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00:00Good evening from Washington. I'm Jillian Turner, in for Bret Baier. We begin tonight
00:07with questions now about Vice President Harris' policy platform, her campaign's reluctance
00:12to provide specifics on her website, coupled with her decision so far not to address the
00:17press, has some critics and supporters tongue-swagging. Let's bring in senior White House correspondent
00:23Peter Doocy to kick us off. Hi, Peter.
00:25Jillian, good evening. Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are out West, trying to
00:29keep week one momentum going by sticking strictly to a script.
00:35We know. We are a work in progress.
00:39So is the Harris platform, because the things the Vice President is implying to activists
00:43behind closed doors are apparently not always accurate. Exhibit A, Harris just met with
00:48leaders of the group who got 100,000 Michiganders to vote uncommitted in the primaries as a
00:53protest against Biden-Harris-Gaza policy.
00:56This movement has always been about policy shift.
00:59We want her to stop sending bombs to kill people we love.
01:02The New York Times reports those activists expressed their unease with how the United
01:07States has continued to supply weapons to Israel and that they asked Ms. Harris to meet
01:11with them to discuss their group's demand for an arms embargo on Israel. They said that
01:16Ms. Harris had indicated she was open to meeting with the group.
01:20Here's the problem. The Vice President's National Security Advisor says she does not support
01:25an arms embargo on Israel. This is the latest inconsistency Harris hasn't personally addressed
01:31joining her positions on Medicare for All.
01:34I support Medicare for All. And I support it for a number of reasons.
01:38Fracking.
01:39There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
01:41And assault weapons buybacks.
01:43I do believe that we need to do buybacks and put in place a ban on the importation of assault
01:48weapons into our country.
01:49Staffers insist Harris has moderated and no longer supports those positions. But the presumptive
01:54nominee hasn't said that or explained why.
01:58She has an anonymous aide talk to the press. She's reversed her positions and the press
02:02leaves it at that. There needs to be many questions about how she came to change her
02:07positions on a host of issues that she took when she ran for president just four years
02:11ago.
02:13Vice President Harris has been talking so much lately about her life before she was
02:18VP, as a prosecutor, as a senator. But what she keeps leaving out is that back then she
02:25appears to have had a very different worldview. Jillian.
02:28All right, Peter Doocy, live from the North Lawn. Thank you.
02:32Tonight, former President Trump is stumping for a Republican hopeful out in a key Senate
02:37race. He's lending his support to Tim Sheehy, who right now is trying to flip the seat currently
02:42held by Democrat Jon Tester.
02:44The results here could be a key indicator of the MAGA movement's strength ahead of November.
02:49Correspondent Bill Malugan is in Bozeman, Montana, tonight.
02:54Former President Donald Trump departing Palm Beach earlier this afternoon ahead of his
02:58rally in Bozeman, Montana, tonight. That's where he plans to campaign for Navy SEAL Tim
03:03Sheehy, a Republican Senate candidate who is hoping to unseat incumbent Democrat Montana
03:08Senator Jon Tester, who has held office since 2007 and isn't endorsing Kamala Harris.
03:14It's a race that could decide the balance of the Senate.
03:19And we caught up with Sheehy as he greeted supporters outside the rally venue.
03:23Some people wondering why Trump would come out here. Not really a battleground, say,
03:26for the presidency. It is obviously a battleground for the Senate. Just kind of hammer that point.
03:30Well, that's exactly right. Once again, he understands that for his administration to
03:35be successful in his second term, he has to have a Senate that's ready on day one to have
03:39an America first agenda. And that's what we're going to get.
03:43Hundreds of Trump supporters were lined up outside the venue early Friday morning, more
03:47than 10 hours ahead of the rally start time tonight. They say Trump is playing to win
03:52and will need a Republican controlled Senate. Montana is the best state in the nation. All
03:57these people want Trump. We're going to get rid of Tester, get the Navy SEALs in there.
04:01It's a battleground state for the Senate. And taking control of the Senate is extremely
04:06important. And Sheehy is a vital key to that. And so President Trump coming out here to
04:12support his candidacy, I think it's the right move to do.
