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but governments and pressers -- oppressors don't sensor lies. they don't fear lies. they fear the truth. and that's what they sensor. and i don't want any of this to sound like a personal complaint because it is not. i -- for me, it is all part of the journey and a journey that i signed up with. but i need to make these observations because i think they are critical for us doing the thing that we need to do as citizens and of democracy to assess where we are in there country and what our democracy still looks like. and the assumptions about u.s. leadership around the globe. and are we living -- are we still a role model for democracy in the country? or have we made it a kind of a

joke? here is the good news: mainstream outlets denied me a critical platform. they didn't shut down my ideas, which have especially flourished among young voter and independent voters, thanks to the alternative media. many months ago, i promised the american people i would withdraw if i became a spoiler, that will alter the outcome but naz no chance of winning. in my heart i know longer believe i have a realistic path to elector victory in the face of this relentless systemic censorship and media control. so i cannot in good conscious ask staff and volunteers to keep working their long hours or ask donors to keep giving when i cannot tell them i have a real path to the white house. further more, our polling consistently showed that by staying on the ballot, and the

battlegrounds states i would likely hand the election over to the democrats, with whom i disagree on the most extenttial issues: censorship, war and connick disease. i want everyone to know that i'm not terminating my campaign. i am simply suspending it and not ending it. my name will remain on the ballot in most states. if you live in blue state you can vote for me without harm or helping president trump or vice president harris. and red states the same will apply. i encourage you to vote for me. and if enough of you do vote for me pand neither of the major party candidate win 270 votes

which is quite possible, today shows tying 269 and 269, i can still conceivably ends up in the white house in an contingent election. [cheering] >> in about ten battleground states, where my presence would be a spoiler, i'm going to remove my name and i have started that process and urge voters not to vote for me. it is with a sense of victory and not defeat that i am suspending my campaign activities. not only did we do the impossible by collecting 1 million signatures, we changed the national political conversation forever. chronic disease, free speech, government corruption, breaking our addiction to war, have moved the center of politics. i can say to all who have worked so hard the last year and a half, thank you for a job well done. three great causes drove me to

enter this race in the first place. primarily and these are the principle causes that persuaded me to leave the democratic party and run as an independent. and now to throw my support to president trump, the causes were free speech, a war in ukraine, and the war on our children. i have described some of my personal experiences and struggles with the government sponsor leadership and industrial complex. i want to say a word about the ukraine war. the military complex pro viemded us with a familiar comic book justification like they don every war. at this one, is a noble effort to stop a super villain, vladamir putin of invading the ukraine and thwart his hitler like march across europe.

tiny ukraine is a proxy and geo political struggle. and -- niche yates by -- niche yabted by the u.s. neocons or american global -- i'm in the excusing putin for invading ukraine. he had other options. but the russia -- the war is russia's predictable response to -- the media rarely explained we walked away from two intermediate nuclear weapons treaties with russia and puts nuclear ready ages missile systems in romania and poland is a hostile, hostile act. and that the biden white house repeatedly spurned russia's offer to settle this war peacefully.

ukraine war in 2024 when u.s. agency over threw the democratically elected government of ukraine and installed a hand-picked pro western government that launched a deadly civil war against ethnic russians in ukraine. in 2019, america walked away from a peace treaty, the minsk agreement. and then in april of 2022, we wanted the war and in april of 2022, president biden sent boris johnson to ukraine to force president slensz -- zelenskyy to tear up a peace agreement he and the russian resigned and the russians were withdrawing troops. from kyiv and donetsk and that could have brought peace to the region and would allowed to remain part of ukraine. president biden stated that month that this object -- his

objective in the war was regime change in russia. his defense secretary plained america's purposed in the war was to exhaust russian army to degrade the capacity, to fight anywhere else in the world. these objectives have nothing to do with what they were telling americans about protecting ukraine's sovereignty. ukraine is a victim in this war. and it is a victim of the west. since then, we -- both russia and the west, since then we have since tearing to up than agreement, forcing zelenskyy to tear up the agreement we squandered the flower of ukrainian youth, as many as 600,000 ukrainian kids, and over 100,000 russian kids. none of -- all only whom we should be mourning, have died and the ukraine's infrastructure is destroyed. the war has been a disaster for

