let's bring in marc thiessen, an american enterprise institute scholar and a fox news contributor. at to see you. i'm going to circle back to the john fetterman and oz race. this is dan henninger that writes, "i don't recall another recent mid-term when so many discrete issues were filtering through voters minds. crime, abortion, recession, energy prices, the border, ukraine and not least, joe biden." he started off it's the big issue being chaos here. what do you think? >> he's rights. if you want to know how desperate fetterman is, he's inviting the least popular president in the history of presidential polling to his state to bail him out. no other democratic candidates want joe biden around. fetterman is desperately trying to invite him in. no insider advantage poll, the first time that fetterman has not led in a poll. it's tied. the reason is obvious. it's a -- crime is a huge issue. we had this last year. we had more murders in this country than any time since 1994. in philadelphia, they have had 400 murders this year and on track to meet or exceed their record of 562 murders.

marc thiessen, thank you so much. >> sandra: big city crime forcing people to flee.we showed you the stunning video of a california mom and baby struck by a hit-and-run driver. now that mother is up in arms and says the justice system failed her. she will join us live. plus, andy mccarthy on hunter biden, energy crisis, and ukraine, and all that and more as "america reports" rolls into hour two. we'll be right back. so we're hard at work, helping them achieve financial freedom. we're providing greater access to investing, with low-cost options to help maximize savings. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive. if you're loud, be louder. if you stand out, stand strong. and if you got the devil on your shoulder... take him for a ride. [ coughing/sneezing ] [ door knocking ] dude, you coming? alka-seltzer plus powermax gels cold & flu relief with more concentrated power. because the only thing dripping should be your style! plop plop fizz fizz, winter warriors with alka-seltzer plus. >> sandra: president biden

we bring an marc thiessen for george w.now america enterprise color and fox news contributor who is running exactly on this issue today. "the wall street journal" sank the saudis snub biden again. do these people know how preposterous they sound? no american president has done more to make the u.s. more dependent on foreign energy that mr. biden has with two years, marc. >> it is amazing and just ask a fundamental question, why would we be dependent on foreign dictators to produce more oil? america is sitting on 264 billion barrels of untapped oil. more than any other country more than saudi arabia, russia, venezuela? why would we consider begging opec or venezuela, a dictatorship to produce more oil? like we are in the 1970s again with skyrocketing inflation, russia invading one of its neighbors. we have gas price is out of control and a president begging opec to produce more oil. the only difference is second coming of jimmy carter except jimmy carter -- where are we not with production which is what the biden administrat

marc thiessen joins us now. the answer is this is a policy done with intent for almost two years. >> yeah, let me start by saying if bill doesn't get an emmy for his reporting on this there is no justice in the world. the ambush at mayorkas's house is something out of 60 minutes in the 1980s and something like mall was would have done. he is an incredible reporter. 1 million gotaways, 4 million people who record number who have been encountered at the border. it's 5 million people crossing our border illegal in two years since biden took office. it is insane. if that's a secure border the way the biden administration says, i would hate to see what an open border looks like. it is really just out of control. >> julie: first of all, you know, let's talk about the democrats' response. in most cases sweeping amnesty is essentially what they are going to grant these immigrants, illegal immigrants already over the border, right, in our country. here is the problem. if we've got 1 million gotaways, how many of those ar

marc thiessen, fox news contributor, "washington post" columnist and former white house speech writerid cash money to the most far right candidates hoping they would win and that the democrat would have to take on somebody they thought they could beat. and now they are pushing fake news which takes everybody's credibility down including the dems in those markets. >> almost like you think they don't believe they could win an honest election. that's what they are saying. look, here is the reality. this is quite literally fake news. they are democratic operatives taking advantage of the fact that local news is in decline. there is a vacuum in some of these states of local news and they are taking local sports news, local weather and things like that with democratic left wing propaganda and quite frankly it's the exact thing they accused russian trolls of doing in the 2016 election spreading fake news on internet. i guess it's okay to spread fake news if you're an american citizen. it's the same thing trying to impact an election by lying to people about making them think they are getting

marc thiessen with analysis. we begin with eric sean about an hour north of us in thornwood, new york. governor youngkin appears with lee zeldin. eric, let's start. good morning. if you can hear me we're on the air, go for it. eric shawn. hello. >> good morning, bill and dana. we're here in westchester county in thornwood north of new york city. today you can see they are getting ready for the rally. behind me is the zeldin bus. republican nominee lee zeldin will be getting high-power help this morning from down south. accompanied on the campaign trail in westchester county by virginia governor glenn youngkin. westchester north of new york city similar to the middle and upper class suburbs of virginia where residents are concerned about taxes, quality of life and such. yesterday zeldin said the theme today will be education. he wants to try to replicate some of governor youngkin's policies on education that youngkin has imposed in the commonwealth. stricter testing. charter schools and dealing with some of the ge

