bush someone to pentagon this day 21 years ago, "washington post" columnist marc thiessen. that 9/11 is your wife's birthday it is anniversary 25 years ago today of day i met my wife. so this 9/11 is worst day of my life and the best, a very hard to hold them together. worst day. i was in the pentagon on september 11200, 2001. we rushed out, a friend of mine, dan, a navy intelligence officer was at point of impact. i didn't learn for a month he was killed. my wife was 8 months pregnant with our first son, she was working in the vol capitol and did not know for hours whether her unborn child still had a father, if not for the people on flight 93 i might have lost her that day, i am forever grateful to them for their sacrifice. i spend the next 3 years working who secretary rumsfeld, is traveling 250,000 miles around the world for him, first visit to kabul and bagram airbase was then a broken down soviet airfield. they said don't step off the tarmac the whole base is a minefields, it breaks my heart today on 21 anniversary of of september 11 attacks to think that base is now

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biden didn't really help and he made it worse. >> marc thiessen.vast majority of americans suffering because of this runaway inflation. >> 100%. in the speech at independence hall he said i'm not talking about the majority of republicans. just about the election deniers and people who disrespect the rule of law. then he says everyone who is pro-life is a mega republican. every republican has had that. maga republicans, if you support tax cuts like every public since ronald reagan you're a maga republican and the attack on rick scott using the plan that the "washington post" fact checker gave him three pinocchios for using the plan to tar the rest of the party because there is no support for this plan. saying they want to take away your social security. in 2012 they ran the ad with paul ryan pushing a lady over the cliff while mitt romney sang america the beautiful. it's lies and it is the same tactic the democrats have been doing every time they've been desperate. >> 48% of registered voters call biden's rhetoric heated and healthy. 42% call it ove

with that, we bring in geraldo rivera and marc thiessen, an american enterprise institute scholar andeat to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> martha: i want to start with this quote from the chicago tribune that was written by james durkin, a republican. starting january 1, those accused of being large scale smugglers, traffickers or distributors may not be detained or subject to a bond hearing. suspected street gang and cartel members could be released immediately. the courts will have to tell them to follow the honor system and attend their next scheduled appearance. what are the chances of that? geraldo, what are the chances of that? >> you get a ticket, whether or not you honor the ticket is up to you. the fact of the matter is, generally speaking if you've been arrested and out on bail or no bail, you're not exactly a stellar character. i would put the odds very low that you would return. it is absolutely bizarre. this is to me, martha, the last throes of the george floyd defund the police movement. now comes bail reform. what bail reform does is to say that virtually

marc thiessen is a columnist, speech writer and fox news contributor. hot off the press the latest marc thiessen column where you argue that abortion is not going to be the factor in the midterms that a lot of people believed it would be. >> they did, and look, if you want proof, just look at the state of georgia. georgia is a purple state that gave biden the presidency and back in the hands of democrats. the supreme court in june handed back abortion to decisions to the states to governors like brian kemp. kemp signed a law in 2019, that restricted abortion in his state to six weeks. so, he should be in big trouble but he's not. he's leading in every single poll. >> john: there's a story -- we have the poll, put it up on the screen, follow along. go ahead, talk about the numbers there. >> yeah, so the democrats say they are worried that stacey abrams is losing and no chance of catching up and another poll he has six points up, and herschel walker is behind five points, so clearly it's not abortion that is putting kemp ahead and walker behind, it's some

marc thiessen on friday, always a good thing. thank you. >> thank you, harris.rise the backlash continues against stacey abrams and she claims that a fetal heartbeat at six weeks is not real and was a made up gizmo by men. but it looks like planned parenthood now is backing her up. tammy bruce "in focus" next. ♪ ♪ know so many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan, for up to 100% of your home's value. if you need cash for you family, call newday usa. with automatic authority from the va, we can say yes when banks say no... give us a call. first psoriasis, then psoriatic arthritis. even walking was tough. i had to do something. i started cosentyx®. cosentyx can help you move, look, and feel better... by treating the multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting...get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections some serious... and the lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about a

