Ainsley 8 00 a. M. On the East Coast it says 7. By can i say 8 . Steve you want to go home. Ainsley no i dont. We have two more hours. Brian leap ahead for the time or Fall Back . Ainsley Fall Back, yeah. Wait, falling back means you gain an hour though. Brian 6 00. Ainsley feels so good here. The Fall Weather is starting to pour. In start with a Fox News alert. Hezbollah hit by A Wave of exploding pagers remember those . We used to have those in, what, the 90s. Steve pagers not exploding ones. Ainsley Israel Rig rigging them with explosives, impersonating terror leadership. The latest from tel aviv. We will ask House Speaker Mike Johnson about it this hour. Lawrence plus Today Trump rallies New York after meeting a Roaring Crowd in michigan. His first appearance since the second attempt on his life. You know, only consequential president s get shot at. Steve Royal Return kate is back on her duties after cancer treatment. A live report from london. Brian yep, the second hour of Fox Friends starts right now. Fox news alert. Hezbollah, hezbollah is vowing to punish israel after accusing them of Wounding Thousands across lebanon by detonating explosives hidden inside pagers. Ainsley devices were reportedly tampered with by Israeli Intelligence operatives before they ended up in the pockets of the iranianbacked terrorists. Steve Mike Tobin joins us live from tel aviv. Mike, we have never seen this kind of a brilliant strategic move like this in history. What are the people of israel saying about it . Well, the israelis are rather proud of their mossad. They havent confirmed they were part of this attack. People on the other side of the border are rather outraged. Lebanese Health Ministry says the Death Toll has risen to 12. They say it includes two children. Around 3,000 people were injured after yesterday afternoon. Pagers started exploding all over lebanon. They exploded in syria as well. The Pagers Beepsd before they went off. As a result a lot of the injuries were to the hands and Financing Herb of the people to reached for the pagers. Eyes who looked at their pagers and injuries to the Waist And Pocket area where most people would carry their pagers. According to reports it was hezbollah chief hassan himself ordered the use of pagers because he thought it was too easy for israel to track or hack into smart phones. Security experts say the explosions were more powerful than just a battery. So at some point the pagers were sabotaged and explosive charges as well as switches were installed on each device. The pagers were a taiwanese brand the chairman of that company says they licensed the name to a company out of europe called bac who he says made the pagers. I reached out to bac, no response. The Associated Press is reporting that bac is starting to look like a shell company. The u. S. Says they had no heads up warning about the attack. I can tell you that the u. S. Was not involved in it. The u. S. Was not aware of this incident in advance. And at this point we are gathering information. Hezbollah blames israel for the pager attack. The statement that reads in part the treacherous and criminal enemy will surely receive his just retribution for the simple aggression from where it counts and from where it doesnt count. North of israel remains on high alert from retaliation from hezbollah. Israeli media is reporting the paratroopers from the Elite 98th Division left gaza and redeploying to the north of israel. More than 60,000 israelis have already evacuated from the north as rocketsz and drones are fired almost every day. And israel predictably is not saying anything about the pager attack, guys . Steve Mike Tobin israel is not saying anything. We presume it was israel. If goes to show you that they were able to coordinate this so well. Somewhere between where the pagers left a warehouse and before it wound up at Hezbollah Hq Somebody was able continue to stall one or two ounces of detonating explosive in each one of them. It just goes to show you that the israelis have got people probably either on the inside or surveil what they are doing at hezbollah new Information Bac a shell company. They created the company for the pursuance of bogus pagers. Lawrence the united States Government is saying we didnt know about it or had no involvement with it thats what we are getting out of the State Department and d. C. Obviously something like this would have to be as Top Secret as Top Secret gets. Once word got out that it could happen, it would fail in fact, there is a different reporting coming out now that the Hezbollah Operative started to get suspicious of their pagers. And thats why they were detonated yesterday. Obviously if hezbollah was aware that they had explosive devices they were carrying around with them they would get rid of them and the Attack Wouldnt be effective. At least if these reports are accurate. It was detonate them yesterday or dont detonate them at all. Brian since the attack on those hezbollah higher ups about a month ago, as well as the killing of ania in iran. We are waiting for some type of retribution on both sides. Israel is braced for that not only have they not gotten hit they have attacked massively in this way. I have missed anything or is that really cycle of events . No. That really does seem to be the cycle of events. Everyone is waiting. There is a lot of tension about what irans retaliation will be for the assassination of its Mel Ha Nia Havent seen it yet but do that in their own time. Ainsley its interesting that the leader of hezbollah pagers because they thought they were safer. Turns out they werent. Israel able to access before they were districted. That