i'm mike emanuel. it's been a pleasure. "fox news primetime" hosted by ben domenech starts right now. tossing it town the hall to ben. have a great show. >> ben: thank you, mike. appreciate it good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime." >> ben: the irony of the term woke is that it is designed to keep you asleep. asleep to the reality of what's going on around you, sedated from having to do anything to fix a real problem. woke messaging demands you obey and break faith with your heritage of freedom. it also serves as a religion that demands little more than that obedience. so, to take just one example of thousands that surround us, wokeness means you don't have to ask the hard questions about how public schools fail black and hispanic americans.

i'm mike emanuel on busy sunday afternoon. team coverage in afghanistan with kevin corke at the white house and trey yingst in the middle east. trey, let's start with you. trey: mike, good afternoon. as we speak taliban forces are working their way through the afghan capital of kabul. we have seen images of fighters in the streets taking over portions of the presidential palace and as you noted, we have confirmed afghan president ghani fled the country leaving behind what we are seeing to be an extremely chaotic scene. right now the u.s. embassy in kabul has moved to the airport as evacuations continue and they have ordered at this moment to have all americans still on the ground to shelter in place amid reports to have airport taking fire. now, earlier today this facility completely overwhelmed as the u.s. military works to evacuate its personnel and the embassy personnel. but also some extremely concerning images outside of the capital of kabul. we saw air base a position where u.s. troops were stationed for nearly 20 years,

i'm jacqui heinrich. >> i'm mike emanuel. we have fox team coverage.nd rick reichmuth is live in the fox weather center. rick, let's start with you. >> actually, it's adam klotz. adam, good afternoon. >> good afternoon. rick and i switched off. a long day ahead of us and we will be tracking this throughout the course of the day. the center of circulation is off to the west of grand aisle. the grand aisle's been getting it for a couple of hours many we have the inner and outer eyewall, two areas where there's powerful winds at the moment and lightning on the south side of the eyewall, areas where it's been powerful so far. now that this has run on-ground, still moving to the northwest at 13 miles an hour, beginning to slow down. that's going to be the story, not just over the next couple hours but all the way to tomorrow morning, this will stay a powerful storm. it's going to slow down. as it slows down, that gives more time for damage to pile

the chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has more. mike?ith millions of american parents. with the return to school to fall this year. miguel cardona emphasized vaccinate children 12 and older and using the $130 billion in american rescue plan funds to help schools with reopening. he also emphasized protecting the health and safety of students and teachers. >> we're now experiencing an increase in the delta variant. this uptick is concerning. the difference this year is that we can control the virus. >> part of his pitch is having children wearing masks in school even though there are some parents that worry about the health effects of children wearing masks all day long. >> we're not out of the woods yet. if we get vaccinated and we keep using science-based prevention strategies, we can be. we cannot let mask fatigue pride or politics get in the write a of doing what is right for our students. >> a critical component of return to in-person learning, cardona needs the teacher's union on board to return to the classroom. >> we have to open s

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i'm mike emanuel on busy sunday afternoon. orke at the white house and trey yingst in the middle east. trey, let's start with you. trey: mike, good afternoon. as we speak taliban forces are wo

i'm mike emanuel. it's been a pleasure. ben. have a great show. >> ben: thank you, mike. appreciate it good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime." >> ben: the irony of the term woke is that it is designed to keep you asleep. asleep to the reality of what's going on around you, sedated from having to do anything to fix a real problem. woke messaging demands you obey and break faith with your heritage of freedom. it also serves as a religion that demands little more than that obedience. so, to take just one example of thousands that surround us, wokeness means you don't have to ask the hard questions about how public schools fail black

street in new orleans leaving five people wounded early this morning welcome to fox news live i am mike emanuel hair ween footage from the video live camera showing crowds running to safety after repeated gunshot charles watson has everything that we know, good afternoon. good afternoon the shooting happened around 3:00 o'clock this morning on a very crowded bourbon street, what we can see video circulating around social media seems like any other weekend night on bourbon street people enjoying themselves in the moments later. chaos, the cell phone video huge crowds of people literally running for their lives scrambling to find cover as a barrage of gunshots let off near bourbon and orleans street at least five people wounded by the gunfire at this hour we do not know the extent of their injuries, however, according to local reports none of the injuries are life-threatening the newer lanes police department says it has detained one person in searching for others but it's not clear any connection that those people have to the shooting, new orleans like many other cities across the country of a p