let's bring in marc thiessen, washington post columnist and fox news contributor. >> first of all, reportersnt, they have always done that. sam donaldson used to shout questions at ronald reagan and he would pretend he could not hear what he was asking. i never heard him saying oh, woe is me, sam donaldson is shouting questions at me. this has been a feature of presidency since the television era began. and second of all, you know, if biden says you guys are the only press corps that does this in the entire world, he may be right. the chinese press corps does not shout questions at xi jinping, the russian press corps does not shout questions at vladimir putin, or in iran. the american press corps shouts questions at the president because we are a free country. and we are allowed to do that. and for the president of the united states to have the kind of deference despots get around the world is pretty galling. >> bret: and look at the u.k., the british prime minister has to go into the well of parliament and field the barbs. that would be a different ball game. >> can you imagine if joe biden

marc thiessen. thank you for being in "focus" to get us led off here. appreciate it. let's get to some breaking news now that we're covering this morning. america's crime crisis has affected the speaker of the house's husband today. police in san francisco say the suspect broke into nancy pelosi's husband's home or their home in san francisco and violently assaulted paul pelosi this morning. currently he is hospitalized and they do have a suspect in custody. the speaker's spokesperson says the suspect used a hammer in the attack. jonathan hunt is on our west coast newsroom. the latest on this very frightening and developing story. we're already hearing from people and leadership on both sides of the aisle. mitch mcconnell and also chuck schumer the majority leader in the senate both expressing their thoughts and prayers this morning for the pelosi family. >> everyone horrified by this attack, harris, in which paul pelosi, nancy pelosi's husband, was apparently beaten with a hummer and suffered blunt force trauma to his head and body. sources telling the associated pre

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andy mccarthy, byron york and marc thiessen. great to have you with us. andy, on the question of the doj's separate set of investigations which is a number of arrests, 800 is the number that david spunt used, 412 guilty verdicts. there's been about 60 in that neighborhood people that have been sentenced. the nature of most of these as far as i can tell, i mean there's some serious offenders that have received several-year sentences, most of them i believe are trespassing charges, correct? >> yeah, the vast majority -- maybe vast overstates it. the majority of the cases are lower level offenses where people were in places where they shouldn't have been. i'd have to say though listening to david run through the numbers and this whole idea of the criminal referral, in the more serious cases that you referred to, a lot of the defendants came into court and they wanted to make their defense former president trump. they basically wanted to come in and defend themselves on the theory that they thought that they were acting at the be-hess of the president of the

marc thiessen, former white house speech writer, fox news contributor. start with gas prices. strategic petroleum reserve, biden announced, the timing, how could it be seen as anything but political. >> of course, a month before the election. >> john: 20 days. >> releasing gas from the strategic petroleum reserve. gas price -- he's trying to halt it before it gets to the 4, $5 range. but no steps to decrease gas prices in the long-term. the least number of acres leased on any president since world war ii, so all political. the danger, the fact is, democrats like high gas prices, they don't like them before election because it hurts them but they want us to, they think they are going to push us into ev and the new climate agenda, they want to raise the price of gas like the price of cigarettes to stop us from smoking. >> john: you mentioned gas prices have gone up again, since trended back down, ron klain noted in a lengthy tweet, again just to recap where we are after four weeks of gas price increase we are in the second week of declining and trending down. back below 3.50 in

with that bring in our panel marc thiessen, ben domenech editor-at-large host of ben domenech podcastspondent "national public radio." this is serious. >> very serious and using it as literally a as a slush fund no pun intend tended to help his prospects in the election. tried to get the saudis to do it bore the midterms and they wouldn't do it and now going to the spro and doing. this they won't take any steps in the long-term that would help us restore energy independence. so this is all political calculation but the fact is democrats like high gas prices because just like. >> bret: even before a midterm. >> no they want to lower them before the midterm. they don't want them now but over time they want high gas prices because just like the government raised the price of every pack of cigarettes because they wanted to get people to stop smoking. they think the way to push americans into the economy to make gas too expensive. they don't like the political blow backs. >> bret: on november 9th. >> they don't care about gas prices come november 9th. that's why they won't take any steps.

