everyone. thanks so much for joining us today. welcome to "sunday morning futures." i'm maria bartiromo. today, will joe biden make it or will he withdraw? the persistent questions about his capacity to run for and serve another term. on top of the questions about the bench and vice president kamala harris' ability to step up. coming up, ohio senate j.d. vance on trump's short list for vice president on the campaign, the verdict and the upcoming debate. will j.d. vance be debating kamala harris in the upcoming months in plus, joe biden makes a move at the border five months ahead of the election as voters denounce biden's handling of immigration. texas governor greg abbott on whether anything has changed at all as illegals move from texas and arizona to san diego to flood into america. all of this as the leading congressional oversight committees recommend criminal charges against hunter and james biden. coming up, house oversight committee chairman james comer on where his impeachment inquiry is headed now. plus, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett and the new york post columnist miranda devine on the democrats' lawfare strategy ises. all of this as china gets more aggressive, new recruiting former u.s. fighter pilots to aa cyst in china's air combat. pete hegseth with a look at america's military and what he calls the war on warriors. it's all right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: is and we begin this sunday morning with america's feckless border security. if this week president biden announced in an executive order to slow the flood of illegals coming into america after he and secretary mayorkas said the border was secure for some three years. and, of course, now he releases this ahead of the presidential election five months away. the white house claims that biden's executive order will shut i down the or border when illegal crossings top 2,50 0 to0 a day, but it also includes serve carveouts which put people in danger. for example, unaccompanied children are not part of the 2500,they will continue to flow in among other groups. this is likely to cause the drug cartels to exploit children. and as "the new york post" if reports this week, the order still allows at least 1.if 8 million illegal migrants into the country every year if fully enforced. under biden's watch, customs and border protection sources telling fox news' bill melugin and griff jenkins that they've encountered over 8 million migrants illegally crossing with nearly 7 million apprehended by border patrol. this does not include the millions of so-called gotaways that we know of that have evaded apprehension and vanished without a trace. since the order took affect, we have seen little to no evidence that the flood of illegals has slowed down as all -- at all. christopher wray testified the on capitol hill and once again said americans are facing a grave threat in their communities. >> our most immediate concern has been that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the if events in the middle east to carry out attacks here at home. but now, on top of that, increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland not unlike the isis-k attack we saw at the russian concert is hall back in march. martha: -- maria: and the state of texas launched operation lone star back in march of 20221. it has apprehended more than half a million illegals with more than 43,000 criminal arrests and 38,000 felony chargings. it's has seized more than 488 million lethal doses of fentanyl, now the leading cause of death for americans between the ages of 18-49. joining me right now is the governor of texas, greg abbott, who has been leading the charge to protect america's border since the biden administration if unwound president trump's border security. the governor joins me now with the latest on bind's border order. -- biden's border order. thanks so much for join us. >> my pleasure. thank you, maria. maria: have you seen any change at the border since joe biden came out with an executive order? >> none whatsoever. listen, people need to understand what that what biden has done, he's not doing anything to actually secure the border. in fact, it's the opposite because with he's actually authorizing more people to cross the border illegally. and think about this. when you get to that 2,5 a 90 -- 2500 number a day that he says he will allow but only then stop the asylum process, when he stops the asylum process, there's nothing that biden is doing that actually is preventing anybody else from crossing the border. there's no type of enforcement mechanism in place. and so as a long as the biden administration refuses to provide any type of enforcement, any type of blockage of people crossing illegally, all this new biden policy is going to do is to actually attract and invite even more people to cross the border el illegal he -- illegally. and you've seen on videos ever since the ooh biden order, went into place, there's no slowing down of people are crossing the border. in fact, it's just accelerating. so this is gaslighting our fellow americans when biden gets up and says this is going the stop people from caroming across the -- coming across the border. in fact, it is making the border illegals crossings worse. maria: unbelievable. and the fact that he does it five months before an election to try to make people believe that he's actually doing something after three years of he and mayorkas saying that the border is secure is also a stunning. i want to get your take on this specific issue of unaccompanied minors, children. when i went to the border, five or six times at the border, i saw several unaccompanied children there coming across the rio grande alone, 11-year-olds. i mean, the drug cartels, i was told, were renting those kids, making believe that they were part of family units, but they really weren't. what do you think the implication is of not having unaccompanied children part of this 2500 cap? >> so a couple of things. one is that the unaccompanied children is just one of very million many exceptions -- very many exceptions to the new rule that biden has established. the point is this, and that is the exceptions exceed the rule, and that allow, again, even more people to cross illegally into our country. the biden administration is new going to process and to allow to stay in the united states. the second, as you point out, by allowing children to cross the border illegally and allowing them to stay here, all that does is provide a tool to the cartels who are responsible for everybody who crosses illegally to