04:17And former President Trump is scheduled to take the stage out here in Bozeman at around
04:2110 o'clock Eastern time, so about four hours from now. But I'll step out and give you a
04:26quick little look at the scene right here. As we always see with these Trump rallies,
04:29thousands upon thousands of supporters have already gathered here. Some of them have been
04:33here since the morning. They are lining up, waiting to get into this event. It will be
04:37an indoor event. The doors have not opened yet. So all these folks are just waiting in
04:41line, hoping to get one of the best spots in the House when those doors finally do
04:45open.
04:46Jillian?
04:47All right, Bill Malugan in Bozeman.
04:48Before we let you go, Bill, we're getting an update now on former President Trump's
04:51federal election interference case. What can you tell us about it?
04:55Yeah, that's right. A federal judge has decided to delay for three weeks a hearing which would
05:02determine the government's next steps in this prosecution. So the Supreme Court ruled last
05:08month that Trump may have some immunity over official acts committed in office. That was
05:13after four criminal charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election
05:17results. A hearing will now be held on September 5th after the special counsel asked for an
05:23extension that could signal some of the charges may be dropped or the case may be pared back.
05:29That's what we got for now, Jillian.
05:30All right.
05:31We'll send it back to you.
05:32Bill Malugan out in Bozeman for us this evening. Thanks so much.
05:41Well, tonight, Israeli troops carrying out an assault on Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
05:48The IDF says, as always, they are targeting Hamas fighters and operatives. Israel has
05:53confirmed it will send reps to cease-fire negotiations that are set to resume next week
05:57at a TBD location.
05:59Correspondent Jeff Paul is in Tel Aviv tonight.
06:02As the U.S., Egypt and Qatar push for Israel and Hamas to return to the negotiating table,
06:10Israeli forces launched a new assault in southern Gaza. The IDF says troops are targeting Hamas
06:16terrorists who are hiding out in the ruins of war-torn neighborhoods.
06:22Israeli airstrike also killed a senior Hamas commander in the Lebanese port city of Sidon.
06:27The intensified fighting is once again pushing thousands in Khan Yunis to evacuate.
06:34We are tired of this life. By God, we are fed up. Death is better than this.
06:40As Israel braces for a major attack from Iran and its proxies, Hezbollah and Israeli forces
06:47continue to exchange fire. The ongoing fighting along the Israel-Lebanon border only further
06:52complicates efforts to de-escalate.
06:56Now it's a psychological war more than a normal war. It's just a psychological one. Nothing
07:02will happen, God willing. The war will not happen.
07:05Despite multiple reports indicating pressure from the U.S. is causing Iran to rethink its
07:10retaliatory attack on Israel, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released new footage today
07:15of new cruise missiles. The White House says it's taking threats from Iran seriously and
07:21is committed to helping defend Israel.
07:24We're also working at the same time in the diplomatic space to try to de-escalate the
07:29tensions and to prevent any major escalation of the conflict there in the region.
07:36So when it comes to this next round of negotiations, so far we know Israel plans to send a delegation
07:41next Thursday. However, Hamas is reportedly still studying this new proposal. The White
07:46House says Qatar has assured them they're working to get them there.
07:50All right, Jeff Paul in Tel Aviv for us tonight. Thank you for staying up.
07:55With the Mideast teetering on the brink of regional war now and the Biden-Harris team's
07:59policies in the spotlight, we'll talk exclusively to State Department spokesman Matthew Miller
08:05coming up in a moment.
08:08But first breaking tonight, we have horrifying new video, this of a passenger plane seemingly
08:14falling from the sky over Brazil. There were 61 people aboard that aircraft. Correspondent
08:20Nate Foy shows us. Hi, Nate.
08:22Hey, Jillian. So according to local officials and the airline, there are no survivors from
08:28today's crash. Take a look at this disturbing video. Sao Paulo officials do say the plane's
08:33black box has been found. Many hope that that will bring answers about why the plane spiraled
08:39to the ground and crashed in the city of Vinhedo. The European-made ATR-72500 is a twin-engine
08:46turboprop plane. This particular one is 14 years old. And according to flight tracking
08:51data, the plane dropped 17,000 feet in roughly one minute. It hit homes on its way down.
08:58Right now, witnesses say they're not aware of any victims in the neighborhood.
