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00:002005, and while there had been rumors they could be deployed, those official orders didn't
00:05come down until two months after Walls had left.
00:09Other soldiers who served with Walls have come out to defend his service, saying he
00:12was a great soldier and these accusations of stolen valor are absurd.
00:17Shannon?
00:18So, Garrett, any sense of how this may break through?
00:21We know that at the time that we get new candidates onto the stage, listen, clearly the oppo research
00:27was ready by Republicans, by the Trump Vance campaign as well, but will this really register
00:33with voters?
00:34Because the fact is, these two VP candidates that are going to match up on stage, we hope
00:37for a debate for them as well.
00:38I mean, they both have worn the uniform.
00:40They both can argue they've served the country.
00:43Any sense on how this is, is it breaking through?
00:45Well, we have heard from some Democrats who say that this is an area where the campaign
00:51needs to clean up its act, and if there have been cases where maybe things have been misspoken
00:55or slightly embellished, that that needs to be cleaned up now that we're moving into
01:00this larger campaign.
01:02But we also saw some indications today when the Harris-Walls website updated his biography
01:09to state his rank at retirement was not what it was previously.
01:14So playing into some of these criticisms they've been getting and trying to get ahead of that.
01:18Shannon?
01:19Okay.
01:20Garrett Tenney, thank you so much.
01:21Always appreciate your reporting.
01:22That is the story of Thursday, August 8th, 2024, but as always, the story goes on.
01:26We'll see you back here tomorrow at 3 p.m.
01:29Your World starts right now.
01:36Thank you, Shannon.
01:37And you thought the markets were all over the place.
01:39Just try keeping up with these candidates, Donald Trump taking questions, a lot of questions
01:44from reporters in Mar-a-Lago, Kamala Harris talking the economy in Detroit.
01:49Fired up and to hear the United Auto Workers president tell it, fed up.
01:54Did you hear what Sean Fain said last night at that Harris rally?
01:58Well, kids and adults, actually, cover your ears because he's back and he's here and only
02:04here.
02:05And so is Maryland Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan trying to turn a blue state red.
02:10And Chicago Federal Reserve President Austin Goolsbee on trying to keep a restless market
02:14calm.
02:15Tall test, big show, and it all starts right now.
02:20Welcome everybody.
02:21I'm Neil Cavuto.
02:22Very happy to have you with us on what has turned out to be once again a very busy market
02:26and news day.
02:27First, let's go to Grady Trimble on that Harris-Wilson event at the UAW.
02:33Grady.
02:34Yeah, you know, Neil, President Biden has always said he is the most pro-union president
02:40in history.
02:41And today, Vice President Harris and her VP pick, Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, they
02:47are here in Michigan trying to win over those same union voters.
02:51In fact, they're just up the road from where we are right now.
02:55Harris is speaking as we speak, and she's at a local union hall, a UAW union hall across
03:02from a Ford assembly plant.
03:04And earlier last or later last year, I should say, around September summertime, those workers
03:10at that particular factory, they were on strike.
03:13And Governor Walz, when he was speaking to the workers today, remarked about that strike
03:17and talked about how he stood with the workers on the picket line.
03:23Thank you for the privilege of walking that picket line with you last year.
03:27Thank you for allowing us to lift up our voices.
03:29And in Minnesota, the work that you did, it didn't just benefit UAW workers, it benefited
03:34all workers.
03:38But we have heard from some rank and file members who are concerned about some Biden-Harris
03:43policies, including that electric vehicle mandate and how it could impact their jobs.
03:49Former President Trump, on the other hand, at a press conference this afternoon, he is
03:53trying to halt the momentum of Harris and Walz and highlight the fact that Harris hasn't
03:58had a press conference of her own since she replaced President Biden at the top of the
04:03Democratic ticket.
04:04Trump warned of economic doom if she is elected.
04:10You could end up in a depression of the 1929 variety, which would be a devastating thing,
04:15took many years, took decades to recover from it.
04:19And we're very close to that and we're very close to a world war, in my opinion.
04:25And maybe the biggest piece of news out of that press conference this afternoon is the
04:29fact that Trump says he's agreed to three debates this September against Vice President
04:34Harris, including one on Fox.
