marc thiessen will join us at the desk as well. you know, in terms of these other cases, juan, i'm sure you heard the news from senator grassley last night. that he says that something was withheld from the documents that was given to the oversight committee with regard to this question of the biden family and their dealings in ukraine. that the burisma executives says he has 17 tapes that he kept for some kind of insurance after his conversations with then vice president biden and then hunter biden as well. what is your reaction to that and what do you want to know in terms of how we're getting to the bottom of that investigation? >> well, i mean, to me, what i see is that there's a tremendous attempt by people who are now aligning themselves with president trump to throw up smoke and mirrors and conspiracy theories and let's go back to cases that were previously investigated. in the case of this one, a case that was investigated under the trump administration by attorney general barr. they did not authorize further investigation

marc thiessen, thank you for getting up early. do you mean that? think you do. >> marc: i do, any time you want me. >> steve: thank you. 22 before top of the hour and carley joins us with sober news in the world of television and religion. >> carley: fox news alert, religious broadcaster and former presidential candidate, robertson has died. he hosted for 60 years before retiring in 2021 and ran for the republican party nomination in 1988, losing to event nominee george h.w.bush. robertson passed away at his home in virginia beach, at 93 years old. another fox news alert, joran van der sloot, main system in disappearance of natalee holloway is handed over to the fbi and will be headed to the united states after losing an extradition appeal. he will face charges in federal court in natalee holloway's home state. holloway was last seen in 2000 knife in arubba, leaving a nightclub with van der sloot and declared legally dead in 2012. protesters gather after state's governor signed bill on transgender healthcare for children and transgender participatio

sideline reporter michelle tafoya, and marc thiessen. we begin with senate republicans, who are demanding attorney general merrick garland appoint special counsel to investigate the biden family's foreign business dealings. allegations of joe biden taking vibes during his time as vice president is at the center. chuck grassley claims a burisma executive paid biden and his son 5 million each, not directly, remember that nebulous web of entities at the center of this. the executive has voicemails to prove it. >> the foreign national who allegedly bribed joe and hunter allegedly has audio recordings of conservations with them. 17 such recordings. the recordings were kept as sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case he got in a tight spot. >> kayleigh: the white house dismissing the allegations. karine jean-pierre was quick to deflect pressing questions at yesterday's briefing. >> is the white house aware of recordings of the president speaking to burisma. >> the president spoke about this at thursday press conference and i w

if you don't catch a wave get out and let one person take him on. >> dana: marc thiessen. >> dana: we have news. you can mark your calendar now, rnc set a date for the first republican presidential debate. it will be august 23rd, a wednesday night. we'll be hosting it on fox happening in milwaukee where they will hold their nominating convention next year. mark your calendars for that. >> bill: historic church goes up in flames. how the devastating fire may have started in the first place. plus the new frontiers of artificial intelligence and augmented reality. are they shaping your world for better or for worse? the money man charles payne going to be here to break it all down for us. >> dana: with the best walk-on. ♪ f you just take a few seconds to pray with me real quick. in the name of the father and son, holy spirit. amen. lord jesus, come to us now. help us to surrender ourselves completely to you. help us to listen to your voice. even when we're distracted or tired, we pray this in the name of the father and of the son of the holy spirit. amen. thank you so much. i

marc thiessen, former speech writer for president bush, and marc, he got the oceans right about the railroad but he said dictator, china wigged out about it, but they make it their business to complain every time they can about the u.s. >> yeah, first of all, if you are right, john, we saw the only leader who takes questions from the president joe biden. so a remarkable event. i just thought stunning having worked in the white house six years to see a conference, one question from the u.s. reporter and one from the indian reporter, that's all you guess. i guess that's where we are today. india is a hugely important country and a country, one of the rare areas bipartisan agreement. in 2019 when modi came to the united states, president trump had a rally in houston for him with 50,000 people in the nrg stadium there, so he -- india is hugely important and hugely important in the context of china. we really, we have a strategic imperative to decouple our economy from china and to pull a lot of strategic things out of there. we can't bring all that manufacturing back to the united states, it's n

. >> for more on this, marc thiessen, i want to start with the economy before we turn topics.sandra's point, the wall street journal when they talked about biden economics, or bidenomics was not a positive term, and in this speech and you are a former speech writer, the president is trying to switch it around. >> next thing he's going to tell us it's morning in america again, give me a break. i would not be embracing the term if i was him and he's telling lies. says 90% of the jobs created under his watch are jobs that were recovering from the artificial job cuts of the pandemic that were shut down by government. the deficit, it's all because the end of deficit spending. so the problem with it is, if you are, from a presidential speech writer, americans are not feeling it. the polls show 34% approve of biden's economic policies. 30% say the economy is in good shape. when you say things that are contrary to the lived experience of americans, they just shut you out. they say this guy is out of touch and he already looks out of touch for a number of reasons, including age and inf

sideline reporter michelle tafoya, and marc thiessen. we begin with senate

marc thiessen had a great piece and talked about the spectrum of republican voters. he said, this is how it breaks down, according to him and he's very smart guy. 25% of the republicans are hard maga. they are just all in on trump. 25%. 50% are soft maga, he described them, as people who like trump's policies, but they could be persuaded and 25% are never trumpers. essentially what mike pence team is banking on and they will never get the hard maga, but appealing for the 50%. >> ainsley: curious what he says about the democratic party. you have bobby kennedy jr., who is getting a big chunk of the democrat party. he is moderate, went down to the border at 2:00, he has the border wall behind him, refreshing to see a democrat admit, maybe this is not safe. >> brian: ainsley did booking yesterday, mike pence, chris christie. i got call waiting. >> ainsley: i cannot take credit, we have bookers that are amazing, look at tomorrow. >> brian: three hours, the through newest candidates. >> steve: do they still have call waiting? >> ainsley: yeah. >> brian: i don't think ameri

