george wallace. george wallace? if you tonight pass the laws he wants, you re bull connor. he compared listen to this a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors. how profoundly unpresidential. look, i ve known, liked and personally respected joe biden for many years. i did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday. martha: strong words there from senator mcconnell. senators thune and tim scott hear with their reaction. let s begin with senator thune, the number 2 ranking republican. senator, good to have you with us today. i think i m going to remind everybody, the comments that senator mcconnell was referring to yesterday from president biden. let s take a look. i ask every elected official in america, how do you want to be remembered? do you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace? you want to be on the side of john lewis or bull connor? do you want to be on the side of abraham lincoln or jefferson davis? martha: comparisons i would ass
martha: with that, there s a new head of the atf as the president talk about a plan to go against ghost guns manufacturing. with that, good afternoon. i m martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. here s the story unfolding right now. on the move, ukraine and russian forces are now scrambling. those little boxes there, that is the new moving convoy of russian troops as they pour reinforcements in to eastern ukraine. they re preparing for the wall street journal is called the largest battle of this war. they are positioning themselves to fight that in the donbas region. so that is a look at the images. a russian convoy eight miles long according to intelligence, heading to operation. we have seen that from mariupol to kiev and all over bucha, all of these regions. the retired major general has advised ukrainian soldiers over the years. he joins us in just a moment. first to mark meredith live at the pentagon with the back story on putin s new war chief. hi, m
wants to see a third party. and dan everhart on how his guy is preparing. and yevgeny prigozhin, the wallner leader behind the attempted coup in russia, he s been killed in a plane crash. no doubt an issue that comes up tonight. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. busy news day. let s get right to it going to bill melugin now in milwaukee with the very latest. hi, bill. neil, good afternoon to you. for a moment, looked like we would have seven candidates instead of eighth. north dakota governor doug burgum injured his achilles tendon while playing basketball. he had to go to the hospital. he was here on crutches. fox news has confirmed that he will participated. take a look at this video of vivek ramaswamy hosting a predebate party that was themed 1776 revolution-style. he says he s looking for revolution, not just change. he s compared himself to thomas jefferson because of his young age. thomas jefferson, 33 years old when he helped write the declaration of independence.
the president admits the act with a lot of green goodies could have gone by a different name. what are they celebrating? like i said, the inflation reduction act didn t bring inflation down. today we look at what and specifically who did. prices are down, but price hikes still are not. and a key interest rated just closed at a 15-year high. let s go to jacqui heinrich at the white house on the fast-moving developments on who gets credit and whether it s a birthday debby down to say it s not the white house when it comes to inflation or this inflation reduction act. jacqui? hi, neil. yeah, we got out of the east room where the president held the 1-year anniversary celebration. it was a classic joe biden event. he whispered at one point, yelled at another point. he said the inflation reduction acted is working. he called it a key part of bidenomics, touting jobs creation, specifically in manufacturing and new investments in climate, even though he didn t get in to the fact th
we ll see what happens. kelly and i will speak with some voters that tell us what they would like to see and hear from the candidates on the stage and the message that they have ahead of the debate for former president donald trump as well. first, president biden is about to make some remarks on the u.s. economy. they ve been pushing bidenomics very hard over the past couple days. clearly this is central to the president s re-election push. yesterday s speech though after it kind of got fact checked by many, it ran into some serious headwinds. it s a head scratcher as to why he brings up some of these things that are so easily unwound on the truth meter. there were about seven or eight of them in this speech that got picked apart one by one. we re not going to go through them all. the question is why he keeps raising the same things over that get debunked. here s one random one. the president said i saw this bridge collapse in pittsburgh when i was on the scene last year. wat