our house with ian. we'll make sure we have more sandbags than we did last time and more prep for water. >> better to be prepared versus not prepared and have regrets. >> we are getting prepared as best we can. >> adam is live from the fox weather center. >> it has been in cancun for two days. we watch it lift itself farther to the north running into the gulf of mexico waters. winds only around 30 miles-per-hour currently. it is only a tropical storm now and set to infence tie. this is that track and the intensification. it will lift across the gulf of mexico and over across the state of florida and into the southeast. don't just pay attention to what i'm about to show you it will make landfall. the initial landfall early wednesday morning. still likely the nighttime hours overnight. tuesday night into early wednesday morning winds at 115 miles-per-hour a category 3 hurricane. big area here from near tampa stretching toward -- tropical storm storm watches stretching farther to the south including places like naples. storm sedge is a big part of the story. low lying part of florida, the florida big bend could be very life threatening. additionally not just the water that you will see from that initial storm surge. a lot of rain with this system. looking at a lot of areas in orange we are looking at 4 to 8 inches of potential rainfall. some areas could see as much as a foot of total rainfall. inland flooding when it makes landfall will be important. then inland florida talking about portions of georgia, south carolina and north carolina could be seeing serious flooding with this system getting into wednesday and thursday. one to pay close attention to. >> mike: busy week in the fox weather center. you can follow the latest track and get 3d radar in the fox weather app and watch fox weather using the fox weather app as fox weather.com/live or on your favorite streaming service. we'll keep you posted as we get any new information on the storm. another fox news alert. a big day in two courts. special counsel jack smith and president trump's legal team are before a judge here in washington looking to set a trial date on federal charges of election interference. two sides are proposing vastly different timelines. jack smith wants to start this coming january as the republican primary swings into high gear. mr. trump's defense says it wants more time to review all the evidence and asking for a start date in 2026. trump has three other trials looking for space on his calendar. >> these trial dates are also going to move. it is unrealistic and theatrics and no judge is going to say that you can be on two trials at once in two states. a lot of these overlap. they look at the start date of the trial. these are 4 to 6 weeks trials at the least so there is no way they won't overlap. they will have to go into october, november of next year. again, by design. >> a hearing in georgia today focusing on former chief of staff mark meadows and where the defendants may be tried. fulton county district attorney willis will lay out her case against mr. trump and 18 other co-defendants. david spunt is outside federal court here in washington. hello, david. >> i just love this federal courthouse in washington to step out and give everyone a scene setter. right now the judge is on the bench going back and forth with both sides as you mentioned, jack smith the special counsel wants this to begin in january 2024 in just a few months. trump's team said it is outrageous and they don't have enough time to prepare for that. they are proposing april of 2026. not even a little bit over 2 1/2 years away. the judge said that's not going the happen. she said 2026 is out of the question. she is leaning toward an earlier trial and one of the main reasons as she announced a few minutes ago she said the former president is constantly posting about this case whether it be witnesses or information or other pertinent facts of this case and says it may taint the jury pool the longer it is out there before it heads to trial. donald trump's attorneys are making the argument that listen, they have 12.8 million pages of discovery to go through. the evidence presented to them by the special counsel's office. the majority of the key documents, about 47,000 pages, but still, 12.8 million pages they say they simply cannot get this done in that amount of time. shifting gears to georgia, mark meadows is the former chief of staff of donald trump. he have argues that his case should not be in state court in atlanta. it should be brought to federal court because he was a federal employee when this happened. a judge in georgia expected to make some sort of decision on that today. the former president has not moved to change his venue from local to federal but federal would expand the jury pool and also might keep the case and trial off camera. in state court in georgia you can watch all these proceedings unfold. in federal court here and across the country you cannot. mike. >> mike: david spunt outside federal court. thank you very much. nordstrom's facebook store in san francisco closing for good after 35 years in business. the latest in the high-end retailers to leave the city struggling with rising crime. homelessness and public drug use. jeff paul live in the west coast bureau. >> this wasn't just any ordinary nordstrom. it was massive. 