maybe not know -- by the way, jessica, they may not know it's happening. what are the signs? >> so, one is to be vigilant inside the classrooms. pay attention to their behavior when they come home. you know, be involved. ask the questions that are uncomfortable. i know it's hard to bring the subject up. but if you make your thoughts and opinions and everything, you put them upfront for people to hear and understand, you know, do your research on the schools, on the teachers, on the school boards. i think that parents, no matter what, should go with their gut feelings, know -- they know their intuition. they would know if something is wrong with their children. if you see a rapid change within your child, you know, try to build a relationship on talking with them, asking them what's going on. i definitely think that involvement is the that i could suggest. and just, you guys have the right to do it. you parents have a right to raise your own kids. >> rachel: yeah. they are your kids, not the government's, not the schools. >> that's right. >> rachel: you are a mama bear. we love it. >> thank you. >> rachel: thanks for what you are doing for the country. >> absolutely. >> rachel: thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you so much for having us. >> thank you so much for having us. >> rachel: you got it. god bless. the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> steve: good morning, everybody. it's 7:02 on the east coast on this august 31st, 2023. the last day of august. and we have a fox weather alert. look at this drone shot right here. at least three deaths are being linked to hurricane idalia. florida highway patrol says there were two deadly crashes before the hurricane made landfall yesterday. and a man in georgia was apparently killed by a fallen tree while trying to clear a blocked road. right now, the still powerful storm is slamming the carolinas as a tropical storm. but it hit florida's big bend as a cat 3 hurricane, bringing life-threatening storm surge, flash flooding, dangerous winds, and a lot of destruction. at this hour, over 310,000 people are without power across, as you can see, the effected areas of florida, georgia, and the carolinas on this thursday. >> brian: here we go. a brief tornado from idalia flipping a car off the ground in south carolina. we had to keep the sound down explicatives as can you imagine. before and after satellite images show the extent of the flooding in florida. >> rachel: grady trimble with fox business is live in hard hit keaton beach which is west of gainesville that's where the storm made landfall. grady, good morning. >> good morning, steve, rachel and brian. the good news in this neighborhood is that everyone we talked to said they heeded the warnings and got out. the damage to their homes is immense. you can see that the winds were so powerful here the storm ripped off roofs, it carried this couch into somebody else's front yard, into their driveway. and then if we look around here, this is the worst damage we have seen in this neighborhood from the wind. it absolutely demolished this home, just a mess. that's a bedroom on the second floor, if you can see that there is a mattress against what was one of the bedroom walls. and a tv still hanging on that wall that was knocked down. i want to show you some videos that we have of flooding in other parts of the state because that was a big problem as well. listen to this tiki bar owner who described coming back to the bar and seeing the floodwaters several feet high. >> the motel we have here and my house 4 feet under water. you go inside my house and it looks like -- you know the couch is where the refrigerator was and the refrigerator is where the couch was. i'm homeless for a while but we'll get through it. >> and the first lady of florida, casey desantis tweeted a photo of a 100-year-old oak tree that fell on the governor's mansion while she and the three kids were home. formfortunately everyone was sa. florida governor ron desantis was not home at the time probably because he was out telling people if they're planning to loot these homes that have been broken into, that is not a good idea. listen. >> i would also just remind potential looters that people -- you never know what you are walking into. i have seen signs in different people's yards in the past, after these disasters and i would say it's probably here, you loot, we shoot. you never know what's behind that door if you go break into somebody's house. >> and today, governor desantis, as well as the fema administrator, will tour the damage here. they say some of the homes and businesses here will not be able to be used for weeks, if not months. as of right now, here in terrell county, 99% of the people here are without power. so it is going to be quite an effort to rebuild in this part of the state. guys, back to you. >> steve: grady, with, you know, yesterday there were hundreds of acres of coastal land under water. and the house behind you, obviously, destroyed by the wind. where are those people going to go? >> you know, we know that hundreds of fema employees are going to be on the ground today helping out. we know that even churches have opened up their doors to try to help people, if they don't have a home. but, you're right. there's a big problem when you have floodwaters that move into a home because even though it recedes pretty quickly and