taxpayer defense lawyer for president biden, it is an exercise in unreality. the president has been caught lying repeatedly, publicly about his role with hunter biden. there's plenty of evidence he benefited financially from this directly and indirectly. you don't need to bribe someone directly to be involved in bribery with that person. the vice president says give the money to my son and did a favor, that's bribery too. there's evidence in the fbi that president biden wa

. >> steve: and karine jean-pierre said as i said a million times, that was never the question. it started when peter doocy was at iowa state fair four years ago now and asked joe biden about something. we'll play that exact sound bite and play dan goldman, a freshman democrat from new york and he essentially says that joe biden never said what joe biden just is going to say to peter doocy. watch this. >> mr. vice president, 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 overseas business dealings. >> i don't think that is what he said, he never said he has never spoken to anyone, he said he had nothing to do with hunter biden's business dealings. if he says hello to someone that he sees his son with, is he supposed to say hi, son, i will not say hello to the other people on the phone. if is preposterous premise to think a father should not say hello to people that the son had dinner with and that is literally all the evidence is. >> steve: democrats say there is illusion of access and

jean-pierre: all right. thank you so much, administrator. thank you for all that you're doing. and thank you for joining us today. administrator criswell: all right. thank you, karine. have a great day. sec. jean-pierre: all right. safe travels. okay. so, just as a reminder for those -- for all residents out there to continue listening to the state and local officials and register for disaster assistance. and this is a website that the administrator just shared with all of you, and i'll just repeat it: www.disasterassistance.gov. again, www.disasterassistance.gov. and we will -- we will be in maui, supporting the survivors of this tragedy, as you just heard from the administrator, as long as it takes, providing all the resources needed for recovery. but before we go on, i have a couple more things, and then i'll get to your questions. as all -- as all you know, on wednesday is the first anniversary of the president signing the inflation reduction act into law. throughout the week, the president and his administration will travel across the country to recognize the impact of this historic law. and tomorrow, the president will travel to wisconsin -- milwaukee, specif

karine jean-pierre is like, just watch him, we watch him.hat is the problem, everyone watches him and they see what he's doing and his gaffes and he appears to be head of this organized crime family on the grift for years. right. age is an issue, he is oldest president, we see him shuffling and not remembering names, but i don't think that is his big problem. you mentioned in the 2020 campaign the media ran that campaign while he sat in the basement and used covid to attract the trump administration. a lot of pandemic responses were ridiculous. they would say, i'm not sure we need to be this crazy, that looks different. ukraine impeachment, donald trump alleged corruption in ukraine involving the biden family, that is not in dispute. there was amazing interview withes viktor shokin talking about how he was investigating burisma, who was paying the bidens and joe biden was able to get rid of that. these issues look didn't than in 2020. >> it is different match up for voters, look at polling, 87% of respondents have hard time paying for grocer

karine jean-pierre blamed extremes by republican officials, senate leader schumer blamed the brinkmanship of house republicans and democrat richard neal says the republican party is wholly responsible. there's another reason for the downgrade apart from spending and debt. erosion of governance. that is our inability to agree on spending and data. brinkmanship at a budget time every year. that doesn't instill confidence in the future. it is a warning that if we keep expanding our debt, there will be at some point i debt crisis. lenders become reluctant to lend, demand higher interest rates to compensate for the extra risk, we going to recession, that means more debt and a downward cycle accelerates. this is really serious stuff. second hour of varney just getting started. market watcher david traduced he is with me this morning. does the downgrade change your forecast for the stock market this fall? >> good morning, great to be with you. i am not surprised by the downgrade. i've been saying this for a long time. in 2011 we were in the same moment, higher debt to gdp spending, political sta