09:05It fell on the roof of the house and ended up across the yard. And my intention was not
09:09to see the plane. It was nothing. It was to get the elderly people out of the house. But
09:14they didn't want to leave because of their animals.
09:18So the flight was headed for the Sao Paulo International Airport after taking off from
09:22Cascavel in southern Brazil. Authorities have blocked off the crash site as the investigation
09:28begins. The airline, Vopass, put out a statement acknowledging the crash, but said there is,
09:34quote, no confirmation on how the accident occurred.
09:37Now, the plane maker, ATR, put out a statement saying it's also aware of the crash and is
09:42doing what it can to support the investigation and its customers. But right now, we await
09:47the findings from that black box after today's tragedy.
09:50Jillian?
09:51All right, Nate, for New York, for us on that. Thank you.
09:54You got it.
09:55Coming up next, we talk to State Department spokesman Matthew Miller about Vice President
09:58Harris' Mideast stance amid criticism from Israel that her recent comments may have complicated
10:04a cease-fire deal.
10:06First here is what some of our FOX affiliates around the country are covering tonight. Let's
10:10look at FOX 4 in Dallas. The CrossFit Games there resume in Fort Worth after a special
10:15tribute to the athlete who drowned during an event.
10:19Serbian national Lazar Dukic died while trying to swim in a Marine Creek Lake on Thursday.
10:25He had just completed a three-and-a-half-mile run with a pack of competitors and was nearing
10:28the end of a half-mile open-water swim when he tragically went under.
10:35This is FOX 5 in New York. A court decision there expected soon on whether Robert F. Kennedy
10:38Jr. stays on New York's ballot as an independent presidential candidate. A Democratic-aligned
10:43Political Action Committee now seeking to remove him. That trial wrapped up yesterday.
10:50And this live look at Lake Tahoe from FOX 11 in Reno, one of the big stories there tonight.
10:55That area is considered one of the top spots to view the Perseid meteor shower as it peaks
11:00Sunday night. The Perseids can produce between 50 and 100 shooting stars per hour during
11:05its peak.
11:07The meteor shower continues into the last week of August.
11:11That's tonight's live look outside the Beltway from the special report. We'll be right back.
11:30With tensions boiling in the Middle East, the Biden administration now remains optimistic
11:34this time that a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas really can be reached. We
11:39talked earlier this evening to State Department spokesperson Matt Miller about those negotiations
11:44and how Vice President Kamala Harris' recent statements about Israel may impact the effort.
11:50Matt, the U.S. and Israel have been waiting on edge the last few days for a reprisal attack
11:57out of Iran. So far, we have not seen the Iranian regime directly target Israel.
12:02Has the Biden administration conveyed a clear warning to the regime not to attack Israel?
12:09We have made very clear to everyone in the region, and of course that includes Iran,
12:12that we do not want to see this conflict escalate. And of course, we have always made clear that
12:16our commitment to Israel's defense is ironclad. I can tell you, Jillian, that the secretary
12:21has been on the phone today with his counterparts in the region, as he really has all week,
12:25sending a couple of very clear messages. Number one, we are closer to a cease-fire than we
12:29have ever been. I'm sure you saw the statement yesterday from the president, along with
12:33the president of Egypt, the emir of Qatar. Those are the three mediators to the cease-fire
12:38talks, saying we want to see a cease-fire. We are almost there. Let's have talks next
12:43week to try to get us over the line. And number two, no party in the region, and of course
12:48this includes Iran, should do anything over the coming days or weeks that would jeopardize
12:53the progress that we have made towards reaching this important cease-fire.
12:57So the warning has been delivered to the Iranian regime. What leverage does the Biden
13:01administration have now to get them to listen or comply?
13:06So I will just say that we have, it should be very clear to Iran that escalation is not
13:11in their interest. It's not in Israel's interest. It's not in any country in the region's interest.
13:16We have delivered that message to Israel. We know that other countries have delivered
13:20it to Iran.
13:21But it is true, they likely have different calculations.
13:24They may make a different calculation, but I can tell you that the message that we have
13:28sent loud and clear is we will come to Israel's defense.