that's what we saw in steinhatchee by the afternoon yesterday, most of the flood water had subsided from the homes. but then you have to worry about the stench. there is mud in all of these homes. and there could be mold in some of them once they dry out. so, it's going to be statewide and really a nationwide effort to help these people who have been displaced by this storm. >> brian: all right, grady, thank you. meanwhile download the app. if you haven't yet, fox weather app. continuing coverage. then you won't need us as much as you do. >> steve: you know what? one other thing regarding fox weather. if you have the roku channel go, to roku and fox weather is there, absolutely free. so check it out. >> rachel: that's true. all right. well, lawyers for irs whistleblower shapley say that the justice department officials meddled with the hunter biden investigation. >> steve: and more email revealing the first son's relationship with the officials from former president obama's state department did exist. mark meredith is live at the white house with more about email and more about hunter. >> steve, brian, and rachel, good morning to all three of you. this morning we are learning new details about what was going on behind the scenes at the department of justice, after an irs whistleblower came forward alleging federal prosecutors were giving first son hunter biden some special treatment. an attorney representation gary shapley, how may remember testified before congress earlier this summer you, says after his client raised concerns, the justice department reached out not only to them but also to lawyers for hunter biden. attorney mark little telling the "new york post," quote: after our client offered whistleblower testimony to congress, lisa monaco's right-hand man bradley wifn heimer scheduled a meeting with mr. biden's defense counsel to appeal over the head at odds with the narrative that david weiss was acting independently. weisss the u.s. attorney out in grar america first. will freedom of information act request it's discovered how often hunter biden would interact with then vice president biden's office. they tallied up the group shows records show during the obama-biden years at least 800 white house emails reference firm hunter co-founded and emails released by the white house totaling some 200. some emails to show how close the relationship hunter biden had with then secretary of state john kerry. there's an email which shows that secretary kerry was working to make himself available to a class at georgetown that hunter biden was teaching. now, the emails america first obtained basically show a lot of scheduling requests. asking for tours to like the white house christmas party. stuff to that effect. but, for lawmakers, this may raise fresh questions about what was happening behind the scenes and whether or not first son hunter biden and then vice president son hunter biden was using his dad's connections too far. back to you. >> brian: mark, as you know, john kerry's son was a partner. and for some reason he decided i don't want to be with that company anymore. i'm wondering if there is a story there. >> well, secretary kerry, of course, is still very much in the orbit here of the biden administration even though is he no longer secretary of state. whether or not though that these emails will shine necessarily any major repercussions out of congress is yet to be seen. they have still been trying to say we want to hear more from what gary shapley had to say behind the scenes. the other x factor with the special counsel it's hard to imagine we will get answers any time soon. instead it feels like this is going to dredge on quite a bit longer. >> steve: mark, it looks like and you read this story, daily mail has got it now, they have exclusive details -- it looks like and politico got email that they got shapley's attorneys to respond to. it looks like hunter biden had the sweetheart deal. it was gonna happen until these whistleblowers showed up. and spilled the beans on television. next thing you know the doj is doing a 180 and the special counsel comes in and now, you know, all bets are off. and it looks like even though david weiss said the u.s. attorney now the special counsel guy -- even though he said you know i'm not the decider, okay, i am the decider. he is the guy that is supposed to decide whether or not to do something big against this first son. >> steve, as you know, david weiss now says they are going to go trial at this point. it's also possible a deal still could be reached just because they are going to trial now, doesn't mean something couldn't change in the future. but, for the first son, you have to imagine though how long this legal process is going to be drawn out for. and is it possible that the longer it goes on maybe it would be beneficial to him. we just simply don't know at this point. again, i think, rachel, the question that so many of these lawmakers are going to be asking you is they want to hear from weiss directly. we still don't know if that is going to happen any time soon. >> be eric schwerin and tony bobulinski is getting could you. >> we haven't seen a list of who that would be yet but you have to imagine a pretty long list. >> brian: did i not know it was professor hunter. >> rachel: maybe starting with jill and joe because they had keys to the rosemont seneca office that was shared by