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maria: that was fox business hilary vaughn drilling white house secretary karine jean-pierre whether or not president biden believes it is fair for transgender athletes to take part in female sports asked right question does he believe a woman's issue. >> glenn youngkin going after those who defy the policies including, that match gender at birth, ban teachers from using different names pronouns for students unless parents request a change virginia governor glenn youngkin joins me with more great to see you welcome. >> good morning, maria. thank you for covering this posture topic you know white house says this is complicated, it is common sense, the progress left doesn't understand what is happening in america, americans see it very plainly boys should not be playing sports with girls in virginia we are putting forth policies that make sure that doesn't happen anymore. maria: how have you been able to go against this tsunami of progressives that are getting these ideas into the mainstream even as most people in america agree with what you just said, that this is just practical commo

karine jean-pierre called the linking of the $12 billion to replenish fema and double that, 24 billione, hypothetical even though those were the same numbers that were in the president's requests. >> why not separate the fema dollars from the ukraine dollars so you don't have that problem for those who need this fema money as soon as possible. >> the administrator came into the briefing room and laid that out for reporters in the room, for americans who are watching and she will have more to say in regards to the supplemental funding the president has asked for. i won't get into hypotheticals, the president put forward, incredibly important that we need. stuart: why the link? lauren: funding the ukraine wars contentious in washington with house republicans. the house freedom caucus might try to restrict a spending bill which means we could face a government shutdown at the end of september. stuart: that would interrupt the flow of disaster relief funds. lauren: to guarantee aid for ukraine seems likely white house is tying that to the disaster. stuart: the attorney general of florida,

tonight white house press secretary karine jean-pierre is not so worried about biden's historically badll numbers. according to her, they just don't tell the full story. watch. >> why is there a disparity between the good story, the narrative you think you have to tell, and how it is received by the american people? >> a couple of things. as we know polls don't show everything. they don't tell the full story as you just stated. >> it's true. there is more to the story. our economy is now a disaster. americans are $17 trillion in debt including a record $1 trillion of credit card debt. we've never had that number before. $12 trillion owed on mortgages. $1.6 trillion in car loans. another $1.6 trillion in student loans that joe wants to forgive that we didn't take out. how did we get here? reckless government spending, a war on the energy sector, oil and gas, has caused inflation to skyrocket. now in order to curb inflation, interest rates are rising. mortgage today, 30 year mortgage carries over 7% interest rate. it was 3% and below 3% a couple years ago. meanwhile the federal government

out second term emergency room that includes 69% democrats saying biden not up to task force, karine jean-pierre was pressed about it yesterday, here is what she had to say about this. watch. >> this -- demonstrate that he can continue to, you know,, do the job, at advanced stage -- >> if you watch him if you've seen what he has done the last two years that is president has had a historic administration, in just two years. >> whether it is economic, economy, that is what we will happily happily discuss, as we, to age what president has been able to do. maria: john let's not get mired in whole issue about age, because it is not just about age. in fact not about age at all. it is about joe biden's mental capacity, we see what is happening to him, forgetting words, tripping all over the place, just as our adversaries across the world are watching. >> you know polls tell us it is just not republicans who don't want biden to run for reelection it is also democrats, 69% don't want joe biden to run again. doesn't -- joe biden and hand legislators get the message. >> by the way,, , handlers o would prob

when he says and karine jean-pierre does not know what she's talking about. says that joe biden cares about people. explain why he said when he asked him about the rising toll and he said no comment. he systematically lies. he said he was greek, jewish raised in a puerto rican community, and you ain't black if you don't vote for me. he is a narcissist who does not belong on the world stage. >> if you have empathy then you normally do not focus to sell it for you. >> i wish is going to say, i get it. i go back to the fact that i don't think this is his responsibility anymore. i don't think you can have empathy when you are senile. i think he is really degraded into a different type of joe biden. what you think? >> tossing it back to me. i was going to defer my time to the national review on a twisted idea of empathy and this is a real and important moment as jesse was pointing out early with his response to tragedy. these are key moments for people who are really grieving and going through a lot, something they can never imagine having lived through undergroun

. >> sandra: also over a week now since we had an on camera press briefing from karine jean-pierre. you might remember that falls in these hours quite frequently. but the president did have time for a climate interview. >> they have more, cheaper electric, excuse me, cheaper wind and solar energy than any other state and he wants to cut it back so he can have more oil. i don't get these guys. >> trace: critics say he's handing russia a gift that reporting is still ahead this hour. but first, to peter doocy, he's travelling with the president in new mexico. peter. >> and there's this question about whether or not president biden's comments on this trip signal an attempt by this white house to try to put fossil fuel companies out of business. his team has been telling us for months they are not but then there's this from the president. >> i want to stop all drilling on the east coast and the west coast and in the gulf. but got, i lost in court. >> there is something he doesn't need the courts for that progressives really want him to do, declare a climate emergency. >> a climate emerge