13:31We've been told many times, we meaning the American people, since October 7th, that we
13:35were getting closer, that we, you know, had a deal was imminent, only to be sorely disappointed,
13:41not to mention the families of U.S. hostages, you know, that remain in Hamas captivity.
13:46What's different about this time?
13:48You are right, Jillian. We have tried so hard to get this cease-fire over the line. Our
13:53heart goes out to the hostages who have been separated from their families for more than
13:5710 months now.
13:58Here's where we are. The parties, Israel and Hamas, have agreed to a framework of a deal.
14:03So what the president and the other two mediators, Egypt and Qatar, said yesterday is talks need
14:07to start next week, and we are prepared to put forward bridging proposals.
14:11There are remaining divides on these implementing issues, and we are prepared to put forward
14:16proposals to bridge those divides to finally come to an agreement.
14:20We are making clear that we see this agreement as urgent, urgent to get the hostages home,
14:26urgent to stop the suffering of the Palestinian people, and urgent to calm tensions in the
14:30region and, of course, to prevent the other escalating tensions all across the region.
14:35There's widespread concern, Matt, that daylight between President Biden and Vice President
14:41Harris on Israel has potentially complicated negotiations.
14:47There's also this comment from Israel's prime minister when he was asked, while in the U.S.
14:53recently, about her public comments, which the Israelis leaked.
14:57— It might have impacted negotiations on a cease-fire deal?
15:00— Well, we're trying to get one.
15:02And I think to the extent that Hamas understands that there's no daylight between Israel and
15:09the United States, that expedites the deal.
15:13And I hope that those comments don't change that.
15:21— So, Matt, does the administration have any concerns that the vice president's comments
15:26have complicated or, in any way, compromised the outcome of a potential deal?
15:32— Of course not.
15:33The vice president has been a key backer of Israel's security and has made clear that
15:37she is committed to Israel's security and committed to Israel's defense, and at the
15:41same time, she has made clear, as the president has, as Secretary Blinken has, that of course
15:46we are concerned about the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza, and that's why
15:50we're trying to reach a cease-fire and ultimately bring this war to a close, because that is
15:55the best way to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people and to bring those
16:00hostages home and reunite them with their families.
16:02— All right, Matt Miller, State Department spokesperson, thanks so much for joining us
16:05tonight.
16:06— Thank you.
16:08— All right, coming up next, we have new images from the scene of the assassination
16:12attempt against former President Trump.
16:14First, let's take a look beyond our borders tonight.
16:17A missile launched from a Russian plane slams into a Ukrainian shopping mall, killing at
16:21least 11 people and wounding 44 others.
16:25The Donetsk regional head calls it another act of terrorism by the Russians.
16:29Meanwhile, Russia has declared a federal-level emergency in the Kursk region following a
16:34large-scale incursion from Ukrainian forces.
16:37Also, tonight, the U.S. is announcing another aid package to Ukraine, the 63rd since August
16:42of 2021.
16:45And this, Austrian authorities announced a third arrest in connection with the four concerts.
16:49Officials say the 18-year-old Iraqi citizen was arrested last night.
16:52A 15-year-old was also interrogated.
16:55This is a live look at London.
16:57One of the big stories there tonight, two critically endangered monkeys are born in
17:01England's Chester Zoo.
17:03The baby cotton-top tamarins seen there, clinging to a parent when they went on display
17:09at the zoo.
17:10The monkeys are considered to be the rarest primate species on planet Earth.
17:14And they're pretty cute.
17:16Just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight will be right back.
17:21Welcome back.
17:22Breaking tonight, an official at the Billings Logan International Airport in Montana confirms
17:26former President Trump's private 757 plane had a mechanical issue while en route to Bozeman,
17:32which prompted a diversion to Billings ahead of his campaign event this evening.
17:36Let's just check back in with correspondent Bill Malugin.
17:38He joins us from Bozeman, Montana, now, maybe with some more details.
17:42What can you tell us, Bill?
17:43Yeah, Jillian, good evening to you.
17:47I can tell you that Billings is about 120 miles east of where we are here in Bozeman
17:51right now.
17:52That is where Donald Trump's plane had to divert to tonight because of this mechanical
17:57issue.
17:58He landed safely.
