Correspondent Alexis Mcadams starts us off live tonight from des moines, iowa. Good evening, alexis. Bret, good evening from des moines. We talked to lot of voters state fairgrounds fox power rankings. Amongst all the fried food and all the fun here in iowa. The main course still politics. Tim scott, i think he has got a very positive message i like donald trump. I voted for him. This time around its iffy. Trump is the only one that can get us out of this mess we gotten into. Iowa voters not surprised that former President Donald Trump came outer on top on the new latest power rankings. Maybe desantis but im Still Standing with trump. Florida Governor Ron Desantis remains in second place, though recent polls show that gap between him and trump is widening. And in most national polls, South Carolina senator tim scott is a distant third. I just dont think he is as wellknown unless you have really been following the senate. Right now scott the only other candidate to poll double dignity support in more than one state according to fox polls. The people are excited about an optimistic, positive message anchored in conservatism as long as you have a backbone. You do not have to be angry to win people over to a conservative proposition. Right now, Vivek Ramaswamy, nikki haley, and mike pence listed as in the conversation. I like mr. Pence, but i know he is running behind quite a ways. The thing that i have come to realize though traveling around the country is im wellknown but i dont think im known well. A new Fox News National survey shows half a dozen republican candidates are within striking distance of beating president joe biden. I would like to get a candidate that can succeed in beating biden. We just need to get it done this year. And, bret, every potential candidate and candidate we talked to here on the ground continues to point out that it is still early in this race, except for donald trump. Because he is sitting at the top, according to those new rankings. It wont be too early for long, thanksgiving, christmas, and before you know it will be caucus time here in iowa. Bret . Bret you bet. Alexis in des moines, thanks. Our fox poll indicates President Biden has a 3 point edge over former President Trump in a headtohead matchup numbers 44 to 41. President Biden Celebrating the anniversary of Inflation Reduction Act which by the way he recently told supporters he should not have called it that. The republicans say the American People have been feeling the effects of bidenomics and they dont like it. The president s Approval Ratings in our latest poll tend to back up that g. O. P. Position. White house correspondent Jacqui Heinrich joins us from the north lawn with the latest. Good evening, jacqui. Good evening, bret. One notable absence at this bills First Birthday Party was the senator who helped write it. Joe manchin today was railing against the Biden Administration for implementing this law as a radical climate agenda as new estimates show the Climate Spending that was passed will end up costing nearly three times what they planned. But the white house is glossing over it. Thank you, mr. President. [applause] President Biden celebrating the one Year Anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act as a key part of his economic agenda. Guess what . Its working. Evening though economists say Price Cooling over the last year had more to do with gas prices dropping than it did with the ira. Today one white house official acknowledged what it really amounts to. The largest investment in clean energy and Climate Action ever in the united states, in the history of the bolder. World. Biden admitted last week e Inflation Reduction Acts name isnt really right telling the crowd i wish i hadnt called it that because it has less to do with reducing inflation than it does with providing alternatives that generate economic growth. No new branding is in the works ahead of 2024. You have said yourselves that voters dont understand everything that the president has done. Polls keep showing that people are broadly unhappy with the president s handling of inflation, in particular. And the president has said he wished he didnt call this the Inflation Reduction Act. What should you call it . Well, he said, following that sentiment, because i think its a complicated bill, that it also has reduced costs. Biden still marketing it as a mixed bag. Lower cost for families, especially healthcare costs. Increased security. Tax code. Create good paying jobs here in america. And to address the existential threat of climate crisis. Well, it is not just attitudes about the economy that the president might have to turn around ahead of 2024. New fox polls show that the criminal investigation into his son might just end up hanging over him with, now, more than twice as Many Democrats thinking that hunter biden did something illegal as compared with six months ago. And among independence, that number jumped by 20 points, bret. Bret Jacqui Heinrich live on the north lawn. Thank you. Thanks. Bret President Biden will travel to maui monday to see the desks fdevastation from the wil. The death toll risen to 106. 1300 people are still unaccounted for. The search is also continuing for a cause and that is leading to more questions than answers so far. Senior National CorrespondentWilliam La Jeunesse has the latest tonight from maui. Right across the street power line just went down. Early moments of The Lahaina Fire captured on camera appear to show fallen power lines may have sparked the fire that already took more than 100 lives. I hear a pop coming from across the street. As soon as i hear the pop, all i heard is like electrical. Like zzz, sparks and then there was a fire. Security video from a Bird Sanctuary last monday appears to show a similar cause of another upcountry wildfire, a bright flash in the woods followed by flames. Hawaii electric faces lawsuits it ignored Weather Warnings and kept electric lines electrified. Cooperating with an investigation. Its important to understand what happened. And its important to make sure it doesnt happen again. Identifying charred remains. So far only a few of the more than 100 confirmed dead have been positively ided as families are asked to provide d. N. A. Swabs. If its from a we know the level of the relationship. Those who lost everything try to see the next chapter in their life as the fire erased so much of what they already wrote. All my life all gone in a minute. Not just me lost everything. Everybody. Everything is gone. Bret William La Jeunesse reporting from maui. You can help the victims of the wildfires. Just go to red cross. Org fox forward. You can make a donation there or text hawaii to 90999. You can make a 10 donation there. They need the help. Stocks were off after the release of the Federal Reserve minutes concern over rising inflation. Fed action, possibly. The dow lost 181 today. The s p 500 was off 34. The nasdaq fell 156. Breaking tonight the u. S. Supreme court could soon tackle whether women can have nationwide access to the abortion drug mifepristone. A federal Appeals Court today rolled back recent approval of the oral medication. The drug