means someone inside hezbollah probably is giving this information to israel. Or israel is surveilling. Brian israel is able to anticipate with Ha Nia would stay when he went to iran. He went for the funeral or the inauguration of the new president. Had to participate the Town House or whatever he was in and they blew it up. Then they had to anticipate nasrallah switching from the Cell Phone to the page. Come up with a Page Company i do within a Knees Company and be the engineers of it. There is something in between we dont know. Its a puzzle we are not supposed to solve. Lawrence i do find it very interesting that the mossad, who is the closest Intelligence Agency to the united States Intelligence either they are denying it and we knew or they didnt feel comfortable sharing this information with our government. That definitely sends a message. Steve it was something. The cover of the new York Post says beep, beep boom. Brian meanwhile former President Donald Trump is holding a rally in nassau county, Long Island where the new York Islanders used to play at the coliseum. This event comes just days after trump was targeted in a second assassination attempt. It happened on sunday. Lawrence meanwhile Vice President Kamala Harris is set to address the congressional hispanic Caucus Conference in washington. Senior white House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich is live at the White House for us this morning. Hey, jacqui. Good morning to you guys. The Vice President yesterday addressing the National Association Of Black Journalists pledged to earn the black vote. It comes after a concerning poll for her from the naacp showing one in four younger black men supporting trump. In 2020, about 90 of black voters supported biden according to exit polling, despite this rocky pitch. A long way to november. We got more questions. You got more questions. I will tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you are for me or for trump, then you aint black. Jacqui Harris Yesterday instead made an economic pitch, focusing on her plan to promote Entrepreneurship And Access to capital expanding the small Business Tax Deduction from 5 to 10,000. Other ways to build generational Wealth Bias in home appraisals. Reducing Student Loan Debt and medical debt and eliminating it from medical scores. I think its very important to not, um, operate from the assumption that black men are in anybodys pocket. Black men are like any other voting group. You got to earn anywhere vote. So, im working to earn the vote. Not assuming im going to have it because i am black . Harris asked whether she would stake any action too cosponsored Study Slavery and reparations, she mostly dodged the question but said she believes congress will ultimately have the ability to, quote do that work. Im not discounting the importance of any executive action. But, ultimately congress, because if you are going to talk about it in any substantial way, there will be hearings. There will be a level of public education and dialogue. Harris was addressing the National Association Of Black Journalists but she showed some awareness that her audience was much broader than that room. Although she did not shy away from directly answering questions on race as it related to republicans and her opponent, guys. Steve all right, Jacqui Heinrich on the north lawn, thank you very much. Lawrence those naacp numbers should send Shock Waves to the Democratic Party. I know they want to talk about joy. The fact that black males, especially under 50 one in four are considered voting for trump. The economic issues with the major point with them. She does not even have as close to the amount of enthusiasm, even though they try to say that she is the next Barack Obama. Her numbers are nowhere near him. In that naacp polling. So, she is dealing with a big issue with black voters. It looks like, according to the polling, not just in naacp, she has black women. But black males are choosing the economy every single time. Ainsley what are you hearing from your friends . Lawrence we saw this in the Barbershop Piece we did. They dont trust her a, and number two, life was just better under Donald Trump. There is a lot of people that disagree with him. The personality sometime. But there is a lot of people that say things were just better. And im telling you, the number two issue is when they started passing out all these services to illegals coming across the border. That really ticked a lot of voters off. And i dont think they have recovered yet from that. Steve you know, lawrence, talking about the black men under 50, and where, you know, trump is doing very well with them. I think she knows the numbers because yesterday a couple of times. Brian she addressed them. Steve regarding black men she is going to have to earn their vote. Lawrence she didnt say how. Brian she did acknowledge that. So that was a good thing. When it comes to the Hispanic Vote though, Donald Trump has 41 of the Hispanic Vote. He was doing better against biden. She has got 58 . 