17:59We are told by airport officials at that Billings airport that he does plan to continue to travel
18:05here to Bozeman.
18:06He's going to have to get on a private plane to do so.
18:08We just don't know when that flight is going to happen.
18:11As for what's happening on the ground here in Bozeman, you can see behind me, doors still
18:16have not opened up yet to this venue for his rally tonight.
18:19That was supposed to happen about 40 minutes ago at 6 p.m. Eastern time is when the doors
18:24were scheduled to open up.
18:26But we have a mass of thousands of people behind us right now still waiting to get in.
18:30The crowd is getting even bigger behind the camera right now.
18:33We got a snake of people, hundreds of them going through the parking lot here, basically
18:37overflow line, if you will.
18:39We don't know when Donald Trump is going to arrive here.
18:41We are just told that he will at some point.
18:44The Trump campaign hasn't said when they expect him to arrive.
18:47They only posted a video of Donald Trump on X.
18:50It shows him in a plane after he landed, apparently, at Billings airport saying he's landed in
18:55Montana.
18:56And he's looking forward to rallying for Tim Sheehy, who's looking to turn the Senate seat
19:01here in Montana red against Jon Tester.
19:03But they didn't make any mention about a mechanical issue or being delayed.
19:07So we're just kind of in a holding pattern right now, a hurry up and wait, if you will.
19:11These people behind us have been waiting for hours, some of them since this morning.
19:15But it does sound like Trump will be here in Bozeman at some point this evening.
19:18We just don't know when he's going to get here, Jillian.
19:20We'll send it back to you.
19:22Thank you, Bill.
19:23Stand by.
19:24We might come back to you.
19:25No, we appreciate it.
19:26Meanwhile, there's this.
19:29The Defense Prisoner of War Missing in Action Accounting Agency recently took part in a
19:33summit that was held in South Korea.
19:35It aimed to improve forensic methods to identify fallen soldiers.
19:40While DNA technology has improved very quickly since World War II, the agency says tracking
19:45down family members to verify matches to remains from the war is a real challenge.
19:51My colleague Brett Baer takes a deep dive look tonight.
19:56Tonight we take a closer look at the effort to identify fallen soldiers who died nearly
20:0080 years ago.
20:02The Defense Prisoner of War Missing in Action Accounting Agency is working to identify the
20:07remains of dozens of African-American servicemen who served as part of the Buffalo Soldiers
20:13during World War II.
20:14We'll take a look at the story of one soldier who was recently accounted for and the challenges
20:19the agency faces in identifying others killed overseas.
20:24The idea that we can first tell them this is how it happened, this is how he died a
20:28hero, it's just, it's a very, very humbling thing for our job.
20:31Every story is different.
20:32U.S. Private First Class Lemuel Dent, Jr. served as part of the 92nd Infantry Division
20:38during World War II, known as the Buffalo Soldiers.
20:42The 92nd was special as well.
20:44That's right.
20:45The two big units during World War II that everyone talks about as far as segregation
20:49goes was the 92nd Infantry Division, who were the Buffalo Soldiers, and the 332nd Fighter
20:54Group, which were the Tuskegee Airmen.
20:56In 1866, Congress passed legislation to create six all-African-American Army units.
21:04The end of the 19th century brought the end of the Indian Wars, where the Buffalo Soldiers
21:09got their name.
21:1120% of U.S. Cavalry troops were black.
21:15Native Americans referred to them as Buffalo Soldiers to symbolize their respect for the
21:20troopers' bravery and valor.
21:22Each one of these remains, people recovered, is a different story.
21:30PFC Dent was killed, we believe, February 8th, 1945.
21:35What was his story?
21:37That's right.
21:38So, it was Operation Fourth Term was an operation along the Gothic Line.
21:42I think the Italian campaign gets a little bit forgotten, and especially that west side
21:46over there where the segregated division was working.
21:49Private First Class Dent was stationed northwest of Pisa.
21:51In a town called Vireggio, Italy, along the Cinquale Canal there, and there was all this
21:58marshland that was between the coastline and the mountains that they were trying to get
22:03over.
22:04While they were trying to get past the landmines to get to the mountains, they were getting
22:07hit by artillery and mortar fire.
22:12Dent was riding a tank that came under fire while crossing a canal.
