right now. >> thank you very much. afternoon. i'm martha maccallum and this is the story. coming up clay travis is here. ari fleischer senator tom cotton consistently on the shortlist for trump spee p. we'll ask him about that and a lot more. but first breaking moments ago kathryn princess of wales announcing she will make her first public appearance tomorrow since this shocking news back in march that she had cancer. >> it has taken us time to explain everything to george charlotte, in a way that's appropriate for them and to reassure them that i'm going to be okay. as i said to them i am well and getting stronger every day by focusing on the things that will help me heal. in my mind body and spirit. >> we remember that day. that was a big surprise. she has just done it again with this message much more positive and this photo released on social media. beautiful photo taken at windsor. she says she will attend tomorrow the celebration of king charles' official birthday. though she writes quote i am not out of the woods yet. i am making good progress, and there a picture of her standing in the woods. at their home near windsor. so anyone she says as she continues the state and going through chemotherapy will know who's good days and bad days and on the bad days you feel weak tired and you have to give into your body resting. but on the good days when you feel stronger you want to make most of feeling well. princess catherine says her treatment is ongoing and will be for a few more months. here's she is just a year ago at the kings birthday parade. since then he was diagnosed with cancer and has been quite a year for the royal family. both these cases we still don't know exactly what kind of cancer they are each being treated for. let's bring in uk media correspondent royal reporter neil sean covering the royal family more than 20 years. what can you tell us about the nature of this announcement? we heard she might be attending this. what about the timing involved? >> good evening from london. great positive news to start the weekend and wonderful news from the princess of wales. this was always a gold coast. this is basically the thing she was hoping to achieve. this was really decided around about late wednesday afternoon literally between his majesty the king and the prince of wales. both really wanted her to her obviously but it's if and when and how you feel and as she pointed out a message you have good days and bad days. so wednesday you want to do this more importantly this is about the closeness, you know, the real love and bond between his majesty the king and princess catherine but also just throwing this caveat over here around the world is in terrible situations awful things printed written discussed on digital platforms about the princess and this was really like a smackdown to those ridiculous and outlandish rumours so that also is part of it. >> i guess everyone assertive is curious and while we are talking with this will take a look at last year not that long ago as the royal family entered the balcony so that's 1 question. will she be out on the balcony with the rest of the family? will she be riding in a carriage? what we think tech what you expect from her tomorrow? >> what i'm being told so far by palace as we are looking at the balcony. it all is down to catherine tomorrow morning. it's kind of how does she feel, does she want to that sort of stuff. the fans everybody around the world will be delighted to see her in the carriage that opens a lot more scrutiny, lens cameras that sort of stuff unless just be honest, the lady is going to be very nervous. it's her first steps but whoever you are it's daunting thing. anybody's going to to scrutinize you. so i would suspect we could definitely 100% look forward to a balcony appearance even support by the 3 children fingers crossed. and of course his royal highness the prince of wales. it's very much a thing about unity getting the confidence back and getting back out there. as you pointed out beautiful picture taken earlier this week at windsor of sweden see she looks a lot better but it's all about how we feel on the day. >> i would imagine they didn't want her to just walk out there because they want to make sure that there will be throngs of people as there would be anyway but now probably many more so now and i would imagine she's going to just get an absolutely enormous overwhelming spots from the people of london and the uk. >> is going to be emotional. i think there's going to be a lot of tears outside buckingham palace tomorrow and i can tell you where the press corps is the whole thing is now sold out. you can get in. i'll be there obviously but you can't get in and that's created a worldwide interest back in this event, not the as you see it's not popular anyway but i think the fact that i know, you know, the king his majesty really had a word with earlier this week and said he would be delighted if she could but i think she's been inspired by him because we don't know the types of cancer each individual has but he's ploughed on sort of bulldog spirit that's resonated with the british public. he's doing a lot of good for people going through a similar thing. yes, he has the best healthcare in the world. the world knows that but it's about personal stamina and i think catherine in the situation she's undergoing right now will be inspirational to lots of people going through very similar difficult thing. it's a nice heartwarming moment. >> and as far as we know she's been undergoing treatment since january so jun would make it about a six-month treatment. but she says she's not out of the woods yet. any thought on that before we go? >> as i told you first hear in your show icy moralists for a return september october time. their fingers crossed about wimbledon. may be she could go to that. but again it's very much exposed event for a long period of time. >> neil sean thank you so much for jumping in with this breaking news and will