the disinformation democrats, that's the focus of tonight's angle. ♪ >> laura: only a few weeks ago that we told you that the democrats were very worried. the "new york times" published a piece quoting various democrat officials who were concerned but had hoped that a conviction of trump would improve biden's chances of winning. well, trump was convicted and this is what happened. it did not move the needle. really not at all. and now top party leaders are, again, sounding the alarm. this from axios today. senior democrats, including some of president biden's aides are increasingly dubious about his theory for victory in november, which relies on voter concerns about january 6th, political violence, democracy, and donald trump's character. well, of course, they have a right to be concerned. this is all failing. the top concerns of voters remain the economy, border, inflation, the cost of everything. and biden has made it all worse. everything they try for their strategy to turn it all around crashes and burns. remember, they tried to ship biden over to normandy so he would look real presidential, instead, he looked lost. then, they touted a new border enforcement approach. but, come on, we all saw through that fakery. >> that order is in effect today, too. and it is having little-to-zero impact if anything. it has gotten busier out here in the san diego sector where are you from. >> mauritania. where are you from? what country? what country? china? >> china. >> bill: where are you guys from? mexico, guatemala? where are you from? china. where are you from? >> guatemala. >> guatemala. be. >> laura: yesterday, they are trying to sway or even increase their uninspired base and that required biden to fire up the amnesty express. >> these young people known as dreamers have been able to live and learn out of the shadows. we're much better and stronger nation because of dreamers. >> laura: to heck with the americans' dreams. this is just more confirmation that this bunch does not care so much for working class joe. and now, trump has his win, the wind at his back. the big betting markets all have him as the odds on favorite. that's something we didn't even see in 2016. interesting. and voters consistently rank him way above biden on the issues that matter. this is vexing, perplexing. all those hard core liberals. like chuck todd who wrote: one of the biggest developments of this campaign and the biggest difference between 2016 and 2020 and today is the lack of fear of another donald trump term. this lack of fear of trump could be a real stumbling block as they try to galvanize voters to remember what trump's presidency was really like. and some msnbc reporters, well, they do know the truth when pressed. >> folks remember -- forget the politics of it. they remembered a life that they lived, again, outside of politics before the pandemic. and for donald trump, and for lara trump right there heralding folks back to memories of their own lives at that point in time versus whatever they are experiencing life now. and there is something to that here. >> laura: yeah. you think? wait, but, wait a second, that's all too logical. what about the midterms? >> he still is on a losing streak. why should we believe that this moment is different? that suddenly president biden and the democrats are so much weaker today. >> donald trump's rhetoric even and even his sort of swagger looks more like 2016. trump in detroit and those events he did, he was oddly loose. he was trying to be funny. if he somehow drops the grievance he could end up looking like that 2016 candidate where is he the outside disrupter. >> maybe. >> laura: katy didn't know what to do with that comment. chuck todd was actually making a really good point. i think it can look a little bit like 1984. i'm not saying this could be a landslide. land slide. that's not possible: trump's policies were better. and then would be the best on the economy. best on foreign policy and obviously best on immigration. and, thus, they think the voters trump, not biden, deserves four more years. now, you should expect that there's gonna be a lot of finger pointing on how biden's posse made huge mistakes in communications and p.r. and huge errors of political strategy. but, frankly, i think most of that is unfair. biden's favored to lose in -- not because k.j.p. is bad. although she is bad. he is on track to lose because his policies have failed and failed miserably. and his cultural policies, oh my god. they just reveal a deeply anti-american, anti-christian. anti-girls and women core in the democrat party. there is just no spinning that we know biden's economic policies are lowering our standard of living. look, they are borrowing $1.9 trillion a year. and they are losing ukraine. our military is short on recruits. consumer spend something slowing. so, how is the comms shop supposed to message any of that? and we all know and the democrats know that biden himself is literally coming apart physically, of course, and cognitively. we all see it. and the comms people couldn't ignore the memory care moments biden keeps having. instead, they play the only card they have. try blame republicans for misinformation. and disinformation. literally telling you that the unedited videos that you are watching aren't real and aren't fair to show. >> cheap fake clips went viral on social media and were picked up by some news outlets. take a look at this clip, for example. it shows biden and other world leaders watching a skydiving demonstration before the president is seen walking away and looking in another direction. outlets claimed that he was sort of just aimlessly wandering away. >> now, cbs has actually deleted from circulation that video. they say that they slapped the warning on the wrong video though. >> okay. thank you, comrades, now, democrats want you to believe that the real crisis it's not