312,000 square feet spanning five floors at the san francisco center mall. now it is a retail memory. a once busy anchor tenet of the shopping center sits as a desolate building filled with empty shelves and clothing racks. brick and mortar stores have become -- they have suggested homelessness and crime in the city isn't helping. vendors who rely on tourism say they are hopeful for a future turnaround. >> san francisco has not lost its glow or glamour. people all over the world still love san francisco and still love the trollies even though the major stores might have closed. the magic is still here. >> in los angeles flash mob robberies continue. video from the latest incident in macy's in shirrman oaks happened on thursday. investigators say nine masked man. no arrests so far. the latest flash mob robbery happening one week after l.a. mayor karen bass announced a retail theft task force to target the thieves. mike. >> mike: huge problem. jeff, thanks a lot. new legal action over trans treatments for kids. the judge cleared the way for missouri -- bombshell new revelations about the biden family corruption scandal coming from the ukrainian prosecutor fired when he was investigating burisma. >> i have no doubt that there were illegal activities engaged in by the bidens. no doubt in my mind that burisma was engaged in illegal activities. >> mike: he talked to brian kilmeade about the biden and bribes. brian is in "focus" next. which hotel? ah! did somebody say “which hotel?” i'm great at this. dance to your faves in the spa-like bathroom! or enjoy local craft beers, with 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>> my take is any logical person would want to inform parents and look into banning all this. if you have a decision so life changing in its definition and you can't wait until 18. how many parents would be like my 9-year-old wants a tattoo. kids will be kids. just tell the teacher, don't tell the parents. that's one thing. number two the puberty blockers, let me ask you something. i think this whole thing is whether it's social media, the rise of media, general media, this is a manufactured issue that i think needs to be addressed but almost everybody i know that i interact with sees no rush if a kid is confused at a young age, a lot of kids are confused. they work through it. anything that could happen could happen after 18 calling their own shots. i'm all for missouri. i'm stunned that texas was overturned. >> mike: treat them with compassion and care and don't rush into anything as it relates to this. alice cooper, the legendary seconder lost its cosmetics deal for speaking out. he said i find it wrong when you have a 6-year-old kid who has no idea. he just wants to play and you are confusing him by telling him yeah, you are a boy but you could be a girl if you want. you are still trying to find your identity. what about that? >> i always get up in the morning what would alice cooper do and where is my eyeliner. everytime i hear a rock star lose a cosmetic deal i feel sad. having said that here is the thing. that kid who you say wants to change genders when they realize in most cases that they made a big mistake, they will blame you. so just when you think you are doing what a kid wants, suddenly when you decide okay, i guess kids will make their own curfew and decide when to drive. now alice cooper says something logical and loses a cosmetic deal? it's time for people to stand up and continue to speak out. sooner or later the world will get back on its axis and whole again. this is insane. we're transferring some of this insanity and lack of ability to parent to them. where did this start? a lot of it goes back to social media and some of the crazy things going on. kids are holed up with the phone and not talking to their friends. >> mike: new concerns we could be heading back to the future where covid is concerned. president biden is pushing for more funding for a vaccine that targets the new variant. he seems to be laying the ground work for another mandate. >> can you tell me anything about the new covid variant? >> president biden: i've signed off this morning on a bill to present to congress asking for additional funding for a new vaccine that works and tentatively it is recommended that -- it will likely be recommended that everybody get it. >> mike: several major hospital systems are having mask mandates as covid cases kick up. some colleges are requiring masks as well. brian, i think i still have ptsd from the first time around. your thoughts. >> my thoughts is colleges show backbone. if you make your kid do this again look to transfer. number two is masks don't work. look at the studies. they don't protect anything. these are the same people that told us they did work and when they told us to wear two masks. i had one of these geniuses tell us on "fox & friends" to consider wearing goggles, all right? we have kids playing sports en masse. referees tell them to pull them up and now you have these people in hospitals doing it because they are afraid of losing funding and he will say i get a vaccine that does work. excuse me, you told us the last one worked