our country as well. we skwandzerred 200 billion already and these are badly needed dollars in your communities, suffering communities to all over our cou country. nordstream pipeline, form the bull work of u.s. national security, a strong germany with a strong industry is a much, much stronger deterrent to russia and a germany that is deindustrialized and turned into just an extension of the u.s. military base. we pushed russia into a disastrous alliance with china and iran. we are closer to the brink of nuclear exchange than i any time since 1962 and the knee yes cons in the white hoses don't seem to care -- the kneocons in the whie

house don't seem to care. this is a first class calamity for our country. judging by our bellicose speech last night in chicago, we can assume that president harris will be an enyaz thazic advocates for this and other military ventures and president trump says he will reopen negotiations with president putin and ends the war overnight as soon as he becomes president this alone would justify my support for his campaign. last summer it looked like no candidate was willing to negotiate a quick ends to the ukraine war. to tackle con chronic disease epp dim tick, our free speech or defy the neocons and agenda of

endless military adventurism. now one of the two candidates adopted these issues as his own. to the point where he has asked to enlist me in his administration. i'm speaking of course of donald trump. less than two hours after president trump narrowly escaped assassination, g cally called m. and exposed the insid yousz krupgsz at the f.d.a. and h.h.s. and the u.s.d.a., that caused the epidemic. camly had been working on an offer on my campaign and as vicing me on subject -- advising me on the subjects since the

beginning and those subjects have been my primary focus for the last 20 years. . i was delighted when cally told me that day this he had been advising president trump. he told me president trump was anxious to talk to me about chronic disease and other subjects. and to explore avenues of cooperation. he asked if i would take a call from the president -- president trump telephone made few minutes later. and i met with limb the following -- with him the following day. a few weeks later i met again with president trump and his family members and closest advisor in florida. and in a series of long intense discussions, i was surprised to discover that we are aligned on many key issues. and those meetings he suggested we join forces as a unity parties. we talked about abraham lincoln's team of rivals. that arrangement would allow us

to disdisagree publicly and private, on issues over what we differ. and working on exetienne, imps a fer i was a critic of his policies during his administration and there are still issues and approaches upon which we continue to have very serious differences. but we are align with each other on other key issue like ends, the forever war and ending the childhood disease epidemic, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, and unravelling, the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies and getting the u.s. intelligence agencies out of the business of propaganda and censoring and surveilling americans and interfering with

our elections. following. my first discussion with president trump, i tried unsuccessfully to open similar discussions with vice president harris. vice president declined to meet or even to speak with me. suspending my candidacy is a heart rendering decision for me. i'm convinced it's the best hope. >> martha: this is very interesting and i think there is going to be a lot for people top chew over here. you just heard the tail-end of what he said about how the harris team refused to meet or speak with him. he has met several times with president trump and said that we talked about all of these issues, about forever wars, about the health of children -- children in america, chronic disease, they have long intense discussions, and thus the decision to endorse president trump. which i believe is going to

happen later today. this is a very interesting development in this process. even though it only deals with a few percentage points. he is drawing attention to issues that a lot of vehicle -- voters are very frustrated by in this country and here you see on the screen, president trump as he is in a diner in las vegas right now. we will hear from him in just a while, talking about his idea that tips should not be taxed, which obviously is a big issue for people whether o work in the restaurant industry. but the headline to go back and put a bow on it, is that robert f. kennedy junior, son of robert kennedy, famous political family, generational democrat family, prominent for decades in the country was a democrat, running as a candidate in the race, said that he hit brick wall after brick wall, said he was never given the opportunities that ross piro

had, for example to get on the debate stage and to be interviewed by major networks and he believes, which we heard,ing that, the media has decline and that for all of the reasons, censorship, forever wars, he says that democrat party and media are in the back pocket of agricultural, pharmaceuticals and we will talk more about this. he is bringing up points that did resonate with a number of voters out there. so let's talk about fact that rfk junior has now suspended will his race. he is not dropping out and we will talk about the interesting arrangement he is putting forwards for his supporters. as we bring in our page page. clay travis and kimberly strasle and juan williams. we will keep an eye on the

