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Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff responds to Trump’s attacks on her: ‘That’s all he’s got?’

Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff responds to Trump’s attacks on her: ‘That’s all he’s got?’

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff clapped back at former President Trump, who criticized his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, after she launched her presidential campaign. Trump, who often coins nicknames for his political opponents, dubbed Harris “Laughin’ Kamala” and “Lyin’ Kamala” on his social media platform Truth Social. “That’s all he’s got?” Emhoff said Tuesday when asked by reporters about the former president’s comments about his wife. “You heard the Vice President yesterday making the case against Donald Trump,” Emhoff said. “Very clearly laid out the case, directly and in a compelling fashion. But she also laid out a vision for the future. A vision where there’s freedom. Where we’re not having to talk about these issues of today in this post Dobbs Hellscape that Donald Trump created.” TRUMP TEAM FILES FEC COMPLAINT OVER TRANSFER OF BIDEN’S $91M TO HARRIS CAMPAIGN: ‘BRAZEN MONEY GRAB’ Harris launched her presidential campaign Sunday night after President Biden announced he was suspending his re-election campaign. Harris secured enough delegates Monday night to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination, although the party’s nominee will not formally be selected until next month’s convention in Chicago. “We’re gonna prosecute the case against Donald Trump and his lies, his gaslighting, during COVID, the dereliction of duty, inciting an insurrection and all those other things,” Emhoff said. “We’re gonna make that very clear,” Emhoff continued. “She’s gonna be able to make that case. We’re also gonna move on from this type of environment, this Dobbs, where freedoms are taken away, where autonomy is taken away. Where they’re telling you, you can’t read this book. They’re telling you, you can’t learn these facts. They’re telling you, you can’t vote. All that is gonna change, and it must change.” Harris has been raking in the cash since the launch of her campaign. She raised $81 million in the first 24 hours of her campaign, the most in history that a presidential candidate has raised in 24 hours, and $100 million from when Biden dropped out Sunday afternoon through Monday night. HARRIS HAULS IN $81 MILLION IN FIRST 24 HOURS SINCE BIDEN BOWED OUT CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The campaign said more than 888,000 grassroots donors made contributions during the 24 hours, with 60% of them making their first contribution of the 2024 election cycle. The campaign also said it signed up 43,000 of those donors to make recurring donations. The money Harris raised easily bests the nearly $53 million the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee raised back in May through their online digital fundraising platform in the first 24 hours after the former president was convicted on 34 felony counts in his criminal trial in New York City. “You see the enthusiasm, you see the excitement,” Emhoff said. “You saw the money raised, you saw the party coalesce. You saw the broad base of support that she had in just one or two days because she’s talking about an America that we all have a place in … Kamala Harris has united the party. She’s gonna unite the country … You see that happening, and she’s gonna win this election.”

Steven Pinker: Young people sick and tired of being told, ‘you can’t say that, you can’t think that’ on campus

Steven Pinker: Young people sick and tired of being told, ‘you can’t say that, you can’t think that’ on campus

