sandra: thank you. fox news alert any moment now president biden will be meeting with union leaders. later he hosts world leaders and tomorrow he is scheduled for what the white house is calling his big boy press conference. all eyes on his every move as he looks to prove to his own divided party that he has what it takes to beat donald trump and serve another four years in office. i m sandra smith in for harris, both house and senate democrats met yesterday. some describes the hours-long chats as rough and said. plenty of headlines paint the pictures. democrats panic about biden but do nothing. dems split an biden s survival strategy. biden s support on capitol hill uncertain. cracks in the dem party are evident as biden s campaign shatters. house democrat steve cohen with this democrat are you on the same page? no. what do you mean you re not on the same page? not even in the same book. sandra: colorado senator michael bennett is now the upper chamber s first de
steve: good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 here on the couch in new york city. welcome back, ainsley. ainsley: thank you, to you too. steve: today is july #th, 2024 and welcome to fox & friends. we start with a fox weather alert. hurricane beryl making landfall in the past hour in texas a cat 1 storm just about an hour ago. we tracked the maps straight ahead. ainsley: and a fox news alert. another storm brewing this one on capitol hill as congress is returning to d.c. today. four senior democrats join a call for biden to step aside after, first the debate and then that abc interview. the specific cognitive test and have you had a neurologist, a specialist do an examination? no, no one said i had to. guy: okay. democrats meanwhile not the only ones scrambling. the media suddenly singing a very different tune just a few months after going to bat repeatedly for biden. remember all of this? very lucid, very well informed. he speaks quietly and a little bit slowly
ainsley: good morning, 7:00 a.m. on the east coast monday, july 8th and this is fox & friends. we begin with a fox news alert. lawmakers returning to capitol hill today as president biden faces a pivotal week for his future. as four senior democrats join the call for biden to step aside last night and long-time party insiders are giving a brutal reality check. the president just doesn t seem to come to he hasn t come to grips with it. is he not winning this race. guy: this all coming as a new op-ed says it s time to get used to the idea of president kamala harris. even praising the v.p. s work on the border, of all things. steve: i have got read about that. and a fox weather alert. hurricane beryl is making landfall in texas at this moment as a cat 1 hurricane. we track the mess. live report from the scenes straight ahead. the second hour of fox & friends starts right now steve all right. we start with this. fox news alert. for senior democrats are reportedly jo
an economic and national security crisis. but for president biden, the chaos is doing something different. he wasn t counting on it. it is making americans take another look at if they want to reelect him. fox polling shows voters trust former president trump to do a better job on immigration by a double digit margin. look at your screen. 18 points difference here. we will monitor the news conference by ice officials and keep you updated. more breaking news right now. court action on donald trump s georgia election interference case. it is the first hearing since the judge decided to leave left leaning district attorney fani willis on the case. of course, there was a catch. fani willis had to ditch her former lover and lead prosecutor nathan wade. she called him a southern gentleman and he was cheating on his wife. anyway, with wade gone, the case moves on. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. arguments are underway on motions to dismiss the case from trum
joe biden was the brand that powered interest in his family s foreign business dealings. tony bobulinski is the main witness in the house gop s ongoing impeachment inquiry into president biden. absent on the hill hunter biden. this is the faulkner focus. i m sandra smith in for harris today. hunter and devon archer denied the committee s invitation. his lawyer writing to oversiecht chair. hunter biden declines your invitation to the carnival side show. it is not a proper proceeding but an obvious attempt to throw a hail mary pass after the game has ended. chairman comer just this morning. hunter biden demanded a public hearing. i ve given him one. maybe he will show up. he has said he isn t but he loves saying one thing and doing another. at some point it begins to reflect poorly on his afwoilt tell the truth at all. this hearing is not about hunter biden. this investigation is not about hunter biden. it is about joe biden and the lies he continues to tell the american pe