22:15The area where he died remained in enemy hands for another two months, delaying the possibility
22:21of recovering his remains and dozens of others.
22:24The whole 366th Infantry Regiment, which PFC Dent was assigned to, that whole infantry
22:30regiment was almost decimated.
22:3230 were killed in action, 177 were wounded, and Private First Class Dent was among the
22:3849 missing in action.
22:40He's only the fourth that the agency has identified yet?
22:44That's right, Brett.
22:45We have a very large-scale project dealing with unknowns in the Florence American Cemetery,
22:50and we have a very large-scale project aimed at research to exhume those remains and identify
22:54them.
22:55Is it tough?
22:56I mean, is there anything standing in the way of that moving forward?
23:01We've been doing the research for those unknowns since about 2014.
23:06The research has gone really, really well.
23:08We have a very good idea.
23:09We've mapped out the battlefield.
23:10We know where men were missing.
23:11We know where men were recovered, where the unknowns were recovered.
23:14I think our biggest problem right now is we have about 10 families from this project that
23:20we either can't find or have refused to give DNA, and that slows our process down, because
23:25if we don't have DNA to match them to, we can exclude them, sometimes excluding someone
23:30is just as good as identifying some others, because it helps say that it can't be them,
23:34so it narrows it down to two or three people.
23:36We really, really, really need to get DNA from that community.
23:39Well, hopefully they're watching and they'll pipe in on something like this.
23:44It's an important project.
23:45As for Private First Class Dent, his family members will finally be able to honor his
23:50service.
23:51He's going to be buried in his hometown in Maryland, undetermined date yet, but it is
23:56closure for those families.
23:59It is.
24:00It's the whole reason that our office exists and does what we do.
24:03So pretty rewarding once something comes around and it's completed fully?
24:10It is very rewarding.
24:11One of the things I've been saying to a lot of people lately, because I've been doing
24:14this for a long time, we're here and we're talking about PFC Dent because the agency
24:21hit a home run, because we made an identification.
24:23We put the same work that we put into PFC Dent, even into our strikeouts.
24:28It's an amazing job.
24:29I feel like I won the lottery getting the job, but it doesn't really take the pressure
24:33off.
24:34Most overseas American cemeteries list the names of soldiers who went missing in action
24:39on a memorial.
24:40For those identified, a rosette is placed near the names accounted for.
24:46Last month, the ribbon was placed by Private First Class Dent's name at Florence American
24:51Cemetery where he is permanently memorialized.
24:55We'll send it back to you.
24:56Thank you, Brett.
24:57One step among millions of others to come.
25:00Coming up next, we've got the Friday lightning round.
25:02Later, Vice President Kamala Harris is on the top issues.
25:06The Biden administration's Israel strategy plus winners and losers.
25:09And then later in the show, we got notable quotables.
25:12Stick with us.
25:13When I am president, it will be a day one priority to fight to bring down prices.
25:22The Harris campaign is caught between a rock and a hard place.
25:26Continue with the record that Biden has of terrible economic policies that have led to
25:31inflation.
25:33Or they can flip flop.
25:35The American economy is the envy of the entire world, and that's because of the policies
25:40of the Biden-Harris administration.
25:42And those are the policies that Kamala Harris will continue and build upon.
25:47All right.
25:48Time to bring in our panel.
25:49We have Byron York, chief political correspondent of The Washington Examiner, Real Clear Politics
25:54White House correspondent Philip Wegman and Democratic campaign consultant Kevin Walling.
25:59Gentlemen, great to see all of you.
26:02Let's go down the pike.
26:04Byron, so Harris says on day one she's going to fight to bring down prices.
26:07But built into that, I think, is an admission that prices remain too high under the Biden-Harris
26:15administration that all their policies have not been enough to get them to where they
26:20need to be.
26:21She does say prices have been too high.
26:22And she blames greedy corporations for it.
26:25She says she's going to go after greedy corporations, and that's her policy.
26:29The problem with her right now is, one, the campaign seems to be in kind of an introductory
26:35phase.
26:36She goes out.
26:37She has a rally with Tim Walz.
26:38And it's conducted on a very, very general level.