noah we have a president who looks like he belongs in madame tussauds'. but that a video is circulating of his freeze ups and aimless wandering. >> what we are seeing steady stream of videos targeting president biden and in particular, taking aim at his age. right, and they are being picked up by news outlets that know they are fakes and/or know that they're misleading but post them anyway. >> laura: is this amazing or what? zero inquiry by journalist about biden's actual condition do. they have any curiosity about that whatsoever? any? and, yeah, this is all coordinated. >> calling it cheap fakes. that is something that came from directly from the media outlets in calling it that. the fact-checkers in calling it that. so we are certainly going to -- to be really -- really clear about that as well. and calling it out from where we are from where we stand. >> laura: calling it out. so it's basically pay no attention to the president who forgets where he is. and that means it's time to control the information. >> what i worry about misinformation, the disinformation. the stuff that's happening on social media that people repeat and then mainstream media rather than report it as it is, then repeat it. and you keep repeating it rather than explaining exactly what is happening that could depress turnout. >> laura: in order to stop videos of biden's decay from going viral, his campaign announced it was establishing something called a disinformation task force. yeah. and these people call trump an autocrat. a spokesman said that it was responsibility of the social media companies and media allies to mitigate the impact of the videos. now, remember, defenders of democracy where they control the media. again, they keep making mistakes. shielding biden from scrutiny is not going to make groceries more affordable. not going to make gas cheaper. and it's not even that biden's a weak candidate. of course, he is. but he is literally, everyone watching has to know tonight is he literally the best candidate they could find. who thinks barack obama would have been on stage last week with clooney and roberts with biden unless he thought that biden was their best chance? i'm telling you, if democrats had someone better, someone they thought could win, they would have nominated him or her. they would have booted biden. the problem isn't biden. it's his policies. and what does this mean for the g.o.p.? you know, i say keep on keeping on. the trump campaign is showing excellent judgment and approach, stay with the substance. they have a real record to run on. a record of success. biden, meanwhile is just running away from his. and he is stuck on this continuous, unconvincing loop about character and threat to democracy. it's not landing. 14 years ago, the tea party movement began as a frustrated response to two party establishments that wouldn't listen to the concerns of regular people. and 9 years ago, donald trump took the leadership of that movement. with a simple message. america first. now, this is a new and long overdue republican party today. thank goodness. and now, this movement is a strongest it's ever been. we're gaining young people. we're gaining minority votes. and we're moving into purple and blue states as well. and trump is in the lead despite everything they have thrown at him. it's driving them nuts. the democrats know this, which is why they are in a frothy panic tonight. but their desperate measures and desperate moments is not going to convince anyone. and that's the angle. joining me now is byron york, chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner" and jason chaffetz, former utah congressman, both fox news contributors. jason, what's amazing here is that they spent all this time building this up narrative that trump is a dictator, trump is an autocrat, and they are literally putting out messages to media allies as they call it and social media companies to control information. you literally cannot make this up. >> yeah. look, it started with obama. when biden was the vice president. remember, they were spying on various reporters. they were diving into congressional records, this is part of their pattern. you know, they get the 51 intelligence officers to go out and talk about russia, russia, russia. and trump. the problem is measure has figured this out 8 years later that everything they tell us isn't true. they said that, you know, inherited 9% inflation. he didn't inherit 9% inflation. never went above 3% with donald trump. they keep saying that the border was secure for three years. it was never secure. all these things that they keep telling the american people are a flat out lie. and then they say they are deep fake videos. i think it's the italian prime minister, why did she have to walk all the way across all those people in front of the crowd and pull the president's arm? do you think she was concerned about what he was doing? yeah. that ain't a deep fake. that's reality. >> democrat strategist in touch with the biden campaign told axios that it's unclear to many of us watching from the outside whether the president and his core team realize how dire this situation is right now and whether they even have a plan to fix it? that's scary. byron, i was thinking today, do you think biden even knows how bad it is? do you think they even tell him? i bet not. i mean, he might hear a little bit. but i bet they keep it from him because lord knows what he will do if he freezes at a fun entertaining event what will happen if he actually hears the real news. >> well, i think the president has been convinced for quite a while, because he said so at a number of events. he believes that he is the one person who can defeat donald trump. he is the one person standing between the america of today and the abyss of trumpism. and i think what was in the axios report must have been worrisome for democrats. it's