speech as he continues his remark. we will see if he takes questions. he called out the democratic party, kamala harris, the vice president, joe biden for keep, him out of the entire process. said its under cut the democratic process in the country. very interesting commentses and now he is going to endorsz former president trump in an unprecedented move far kennedy in the united states of america. let's bring in the panel and talk about what this means. kimberly, let me start with you. he had a lot of interesting things to say and he thought and the things in depth. me is a -- le is a very he is a very considerabletial character. talk about what you saw. >> well, he devoted the end of his speech to the controversial policy views and they don't necessarily resonate with a ton of america. you see thats in the polls. however i thank you that to the

first hatch of his speech was incredibly powerful, in which he talked about, a senses to the ballot, democracy as an existential issue. freedom of speech, and how awful democrats have been on those, whether it be the actions they have taken against him in his attempt to get on the ballot by bringing legal action against him, all to the way to which they chose kamala harris and their lack of transparency. and not running a real primary. think those are powerful points. a lot of people listen to them and my argument is that much more than any views they share with donald trump, are rfk junior is disgusted with the democratic party and the tactics right now and they help to drive him into there endorsem*nt of donald trump. >> martha: absolutely. juan, let me bring you in. he said in essence and i was taking notes so this isn't word for word but said that draments have installed a nominee who did

not win a single primary, has not done a single interview as the nominee. said this is profoundsly undemocratic. they instituted a surge of popularity, a chicago circus, that was based on nothing. he said who needs a posse when you have -- policy when you have trump to hate and said he does interviews every day. he said donald trump, former president, does interviews every single day and he would like to see the same from his former party. your reaction to that, juan. >> well, i think a lot of this has to do with simple political math, which is polls. i mean he talked about the debates. he didn't meet the criteria set by the networks and the campaigns to get in the debate so he is insulting ross per pault renault. not only did he meet the criteria le got 20% of the vote in the election. >> martha: juan, let me just

jump in. i want to address what you said. what le is saying is that he never had the benefit of that ross perrault has, of never been invite on the network or being allowed the functions in the system, allowed to get the votes by having expose -- exposure. said they were actively shutting him down which did not map top ross perrault. he saw his party as being c co-opted by big money. having a person they pick and is decided to be the nominee. well, ross perrault has -- was a well-known successful businessman in america and that -- he tried to extend his success in business to politics and that attracted some folks.

what we have seen with robert kennedy is basically known for his anti-vaxx positions and he tried to extends that into politics martha and its just hasn't worked. his own family has turned against him. no labels, a group that was trying to form a third party alternative, you know they looked at him and sdiepdzed against it and they couldn't find a candidate, joe manage, christian cinema said no they weren't going to do a thirds -- third party effort. robert kennedy junior said he was looking to not only do business with trump but with harris. he is reaching out to both sides. so if it was all about, boy, these democrats are terrible, why was he trying to get a job with harris? it just -- >> martha: he was trying to get a conversation and nechver got

there. clay, let me get you to weigh in. we will go to mark meredith in a minute. what do you think? >> i think it is massive. i think it is a seismic move. robert f kensy jrp at the start of his speech, speaks to a lot of middle of the road voter. he said the democrats have become the party of censorship. big farprarma. corruption. the media was not allowing his message to get out. this will bring in 2% more support in the ten battle ground states, given how close this race will be, rfk junior supporting the ten statements, may be the difference between trump and vance winning or not. this hi a major miscalculation by kamala harris to not minimum -- meet with him.

