kids in one major city get off the school bus to find homeless folks and drug addicts everywhere. president biden heading to saudi arabia this week to beg for oil, and he s trying to defend the trip in an op-ed written by him or his team. the president is trying to paint saudi arabia as an important, quote, strategic partner, even though a couple of years ago he calls the kingdom a pariah after the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are. in the op-ed, biden writes from the start, my aim was to reorient, but not rupture relations with a country that s been a strategic partner for 80 years. today saudi arabia has helped to restore unity among the six countries of gulf cooperation council and is now working with my experts to help stabilize markets with other opec producers. i know there are many who disagree with my decision to travel to saudi arabia. my views human rights are c
that and more on the rise in violent crime many in several major cities. and ongoing concerns about the security of supreme court justices after an activist group offers money to anyone who reports the locations of the six conservative members of the nation s highest court. more on these stories lout the hour. but first, to president biden defending his upcoming visit to saudi arabia in a new op-ed ahead of his trip to that nation and others in the middle east this week. kevin corke live at the white house with that. reporter: jon, good afternoon. frankly, no two ways about it, the president s upcoming trip to the saudi kingdom comes with fairly heavy risk on both the domestic and international fronts. from the international perspective, he ll to obviously tie to smooth other hard feel feelings with the saudis, all while maybe encouraging them to open the spigot when it comes to oil production. but there s heavy cost and heavy risk here domestically because the president is
stopping at the toll booth and making the rest of us have to wait. you can see me at the stress factory next saturday, july 16th. two shows, 7 and 9, get tickets at new brunswick stress factory.com. see you there. the fox report with jon scott starts right now. jon: a scare for passengers on a flight in atlanta as their plane catches fire shortly after landing. good evening, i m jon scott s and this is the fox report. , and. jon: it happened this morning on a spirit airlines flight from tampa to atlanta. the airline says the fire started after one of the plane s brakes overheated. thankfully, no one was hurt. more on that coming up. also ahead hour, the nypd says a 14-year-old has died after he was stabbed on a subway platform yesterday. police have just made an arrest.
this just in, police are identifying the mother accused of abandoning a baby in a new york city subway station. she is faces charges including abandonment of a child. she is seen pushing the baby stroller on to the subway platform yesterday, and then getting back on the train. the baby is in the care of child services and appears to be okay. the mother told police that she is homeless and could no longer take care of the little girl. new information about the escalating issues in iraq. the regime in iran, about 300 members, living in a former u.s. instilllation called camp
cleveland. the republican national committee says its site selection committee has picked the blue and heavily democratic state to host the next convention. the full membership is expected to ratify the recommendation next month, in august. it s not the first time cleveland has hosted presidential conventions. it s happened twice before, in 1924 and 1936. both of those were republican as well. the democrats are planning to choose their site late this year or in early 2015 but it will not be in cleveland. so it is just amazing what horribly sad things can happen so close to your own front door. right at the subway station next to the building i m in right here in new york city, the upper west side, this beautiful chunky adorable little baby girl, 7 months old, was abandoned on the subway platform yesterday. there s video showing the mother walking in with her. in the stroller. there she is, in the white tee.