>> shannon: mike emanuel here in washington. thanks, mike.and local governments are adjusting their virus policies in new york city a new vaccine requirement is prompting worries over the possibility of fraud. correspondent aishah hasnie reports tonight from new york. >> do you mind showing me your vaccine card? >> as new york leads the nation in requiring proof of vaccination to get into public indoor spaces, some are wondering how the city will enforce the new rules. >> people fake shots. all the bars have to say i saw they showed me something. >> authorities across the country facing a growing problem of counterfeit covid vaccination cards like this stack sell for 40 bucks on offer up in texas. and right now the fbi is reportedly investigating a fake vaccine card scheme in chicago. we found there's a whole marketplace on the dark web for these dos driven by demand from people who are still hesitant to gets the rack vaccine. cybersecurity experts say it's incredibly easy to scam our system because unlike some other countries our vaccination

. >> i'm mike emanuel. we have fox team coverage. jeff paul is on the ground in new orleans and rick reichmuth is live in the fox weather center. rick, let's start with you. >> actually, it's adam klotz. adam, good afternoon. >> good afternoon. rick and i switched off. a long day ahead of us and we will be tracking this throughout the course of the day. the center of circulation is off to the west of grand aisle. the grand aisle's been getting it for a couple of hours many we have the inner and outer eyewall, two areas where there's powerful winds at the moment and lightning on the south side of the eyewall, areas where it's been powerful so far. now that this has run on-ground, still moving to the northwest at 13 miles an hour, beginning to slow down. that's going to be the story, not just over the next couple hours but all the way to tomorrow morning, this will stay a powerful storm. it's going to slow down. as it slows down, that gives more time for damage to pile up, for winds to pile up, damage, for rain to pile up also. winds r

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week now left before that august 31st target date for the complete military withdrawal as foxes mike emanuel tells us this afternoon there is increasing pressure here in the us to extend that timeline but taliban leaders want the white house to honor it. over the weekend busloads of afghan refugees arrived in northern virginia with little more than the clothes on their back they managed to escape from an increasingly dangerous situation on the ground at kabul's airport where on monday a gunman shot at afghan security forces guarding the gate. one afghan died. no us personnel were hurt the violence putting new urgency into evacuation efforts we have been very clear that we are not leaving americans who want to return home. we are going to bring them home, the white house says a target date of august 31st and the taliban is calling that date a red line, so the pace is picking up. the administration says at least 28 flights carrying more than 10,000 people took off sunday the most yet but a spokesman either does not know or won't say exactly how many americans still have to be flown out i think

fox news mike emanuel is in washington tonight with the latest on where the deal stands. budget votes on infrastructure and the proposed $3.5 trillion budget resolution are expected in just another week, but democrats remain divided over how to move forward. progressives insists the robust budget reconciliation bill. must be included to earn their support. but in a letter to the speaker friday, the leader of nine moderate democrats called for a vote on infrastructure to come. first writing quote, we simply can't afford months of unnecessary delays. what we fear is, if we wait months, this will never get done sunday, speaker pelosi worked to unify her colleagues, reiterating a vote on the bipartisan bill will come the week of august 23rd, followed by the budget resolution, whatever it is at the end of the day. it will be one of the biggest initiatives that any of us has ever participated. in meantime, some republicans say both proposals are too expensive, particularly as the u. s works to combat rising inflation amid an ongoing pandemic. we are hopeful that this is going t

>> mike emanuel at the state department. thank you. that displaced by the collapse of afghanistan. that, as you can imagine is a daunting task especially since many families have no prior ties to the u.s. correspondent david spunt whose us how this complex process works from the justice department hundreds of afghans in the u.s. following flights out of kabul. >> five flights landed at dulles international airport with approximately 1300 passengers. >> according to the state department, vetting is well underway before afghan evacuees land on american soil. >> there f. there are afghans that need to be evacuated before vetted we have third country partners working with us in this effort. >> the departments of defense, state, homeland security and fbi all work in coordination using a national data base but sometimes there are hiccups. >> not all those databases talk to each other so these are to be done sometimes independently of each other these databases can be siloed. >> even noe though afghans new lives in the united states connectio