and boosters worked and you talked stopped talking about it. we'll make our own decisions. if they want to get another pandemic going and no excuse balloting and drop boxes everywhere. no american will buy it and create more consternation as it relates to this upcoming election. i hope president biden has one pollster sitting next to him to say excuse me, you will be getting that shot alone. we aren't buying into it and there is risks that go along with it. since when have you taken any medicine that doesn't have any warnings on it. they'll try to do that again to us. please, show some backbone. >> mike: now to your interview with fired ukrainian prosecutor shokin. he got the axe when he was investigating burisma. he said he knew burisma was breaking the law and he believed the bidens took bribes. >> the vice president was only acting in his own interest. generally speaking he handled ukraine like it was his own backyard. he would put people that were suitable for him. i do not want to deal in unproven facts but my firm personal conviction is that yes, this was the case. they were being bribed. the fact that joe biden gave away $1 billion in u.s. money in exchange for my dismissal, my firing, isn't that alone a case of corruption? >> mike: once before he got fired then president joe biden traveled to ukraine and met with with the president. he shared what happened. >> president biden: if the prosecutor is not fired you aren't getting the money. well, he got fired and put in place someone who was solid at the time. >> mike: weeks before shokin was fired a state department email shows fellow burisma board member archer met with secretary of state john kerry. brian, congratulations on the interview. >> he wants to testify in front of congress. ask him. he said that. he also feels as though his life is being threatened. he was poisoned twice before and then we were able to miranda devine provided the medical records and the doctor said it was him. he was brought back to life twice. someone is trying to kill him, he believes. unless he had way too much sushi. number three if he is a corrupt guy living the life of luxury and that bad he is hiding it well. he is living on a fixed income alone. a transcript for a book he can't get published and can't get a job and fears for his life on a regular basis. wants to know if there is any security. he wants to tell his side of the story and we're the only ones to ask. whether you think everything he says is true or everything he says is not true, probably somewhere in the middle or leaning towards him at least we get his side of the story, mike. at least we find out instead of that horrible person who is now in a lean to somewhere in ukraine trying to survive in the middle of a war when someone seems tore targeting him. now we see him get his point and find out that devon archer on a board they said that burisma felt as though shokin was indeed a threat to them and why are these americans on the board? why is one american on the board whose dad happens to be in charge of the -- have the portfolio for ukraine? hunter biden. i'm just asking you to follow a logical trail. now the secretary of state's son was involved with rosemont seneca. he dropped out for a mysterious reason. and anthony blinken then deputy secretary of state was constantly interacting with hunter biden. a lot of links here. who wouldn't tie them together? >> mike: brian kilmeade let you get back to the radio. thank you for your time today. >> go get them, mike. thanks. we never left the radio. >> mike: 13 american service members killed in the botched withdrawal from afghanistan. two years later the president has never once mentioned their names or met with their families. the grief and outrage still raw. plus we'll talk more about the troubles facing the biden family. >> only because republicans took the majority have we found out what president biden told us when he was running for office is not true. >> mike: speaker kevin mccarthy floating a possible impeachment inquiry to get to the bottom of how involved the president really was in hunter's foreign deals. congressman michael mccaul, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, on all of it next. veteran homeowners. are you applying for a car loan? 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can you explain to folks at home what this means precisely >> it means we'll ramp up our investigation into this. all of a sudden the plot is thickening right now. tens of millions of dollars going into shell corporations in the united states from foreign governments. that's where my committee comes into play. certain foreign policy decisions made because of this money coming in? i was a prosecutor in the 90s to the chen case and the clinton campaign where all this money from china was coming in to influence the clinton election. presidential election. nothing new for china and foreign governments. burisma is serious. when you have the special prosecutor who the vice president at that time called for his firing and threatened to withhold federal assistance that i sign off on in exchange for him being fired, that alone is serious. but when all this money is coming in from burisma to the hunter biden family and the big man being