a miscalculation of a high mag any tuesday. we are talking about a race that will be decided by 50 or 100,000 voetsz. 2% in pence van -- 2% in pennsylvania is massive. it is a huge win. its destroys the any momentum kamala may have had. mark -- ok. we will hear some thanks here if mark wantses to chime in for 20 seconds. all right. [♪♪] >> martha: now we are in las vegas, watching trump, making his way through talking to people backstage, and he is talking about taxing tips and removing that. which is an ideas kimberly, that kamala harris decided is a good

idea, too and jump on board that despite the fact that biden du dirgs tried administration tried to tax more. >> they seem very much targeted at micro categories of voters and not great economic policy. that being said, i think it shows something about how popular that idea could be in a swing state that really if you look at it, the only policy that kamala harris adopted that is not based on joe biden's agenda or progressive agenda is donald trump's no-tax on federal tips. she underthe issue of that. a lot of people forgot this but as soon as donald trump came out with that proposal, ted cruz introduced legislation in the senate to get it passed and among the people who endorsed it were the two democratic senators from ne vadz da. they understand that is the power, too. all kamala harris did in rom

rolling its out was blunt that issue for him a bit but certainly didn't give her an advantage. suggested the importance of doing policies which democrats have not done much of. >> martha: speaking of ne vadz da, the last time a republican candidate woon ne vad -- won ne vadz da was in 2004. biden won it in 2020 and we see president trump now about to start speaking so let's stands by and we will hear what le has to say. he has been very busy. did a bunch of interviews in arizona yesterday and will be in arizona later today with a special guest who very well may be rfk junior so let's listen in. >> thank you everybody for being here. with. happened a very nice -- we has a very nice indoor sprint from rfk junior. [applause & cheering] and i will be talking abtsz that. we are heading out right after this. we will be going to arizona. we will be talking about that. a lot of other things, too. but i just wants to thank

everybody and i want to thank bobby. that was very nice. pr pr great guy, respected by everybody. so thank you all for this incredible welcome we are getting. and i will tell javier the next time we do this together, he will give me light up here. give me light. it makes you speech -- speak less and that is ok, too. but i do wants to thank you all and thank to thank javier. this is fantastic restaurant and the reputation is as good as it gets. i will come here next time to eat, is that ok? i will be doing that, too. we have with us lieutenant governor staff stavp rose and theny. we will see you see.

stavro rose antony and michael mcdonald. michael? [applause & cheering] he is very happy abouts the no tax on tips because he was the one -- the first one that presented it after the young beautiful waitress that suggested i said what do you think of it michael? he said i think it is a great idea. but we have come here today to talk about the biggest promise i think that to the restaurants workers have had in a long time and that is no tax on tips and in our case we mean it. somebody than i know just copied it. just copied it. you know that won't happen. if you are restaurants worker, hospitalsty worker, caddy, barber, mover, driver or anyone else you rely on a lot of tip income. when i win in november, hopefully we will win, turn our country around and make america

great again. [applause & cheering] we are going to let you keep 100% of a your tip income and not be harried. just so you understand, the other side kamala have you heard of it? nobody heard of her. she lost in the first rounds, she was a first one out and a weird thing. he got 14 million votes and sitting on a beach angry as lel and she got no votes and she is running. explain that to me. united states is low. to 5.5 million workers who lively hoods depends on tipping income and they work that their hands and skills. they are people that have within with me. i'm doing them a big favour. nobody heard of this concept before and it is something that makes a lot if sense. as soon as i heard it, i said let's do it and then they copied us but i don't think anyone is

buying i. i don't think anyone is buying it. last night she made 26 everyoni things that were lied. that is ok. a lot of people lie. they will do anything to get elected. she is increasing taxes. i'm decreases taxes and she putsz it the other way around. perhaps she misspoke. nearly two-thirds of the worker are women andest mated 700,000 single mothers rely on tip income to supports their children. these are some of the best and harpdzest working people in america and when i'm president, you are the onesly be fighting for, every single day. [applause & cheering] kamala harris is now pretending to endorse my policy. she has got a lot of other policies. she is a copycat.