good for him for doing that. >> harris: marc thiessen on a friday. thanks for kicking us off in "focus." thank you very much. britain's king charles iii begins his first full day of royal duties after his mother's death. questions now about what this will mean for the royal family? some have long questioned the relevancy of the monarchy and here at home that key senate race in pennsylvania is red hot. >> john fetterman's idea is campaigning is send off snarky tweets in his basement and hide from the fact that he is radically left. >> harris: that's the republican vacating the seat. the fight is on between the men who want it. democrat john fetterman and republican dr. mehmet oz fixing it up battling to replace toomey. a race that could determine the balance of the senate. dr. oz in "focus" next. gas, groceries, everything's costing more. we could all use extra cash. if you're a veteran and own your home, you've earned a powerful benefit that can really help in uncertain times. it's your va home loan benefit. veterans can get more cash by borrowing up

marc thiessen, writing about this today in "the washington post," saying biden says he will defend taiwans aides must accept it. so why are we seeing and hearing the mixed messaging out of the president's own white house, marc? >> it's not mixed from him. he's said it four times. first at abc news in august last year, and his white house aides said no change policy. then he said on cnn that we would defend taiwan, use military force to defend taiwan. aides said no change in u.s. policy. in may, he was in tokyo and said it again, and no change in policy -- at some point you have to take the president seriously he means what he says and i'm sorry, he's the commander in chief for better or for worse. when the president speaks, that is u.s. policy. it's not what an unelected aide that got 0 electoral votes, john that jake sullivan got votes or antony blinken got electoral votes or lloyd austin, total they got is 0. joe biden won the presidency. when he says we will defend taiwan that is policy and they have to salute and fall in line. >> sandra: john kirby was here on america's newsroom this

marc thiessen, former white house speech writer under president bush and fox news contributor. the president is at the auto show touting high priced electric vehicles, after holding a big celebration for the inflation reduction act, but inflation as hot as it is, and with nothing that the president has done so far being able to tame it, and the forecast that the inflation reduction act won't do anything for at least a couple years to bring inflation down, how could he speak about it with any credibility? >> well, it just shows the incompetence of this administration to schedule that party yesterday on the south lawn of the white house. i mean, who schedules a celebration of the inflation reduction act on the day that we learn that inflation was higher than expected, 8.3%, energy prices up 24%, food prices highest since 1979, shelter since 1984, americans are choosing between gas and food and they are having a party on the south lawn of the white house and the real purpose of the bill is not inflation, 85% of the spending is on climate change, and the day that he does that as pe

fox news contributor marc thiessen. former speech writer for george w. bush and fox news contributor. here is what we have from senator schumer. his pac in new hampshire spent 2.3 million against state senator chuck morris. they think he is the more moderate choice harder to beat in november. they are spending so much money to elect semi fascists, mark, a curious strategy. >> it is a curious strategy and gives lie to what president biden says. he gave the speech in front of independence hall warning that maga republicans don't respect our constitution, don't want to accept election results and his party, which he leads, is spending tens of millions of dollars to make sure that maga candidates are the ones who are nominated in these g.o.p. primary contests. he complains about january 6 and all the rest of it but they are trying to defeat republicans who voted to impeach president trump which is what they said all republicans should have done. they have done it in colorado, michigan, new hampshire, california. they're doing it across the country. if maga r

take a look at this from marc thiessen from "the washington post." he says biden is disgracing the institution of the prime time presidential address. for the sitting president to commandeer the institution of a prime time presidential address when it's been employed by his predecessors to comfort the u.s. in tragedy and announce military action and make the case for policy initiatives of great consequence and use it for partisan attacks is not a legitimate use of such a foreign. what do you say forum. what do you say? >> et al. progressive treat our constitution. the real threat is to constitutional democracy but not just wild democracy like in ancient athens or the french revolution. we are a constitutional republic in which party has been threatening, which party is transferring 500 billion to a trillion dollars by exec at a border, trying to impose a vaccine on unwilling americans. trying to ban evictions of landlords, which party wants to pack the supreme court, change the balance of the senate by adding the district of colombia as a states? i t