be watching tomorrow for that coverage. thank you neil. former president trump tells fox he's got a pretty good idea of who he will pick for his running mate saying maybe it will happen right before the republican national convention or at the convention. senator tom cotton is 1 of those whose on the list and we'll talk to him about that and foreign policy which is a very pressing matter right now nexyot t conditd thyroid eye disease, which should be treated by a different doctor. see an expert. find a t-e-d eye specialist at isitted.com >> martha: president biden at the g7 in italy where the war in ukraine has been 1 of the major focuses. back here at home former president trump saying this in a brand-new interview that he did with logan paul. watch. >> the russian attack on ukraine would have never happened if i were president would have never happened. just a shame. so many dead people and i think that the way afghanistan worked, i think when putin looked at that he said let's go in. president xi of china also looked. he's looking at taiwan and he's drooling. he's drooling over taiwan. so something could happen there. we've lost a lot of respect. there laughing at us all over the world and that wasn't happening 4 years ago. >> martha: tom cotton was with the former president in dc yesterday and sits on the armed services intelligence and judiciary committees. good to have you with us. you hear the former president. what do you think vladimir putin and president xi are thinking as they look at trump potentially coming back to the white house in january and how do you think that may be guiding directions? >> what i think they're thinking as they hope joe biden wins because 43 and half years america's had a kick me sign on their back because of joe biden's week failed presidency. i agree with that the former president just said. this invasion in ukraine would not have happened if you are president but i think he's being too modest. he should be able to say it did not happen when he was president. we're in a unique situation this year. for the first time in more than a century the american people have a choice between 2 presidents. they don't have to speculate about what a challenger might do in office. i would have to do is look back to what president trump did in office. remember those days and that's why he's leaving because most americans fondly remember the peace stability and prosperity we enjoyed 4 for years. by contrast vladimir putin seems to invade ukraine only when democrats are president. barack obama first and now joe biden. he does that just like xi jinping takes advantage of america during the obama biden years. because they're not strong and confident in the defence of america's interest. >> martha: that's part of my question. how does that guide their actions now? if they have 5 months to expect something that happened between now and the election that they will take advantage of the window given what you're saying? >> i think it something to worry about because it's not just ukraine. threats of war in asia. we have an ongoing war in israel or israel fighting back against the invasion of october seventh in gaza as well as a slow boil to potential war in the northern front and outlaws and rebels in yemen shooting ballistic missiles and cruise missiles into israel and our ships in the red sea. everywhere you turn president biden's weakness has invited chaos and war. by contrast president trump's approach, my approach like ronald reagan's approach was peace through strength. i think the american people prefer peace through strength than war through weakness. >> martha: let me ask another question and get at least 1 more in. this is something us he said it has to do with another big element of these wars. watch this from president trump. >> what's your relationship like with vladimir putin? >> i think very good but i was tough with him. i and the pipeline. he built the pipeline that was going to supply oil and gas to all over europe, all over europe germany in particular. we are defending you and your giving the people we are defending you from, we are giving you the defence but you're giving them money. i ended it. it was dead and gone. this guy comes in and principled kills keystone. >> martha: how much of that is the equation terms of oil and russia and china buying up all the royal while we have sanctions on them? >> there's no question unfortunately that china and russia have grown closer together because of joe biden's weakness but president trump is right there. i thought it was always very foolish in 2016 that hillary clinton was saying somehow donald trump was the 1 close to russia. look at the issues donald trump championed and still champions shape versus democratic party's agenda. president trump champions north american energy production. hillary clinton and joe biden wanted to shut it down. oh in energy production hurts russia. president trump did not agree to a no strings attached extension of the only nuclear arms treaty we have with russia. joe biden kvitova on the first day. president trump stopped nordstrand 2 pipeline. joe biden let it go forward. time and time again you see president trump taking strong positions in defence of america's interests in dc joe biden and the democratic party taking positions that are causing vladimir putin to smile. >> martha: do you want to be vice president if trump wins? >> i'm sure the president will make a good choice for not only himself in the ticket by the country when it's time frame to make the choice. i'm confident it will be a great 1. i suspect he see anyone knows who's on the shortlist. >> martha: is a job you want the was my question. >> i think any great patriot avast by the president to serve in any capacity of this country would have to consider it seriously. right now i'm happy serving the people of arkansas and senate and working to elect president trump and republican majority in the congress to begin to repair the damage