The republican national convention will kick off monday from milwaukee as former president trump will hold a rally in battle ground pennsylvania later today. Meanwhile, president biden defiant presses on with his reelection bid as the list grows to nearly 20 congressional democrats calling for him to bow out of the presidential race. Welcome to fox news live. I m molly line. Hello, griff. Griff: hey, molly. Great to be with you. I m griff jenkins. The president is in delaware where he ll hold meetings with two groups today, this of he was told point blank to drop out by a house democrat in one of the meetings. And lucas tomlinson is in delaware kicking things off. Good afternoon, that s right, president biden will be manning the phones today calling two different groups of house democrats, the progressive caucus and the new democrats, which as the name suggests, contains 13 house democrats that have called on the president to step aside and not run in this race. This comes as a new was
Court precedent. Instead the statute includes an unprecedented scheme to, in the chief justices words, quote, insulate the state from responsibility, closed quote. It does not rely on the state s executive branch to enforce the law as is the norm in texas and everywhere else. Rather, the statute deputizes all private citizens, without any showing of personal connection or injury, to serve as bounty hunters. The obvious and expressly acknowledged intention of this statutory scheme is to prevent women from exercising their constitutional rights by thwarting judicial review for as long as possible. Thus far the law has had its intended effect. The department of justice has a duty to defend the constitution of the united states and to uphold the rule of law. Today we fulfill that duty by filing the lawsuit i have just described. This action from the biden justice department is described by the wall street journal today as certain to set off a federal versus state clash over the future of
Situation. In the past 24 hours, 2,000 people have been evacuated, far short of the goal of 5,000 to 9,000 a day. Of those the pentagon says only 300 were u. S. Citizens. It s not about the math. It s about what s ready to fleig fly. You know, who is on the airfield ready to leave a holding area and get on the aircraft. Reporter: the dangerous scene unfolding on the ground underscores just how difficult it may be for these words from the president to come true. There are afghan women outside the gate, i told get them on the planes. Get them out. Get their families out if you can. Reporter: defense secretary lloyd austin and chair. Joint chiefs general mark milley arriving at the white house to brief the president and vice president. The president spent the day out of public view after insisting in an abc news interview on wednesday that chaos was always inevitable. But the idea that somehow there s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don t know how that happens. Reporter:
So spooky. 2021 the nightmare has been replaced by another horrifying reality, the modern republican party. For many hardcore trump followers and the orange emporor with no clothes himself. This day of friday the 13th is the day of his return to power. The military, which is secretly in power will hand over the white house to the bloated according to one report trump is telling people he would be reinstated as president. That explains why the hashtag trump is a laughing stock trended. It was cooked up and pushed by right wing heretics. The morning of august 13th, it will be the talk of the world. Hurry up. Let s get the election pulled down and right the right. August 13th, donald trump will be reinstated as president. Elias is going to overturn nearly 30% of the republican party actually believes the nonsense. Well, it is past 7:00 p. M. And joe biden is still the president. He is not a holgram. Because there is no constitutional mechanism or legal tool to reinstate a man who was reje
Disinformation, conspiracy theories and rightwing propaganda. At the centered of the conspiracy theory devoted is today s gop, which purges members who refuse to lie about the election and is engaged in a coordinated attempt to whitewash the horrors of the january 6 insurrection. The divide has left democrats to defend democracy, while republicans in their current form endanger everything from minority voting rights to an unearthing the truth about the deadly attack on the u. S. Capitol to racial equality. Punch bowl news has a blunt assessment of the state of dysfunction in congress today just six months after the deadly insurrection at the u. S. Capitol. They write this, the two parties loathe each other as much as ever. Some democrats believe republicans threaten their physical safety, especially on the house side. There s still mags outside the house doors. There have been shouting matches in the halls of the capitol. One house democrat moved her office because she did not feel saf