let's bring in marc thiessen, former speechwriter for gorge w. bush. fox news contributor. juan williams, fox news political analyst. for a while, what we were hearing is herschel walker had no chance. he was the trump-supported candidate. that, you know, he was sort of the candidate quality was questioned about no one specifically by senator mcconnell. walker fell into the group that people assumed he was talking about. so marc, now he's out there and he's just saying look, this is who i am. i'm a regular guy, former nfl football player, as much as you can be regular with that background. he said this about is the student loan issue. i have people in my town that wanted to go to college. they couldn't go and stayed home and worked. now our government is saying i'm going to take your money and pay for someone else to which the crowd responded very favorably to that, marc. your thoughts and then we'll hear what marc thinks. >> he's 100% right. that decision by biden will be a key issue in a lot of races. i don't think a lot of working class people who the democrats claim to

and tammy bruce, marc thiessen, "the falconer focus of the top of the hour. >> dana: a hurricane situations a hurricane bill that hit puerto rico terribly hard and do so, so moving and it is over bermuda causing a lot of havoc there as well. we will have more on fox weather for you to check out that full extremis where it is headed next possibly canada. >> bill: puerto rico was left a message and still is. they are dealing with a loss of electricity, 80% of puerto rico. they have a ways to take out, five years. you are right. we will watch that as it proceeds. meanwhile, dana, check this out. are you ready for this? >> dana: i don't want to look. >> you have to become a kid below dow jones since november of 2020. >> dana: that doesn't feel good. >> bill: a lot of industrials now think this. lending and the fed talks talk about this being a soft landing indeed driven into recession but inflation is a big deal. the feds are trying to fight. 29.6, down 1.5% for the stock market and battered over the past couple of weeks. so, we are watching that. now to overseas where you need to watch this o

let's bring in our panel "the washington post" columnist marc thiessen.domenech podcast for fox news radio. jessica, welcome to "special report." >> jessica: thank you. >> bret: usually see you the hour before. >> jessica: yeah. >> bret: what do you make ever the "wall street journal" right up there and the president's clear strategy here that on different campaign rallies is he definitely going down the maga, donald trump road? >> jessica: he is definitely being very clear and focused on who the enemy is in all of this. it is donald trump and the people who continue to spout his election lies to try to thwart democracy. i thought he was very clear about that in his speech on thursday evening. he even led by saying i'm not talking about the conservative party in general: i'm talking about a very specific subset here. this is what democrats have been wanting president joe biden to do to go on offense. it has long been a problem within our party. something that we have talked about that we feel we are always the ones that, you know, when they go low, we go

marc thiessen, steve hilton, raymond arroyo top of the hour. >> dana: bowser signing an executive orderexas. edward lawrence is live at the white house. this won't let up. will the mayor be able to make a difference? >> the mayor keeps asking for help. let's start off by saying d.c. declared itself a sanctuary cities. so far d.c. has about 9200 migrants that have been bused by the governors of arizona and texas into washington, d.c. now, with d.c. declaring a state of emergency it frees up $10 million to stand up an agency help with greengt and location services. the texas attorney general says texas taxpayers have shelled out more than $850 per year or $70 million a month to handle illegal migration. d.c. has a population that is like del rio texas with a 35,000 population. in july alone they encountered more than the city's population in one month. the d.c. mayor upset about the lack of federal support that she is getting for the small percentage getting bused to her city. >> is the federal government? yes, the president, the white house, and anybody else who was involved in the natio

. >> sandra: and i was talking to marc thiessen earlier today, talking about the missed opportunity to to bring people together. they don't like the direction the country is going in. seize the moment to bring the two sides together where he might think that's possible. >> john: that's a moment that has been missed since january 20, 2021. i would not expect things are going to change. also coming up new at two, part two of our deep dive of chicago under siege. deadly drag racing and donuts in chicago as an innocent woman is killed when one car slams into her in a crosswalk. now, mayor lori lightfoot is laying the blame on social media? we'll talk with someone who knows all about law and order in the windy city and he says the mayor herself is part of the problem. >> sandra: and john, we continue to monitor that florida courtroom where a judge is set to rule on how the mar-a-lago raid and investigation will proceed. and the judge could unseal new documents that further explain what exactly the fbi seized from the former president's home and why. congressman mike waltz is next. psoriasis