she is a flip-flopper. graetzest flip-flopper in history. she went from communism to capitalism in about two weeks but in fact kamala cast the tie-breaking votes to hire 87,000 new i.r.s. actuallies to go after your tip income. they are going after it in a lot of ways. so i don't know what they are doing now. this happened with a lot of industries where we come out with something they immediately fold but after the election, if something horrible, horrible happened, which is a possibility, especially the way they cheat, but if somebody horrible happened, you know she would go right back and you would never see anything about no tax on tips. you know that. under kamala and crooked joe biden, where is he? where is joe? wlapdz to joe? -- what happened to joe? he is angry. the i.r.s. imposed costly and

burdensome new reporting requirement on strauntsz and other employees and these employers are great people. they are great people. they really work hard. like javier they work hard. this will make their life a bit easier because for them it's better too. when they have happy employees that are making a lit brl money and do a better job. people like javier, are very happy. he was happy to hear about this. every restaurant owner is happy to hear about this but they are trying to squeeze every penny out of this tip income, the government is. and now they won't be able to do that. we will get this done very fast, too, by the way. kamala also sponsored legislation to blow up the tip system entirely which would inflict financial calamity on food servers and bar tendsers in

las vegas. they have bills pending and things to pending and resolutions pending and special orders pending. where they are going after your tip. i assume they will be developing that stuff until after the election. they will bring it back after the election. kamala supports a bill to eliminate the federal tip credit, which could force restaurants to impose large service charges on diners, meaning customers will not leave tips at all. and you will be stuck with a minimum wage or whatever you might be making. this is something that they are forcing. i will never let that happen under the trump administration, you will keep your tips and restaurant workers will keep all of your hard earned money. i met this incredible young woman, she was standing behind a counter. what was if that the restaurant?

chick-fal-letand she said president trump and i gave me the biggest hug, she said you saved my college and she loved that college, right? [applause] and you love me and i love you, too. i do action. i do actually. it was like instant dem -- chemistry. >> i told him we are best friends. >> they didn't know we are coming. we do that surprise. for security and thing. we don't want to broadcast it too much. i walked in and she grabbed me and i grabbed her but i saved her college. that's the historically black colleges and universitys and she loves her college. she loved her college. i said, do you really like its? >> i love the university. >> she really did. it was great to see that as

opposed to ooh, it was ok. she thank you it was great. so i will see you in a while, ok. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. >> we will be joined today by nicole williams, a mother of a 6-year-old member of the culinary union and bar tendser. can we get the culinary union to maybe vote for trump. they are great people. [applause & cheering] they are always have a head like a -- like a democrat, the head, evened the republicans are better -- i'm a lot better and i'm the one that got this thing done. and so if we can speak to the head guy, let him be nice and easy, just relax. we are going to win. the state is looking for goods. we are lead big a lot. but we want to get the culinary union. how many members of the culinary union are here? you have a lot. i can tell you have lot. but i think a lot of them, we has a poll done and a lot of them are voting for us i can

tell you right now. [applause & cheering] but people that depends on tip income so nicole, if i can ask you to come up and say a few words. hi, nicole. >> hi. >> thank you. thank you. this is the honor of my life to be up here with my favourite president. [applause & cheering] and his no tax on tips policy is going to help my family. it's going to bring immediate relief to my pocketbook and 7 kids and all who have families to take care of, this will be a great thing for us. let's get out and vote for president trump. get out there. register your friends and family. tell everybody about this family. >> thank you, nicole. thank you. >> thank you. very nice. that is great. thank you very much, nicole. thank you.

at 5% in arizona. let's scroll forward to the swing state ones. arizona is at 5%. georgia, 4%. north carolina, 4%. nae never vadz da nevada, 4%. there you go. there is a look. kimberly, let me talk to you about what you think the impant of this could be. because these are obviously independent folks. who were heading in the rfk junior direction any way and i think there is probably a lot of guess work in terms of where they would go at this point. endorsem*nt or no? >> true. but martha, i was just in chicago and here is what drapts are concerned about that talked to me. is that you have seen rfk junior have a noticeable slides in poll numbers than happened a long sides some negative headlines he got about past events. but it also was concurrent with

kamala harris been pecoming the nominee. drop was the result of democrats who had been drawn to rfk because they did in the like joe biden but once she came in, they went back to the fold. that leads a lot to believe those are remaining will be persuadable to be go to the republican party. 240ez number, snoosh those numb that as clay was saying could make an enormous difference in a close race where everything is won at battlegrounds. >> martha: juan what do you think is the impact as we look at the electoral college picture. we are insides of ten weeks until the presidential election. >> well, first i thought what kimberly said was just on the money in terms of the political analysis. you've seen his numbers go down and what you see now is the question is how much woumdz