04:37ABC says that separately, both candidates have agreed to their debate, so therefore
04:42they believe it's happening.
04:44But Neil, we reached out to the Harris campaign today to confirm whether any or one of the
04:49three are happening.
04:51And we haven't heard back.
04:52Neil.
04:53Thank you, my friend, very much.
04:55Grady Trimble in Michigan following all those developments.
04:58You might have heard the former president referring to what's going on right now as
05:01a hurdle toward a depression.
05:03Well, if that's the case, the market's had a funny way of showing it, at least today
05:07with the S&P 500 putting in its best single day performance we've seen in a couple of
05:12years, the Dow tracking its biggest gain of the year.
05:15But again, these are volatile market conditions, something I'm sure our next guest monitors.
05:19I don't think he necessarily depends on it one way or the other.
05:21But Austin Goolsbee is the Chicago Federal Reserve president.
05:24Kind enough to join us.
05:25Austin, good to see you.
05:26Yeah, Neil, good to see you.
05:29And I appreciate that intro.
05:31Well, here we go, right?
05:33We've got Donald Trump saying we're headed toward a depression, aren't we?
05:40Well, as you know, when you become a sworn member of the Federal Reserve, you're out
05:46of the elections business.
05:47So I don't have any opinion on what any candidate has to say.
05:53The part that I appreciate about the intro is the Fed's job is given to it by law, which
06:00is maximize employment and stabilize prices.
06:04That's the dual mandate for the Fed.
06:06That's exactly what we look at.
06:08And that is only what we look at.
06:10There's nothing in the mandate that says, go make sure that the market feels comfortable.
06:16And some days the market's way down and some days it's way up.
06:20We watch it, but that's not what should drive central bank behavior, in my opinion.
06:26OK, so let's take Donald Trump out of it for the time being.
06:29Do you see a depression yourself?
06:31I mean, I don't see depression.
06:38We got a number, a jobs number that was disappointing last week.
06:42It was below what the market expected.
06:45It was below what a lot of people expected.
06:48The question now is, as the job market is cooling, but it's cooling back to levels that
06:55in the old days we would have said that's about full employment or that's kind of the
07:01steady state, is it going to stop there or is it going to keep getting worse?
07:07And that's a very important question.
07:10To me, that's not one you can answer with one month's number.
07:14It was definitely a disappointing number in the last jobs, the jobs read we got.
07:19But we got to watch a lot more than just the payroll jobs numbers.
07:24And we got to watch it for a lot more than one month.
07:26Well, the sentiment seems to be building on something that you guys on the Fed are now
07:30less worried about inflation, more worried about holding off on interest rate cuts and
07:35fear that we're going to slow things down.
07:37Is that true?
07:40There's a sense in which that's true.
07:42You know the rules.
07:43I'm not allowed to speak for the committee or for anybody else on the committee.
07:46I understand.
07:47I completely understand.
07:48I hope to get you an embarrassing moment where you flub something, but go ahead.
07:51Yeah, no, exactly.
07:53They're going to drag me off the off the screen.
07:57I started at the Fed a little over a year and a half ago.
08:00And overwhelmingly, what the focus I thought we should have and that you can see in the
08:07statements that we had was overwhelmingly about inflation, because in our dual mandate,
08:13we were not succeeding on inflation was way too high and the job market remained very
08:19strong.
08:20So we were doing fine on that side of the mandate.
08:22All of our focus had to be on inflation.
08:25Now, 2023, inflation came down almost as much as it has come down in any year in recorded
08:34economic history for this country.
08:37And that happened without a recession.
08:39So on dual mandate grounds, that was quite a year.
08:43And the question now is, can that can that magic continue to 24?
08:50So for sure, it's putting more focus on the other side of the mandate than it was before,
08:56because it was close to 100 percent inflation, zero percent employment.
09:01In my view, we're now in kind of a balanced risk kind of posture because the job market
09:08has cooled and inflation has come down.
09:10So now we're getting back to more normal conditions, if you want to think of it that way.
09:16You were quoted right after we saw some of the report, the employment report, all say
09:22we can fix this.
09:23I don't want to misstate what you said, but that's what the Federal Reserve's goal is
09:29after all, to fix things and to make sure you don't go too extreme either way.