Dr. Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and prolific author, has often been described as a cheerleader for science, reason, and humanism. He is often maligned by his critics as a defender of the status quo. Much of his research focuses on slow and steady incremental improvements that have defined rapid human development, both in the United States and globally, over the past century. His 2018 book, “Enlightenment Now” was famously cited by Bill Gates as “his new favorite book,” and became a focal point for global policymakers. As one of the nation’s leading public intellectuals, Pinker routinely consults with world political, economic, and scientific leaders. STEVEN PINKER: WHAT HAPPENED TO ‘OBJECTIVE TRUTH’ IN AMERICA? He is a fierce defender of liberalism, democracy, and market economies, and believes a variety of forces are conspiring against them: populism of both the right and left, religious fundamentalism, and political correctness, among others.  He also has emerged as a champion of reasoned, civil debate on college campuses, pushing back against cancel culture, and what he views as a ‘political monoculture’ in academia. He recently sat down with Fox News Digital in Las Vegas at FreedomFest, for a wide-ranging interview. Pinker argues that the pessimistic narrative so often portrayed in the political and media realms is grossly inaccurate: “Well, for one thing, news is about stuff that happens, not stuff that doesn’t happen, and stuff that happens suddenly enough to be news is usually bad because bad things can happen all of a sudden. Good things take time to build up…The non-occurrence of things, like, there hasn’t been an earthquake, there hasn’t been a riot., there hasn’t been a famine, there hasn’t been a war. There hasn’t been a terrorist attack. That’s never news.  If there are more and more days in which nothing bad happens, then we never read about it…A lot of good things build up gradually, and compound over time. People live longer, poverty goes down, more kids go to school worldwide. If there’s a 3% increase year after year, when is that going to be news? Never. But it can transform the world, and we’re completely unaware of it.” Pinker believes that the populist economic left is missing the mark when it comes to our economic outlook, but also disagrees with the rigid libertarian philosophical opposition to social safety nets and redistribution. “The people underestimate how big a welfare state we have in the United States. It is smaller than a lot of our affluent democratic peers. And we do have more inequality, after taxes and transfers, than the countries of northern and western Europe or the, former British Commonwealth, like Canada, Australia and New Zealand…The world’s countries…at least the affluent democracies, have between 20 and 30% of their GDP redistributed. The United States is at the low end, but it’s in the range.  I think it would be good if more people recognized that, both to counter the populist left narrative that the United States has no redistribution, no social safety net, and also the kind of hardcore libertarian view that you can easily dispense with redistribution, that it’s possible to have an affluent democracy without redistribution. Maybe it is possible, but the world has never seen it. So it would be a radical, and never before seen phenomenon.” CHRIS RUFO RESPONDS TO HARVARD INTELLECTUAL WHO SAYS HIS METHODS OF FIGHTING INDOCTRINATION ARE WRONG Currently, issues involving principles of moral hazard theory are playing a big role in the 2024 election: crime and criminal justice, immigration, and welfare. Pinker counts himself in neither ideological camp, but calls for a fine-tuned approach to setting government policy. “I think moral hazard has to be taken into account in setting policy, but it can’t be taken to an extreme, like…we shouldn’t have ambulances that pick up accident victims because then people will drive more recklessly, knowing that they’ll be taken to hospitals and then sewn up and patched up…No one can foresee everything. No one can avoid all risk. And so, while recognizing moral hazard, you also have to have some amount of common sense, compassion, and accommodation for bad luck, which will always happen.  There can be too much welfare, there could be too little welfare….We do have Social Security, and we introduced it for a good reason. All countries have it. Some countries have a little more than, some have a little less. It seems to me that we should compare countries and compare times, compare policies, compare states, use the world as a laboratory to figure out how much regulation, how much redistribution is the optimal amount, neither too much nor too little.  On the case of crime, I do think that the left has kind of missed the boat in de-policing cities and, going too far to leaving small crimes unpunished, to not taking crime seriously enough. It is an issue that people care a lot about that does flip elections. And I think it is foolish to let lawlessness and anarchy rise in cities. Foolish even for the left to do. Foolish for anyone to do.” Data-driven, empirical approaches are at the heart of Pinker’s research and books, and he believes the U.S. could learn a few things from studying its affluent, democratic peers. “I think our health care system, which has much more privatization than any other affluent democracy, could produce some reform. It seems to be hitting that sour spot of being extraordinarily expensive and not delivering what we want, namely people living longer and kids surviving and so on.  I think our educational system probably could use more centralization, that having every little hamlet and village have its own school board, and pay for itself with property taxes, probably isn’t the way to have the best possible educational system.  There are probably systems of redistribution that are more efficient than our massive patchwork of bureaucracies. So something more like direct income transfers instead of welfare agencies, might be a way to compensate for the

