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♪ >> brian: get ready, we are starting the third hour of "fox & friends" right now. 7:00 east coast. and friday june 28th. >> this is "fox & friends." the cnn presidential debate going down last night. president biden facing serious scrutiny over this performance. >> the ability of medicare to -- for the ability -- for the -- look -- if -- we finally beat medicare. >> brian: the kd could not hand it. >> discussions whether he should continue. >> no discussion about it not a good deba...

The head of US special ops in the Pacific suggested some operators are struggling with a less direct mission, though USSOCOM chief Gen. Bryan Fenton told Breaking Defense that's not something he's seen.

Right now were dealing with a defense budget thats not even going to cover for inflation, and its below 3%. during the cold war, jon, our budgets were at 7%. thats what weve got to get back to to deal with china which is our pacing item as the secretary of defense refers to it. and on this obvious threat that we have with russia and certainly nato has gone to got to upgun themselves. they seem to have come together in terms of the focus now. they seem to have come together to put aside their dif...

Why we havent given them anti-ship missiles. theyve been asking for it from the beginning. there seems to be some reluctance there. if its a training issue we can use our imagine nation and figure out how we can get some ukrainians trained on this covertly and deliver those weapons as ships have naval infantry on board theyre vulnerable to anti-ship missiles. this is going to be a pacing item. as the ukrainians are dealing with the advance of the russians and stalling them, obviously the war is ...

Brian: 20 seconds, the majority of americans see china as a major threat over russia. are they right? >> yeah. once again, the american people get it right. it is -- it is our number one threat. it is a pacing item for us. and im also disappointed in the recent posture statement by the department of defense that were not increasing our forces in the region when we are outmanned and outgunned by china. that is very disappointing. brian: pass the defense authorization act and increase defense spen...

The more likely well be able to initiate and draw down troops sooner. we have to keep that in mind. this is really the pacing item. a news story opening today. since the opening bell today weve been watching breaking news out of wall street. the dows taking a huge hit with bad consumer confidence news. lets go to trish regan at cnbc. whats the cause and effect here? is this anticipating a bad economic number? a bad jobless number this friday for june? whats causing consumer confidence to drop ...

Human rights. >> after ten years of engagement, that by itself, i dont think will be enough to sustain american involvement. >> but it needs to be part of the discussion. >> it certainly does. but the core issue will be whether the cost of our continued engagement is justified by the benefit of what we are achieving there. especially when you look at the additional challenges they face across the board. in pakistan, the president made the call, as you said, chris, the calculus was still yes, but...