09:33But are you more worried, you personally and as a voting member of the Fed, more worried
09:38now about the economy slipping into something bad and inflation less so?
09:50I wouldn't say I would say more than I was when I got to the Fed, because like like I
09:56say, a year and a half ago, more than last week when we got the jobs numbers and they
10:06were disappointing, definitely more than than than the day before that.
10:13But the the through line with my line about fixing it was about the dual mandate.
10:19And it was said in the context of there were a bunch of market participants saying the
10:23stock market is down so much.
10:25The Fed has to take an emergency action.
10:28And I said, we're not in the business of responding to the stock market.
10:34We are in the business of maximizing employment and stabilizing prices.
10:38And if those start to go wrong, then our job is to try to address that on the real side
10:43of the economy.
10:44And I still think that and I have concerns.
10:47Look, we set the interest rate high.
10:50We're tight.
10:51And we set this rate a year ago.
10:54And conditions were very different a year ago than they are today.
10:57You've seen a lot more cooling of the job market and you've seen a lot more improvement
11:02on the inflation side.
11:03So we need to be thoughtful, because if we're too tight for too long, we're going to have
11:09to come to grips with what that's going to do to the real side of the economy.
11:15So real quickly, it sounds like what you're saying as well, Austin, is that you're not
11:19going to let the markets bully you.
11:24Yeah, look, you know, my old mentor and friend was Paul Volcker and Volcker's line to me
11:30that I think of all the time is our job is to act and the market's job is to react and
11:38let's not get the order mixed up.
11:40And I think at times like this, it's important to remember that.
11:43But do you feel uncomfortable that the Federal Reserve has been thrust in this position of
11:49potentially cutting rates or just moving on rates so close to an election?
11:55A little, but I think the only answer to that, that our elections come on a regular basis.
12:04So whatever the Fed does, somebody is going to say they didn't like that.
12:08All we can do in the Fed is commit to the thing that will be driving our decisions is
12:14the dual mandate of what's happening to employment, what's happening to inflation.
12:19And we've been laying out for a year and a half what the criteria would be, what we're
12:25looking for, what data are we observing, what has to happen for rates to go down, for rates
12:30to stay the same, for rates to go up.
12:32So that's the Fed's out of the election business.
12:38The Fed is in the economic business.
12:41And we've been pretty clear about what the reaction function would need to be and what
12:46conditions, if you saw in the data, would warrant rate cuts.
12:51So what's a bigger headache for you, your job on the Federal Reserve or rooting for the
12:55Chicago White Sox?
12:59That's a cold, it's a cold day.
13:01This is a cold day for you to pull that.
13:05There's always next year.
13:07We could start rooting for the Cubs, but I understand they're only a half game out of
13:11last place also.
13:13All right, see, I didn't want to rub that in, but just want to get your thoughts.
13:16Austin Goolsbee, great seeing you again.
13:17Thank you very much.
13:19Great to see you, Neil.
13:21All right, the Chicago Fed President Austin Goolsbee.
13:23In the meantime, Donald Trump did weigh in on all of these developments and our own Aisha
13:28Hostey had a chance to ask him some very revealing questions.
13:31Aisha.
13:32Hey, Neil, well, as usual, Donald Trump making a lot of news during these press
13:36conferences here in Mar-a-Lago coming up, I'm going to tell you what he thinks about
13:41Kamala Harris and why he thinks that she's seeing this small bump in the polls, even
13:47though he says he's not changing his strategy at all.
13:51It's next.
13:55Well, you don't see this very often out of presidential contenders, Donald Trump taking
13:59on any and all questions at Mar-a-Lago today, meanwhile, focus as well on Kamala Harris
14:05as she tries to electrify a Detroit audience.
14:09But again, it was that exchange with reporters and a lot of them and for a long time in
14:13Florida, that was pretty riveting stuff.
14:17Aisha Hosney has more.
14:18Aisha.
14:21Well, Neil, this pressure comes on the heels of some polling that's come out recently
14:25that suggests that Kamala Harris is now beating Trump by at least a few points, a small
14:30bump, sometimes six to eight points.
14:32And so there's been reporting that the former president has been really frustrated with
14:36the campaign, the state of the play and where they go from here.