a chinese energy executive with ties to the chinese government. wow. >> steve: i think peter doocy actually asked about that question and they said they never went to the office. >> brian: we're going to continue this conversation on the mark meredith app. >> ainsley: he also said he never had any business with hunter biden but there is 800 emails now between rosemont seneca. >> brian: mark, can you go. >> a lot of those emails have to do from what they have said regarding scheduling, can we get this and that questions about what was happening behind the scenes. >> brian: if you want to get brunch, mark you, you can we wore you out. i can't wait to see tony bobulinski in front and center soon. >> rachel: a little late, right? like two and a half years later. >> steve: we have heard from him so it will be interesting to see what he has got to say. this is what the people of staten island have to say nyc-ya. as we have been telling you over the last week or two mayor adams brilliant decision to do something with the thousands of migrants, they shipped them over to a former catholic school in staten island. and a lot of people in staten island are very upset because it's the middle of a neighborhood, and they don't like the fact that there are these unvetted migrants of various ages in a neighborhood. and so, you know, over the last cup bell of weeks or so, there have been some protests and things like that. and now a member of congress, from staten island, which is predominantly republican, is saying, you know, what, maybe it's time to see you later, new york city. >> rachel: succeed. she is calling for the succession. the reality is the city council and the state legislature would need to let staten island go. i hope they do reconsider. this i mean, i hear all the jokes all the time that they would love to get rid of staten island. well, this is your opportunity. i think staten island would like to have an opportunity to self-governor. brian, you said bring in long island. >> brian: i would like to go, too. do not leave us behind, please. that's all we ask. >> steve: from the state, succeed from the state. >> rachel: leave the island behind. >> brian: stay in the country be on my own. >> steve: your own state. >> brian: new york decisions are terrible. bay city tax we have no vote. nassau county, suffolk county, people around the country know it as the hamptons, there is also a very diverse community there staten island very prideful and patriotic people would love to leave. guess who is here 60,000 illegal immigrant. 100,000 passed through. it cost us $12 billion because new york city wants to be a right-to-shelter city and it wants to be a sanctuary city which means we can't kick them out. so our governor, the democrat, a mayor, the democrat, are fighting with each opener and now the democratic governor went to see the democratic president at the white house yesterday and his 15-minute press conference must have just tuckered him out because he gave no time to the governor. she had to meet with jeff anxieties, the chief of staff. so you are dissing other republican governors in distress -- excuse me democratic governors in distress. this is a problem that they caused because they will not enforce the border. by the way, we are up to now 7,000 a day at the border. your ideas of sket sketch squelg down and title 42 boomeranging now that the fall is here. >> steve: maybe the fact that they met with the chief of staff. the chief of staff can actually get stuff done. >> brian: so disrespectful. >> rachel: it is a sign of disrespect. steve maybe they will get stuff done. >> rachel: what she wants, steve, she and the mayor want to give like worker permits. >> brian: so wrong. can't do it. >> rachel: you talk about the money spent, brian, on trying to house and take care of all of these people come illegally across our border. this would put downward pressure on the poorest, the working class right here in new york. this will put downward pressure on their wages. there is all these new workers. and they are going to be competing for those jobs. >> brian: they can't do it because it would be a magnet for another 100,000 come to the best city in the world and i will be able to work and get three meals a day my laundry done and a menu? >> rachel: i'm going to quibble with the best city of the world. okay. >> steve: me too. >> brian: one of the most famous. >> rachel: famous. >> steve: it was great once. i will just say that. there is so much to talk about. that is why yesterday in the briefing of karine jean-pierre, peter doocy asked her an important question on the minds of a lot of people, not only in staten island but throughout the five burrows burr boroughs and . >> peter: mayor saying about migrants in new york city. any plan that does not include stopping the flow at the border is a failed plan. so, why aren't you guys stopping the flow at the border? >> we are stopping the flow at the border. if anything, what the president has been able to do on his own without the help of republicans in congress, something that he had to do on his own, again, because republicans refuse to give the funding necessary to deal with the situation, broken immigration system that has been broken for decades, they choose what they choose to do is play politics. >> rachel: did she say we are stopping the flow at the border. >> brian: she is flat out lying. >> steve: that's what she said. she is absolutely right. they are stopping the flow at the border to hand them a map, here's the united states, welcome to our land. show up in an ice place one day soon. >> brian: it's getting just as bad as it was. people are flooding in here. >> steve: 7,000 what? >> brian: 7,000 a day illegals coming through the border. they had down because do you know why it was down? they were applying in the first country. telling them how to use the app. and flying them into these cities so it wasn't down, just the border crossing was down. but now everything is up. >> rachel: yeah. it's intentional. >> brian: self-inflicted. steve crazy, just saying. 