remain? and he was doing damages at this point to donald trump. not to the democrats ticket. so it is almost as if you say it is less that he is going to add to donald trump than donald trump will keep and not lose votes. and so i don't know exactly how this translate in terms of actual out comes in a harris verses trump race. and when we come to the issue of the tips i mean i think it is pretty important to note that the culinary workers have endorsed kamala harris. ands it is also the case that the service workers in nationally endorsed chair. what we saw from the u.a.w. leaped err the convention -- leader, who wore a shirt that said trump was a scam. that is auchl language. you can say that was strong. trump is a guy who said we should fire strikers. and he wants tax cut for the rich and he wants tariffs that would drive up costs. when its comes to the tip

policy, the question becomes and you can talk to people, bettser than i do but the question becomes you have different wage rates across country. so if you have a lower minimum wage in a place, maybe you better for more from not having tips tax but will punish moment in a states with higher minimum wage and would be beneficial to about 2%. i think 2.5% according to one stadz -- study of workers nationwide. it is great populace politics says i'm standing with the little guy but what you hear from democrat, let's look at who gets the tax cut and where the tariffs will hurt you in term of cost at the market. >> martha: those are all great points. we would love to hear more specificity from vice president harris. clay? >> this is a massive win for donald trump.

there are a lot of people who wa wanted him to consider rfk as his vice president. instead he gets j.d. vance and the math gets simpler for trump. he will win i believe north carolina and georgia. this helps that, based on the numbers you shared bumping up trump's percentages there. if that happens we just saw rfk withdrawn his name from pence vain yap. the simplest route is georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania. if he wins those states, he will be president. rfk endorsing in three, means that is more likely. >> martha: it will be interesting past labour day and see a shake out of how people feel with the conventions and in the rear-view mirror. thank you so much, juan and kimberly and clay. great panel.

great good to have you on here today. see you soon. thank you. so let's bring in fox business anchor, david, great to have you with us. few things i want to get to. let me get your reactione news from rfk junior, let's play i think a quick sounds bite we can play to get people up top speeds if they missed this announcement. >> three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place and theses are principle causes that persuaded me to leave the democratic party. and run as an independent. and now to throw my support to president trump, the causes were free speech, war in ukraine and the war on our children. >> martha: david your reaction? >> david: also the war on business, which rfk despite the fact that he has got a populace

message and it tends -- populace from the left and very big on green energy programs might have trouble with trump's views on all of that, however, he is not anti-business. and in fact, he's against higher taxes. i was at a luncheon that larry cudlo put together, a couple of months ago in which he supported his uncle's j.f.k., was one of the big tax cutser of all-time. came up with the phrase, a rising tide lifts all both. he once into class warfare the way the biden-harris team seems to be. i want to say one quick think -- thing about the unions. juan was right that the union leaders are for harris. but the union members are not necessarily for harris. and in fact the u.a.w. leader, who juan mentioned was -- admitted on to fox business months ago that most of his

members were going to be voting for trump. so there is this divide between leadership and members that is growing. >> martha: we have seen that for quite some time. let me just -- i just want to ask about what the impact will be? we heard from jer rem powell in jackson hole, wyoming. it looks like we will get rate cut and he is predicting that this is a soft landing after all. what is the impact on the electi election. >> david: americans still don't feel good. technical recession or not, the question is how americans feel and by all the polls that we have done including the most recent polling because yes inflation has come down but the prices haven't. the rate of inflation has come down to about 2.9%. but that is still meaning that we have the high prices where they have remained and still cutting into people's wallet. the technical definitions