a bad idea when a president surrounds himself by a really really small insular group of advisers who are all afraid of disagreeing with this president's strategy for near of being exiled from the group. the president has edges sighted that this election will be decided on the issue of january 6th and donald trump. now, you were just talking about how many americans were concerned about the economy, about the -- about inflation. about the border. about crime, about all sorts of things. and, as a matter of fact, in the new fox poll, they asked, in deciding to vote, are you going to decide to vote based on the issues and who can do best? or are you going to decide to vote based on the character of each candidate? and it was issues 59% character, 29%. so appears to have the wrong reading of the race. but his advisers are afraid to tell him otherwise. >> laura: jason, i agree with that i think, again, you can't -- everyone can't get ahead of themselves on this. the republicans have to be careful. you have to go for every vote and trump is doing that but it's amazing that they think this is still a comms problem. biden is literally the best candidate they thought they had. he is it. i mean, that's -- that's getting lost in all of this. i know byron has been around for just as long as i have. he knows what i'm talking about here. jason, what does that say about the democrat party that that guy is their best shot? >> yeah. they don't have a bench. and kamala harris is no asset. if they think morikawa bell is the solution to the biden problem. let's hear more of joe biden. then go out and do a press conference. why don't you go out and do that you haven't done one of those this year. there is a reason why he is always in hiding. he has to hide out for the next week out at camp david to prep for the debate. he can't physically do it and kamala harris is a word salad that isn't a creed to what they are trying to do on the campaign. >> laura: byron and jason. keep on this. thanks so much. comicoming up next, is ge georgs planning to silence some of the biggest conservative voices in radio? 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>> look, this soros-backed group is looking to buy the second largest radio station group in the country. we are talking over 200 radio stations across more than 40 markets. some of them are in pennsylvania, in virginia, in florida. the vast majority are probably music or sports but there are at least a handful in those states that carry conservative talk radio including sean hannity, mark levin, dana loesch. and so i think there is a concern. look, congressman chip roy was first to this to sound the alarm that the fcc has been asked to approve this on a special soros shortcut not even going to run the normal agency process of looking at this foreign ownership rule. and i agree with congressman chip roy. the fcc should not be creating this special soros shortcut. look, some of these same voices you just had on they were silent when democrats in congress wrote to cable companies asking them to drop fox news. they were silent when democrat members of congress asked the fcc to reject a conservative purchase of a spanish language radio station in south florida. so it's a bit ironic to hear them expressing these concerns now. >> laura: according to "the washington examiner," americans still waiting on biden broadband plan rural high speed internet stuck in dem's red tape, not a single home has been connected after three years. this was a touted broadband. i don't know how many times i heard biden talk about broadband. i know we are switching topics here. what can you tell us about that? >> yeah, a couple weeks ago there was national headlines when it came out that the biden administration got $7 billion to build nationwide set of ev charges stations and they only completed 8. and what's news on top of that is that same biden infrastructure package included $42.45 billion to bring internet service to millions of americans and as of today, they have connected zero people from that 2021 initiative. and worse than that, the biden administration officials are saying it will not be until next year, 2025 at the earliest that even a single shovel's worth of dirt is going to be turned. >> laura: unbelievable. brendan, unbelievable. that fcc story about soros shows you independent agencies there has got to be a big change in the way these things run totally unaccountable. brendan, thank you. great to see you. up next, does mayorkas even know name. >> our hearts break for the children of the individual who was murdered, the woman, the mother. >> laura: rachel's mother responds to mayorkas, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds. ♪ ♪ and i'm keeping the weight off. wegovy® helps you lose weight and keep it off. i'm reducing my risk. wegovy® is the only fda-approved weight-management medicine that's proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events in adults with known heart disease and with either obesity or overweight. wegovy® shouldn't be used with semaglutide or glp-1 medicines. don't take wegovy® if you or your family had medullary thyroid cancer, multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop wegovy® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may happen, including pancreatitis and gallbladder problems. wegovy® may cause low blood sugar in people with diabetes, especially if you take medicines to treat diabetes. tell your provider about vision problems or changes, or if you feel your heart racing while at rest. depression or thoughts of suicide may occur. call your provider right away if you have any mental changes. common side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. with wegovy®, i'm losing weight, i'm keeping it off. and i'm lowering my cv risk. that's the power of we. ♪ ♪ check your cost and coverage before talking to your health