. >> aishah: i'm wondering how the white house does damage control on this, you have karine jean-pierred say the white house does not meddle, whether it's the doj investigations, health policies and now the receipts are out on a second social media site that shows they are meddling. what does the white house do now? >> yeah, look, donald trump was in office when there were issues over censorship and the covid theory in terms of the lab leak. i think we are seeing both parties in power want to have their content promoted and other content that they don't want coming out there not promoted, and this is a problem. i mean, there needs to be some kind of oversight around this, because it's -- it's not something that one party or the other should be able to do when they are in the white house. and furthermore, to have regulation and oversight with big tech, it extends to other issues. like there's teen mental health crisis that's happening as well as of the social media and there needs to be more attention to. >> aishah: they have not gotten around to doing anything about that just yet. have

from a party perspective you say nothing to see, everything is fine, the karine jean-pierre route andrats cannot stay quiet anymore. he see his inability to do the job is hurting our countries and voters are saying we need another alternative. millions of people tuned into the republican primary debate last week where you saw an energetic, capable slate of candidates. if it's not donald trump against biden in 2024, the future for republicans is youthful and energetic and dynamic. democrats want that on their side as well. >> julie: let's turn over to the gop side and the candidates. there are so many of them. suarez dropped out. but the republican presidential primary is still very much packed. a dozen candidates are still fighting for the nomination. we have a large wall in this studio. they take up the entire wall. a real clear politics average shows most of them polling in the low single digits. former president trump holding a massive 40-point lead. an op-ed that argues it is time to trim the field, quote. republicans don't have the luxury of time. if the party is to avoid disaste

take a listen to karine jean-pierre yesterday. >> if you watch him and seen what he has done the last two years this president has had a historic administration in just two years. if you look at the 13.5 million jobs that he has been able to create. if you look at how he has been able to turn the economy around so it works for middle class americans. >> the biden re-election team is arguing voters may say in polling that age matters but it is not their focus. >> well, why they talk about age, we'll talk about the things that americans are talking about, kitchen table issues. >> polling also reveals the two frontrunners are garnering strong associations with voters across the board. they associate biden with age and being elderly and former president trump with criminality and corruption. a whole lot of the gop slate of candidates, bret, now are trying to cash in on this. governor nikki haley has been calling for a mental and physical fitness test for all washington policy office holders going forward. >> we cannot have kamala harris as president. we can't chance this. we have to make

take a listen to press secretary karine jean-pierre. >> these are long-term investments which americansart to see. >> polling won't tell the whole entire story. that's why we are going to continue to tell that story. >> reporter: we've seen over the course of the summer the white house really shift toward this bidenomics messaging trying to highlight improvements in the economy, trying to highlight some of these pieces of legislation the president has signed into law, how exactly those are impacting people. of course this will be one of the challenges for the president heading into the 2024 election at a time when the economy and inflation are still top of mind for so many voters. >> vanessa, inflation overall might be on a downward trend, but for some americans spending on certain goods is still painful. >> inflation cooling but still not enough. just to give you the numbers of how this is impacting everyday americans, in the month of july, last month, americans spent $709 more on the same goods and services as they did two years ago. so still feeling that inflationary -- those inflati

karine jean-pierre three weeks ago changed the language and said joe biden has never been in business with his son. then yesterday or two days ago with gillian turner our fox news reporter asked and i've said it a million times never in business with his son. we go back to joe biden who finally took one question from peter doocy. he said it was a lousy one. joe biden says i never talked business with my son. and it might feel like that's splitting hairs but it's a distinction that has an important difference, jonathan. my opinion. looking for yours. >> it does. this shows why the president prefers the weather channel. what doocy was asking was going to the heart of the matter. it shows utter contempt for the american people for the white house to say we've been saying this constantly and then changing what they've been saying. the president said repeatedly through the campaign and during his presidency that he had no knowledge of his son's foreign dealings, that he didn't speak to any of his son's associates. after his testimony, devon archer swatted back on the spin being given by th

white house press secretary karine jean-pierre looking at moving marijuana down to a substance schedule it's a schedule 3 drug to a category and highly addictive substances like heroin. >> the secretary of hhs and initiating the administrative process to review how marijuana is scheduled. he's asking hhs and doj to take a look at it and do a initial administrative kind of process or review if you will. reporter: u.s. cannabis sales on track to top $57 billion by 2030 according to some analysts and those sales are something the federal government cashes in on right now with taxes. but there's a twist. if the federal government does move marijuana to schedule 3, the federal government would be missing out and tax revenue and cannabis businesses have to pay right now. they are not eligible for business ex-pensions and salaries and benefits and if we go to schedule three 3 businesses paying much less in federal taxes and biden administration considers a move that means more marijuana con sumses and president biden's alcohols and he's recommending americans stuart. stuart: that'll be an issu