marc thiessen is here. eighth grade proficiency in reading, 31%. in math, it was 26%.e proficiency, reading 33%, math 36%. i guess we're not going to see them on the screen there. there they are. the white house today is focused on electric school buses. >> ask yourself a question. if your kid came home with a failing report card, would you care if he brought it to you on an electric school bus? i don't think you would. our kids are failing because our political leaders are failing them. reading scores dropped to 1992 levels. the pandemic lockdowns wiped out three decades of progress in reading. they're talking about electric school buss? have their lost their minds? >> john: they're setting aside a billion dollars for this. shouldn't they be setting it aside for other things? like reading, writing, arithmetic? >> how about summer school so the kids can get caught up? once you get the learning losses, you never make a comeback. if you can't read in third grade, every year it's cumulative because you can't do the higher work in the higher grades. >> john: i wanted to pu

let's bring in marc thiessen, former speechwriter for president george w. , fox news contributor. marc, always good to have you with us. she said nobody should go to jail for smoking weed. she got a big applause line and a lot of laughs on that. what did you think about that? >> the hypocrisy. as district attorney in san francisco, she put more than 1,900 people in jail for smoking weed. literally for pot possession. tulsi gabbard called her out on it on the debate stage in the primary. this is not the first time this has been heard. she goes on settle and says nobody should be going to jail for smoking weed. tell that to the 1,900 people you sent to jail. >> martha: it's interesting. here's the moment with tulsi gabbard that just left the democrat party. >> senator harris said she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and she will be a prosecutor. i'm deeply concerned about this record. there's too many examples to cite. she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. >> martha

marc thiessen, fox news contribute for, former speech writer for president george w. bush. we were going through a couple of things this morning. monmouth poll number two, guys. do you show the majority of voters think biden is ignoring your top concerns. has biden given more or enough attention to the issues most important to your family? 63% said we should be giving more and stan greenburg, biden's wrs t performing message in memos,. he is imploring the party shut up about the work it's done. voters actively turn against democrats when they hear it. they know what the problems are so address that. >> biden said in the clip his plans haven't kicked in yet. the american rescue plan sure has kicked in and unleash the worst inflation in four decades. americans are feeling it. stan greenberg is correct. one of the principles of presidential communications i learned as a white house speech writer if the president says things that are directly contradicted by the lived reality of americans people tune him out and turn against him. if the president goes out and says the economy i

ari fleischer, marc thiessen, american enterprise institute scholar. both are fox news contributors. jessica tarlov, head of research at bustle digital group and co host on "the five." great to see all of you today all for coming in. the president comes out of the white house. you have a gdp number up 2.6. but the internals are not so great as we heard from larry kudlow. is he making a mistake to keep telling everybody things are great when these numbers appear to show that people don't feel that way? >> big mistake. it ties in to what you said about undecides. the president's message when he learned that it was .2% with high inflation and 70% of the american people say the country is on the wrong track, the message should have been it's good but not good enough. this is why congress has to pass xyz. he didn't do that. he bragged. it's so out of touch. it's tone deaf. it's sending every wrong signal to the american people prior to the election except for the 30% that think the country is on the right track. unless he wants to lose 70/30, it's a bad mes

congressman lee zeldin, steve forbes, marc thiessen. of lon musk put on pause. a delaware judge decided musk must seal the deal by october 28th. kelly o'grady is live in los angeles with the latest. hi, kelly. >> good morning to you. this is a rare win for the musk side in the court case. the social media platform says it's a chance for further mischief and shared the open-ended at the expense of twitter stockholders. here is what happens next. a big hang-up in negotiations for twitter is whether must bing has the money to pay for it. he is billions short on cash. he may have to sell more tesla stock or court more investors. he won't be in control by the mid-terms. i was listening to you on the five talk about how the left has la lamented what a musk own twitter might mean for election cycles. the judge will set a trial date for november if they can't come to terms. he doesn't want to go to trial. the next few weeks a lot of maneuvering to close it. >> dana: a good update. i won't have to worry about it all weekend. >> there are always