will stay on the market for now until the high court has the final say fox news chief Legal Correspondent anchor of Fox News SundayShannon Bream is here with analysis. Seems like a big deal. What does it mean for access right now. Shannon sided with prolife doctors and organizations that said the fda did not properly authorize or regulate this drug. Women have been put in danger because of that the fda more broadly the Biden Administration has been saying thats a scare tactic. They deny it. Here is what the Fifth Circuit said today and i quote In Loosening Mifepristone safety restrictions fda failed to address several important concerns about whether the drug would be safe for the women who use it. It failed to consider the cumulative effect of removing several important safeguards at the same time. Now, this is that issue of whether or not can you get this drug by mail instead of seeing a doctor in person. Prochoice ache vo cats say warning disagrees with the Fifth Circuits decision and will be seeking Supreme Court review of that decision. So, how quickly that happens is what we now wait to find out. Just remember, it was a little over a year ago they overturned roe v. Wade. Prochoice advocates says this drug will fill in the gap because more than half of abortions in the u. S. Are done with these abortions. We see how quickly the Supreme Court gets involved. Bret big issue politically, too. Shannon, thank you. Up next we talk live with republican president ial candidate larry elder. He is here on set. And first here is what some of our Fox Affiliates are covering tonight. Fox 50 in raleigh, north carolina. As Tens Of Thousands of customers were without power today after severe storms ripped through that area. Tuesdays weather left one woman dead, knocked out power for more than 100,000 customers across central north carolina. Fox 9 in minneapolis as lyft threatens to leave that area because of a proposed city ordinance. That measure would raise the rates for lyft drivers. The president of the minnesota uber and Lyft Driver Association says operators have been suffering for more than a decade under a company that puts its Profit Margin over paying livable wages. And this is a live look at philadelphia from our affiliate, fox 29. One of the big stories there tonight, a Montgomery County 6yearold wins the 2023 kids mullet championship. Rory irrelevant lick calls his mullet cheddar wiz. All right. Is he known around the hometown as the mullet kid you can see that big moment on fox friends this morning. Showed it off. Mother even cried about it. Thats tonights live look outside the beltway from special report. Well be right back. Stay off the freeways only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Woman why did we choose safelite . 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So nice to be on set. I have been trying to get on. You are on the other side. Good to be here. Yeah. Bret listen, i asked every candidate we have had on first question. What do you think is the most important issue facing our country. The most important issue facing guilty country is the economy, inflation, gas prices, the fact that people are paying hundreds of dollars more per month for the same goods and services they were than a couple years ago. However, i am running to put forth a few issues that i think are very important that nobody, i mean nobody is talking about, bret. Number one the epidemic not of covid but of fatherlessness. 70 of black kids today enter the World Without a father in the home married to the mother. Up from 25 back in 1965. In fact 25 of white kids now enter the World Without a father in the home married to the mother. The numbers are stark. Obama even quoted them once. When you are raised without a dad five times be poor and commit crime. Nine times more likely to odrop out of school, 20 times more likely to drop out of jail. What happened in the mid 60s when a democrat with the best of intentions launched a socalled war on poverty. Incentivized women to marry the government and incentivized men to abandon financial and moral responsibility you have to talk about the facts. People dont realize the damage done when you bring a child in the world that you are not prepared to feed, clothe, house and educate. We need to talk about the problem before we can solve it. Government cant solve it. Government created the problem. The answer is every one of these kids need mentors. I liken it to alcoholic anonymous, they need to have a male role model in his or her life whether thats a grandfather or a neighbor or a pastor or a teacher, somebody. And the money that we are spending at the federal level for poverty programs arent working. Taxpayers should be able to direct that money for programs in their own neighborhoods. Specifically churches doing this kind of work. Bret you know democrats who are proabortion rights boo say is thats part of what theyre talking about, about Family Planning and being able to control their body. Thats what they would say. But that doesnt fit into what you are talking about. No. Im talking about kids who come into the World Without a father in the home married to the mother. You know, in 1940, 87 of blacks lived below poverty, 20 years later, 1960s the number had fallen to 47. 40 point drop. The largest period of economic expansion in history for black america. Why . Because it was rare for a black child to be raised without a father. Its the number one social problem facing this country. Abortion is a whole separate issue. I happen to be prolife. But the prolife community is not only talking the talk but they are walking the walk. There are thousands of Pregnancy Centers all over america that provide adoption services, that provide counseling that, provide job training, housing, all sorts of things. People, women have choices and our side is giving them choices. Bret you are running against former President Trump, but i have heard you really have a problem with the legal system and how he has been indicted now four times facing these 91 charges. Right. You still feel that way. First of all im not running against donald trump. Bret in this primary. Im running against biden harris. We are all auditioning for the job thats how i see it. If donald trump becomes the nominee as appears likely right now i will as did i in 2016 and 2020 support him. I will campaign for him if asked to do so. There is a two Tiered System of justice. My goodness, hillary got a pass for violating the Espionage Act by having unsecured server in her basement. Joe biden clearly has been, in my opinion, compromised. Only recently has there been a special counsel appointed. Same guy gave hunter biden the sweetheart deal. This is incredibly unfair. And donald trump gets indicted for having documents. Joe biden had documents four or five different places. There is a special counsel but supposedly he turned over the documents and donald trump did not do that; therefore, it seems to me the investigation should have been concluded a long time ago. Buff its still going on. Incredibly unfair. Bret you were at the iowa state fair. I was. Bret what did you hear most out there. What i hear most