14:41So today it was really all about getting the message across to the media, creating this
14:46juxtaposition between his campaign and the Kamala Harris campaign, basically saying
14:51that, look, I'm doing this press conference with reporters for more than an hour.
14:54I'm talking to the media.
14:56My vice presidential pick is talking to the press.
14:58But Kamala Harris, who's now been the presidential nominee for a number of days, hasn't
15:03even taken a question from the press, even at these rallies.
15:06So that's the juxtaposition that they're trying to create.
15:09At the same time, he's pushing back and telling reporters today that they are not changing
15:14their campaign strategy at all, even with the slight bump in polling.
15:18They are calling that a honeymoon period, saying that the fundamentals of this race,
15:23the issues at the end of the day, the pocketbook issues, the economy, inflation, that has
15:28not changed.
15:29As to why Harris might be seeing this small bump in polling, this is how the former
15:35president responded to that question.
15:38To what do you attribute her rising in the polls as becoming a more competitive race
15:43since she's taken over for a while?
15:45She's a woman. She represents certain groups of people.
15:53Now, I also got to ask him a question about this big headline that broke this week about
15:58the current president, President Biden gave an interview to CBS and basically said that
16:03he feels that there would not be a peaceful transfer of power if the former president
16:10does not win this election.
16:12And the former president got a chance to respond to that.
16:14And he said that there would absolutely be a peaceful transfer of power if there is a
16:19fair election.
16:21He was also, again, asked repeatedly and I asked him, I think, a third time, would he
16:27change his strategy if the polling didn't change?
16:30Listen to this.
16:32I haven't recalibrated strategy at all.
16:35It's the same policies, open borders, weak on crime.
16:39She's I think she's worse than Biden because he got forced into the position.
16:46Now, some more news that came out of the campaign today.
16:49We had an off the record meeting with them, a private meeting with them, and they basically
16:52told us that they are targeting two battleground states, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
16:58They feel that the only way to win this election is to win it in a peaceful way.
17:01battleground states, Pennsylvania and Georgia. They feel like if the former
17:06president can secure those two battleground states that he might be
17:09able to clinch this in November. So, of course, I have to ask him about his
17:13relationship with the very popular governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp. And I
17:17asked him, would there ever be a situation where this relationship
17:22could be repaired? Listen to what he said. I don't know. I don't know if I
17:25can or not. I got him elected without me. He wouldn't be governor. I got him
17:29elected. He was doing terribly. I got him elected. With that being said, I
17:34hope we can repair it. But
17:39yeah, he is a relationships guy, and he said that he would try to repair. At
17:43least he could hope to repair it. Um, Neil, last thing a big one, at least
17:48for us here at Fox News, the former president has agreed to doing three
17:52separate debates. The first would be with Fox News on September 4th, the
17:57second with ABC on the 10th and then the final one with NBC on the 25th of
18:02September. Ah, lot of action to come. Feels like the election is never gonna
18:08get here, but but we're seeing a lot of action between these two campaigns. Ah,
18:13lot of shots being taken.
18:15Yeah, the Brian Kemp stuff was amazing because Donald Trump didn't, uh, you
18:20know, take a guy who was doing terribly and get him elected. Brian can pretty
18:24much did that on his own, but we'll see how it all sorts out and whether they
18:27can make amends. Thank you very much for that. Asia hosting. In the meantime,
18:31that's the kind of stuff that really bugs a lot of Republicans. When the
18:36president, the former president gets distracted and takes on intra party
18:39battles, including this back and forth over Brian Kemp, while Larry Hogan, the
18:44former Maryland governor, is worried about the signal that sends as he's
18:48running
18:49All right. The intramural party fighting that Donald Trump has led attacking
18:55governors like George's Brian Kemp, a very popular Republican, is rattling
19:01Larry Hogan a bit. The former Maryland governor is trying to flip a blue seat
19:05red to become that state's senator says this kind of stuff hurts the party and
19:11hurts Donald Trump.