Biden set to address nation after pressured exit from 2024 race

Biden set to address nation after pressured exit from 2024 race

President Biden is set to address the nation on Wednesday evening from the Oval Office for the first time since he officially dropped out of the 2024 election.  “Tomorrow evening at 8 PM ET, I will address the nation from the Oval Office on what lies ahead, and how I will finish the job for the American people,” Biden posted to his X account on Tuesday.  Biden had been self-isolating in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, since last Wednesday, when he was diagnosed with COVID-19, which forced him to cancel scheduled events in Las Vegas and fly back to his home in The First State. After suffering “mild symptoms” and “general malaise” after his diagnosis, he received a negative diagnosis on Tuesday of this week and returned to the White House.  His trip back to the nation’s capital on Tuesday marked the first time Biden was seen in public since suspending his re-election bid on Sunday and the first time since being diagnosed with COVID-19 on July 17.  BIDEN ENDS BID FOR 2ND TERM IN WHITE HOUSE AS HE DROPS OUT OF HIS 2024 REMATCH WITH TRUMP Biden’s address Wednesday is expected to shed additional light on his departure from the 2024 race after he, his campaign and the White House vowed for weeks that Biden would remain in the election cycle and was determined to win in the rematch against former President Trump.  Since the end of World War II, there have only been three incumbent presidents, all Democrats, who turned down running for a second term: Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Biden. The 46th president had faced mounting pressure from his Democrat allies and legacy media outlets to bow out of the race since June 27, when he delivered a botched debate performance against Trump that was riddled with garbled remarks and where the president lost his train of thought and appeared more subdued than during other recent public events.  GOP CONGRESSMAN CALLS ON HARRIS TO ‘IMMEDIATELY’ INVOKE 25TH AMENDMENT OVER BIDEN’S ‘DECLINING HEALTH’ The debate reignited concern among conservatives and critics that Biden’s mental acuity had slipped, while it marked the beginning of a pressure campaign among Democrats to oust Biden in favor of a candidate they believed is better suited to take on Trump. Dozens of members of Congress began publicly thanking Biden for his work in the White House and decades in public office while calling on him to pass the torch to another candidate. He made the announcement just more than a week after an assassination attempt on Trump’s life during a rally in Pennsylvania and just days after the Republican National Convention wrapped up in Milwaukee, where Trump was certified as the Republican Party’s nominee. GOP SENATOR DEMANDS CABINET INVOKE 25TH AMENDMENT AGAINST BIDEN AFTER SUSPENDING HIS RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN  Shortly after his announcement on Sunday afternoon, Biden endorsed Vice President Harris to pick up the mantle and make a run for the party’s nomination. As of Tuesday, Harris had enough delegates to lock up the nomination, which will be certified by the DNC next month. TRUMP SAYS BIDEN ‘IS NOT FIT TO SERVE’: ‘WHO IS GOING TO BE RUNNING THE COUNTRY FOR THE NEXT 5 MONTHS?’ Harris is hitting the campaign trail and weighing running mate options as potential contenders such as Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and others are floated by political pundits.  Concerns over Biden’s health mounted for years among conservatives and critics, including former White House physician Ronny Jackson sounding the alarm during the 2020 election cycle, ahead of hitting a fever pitch this summer. “As a citizen, not as a candidate running for Congress but as a citizen of this country, I’ve watched Joe Biden on the campaign trail, and I am concerned and convinced that he does not have the mental capacity, the cognitive ability, to serve as our commander in chief and our head of state,” Jackson, who is now a Republican congressman representing Texas, said in 2020.  ‘PROUD OF OUR PRESIDENT’: DEMS HEAP PRAISE ON BIDEN FOR DECISION TO END 2024 CAMPAIGN In February this year, Special Counsel Robert Hur published his report investigating the president’s handling of classified documents after his departure as vice president in the Obama administration, which fanned the flames about Biden’s health concerns. The report stated that Hur would not recommend criminal charges against Biden for possessing classified materials after his vice presidency, calling Biden “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” The Biden administration and former Biden campaign repeatedly shut down any claims that the president was suffering from a disease such as Parkinson’s or dementia as concerns mounted between the debate and Biden dropping out. The White House additionally told Fox News Digital on Monday that the president’s health did not play a role in his departure from the 2024 race.  POTENTIAL HARRIS WHITE HOUSE MURKY AS VP ‘NEVER EXHIBITED A CORE SET OF BELIEFS’: DEM STRATEGIST Now that the president has dropped out of the election cycle, conservative lawmakers and others have called on Biden to resign from the White House, arguing that if he is unable to run for re-election, he’s unfit to run the nation for the roughly five months left of his tenure.  “If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not fit to serve as President. He must resign the office immediately. November 5 cannot arrive soon enough,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said in a statement on Sunday. “If the Democrat party has deemed Joe Biden unfit to run for re-election, he’s certainly unfit to control our nuclear codes,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., added. “Biden must step down from office immediately.” 10 DEMOCRATS VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS COULD NAME AS HER 2024 RUNNING MATE Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, also called on Biden to resign hours before he officially announced he was dropping out. “If Joe Biden ends his reelection campaign, how can he justify remaining

Secret Service failures during Trump rally spur concerns for Netanyahu visit, McCaul says

Secret Service failures during Trump rally spur concerns for Netanyahu visit, McCaul says