caused by joe biden and the democrats. >> martha: we'll see you. sounds like we get big reveal at the rnc. we'll see what happens in milwaukee. thank you very much. have a good weekend. good to have you with us. >> thank you martha. >> martha: kim strasser who has a great piece out today, leslie marshall in the biden-trump battle for older and younger voters. who's ahead in those groups? and might surprise you. >> to me doesn't have to do with democrat or republican. it's about which president will fight for us and who's going to represent us the best way possible. and that's really what the young people in america want. this is the smartest generation. we've had the most access to information and knowledge out of any other generation. so you can't fullest ♪ ♪ have you always had trouble losing weight we jusff?t want the truth ♪ ♪ and we want authenticity ♪ ♪ and i'm keeping the weight off. wegovy® helps you lose 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participating in this political theatre. this whole thing is the theatre of the absurd. and california has had enough. >> not so absurd now. correspondent matt finn reports live from california. hi met. >> you heard a portion of governor newsom's new video in which he talks about how he doubled california national guard at the legal point of entries in this state. and he says that's resulted in a record seizure of fentanyl but we've been reporting to the illegal pathways here in california and we don't see any california national guard out here. so newsom's new video begs the question of whether he plans on ever sending national guard to assist the overwhelmed border patrol here in his own state. all week long we been showing you images of thousands of migrants freely and easily crossing into united states so we have reached out to governor newsom to ask if he plans on sending any national guard to the legal crossings here in the state. the border patrol union in san diego rather quickly responded to governor newsom's video writing in part quote we need help in stemming the flow of illegal migrants entering california not rewarding illegal migrants with taxpayer-funded programs. governor if you are serious of a closing the california mexico border you would allow california national guard to help us. we shut new video of a group of mostly chinese migrants who illegally cross ended up wandering around a rural residential neighbourhood. border patrol process goes migrants in front of a home in the border patrol agent told us it's demoralizing day after day to keep chasing around illegal groups of migrants. and the migrants here in san diego repeatedly tell us they fly into mexico and pay extreme amounts of money $10,000 plus to the human smugglers who died them here in the united states. as you stand on american soil you are watching a well oiled criminal enterprise in which human smugglers are taking advantage of the united states and the state of california. >> martha: bigger business than drugs for the cartels now and they clearly control that part of our southern border. they are in charge of it. to bring people in all the time. so thank you very much matt finn. what we are now learning about the 8 suspected terrorists from to jake istan who have ties to isis. they walked right across the southern border. despite some nonsense frankly about the fact they were vetted and we don't even know what that means at this point. 1 law-enforcement official telling cnn the us quote may be done with isis but isis is in town with us. my next guest testify before congress about the changes that he saw take place during the biden administration and his fears for our security. >> to be blunt to systematic destruction of border security and the predict about consequences hell out of me and they should scare you. renew terrorist organizations were going to increasingly seek to use operatives that were unknown. we cannot rely solely on rec reference checks. the ongoing massive illegal immigration immigration is a threat to our national security and didn't we all promise after 9/11 to never forget? >> that's ring and former patrol chief rodney scott who spent 29 years with the agency serving various sectors along the border. he's now distinguished senior fellow for border security at the texas public policy foundation. rodney scott thank you very much for joining us today. i imagine when you heard this news about these 8 citizens who have crossed the southern border and have ties to isis that you probably based on what you said there were not all that surprised i would imagine? >> i'm not surprised at all and thank you for having me on martha. leading up to this you talk about the vetting. people need to understand we're talking about about vetting real true vetting involves face-to-face interview beyond just records checks. but this massive amount of illegal immigration we have today that really really took off when biden change the policies on the border from being preventative and insurance to reactive. it overwhelms border patrol along the lines so they are doing figure prinsen photographs but if we don't have a record of these individuals every single 1 of them will come back clean. it's a joke. it's silly that you can have government official standing up saying with a straight face we are vetting these people because we are not. >> once they got through somebody got a sense of who they were and where they were from. because then they took him into custody sort happened between a and b.? >> let's not forget and thank god we have some great border patrol agents, fbi agents ace agents, that they are doing the best they possibly can but to triage the chaos on the border today. so it was found out later should have been found out immediately but once border patrol is done with these individuals they process them into the system. luckily fbi and ice session countries with a high-risk are going and doing more due 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