19:13I really just think that we've got to focus on the issues and kind of avoid
19:17all this kind of, you know, gender, race kind of, you know, wild attacks. We,
19:22you know, we I think, uh, you know, on the issues, there's clear differences
19:26between the candidates, and, um, that's what they ought to be focused on. And I
19:30just I just don't think it's helpful to be kind of shrinking the tent and
19:34alienating swing voters and turning people off. We can't just play to the
19:38It's one thing to do to go after, you know, Kamala Harris and whether she's
19:43black or any of that. But the bigger concern among some in your party, maybe
19:48yourself as well, is when he attacks a very popular Georgia governor is trying
19:52to help get him over the top in the state of the loss four years ago. What
19:56did you make of that? Well, first, real quickly on the on the attacking the
20:00Kamala Harris campaign. What did you make of that? Well, first of all, I
20:05first real quickly on the on the attacking Kamala Harris for whether
20:09she's black or Asian or what she is. I was personally insulted by that because
20:13I'm a mixed race family and have biracial grandkids. And I mean, what
20:18kind of a signal does that send to them on the attacking Brian Kemp? You know,
20:22Kemp is a good friend of mine. I served on the R. G. A. Executive Committee,
20:27and I was chairman of the National Governors Association. And I just don't
20:30think it's useful at all to have Republican nominee for president
20:35attacking a Republican governor over some perceived slight from years ago. It
20:41just it's none of this stuff is helpful if you're trying to win an election. Do
20:47you think Donald Trump is blowing it if he keeps us up? I've heard him say he's
20:53gonna focus on the issues, and that's sort of what I've been suggesting for
20:56quite a while. And I think a lot of people in the party, although not not
20:59everybody speaking out, I think they would all like to see a campaign based
21:03on the issues that are important to Americans. I don't think they really
21:06care about squabbles between governors or their or their wives. The first
21:12ladies are questioning people's race or or making fun of, you know, cat ladies.
21:17That's just not how we win elections.
21:20Um, you also had called Tim Walz, uh, to the issues without sticking it to the
21:28other team personally, and you would gone into Kamala Harris's record on
21:32dealing with crime, particularly her comments years ago that more police
21:37isn't the answer. Could you explain why that is your focus now? Well, look, when
21:46this first when the defund the police movement first started, I was one of the
21:50first statewide elected leaders in America to strongly speak out against
21:54it. I thought it was a terrible mistake. And, you know, I was I pushed the first
21:59in the nation refund the police initiative where I put 50% more into
22:03funding for police organizations in the state of Maryland. My Kamala Harris and
22:09my opponent, the county executive in Prince George's County, both had some
22:13very concerning, shocking comments and a story that just appeared on tape that
22:20just showed them talking about how bad police were. And they both have a record
22:23of trying to take money away from police officers. And I think we've got
22:27to back the hardworking, dedicated men and women of law enforcement who put
22:31their lives on the line every day. And, you know, it's a huge difference in this
22:36election. I'm gonna be the pro law and order guy.
22:41Um, you know, you were trying to focus on an issue that resonates. And again,
22:46we talk about some of these other distractions that are bedeviling Donald
22:50Trump and J. D. Vance, and that might correct itself, but not if they keep
22:53going the way they're going. So you're saying that this example here that
22:57you're using and focusing on crime, that's something you know something
23:00about when you were governor, that that's the kind of stuff that they
23:03should be focused on. I think they've got three great issues to focus on. Look
23:08on the border is a terrible crisis, and we've got to secure the border. Kamala
23:13Harris has direct responsibility for that. We've got crime is a major issue.
23:18The border is an issue, and the economy is a major issue. And so that's what we
23:21ought to be having a real debate on between all the candidates at the
23:25national level and people running for the Senate and running for Congress
23:28instead of just the name calling and finger pointing and talking about race
23:32and gender and all this other stuff.
23:35You know, it was a little more than a few weeks ago, Governor, that there
23:39were fears with Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee on. And apparently
23:43this was among the reasons why he was forced to step out of the race. The
23:47down ballot damage he was doing. The Democratic candidates are governor,
23:52Congress, etcetera. In in in in some of the polls I see on you, sir, uh, you
23:58fallen eight points behind your Democratic opponent. Do you assign any
24:03of that to the down ballot concerns from Donald Trump?