7:17 right now. ashley joins us with some news about a navy vet. >> ashley: it was honestly very hard to watch even his interview because it was so painful looking. we start your headlines with. this the retired navy vet badly hurt in mugging in his neighborhood in philadelphia, he was walking his dog when this happened. he needed at least 100 stitches after that attack. and just a warning the footage we are going to show you is graphic. >> i did a war in a war zone in iraq. i did two years in ukraine, and would not have expected this to happen in my very own neighborhood. it was a large party going on across the street. in hindsight i probably should have not walked near. and the next thing i remember i'm in the emergency room. >> ashley: the criminal behind the attack is still on the loose. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell freezes up for a second time while speaking to reporters. the 81-year-old pausing for 30 seconds before being escorted podium by his team. president biden says he will be in touch. listen. >> just heard literally coming out and mitch is a friend, as you know, not a joke, we always -- i know people don't believe that's the case but we had disagreements politically but is he a good friend. and so i'm going to try to get in touch with him later this afternoon. >> ashley: mcconnell's office said he felt momentarily light-headed. while he feels fine, the leader will be consult ago physician prior to his next event. and tonight u.s. open, tennis star novak djokovic and cocoa gulf breeze through straight sets. 22 set adrian marinino. wows the crowd a tweener. watch. >> ashley: meanwhile a second player is backing plea sakar's wreaks of marijuana. alexander telling the a.p. court 17 definitely smells. [laughter] like snoop dogg's living room. i don't even know what to say. >> brian: welcome to new york. >> rachel: coming into the building by the way. >> ashley: any time you walk through here it's bad. we they get contact high from that? would that affect them? could that. >> steve: secsecond-hand smoke. >> ainsley: liberals cared about when it was nicotine now that it's marijuana they are down with it. >> brian: will to legalize it nationally. >> rachel: it's the worst idea. >> steve: thank you, ashley. >> ashley: thank you. >> brian: coming up, as if americans already can't stand bidenomics now shark tank star kevin o'leary says the worst is yet to come. mr. wonderful is here to explain. >> steve: good morning, mr. wonderful ♪ if i had a million dollars ♪ i would buy your love ♪ if i had a million dollars ♪ try tide power pods with 85% more tide in every pod. who needs that much more tide? he does. -we're having triplets. -no, what does that mean? it means you're gonna need more tide. -see? -ah. more likes? more tide. everyone's. gonna. need. more.. tide!!! -you're gonna need- -more tide. this back-to-school season tide and downy are giving back with 1.5 million dollars in scholarships. enter to win. 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behemoth giant companies in the s&p 500. the inflation reduction act, another trillion. not even printed yet. all going to the big guys. now, that's the great. they represent 40% of the jobs in america. the s&p 500. everybody knows the s&p 500 is the biggest index in the world. but 60% of america is small business. smeas where 60% of the jobs come from. we have given nothing to them. and so they're struggling because the fed has raised rates up to 5.5% in a matter of months. >> brian: stop inflation theoretically. >> yet, still employment, under 4% unemployment. the small guy, the business between 500 and 500 employees he has been cut off at the original level. rates he pays for money have gone to 4% to 5% to 11 to 17. we're not talking about them. but you're gonna hear a lot of people crying about this in the next few months because they can't borrow anything anymore and they can't run their businesses. >> brian: so when we saw those regional bank failures last year. this is the ramifications. more regulation. and when you have more regulation, you need more liquidity to meet those demands more banks say i can't lend or i can't function. >> yeah. we have 41 regional banks in america. probably next three years down to 2,000. they are going to consolidate. during that period people are very nervous putting their money in the bank. if another one fails and you have your cash in there. right now only guaranteed for 250,000. there is an idea that came out senator haggertyy one payroll account guarantee that. pay no interest on that. at least a small business during this consolidation period -- >> brian: do you like this. >> i like that man. met met with his staff. it made sense