John im john roberts. The story with martha starts rights now. Martha that will be on our minds for a while. Good afternoon, everybody. Im martha maccallum. New things happening in several big stories as we get started here at 3 00 eastern. Senator bob menendez in court with his wife, nadine. If convicted on the counts that they face, the couple could face 45 years in prison. Many of his fellow democrats say he needs to go now. They dont want to wait for a trial. Hes not budging for now at this point. And then theres this story. Watch what happened last night in philadelphia. Martha how is this the scene in Downtown Philadelphia . I dont know why that woman was cackling and laughing while she was videotaping that. Only she knows. The answer to that, its complete chaos in Downtown Philadelphia. Police say that these flash mobs have been in a Caravan Riding around the city and ransacking stores. Were going to talk about that today. Its not just in philadelphia. It has happened all across the coupry. So the other big story here is that we are hours away now from the second republican president ial debate. Seven candidates will be up there tonight. They face off at 9 00 p. M. Eastern time on fox business. Ill be on with larry kudlow in the preview show before that tonight. Comoderator, dana perino. She will give us a preview of what she expects this evening and how they are preparing from the reagan library. Were excited to take to dana. First, lets start with Bryan Llenas Reporting live from the courthouse where Senator Menendez and his wife made their appearance earlier today. Hi, bryan. Hi, martha. Lets begin with comments made just moments ago by Democrat SenateMajority LeaderChuck Schumer who called the allegations, the federal bribery allegations and charges against Senator Menendez deeply dis dist disturbing. He stopped short in calling for his resignation. We know that for senators, theres a much higher standard. Clearly when you read the indictment, Senator Menendez fell way, way below that standard. Tomorrow he will address the Democratic Caucus and see what happens after that. Pressure continues to mount for the senator to resign. At least 30 democrat senators are calling for menendez to step down including dick durbin who this morning called on him to resign. He initially indicated he thought menendez should have a fair trial first. Yesterday menendez said that, you know, he will not step down. Senator menendez and his wife, nadine, pleaded not guilty to federal bribery charges. He was released on 100,000 bounds. His wife was released on 250,000 bond. Senator menendez turned in his personal passports but still allowed to travel on International Business along as its preapproved by the court. Two coconspirators pled not guilty today. The egyptian business man pleaded not guilty. He was released on 500,000 bond. Nbc news is reporting that the fbi is investigating whether egyptian intelligence officials were trying to reach the senator through his wife. Martha . Its a fascinating story. Well see what happens. Bryan, thank you. Lets bring in Kaylee Mcghee white. Its fascinating to watch what is surrounding all of this, right . How these senators are coming out. Its interesting that Chuck Schumer, the Majority Leader in the senate, it is a obviously we have a higher standard for behavior in the United States senate. Heres John Fetterman last night going after bob menendez. Watch this. The last times theres ever been a man with so much cash in their home in new jersey was tony soprano. You know . Its not a close call. Hes entitled to have his day in court. But he is not entitled to remain in the senate. He needs to go. Martha he needs to go. What do you make of this . Menendez might have gotten a more sympathetic reaction if this wasnt the second time in five years hes been accused of corruption and bribery. Thats the case and he needs to face that. Notice his reaction to his own colleagues condemnation of the charges against him. Hes pulling the race card. He said the other day that well, people just cant wrap their minds about a Hispanic American Rising to become one of the most senior senators in the United States senate. No, what people cant wrap their minds around is here in the in 2023, we still have model tickses stuffing gold bars in their sock drawers. Thats the issue here. Martha it is surprising even by new jersey standards as senator fetterman points out. Heres joe behar on the gops calls to let Voters Decide menendezs fate. We have a Justice System in this country. It is innocent until proven guilty. No matter how bad Something Likes, thats the way it is. Watch this. When it comes to White Collar Crimes, the Republican Party is soft on crime, i notice. If its regular crime, then they want you locked up and killed. They say like i notice, wait till the voters weighin. We dont want to wait. They commit a crime, we dont want to go to jail. We dont want to wait for a trial, a jury. I think joy behar would have the same standard if she was under scrutiny. Its ironic that democrats are soft on White Collar Crime in the biden family, right . Theres the Double Standard at play here as well. The