26:41So she has done a little running away from her positions from 2019 and 2020.
26:47But she hasn't really laid out what her policies are now.
26:53So we just don't know.
26:55And she's not letting anybody ask her.
26:57Kevin, there are maybe some issues where she hasn't been as involved or they're not as
27:03high profile where she could stake out a position that is different or contrary to President
27:07Biden's, try and make the case anything on record is his fault and not hers.
27:12But the economy is not one of those issues.
27:15I mean, voters see the ticket, they see the administration, and they see their wallets.
27:22Doesn't really take a lot more than that.
27:24Yeah, Jillian.
27:25And we know the economy is obviously going to be one of the most critical issues, if
27:27not the critical issue, come November.
27:30One interesting thing that I saw out of the campaign just today is kind of even flipping
27:34the script on the border crisis and the immigration question.
27:39She's out with a new ad touting her time as a prosecutor and as the California AG, kind
27:45of flipping the script on somewhat of a vulnerability for the Biden-Harris administration.
27:50You're going to see the same thing, I think, play out in Arizona tonight.
27:54She's got a crowd now of 20,000 people.
27:56I'm seeing some of the imagery coming out of that arena.
27:59That's a huge state, must-win state for President Trump.
28:04President Biden won it by just 11,000 votes.
28:06So and you're going to see her tackle issues like the economy and certainly immigration,
28:11I think, in a speech tonight.
28:12But we're going to look forward to that long-form interview.
28:14She said that she's going to do that by the end of the month, where she'll answer all
28:18of these questions, certainly.
28:20So Phil, to Byron's point a moment ago about the key issues for voters and Harris's policy
28:27platform, the Wall Street Journal today, the Wall Street Journal board calls Kamala Harris
28:33mystery commander-in-chief.
28:35They say she is all but telling Americans they'll have to elect her to find out what
28:39she really believes as the vice president ducks interviews and the media give her a
28:44free ride.
28:45Americans should not have to wait to—should not have to read tea leaves to figure out
28:49if Ms. Harris would keep the country safe in a treacherous world.
28:52Well, I have been very impressed with the Harris-Walls campaign, because when they're
28:57operating anonymously, they're like the world's best NASCAR pit crew.
29:02They talk to reporters on background, and they unbolt from Vice President Harris some
29:08of these policy positions that she took when she was running for president herself in 2020.
29:12So the call to decriminalize border crossings or the ban on fracking or the calls for gun
29:19buybacks, those are all gone in a matter of moments.
29:22And thus far, while we're waiting on that interview three weeks from now or some major
29:28policy proposal, we don't know.
29:31The press on this one, we're getting run over.
29:34Byron, I interviewed Steve Bowen-Sparks, a State Department spokes—I can't talk at
29:39the end of the show, because I've been talking so much all hour—a few moments ago, he talked
29:44to me.
29:45I asked him whether the administration shares any of these concerns about what Vice President
29:49Harris has said publicly about Israel.
29:51As you know, Bibi Netanyahu was critical of some of the comments she's made.
29:55There's concerns they could complicate the prospects for a ceasefire deal.
30:00I was surprised, because he pushed back very forcefully.
30:02Take a listen to part of what he said.
30:05Vice President has been a key backer of Israel's security and has made clear that she is committed
30:09to Israel's security and committed to Israel's defense.
30:11And at the same time, she has made clear, as the president has, as Secretary Blinken
30:16has, that, of course, we are concerned about the suffering of the Palestinian people in
30:20Gaza, and that's why we're trying to reach a ceasefire and ultimately bring this war
30:25to a close.
30:26There's another area where we're a little bit in the dark about Kamala Harris.
30:31We know she's been a little more blunt about Netanyahu than the president has.
30:37We know she's been more willing to listen to anti-Israel groups than the president has.
30:42Maybe more blunt in her criticism of the IDF in Gaza.
30:46Exactly.
30:47And so we know a little bit about that, but we haven't heard anything from her.
30:52Now, this idea that there's going to be this big interview with somebody, TBA, within the
30:58next three weeks, and she's going to lay all this out, in a campaign, a candidate normally
31:02interacts with the press a lot.
31:04Sometimes they even hold news conferences and let lots of reporters ask them questions
31:09like Trump did yesterday for an hour.