to me. i would endorse that other thing i would do for small business is extend the employee retention credit. that's the deal where companies invested in employees during the pandemic are getting to take back a grant for that really small business companies 5 to 500. only active program i know of that supports small business. meanwhile we are going to write $2 trillion to the big guys. that in itself is inflation. but, it seems unfair to me to support a bee hermine meth company that has a lot of its employees outside of america and not my companies, small business. i work in small business. and i'm asking myself, what are we doing for them? the 60% of jobs in america? let's wake up, smell the rods, realize they are under tremendous pressure. and they're all our economy. >> brian: we always focus on real estate when it comes to the rates. you are saying it's business. if you can't get a loan. you can't get some money. you are not going to expand or stay in business. that's going to ripple. >> that's the problem. let's say you are selling walmart. a million dollars worth of products to walmart and they are going to pay you in 60 to 90 days. normally go to your bank look i need a receivable i need to find receivable buy more product and sell more product. now the banks are saying i'm sorry because of the collapse of these small regional banks like silicon valley, the regulators are telling us we have to be more liquid. we can't loan you anything. >> brian: i just wish more people in the real world were in washington because they come up, they would understand they have to solve this problem. right now no urgency. >> i would go there every month and bang the doors. >> brian: good job, kevin. maybe someone would put you in their cabinet soon if shark tank would give you up or he is. >> coming up straight ahead, thank you very much, by the way. listen to the denver awards, black lives matter protesters nearly $5 million in coming up next with the 2020 riots. what about the businesses that they destroyed? 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out of the rain? >> janice: almost. 24 hours ago talking about category 4 storm. really incredible. a tropical storm still causing problems and, of course, we talked about the power outages. so close to 300,000 people still without power. in some cases it's going to take a matter of days to get out here across the big bend, so we had a landfall around this time yesterday. it was a category 4. made landfall across the big bend as a category 3. now moving up towards the coast of north carolina. and we still have the potential for some storm surge as well as heavy rain. certainly gusty winds. not a good beach day out here across the carolinas but over the next couple of hours moving into the atlantic. i think one of the benefiting factors of the storm was how fast it was moving. right? it hardly lingered at all and it's quickly out of here 24 hours later. but we still have the potential for heavy rain along the outer banks and cowgill north carolina. here is the track of idalia as we go through the next couple of days. so 60 mile-per-hour sustained winds go out. the remnants near bermuda and, you know, kind of lingers. for the most part it is out to sea. quick look at your forecast today as we go into the long labor day weekend. not too bad watching that tropical storm move offshore, we could see showers and thunderstorms for florida. flash flooding is a concern as well as the southwest and northwest. otherwise, pretty quiet and i don't think we're going to see any tropical storm activity this weekend, which is great news. all right, rachel, steve, brian, over to you thank you, jans. >> city of denver set to pay almost $5 million to protesters after a class action lawsuit accused denver of targeting them for violating the curfew during the 2020 george floyd riots. >> rachel: this latest suit brings the total payments to over $20 million. >> brian: where is the money for businesses damaged during the riots? sole street shoes damaged and lost $170,000 in goods. have we thought about that? the owner joins us now. zac, are you outraged by this? >> you know, i'm frustrated with the city for sure for the lack of supports that they have shown all the businesses downtown. >> brian: what's the effect been on yours? >> you know, it's been devastating. you know it, will probably take us anywhere from 5 to 10 years to recover from what happened. >> steve: right. you lost $170,000. you know, you would be getting money if you would have been protesting but you didn't. instead you were just trying to run your business. you have received no money ultimately from the city. we know that is frustrating how familiar the people who destroyed your business and other businesses, how many of those people have been held accountable? >> none that i'm aware of. you know, we provided the city with the information that we had, the videos, and everything that was supposed to social media. but as far as i know, they never, you know, found any of the people who did it. >> steve: did they really try to find them? >> i don't think so but i don't know that to be certain but i don't think so. >> rachel: you know, i'm just so curious, zac, denver is obviously a pretty progressive city. and i'm sure you have other small business owners and citizens that you know that are as frustrated as you, what are cities like this going