ocean to prevent burns. steve: right. a dozen people jumped into the pacific and had to be rescued by the coast guard. when you think of hawaii, because it s surrounded by water you never really think about fire. ainsley: so beautiful there. have you been to maui, brian? brian: yeah. ainsley: some of the prettiest property i have ever seen. brian: we will see what happens as it develops. steve: one of the reasons the fire spread so quickly, and i was just watching janice dean a couple minutes ago the hurricane skated just to the south. 70, 80 mile-per-hour winds, the islands are crisp. it s terrible. ainsley: pray for our friends there. steve: more on that coming up in about 25 minutes. meanwhile, president biden gave his first response to testimony from hunter biden s former business partner, devon archer. ainsley: his remarks come as house republicans release the bank records that appear to show big money, huge money payouts to hunter from these foreign power broker
republicans stand on principles we don t look at picking at each other. ainsley: campaign ads bread and butter issues. constitutional originalist. tell us more about your platform. so with my platform with my unique skill set i m going to stress how i foreign policy i worked in the pentagon. i understand the appropriations process i understand how we are funded working on the president s budget when i was at the pentagon. i understand what we need to do economically. domestically, american families are hurting. ainsley: yeah. that s the number one issue, inflation. everything is so expensive right now. colonel grady, thank you so much for joining us. god bless you. thank you for serving our country. thank you. and please have folks go to grady for nevada.com and learn more about me. aim high, nevada. ainsley: thank you. okay. carley has more headlines for us. carley: terrible news out of ecuador, ainsley. ecuadorian presidential
dinner someone is going to come out and say that s not true. devon archer has basically said. this devin said he was there for the brand. we used his brand. he was the vice president. no, his son didn t have experience. he was on these boards but we used him as the brand to get to the vice president. and then all of a sudden, a billion dollars goes to the ukraine for aid. and if you follow so what happened yesterday is the republicans released these new bank statements it provides screenshots of the bank records. steve: a lot of the stuff we heard. steve: now we got little numbers. ainsley: 33,000, 83,000 every month. it was once a month that devon archer and hunter biden were getting. brian: about a million dollars a year. so they have this russian oligarch, yes lena baturina.
behind the last student didn t get home until just before 10:00 p.m. if you can believe it. but that s a different story in central florida where bus drivers did test runs yesterday before today s first day of school. officials say they are ready to roll despite nationwide staffing issues. those are your headlines. i can t believe, ainsley, that some kids didn t get home until almost 10:00 p.m. ainsley: i can t believe school is back in session. it s august 10th. down there it s so hot in florida. i like it up here because we don t start school until after labor day. you will see this when your son gets older. it s really nice enjoy summer. start early because it gets hot early. ainsley: that s true. mayor eric adams offering no solutions to the migrant mayhem in the big apple. how one restaurant owner is taking matters into his own hands. robo cop in town. new security guard patrolling ohio malls. it s dubbed the secret agent
bidens. it looks bad. brian: and for joe. steve: here what happens they do. it s hard to subpoena a president of the united states because of separation of powers. in front of the house. subpoena hunter biden and don t do one of these closed door depos. people need to see this televised. you need to see him answer the questions. and if he says something that disqualifies joe biden, you know what? the democrats would have time to replace him on the ticket. ainsley: the hard part is for americans is we re watching this family get away with so much. steve: we don t know what they have gotten away with yet. ainsley: americans believe there is a smoking gun. there is something that they re going to reveal. have they done that yet, maybe not. brian: they are there. ainsley: they are working their way toward that. brian: can we just hear john sullivan, he was on last night. he breaks it down. watch. you mentioned the russian oligarch baturina. she drops a million dollars