month, if possible if necessary but the taliban is pushing back on that notion mike emanuel has more from the state department in washington. for now, the kabul airport is still humming with flights out of afghanistan and president biden has pledged they'll continue until every last american who wants out is out our hope is we will not have to extend. but they're going to be discussions i suspect on how far along we are in the process but it's a dicey situation with reports on monday that a fire fight broke out at an airport gate and critics say it's clear more time is needed if we're going to be out by august, 31, which is just a week from the morrow. that means that the military is going to start rolling up shopping heading out before then, and we're going to leave our countrymen behind. but right now the taliban is calling the shots and the group calls august 31st a red line saying any extension will provoke a reaction we've seen the public statements by the taliban spokesman about their views on the 31st of august i think we all understand that view for the lucky ones who have go

fox news mike emanuel is in washington with the latest on where the deal stands.s on infrastructure and the proposed $3.5 trillion budget resolution are expected in just another week. but democrats remain divided over how to move forward. progressives insists the robust budget reconciliation bill must be included to earn their support. but in a letter to the speaker friday, the leader of nine moderate democrats called for a vote on infrastructure to come. first writing quote, we simply can't afford months of unnecessary delays. what we fear is, if we wait months, this will never get done sunday, speaker pelosi work to unify her colleagues reiterating a vote on the bipartisan bill will come the week of august. 23rd followed by the budget resolution, whatever it is at the end of the day. it will be one of the biggest initiatives that any of us has ever participated. in meantime, some republicans say both proposals are too expensive, particularly as the u. s works to combat rising inflation amid an ongoing pandemic. we are hopeful that this is going to be somewhat de

mike emanuel is in washington with the latest on where the deal stands.cture and the proposed $3.5 trillion budget resolution are expected in just another week. but democrats remain divided over how to move forward. progressives insists the robust budget reconciliation bill must be included to earn their support. but in a letter to the speaker friday, the leader of nine moderate democrats called for a vote on infrastructure to come. first writing quote, we simply can't afford months of unnecessary delays. what we fear is, if we wait months, this will never get done sunday, speaker pelosi work to unify her colleagues reiterating a vote on the bipartisan bill will come the week of august. 23rd followed by the budget resolution. whatever it is, at the end of the day, it will be one of the biggest initiatives that any of us has ever participated. in the meantime, some republicans say both proposals are too expensive, particularly as the u. s works to combat rising inflation amid an ongoing pandemic. we are hopeful that this is going to be somewhat derailed in

i'm mike emanuel. now back to "watters' world." jesse: now for a new edition of crime watch.oss the country, especially in cities that defunded the police. some big cities are starting to panic, crying for more help. but it's too late. no one wants to be a copyright now. retirements are at an all-time high. >> let me tell you something. let me tell you something. jesse: gunfire in philadelphia after a wild fight between two dudes, a famous spot for tourists. it started over a parking spot. but the gunman said it was self-defense. here to analyze, former philadelphia police officer nick gerace. >> i have had many steaks down there. we have a situation where calmer heads should have prevailed. mainstream media was quick to jump over it saying a white person shot a black person. but you see pedro is the aggressor. you see him charging from probably 10 yard away. when you are in a physical altercation like that. pennsylvania law states if you feel your life is threatened or serious bodily harm can happen to you, you have the wright to defend yourself. so when you go off screen, y

as mike emanuel pointed out, she's said we're committed to getting the kids back in school.nk anybody will feel the full certainty until the kids are back in the classroom full day. i'm sure a lot of changes will happen before the doors open, john. all right. next up, it's a story, john, i know that you're hot on and been waiting for. the olympic gold medal is getting praised for actually praising america. that's coming up. ♪♪ (vo) the rule in business used to be, "location, location, location." now it's, "network, network, network." so you need a network that's built right. verizon business unlimited starts with america's most reliable network. then we add the speed of verizon 5g. we provide security that's made for business and offer plans as low as $30 per line. more businesses choose verizon than any other network. we are open and ready for you. voiceover: riders. wanderers on the road of life. the journey is why they ride. when the road is all you need, there is no destination. uh, i-i'm actually just going to get an iced coffee. well, she may have a destination this on

chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has a story for us tonight. >> the story is recessed canwe want one standard when it comes to voting in america and that's the american standard. >> texas democrats being joined by allies from other states. three democrats testing positive for covid. the trip estimated around $1.5 million, though the group consists they are not using taxpayer money to be in washington. a modest crowd urging action out of federal voting rights bills. legislators from places like pennsylvania, michigan, arizona. >> arizonans are tired of the extremist legislators in our state passing laws that deny our freedom to vote. >> state legislators are joined by democrats in the united states senate, democrats involved in this fight are dealing with some calendar pressure. due to leave at the end of the week. allies in the u.s. senate played to the crowd. >> should've been busy trying to suppress the violence, they were busy trying to suppress your votes. >> these voter suppression bills are about white supremacy. one of the many reasons we have to stop them or overri

mike emanuel is live in d.c. they're coming in from all over? >> absolutely, dana.tion. the legislators from session ditched a special session of their legislature three weeks ago. not an easy trip. six democrats testing positive for covid but they're defending their move to be in washington instead of austin. >> why did we ring the alarm? why are we raising the concern about what's going on in texas? well, it's not just happening in texas, it is happening across our country. we have seen the concerted effort in various states to pass legislation that would limit access to the ballot. >> texas governor greg abbott firing back i'll keep calling special sessions until we address every emergency item. foster care, bail reform. the democrats' decision to break form. as for congress the u.s. senate is still in town. the house is due to be out until the end of august. dana. >> dana: mike emanuel, thank you. >> bill: police officers in washington state now facing a dramatic shift in the way they do their jobs. nearly a dozen new police reform and accountability laws take e

mike emanuel joins us now live at the state department. mike? >> martha, good afternoon. state department officials say the first flight of afghan refugees left africa headed to the united states. they're the lucky ones. it's also been deadly in some cases though we don't have a formal number in terms of the number of fatalities at this point. tensions expected to build as the united states faces an august 31 deadline to leave afghanistan and now americans and interpreters are fearing for their leave. a key senate republican is sounding this alarm. >> we're at risk of leaving thousands behind taliban lines. if we're out by august 31 a week from tomorrow that means the military will have to roll up shop and head out before then. we're going to leave our country men behind. >> they say "our commitment to at-risk afghans doesn't end august 31. whatever the commitment is, we won't stop our efforts to bring out anyone in the categories that i've listed who wants to come out of afghanistan." the reality is the united states is not calling the shots there. the secretary state sa

chief washington correspondent mike emanuel tells us how it might work. >> entering the country illegallywyer on the taxpayer dime. president biden 2022 budget requests $22 million provide lawyers for the asylum cases. in $23 million wired to cover legal orientation programs administered by the justice department. >> it's not the time to come and try to go through irregular migrations. we want to have an effective process where you can apply asylum, where you can apply for legal status. >> fox news learned that justice department awarded nearly 80 million dollar and government contracts to the varied institute for legal services at the border. the money focused on helping unaccompanied minors. >> it would be a fiscal bottomless pit. >> they studied the issue and notes that this would give illegal immigrants rights american citizens do not have. >> you think about the cost the attorneys sees and the hours spent in consultation and preparation come aboard time, it's thousands of dollars just for a deportation defense. >> current law allows migrants to receive representation from attorneys f

. ♪ >> mike: i'm mike emanuel in for bret baier.e officials to institute and contemplate more restrictions and fueling resurgence in vaccinations sparking resistance to any new government action to people saying they have had enough. fox team coverage. rich edson at the state department with exclusive news about another possible link to the wuhan lab in china. anita vogel washington bureau with pictures ofhe

welcome to fox news live i am mike emanuel and we have fox team coverage with alex hogan, brian yanezk, rick let's start with you. we talk a lot about the hurricane season we are just

chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has the story tonight from the state department. >> backm the august 31st withdrawal deadline. the state department is scrambling to get americans and afghan partners out. >> we're conducting thorough security screening in the intermediate stops they are making for anyone who is not a u.s. citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the united states. >> there are several thousand americans still in afghanistan who want to get out and it's not clear what happens to them if u.s. forces cannot fly them out before the dead line. some lawmakers say the biden administration is failing in this critical mission. >> president biden needs to step up and tell anybody in the world that our top priority is protecting american lives. we're not going to operate by the time line of some terrorist dictatorship. >> thousands of afghans who have gotten out have been exposed to unsanitary conditions at the air base in doha. sullivan warped officials at the state department and pentagon about dire conditions at doha describing a life threatening humanitarian dis