31:13So none of these questions are going to be fully answered in just one interview with
31:18a probably friendly interviewer.
31:21Kevin, real quick, I mean, I guess there's also the platform of the debate or the couple
31:26of debates that will go down.
31:27Are they sort of pitting their hopes on that, the team?
31:30Well, certainly I think that Harris' campaign is eager for that contrast on September 10th,
31:34hosted by ABC.
31:35I think she's eager, very eager to share that stage with him.
31:39And as she has said before, she knows Donald Trump's type from her time as California AG.
31:45So certainly she's looking to prosecute the case, I think, on that debate stage.
31:48Phil, last 10 seconds go to you.
31:50I think that the liability for Vice President Harris is that the foreign policy-minded progressive
31:56left, they see her as very similar as Biden on this issue and marginally better than
32:01Donald Trump.
32:02She needs to make a distinction in a hurry.
32:03It is time, gentlemen, for your favorite segment of the week, which is winners and losers.
32:08Byron, let's start off with you.
32:09Who are they?
32:10The winner, Scottie Scheffler.
32:11He's the golfer who wins everything.
32:13Well, now he's got an Olympic gold medal.
32:15And the loser is Burning Man, this weird festival they have out west.
32:19Last year it was a total disaster.
32:21Now they can't sell tickets for it, amazingly enough.
32:24They got stuck there last year.
32:25I forgot about that.
32:26They did.
32:27And they don't want to go back.
32:28Kevin?
32:29My winner is Quincy Hall, Team USA, big come-from-behind in the 400-meter on Wednesday, and the pride
32:34of the University of South Carolina, go Gamecocks.
32:37My loser is Robert Kennedy Jr. for faking a bear death in Central Park with a bicycle.
32:44It was a head-scratcher.
32:46It was bizarre.
32:47I'll give you that.
32:48It was bizarre.
32:49Phil?
32:50I want to thank David Musk this week for using an antitrust lawsuit to get the Global Alliance
32:55for Responsible Media, that organization, to stop chasing advertisers off of Twitter.
33:01And my loser, again, I'm showing my bias.
33:03I'm biased towards more transparency, is the press.
33:05We haven't gotten that press conference, let alone an interview from the Democratic nominee
33:08for president.
33:09Gentlemen, thanks so much for taking time with us.
33:12Great to talk to you.
33:13Happy Friday.
33:14Happy Friday.
33:15Go ahead.
33:16Have a good weekend.
33:20Well, it is Friday, so it's also time for notable quotables.
33:23Let's listen.
33:24You know what?
33:26Our next president brings the joy.
33:28She emanates the joy.
33:30I haven't recalibrated strategy at all.
33:33I think she's worse than Biden.
33:36You know what?
33:37If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that.
33:41Why does she refuse to answer questions from the media?
33:43I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month.
33:46She's a radical left person at a level that nobody's seen.
33:49These guys are creepy and, yes, just weird as hell.
33:52Do you think Iran will stand down, sir?
33:59They don't have the will.
34:00They don't have the force.
34:01And they don't have the respect of anybody in the world.
34:03We are prepared for any scenario, both in defense and attack.
34:06Feeling safe anymore.
34:07Such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of president
34:13of the United States.
34:15Lincoln and Joe Biden.
34:17How does the court feel about potential changes, term limits, ethics codes that are enforced
34:22by someone in ways that it isn't now?
34:24I just say, be careful.
34:27And like your favorite band, Cream, you took each other higher and higher.
34:36Also breaking tonight, we're just learning now that former President Trump's private
34:40757 that he was flying en route to try and get to Bozeman for a campaign event today
34:46had some mechanical issues.
34:48It was sidelined.
34:49He is getting on another plane to try and get to the event as soon as possible.
34:53We will track that for you all evening.
34:55Coming up, Monday's special report.
34:57We'll head back to the campaign trail.
34:58Former President Trump has an interview with Elon Musk.
35:01You can also join Shannon Bream for Fox News Sunday.
35:06She's got a great panel there.
35:07Thanks so much for joining us.
35:08I'm Jillian Turner in Washington.
35:16The Ingram angle is next.
36:16I'm Jillian Turner.
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