to do about changing leadership? do you see people galvanizing, organizing to go we're not going to take this anymore? >> yeah. you know, i hope that that will be the case in the future, you know, the area that we are at, right now, to be honest, is probably about 75 to 80%, you know, not occupied. the biggest thing the city can do for us is just make it a viable place to do business going forward. you know, the money, you know, from the loss, it's almost too late to replace that those businesses are already gone. we just need a viable place to do business going forward. >> rachel: what do you mean by viable? what do you want them to do? >> make it a safe and, you know, clean environment. you know, where people are willing to come down and, you know, experience what we have to offer downtown. we have a great, you know, infrastructure in place. but right now it's just people don't feel safe. they don't think it's clean. there's a lot of drug use. it's -- there could be a lot of improvements. >> brian: thriving a short time ago. >> rachel: hard when you have competition online and have these conditions for people when they go to the store. zac, thanks for joining us this morning. we hope things get better in denver. >> thank you. >> steve: good luck. >> rachel: coming up, these five battleground states were crucial to president biden's 2020 victory. but are they in jeopardy? 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well, let's ask our panel of swing state voters. john german, a georgia voter, and the owner of black market barbecue food trailer, an arizona voter and tucson business owner, and esther parsons, a pennsylvania voter and a trucker. why don't we start with you. welcome to all of you, i will start with you, john. how are things looking in georgia? i'm sure you're on the ground, meeting lots of people through your small business. does it look good for biden in georgia? >> you know, i certainly hope not. it's hard -- it's always hard to say with any kind of certainty one way or the other. i usually don't bring up any kind of political, you know, discussions when i'm at my food trailer it's all about the barbecue and making sure everybody has good food and has a good time. >> rachel: sure. >> i will tell you what, the feeling i get amongst my group of peers, a lot of the people i work with, is we are really pulling for biden to lose. it's a lot of different reasons why. there's a lot of. >> rachel: what's the top reason why you think he should lose? >> he has ruined the economy. inflation is out of control. we are no longer energy independent. we're paying so much more for everything, just for being alive. you know, and it's stifling business growth. it's keeping money out of families' pockets. and it's really affecting the quality of life for regular americans. >> rachel: yeah. there is no question. i will go to to you, jorge, you are a small business owen like jon. we had kevin o'leary on earlier in the show from shark tank. he said this economy is crushing small business owners in this economy than anything else. >> that is correct. it's very difficult to run a business nowadays. i just got a call from one of my suppliers say like in the next couple weeks the price of meat, the price of eggs and some other items are going to keep going up. and my prices are almost, you know, high already. so i cannot increase them anymore because, otherwise, people they are not going to come to our restaurant because, you know, everything is getting so expensive. it is a difficult situation for business at this moment. >> rachel: jorge, you are in arizona, i know the economy is a top issue and it certainly effects you as a small business owner. how big is the border situation for arizona voters right now? >> well, it's difficult you hear a lot of it because of simply of the reason that the government right now is not doing their job. they are not enforcing the law that should be enforced. and if only they would do that, then the border will be fine. but apparently we have very incompetent government officials that they don't do their job, you know, they shouldn't get paid if they're not doing the job. so, to me, it's simple to fix as long as you do your job but they are not doing that. >> rachel: really fast, do you think biden is going to win arizona again? >> i hope not. i don't think he is i mean my restaurant people all the time and we talk about politics all the time because they know that, you know, they can say whatever they want without being afraid of retaliation. and people say, you know, that they are not only they don't like trump, is he incapable. he hasn't had the mental and physical capacity to run this country. we want a leader that is strong. we want donald trump back. or someone that will do a real good job. but apparently, you know, at this moment, we have seen for almost two years biden -- he should be, you know, playing golf or playing cards but not running the united states of america. >> rachel: yeah. i'm not sure he is coordinated to play golf at this stage but it's a great recommendation. esther, i'm going to go to you, you are in pennsylvania. you are a single mom. you work for u.p.s. you are a truck driver as well. what's the top concern that you have? >> my concern is keeping america intact and building on american made products. because american made products feed our economy. they feed americans