all right. we re following a lot of developments here, including, getting ready for the republican convention right now. donald trump, of course, ready to accept his party s nomination and maybe he ll be campaigning in pennsylvania about his running mate? maybe too soon to tell. on the other side is, well, joe biden and dealing with a bit of a rift in his party and it might be an understatement and 19 democrats, and joe, it s time to go. he s trying to convince more democrats not to and lucas has more. speaking in a rally in detroit, more questions about president biden s mental acuity surfaced when the president appeared to forget the name of michigan congresswoman debbie dingell, he s known for decades. congresswoman debby haley by the way, i ve spent a lot of time with debby and she s helped me a lot and i forget which event we were at and someone said, you re his wife, aren t you? because she looks like jill, my wife. of course, neil, debby s late husband was th
bill: is so a senior defense official disputing data, and fox news is told that they work done after the request of them defense secretary mark esper and that those conversations were far from secret with more than a dozen people on the line. dana: lawmakers will get a chance to grill milley on all this when he appears before the senate armed services committee on september 28th. in the meantime president biden s data bound is chairman of the joint chief. speak also to general millie do the right thing? thank you. president biden: i have great confidence in general milley. he is a man of honor, he s a man who has patriotism and his fidelity to the constitution. dana: former u.n. ambassador nikki haley is he there reaction. but first let s go to the pentagon. lucas tomlinson is standing by. some of the same people who didn t believe anything that bob was writing about president trump believe everything he said about general milley. those calls to the pentagon wer
citizens left behind enemy lines in afghanistan as i speak. we have six airplanes that the airport. with american citizens on them. as i speak. also with these interpreters. and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands. julie: we have fox team coverage. trey yingst is in kotter dominic qatar. first, we go to benjamin from london. there are actually conflicting reports. yes, the taliban say they have full control, and they have released images showing the amount of the governor s office, but the national resistance say that they still control all of the main strategic areas. there is a small glimmer of hope that right now for them. less of a hope, perhaps, and for the americans on board trying to escape afghanistan. this news broke yesterday when congressman michael mccaul claimed that the taliban is now holding these american citizens and allies hostage by blocking the planes leaving the airport in northern afghanistan. he says that they are there sitting on board
said is very hard to watch. the new video just released. here it is. these two men wanted in connection with the violent mugging. it shows them getting on subway after one of them beat a 68-year-old man unconscious. they left him for dead on a brooklyn sidewalk. that was on one coast. in oakland, california former democratic senator barbara boxer was attacked and robbed yesterday afternoon. claudia cohen leads our coverage in california. the former senator joining the growing ranks of bay area crime victims after being mugged in broad daylight near a busy dining and retail area along the city s waterfront and not far from a building where boxer has an apartment. she was alone taking her daily walk around her neighborhood and talking on her cell phone. she tells fox a filliate she was then approached by a young man who got out of a black sedan double parked. i tried to cross the street and get away and he slammed me on the back and reached across me. he was behind me and
not wearing masks and they think they will come and do something. they have done a couple of things. some of the legislation has been stripped out that they disliked so they were effective there. they won t be effective here and they ll get arrested. you don t go to jail, just back to work. bill: what the governor says we ll arrest you but they ll take them to the state house and pass this. the problem is we don t know when this is. in the meantime for today there will be a press conference in washington, d.c. they are getting all kinds of attention and follow it. dana: president biden giving a speech as well. dana: nearly 60 texas legislators. going to hold a news conference in washington, d.c. in an hour to urge congress to federalize elections nationwide. bill: the second time this year the texas democrats have walked out in order to try to block republican voting legislation. senator cornyn on that. it s a very untexan thing to do to cut and run in the face of a