the president of the united states. i think this is very serious. china aspect of this and the russian aspect, this is getting very serious. >> mike: if the speaker and house leadership team signs off on the impeachment inquiry what further powers does it give you in the house to follow the money trail? >> i think we already have many of those powers. our subpoenas have to be taken seriously. we can't be stonewalled like i have been with the state department trying to get documents on the afghanistan investigation. this getting into foreign governments. a lot of these are energy companies, by the way, burisma was a russian-influenced energy company in ukraine. the chinese company energy company, and the lady, the gal that was married to the mayor of moscow was exempted from the russian sanctions. she gave $3.5 million to hunter biden and his associates and yet she is exempted from the russian sanctions. she owned a lot of shares of in order stream. >> mike: saturday marked two years since a terrorist attack killed 13 american service members in afghanistan. many still outraged and look ping for accountability for the botched exit from the company. president biden said in a statement we'll forever honor the memory of the 13 service members stolen far too soon. critics not having it. many saying too little too late. >> no sympathy, no real recognition of what those families are dealing with two years later. in some cases, personal items not yet being returned. certainly no apology from the president. >> you are doing a round table with these gold star families tomorrow. set the table for us. >> it will be all the parents of the children whose lives were lost, servicemen and women who were blown up due to the suicide bomber. very sad. when i talked to them they want answers and accountability. they want to know what happened to their child. they are very angry and they are angry at the administration about the way they have been treated. we want to hear from them about their stories. also want to tell them what our investigation has uncovered. for instance, we'll have the sniper, the suicide bomber in his sights. was not given permission to engage the suicide bomber. this is what's very hard on the families is the fact it could have been prevented but it wasn't stopped. then we have greater intelligence that the i.c. had warned about isis-k plotting this in a hotel room, asked for permission for an air strike. that air strike was denied. we want to get to the bottom and these families deserve answers. we'll be with them tomorrow and i know you are covering that story as well. >> mike: you had an opportunity to hear from these families earlier this month. not your first time working with with them. let's take a sample. >> confusion, deceit, lost, angry, sad, heartbroken and disgusted. >> biden, the biden administration, blinken, milley, austin. incompetent, cowards, evil. >> i want accountability. why would they just not say we made a mistake? >> be a grown ass man. admit to your mistakes. learn from them so that this doesn't happen ever, ever again. >> you can hear the heartbreak from those gold star parents, a combination of heartbreak and anger. >> you are right. we'll hear that tomorrow as well. but we need action. they deserve answers. this administration has tried to sweep this whole thing under the rug. they have shown no accountability. i think that's why you see the anger you are seeing. this will mark the two-year anniversary of the abby gate bombing. it is a very emotional time. they want answers from this administration. they were not treated properly as victims of this crime, if you will. and the way it was conducted, mike. you could agree or disagree whether we should have pulled out. the way it was done with no plan. there was no plan. if you plan to fail, you fail to plan. i think the whole thing is really a tragic surrender to the taliban and a turning point in our foreign policy. that's when you saw putin looking at ukraine and xi looking at taiwan. this was the beginning of the end of the failure of the biden administration's foreign policy. >> mike: chairman michael mccaul. thank you for your time today. the migrant crisis in sanctuary new york city reached a boiling point last night. a rally outside the mayor's mansion turning into a brawl with dozens of cops trying to control the crowd. plus this. >> for presley to tell me i can't express my views because of my skin color is wrong. >> mike: his explosive comments that he is standing behind. that's next. - the will states that mr. marbles will receive everything he needs in perpetuity. thanks to autoship from chewy. - i always love that old man. - and he gets the summer house. - what? 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[shouting] >> mike: protests and counter protests turned violent. activitys on both sides of the migrant crisis gathered outside the mayor's mansion. some got physical. five ended up in handcuffs. alexis mcadams is outside the roosevelt hotel serving as a temporary shelter for asylum seekers. hello, alexis. >> good morning. you don't have to look far to see the migrant crisis here in new york city. behind me at what used to be the iconic roosevelt hotel is now a shelter to my grant. one of the 200 emergency shelters that the new york mayor had to put in place as the surge continues across all areas here. people are fed up and it led to protests. watch this. [shouting] >> that was the wild scene outside the new york city mayor's mansion yesterday as protestors clashed over the crisis. thousands coming to the cities and living in shelters inside old schools and other buildings. six people were taken into custody as police tried to keep the crowd under control. 