. >> how many times have we heard karine jean-pierre stand at the briefing room, saying the department of justice operates independent from the white house, we have no involvement in the trump matter, no involvement in the hunter biden, no involvement whatsoever. really? what happened at this meeting? was jack smith sending jay bratt there? was he like the proxy? was he the go between. >> we don't know what happened at this meeting, who were they talking about, what took place, that's what we want to know. maria: it's also quite suspicious, joe concha, that georgia and the department of justice wanted trumped trial on the same day, march 4th. was there coordination between the doj and georgia as well? your thoughts. >> the answers to that is what happens on march 5th? super tuesday. it is the most consequential election day of the primary season. joe biden is president biden now because of what happened on super tuesday in 2020, for instance. donald trump who lost iowa in 2016 started to pull away at super tuesday. the whole point, if you're looking at this, if you're objective, sane a

karine jean-pierre accused the republican of cheerleading default. she's got her talking points.er whether the timing of these indictments are being scheduled in such a way as to prevent trump from actually being on the campaign trail. i mean, you look at the timeline of all the court appearances that he's going to have to go through over the next year, in between super tuesday, he has a new york criminal hush money suit, gue he's going to have too for that, then he has to go to a pyramid scheme suit, then super tuesday, is that the intention, is that to prevent trump from actually campaigning. >> that's exactly the point. not to just prevent from campaigning but prevent him the ability to debate. each one of these they're trying to say has a gag order on it and in some cases the gag order is actually more of a criminal penalty than the actual charge itself. so if you're a political opponent, you're running for president and you're asked a question about something and you can't actually answer that, you say sorry, i'm under order not to answer that, that almost looks like it's gu

i asked karine jean-pierre how confident the why house is this will hold firm, especially through thelection season. she tells fox we're confident this will succeed in the courts and nothing that prevents medicare from negotiating lower drug prices. that is one piece we'll continue to follow. >> neil: thanks, jacqui. go to gary kaltbaum, brilliant market watcher that knows a thing or two about birthdays. he's had a few, a young man. this one-year anniversary we're celebrating on the inflation reduction act didn't reduce inflation. i have a feeling the federal reserve and all the rate hikes did or at least got it down a little bit more. it would be a first for government spending to bring inflation down. what did you think? >> yeah, it was also the stopping of printing money that helped bring it down. neil, there is no better arbiter of inflation than the bond market itself. the ten-year yield is a touching a yearly high while inflation comes down. it's at a 15-year high right now. so i'd be very careful what said out of d.c. -- >> martha: i don't want to jump on you. what you mentione

. >> now, white house press secretary karine jean-pierre and deeann criswell brief reporters on a range issues including the wildfires on the hawaiian island of our weight now considered one of the deadliest in u.s. history. >> i will turn it over to the fema administrator who is joining us from hawaii to share an update on the response to the

has karine jean-pierre been asked about this? no longer has joe biden? no, he hasn't.where is the so-called adversarial press for pursuing this explosive lead? they are doing it. soony saad slash legal analyst greg erica fox contributor jaso chaffetz, the author of the biden malaise. boxes contributor kimberly stronghold. kimberly curth this reporting i from katie rogers. she is a reporter i worked with recently when i was on the trum campaign. sheeser incredible reporter. she cites two source familiar with the conversation that say biden probably told aides trump should be prosecuted, and that he wanted garland to take decisive action. what do you make of that? >> well, this is how it works i washington, right? i mean, biden was never going t produce a memo and send it to the department of justice outlining his wishes. nobody does that. they all want puzzle deniabilit when it comes to sending orders to doj. but instead he tells her close circle of confidants, and in those confidants tell others, and in that message just americ garlent. and that is why i am sure jack s