problem is that menendez is owed his fair day in court. He will get the trial. Right now it seems like hes not preparing for that defense in front of a jury. A jury is not going to be persuaded by his allegations of racism against him. Theyre persuaded by the hard evidence that prosecutors say they have of fingerprints and dna linking the direct bribes to menendez. How does he prepare for that trial . Will he get off on a hung jury again . I dont think its likely. Martha sets in motion all of these people scrambling for this senate seat potentially, right . One of them who is being discussed is tammy murphy, the why of the phil murphy, the governor of new jersey. Andy kim is a democratic member of congress who is also someone that is under consideration. Hes also said that he might like to be a senator. So theres a picture of tammy murphy. Is this about politics or is this about their disgust with what is in that indictment . Im sure its a little bit of both. Notice that phil murphy called on menendezs resignation almost immediately. Perhaps theres politics at play here. The party cant afford this sort of bad look. Next years election will be a tough one, lets hope so. If they lose another senate seat before that, thats another seat that they have to fill and what could be a tough race for them. Theres a little politics at play here. Martha its going to be a very interesting map in the senate in 2024. Theres a lot of seats that are potential movers from democrat to gop. So obviously theres a lot of Money Interchanging in those senate races. Thanks, kaylee. So up next, elon musk speaks out about the wild looting that we see on the righthand side of the screen here in philadelphia. Its stunning what is happening there and elsewhere. And also, this story. Another layer to the Hunter Biden Case has just been revealed. Theres evidence that hunter biden got 250,000 check from the chinese from a Chinese Government connected company. But not a long, long time ago. While his father was actually running for president. And the money, according to the Oversight Committee, was wired to joe bidens delaware home. They say they can prove that. Next. Id like to take a moment to address my fellow veterans, because i know so many of you have served our country honorably. One of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan for up to 100 of your homes value. 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Wireless that works for you. Its not just possible. Its happening. Martha in 2019 when joe biden was in the thick of president ial campaigning, new information revealed that hunter biden had 250,000 wired from china. The address listed on the transfer, his dads home in delaware. Pat fallon serves on the Oversight Committee that released this. He joins me now. Good to have you with us today. You know, what abbe lowell, Hunter Bidens attorney is saying about this is that essentially it was he was borrowing those funds and that the reason they went to the wilmington address is because that was hunters only address at that time. What do you say about this . Hunter biden violated the number 1 rule of being a bad man. You dont send the bags of money directly to the principal, which he did in that case. He was using a california address on all legal documents. So to use that address is weird and sloppy. The Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas eight different times for bank records of the biden family and their associates. Eight times out of eight, we have discovered more foreign money going to the biden family. Martha we know that President Biden said during the second debate and here we are again in second debate cycle, he said my son is not made money in terms of this thing about what youre talking about, china. I have not had it. The only guy that made money from china is this guy, pointing to President Trump. He said nobody else has made money from china. Can he say that anymore . Clearly not. His son made Hundreds Of Thousands from the chinese communist. He lied when he ran for president when he said he had no side what his son did in business. He never met any of his sons business associates. He talked to score of his business associates. He wrote letters of recommendations and he had dinner with them and gave them tours of the white house. He had intimate knowledge of what his son was doing. Martha heres devin archer to representative goldman on july 31. He was asked if biden had had coffee with the rosemount partner, jonathan li in beijing. This is pulled out from the devin. Devin archer said this. They had coffee. After had coffee, saying hello. There was some familiarity. Question from goldman. Where was that that they had coffee . They had coffee in beijing. This President Biden during the time that he was vice president. Thats when this took place. So i guess the question is, does this new information that you have found what is being said by those that think that this is all nothing is that your committee has not found a definitive link of money from these interactions and Business Opportunities that went to joe biden or that influenced him in any way. Does this new information