marc thiessen former speech writer to george bush. good morning to you. the quote, i'm more political as much as i would love to get our money out of politics as long as the other side is doing it, we'll have to do it too. our side has to be better about more patriotic and inclusive. just because someone votes trump doesn't mean they're lost or racist. a lot in that quote there. what does it mean big picture, marc? >> i think the soros movement is doubling down on supporting left wing candidates. they've been enormously effective when it comes to electing the liberal prosecutors across the country. $40 million over a decade. not a lot of money but elected 75 liberal prosecutors around the country. one in five americans live under a soros prosecutor. how brilliant that is. rather than spending millions lobbying to change laws they don't like. they elect one person not to enforce them. a lot of these races are down ballot races. nobody is paying attention to in off years when there is low turn-off. invest a few million in these races you can elect one guy w

former presidential speech writer marc thiessen says alex 's influence shouldn't be taken lightly. >> he let one guy to enforce criminal justice reform by not prosecuting and they have had a 90% success rate. so if his son is going to double down on this we have a lot of problems coming to american cities. >> harris: is he going to double down? look at the pictures. is he cozy with the white house? take a look. 37-year-old alex keeps a busy political calendar and reportedly visited the white house at least 14 times in just over a year. and he is often seen posting pictures of himself. he is active on social media with powerful democratic politicians including one from just last week vice president kamala harris. fox business's kelly o'grady has more now from los angeles. kelly, good to see you. >> great to see you, too. the characterization of more political than his father. that will be a tall order to live up to especially given his father's reputation. in that first interview since taking reins of the $25 billion empire he shared this with the "wall street journal." i'm more politi

i want to get back to marc thiessen on biden's recent gaffe raising eyebrows. the 8,000 mile ocean train or bridge. call it whatever you want. when the president says he wants to build a railroad from the pacific ocean across the indian ocean. that's not just going off script as he talked about. it is going off the rails. i'm not talking about railroad rails here. >> yeah, it would be quite a feat of engineering if they were able to do that. this is why 68% of americans say they think joe biden is too old for another term. he -- the american people, both democrats and republicans, have expressed serious concerns about his age and physical and mental stamina for the job. if you look at how much he has declined over the last 18 months and imagine how much he can decline over the next 18 months before the next election. he could be in much worse shape going into the election and bad for democrats if he became more and more obviously unable to do the job. >> julie: imagine the job he is creating for the travel secretary. buttigieg will have to walk on water. i know

member of the editorial board at the "wall street journal" and "the washington post" columnist marc thiessene conversation or a shakedown, it's a fair question to ask if the president was involved. right? >> well, right. and we got this evidence that came out in particular that whatsapp message where hunter is threatening a chinese businessman saying my dad is right here and if you don't follow through on this commitment i will make sure he and all of his friends and you will regret it forever. oninteresting thing about that y the way, trace, we find out in these whistleblower testimonies that the irs wanted to follow up. they he wanted to do some work and see if biden, joe biden had actually been there by following cell signalings and trying to co-located. that was shut down as was a potential search of hunter's residence on joe biden's property. >> trace: they keep asking exactly where was joe biden on that day. i want to put this up on the screen. this is an attorney for hunter biden. christopher clark saying, quoting: biased and politically motivated selective leaks have plagued this mat

marc thiessen is the former speech writer to george w. bush and columnist and fox news contributor. we spoke of the legal implications of this with jonathan. i want to focus on the political stuff with you and the real world implications here. jonathan was talking about how a lot of students may feel hard done by coming out of this decision, rightly so. the president promised them thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars in loans would be relieved. that is not true and not happening. strikes me one thing that they could maybe console themselves with is that this might actually encourage somebody in the university system to fix the -- somebody in government to fix the underlying problem here, that universities continue to charge outlandish, outrageous amounts of money to receive basic education. >> very true. the student loan forgiveness and program what fueled a lot of cost inflation of college tuition to begin with. look, i think actually secretly the biden administration should be happy with this decision and here is why. he can say that he tried. but this plan if it act

before we get to lieutenant governor sears standing by, marc thiessen is here, a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and a fox news contributor. marc, good to have you with us today. some of the newest sound that we have just gotten in in this story is from calvin yang for students for fair admission saying that affirmative action blocked him from getting in harvard. here's what he had to say. watch. >> today's victory transcends far beyond those of us sitting in this room today. it belongs to thousands of sleepless high schoolers applying to colleges. it belongs to the overachieving son of a recently up employed west virginia coal miner. it belongs to those named smith or lee, chen or gonzalez. >> martha: very interesting from him today. obviously a lot at stake in this. marc, your take on this decision and what it will mean in the larger picture beyond universities in this country. >> yes. first of all, the left attacks the supreme court because it's out of step with the american people. guess what? 7 and 10 americans oppose considering race in university admissions.

let's bring in marc thiessen, former speech writer to president george w.x news contributor. and washington director of the ronald reagan foundation and institute. gentlemen, thank you for being here this morning. it comes out every year. you guys do this study. what surprised you? the support for ukraine is clearly here. there is also some worry about it. >> no doubt, bret. thank you for having me on. i think what surprised me is not that there are people who are worried about the support of ukraine using american taxpayer dollars to help kiev but when you give them information and tell them that 82% of the territory in ukraine is with ukraine and held onto the territory. the amount of money we've given amounts to 3% of the u.s. defense budget and that we depleted the russian military you see a huge swing 15 points or more saying it's worth it and support ukraine including republican voters. >> bret: what is in here, marc, americans believe the u.s. should withdraw international affairs and washington with -- meaning the priorities should be at home more a