41 for a republican is impressive overall. Its just that he was further along against the current president , so we will see if the president continues thats an abc poll. Ainsley we have seen inflation going up. Groceries are so expensive. Your electric bills are expensive. Have you seen the interest rates. Its hard to buy a house now. Young People Cant buy houses and John Paulson was on the Liz Claman Show on Fox Business, is he a billionaire, hedge fund manager. Is he supporting trump. He has given trump a lot of money because he says if Kamala Harris wins, our economy is in trouble, in fact, he will pull his money from the markets. Listen to this. I think if harris was elected i would pull my money from the market. I gold into cash. And i would go into gold. Because i think the uncertainty regarding the plans they outlined would create a lot of uncertainty in the markets. Brian unrealized gains . Steve is he talking about there is so much uncertainty if she is elected because to the point that we have been talking about for months now, we just dont know enough about her plans. She talks about an opportunity economy. How does that impact Stuff Stuff like inflation you dont know the devices she is going to use to bring it down. Its interesting though. Liz claman said mr. Paulison, some people in the past who pulled their money out, if Barack Obama is elected for trump is elected or Joe Biden is elected and they took their money out, it turned out to be a big mistake because the markets kept going up. And he said he still intends, if she wins to pull it out. Brian heres the thing. Taxes on unrealized gains is devastating to the market. People going to pull their money out. Cant pay taxes on stuff you didnt Cash Out on. They dont care about that. Corporate rate. Stop the influx of companies coming here. So if you take the 21 . Which is right in the middle of other nations, and put it up to 28 . Then you are on the high side again. Ainsley Donald Trump wants 15 . Brian the thing she does say for sure is scary. Lawrence interesting thing i found about that is she had all these businessmen that came out with this statement that they were going to endorse her. And then you had a lot of those same people that were criticizing some of the plan. All right. So then you get Mark Cuban come out publicly and say you know, im having different conversations with Kamala Harris behind the scenes. So, i mean, you released this proposal saying that you are going to do all this great stuff and that you are going to go after the wealthy, go after them and then have you same billionaires behind the scenes she is telling them a different story . He said, lawrence, he said Price Controls and government spending, which is what kamala is Running On, he said it will cost 1. 7 trillion. The 25 tracks Running On on unrealized gains, that would cause a Mass Selling of almost everything. Stocks, bonds, homes and art. Brian i would go with it then. Ainsley cause a crash in the markets. Steve not going to happen. Brian just the fact that they throw it out there shows where the mindset is. Ainsley almost quarter after the top of the hour. Now to a Fox Business alert. All eyes on the federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell expected to announce the first Rate Cuts in four years. Steve Fox Business reporter Gerri Willis join us live in the studio. They are going to cut rates. The question is how much. Most likely yes but, you know what . They never know. They could do everything. Americans are awash in debt. Help may be coming later today as the federal reserve considers cutting the federal Funds Rate which is the foundation for consumer rates. And consumers, of course, as you know, have been feeling the pain of high rates and they could use some relief. Listen. Look at Credit Cards, despite record high Credit Card rates, we have seen Credit Card debts actually rising. No one is 21 interest is wonderful. Thats is an indicator of the strain that millions of households have been feeling. Few rates are more important than americans than Mortgage Rates. Currently averaging. 2 . Thats more than double the average when president biden took office. But my sources are saying, look, dont expect Mortgage Rates to move on news of a Rate Cut right away because rates are already moving lower on exceptions of that cut. Its already baked in. But youll want to listen to details coming from Jay Powell and Company Today and tomorrow if the feds signals their intention to cut more quickly. Well, Mortgage Rates could move lower. Remember, any fall below the psychologically important barrier of 6 . Could impact the Housing Market by spring boomers to sell plus it would adds 9,000. To the money that have on hand to buy that home. Credit card rates on the Owner Hand could ease lower based on the Fed Cut and every little bit would help with rates at nearly 21 on average. More than 30 for store cards. Credit card balances are at an alltime high of 1. 14 trillion. Thats up 48 since biden took office. By the way dont expect any rate you pay to fall instantly, your credit score, the type of card you have. All of that matters. Student loans have a fixed rate. The current average 6. 53 . Remember, during the pandemic, loan rates were just 2. 75 . Plus the government allowed borrowers to stop paying interest during that time. Lower rates, of course, are great for borrowers but for savers, not so good. You have got savings account, cds, Money Market funds, probably not good news for you. I just want to say as we get into this today and tomorrow, probably not a Game Changer. Its not going to fix peoples lives somple Rate Cuts, big Rate Cuts would be a big help. Back to you. Steve gerri, thank you very much. You really explained all the dynamics going on. Ainsley is there a chance they could cut after today again before the election . Do they have another meeting . I dont think they have another meeting. I think this is going to be the meeting and, actually, the talk right now isnt a quarter point. Its 50 bases point a Half Percent could come. That would be a surprise and could move rates. Brian all right. Gerri willis, thanks so much. Straight ahead House Speaker Mike Johnson on that and more. Dont move. There he is. This way uses technology and