i m dana perino along with katie pavlich, harold ford jr., jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city. this is the five. happening in just moments, kamala harris about to rally the troops at the former biden campaign hq in wilmington, delaware. she s already locked in the building, as you can see there. she ll be speaking to the democratic staffers she will now inherit after president biden withdrew from the race. harris has been rapidly consolidating power. in this case, speed wins. working the phones like crazy to get democrat after democrat to fall in line. nancy pelosi becoming the latest to publicly back her. harris also raking in the campaign cash, raising over $80 million in the first 24 hours. president biden s stunning decision, just 24 days after his disastrous debate changed everything, setting into motion and unprecedented mutiny of democrats calling for him to drop out. the president defiant and bitter until the end, reportedly dragging out
trump has changed his planned speech for this year s republican national convention, saying he will now focus on, quote, bringing the country together. we shall see. at the same time, the former president has moved forward with his own campaign plans, announcing that ohio senator jd vance will be his running mate. of all of the purported short list contenders for trump s running mate, jd vance considered to be the most radical choice in terms of his idealogical space on the idealogical number line and what he s articulated about what he thinks the powers of the president are and should be and what shump should do. he s talked openly about a president defying a ruling from the supreme court. he has said explicitly that had he been in mike pence s position on january 6th, 2021, he would have done what trump wanted. not what mike pence did, which was not give trump what he wanted which is why we still live in a republic. jd vance is radical both in terms of what he thinks trump
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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
and the rocket s red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star-spangled banner yet wave? o er the land of the free and the home of the brave will: our nation s capital lit up, moonlight bouncing off the clouds ever new orleans, and studio lights here in new york city. welcome to fox & friends. will cain, pete hegseth, rachel campos duffy. pete: let s do four hours. will: we always hold up four in our fourth hour. we never hold up one. pete: here you go. rachel: this group, this is the fastest i ever got for me. pete: i debris. work is the best when it doesn t feel like work. will: let s get it started. the biden administration is ramping up deportation flights to haiti as officials contain what is incredible surge in del rio, texas. up almost 15,000 people. a texas congressman warns the worst is yet to come. dhs agents sent 400 to the ground. texas dps, texas sheriffs, urging the biden admini