24:08Not really. No, that poll was not really a not really a good poll, but it
24:13was also done prior to the switch out. Look, I've said I'm an underdog in this
24:18race. Although I was a successful governor, I just left office last year
24:22with a 77% approval. We have not elected a Republican senator since
24:261980 and 44 years. So obviously it's a tough race I'm in, but I don't know
24:31that it makes any difference whether it's Kamala Harris or Joe Biden,
24:35because I'm going to focus on my race on my record and on the issues that I
24:39think are important to the people of Maryland. And frankly, none of them are
24:42talking about these kinds of things.
24:45It sounds like you and President Trump and his daughter, Laura Trump, buried
24:50the Hassett. She raised some hackles when she all but intubated that she
24:54would not use party resources to help you in your run. I guess that that's
24:59not the case now.
25:01Well, look, that's not, uh, I didn't even respond to those comments. I
25:06think she made a mistake in saying things. She was caught off guard and
25:10probably says something she regrets. But but we're all working together.
25:13But look, my my campaign is about my race and my state on the issues that
25:18Marylanders care about. And my campaign is financed by 20,000 people, the
25:22majority of which are Marylanders and, you know, their average, very small
25:26contributions.
25:28Now, I am curious to that extent then, Governor, that has the Republican
25:32National Committee in any way, shape or form provided monies and support for
25:38you? It's tough to turn a blue seat red in your state. I just wonder any
25:44updates on that front. Yeah, no, the RNC doesn't really put money directly
25:49into Senate races. I don't believe they do some things to help the state
25:52party. But the N. R. S. C. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, you
25:55know, has done what they do for other candidates in other states. But the vast
25:59majority of all the things we're doing are, you know, people that are
26:02supporting me in the state. Some some are Republicans. Some are the N. R. C.
26:07Is not supporting you less. I'm sorry, sir, is not supporting you any less or
26:11more than those other candidates. Exactly. That's okay. Finally, I wanted
26:17to get your thoughts. We've had a shaky markets this week. Concerns about a
26:21financial meltdown. It probably is a tad premature, but but that would not be a
26:25good environment for Democrats. Um, not all the time. But I'm wondering how that
26:32is working into your own campaign, looking at what's going on and fears
26:36that people have about how volatile and scary things are. I think it's a
26:40very big issue. It's actually that we talked about the border and crime,
26:43which are the number two and number three issues. But the number one issue
26:47is the economy. It was already a soft spot. It was as I go out there talking
26:50to folks, that's the main thing they're concerned about. Affordability and
26:53inflation, the cost of groceries, the cost of housing and the market, you
26:59know, dramatic drop in the market certainly isn't gonna help. There's
27:02people are very concerned out there at every level, hardworking folks that are
27:07concerned about the economy. I think that's going to be a big issue. It's
27:10also an area where I'm strongest on because I took the 49th out of 50
27:15states economy and turn it into number six, the biggest economic turnaround in
27:19America. And I got a Democrat legislature to cut taxes eight years in
27:23a row by 4.7 billion and took the largest deficit in history and turn it
27:27into the largest surplus. So I think the people in Washington haven't
27:32balanced the budget in forever. We had to do it every year. I think people
27:35are concerned about the debt, and these are all issues I'm going to focus on.
27:41All right, Larry Hogan. By the way, we did reach out to his Democratic
27:44opponent, Bridge, Georgia's County Executive Angela. Also Brooks. We have
27:48yet to hear back, but hope springs eternal. As you know, we don't bite
27:52here. We are fair and balanced. We stress and we want to hear from all
27:55sides, and we're optimistic we will hear from her. In the meantime, the
27:59latest on Debbie. It's on the move, and this tropical storm, uh, just doesn't
28:06stop with the flooding and with the disaster and now with tornadoes. The
28:10latest after this
28:13pulling up the eastern coast and leaving a lot of disaster and indeed
28:17some deaths in its wake. Brandi Campbell is in Lumberton, North
28:21Carolina, with more brandy.
28:23Mhm.
28:25Hey, Neil. So hurry. Our tropical storm Debbie made landfall two a.m.
