ainsley: good morning, 7:00 a.m. on the east coast monday, july 8th and this is fox & friends. we begin with a fox news alert. lawmakers returning to capitol hill today as president biden faces a pivotal week for his future. as four senior democrats join the call for biden to step aside last night and long-time party insiders are giving a brutal reality check. the president just doesn t seem to come to he hasn t come to grips with it. is he not winning this race. guy: this all coming as a new op-ed says it s time to get used to the idea of president kamala harris. even praising the v.p. s work on the border, of all things. steve: i have got read about that. and a fox weather alert. hurricane beryl is making landfall in texas at this moment as a cat 1 hurricane. we track the mess. live report from the scenes straight ahead. the second hour of fox & friends starts right now steve all right. we start with this. fox news alert. for senior democrats are reportedly jo
contentions that is being questioned in all of this as perhaps one of the most serious. jennifer griffin doing some independent digging of her own into this story. she has been told today by multiple sources that key aspects of the reporting in this are not accurate. she s in the pentagon briefing room at this moment waiting for this to get underway. we ve been questioning specifically about some of the underlying story here to get to the bottom of what is true and what is not. that is moments away. as we wait for that, general jack keane, four-store general and fox news strategic analyst. general keane, good to have you with us today. to sort of frame this a bit, general, the questions about these conversations occurred shortly before the election and shortly after january 6. john kirby has stepped to the podium. we ll listen together and get your thoughts. you may have seen last night, the dprk fired two short range missiles to the sea of japan. they re in violation with
friends, they re glad we re back. i made it known that america is back. i also wanted to put the world ons in the america is back. , america is back. [applause] tammy: like a badly written movie. instead, there is now a crisis in confidence in american leadership here and abroad. because the biden agenda is now defined by deadly incompetence, delusional decision-making and down right destructive dereliction. just today, joe biden met with the president of ukraine, whom the new york times describes as, quote: unnerved by america s abrupt and chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. and that he is expected to raise questions about u.s. security commitments. the paper of record for the left also says, quote: it comes in the wake of an event that has caused numerous american allies to question the firmness of washington support. you could also say they are concerned about the firmness of biden s grip in general, more on this later. the message being, sent all over the world a
they are blasting the commander-in-chief over his broken promise, and for bringing a dishonorable end to america s longest work. this is outnumbered. i m kayleigh mcenany. here, my cohost, harris faulkner and emily compagno, former deputy national security advisor to the trump administration, k.t. mcfarland, and virtual seat today, executive editor of special report, bret baier. withdrawal from afghanistan is complete, the last flight out leaving the taliban and control of air. prison putting in a slimmed, set to address the american people hours from now. critics charge that he broke his promise to get all u.s. citizens out. here is the president taking a question on that less than two weeks ago. president biden: reporter: are you committed to making sure troops staying until every american s are? president biden: yes. yes. kayleigh: bret, starting with you i thought we would ve heard the commander in chief earlier, certainly earlier than john kirby, but i thin
readily identified by all sorts of people that you guys are willing to take responsibility for yourselves? thanks. let my say two things. first, with regards to the numbers, as you ve seen by how i laid out how we get to the numbers of americans, this is both incredibly complicated and incredibly fluid. any number i give you right now is likely to be out of date by the time we leave the briefing room. so what we re doing is very carefully tabulating everything we have, cross checking it, using different databases. we ll have numbers for the different categories in the days ahead and after this initial phase of efforts so bring people out of afghanistan. with regard to the second part of your question about taking responsibility. i take responsibility. i know the president has said he takes responsibility. i know all of my colleagues across government feel the same way. i can tell you that there will be plenty of time to look back at the last six or seven months, to look bac