joining us now, mike emanuel.etween mitch mcconnell voting on this thing and taking off pro-vaccination ads on kentucky radio stations, he's getting good press which is rare for the republican senator leader. >> most media folks don't care for mitch mcconnell. he's not a sound bite machine. he tells you exactly what mitch mcconnell wants you to know and not flowery sound bites. they see him as an obstacle to the joe biden and chuck schumer agenda. when he is one of 17 to start the infrastructure package and is pushing americans to get vaccinated, a moment of good press for mitch mcconnell. we'll see how long it lasts, howie. howie: mcconnell doesn't famously care for what the media thinks. this package could collapse on infrastructure, it's not really paid for. after months on life support the president is giving -- press is giving president biden a lot of kudos because he campaigned on the idea of working across the aisle. >> this plays into the narrative that president biden likes out there and his white house t

administration hold classified briefings for relevant committees this week at the state department, mike emanuel. fox news a new poll finds that 63% of adults surveyed approve the us withdrawing troops from afghanistan but 53% disapprove of president biden's handling of the withdrawal 44% told pollsters with cbs and yougov that it is going very badly and 59% say the us is not doing enough to help afghan allies escaped the country. still to come here at 5 30, the new child care juggle that many families are facing as some kids potentially exposed to the coronavirus head home from school in quarantine and what brought out a large police presence near san francisco's delores park today including the bomb squad plus an update on the calle door fire in el dorado county which has now become the number one fire incident in the country. will take a look at where all that smokes going. and warm up that's headed our i'm morgan, and there's more to me than hiv. more love, more adventure, more community. but with my hiv treatment, there's not more medicines in my pill. i talked to my doctor and switched to

i'm mike emanuel. jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich. thank you so much for watching. ♪ arthel: this is a fox news alert and our continuing coverage of hurricane ida, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the u.s. is now pummeling louisiana, after making landfall two hours ago, we are standing by for a live update by the way from president biden who is visiting fema headquarters in washington, also louisiana governor john bel edwards is also expected to give a briefing from baton rouge. you're looking at live pictures there in the french quarter where you can debris on the streets there on south peters. we are going to cover both of those events for you. meanwhile, the national weather service warns the damage from ida could be, quote, catastrophic. hello, welcome to "fox news live." i'm arthel neville. eric: hi, thank you for joining us with the late breaking news. i'm eric shawn. hurricane ida came ashore just before noon local time as a category 4 monster, sustained winds just under category 5, 150 miles per hour. thousands of g

welcome to fox news live i am mike emanuel and we have fox team coverage with alex hogan, brian yanezconnecticut and fox weather chief meteorologist rick, rick let's start with you. we talk a lot about the hurricane season we are just getting in towards the hurricane season september 11, this week we have tropical storm make landfall in florida and bring saturating rain across parts of the northeast that will be impacted by what was hurricane henri and now tropical storm henri anand hurricane grace made to lynn falls in mexico the second one as a major hurricane and really active. and nothing intimate that were watching was get that out of the way. this is what were looking at from henri most of the moisture, in fact all of the moisture from the west side of the storm not on the east side the rain that is good news for boston and cape cod but the storm surge coming in buzzards bay fortunately not coinciding with the high tide cycle which is really good news. you notice all the moisture across much of connecticut is rain and windy wins 30 - 40 miles per hour and that will cause potenti

mike emanuel is live in washington, d.c. with more on this. is brand-new. one expert described to me this effort is a fiscal bottomless pit treating illegal migrants better than american citizens. providing legal services at the expense of the taxpayers could balloon to massive amounts of money. current law says migrants seeking asylum are entitled to attorneys. they've awarded $80 million in contracts most focused on legal services for unaccompanied minors. the white house message continues to be immigrants should come to america legally. >> it is not the time to come and try to go through a regular migration. we want to have an effective process where you can apply for asylum, where you can apply for legal status. >> the heritage foundation did a study on this issue noting the immigration and nationality act gives aliens the privilege of counsel at no expense to the government and removal proceedings and administrative appeal. the no expense to the government is sound. it must be maintained. taxpayers should not pay for legal counsel for alie