28:29overnight, and now we're starting to see some of the impacts of it, and this is
28:33miles and miles away from the coast. We're in Lumberton, and what we're
28:37really monitoring at this point is the high river levels that this town could
28:41be impacted by. The Lumber River could reach or is expected to reach major
28:46flood stage at two a.m. overnight once again. So right now we're at a local
28:51park. Just to give you guys perspective, I want to show you what it
28:54looked like a couple of hours ago earlier in the day before the river
28:58levels were what they are right now. So you can see the street on some water
29:02going across it. The parking lot had some water filling into it, but it's
29:07nothing compared to what we're seeing right now. At this point, we can't
29:11fully into this park, and we're pretty much stopped at the entrance of it. Now,
29:15we're also going to show you guys here live the river that is flowing close to
29:20this park. The reason why we're seeing this water fill in here in Lumberton,
29:25you can see the water just pretty much rushing through the town where the
29:29river continues. Now, the Lumber River currently at moderate levels,
29:32measuring at just over 18 ft. It's expected to crest again at two a.m. At
29:3719.10 ft. So if so, it would be the seventh highest river level river level
29:43for the area. Public works. They did tell me it is predicted to crest and
29:47shouldn't threaten the city. Overall, they did put up a temporary HESCO
29:51barrier ahead of the storm to protect areas that could have been impacted.
29:55Also telling me that staff will be up overnight monitoring this area. But
29:59overall, it's not just river levels impacting some of the cities here, but
30:03flash flooding. If you look onto our Fox weather app, you will see there are
30:08several cities in northwest North Carolina currently under warnings back
30:12to you.
30:13Randy, thank you very much. Be safe. Brandy following all of that in the
30:17storm is expected to dump still more rain as it moves northward all the way
30:22up to Vermont. I believe that before it moves out to sea in the meantime, say
30:26this about the U. A. W. President. He speaks his mind bluntly, clearly, and
30:31sometimes you have to beep him a little bit. But again, he is showing his
30:35unswerving support for Kamala Harris and the Democratic ticket and never
30:41even considered the other side. He'll explain why after this.
30:47The working class has been left behind, and I don't I don't know how you feel,
30:54but I'm angry.
31:01Donald Trump is all talk and talk is cheap.
31:06Yeah,
31:10Kamala Harris walks the walk.
31:15All right. That is Sean Fain's unequivocal way of saying Kamala Harris
31:19ticket is the one he's going for. Not Donald Trump. United Auto Workers
31:23president joins us right now on the phone because this, of course, this
31:27UW event is occurring concurrently right now. Sean, very good to have you
31:30back with us. You never entertained really supporting Donald Trump at all.
31:35Why?
31:36Thanks for having me. Look, it's just it's the body of work. I mean, look
31:41at him in his own words of his own actions. I mean, I've never seen him
31:45stand for working class people. I mean, in 2000 and eight when it came to the
31:48auto crisis that was brought on by the banking failure and the economy was
31:53thrown into a collapse. I mean, he blamed auto workers then as the
31:55problem with big three. Um, you know, in 2000 and 15, he talked about doing a
32:01rotation of our good paying jobs in the Midwest somewhere else where they pay
32:04less than we'd be begging for our jobs back for less money. Um, you know, he
32:09never supported us when he was president. Plants were leaving the
32:11country. He did nothing. Not one thing. Didn't say anything. He told workers
32:15of Lordstown don't sell your houses and then he did nothing and they all the
32:20plant closed. They all got displaced all over the country and he kept on
32:24doing what he does. I mean, workers were on strike in 2019. He didn't do
32:27a thing. Say anything. I mean,
32:29I mean, he has a long history of not supporting auto workers. Uh, and we
32:36know what he stands for. So I don't know why we would entertain, uh, an
32:41endorsement when he has never shown us anything.
32:55His actions speak a lot more than his words do.
32:59Yeah.
33:03The interesting part of this is, I mean, there's jobs
33:20being created in America, you know, in auto industry in the battery ev field.