"the washington post" columnist marc thiessen and mollie hemingway editor and chief at the federalistif you have been following it, mollie, all along. how the president talks about this and now if republicans take over, suddenly the economy is going to crash. >> yeah. it's very interesting that he is going to try to do that pivot. he understands that republicans are going to take the house in all like lie hood, possibly also the senate. he also knows that the economy is headed into very dark waters for the coming year. so he is trying to get ahead of that and pivot there. the problem for him is that the economy is very bad and because of a united democrat policy front. the policies that the democrat party has put forth whether it's with our energy policy, throwing good money after bad. it has caused inflation to increase. even a lot of the covid shutdowns that did so much to throttle the economy and disrupt the labor market, the, you know, all the supply chain problems. so these are problems that people associate with the democrat party and they probably will continue to even after re

marc thiessen. good morning.he phone yesterday and you start reading it and it's a double or triple take. >> it's amazing. first of all the good news they weren't targeting congressman zeldin. it wasn't an assassination attempt like the stabbing attempt may have been. bad news shows how crime is migrating. this town of shirley, long island, a suburban neighborhood. average household income is $104,000, so this isn't fort apache in the bronx. this is a suburban neighborhood. a drive-by shooting where the daughters are doing their homework you have two kids bleeding out on the front lawn and police had to escort him to not step on the blood in his front lawn. shows how crime is changing. it used to be that crime was contained to certain neighborhoods. now it's every where. new yorkers who could go about their business can't do that anymore. it is every where and affecting everyone. >> bill: let's move from new york to pennsylvania. a new ad out by dr. oz hitting back at john fetterman. roll the ad first and i'll as

in marc thiessen on joe biden's complaints about the media asking questions, just come join us live asports" top of the hour see you then. ♪ ♪ spiel and welcome back, and nyu professor just got fired for making his class too hard. neil and jones jr. is now without a job. he taught organic chemistry until 82 of his 350 students signed a petition to get rid of him. they say he was making work on reasonably difficult, but the professor is saying otherwise. they weren't coming to class, that's for sure, because i can count the house. they weren't watching the videos, and they weren't able to answer the questions. dr. saphier, organic chemistry, my doctor is in organic chemistry doctor, i said is that hard? he said yes, the most feared pre-med class, but these kids, their complaints were that he reduced midterms 3-2, and not extra credit, but these are ridiculous. >> no extra credits! no one gets extra credit! probably the only income person who took organic chemistry on this couch, there is a high failure rate in organic chemistry, because it is so difficult. but that is kind of want to be

. >> sandra: marc thiessen last hour on this program sounding off on john fetterman's refusal to releaseedical records. his health is a huge concern after a stroke in may and now more questions after he did an interview with nbc that left even the reporter talking. bryan, this was a rare in-person interview for fetterman. >> rare, considering here at everybody at fox are trying to get interviews with him, fetterman said he's getting better every day, he can do the job of senator and insists he's been transparent about his health. >> in front of thousands of people and having interviews and talking about issues with people and going around all across pennsylvania. i believe -- i believe that's transparency. >> what about voters that say that's not enough, we have more questions. >> well, that's, i guess, will be decided on election day. >> but we have not heard from your doctors in six months. >> but you've seen from me every day, and you've seen our campaign going, you know, all across pennsylvania and having -- >> that interview was done using closed captioning because fetterman is stil

"the washington post" columnist marc thiessen and seth kite political reporter for axios.ady adding to the inflation concerns for people around the country. >> very much so. when gas prices were going up, blamed vladimir putin gas prices going down he took credit. as we just saw gas prices are going up again and guess what out comes vladimir putin again. if you want to take gas prices when gas prices are falling then you have to take the blame when gas prices are going up. here's the dirty little secret is that democrats really want high gas prices. they don't want the political blowback from high gas prices but it's part of their strategy to get us to give up fossil fuels like the government raised the price of cigarettes to give up smoking. they want gas prices to. >> bret: just not before midterm. >> you had pete buttigieg was on cavuto today and he said we are taking all these temporary measures to spro, encouraging venezuela and russia and all these other people to saudi arabia continue to crease but if they really cared about long-term keeping gas prices down, they w

marc thiessen was on this morning and he said this is the -- the best example yet at just how out of touch they are with voters. listen. >> so when biden says the economy is strong as hell most people look at him and say what planet are you living on. i choose between gas and food, heating my home and paying my rent. >> sandra: sadly it's a reality for too many americans today. >> nancy pelosi has been pretty brazen about the way she talks of these things outloud, a few years ago talking about giving people more food stamps and multiplier effect. a poor person $2 in food stamps, they would spend 2.50, so if we can get them out to the stores they'll spend even more and be even poorer and she has gotten away with it. to marc's point, last week the federal reserve has 12 regions and all go up, and for years month of the -- mostly to businesses. now they go to communities. he i found this fascinating. new york, community perspective, many residents have difficult affording heat and other utilities as winter approaches, sorry. housing affordability and food insecurity is the ongoing conce