put any meat on those bones . We already had meat on the bones even though the democrats want their head in the sand. We had a form that was the informant was a highly valued human source for the fbi. They said all of his information checked out. He said that the ceo of burisma bribed hunter biden saying he gave him 5 million directly. So theres some meat on those bones there. Also, that his son was being paid a Million Dollars a year to work for burisma. What did joe biden do . He made sure that viktor shokin, the ukraine prosecutor, got fired because he was looking in to this. Martha one of the push backs from the white house now is that you all are putting the focus on this when the government is about to have to shut down at the end of the week. What is your response to that, congressman . That we have 435 members of congress. We can chew gum and walk at the same time. I dont want the government to shut down. We have to get a continuing resolution that secures the border and makes a couple of budget cuts. We have spent too much money. Were 33 trillion in debt. So the white house uses any excuse possible to look the other way. Dont worry about whats going on here. Look the other way. The lead oligarch was and sanctioned by the u. S. And then she gives hunter biden money. So theres a direct link there. Thats why we have to have this impeachment inquiry. Martha shes a lead actor in this arena. Many say they wouldnt have dealt with her because shes notoriously corrupt. Thanks, congressman fallon. Thanks, martha. Martha so an appalling dangerous scene in philadelphia last night when a mob of masked teenagers ransacked stores. What we have tonight is a bunch of criminal opportunists take advantage of a situation and make an attempt to destroy or city. Martha Dagen Mcdowell and retired detective oscar odom next. Martha everybody is talking about this video today. Watch the utter chaos last night. A coordinated mob breaks the windows, hauls merchandise out of stores in philadelphia. Watch this. Martha i mean, sounds like shes laughing. I dont know. I think i would i dont know if thats the normal Human Reaction to what shes watching play out. But it is what it is. So these people obviously are stealing things, walking out of the doors. Not everybody in the video was part of the theft. But some were watching it all as that woman clearly was. The group swelled to about 100 people by accounts on the street. They formed a caravan and went from store to store according to police smashing the windows and just taking out whatever they felt like stealing that night. Leaving the place a complete disaster for these poor store owners that had to come in to this mess in the store that they have built their livelihood around. This is just the latest. This was over the sumner glendale. Remember these images . Dozens of thieves flooding in to a store in broad daylight. Days later, this mayhem was at a Los Angeles Nordstrom where Hundreds Of Thousands of dollars of stuff just walked out the door with these individuals dragging it behind them. So what is happening in our country . This is not normal. This is not the way things are supposed to play out, right . This guy is dragging the display case across the floor which has something attached to it. Dagen mcdowell joins us on fox business. She will be kicking off the president ial debate with a twohour show and dr. Oscar odom joins us as well. Lets start with you, dr. Odom. The thing that really strikes me in this philadelphia video is were seeing something that we dont see a lot, which is Police Actively trying to take these thieves down. Yes. Its unbelievable. So happy that Police Officers are still giving a fight a fight. When these Different Things are taking place. Here it is, were charged with the task of protecting life and property. When we go out there selflessly to put ourselves on the line and in return we get a kick in the butt by a resolving door of justice. Still Police Officers are doing their job. I take my hats off. I feel sorry for the public to experience these bad things economically by losing businesses and people relocating and leaving the areas. Martha i know. Kudos to the Police Officers. Everybody out there has a phone. You hear the one woman cackling and laughing. At one point someone says keep recording as the Police Officers are trying to subdue these individuals. Dagen, this is not stopping. This is getting worse. It is getting worse because of people like that cackling social media fixture, her name, nickname is like meatloaf or meatball. This was still on her Instagram Page this morning. You can watch the entire stream. She has about 500,000 followers on tik tok. She has an only fans, which i refuse to take a look at. This was brazen and gleeful. This was thrilling for all of these thieves. And this is i talked to Rafael Mangual who writes for the manhattan institute. You can listen to meatball scream free iphones, everybody must eat. What are they eating . Ipads . You can hear this in their voices. Theyre not stealing things because they need them. This is a thrill. This is clearly antisocial behavior. The police are intervening more quickly i