Steve: good morning, everybody. It s 6:00 here on the couch in new york city. Welcome back, ainsley. Ainsley: thank you, to you too. Steve: today is july th, 2024 and welcome to fox friends. We start with a fox weather alert. Hurricane beryl making landfall in the past hour in texas a cat 1 storm just about an hour ago. We tracked the maps straight ahead. Ainsley: and a fox news alert. Another storm brewing this one on capitol hill as congress is returning to d. C. Today. Four senior democrats join a call for biden to step aside after, first the debate and then that abc interview. The specific cognitive test and have you had a neurologist, a specialist do an examination? no, no one said i had to. Guy: okay. Democrats meanwhile not the only ones scrambling. The media suddenly singing a very different tune just a few months after going to bat repeatedly for biden. Remember all of this? very lucid, very well informed. He speaks quietly and a little bit slowly, but, you know we have spent
No one is certain where they a nobody is certain where they ar or how they are going to get home. What is so interesting is that over the past week this administration has had tens of thousands of nationals that are now going to be moved. They did not seem to encounter any problems in doing this thanks to meticulous planning t change america forever. It s a plan that worked flawlessly but a few dozen americans are trapped in afghanistan. They passed off the portfolio and if there is an american citizen left in afghanistan we are going to stay until we get them all out. He did not mean this. E what is tony s plan to get all the multiplex as we were told yesterday they had sent a strongly worded letter to be where. You wouldn t want to see them when they are mad. Fits the leadership we are goin to need. I this afternoon the president appeared and spoke in public. It s hot and that s just the beginning. He announced we are done in afghanistan forever. We are gone and we are not goin back.
The department s key role in enforcing the violence against women act, he s asking for a landmark $1 billion for the office of violence against women. Republicans appeared to be horrified by his testimony, by the idea that the justice department will try to fully fund its work on civil rights and violence against women and domestic terrorism and extremism, which of course the fbi says is predominantly a white supremacist threat. The republicans hearing merrick garland s testimony today were really not into it as you might imagine. But, you know, like i said, under new management. Elections have consequences. And under attorney general merrick garland, the justice department has started up federal investigations into multiple local police departments around the country on their use of force. The justice department has indicted a local georgia sheriff for brutalizing prisoners in his care. The department has opened a federal civil rights investigation in a north carolina police shooting
questions to gun control got a vague response, offering no specifics. he faced a new covid vaccination goal, say ing he hopes to see twice his original goal. a tornado emergency as severe weather moves across the south. right now, as we speak, there are reports of energies from at least one tornado in alabama. let s go straight to cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlin collins. the president fielded questions from reporters, including you, for over an hour. his first formal back and forth with the white house press corps. we are told he spent the week preparing for this first major news conference that he was going to host with respects. please, please, sit down. thank you. tonight, president biden taking questions from the white house press corps in his first formal news conference. i ve not been able to unit the congress, but i m uniting the country. biden was pressed on multiple fronts and became animated. republican voters i know find this despicable. r
white guy completely strikes the author from the event, canceling it because some of his books contained racist imagery. fair enough but do you cancel the whole guy because of back? the dude sold 600 million books. sure he s not a real doctor but who is? of the road cat in the hat. it s the only one of his books that i read so i decided to do some investigating and just how bad could these books be? it turns out pretty bad. first according to a great lecture on white supremacy i had no idea, no idea, what about green eggs and hit where? how did this get published? one more please. if i ran the zoo we d only have polar bears because they are white? that is offensive. to everyone. i kid. to any cnn media reporters watching this much like your stories those weren t real but times are bad. we are turning into a police state that we are now the police. it s not the government and in books removing movies from streaming services are getting people fired for old tweets it s us, pr