exploit those children. this is extraordinarily harmful to these children, and they often times are used as tools meaning this, and that is they will cross the border with some adult, and then they will be sent back across the border into mexico and accompany if some other adults to come across the border. is so this is nothing more than a scam that encarriages children, that does -- endangers children and does nothing to secure our border. maria: yeah. and where are all the democrats who claim they're watching out for human rights abuses? where are all the a democrats who claim to love children and women when we're looing at this kind of treatment? -- looking at this kind of treatment. governor, you've got a list from the if texas department of public safety, the ten most wanted criminal illegal immigrants. i've got the list in front of me. tell me the significance of this list and what the texas dps is running into when they are doing can these apprehensions. >> so, maria, included among all the people that joe biden is allowing into the united states are known criminals, people who are wanted for murder, for rape, for assault. very serious crimes. and when they come here, the texas department of public safety taps into a data as base to find out -- database to find out which of hose are in the state of texas, which they've the been able to apprehend and not apprehend, and now we have a list of people who are in texas who have committed crimes in the past who are wanted. and we thought, well, we're going to -- if joe biden is going to allow criminal illegal immigrants into our state, we are going to go after those criminal illegal immigrants, and that's exactly what the texas department of public safety is doing. maria: that is just incredible. what do you want to see at the border should president trump win this election in november if? obviously, we've got new polls coming up to take a look at what people are talking about after the conviction, but what are you expecting should president trump win at the border in. >> listen, i've talked to the president about that, and he's in part going to reimplement the policies that he had in place when joe biden took office a, is and that is remain in mexico, maybe some derivative of the title 4 the 2 policy. importantly -- 422 policy. importantly, end catch and release, continue to build the border wall. but something else that's very important, remember that joe biden has allowed in more than 10 million illegal immigrants including these very dangerous criminals. one thing that president trump is very adamant a about, and that is, at a minimum, we need to identify, locate and ap a rehend all of these -- apprehend all of these criminals that have come across our border and send them back to where they came from. maria: president trump told me he would likely have to deport most of them. governor, real quick on the texas stock exchange, we know that the environment for business has been quite positive and that's why so many businesses are incorporating in texas. now the state planning on a texas stock exchange. to compete with the new york stock exchange. >> sure. listen, for the entirety of the century that a we're in right now, texas has become the epicenter for the american economy. we rank number one for new jobs added, number one for economic development new projects for 1 is 11 years, we have fortune 500 companies flocking to the state of texas including their headquarters, and ceos have sid that texas is the best state for doing business for 20 years. and so with texas, we are now the epicenter in the united states for capital, and now we seek to expand that by becoming the epicenter for capital markets. maria: all right. we'll be watching. you're doing it all, governor. it's good to see you. thanks so much, sir. >> thank you, maria. maria: all right. texas governor greg abbott this morning. and now this -- >> i'm telling you that this election coming up on november 5th, 2024, is going to go down as the most important day because if we don't win -- it's we, it's all of us, it's millions of people. if we don't win, this country finished. i really believe that. i think it's, i think it's finish thed. maria: and that is former president trump at a town hall in phoenix, arizona a, on thursday with now 149 days away from the presidential election on november 5th. if we've got new fox news if polls to show you this morning. trump is leading biden following trump's guilty verdict in manhattan with the 45th president leading president biden in arizona, in florida, in nevada, and he's tied in virginia where democrats have won the last pour presidential elections date -- four presidential elections. even very blue virginia, they are tied. joining me right now with more on the campaign and the road ahead is ohio senator j.d. vance who is on president trump's short to become his vice president. if great to see you, senator. thanks so much for joining me this morning. >> good morning, maria. how are ya? maria: have you sent the necessary paperwork in in terms of vetting for that vice president: spot? >> yeah, maria, we've had some conversations with the trump team, but i've actually not spoke about the vice presidential thing with the president directly. until i do, i sort of assume this is a lot of media speculation. as i've said i think to you, maria, and certainly many others, i want went to help donald trump get elected, but i've got an important job for the people of ohio in the united states senate. that's what i'm focused on, and if that change, you'll be one of the first to know. maria: let me get your take in terms of what your incredible resumé brings to the table here. because i know that ohio has been a place where president trump has won with, but there's also other states around that i think bring a real needed boost for the president's campaign. what about ohio as well as pennsylvania? tell me what you're seeing in terms of voters right now. >> yeah, maria, one of the most important things that we have to do as a national party, not just donald trump's campaign, but if i you look at important senate elections in wisconsin, in michigan, in pennsylvania, you've got what we call the industrial midwest where some of the most critical states in the country are going to hold elections, of course. not just for president, of course, but for the senate too. we really have to run up the score with a lot of voters who recognize a the that they have been left behind by the economic policies of joe biden. if you want to build things, if you want to make things in the united states of america, the