33:24Um, there are multiple plants already up and running. There are over almost
33:29where there'll be over 30 in this, in this country when they, when they
33:31complete building them all. I mean, and you know, our workers are manning, you
33:36know, we have a battery plant organized in Ohio and Lordstown where workers
33:39were left behind, where their plant was closed under trump, the biden
33:43administration and Harris administration brought in a new battery
33:46plant there. And now Lordstown workers who were displaced under trump are
33:49going back home. Uh, the biden administration went to work for us to
33:53secure funding, to bring Belvedere Illinois plant back also to put a
33:57battery plant there. Um, and so you don't find that the push for ev Sean
34:02and, and the aggressive agenda, uh, you know, puts your workers potentially in
34:08a bind here that the move to even hybrid vehicles that we see Toyota and
34:12others doing, um, it is something that puts you behind the April. What puts
34:18our workers in a bind is if we don't go after that work, which is what we're
34:20doing. And, and what the biden administration has done is, you know,
34:23they, they came up with, you know, to help these companies transition with,
34:28you know, money with the I. R. A. And, you know, hundreds of billions of
34:31dollars to assist these companies in transitioning and also ensuring these
34:35are good paying union jobs or good paying jobs where workers can keep a
34:39standard of living up. I mean, I find a great irony though, in the fact that
34:42Donald trump was all against it. And now all of a sudden, since Elon musk has
34:46given him $45 million a month, uh, now all of a sudden he says, you know, that
34:50he supports it. I mean, literally, you know, this country is for sale under
34:54Donald trump and it's a shame, you know, America is not for sale to the
34:58highest bidder.
34:59All right. Well, just to be clear, Sean, Donald trump has not said that he
35:02support is a big fan of EVs. He, you know, he still shares the reservation
35:07that americans should be able to decide what kind of cars they want to drive.
35:10But rather than go down that alley, I did want to get your take on another
35:13Sean. Um, I believe he's your friend, Sean O'brien of the teamsters who is
35:18open Donald trump. I don't believe he or the teamsters have committed to a
35:21candidate, but he said a president trump that he's a candidate who is not
35:25afraid of hearing from new, loud and often critical voices. Is that his way
35:29of saying you're not?
35:32No, I don't think so at all. I just think, uh, I think Sean O'brien, you
35:36know, uh, has a right to lead his union how he feels he needs to lead it. And,
35:41uh, I mean, we have our way of doing things in the U. A. W. We listen to our
35:44members. We listen to, uh, our local leaders. We listen to our political
35:49reps all over the country. And, um, you know, and we know that a massive
35:52majority of our members will be voting for Kamala Harris in this election just
35:55as they were going to for joe biden.
35:58Are you personally happy with a ticket with Kamala Harris on top than you were
36:03with joe biden on top?
36:06Yeah, I'm ecstatic about this ticket. I think it's complete. I mean, look at
36:10look at the results. I mean, you're seeing rallies with 10,000 people and
36:13more. We had almost 15,000 here yesterday in Detroit. Uh, there's a lot
36:17of excitement energy. I mean, Kamala Harris and Tim Walls are a great are a
36:22great couple of people. They come from working class roots. I mean, Kamala
36:26Harris worked at McDonald's, you know, when she was younger, you know, Tim
36:29Walls was born, raised on a farm, worked on a farm. He's been a teacher. I mean,
36:33they know they know what it's like to struggle. They know what it's like to
36:36live paycheck to paycheck. And, and, you know, I mean, and, you know, talking
36:40about that whole situation, look, I mean, I think, you know, one of the
36:44greatest sacrifices someone ever made. I mean, joe biden, you talk about a
36:47selfless fact that he was willing to step aside and pass the baton and do
36:54the right thing. Put the country first. I mean, Donald trump would never do
36:57that because Donald trump only puts himself first. Well, do you think
37:00that was shown that it wasn't so much that joe biden stepped back, but he was
37:05pushed?
37:06No. I mean, it was his decision. Obviously. I mean, he was the candidate.
37:10He was already, he was already the candidate and he had to make that. So
37:16all right, Sean, thank you very much. I know you've been busy, so we appreciate
37:19the time. Sean Fain, the United Auto Workers president, making it very clear
37:22and very blunt. No gray shades where he feels and how he stands aggressively
37:27supporting this democratic ticket. In the meantime, the latest on this threat
37:31against Taylor Swift at concerts that are now off in Austria. But this is
37:38pretty scary stuff. Among those arrested, two ISIS suspects who planned
37:43to drive a bomb laden car into a crowd. It gets creepier after this.