100,000 migrants and counting from the southern border have flooded new york. tents near soccer fields on randall's island. people who live and work here are seeing the impact firsthand. >> i think it's terrible. we're trying to bring back workers back into the office and with the situation a couple weeks ago there were camping outside, destroying businesses and people don't want to come back to manhattan. >> so this new poll shows people aren't happy with how things are being handled. 82% of new yorkers say the influx of migrants is a serious problem. 51% of voters disapprove of the job that governor hochul is doing to address the issue. the governor wrote a letter to the president asking for executive action. >> the reality is, we've managed thus far without substantive support from washington. despite the fact that this is a national indeed a federal issue, but new york has shouldered this burden for far too long. >> voters we talked to on the street say there is enough of the finger pointing from both ends. they want to see the federal government, local and state partners come together. one of the other things hochul wants is the federal government to provide work authorizations so the people who are here could get to work. we'll have to see how that plays out. >> mike: thanks very much. for more on this gopac chairman david avella and kevin walling. gentlemen, welcome. so kevin, with 82% in that latest poll saying it's a serious problem. no surprise there is blame game going on between the state, city and pointing the finger at washington. right? >> it is a frustrating situation all around. i'm a democrat on fox news that says we're the crisis point at our southern border and we need to surge resources. i was very supportive of president biden asking for nearly $8 hundred million for dollars in last year's funding to hire for immigration judges to clear out the back load of folks that have come in seeking asylum to process them through, have their day in court and move them along. again, i think it's not just a question of resources, it's a question of manpower and the like. but we also need congress to act. you have a handful of new republican members from new york. i'm hopeful they will work with the administration to address the crisis. at the end of the day we need action from congress. president is ham strung by policies on the books and can only do so much. we need comprehensive immigration reform from this progress. >> mike: if emotions are running that high in new york city about what border towns in texas and arizona and beyond. >> absolutely. you can look at the map. there are 5 or 6 republicans serving in con today because of this issue because they don't see a coordinated voters in new york don't see a coordinated message or policy coming out of the biden administration, the hochul administration and the adams administration all run by democrats. the great irony here is the courts struck down an ability for illegal citizens to get to vote in elections. have that happened more democrats may have lost. they are being put in terrible conditions and might have started voting republican and we could have added to our number. >> mike: where does it go from here? >> it is a crisis point. you are seeing action from governor hochul. more democrats are getting more vocal on this along with mayor eric adams and hopefully push congress to take action. the biden administration hassling to work with republicans on this issue. and again i think what we need is some solutions from congress on this front. >> biden administration caused this problem. they have no idea how to solve this problem. >> mike: president biden's campaign team projecting optimism in the face of miserable polling. gallup has his job approval of 40%. his handling of issues remaining under water. voters are worried about his age. new poll out today shows more than 3/4 of americans say mr. biden is too old to be effective. if reelected. this includes 89% of republicans and 74% of independents 69% of democrats agree. even though he is only 3 1/2 years younger than biden. kevin, that has to concern you. >> listen, i've been with the president recently. he is fired up for the re-election crisscrossing america. he is ready and willing to take the fight to republicans and more than up for this fight. >> like with immigration americans believe the president's policies are why the economy is struggling. until he can turn those numb pearls around he will struggle with re-election. >> mike: age is a factor as we go into the new re-election campaign. gentlemen, thanks very much. >> good to see you. >> mike: thank you very much for watching "the faulkner focus." i'm mike emanuel in for harris today. 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