most important thing, maria, is low cost energy, and yet joe biden's energy policies have been at war with the workers in these states. so i think there's a real opportunity for us to run up the score here, the win those important electoral votes but to elect a few really good guys to the united states senate. and i think that is the most important part of our country, those three state thes in the industrial midwest. maria: that's a great point that a you make and, of course, we saw the polls after the conviction, senator, and president trump has gotten more support. he was able to raise close to $300 million in the week after the conviction. i guess it was $50 million in the paris 24 hours x. and then we're -- first 24 hours. and then we're looking at the polls, the president has gone to bright blue states, places like south bronx as well as new jersey and minnesota and has been able to garnerrer huge crowds. -- garner huge crowds. what is your take on what has taken place in terms of the support we've seen for president trump despite that guilty verdict? >> yeah, maria, i think people recognized it was fundamentally a sham trial put on by the democrats to distract from their own failure. and i will say that you can feel the energy. i was campaigning with the president on d-day, actually, june the 6th, just a couple of days ago, and the energy on the ground is just off the charts. people are excited. and i think they're excited because they want their country back, maria. there are a couple of very basic issues driving the election. americans don't want a wide open southern border. americans don't want cartels to bring fentanyl into their communities. they don't want energy policies that a make it impossible to afford a decent living in our country. they don't want housing costs going through the roof with rising interest rates. there are just some basic things where if you i compare the success of the trump administration to the failure of the biden administrations, you know, sometimes this stuff is hard, maria, but we've actually seen it. we saw four years of trump, four years of biden, and a lot of americans are saying take me back to peace and prosperity, which is what donald trump delivered. maria: this emerson college poll, president trump is at 44% versus biden at 38. you just mentioned you were with trump on d-day. thank god for those incredibly courageous men who fought for our freedom on d-day and changed the course of history with that. but as a veteran, you felt that there was a smear from joe biden dropping an ad from normandy, thank you for your service to our great country. tell me what happened when biden dropped a campaign ad from normandy against president trump. >> well, you know, maria, you're right, this is the greatest generation. we should be proud of them. they literally liberated a continent from fascism and tyranny, and there's a reason why we call them the greatest generation. but joe biden is trying to cover himself in glory of the greatest generation despite trying to destroy everything that they fought for. so he's made up these ridiculous, accusations that donald trump doesn't respect veterans, doesn't respect the greatest generation. i was with donald trump on d-day in both public and private. he talked constantly about how much he admired those who served, especially in that generation but all generations. here's the crazy thing, maria. can the greatest generation what they -- ask the greatest generation what they feel about a wide open borders, what they feel about a sex changes for minors. the fact that joe biden is covering himself in glory of the very people who fought for something that he's trying to destroy is disgraceful, and i hope americans reject it this november. maria: well, we are seeing americans are rejecting it. poll after poll we're seeing them support president trump, but we all know it's about who counts the votes at the end of the day. what are you thinking in terms of a fair and transparent election in november after these last couple of years where so many viewers and voters were skeptical? >> yeah. very good question, march what, and credit to michael whatley, the new chair of the rnc, who i think has done a lot of good things here. if you compare the 2020 the election to states that did well, ohio and north carolina in particular, some states had real problems like pennsylvania, and we're trying to take the ohio-north carolina approach nationwide. we're challenging some of the democrats' approaches, some of their efforts to do ballot harvesting. we have a really aggressive legal operation that's going to challenge things as they come up, and we certainly know they will. i really don't think as somebody who was very skeptical of what happened in 2020 that the they're going to be able to run the same game in 2024. so our goal is to make this thing too big to rig. get out there and vote, get out and donate, donald j trump.com, get involved in this race because the best way to insure that donald trump is the president in 2024 is to run up the score, and we have an an opportunity to do that. maria: you know, it couldn't be more important particularly as we see communist china getting more aggressive with america. now they are wanting to recruit american former fighter pilots to put, to work for china's air combat. this is just one of the many aggressions that we are seeing from communist china and not much pushback from this administration. >> no, not much pushback at all, maria. in fact, we're actively empowering them. when we talk about our energy policy, we are sitting on a mountain of the most valuable resource in the world, natural gas and petroleum. but the biden administration is making it harder and harder to get out of the ground. so what does that do? that empowers communist china, empowers people who who want to manufacture outside of the united states. it harms american workers, and and it gets us in a a position, maria, where, god forwith bid, if we fought a war with the communist chinese tomorrow, they would make a lot of the critical weapons systems that we actually need for the defense of our country. so we have got to get joe biden out of there and create more economic independence. there's a real opportunity here, but there's also a real risk if we reelect joe biden. maria: senator, it's great to talk with you, we so appreciate your time. >> thanks, maria. maria: ohio senator j.d. vance. quick break, and then house oversight committee chairman james comer sending out criminal referrals on hunter and james biden. he will join me live with more on tha