EXCLUSIVE: House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is raising concerns about the security of U.S. and world leaders visiting here in the wake of the failed assassination attempt against former President Trump. “Yeah, I mean, of course,” McCaul told Fox News Digital when asked whether security lapses at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania ,rally made him concerned about the level of security around President Biden as well. “I would say any [leader]… We’ve got Netanyahu coming down tomorrow. That’s a good example.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday as his country continues to be at war in Gaza with the pro-Palestine terror group Hamas. TRUMP SHOOTING: TIMELINE OF ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT Security preparations are already underway on Capitol Hill, with fencing being seen around the perimeter of the U.S. Capitol as early as Tuesday morning.  But nevertheless, the deadly shooting at Trump’s rally earlier this month, in which one attendee was killed and two people were critically injured, has spurred concerns and conversations about elected officials’ safety. Trump himself was shot in the ear and evacuated by Secret Service agents. McCaul said of possible tension at Netanyahu’s coming address, “I mean, the ingredients are there for it. It’s ripe for violence.” He cited the threat of protests by pro-Palestine demonstrators, some of whom have consistently patrolled the Capitol complex in the wake of Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, confronting pro-Israel lawmakers on both sides. More than 300 protesters were arrested in late October of last year after occupying the Cannon House Office building during a protest. That same Capitol office building saw a massive protest on Tuesday, just a day before Netanyahu’s speech. Protesters occupied the Cannon building rotunda, chantinng and waving banners before dozens were arrested by police, some detained with zipties. Among the banners were messages reading, “Jews say: Stop the genocide.” Fox News Digital reached out to Capitol police for more information. PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS NOT ALLOWED IN SECRET SERVICE COMMAND CENTER AT TRUMP RALLY, LAWMAKERS SAY ON SITE “This is where the feds and the Capitol Police really need to be working together,” McCaul said.  He was one of several House lawmakers on a bipartisan trip to Butler on Tuesday to tour the area of the attempted assassination. A 20-year-old gunman had opened fire from a rooftop just outside the rally perimeter after being spotted by rally-goers looking suspicious roughly an hour before the shooting.  “The site visits are really important to really understand the dynamics at play, particularly a crime scene like this one, and as I understand we’re the first group to actually go up on the roof of the assassination attempt,” McCaul said. TRUMP SHOOTING SITE GIVES BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF ‘DISORGANIZED’ RALLY SCENE, WITNESSES SAY His first takeaway from the tour, the Texas Republican said, was “how close” the shooter was able to get to Trump’s location. He also noted that there were several nearby areas where security teams could have been stationed but were not. “There was very little communication between Secret Service and the local law enforcement,” McCaul also said. The shooting prompted a bipartisan wave of backlash against U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned from her post on Tuesday.

Israeli PM Netanyahu to address Congress amid high-profile absences

Israeli PM Netanyahu to address Congress amid high-profile absences

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint session of Congress Wednesday afternoon as his country continues to fight against the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.  The war began Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a fatal attack on Israeli civilians, an onslaught that killed more than 1,300 and resulted in the taking of hundreds of hostages, which Hamas has kept in Gaza. The U.S. has supported Israel in its fight against Hamas despite some splintering support for the effort, particularly among Democrats. As part of a $95 billion foreign aid package in April, the U.S. passed about $15 billion in military aid for Israel.  BOB MENENDEZ TO RESIGN FROM SENATE AMID DEMOCRATIC PRESSURE AFTER GUILTY VERDICT A particular point of contention among those skeptical of Israel has been the humanitarian toll in Gaza as it targets Hamas.  Prior to his departure for the U.S. Monday, Netanyahu said, “I’m leaving this morning on a very important trip to the United States at a time when Israel is fighting on seven fronts and when there’s great political uncertainty in Washington. “I will address, for the fourth time, both houses of Congress as prime minister of Israel. I will seek to anchor the bipartisan support that is so important to Israel and will tell my friends on both sides of the aisle that regardless who the American people choose as their next president, Israel remains America’s indispensable and strong ally in the Middle East.” JEFFRIES, SCHUMER ENDORSE KAMALA HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT Netanyahu will become the first world leader to address a joint congressional session four times. But there are several high-profile politicians who won’t be in attendance, including Vice President Kamala Harris, senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.; and representatives Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., among others. Along with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Harris’ absence, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, who is running alongside former President Trump as his vice presidential nominee, will also miss the remarks.  KAMALA HARRIS TO SKIP NETANYAHU’S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS, WHILE TOP DEM SENATOR BOYCOTTS ALTOGETHER “Senator Vance stands steadfastly with the people of Israel in their fight to defend their homeland, eradicate terrorist threats and bring back their countrymen held hostage. He will not, however, be in attendance for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress as he has duties to fulfill as the Republican nominee for vice president,” Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller said in a statement.  In her vice presidential capacity as president of the Senate, Harris is often expected to preside over joint sessions of Congress alongside the speaker of the House. However, this has not always been the case throughout history.  KAMALA HARRIS PRAISES BIDEN’S ‘UNMATCHED’ LEGACY IN FIRST REMARKS SINCE ANNOUNCING 2024 BID Harris declined to preside over Wednesday’s address, and an aide to the vice president confirmed she has plans to attend an event in Indiana, which conflicts with Netanyahu’s remarks. Her office would not say whether she would have presided if she were in Washington, D.C., for the address.  The next in line to preside would be the president pro tempore, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. The senator reportedly refused to do so and is boycotting it altogether. Instead, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin, D-Md., is presiding.  During his time in the nation’s capital, Netanyahu will meet separately with President Biden, Harris and former President Trump. His meetings with Biden and Harris will take place in Washington, D.C., but his meeting with the former president will be in Florida at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.