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whistle-blower who he claims says that agents were advised no to request additional security measures at butler pennsylvania rally. david is reporting live on this for us. hi, david. >> reporter: hi, good afternoon. five is the number we have. that was last monday. we are told by a brief, expect that number to increase. all five have been placed on administerive duty and working remotely. four from the secret service field office, including special actually in charge there. one of the them was agent on former president trump's personal protective detail. someone that travelled with him all over country. the agents are still employed but not involved in active protective work. we are told these the numbers as of monday and likely to change. in addition, f.b.i. is conducting a parallel criminal investigation into the shooter and the overall security failure. it is possible charges could be time by the d.o.j.but when asked

today, the attorney general didn't give many details. watch. >> this was a security failure. and there is both and internal and external independent investigation of what happened. there is a congressional task force on the same subject and hopefully -- i know they will provide lessons learned to prevent such a failure from happening. >> reporter: when congress turn expect republicans and democrats to continue holding the secret service accountable for what both sides agree was a failure. josh holly, senator, says he has a whistle blower to alleges -- told agents working in the field at the trump events, additional resources could be denied. martha, this contradicts what the acting secret service director rose said to congress. le said during a news conference. the whistle blowers have been coming forwards. >> martha: thank you very much for that reporting.

howie joins me on the deadline for vice president harris to sit down for the first tv interview. said she would have one by the end of the month. today is the 23 rdz of august. that is expected. before the ends of the month so we will see who he decides to speak with. she has been dodging some questions about when she plans to hold a news conference. we will talk to howie about that coming up next. >> will kamala talk tot the presence? upset stomach iberogast indigestion iberogast bloating iberogast thanks to a unique combination of herbs, iberogast helps relieve six digestive symptoms to help you feel better.

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live in the moment. ask your doctor about otezla. >> martha: so more than 30 days now, still no news conference from vice president harris. more than a month as i said after she dropped out -- after biden i should say, the president dropped out of the r race. she said she hopes to do something by the end of the month potentially here on fox.

our senior white house correspondent peter caught up with her just after police department night at the dnc. >> madam vice president, cob congratulations. >> rets let's bring in >> martha: let's bring in howie. obviously a big flight for the vice president last night. and she seemed to be friendly and open to doing an interview on fox, maybe with peter ducey. what are your thought on this strategy? >> i don't know if she was just teasing peter ducey or trying to be polite or trying to get away from him. she famous for tackle joe biden. i think she should do an interview with fox. first of all, our audience includes dem independents and some people say this or that,

commentator was very critical. the interviews will be conducted by you and brett bear approved again and again you are tough by fair in the circ*mstances and if she doesn't do it, who knows? donald trump could call in again as he did last night, that was wild. and eat up that airtime. so i think she would benefit and showing she is willing to go to a network that is not in love with her. >> that point has been immediate a lot -- >> martha: that points has been made a lot about comments on our network and look at the comments on other network, donald trump, former president of the united states. these people are very seasoned politician. on both sides and should be able to take straight fair questions from anyone including us, which we hope they will do. i want to play this from rfk junior. le dropped out of the -- he

dropped out of the race or suspended his race and he went off the media and blamed them in collusion essentially with the white house for making it very hard to for anyone else to enter the race. >> during the 16 months since i declare, abc, nbc, cbs, nsnbcs and krcnn gave only two live interview. they ran headpieces with in, a rats and often vile per jor tifs and defamatory smears to keep me off the debate stage. >> martha: very strong wordses for the media and pointed to the reporters in the room said look in the mirror and ask yourself if you feel ok want the cooperation between the network

and the whites house, what do you say? >> i in i it is sad to see i think it is sad seeing bobby scapegoating the interview. fox has -- given him airtime. he has been a fringe candidate with no applause, way or prospect of becoming president and whether it is -- he has been a colorful candidate, talking about vaccines, or brain worm or covering up the dead bear that he put in his car so he could have dinner later. i think that as his poll numbers have gone down, sure everybody is interested him as a spoiler but to blame on the press he is desperate for attention now. he tried to make a deal with donald trump, with kamala harris yo york; you promised ne a high-ranking job and i will

endorse you. neither one agreed. he decided to endorse trump and will probably help him and that is probably true. to push its off on the media and how he didn't get hissing my message misses the points how he has been a side show in the campaign and his members of his own family do the in want limb to run. -- do not want lhimself to run. >> martha: thank you very much. it's been a big week. big wean -- week in chicago and the story goes on back here as we led into another big week of this campaign. ten week go before the election and turn into the untold story podcast speaking about the election, democratic national convention, all available on

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