while she battles breast cancer. bill: we re watching it. cb cotton. thank you for that. dana: fox news alert and another day, another defection at this hour 17 lawmakers are calling on president biden to drop his bid for a second term. cnn is reporting that obama and pelosi are working behind the scenes to build an off ramp for biden and the white house working overtime on damage control. more defections are expected in the coming hours of days. welcome to america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. democrats support for the president bleeding out after that high-stakes news conference we all watched last evening. the president, however, says he is not going anywhere despite a growing chorus of lawmakers in his own party saying he should bow out. i don t know what his aides are telling him. he is in a very tough spot right now to win this election. if they aren t telling him that they are doing a disservice to them. i gave them more
president biden will be in michigan later today. one of three states his campaign says will lead him to victory in november. they are full steam ahead after the president s high stakes solo news conference last night. the big boy news conference as they call it. team biden says he passed the test. others strongly disagree. this is the faulkner focus. we have a lot to cover for you today. i m julie banderas. hold onto your seats in for harris today. dramatically different reads on how that news conference went. what do you think? biden s team says they are happy. others say just an improvement over his debate performance isn t enough. one headline saying this. biden survives but ends high stakes day bruised. new york times said he looked sharper but didn t exactly look sharp. critics pointing to these missteps and stumbles. president biden: i wouldn t have picked vice president trump to be president to think she is not qualified to be president. let s start there. i ve b
why you should not believe trumps claims that you have nothing to do with [ inaudible ] plus the judge responding to his latest efforts to tussle the classified documents case. plus, when it comes to the worst of the week, we ve had it. i am ayman mohyeldin. let s do it. democrats are not the only ones trying to manage a crisis this weekend trump allies are in complete panic mode over the public s growing awareness of project 2025, 900 page authoritarian second trump term blueprint to institutionalize trumpism that would rollback lgbtq rights, detain undocumented migrants and put them in camps, and stop government institutions like the doj with mega loyalist another the public is becoming aware of this dystopian nightmare that donald trump is claiming ignorance about, posting on his social media quote, i know nothing about project 2025. i have no idea who is behind it. i disagree with some of the things they re saying and some of the things they are saying are absolutely
about it, was a betrayal of the afghan people. our leaders made promises to them we knew we couldn t keep. honorable countries don t do that.ri it s shameful. you woke up the other morning to find your american patrons gone. they didn t tell you they were leaving, they just left. so what happens to you now in a country run by the taliban? it s hard to think about that. and yet, tonight many americans are thinking about it and feeling distressed as they do. americans are kind people and generous, they are quicker and more eager to help strangers than anyone else in the world. if you asked 100 people, should we try to help afghans who are facing persecution for helping us? most americans would have said it, of course we should. and we should be glad that they say that. we should be happy to live in a country that loves children and dogs and wants to help refugees. we are generous and empathetic people, and we should be proud. unfortunately, there are many in our ruling class th
are watching at this hour fox news obtaining exclusive images of the migrant facility in texas with crowded conditions as a highly contagious delta variant causes a surge the war of words over mask and schools heating up between the president and for the governor desantis we have live coverage but first to alex hogan live in new york city on embattled governor cuomo. reporter: the attorney general says it will fully cooperate with the albany sheriff s office when aid accuses the governor of an appropriately hugging and kissing and putting a hand down her shirt. the sheriff says they take these accusations seriously. i had a female victim come forward which had to be the hardest thing she has ever done in her life to make an allegation of criminal conduct against the governor. as far as the sheriff s office i am elected as well. we have a proven record in this area and in this region to take care of people and i think that is what we re supposed to do with law enforcement. r