and they are usually labor friendly. >> rachel: yeah. >> so i would prefer to see more initiatives in american jobs and keeping the american made product going and building on that. >> rachel: do you think that -- really fast, i only have a couple seconds here. do you think joe biden is doing that and do you think he will win the state of pennsylvania? >> he's done it to some degree. i don't think he's gonna win the state of pennsylvania this time. there's too many disgruntled voters. >> rachel: i wish i had more time with you three voters. i'm actually going to recommend we bring you guys back on the weekend to talk about it. you guys had some really interesting thoughts on things that the candidates aren't talking about that really matter to you. i know, jon, you talked about digital currency and jorge, you are very concerned about election integrity. and so anyway, you guys are an interesting panel. i hope we have you back. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. >> rachel: you got it. coming up buster murdock breaks his silence on his convicted killer father calling him a psychopath but saying is he innocent of murder that exclusive sit down with fox straight ahead. former immigration judge claims dhs is not reporting how many migrants are being released into the country. that judge will explain, next. ♪ my active psoriatic arthritis can make me feel like i'm losing my rhythm. with skyrizi to treat my skin and joints, i'm getting into my groove. ♪(uplifting music)♪ along with significantly clearer skin... skyrizi helps me move with less joint pain, stiffness, swelling, and fatigue. and is just 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. skyrizi attaches to and reduces a source of excess inflammation that can lead to skin and joint symptoms. with skyrizi 90% clearer skin and less joint pain are possible. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine, or plan to. thanks to skyrizi, there's nothing like clearer skin and better movement... and that means everything. ♪nothing is everything♪ now's the time to ask your doctor about skyrizi. learn how abbvie could help you save. lowe's knows your style can live anywhere. that's why we carry the samsung bespoke french door refrigerator. and the full line of bespoke appliances. including the samsung bespoke washer. because here, saving is always in style. shop labor day deals now in store, and online. ♪ chevy silverado has what it takes to do it all. with up to 13 camera views. and the z71 off-road package. ♪ you ok? 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>> they are just encouraging more people to enter the united states illegally. in fact, that's what a federal judge in florida found back in march. they are not coming -- geopolitical factors play a role, but the reason that some people, 5 million plus people are coming right now, is because they know that there's a high likelihood they are going to be released into the united states and be here forever. >> steve: sure. we have been hearing these stories about how migrants are being given a court date for 10 years from now which means they are free to r roam the country d hard to show whether they are going to show up or not. the administration says one of the problems is they need more immigration judges. you were an immigration judge a lore long time. explain law do. >> i heard about 15,000 cases during the 8 years i sat on the bench. many of those were border cases. most of my term was under the obama administration. because president obama actually detained migrants. we hear the cases. we adjudicate asylum claims. you know, we decide bond. things like that. everything a normal judge in a criminal court would do we do. the issue is not whether you go to jail, it's whether you get into the united states. >> steve: now, looks like everybody gets. in there was a story over the last couple days and i'm sure you saw it. right now the fbi is trying to track down migrants who got into the united states via the help of a smuggler with ties to isis. and the white house is going hey, look. this is a success. we eventually found the guy. but, aren't we supposed to stop the bad guys, judge at the southern border before they get in. >> yes. earlier jobs i advised janet reno on terrorist aliens. every time a foreign national from a terrorist country was apprehended and i knew and the commissioner of the ins knew apparently these days the decision to release aliens from terrorists countries where there is terrorist activities is made by border patrol agents at the line. they don't have the time and ability to vet those migrants. they should be detained and there should be a full vetting before they are released. but, steve, here's the really impressive thing. if you go to the cbp website they will tell you only 0.00 # will migrants they apprehend on the terrorist watch list. that's incredible. if you told me if i got on a plane 0.009 chance crash i wouldn't get on the plane. >> steve: thank you for sharing your expertise and service to america. >> thank you, steve. >> steve: hey, piers is next. ♪ safelite came right to us, and we could see exactly when they'd arrive with a replacement we could trust. that's service the way we want it. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ i need it cool at night. you trying to ice me out of the bed? 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